Re: Runedarspace-New Sphere

At 10:50 AM 5/30/97 -0400, Static wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>In our last episode, Toby Mekelburg said:
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>>I envisioned the sphere as a home
>>system for this empire, . . .
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>
>	Population debate aside, I don't think that dwarves are very
>imperial.  Generic dwarves live in mountains, which are far apart, and
>each with it's own king.  That lends itself more to a confederacy, or
>something like one.  At least that's the way space (and groundling)
>dwarves are in my world... :)

I decideded that there would be local Kings, Thanes, Dukes, barons, etc,
but they would be subservient to a central figure, the High Thane. They
mainly pledge fealty to the High Thane, and are pretty much left alone
until there is a need for troops to be levied, taxes raised, etc.

>	I'm not saying that imperial dwarves are wrong, just that they
>sound to much like "short and bearded imperial elves".  At least that
>was the impresion I got from reading the descriptions.

I always thought that the idea of the EIN was a departure from the
stereotype of AD&D elves. You know, the flighty, insular and arrogant
elves. The spacefaring elves in SJ are arrogant, but to me they don't fit
the general elven view presented in AD&D material. Perhaps becoming
spelljamming-aware does this to normal groundlings, as you are forced to
realize that there are others out there who are just as powerful or moreso.


Toby Mekelburg
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