Frequently Unanswered Questions, FUQ it. Options

[Wesley Street]

What's going on in post-occupation San Francisco?
Who were the post-coup puppet presidents before Colloton? And what happened to Vice-President Daviar?
Is Cross Applied Technologies still around in any way, shape or form? If not, who's the big dog in Quebec now?
What nations exist in Africa outside the Gold Coast?
Does the Chinese "puzzle" of nations still exist?
What became of the elven Tir leadership? Do elves still make up the majority?
Is the Draco Foundation still active?

[Dr Funfrock]

Actually, it was thinked by David Gavilan, programmed by Lucien Cross and funded by Dunkie

Same thing. David Gavilan is Damien Knight

[Ryu]

It doesn't quite explain the harsh reactions of the Hawai'ian military (in SR) to trespassers, but, whatever. It's probably either something big-and-magical going on or... its purely a cultural thing.

Thanks, Ryu.

-paws

Your welcome. The "historical" movement to make the base into a military installation might be the main reason. What better place to hide something from watchful eyes? Pretty good placeholder if it is one.

- Why the hell didn't they just netherwalk into Zincan's office and rip his head off on his first day as 'high prince'?

Maybe Zincan has powerful protectors and is just a figurehead? Protectors that think IEs are good eatin´?

Always tought he was merely a wolf shapechanger ... What makes you think he is a beast spirit?

Actually, it was thinked by David Gavilan, programmed by Lucien Cross and funded by Dunkie

He would be a shapeshanger with a split personality. He communicates with his "wolf form", and gets power when giving control to Wolf. That makes possession-traditions with (adapted) mentor spirit Wolf and summoned beast spirits a good fit. Weres are hybrids that consider both forms natural.

Forgot Lucien. He is dead, he won´t care.

- Why has never, ever, there been an attempt by dwarfs to create their own little homeland?

There are hints of a Kingdom Under The Mountain in the german books I think.

[Stahlseele]

There are hints of a Kingdom Under The Mountain in the german books I think.

Hvaldos, only in Novels as far as i know . . but hell i would love for that to be official *-*

[last_of_the_grea...]

Zincan survived because of sheer orkiness! Orks seriously rock and elves, well, elves just don't! Without that rockin'ness factor Alaichia just wouldn't stand a chance. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

[CanRay]

Same thing. David Gavilan is Damien Knight

Is he now?

All the evidence of that is digital, and could be easily faked...

[hyzmarca]

Griffins have six limbs and are not descended from any apparent Earthly life form. The same can be said of a number of other animals in the Sixth World, and I'm sure you can think of a few.

Griffins are what you get when a lion and an eagle have sex. It is a rare occurrence in the wild, but more common when both are kept together in captivity.


More realisticly, a Wizard did it. Someone with an odd sense of humor took an eagle and a lion and put them together using the Earthdawn Wizard spell Alter Life, created more either through the same process or via magical cloning, and then the two griffins matted and produced more griffins. When the mana level droped below what was necessary to sustain a magically altered life form they reverted to either lions or eagles and passed their griffin genes down to the line until the Awakening.

[JesterX]

Same thing. David Gavilan is Damien Knight

I know that, but Lucien Cross was forgotten in the equation ^_^ I only wanted to point that out... I really do like the CatCo back history... it's a shame that this is not much exploited anymore.

AH, are you recording this? I want badly to know if the Seraphims are still around... ^_^

[hermit]

There you have a Tech that handles all of the stations owned by a megacorp available 24/7 and they trouble shoot any issues it saves on having trained astronauts taking care of routine functions around the clock at each facility. Also allows you to run it through a supercomputer based on Earth that will forecast any forseeable issues with the up to the nanosecond diagnostics. And if there happens to be a malfunction, there is a system in place to ensure the entire station is not taken out because the tech on the station hooked up the wrong hose to the lifesupport system. I'm not 100% sure we aren't doing as much of that as we can now with the International Space Station.

And if ANYTHING fails during a solar flare, everyone on board this station is dead. Brilliant system, especially when the most powerful political gremium on SR earth is on board, right? And a solar Flare will disrupt ANY radio-based communication.

There are hints of a Kingdom Under The Mountain in the german books I think.

It was very much dumbed down in the follow-up germany book. Was it in the Germany SB FASA released, though? Then it technically would still be international canon.

CATco is still around, but lost it's AAA status.

[Stahlseele]

i don't think it's in an official sourcebook, but i have been proven wrong before *g*

[hermit]

i don't think it's in an official sourcebook, but i have been proven wrong before *g*

It's been referred to in DidS and DidS 2. Whether it's also made it's way into Germany SB is something I don't know.

