What is this all about??? Anyone have some sugegstion?
Maybe that was he incoming event for the new book before WOTC drop Dark Sun.
He is an old Elf and is in a transformation like the Shadow King and Hamanu (unless he is dead, haven't finished the Rise and Fall yet...no spoilers!).
eh?
just idle speculation.
as for the topic, i think the wanderer is the messenger. it's been wandering back and forth, and it's something the ancient halflings would know about, while the scribe is not, and sorak's granpa doesnt count.
nic
In my opinion, the Kreen Empire (and the kreen themselves) are the remnants of the Nature-Benders, with the Zic-Chil being direct decendents if not the original ones. With the Empire getting ready to press far beyond its borders, the Rhul Thaun have seen that the time for a return is called for.
The question is this: how do you make an invasion both horrific and uniquely Athasian? That's tricky. Even with the best intentions, alien invasions almost always turn either goofy or campy, and Dark Sun is neither.
I wish the guys would have released a book of their pending ideas so that we could have seen how they planned to pull it off.
As a DM, there no spacejammer and such in my campaign. And the event of Blackspine(Gith invasion) never happened.
After [quite a bit of] not liking the idea of Rhul Thaun invaders from beyond the atmosphere (!), I'm starting to think that there might be ways to pull it off.
In my opinion, the Kreen Empire (and the kreen themselves) are the remnants of the Nature-Benders, with the Zic-Chil being direct decendents if not the original ones. With the Empire getting ready to press far beyond its borders, the Rhul Thaun have seen that the time for a return is called for.
The question is this: how do you make an invasion both horrific and uniquely Athasian? That's tricky. Even with the best intentions, alien invasions almost always turn either goofy or campy, and Dark Sun is neither.
I wish the guys would have released a book of their pending ideas so that we could have seen how they planned to pull it off.
I was reading through some of the old threads on here and kept running into the "return of the halflings riding their space hamsters" idea. At first i thought it was a joke but having read through that adventure again i realised maybe there was only half a joke (namely the hamsters).
Hopefully the prophecy is just plain wrong, i mean imagine if the grey age did become a blue age? thatd be it, the end of Dark Sun.
Too bad Rajaat couldnt 'call home' - a halfling mothership might have really sorted out the SK's, Sadira and Rikus while they were all in Ur Draxa. Werent the halflings that wanted the return of the blue age the ones that became the shadow halflings? or were there others out there?
**SPOILER ABOUT TRIBE OF ONE SERIES APPARENTLY :D **
Was it in the 3rd book of the Tribe of One where the wanderer goes back in time?
But it would be interesting to find out where they were going to go with the setting. It might have been a nice surprise. Then again, maybe we should be really glad TSR folded when they did.
*SPOILER*
just before the bit about the Tribe of One. That's an important secret for the series.
;)
Zik-chil = modern-day, transformed offspring of the Nature-Benders, and the Tohr-Kreen Empire is what was founded from their being exhiled and enhancing the Kreen species into a sentient warrior caste for them.
Rhul-Thaun = offspring of the Rhulisti who were sent to keep the border of the Tyr'agi area guarded against the Nature-bender exhiles.
The Messenger = a coral-like vessel developed by the ancient Rhulisti Nature-Masters, who had developed a fleet of spacecraft and left their newly-changed homeworld of Athas behind, taking to the stars the Messenger was damaged, and left behind itself, empty of any Rhulisti.
The Space-Halflings = I pretty much use the Yuusong Vong from Star Wars here - pretty much verbatim. They have radically changed in their philosophy, mannerisms, and physiology. They are now extremely aggressive, and had spent several thousand years attempting to find the world of their birth. They have pretty much scoured the rest of the galaxy, and have destroyed any habitable worlds left within it. In my Dark Sun, they eventually find Athas, and begin preparations to making Athas more "acceptable" to them - through their bioengineered teraforming. I have made them relatively invisible to psionic powers. They also despise arcane magic completely, as arcane magic drains life-energy unnaturally, and all of their technology is biological in nature. As such, they hunt down and destroy anything arcane. They are interested in divine magic, and worship the same gods that the Yuusong Vong do, but do not gain any magical power from them (the gods aren't real).