: This was the axe age, right? Which suggests to me that
: we're talking about people capable of clearing
: forests, which means some kind of agriculture no
: matter how primitive--probably just
: "horticulture" as still practiced in a lot
: of third-world countries: intensive intercropping on
: small plots of land while the majority of the
: ecosystem remains untouched.
Actually, I was thinking they meant axes as in stone hand-axes--caveman stuff. This was the era where humans named Og beat Krids over the head with clubs before jumping on them (ideally ten humans to a Krid) and slashing their throats with flint knives. That sort of thing. Though they probably achieved bronzeworking by the time they reached the Age of Reason.
: Though, of course, the "current" age is called
: the sword age, even though swords must have been
: around for quite a while before Connacht, so who
: knows?
According to GURPS, the reason some people call the current age the
: Assuming we are talking about humans running around and
: hacking each other slowly to bits with crude axes, and
: that the dwarves were into high-D&D fetish drag (plate
: armor means steel and therefore the whole gamut of
: sharp, sharp edged weapons), I'd be willing to bet
: that the first era's conflict would have been between
: our diminutive friends and the ghols. No matter how
: primitive the ghols might have been at the time they
: would still have been advanced enough to carve the
: Godhead out of solid rock--which means steel
: implements as well, perhaps just stolen from the
: dwarves.
: Here's my little story: It was in the time Man calls the
: Axe Age, that Thufir Son of Sleipnir Son of Muggin
: came forth with his sword of blue shining steel and
: did slay the false god of the Gholish brute, yea,
: verily did he smite the twisty little deity, for his
: blade was sharper, his technology higher, and his
: people more organized. And the Gholish foe's horde did
: rise up in a prolonged and incoherent grunt, for
: truly, they were bummed totally out. And one by one
: they came forward and took each unto his breast a
: single piece of the Ghol false god, who had possessed
: the ability to throw metal objects that did damage
: actual; the ability he possessed no longer, for,
: verily wast he in small bloody chunks now, see, since
: the dwarf guy hacked him up.... well, uh, anyway, the
: gholish horde did gather in the pieces of their false
: god and held them close, and, when their new dwarven
: masters did taunt them mercilessly by either juggling
: bottles or jumping up and down and waving their arms,
: the gholish despondent horde didst cast the body parts
: at their conquerors, which wast truly gross; and
: verily, to this day, their descendants and their
: descendants' descendants' descendants do doest the
: same, which explaineth now why they will passeth by a
: perfectly good pus packet, yea verily, and instead
: throweth a pig's head at any passing zerk, for truly,
: the gholish brute is dumb, dumb, dumb, and canst not
: knoweth the differenceth.
: And they all lived happily ever after, except they fought
: really nasty wars all the time and lived short
: miserable lives.