[Stahlseele]

ok, so it's semi offical canon at best . . one of my character concepts actually was based on the myths about subterranian dwarven kingdoms . . how it is now, the character in question will still go insane trying to prove that there is something down there *g*
there needs to be a 4th ed germany/europe book with detailed information to make it legit!
preferably written by our dear aunty ancient ^^

[hermit]

Personally, I'd be more interested in what became of Tir na nOg (or rather, how much they choose to trample and destroy it in 4). But yes. Preferrably a myths of Europe book covering al the mysticalaspects of the continent, from prague's shedim trap church to the Bretagne fog to the Tirs (including Pomorya)

And now for an OT question:
- If the Heavenherds are Thera, Tir Taingire is Sereatha, and Tir na nOg is Blood Forest, would Pomorya be Shosara? Or would that rather be Trans-Latvia?

[FrankTrollman]

The Blood Wood is actually in Chernobyl.

-Frank

[hermit]

Yes, but it's population (the remainder, meaning Alachia and a few others) are in TNN and playing elven court there.

[Stahlseele]

The Blood Wood is actually in Chernobyl.

-Frank

that's so fitting i don't know if i should laugh or weep O.o

[Sir_Psycho]

The Blood Wood is actually in Chernobyl.

-Frank

Where'd this come from?

[Stahlseele]

more or less allways been that way . . earthdawn for the most part was located in what is today europe and asia as far as i remember . .

[Synner]

i'm kinda hoping for Frank Trollman for example to make something up after his work on cyber-limbs *g*

Just for the record, despite his excellent contributions to Spirits in Street Magic and Medtech and CZs in Augmentation, Frank Trollman is not responsible for the advanced cyberlimb rules, someone else is.

I think that the Outcast gets killed at some point during ED and his spirit is bound into some sort of vessel, he breaks out during the middle ages possesses the head of the Templars and starts the Black Lodge, and possibly the dragon hunters. This is all based on conversation with Synner.

Sort of... Here is the untold and unofficial story of the Black Lodge and the Vigilia Evangelica.

Excalibur

Please note that according to SR4 material Pendragon has been MIA since shortly after the Crash 2.0 and the Oxford Student Riots.

[Oracle]

more or less allways been that way . . earthdawn for the most part was located in what is today europe and asia as far as i remember . .

Just take a look at this map from the Thera sourcebook.

[Ryu]

Personally, I'd be more interested in what became of Tir na nOg (or rather, how much they choose to trample and destroy it in 4). But yes. Preferrably a myths of Europe book covering al the mysticalaspects of the continent, from prague's shedim trap church to the Bretagne fog to the Tirs (including Pomorya)

And now for an OT question:
- If the Heavenherds are Thera, Tir Taingire is Sereatha, and Tir na nOg is Blood Forest, would Pomorya be Shosara? Or would that rather be Trans-Latvia?

The Heavenherds fled from Thera across the world. The different elven nations appear to be IE factions.

The Theran Empire (ED) has a map that shows Sereatha rather exactly where Latvia is.

TNN is populated by the blood-wood faction. That may be mainly due to Alachia. Apparently they fled from their original location across the sea, and their arrival created several myths.

Pomorya is the northernmost region of ED Vasgothia. The map shows that most of Pomorya would be the former Deep Forest of Vasgothia, a place where Vasgothias passions fought the horrors to the death. The woman of power, a large statue, has an all-female cult following. The head-priestess speaks a language that is similar to Sperethiel, but is way more complicated. Interesting ED fact: Under the deep forest is a net of tunnels named Earthswallowers Pattern, made by the GD of the same name. A net of tunnels is what brought fun for LA. But I´m getting off the track. No clue which elven faction is in Pomorya.

[hermit]

Interesting ED fact: Under the deep forest is a net of tunnels named Earthswallowers Pattern, made by the GD of the same name. A net of tunnels is what brought fun for LA. But I´m getting off the track. No clue which elven faction is in Pomorya.

Interesting. There's supposedly one under Pomorya too (where weirdly deformed, light sensitive Elves suffering from some sort of mysterious disease live).

And TT is pretty much the Sereatha troupe, isn't it (and Alachia since apparently, they're incapable of getting rid of their queen completely). So that leaves Shosara to be 'accounted for' in ED. Since the others all have relocated, I don't see why they shouldn't. Though why they chose that rather wretched place ...

[Faelan]

I don't think you can draw a direct line between any of the old Elven Kingdoms from Earthdawn, and their modern day descendants. Their is just too much cross pollination. Alachia and the Oakforest clan are clearly Blood Elves and are located in Tir Tairngire. Ehran who I suspect was in the Theran faction was also in TT for a long time. I presume many of the TNN IE's are from Shosara (especially seeing as how Shosara is now apparently going to be located in Sweden) essentially since we can see that Harlequin does not get along with either grouping we can stretch a bit and assume (I know reaching) neither is based on Sereatha.

[Ryu]

Shosara is in Russia (or on the ocean floor), somewhere at the White Sea.

[BookWyrm]

What happened to the Karma? Wasn't the prize Karma?

Yes, it was. I was using an expression. The 25 Karma is hearby awarded to you, RunnerPaul.