| From: | Peter Nicol peter@*******.freeserve.co.uk |
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| Subject: | The ED/SR Connection |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:43:26 +0100 |
> I've been toying around with the idea of running some type of connected
> Earthdawn Shadowrun game (hey they didn't make 'em parallel for nothing,
> right?) but wanna know what kinds of crossovers there are...I know a bit
> about ED, as I own the book and have flipped through it a couple of times,
> and I have a good amount of SR knowledge; basically I understand the idea of
> the cycles of magic, (i.e. ED is the fourth world, "ours" the fifth, SR's
the
> Sixth); that the ED world is ours, to a point, with Thera being Atlantis,
> etc; and about the races in general- the immortal elves, the other races, and
> dragons. What things have I missed?
>
> Also, where presicely might Throal be located, could Dunkelzahn have existed
> about the time of ED (my idea is for a ED group to be shuttling back and
> forth between the fourth world and 2056 magically in order to do
> something--what I don't know yet-- and it would be neat if he would remeber
> them), and I'd like to hear any speculation on why we haven't seen Windlings,
> Obsidimen and T'Skrang by 2060. My own guess is that, as those particular
> races are perhaps a bit less related to the human genome, so to speak (I
> mean, them not neccesary being close variations on Homo Sapiens--- I don't
> care what you say, a 8 and a half foot tall rock creature is about as related
> to a human as your average chimp is :) that magic levels aren't high enough
> yet to support them, and so they haven't "awakened" yet..another possible
> game idea...another wave of changes in which these races start appearing.
> Well I've taken up enough room...lemme know what ya think.
>
Well Windlings have actually appeared in Shadowrun , check out
the paranmormal animals of europe page 94. Also Obsidimen are
not unlike elves, dwarves and the like are not a varient of humainty
but as i remember it (paraphrasing like mad) they are essentially a
elemental spirit impressed in a physical matrix(essentialy a golem)
though all the obsidmen from the same lifrerock are in essence
fragments of the spirit of that liferock. The Liferock creates the
physical form of the obsidimen then imparts some of itself in to the
form to give it life. And when the obsidimen dies his spirit os
reabsorbed into the life rock along with the physical shell.
As for the location of Throal it is/was located to the north of the
Black Sea and Dunkelzahn laired somwhere to the north-west of
Throal
Pete
