| From: | Mad Hamish h_laws@**********.utas.edu.au |
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| Subject: | Noah's ark |
| Date: | Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:58:15 +1000 |
>Scott W wrote:
>>
>> "And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Wordman."
>> ] It occurred to me yesterday that the Noah's Ark story from the Bible
could
>> ] easily be taken for a metaphor for what Earthdawn calls the Scourge. The
>> ] Flood represents the Scourge itself. The Ark represents all of the Horror
>> ] shelters.
>> ]
>> ] Wordman
>>
>> Thus God released the Horrors? Or, more blasphemously, IS the Horrors?
>>
>
>I don't know earthdawn that well (okay, okay, I don't know it at all)
>but is there any single deity that is referred to as "the One God" of
>Judaism and Christianity (and some would add Islam)?
Including followers of Islam...
But in Earthdawn there is something along those lines suggested in the
Theran Empire sourcebook. The Taleans are holding out for the Primea who
will come in the future.
> You could play it
>as the folk at the beginning of the sixth age piecing together fractured
>legends - after all, when magic disapears, I would expect the worlds
>belief systems to undergo a major shake-up.
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