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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2093802" data-attributes="member: 29014">My apologies, I didn't mean the Deceiver's War, I meant the time of the Five Heroes (I thought they were the same thing, but you were right that they aren't). The entities that became the Messengers were born at the end of that war (As per a post on Alsixnivis that came before yours). Now, we then need to give the legends time to become inaccurate (as they clearly are about Alsixnivis), so by necessity, the earliest that the Messengers could have come to exist in the Draconic Legacy was the 4th-milennium BE (I would say 3200 BE is a good number). However, the Draconic Legacy was an ancient religion that speaks of an idyllic time long ago and predates Taufenacht's Dark Age (5200 BE is a good number). Thus, the Messengers would have only begun to form 2000 years after the Draconic Legacy all by posts that came before you.  It seems that I misunderstood your intention in creating the Messengers when I praised them way back in the thread. I thought that you were purposefully creating inaccurate apocrypha in an interesting twist to the basic religion, but the heavy-handedness of the wording of your last post and the use of terms like pantheon--from the Greek theos for god in the Messenger post make it clear that you were trying to eliminate the godless nature of Eyros even back then. Please accept my apologies for my misunderstanding there, and my greater apologies as I must now take back my earlier praise. Remember: Taufenacht's Deceiver's War is the beginning of recorded history but not of myth. The Draconic Legacy Creation, Maia included, according to true believers, predates the Deceiver's War. It doesn't mean that they are right, but these events happened earlier according to them (I'd peg Draconic Legacy Creation as meant to be dated circa 10000 BE).   Finally, please do not take an accusatory tone here. We are all comrades working on this together. But because you mention which posts came first, please remember that yours is not the first but the *last* post on the Draconic Legacy. In truth, the Draconic Legacy actually worships the existant local lizards (because of their heritage) and NOT the fanciful fairytale dragons.  was Sado's post about DL, the very first post. Dragons are just forces of nature to the original religion (like the sun or the rain). They are not personlike or godlike entities to be worshipped themselves. Witness Mouse's post (the second ever):   So please excuse me if I am trying to hold to the text of the original while still keeping your posts relevant and useful (and it can be so great if you will just let it!), instead of simply ignoring the older material in favour of using your post verbatim. An example of when this happened in the past is when someone said Eyros had mild winters and someone mentioned escaping the harsh winters. And we were able to incorporate those together by changing around somewhat. That's what I was doing here, gently combining everything together. Coincidentally, if anybody else thinks that I am the one overstepping my bounds here, please let me know by posting here, and I will change it.  And if you support this, lend a word or two.  I don't like being the bad cop who has to police the mythos all alone because I feel bad about it, and so I really appreciated the support on my last position.</blockquote>

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