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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 1910908" data-attributes="member: 7261">Blackmoor in Mystara is kind of a confusing topic.  The "cannon" explaination of it has changed a bit over time. Straight away it was a nation in the distant past that rose to dramatic heights through the infusion of alien technology.  How and why that happened differs depending on the source.  City of the Gods seems to place the Beagle and its interactions with Blackmoor into a later period of the setting, while the Wrath of the Immortals boxed set paints the picture of Blackmoor as a very primitive setting before it came into contact with the Beagle.  In the former, the people of Blackmoor knew about and (somewhat) interacted with the crew of the Beagle at large, whereas in the latter only Obgobin Treel (sp) really interacted with the people of Blackmoor, sabotaging the life support system of the other crew (save Benekander who was a bit of a tinkerer). In the former's chronology, the Beagle and Blackmoor had some interactions, but it was a smaller portion of the setting (and the sci-fi was played down).  Most of the play came between the Cult of the Frog (started by a castoff from the Beagle's crew) and Blackmoor.  Blackmoor blew itself up with a nuclear device in this chronology, but the Nucleus of the Spheres still existed as well as the Soul Crystals of the shadow elves, which were mini fragments of the device that obliterated Blackmoor. In the latter's chronology, Treel allowed the Blackmoor people to strip technology from the ship without regard for its systems, creating a catastrophic state in which the engines would reach meltdown and destroy Mystara.  Benekander worked to turn the explosion into an implosion, obliterating the Beagle but leaving the surroundings untouched.  The people of Blackmoor learned from what they took off the Beagle and eventually attempted to create another inter-stellar warp drive only to discover the magic of Mystara made it unstable, thus blowing themselves up in the Great Rain of Fire that shifted the axis of the world.  Late Mystara products use this timeline and paint Blackmoor relics as potentially explosive devices. Additionally, where Blackmoor was before it blew up is up to contention.  Most sources say Hyborea, which is near the north of Mystara not far from the northern opening to the Hollow World, but migration maps in the Hollow World boxed set and other material does not support this statement. The Zietgeist/Goodman Blackmoor will eventually go into detail about the Beagle and its technology, but as sci-fi was never a high priority in Arneson's campaign, it won't be one of the first few books.</blockquote>

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