: Ok, I was just thinking about ages and eras and such, and
: I got to wondering, what was the first era like? How
: were things going back then? Who was the first
: Leveller, the first Hero, and what kind of armied did
: they use?
By First Era, you mean the age prior to the Age of Reason, right? Since the Leveller Tireces killed was beheaded and burned at the stake in the Second Era.
: What we do know: The Comet rose in the east.
: Tharsis erupted.
: The Leveller came from the east and the Hero from the
: west.
: It was a Dark era.
: The Trow ruled most of the world at that time, but didn't
: pay much attention to most of it.
: The Myrkridia were around as horrible wild animals, but
: nothing too bad.
: The Free Cities of the North had been settled by men.
Or at least the *area* had been settled; we dunno if any actual *cities* had been built yet...
: Humans and fir'Bolg were enemies.
Possibly. We know when the conflict between the races ended--The Great War--but we don't know when it started, do we?
: The Dwarves had no pyrotechnics.
Do we know this? They certainly had handheld explosives (looking just like the modern ones) midway through the Age of Reason; conceivably they could have very primitive versions (sacks of gunpowder or something) near the end of the First Era. Their primary weapons, though, are definitely plate armor and battleaxes, from what GURPS says.
: The Oghres were slaves to the Trow.
Not yet. This didn't occur until more than halfway through the Age of Reason. The Trow are building their monuments themselves right now.
: The Barrier was a vast, temporate farmland, not a desert.
Again, do we know that it was farmed? It was certainly fertile, temperate land, but I think it was probably mostly grassland and forest at this time; I doubt it was converted entirely into orchards and cropland until the Cath Bruig empire was founded.
: We know that Tireces' defeat of the next Leveller was the
: first time magic was used to immobilize him; so magic
: probably played a very small role in the first Great
: War.
Or else all the magic was on the side of the Dark.
: Moagim's death "set the uneasy precedent that a
: Leveller's fate need not mirror his cause" - this
: could either be because Moagim was the first
: successfull Leveller in recorded history (the First
: Era was prehistoric), or because he really was the
: first Leveller to die and have his cause succeed
: anyway. I'd bet on the first explanation.
: So, with this info, anyone care to write a little
: narrative about the First Era?
Sure. Just copy your original post and put "Once upon a time..." at the beginning. ;-)
--SiliconDream
