| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: SR/ED ties |
| Date: | Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:08:53 +0100 |
|events was, and it ended up close to that. One question though...how can we
|be sure that what we would call the 1st age was the first, maybe it was
|merely the first recorded/remebered age, some might have become before.
That's almost a certainty if you think about it. The "1st world" must have
been along the lines of 45000 years ago. The Earth is several Billion, and
life has been around in some form for about 300 to 500 million years (Give
or take a billion).
Magic MUST have cycled back then as well. Who knows, maybe the horrors
caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and wiped out whatever civilisation
the 0th world was, hence, no-one remembered it......
|Also, is each age the same for every planet in the universe or at least in
|our solar system, does each rise and fall together, or is it only a
|planetary phenomenon.
It's genarally believed that there can be no magic without life, so there
should be no magic on the moon, for example.
Mars? Well, we might know soon... :)
|>| !) 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.....
|>
|
|really! now that is interesting, but what does SR magic have drain, while ED
|doesnt.
Earthdawn Magic is very subtle. In shadowrun, without threadweaving, they
use nothing but pure force casting raw magic.
(There's no need for spell matrices yet, because very few areas have
background counts of +5 (tainted enough to cause damage).
When the Horrors arrived in ED, the entire astral plane was tainted to some
extent, so matrices were essensial to filter the energy.
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