From:	Mark Steedman <RSMS@******.EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: DRAGONS AS NEXT NERPS?
Date:	Wed, 15 Mar 1995 15:07:40 GMT

> > How could they lair for a thousand years without at least one of them accident
> > being 'found'? (egads, not magic :))
> Good question :)
>
>
simple some magic seems to work even during low mana

e.g. Ehran's lab (see the first Harlequin adventure)
remains hidden from everyone even now (except possibly his peers) and
i get the impression he has had it hidden where it is a long time
before 2011, i.e. some magic done at high mana levels seems to
continue working even at the bottom of the mana cycle, it is just a
power variation not an on/off switch after all.


> > p.s. What do you mean they've only been around for 3,000 years? Is that a
> > FASA statement? They appear in literature before this date. Can someone
> > let me know where the date comes from?
> On the contrary, FASA has admited that they have been here for at least 2
> cycles.
>
> --
> "Believe in Angels." -- The Crow

there are dragons in Earthdawn (4th age) and thats > 5000 years ago,
probably nearer 7000, and i have heard a comment that there are
rumors that the second age was the age of dragons, now thats 4 cycles
back (arround 20000 years, though as they vary in length we need some
one with a copy of the Malayan calander (as thats whar FASA appear to
use) on hand for more accurate figures.

as this is only the sixth age its quite possible there were only
dragons on earth from the second (1st high mana) onwards, and fossils
take millions of years to form (well unless some cheat uses magic to
make em anyway).


Mark