| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: SR/ED ties |
| Date: | Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:58:43 +0100 |
Spoilers for Horrors and other ED-related subjects!
> Has FASA released anything or plan to release anything concerning the
> ties of Earthdawn to Shadowruns past?
It's not likely that will ever happen, but there is a file with the links
between ED and SR somewhere on an ED site on the WWW.
> Our gaming group has come to the conclusion that ED is the 3rd age whilr
> SR is the 6th age. It should follow as
>
> 1st: Creation of magic and all else
> 2nd: the age of Dragons,
> 3rd: the therans &
> the first scourge
> 4th: The world of Earthdawn
> 5th: Our world: Midevil to Present day
> 6th: Shadowrun
You're on the right track, but not quite there yet. ED is the fourth
world, SR the sixth. Even-numbered worlds have mana levels high enough to
have magic exist in, odd-numbered worlds don't. Each world is
approximately 5200 years long, and since the sixth world started in 2011,
the fourth world ended around 3190 BC ED is set some time after the peak
in mana level in the fourth world, so subtract a little less than 2500
years from that and you get the conclusion that it's set around 5500 BC,
or about 7500 years ago.
> Each world was classed by the rise and fall of magic, most likly there
> were many Scourges, Which in the modulr Harliquenns Back He hints at the
> coming evil and there are Shadows (a lesser horror that appears before
> the big horrors appear)
The Horrors have a "window" of about 200 years IIRC on either side of the
peak in mana level in which they can reach the astral and physical planes
from their native metaplane. Because of the Great Ghost Dance there is a
really big spike in the mana level in one spot in North America (and
another one in Hawaii because of a similar ritual) where they can almost
cross. One Horror, Ysrtgratehrgwehwewjhwrhwssblahblahblah, has certainly
come through (see Worlds Without End), and possibly one or two others as
well.
BTW, I thought the Shadows are from B5, not SR? :)
> in the module. Its enough to raise quite a few questions:
> !) is SR magic a limited form of adept magic or is a new form alltogether,
> maybe Psionics?
SR magic is a different way of doing magic than in ED. ED spellcasters
weave threads to patterns, while SR magic is essentialy ED's raw
spellcasting, though in SR it's safer because astral space isn't polluted
by the Horrors yet.
> 2) is BigD also the famed ED dragon?
Most likely he's Mountainshadow, who has a "human agent" called Darktooth;
translate that name into German and you get ...
Exactly.
> 3) just how old is Erhan the Scribe,
I believe he's younger than Harlequin, but not by much. At any rate he's
thousands of years old, for ease say about 7000 like Harley.
> 4) just when will all the elves in Tir start having thorns pop out of thier
> skin ( didn't one of the SR books have illistration of a blood elf?)
Only a mention of a painting of one. Whether they will ever have thorns
grow or not is open to speculation, and one theory was that the Tir
Tairngire elves are heavy into genetic research because of this
possibility, but IIRC that was denied by Mike Mulvihill, the SR line
developer.
BTW, I think you should know that Mike doesn't like immortal elves, so
there won't be (m)any new books dealing with them.
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