: 12 Years later - just came back here for inspiration for
: a DND campaign I'm working on. I miss this place. The
: tain was a really, really cool thing.
Heyyyy, happy to see an old face poking around again!
Man, has it been 12 years since 2008 already?
In random news, I've been musing on how cool it would have been to have made campaigns, or at least written fan-fics, about the earliest eras of the cycle, called "Legends of the [nth] Era". I've been particularly taken with the idea of a "Legends of the First Era", in which the Leveller attacks the younger races for the first time, in the Axe Age (having previously focused on attacking the Trow, before giving up a thousand years ago). The primary Dark race would be the "orcs" (as they are called in the TFL tags), who we know by the time of TFL as the fir'Bolg, and their cousins the bre'Unor, which it would turn out (in Legends of the Second Era, set during the Sword Age, when Caliban and ou'Kahn negotiate a truce to bring some "orcs" over to the light) are the names of tribes or factions of "orcs". In the Orcish language, their Leveller would be called... b'Y'laggo.
I'm thinking perhaps primitive Dwarves lead by ancient Spider-Cultists would be another Dark faction, and animosity between them and the Ghols (also Dark) could be a plot point, maybe leading to the overthrow of the Spider-Cultist government and the turning of the rest of the Dwarves to the Light; or at least, against the Dark. Perhaps the greatest Human kingdom of the time could have been Yer'Ks, and its Drowning the First Era equivalent of the sack of the Cath Bruig empire, the beginning of the (almost-)end for the Light; the scattered tribes of the north (Berserks and Myrmidons and the like) could be refugees from Yer'Ks. I'm not sure whose side Skrael would have been on at that time; perhaps long enemies of Yer'Ks, they nevertheless side with the light against the Orcish army after Yer'Ks is Drowned, in an uneasy alliance akin to the Ghols and Dwarves on the Dark side.
I have nowhere anywhere near time to even write a story like this, much less make a campaign, but if anyone else wants to run with it I'd be happy to collaborate.
