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For an example, see: Recessional For gamers with a taste for political and social storylines as well as combat, a Fourth Age setting could deal with the struggle to remind the peoples of the Reunited Kingdom, 200 or 300 or 400 years after the War of the Ring, of what it was all about and why, and that the Kingdom exists for reasons greater than maximizing profits or comfort or self-aggrandizement. Kipling would feel right at home. Quote:
birds, beasts, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal, slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountains down." The Reunited Kingdom is by no means immortal. |
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01-12-2013, 02:07 AM | #42 |
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Or you can be the people of the East, fighting colonial aggression from the heirs of Elessar.
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01-12-2013, 11:32 AM | #43 | |
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It might just be the similiarity of the names Variag and Varyag, but I like to imagine the Variags of Khand as a little bit like the Norse/Rus of Kiev. Yes, I'm well aware that LotR is not a historical allegory. Tolkien might have had a certain vague similiarity in mind-- or maybe he just liked the sound of the word. |
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01-13-2013, 01:41 PM | #44 | |
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01-13-2013, 03:30 PM | #45 | |
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01-13-2013, 04:16 PM | #46 |
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I wonder how long ago Middle-Earth was supposed to have been?
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01-13-2013, 04:59 PM | #47 |
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01-13-2013, 05:08 PM | #48 |
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doesn't seem long enough. it doesn't explain what happened to the horses,either.
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01-13-2013, 05:39 PM | #50 | |
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