: The "damn" of time?
heh, whoops :-)
: It's still possible that the Callieach are as old or
: older than the Trow. The fact that these older races
: are always spoken of as coming from elsewhere--falling
: from the sky and whatnot--may imply that they existed
: for quite some time before they invaded the Trow's
: domain. They still couldn't have built the world
: knots, of course, since they didn't live on the
: surface of the Earth until they came into conflict
: with the Trow, but they could be equally old.
Good point.
: I might
: point out that the history of the Trow incorporates a
: huge number of Lovecraftian themes. HPL's short novel
: "At the Mountains of Madness," tells the
: story of the Old Ones, a paradoxical race of warlike
: yet highly ethical scientists and philosophers who
: were the first to colonize the half-molten Earth. They
: successfully defended their territory from equally
: advanced alien invaders for hundreds of millions of
: years, but over the eons they discarded the greater
: part of their scientific and technological knowledge
: and, in the end, their numbers were decimated by
: repeated revolts of their genetically engineered
: slaves, the metamorphic Shoggoths. A few survived to
: the present, imprisoned in a state of near-death (like
: damn near all of Lovecraft's creations.) The parallels
: with the Trow are obvious.
Indeed.
: Now, what were the Trow doing while the Leveler did his
: stuff in earlier ages? They obviously have no natural
: affection for him, but I can't see them fighting
: alongside the "younger races" during the
: Dark Ages and enslaving them during the Light Ages.
: Did they just tend their empire off to one side of the
: main action and not get messed with?
I imagine that they just minded their own business. When in their golden ages, they seemed rather peacefull, not conquering anybody, but certainly intent on keeping their lands secure. Likewise, we know that they were enemies of the Myrkridia at the same time as the Oghres were rebelling, and probably kept Moagim's dirty ass at bay whenever he tried to get too close. Only the combined effects of the Oghre rebellion, the Myrkridia, and finally Connacht, seemed to be able to bring them down; remember, they exterminated race after race of enemies for thousands of years.
I imagine that in their prime the Trow could have taken over the world easily - but they prefer to mind their own business nowadays.
