Point taken, but they were a group known as the Impious Scholars, who were earlier (I assume here that these are the same people or descendants of them) called the Industrious Scholars of the New World, imported to Nochet by the Waertag. Although clearly not God Learners they did nick stuff form other gods (in this case Drolgard), just like the God Learners.
<< 2) Greg has said that the God Learners claimed that Vistikos learned the secrets of Draconic speech from their school.>>
Those Godlearners will claim anything.
me: <<>What I would like to
>know is the origin of Wyrms. Every reference that I can find is
suspiciously
>vague about their origins (RQ2 rules say that they are the result of a
>misguided attempt by the Second Council to create new dragons after the
>ancestral dragons either went away or went to sleep). My own theory is that
>Wyrms were humans that have gone as draconic as they can, a Central
>Genertelan Path of Immanent Wyrmery.
Peter:
<<The earliest reference to Wyrms that I know of is the discovery of
Kartolin Pass in 149 ST by human scholars "mounted on wyrms and
dragons", which is before the Second Council even.>>
Hrrmm..you've got me there, I can't explain that.
<<>The most confusing reference is from the Dragon Pass rules where someone
>called Eriayalaia, the Veil of the Moon, met with the Inhuman King to
>discuss philosophy, and ended up discussing treason, inhuman things,
>death and genocide, euthanasia and god's wills. 666 years (376, ie the
>year after sunstop))after this conversation the Dragonewts rose up to
>destroy the heart of the Empire (1042?). This makes me think the whole
>thing was planned by the Blue Moon for an even more sinster purpose than
>any Dragonewt plot.
I doubt that the Blue Moon and the Dragonewts planned so far ahead. Bear in mind that the text was written a long time ago, when even the maps of Genertela look very strange. Note for example, that the same text also states that the Pharoah ruled the Holy Country in the days of the EWF. Hence I would amend "years" to "days".>>
I realise the age of the source, and the dodginess of the Pharoah references etc but the Dragon I talked to said...
I like the SunStop...666years...End of EWF bit and see no real reason that it should be days not years. Who knows, or claims to know, what the Blue Moon or the Dragons are planning, and on what timescale.
Keith N
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