| From: | Kenneth Vinson kennethv@****.wisc.edu |
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| Subject: | The ED/SR Connection |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:06:52 -0500 |
> I've been playing ED much longer than Shadowrun and I have the majority
> of the ED sourcebooks. In one, I can't remember which, it said that
> T'skrang survived the Scourge by going into a hibernation. They could
> have done the same thing when the magic level dropped or the lowered
> magic level could have forced them into a natural hibernation. Since
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I believe I read somewhere in an Earthdawn supplement that the T'skrang of Barsaive
made a deal with one (or more) of the great dragons to be taught the dragon
"secret" of hibernation. This leads me to believe that hibernation is not a
natural ability of the T'skrang, but a learned ritual. And one, I might add, that
they likely wouldn't have forgotten by the time the fourth world came to a close.
I disagree that most would have been killed in the downtime however. I suspect
that the T'skrang might have had an idea of how long this hibernation would be and
might have located their refuges accordingly. We never hear about a high mortality
rate for dragons during the fifth age so I don't see why, with the same method of
hibernation, that the T'skrang would suffer enough losses to put them at risk of
extinction. I prefer to think the magic level of the Shadowrun world will be high
enough in fifty years or so to have T'skrang and Obsidimen popping up here and
there.
My two cents,
Ken Vinson
