Re: Krynnspace

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Miller" <night_druid3000@?????.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:10 PM


> --- Trampas Whiteman <dragonhelm@??????????.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of different takes on this.
>>
>> First, I think the gods wouldn't be working on a new
>> world quite yet.  To the gods, 40 years is the blink
> of
>> an eye.
>>
>> BUT...Reorx is god to both gnomes and dwarves, and
>> as such, he takes on elements of both races.  He is
>> both craftsman and tinker.  I could see him
> "piddling
>> around on his forge" between attempts to find Krynn.
>
>> While doing so, he creates something special.  Not a
>> world with three moons (or even a dwarf planet with
>> three moons!), but maybe a set of small mini-
>> moons, or large asteroids.  Not a field, but maybe
>> four or so.
>
> All true, but consider this: If moving Krynn was
> indeed a taxing ordeal, such that the gods would
> rather not move the rest of the other worlds of
> Krynnspace, then that implies making new worlds is
> MUCH easier than moving 'em. ;)  Besides, the gods
> recreated the other worlds after they found krynn, so
> this would give Reorx much-need practice before he
> attempted such a feat again ;)

Unless new crystal sphere (I'll call it Takhisispace to avoid confusion with 
the old Krynnspace) already had planets and moons and Takhisis shuffled them 
around when she stole the world.

I think that astronomers on Krynn would notice that the planets were missing 
if they were absent for 40 years. Takhisis might as well change the 
constellations to spell out "under new management"! ;-)

>> Now that's interesting.  In DL terms, they're called
>> "aspects", but basically a remnant of the god to
> guide
>> them, each one perhaps based on one of the god's
>> domains.
>
> That's what I was thinking.

"Aspects" or "avatars" might be nice (they are already mentioned in 
Krynnspace), but they are not essential.

What is essential is clerical access to spells and Wizard (of High Sorcery) 
access to spells. This requires a dimensional conduit to the new home of the 
gods.

>> I would avoid this particular part, personally.  It
>> would take away from the death of Takhisis by having
>> "little Takhisis."  ;-)
>
> Or maybe just a fake ;)

I'm Takhisis and so is my wife! ;-)

>> What I would recommend, though, would be to have
>> one of the powerful entities who served the gods
> take
>> an active role in grabbing some real estate.  Maybe
>> Jiathuli, the spider-demon and self-proclaimed
>> Handmaiden of Takhisis.  Maybe the new moon or
>> asteroids would be named after her.
>
> Good idea :)

I would think that the first people to settle the new world would be the 
ones that got to name it.

By the way, what happend to Takhisis's flying citadel (Dragonhelm's Guide 
page 5) that flew into space? If it didn't crash anywhere, then presumably 
it could be captured and towed to the empty spot where Krynn used to be.

Actually (get ready to add the cheese) when the gods find Krynn they could 
repair the River of Souls so that it goes from that spot to the new outer 
planes (I see it flowing from Krynn, through the new outer planes, then the 
old outer planes and onto the old locaton of Krynn). You could then use 
Takhisis's flying citadel as something similar to Deep Space 9! It could 
guard the gate to the start of the River of Souls.

Divine energy (including energy from Krynn's moons) could flow in and out of 
the River of Souls making it a source of power for the clerics and Wizards 
of High Sorcery and source of devotional power for the departed gods.

Any alien dragons (dragon overlords) planewalking their way into Krynnspace 
via the River of Souls could arrive in front of a flying citadel equiped 
with many defensive weapons.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
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