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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5395755" data-attributes="member: 4682">Short backstory:2e-era Dark Sun history posits that halflings were the creator race of the setting. At the origin of history the planet was covered by an ocean inhabited by halflings who knew how to manipulate species of organisms in the briny waters into anything they needed. Fantasy biotech.Something happened to the ocean waters to threaten the living "stuff" in the water so the halflings drew upon the energy of the sun to defeat the threat resulting in the oceans drying up a bit. The halflings willfully mutated themselves into the standard fantasy races.Further changes to the setting (more morphings of races and creatures for instance, more drying up of water . . .) will come to drift the setting into the game setting as played.But what are life-shaped artifacts? Fantasy biotech that survived from the Blue Age of Athas.Some Dark Sun fans liked it all.Some Dark Sun fans liked the idea of it of it but didn't like the implied history.Some Dark Sun fans hated the idea of it and didn't like the implied history either.The current release of Dark Sun purposely leaves that history as only a possible history if the DM desires to.</blockquote>