06-20-2011, 01:45 PM
Havard Wrote:Aldarron Wrote:Thanks Havard.The timeline I did continues to be refined.
Well in Ross, the errors I meant really are errors, such as the funky math dating Ra-all or the mispelling of Bakura - things that when you look up the references he sites don't jive. There's lots of other stuff that, beacuse of harmonizing two main sources as you say, and a few secondary ones, are kind of arbitrary decision that sometimes seem more inline with one source or other. Usually makes sense but sometimes just seem to be at odds with the intent of the sources, such as setting the reaign of robert the Ist a whopping thousand years in the past. (possibly patterened on King David I wonder?).
DA1 states that Thonia has been around about 1000 years prior to the time of the DA modules (1025). The FFC states that Castle Blackmoor was built during the third year of Robert I's reign. I do believe the Doomesday Book #13 is the one that identifies Robert I as the founder of the Great Kingdom (Thonia). Obviously that is all meta-lore anyway, since Robert I was the first king of the C&C society's Great Kingdom.
-Havard
Right, well I dunno what's in Domesday #13 but haven't seen that mentioned before. Would be "proof" enough to suit me if it does say Robert I, is either a ruler or founder of the great empire. Intriguing possibility though. As it stands, I still see no reason, and perhaps especially on a meta level since we don't know what Dave intended his tribute reference to Rob to imply about geographic relationships and kingdom politics, to equate FFC's Geneva with great Kingdome. Its like equating the king of england with the ceasar of the roman empire. - meaning Geneva may at times be a part of a greater whole but is not a substitute for it. As it stands I prefer not to somehow read "founder of Thonia" into "king of all Geneva" - two very seperate entitiess, it seems to me.
Fun little puzle though.