From:	Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 11:41:47 EDT

In a message dated 5/7/98 4:29:45 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
mc23@**********.COM writes:

> >> Well, didn't the elves try to exterminate the dragons in Earthdawn?
> >>
> >Yes, and one could say that the Sphinx had a lot to do with the outcome of
> >that discussion....hmmm....could be...
>
> The Sphinx was created to look over Theran's rule. Nothing to do
> with dragon's there. Thera has had trouble with dragons before but Thera
> is also a mixed nation and not Elven. Sphinx has just sat there since its
> creation. The rulers of Thera do not know if the Spinx will ever move but
> they still watch what they do (getting a little braver with time).
>
Actually, there was a passage concerning "the people of Thera waking up one
morning and seeing a dragon sitting on it's head." What happened in Thera
after that was incredibly precise and nightmarish (the extra deaths...sounded
biblical to me for the "First Born of Egypt" theory...).

-K