What year does the third age start.. A campaign in the end of the second age intrigues me...
John
>From: "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_DDAp378rzG7lWtR9m9ILyvsnEdo_qho74AhpkT5ntrC_PeDbnZQOD6D2RKb7IVExVxzIAt60wUvsiA.yahoo.invalid>
>Reply-To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: Glornatha Lunar Empire
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:37:37 -0700
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> > Hi, I have a question. I play MRQ in the second age of Glornatha. A
> > friend
> > has played previous ages, and he told me about the Lunar Empire in the
>3rd
> > age.
> >
> > How did the third age come about, and what brought on the Lunar empire?
>
>Heh, now *that's* a question and a half! The (very) brief answers:
>
>The Second age ends in blood and suffering and destruction. The Empire of
>Wyrms friends is destroyed by the Dragons and Dragonewts, the Middle Sea
>Empire is destroyed by a number of catastophes, including the Closing of
>the
>Seas, and God-Learnerism is punsihed by the world itself. Basically, the
>world was stretched too far, and bounces back.
>
>So the Third age begins with everything in shambles.
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>Time passes.
>
>The Lunar Empire is the result of the Carmanian oppression of the Pelorian
>Basin. Rebels gather against them and manage to
>raise/reconstruct/resurrect/mythically re-identify the Moon Goddess. She
>hadn't been seen in the Sky since before Time, and it is a Major Event
>(similar, but not identical, to the birth of Nysalor) when She returns to
>the Middle World. At first She is embodied in a human body, leads armies,
>defeats enemies, etc., but eventually She apotheosizes and rises up as the
>Red Moon, taking a big chunk of Glorantha with her to form Her material
>body
>in the Middle Air.
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>The Red Moon hovers over Glorantha, She does not follow a path like the
>sun,
>the stars or any other Celestial object. She can be seen night and day,
>never setting but always remains in the same place. She slowly changes
>color
>from Red to Black and back to Red over the course of 7 days. The Moon is
>home to all those heroes, demigods and Immortals o fthe Lunar way - it is
>their afterlife. You can get to the moon from the physical world relatively
>easily - you can walk there if you can overcome the guards along the way.
>
>RR
>He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
>R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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