From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: SR/ED ties
Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:29:40 +0100

|
|Has FASA released anything or plan to release anything concerning the ties of
|Earthdawn to Shadowruns past? 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

Slightly wrong....
1st. Null magic time remembered by story/writing???/racial memory
2nd. First Magic remembered by VERY long lived beings (or their ancestors)
3rd. Null Magic. CLose to the end of this time, a book was found from the
end of the 2nd world warning of the horrors. The book contained valuable info
of protecting onesself from the horrors. (And gave the people who found it a
LOT of power. These people were the Therans).
4th. Earthdawn. The therans sold their secrets in exchange for
slaves/obedience and the submission of Barsaive to their rule. Etc etc etc.
We don't know how it all ends apart from the fact that the magic eventually
fades into....
5th. Our world. No magic. Technology slowely starts to form, and then
increases exponentially until cyberware and the matrix are formed. Which
leads us to....
6th. Shadowrun....

I think that just about sums it up... Although the Therans MIGHT have found
the book at close to the beginning of the 4th world....

|Each world was classed by the rise and fall of magic,

Nope. The worlds alternate. Odd numbers are no magic. Even high 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)
|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?

Nope. It's very limited adept magic. Think about it.
A quickening viewed from astral resembles a thread. We just haven't figured
out how to weave them into REALLY powerful spells.... Yet.....

|2) is BigD also the famed ED dragon?

It is generally believed that D is (or was) Darktooth?

|3) just how old is Erhan the Scribe,

Oh, about the same age as -H- I'd imagine.... Maybe 6 or 7 thousand years
old.... Possibly a bit more...

|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?)

They won't. At least, none of them that aren't immortal will.
They haven't undergone the ritual of thorns after all....

|5) when will Tir turn into a jungle full of wood spirts ( or has it allready
|and we just don't know.) ?

I thought that was what Aztlan was for.....
:)
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