From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	Horrors
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:23:38 +1000

> > Additionally, I'm not certain that Bug Spirits are servants of
> the Horrors,
> > just that they are a sign that Horrors are on their way ...
>
> As I understood the Earthdawn books, Invae were only invented as
> a side idea
> in the Barsaive box with no further ideas. There is only one paragraph on
> them about a side long, half of it being a picture. Invae/Bug
> Spirits started
> to become important in SR but were never mentioned again in ED. So I don't
> think they are any kind of foreshadowing to the Horrors but that these are
> two different storylines.

The Invae can appear at a lower level of mana. Their appearance would be a
sign that the Horrors are coming in that it indicates that the mana level
has reached a certain point. In ED, the Invae appeared about 500 years
before the Horrors, and were readily contained by the powers of the time.

In SR, the Bug spirits appeared fairly soon after the Awakening (no dates
are given for certain, but definitely within 50 years). This has been
retroactively explained by pointing out that the mana spikes allowed the
Invae to get across earlier, just as they could potentially allow the
Horrors to get across early.

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