10-19-2011, 04:12 AM
The problem is, the shism between the elves, like so many post-Arneson additions, is not reallly thought through:
If we postulate that the BM timeline is absolute - meaning that everything that makes the setting happened within the timeframe of a thousand years, we have the problem with Elven lifespans. - Why does nobody remember specifics, if things happened just at grandpa's time?
The only answer that really lines up with everything, is to postulate a LONG history of the setting before the beginning of mankind's kingdom/BM.
This lines up pretty nicely with what I really perceive as Arneson's main source for fantasy background: Tolkien's Silmarilion.
Not going to write it out, but I tend to think of Robert of Geneva as some Isildur-like character.
If we postulate that the BM timeline is absolute - meaning that everything that makes the setting happened within the timeframe of a thousand years, we have the problem with Elven lifespans. - Why does nobody remember specifics, if things happened just at grandpa's time?
The only answer that really lines up with everything, is to postulate a LONG history of the setting before the beginning of mankind's kingdom/BM.
This lines up pretty nicely with what I really perceive as Arneson's main source for fantasy background: Tolkien's Silmarilion.
Not going to write it out, but I tend to think of Robert of Geneva as some Isildur-like character.