Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 14 Apr 2004 to 15 Apr 2004 (#2004-87) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 16/04/2004, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 3 messages totalling 213 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Adventure Team 2. History of the Dwarven Race - the Years of Growth 3. Sorcerers in the Known World ******************************************************************** 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, 15 Apr 2004 01:49:11 -0700 From: Herve Musseau Subject: Re: Adventure Team From: Alex Benson > Thanks for the response, both of you. I'll look over the events and see if I > can piece together something. Admitedly, I haven't read the latest edition of > events to any extent to qualify as being fluent with their content. I'll look > them over and see if anything "screams" for an adventure" to be written up on > it. I just released the Adventures book for 1018, so that chapter is closed. The next adventures will be for the MA1019, but the Events for 1019 have not been published yet (they are still wip). So, since you aren't on the almanac groups you can't see those events that are written, and thus can't see i any of them screams for an adventure... I think the easiest way for you to operate is to write a couple of events that are either not major for the country you set them in or are a logical continuation of a plot from last year. Send me your idea, and I'll tell you if it may cause trouble or if it needs some adjustements to account for other developments you don't know of, and then you can write the events and the adventure. > For some reason, I feel the need to do an adventure based on subjects not > normally associated with my own interests in Mystara. Any deadline for > submissions? I tend to work better when I have a timeframe to work with. > Otherwise, I rewrite things and put them off. No deadline for the Events yet (but now that the MA1018 Adventures has been released we should set one), so no deadline for the Adventures either. But if you need it to focus I can whip you with unjustified deadlines and regular reminders and other random acts of management :) ===== ___________________________________________________________ Herve Musseau http://www.geocities.com/hmusseau/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:49:14 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?la=20Volpe?= Subject: History of the Dwarven Race - the Years of Growth HISTORY OF THE DWARVEN RACE 5. THE YEARS OF GROWTH While the Dwerg tried to bring the Word of Kagyar and Garalin among the disilluded Modrigswerg, the Denwarf dwarves begun slowly to expand eastwards. Ignoring the areas settled by the Modrgiswerg, the Denwarf allied themselves with the Gnomes of the Northern Reaches, whose capital was Falun (in nowadays Soderfjord). The Dwarves hypotize that Gnomes could be a subrace of Dwarves, while Gnomes claim that they evolved from a common ancestry. Whatever the truth, the two races had been allied since the first time they met, after the Great Rain of Fire, and when Dwarves and Gnomes met again, the alliance was reassured. Meanwhile, the Dwarves met again with Humans after several centuries: beyond the mountains and hills lived the Antalians, ancestors of modern Northmen. The contacts were rather sparse to begin with, as the Dwarves had no interest in a race of barbaric pirates, busy only fighting among themselves. In the north, over the mountains, the Denwarf met the aggressive Ethengarans, discouraging the relationship of the Denwarf with their northern neighbours, given the superstitious and rather chaotic nature of this people. The first Everast kings slowed considerably down the population's growth; intelligent and cunning planners, they knew the risks of an uncontrolled growth. They continued the tradition of exploration, fortification and minerary exploitation of the land, and of craftmanship, that King Denwarf had promoted during all of his reign. The Everast dinasty, moreover, made an important decision that gained it the support of the population: the tradition of Abdication. Everast I (1400-1378 BC) believed that Denwarf had begun to show his weaknesses and limits with age: personal limits, sure, but also the limits that were peculiar of the Denwarf race, first of all a conservative attitude that could lead to intellectual and creative stagnation. To avoid this risk among the leaders, it was wise and right for a King to step down when he recognized that his time to rule the Dwarves was over. In those years, the Syrklist of Dengar (a family belonging to the Skarrad Clan), stepped to the front of innovative mining techniques. The family had a so big following among its Clan, that it was able to form a new Clan. Clerics, artisans and smiths of the Skarrad Clan helped the Syrklist to create their own Forge of Power (1323 BC), a major event in the dwarven history, as it was the first time a Forge of Power had been created after the departure of King Denwarf. The Skarrad Clan split, with the technocratic families of engineers, architects, smiths, and those interested in the developing of metallurgic and building techniques mostly remaining in the original Skarrad Clan, while the miner families entered the new Syrklist Clan. Since then, the two Clans continue to be close allies and to share a common political view. The tradition of abdication went on even after the end of the First Everast Dinasty, when Everast VI (1206-1161 BC), surprisingly, not only didn't choose his older son as heir, but even chose a Dwarf from another Clan, the Torkrest, that ascended to the throne mantaining his true name Thoric (1161-1119 BC). The unexpected decision created some tension between the Everast and Torkrest Clans, but no-one dared to oppose it. Thorin Son of Thoric chose a new name when he ascended to the throne, Blystar (1119-1062 BC), becoming the first of a long number of Torkrest kings to bear that name. It was during the kingdom of Blystar I that a small number of ultraconservative traditionalist families, that opposed the political strategies of the Torkrest and the Everast, left these two Clans under the guide of the Lyrrast family of Dengar. They formed their own Clan, the Hurwarf, that was recognized by the other Clans when Kagyar showed his approval allowing them to build completely on their own a new Forge of Power (1089 BC). After these events, the Heads of the Clans, the Clerics and the historians codified the requisites needed to be recognized as a Denwarf Clan: a group of Denwarf families will be considered Clan when it is in legitimate possession of a Forge of Power. The Forge may be built by the artisans, sages, priests and smiths of the Clan, with or without external help. The chroniclers and miniaturists of the various Clans wrote a marvelous book that, since those days, should complement all the family genealogies with the list of all the true Denwarf Clans (1083 BC). The tome, known as "Book of Clans", reports since the List of Clans and the names of all the Families belonging to all Clans, comprehending the dates of transation of a Family from one Clan to another. More or less during the same years, the cronichlers and historians begun to catalogate and comile all the genealogies of all Dwarven families. It took them more than a century, but it brought to the completion of a precise Genealogy for each of the Clans. ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:39:09 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Havard=20Faanes?= Subject: Re: Sorcerers in the Known World --- Andrew Theisen skrev: > Just thought of something- you left out Ylaruam in > your original description of Sorcerers. I'd say that > Ylari sorcerers are likely of Efreeti (or > otherplanar) descent, and as such tend towards using > the outlawed fire magics and such. As a result, they > would be shunned and treated as criminals in the > land. There would likely be a high number of them > among the Nithians, but they would still be outlaws. Ooops, forgot to reply to this one. I like this idea, I'll implement it in the revised version :) Havard ===== *** Håvard R. Faanes www.stud.ntnu.no/~havardfa ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 14 Apr 2004 to 15 Apr 2004 (#2004-87) ***************************************************************