So, I was browsing through some of the Kaldar books recently and I have a few questions for you Raesh. I don't expect you to answer them here necessarily, but I'd love to know the answers at some point and in some form:
1) Can you name at least one Prime Year for us? "The Gorbesh Calendar" book talks about prime and death years being important, yet we don't know when any of them are! I've tried looking through the timeline for wars starting 35 years apart, but couldn't find any reasonable pattern.
2) Whose planet is Ileirek (Dawgolesh)? All the other planets listed I can link to gods via "Religion in Gorbesh Society" -- but I can't find a mention of Ileirek anywhere.
Interesting to note, by the way, that "The Gorbesh Calendar" specifically mentions Xin'Alaudas ascending to godhood, and he apparently gets his own planet (Alauven). So maybe we should be calling them the Eleven?
-- Player of Eyuve
ALEPH-ONE
DR-RAESH
Re: The Prime Year
09/03/2011 11:43 PM CDT
1) Nope! If I had to take a guess 1384 BL would be a Prime Year, which makes 1350 sorta make sense as a Death Year, but that's noncanonical, and the next several cycles have nothing notable on the timeline if you pick those dates.
2) I noticed the same lapse, since it's kinda a big one, and was surprised that no one else seemed to have noticed it before. I've roughed out some lore to explain it, but nothing that's quite ready for sharing, and a RetCon Bat might be involved. While the theory that Alauven represents Xin'Alaudas is plausible, I am troubled by the fact that it says "the five outer planets represent the goddesses", and then clearly goes on to lump seven planets under that header including, presumably, Xin'Alaudas's -- and I can't imagine the Kaldar picturing him as a goddesses. There is also the fact that the same book states that the calendar far predates Xin'Alaudas. Due to this fact I'm forced to conclude that Alauven isn't Xin'Alaudas's planet, or there's some blatant contradictions going on in the lore.
-Raesh
"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose
2) I noticed the same lapse, since it's kinda a big one, and was surprised that no one else seemed to have noticed it before. I've roughed out some lore to explain it, but nothing that's quite ready for sharing, and a RetCon Bat might be involved. While the theory that Alauven represents Xin'Alaudas is plausible, I am troubled by the fact that it says "the five outer planets represent the goddesses", and then clearly goes on to lump seven planets under that header including, presumably, Xin'Alaudas's -- and I can't imagine the Kaldar picturing him as a goddesses. There is also the fact that the same book states that the calendar far predates Xin'Alaudas. Due to this fact I'm forced to conclude that Alauven isn't Xin'Alaudas's planet, or there's some blatant contradictions going on in the lore.
-Raesh
"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose
ALEPH-ONE
Re: The Prime Year
09/04/2011 12:03 AM CDT
>>1) Nope! If I had to take a guess 1384 BL would be a Prime Year,
Thanks for your honesty! Am I wrong in assuming that you have the power to, uh... set a prime year for us?
>>While the theory that Alauven represents Xin'Alaudas is plausible, I am troubled by the fact that it says "the five outer planets represent the goddesses"
True... I was thinking that maybe when he got "promoted" he ended up with the weaker gods. But good catch on the predating. RetCon bat would seem to be in order.
By the way, big sadface that the Kaldar seemed all set up for gender equality -- with strong female warrior gods -- and then we suddenly get slapped with the idea that the female gods are still somehow weaker. Not that I'm 100% against gender inequality in a fantasy setting (it is fantasy after all), I just tend to prefer equality from a design perspective and the Kaldar seemed ideally set up for it.
-- Player of Eyuve
Thanks for your honesty! Am I wrong in assuming that you have the power to, uh... set a prime year for us?
>>While the theory that Alauven represents Xin'Alaudas is plausible, I am troubled by the fact that it says "the five outer planets represent the goddesses"
True... I was thinking that maybe when he got "promoted" he ended up with the weaker gods. But good catch on the predating. RetCon bat would seem to be in order.
By the way, big sadface that the Kaldar seemed all set up for gender equality -- with strong female warrior gods -- and then we suddenly get slapped with the idea that the female gods are still somehow weaker. Not that I'm 100% against gender inequality in a fantasy setting (it is fantasy after all), I just tend to prefer equality from a design perspective and the Kaldar seemed ideally set up for it.
-- Player of Eyuve
