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04-09-2007, 09:34 AM | #22 | |
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Dworkin's mad in peculiar ways, of course, so take this as you would any other creation myth, but I believe it's the gist of the first Amber series' take on events. And there's some elaboration in Merlin's five books. |
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04-09-2007, 12:26 PM | #23 | |
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(and many other fantasy parallels similarily "favouring" barbarians) Conan-(number). After all, the names of parallels are technically supposed to be somewhat descriptive of the parallel in question (or how they diverged), aren't they? Simple calling it Howard-(number) would raise a number of questions ranging from "Howard who?" to "Which Robert E. Howard character mythic parallel is this? Conan (and which one/when)? Solomon Kane? El Borak? Steve Costigan? etc.". |
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04-09-2007, 12:35 PM | #24 |
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How would anyone work in the Lovecraft parallels? :)
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04-09-2007, 01:05 PM | #25 |
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Leviathan is already a Lovecraft parallel. That they don't recognise it, suggests that Homeline never had a Lovecraft.
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04-09-2007, 01:31 PM | #26 |
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If I get a chance, I will fish out my notes for a campaign that I created that placed the lands of Witchworld in the Pacific Northwest of the Horseclans setting. With a bit of work and low mana replacing psionics, I think I can justify making it an Alternate...probably with the POD being something arcane in the late 19th and/or early 20th Century that put a rather effective end to the Great War. (Weird War I?) Not sure what I would call such an Alternate, though
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parallel. Not any more than Yrth is a Tolkien parallel. Unless, of course, you can name the Lovecraft story it mirrors - it does not appear to have been included in the H.P. Lovecraft Omnibuses in my possession. On the other hand, one should not assume that those who first discover, explore or name a parallel are familiar with the "source" if it happens to be a myth parallel or, in many possible cases, would even notice. Conan and Discworld myth parallels would be pretty easy to identify (even if their present date means that Conan (etc.) are not actually around any longer/yet), but, for example, Biggles, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Pippi Longstocking myth parallels could easily be listed as "mere" close parallels (or even echoes) unless someone actually runs into the characters in question. As for a Lovecraft parallel, here's what I've done (I haven't actually used it yet and chances are I never will): a) Thinking of it from a local's perspective rather than Infinity's. b) start with what is essentially a 1920s close parallel/echo c) give it an extensive pocket multiverse (cf. Azoth-7), inhabited by various Lovecraftian thingies d) give the Earth a fluctuating and uneven Mana level - most of the time, it's No Mana, but when The Stars Are Right the mana in the places relevant to whatever The Stars Are Right for increase enough for a suitable person to use an appropriate spell to summon the great whatever to Earth e) name the parallel Arkham ( f) leave it to Infinity (and the Cabal) to work out if the thingies are an actual threat to other parallels, and when, where and for what the Stars Are Right next) |
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In short stories written by Zelazny shortly before his death, it was established that there are places and objects that are as "real" as Amber or the Courts, and even older than Amber or the Pattern (but not the Jewel of Judgement). In the Merlin books, the royals from both Amber and Chaos refer to the area beyond the Courts as "The Rim", suggesting the Pattern is just the center of a vast "island of stability" (continent of stability?) and the Courts are the outer edge of it. The Logrus may or may not have been created to stem the tide of Order the Pattern generated. |
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04-09-2007, 03:23 PM | #29 |
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Martian-X could be a group name for the various War of the Worlds settings. One where the Martians were defeated by our microscopic allies while invading the British Isles in 1898, one where the same thing happens in the US, forty years later, one where it happens in present day, one where the Martians were actually beaten by the British, one where the British Empire seized the Martian technology and took over the world before carrying the war back to Mars...
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A reply to multiple posts (actually getting a job will cut into my gurps forum time I see):
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