Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 25 Aug 2004 to 26 Aug 2004 (#2004-177) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 27/08/2004, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 4 messages totalling 150 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Expanded Darokin Timeline Part 1: From the Founding of Salonikos to the Fall of al-Zalenikah (1500 BC - 351 AC) 2. Reviving the Tome of Mystara 3. Expanded Darokin Timeline Part 1 (2) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:04:04 -0700 From: Andrew Theisen Subject: Re: Expanded Darokin Timeline Part 1: From the Founding of Salonikos to the Fall of al-Zalenikah (1500 BC - 351 AC) Just going over this quickly (in a hurry), but I was wondering if you've given any thought to incorporating the tales of the Darokinian heroes from module IM2: Wrath of Olympus into the Expanded Timeline? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:32:01 -0300 From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes" Subject: Re: Reviving the Tome of Mystara At 22:52 23/8/2004, you wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:42:00 -0300, Vinicius R. de Moraes > wrote: > > >At 04:21 23/8/2004, you wrote: > >>Vinicius R. de Moraes wrote: > >> > >>> > (snip) > >> > >>I'm quite uncertain w.r.t. Wiki. > > > >What is "w.r.t."? > > > > It's an acronym for "with regard to". Thanks! > You can always (at least it usually > works for me) at www.acronymfinder.com Good hint!!! Everyone needs that! > Bookmark that site! Believe me, if you do, you'll be surprised how often > you'll slip over there to clear up the mystery of an obscure acronym > (well, I did at least...). Heck, they even have a few acronym from my own > obscure native tongue there, What is that tongue? > which I found rather surprising... Tell me more, man! > - The Stalker vini, the stalked... ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:44:31 -0500 From: Aaron Nowack Subject: Re: Expanded Darokin Timeline Part 1 Andrew Theisen wrote: > Just going over this quickly (in a hurry), but I was > wondering if you've given any thought to incorporating > the tales of the Darokinian heroes from module IM2: > Wrath of Olympus into the Expanded Timeline? I don't have that module, so no. Anyone who does have that module, and would like to see it added in, is welcome to do a quick write-up and I'll see about integrating it. Same goes for other obscure/non-obvious sources and/or other fan-based material. As a side note, I seem to recall that the consensus was that the Dragonwhatever of Mystara series was set in the 400s or 500s. I'd like to integrate that stuff into the timeline, but my copies of the books (and most of my other Mystara material) are in another state, and it's been a long time since I read them. If someone could summarize the relevant details for me, I'd much appreciate it. -- Aaron Nowack "Never let reality get in the way of a good hypothesis." http://www.mimiru.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:06:43 -0700 From: The Stalker Subject: Re: Expanded Darokin Timeline Part 1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:44:31 -0500, Aaron Nowack wrote: > > As a side note, I seem to recall that the consensus was that the > Dragonwhatever of Mystara series was set in the 400s or 500s. I'd like > to integrate that stuff into the timeline, but my copies of the books > (and most of my other Mystara material) are in another state, and it's > been a long time since I read them. If someone could summarize the > relevant details for me, I'd much appreciate it. > This came up a good deal of time ago, when I asked about the best period to choose for some historical time for certain things to happen in Darokin, which were important to an adventure I was running IMC at the time ("The Forgotten Man" from Dragon no. 75). You made several suggestions yourself (which I ended up using - thanks for that btw - it all ended up with the anti-paladin in the story having done some really, well, anti-paladin-appropriate things...), but then the discussion turned to the timing of the Dragonlord trilogy and how it might interfere with the adventure. I don't recall when we had the dicussion, but Andrew Theisen was the person who wrote the following in reply (which I noted down for later reference): > >> From the prologue of Dragonlord of Mystara, pg. 2: "The Flaem had first come into the northern frontiers of the Highlands only eighty years or so earlier..." > > This chapter sets the stage for the events of the novel, detailing the fate of an infant Thelvyn. Then we head on to the main events, in the rest of the book- > >> From Chapter 1, pg. 22: (Referring to Thelvyn) "So it happened that early in the spring of his fifteenth year, he found himself between prospects." > > Given that the date of the Flaem arrival in Glantri is 395 AC, according to Gaz3 and other sources, this places the Prologue at around 475 AC, and the actual events of the first novel at around 490 AC. > > I don't have an exact quote on the second novel, but I do recall that it says it takes place 5 years after the first, so c.495 AC. Don't own the third novel, but I'm trying to track it down, for the sake of completeness. > As for the last novel, I'd say that since it follows right on the heels of the second chronologically, I'd put that in 495 too (or perhaps 496). ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 25 Aug 2004 to 26 Aug 2004 (#2004-177) ****************************************************************