[Dungeon Fantasy] Setting Conversion: The Epic of Aerth

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Evil Roy Slade

I think when the canonical GURPS Fantasy setting is Yrth, we're in no place here to decide the kettle is black.

It's a common trope of SF of a certain age.

In the Witches of Karres which was written in the 60s all of the humans scattered across the galaxy had orignally come from a long lost world known as "Yarthe".

In Zelazny's Lord of Light (approx. the same time of writing) I believe the lost home world may have been "Erath".

Think I've seen "Urth" too though I don't know where.

My last big Fantasy game was set on a world known as "D'y'r't" but that's a more elaborate sort of linguistic mutation.

I could probably go on.