Re: Just how big is "known space"?

> Well, we know that Greatspace has been around for a
> while.  Elves have been running around the stars for
> 12,000+ years.  Illithids supposedly popped up only
> 2,000 years ago.  

[Ben Wafer] Wait, what? Are you sure about that Adam? I thought the
sphere-and-plane-spanning illithid empire was way older than that. The
Illithiad has this to say about the collapse of the illithid empire: "In
truth, the illithid loss was so great, that the mind flayers have not fully
recovered from it, even millennia later." To me that places the fall of the
illithid empire a minimum of 2,000 years ago (probably longer), which means
that they must have popped up quite a bit earlier than that in order to
build their massive empire in the first place. In fact, the Illithiad
doesn't give any sort of firm timeline for the rise of the illithids, but it
does include a couple of in-universe sources that imply that they've been
around almost as long as elves.

 

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