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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1450430" data-attributes="member: 8461">Hm, I thought I made this clear in the summation I gave above.The elan were created by psionicists of The Order, roughly around the time of the old campaign setting of DS (about three hundred years ago), in and around Nibenay. When The Order fell apart, they were freed, and even today most of them are found in Nibenay.The maenads are somewhat more mysterious. When Andropinis was imprisoned (in The Cerulean Storm) in the Black, he was actually confined in a demiplane in the Black. However, using his own considerable power, he found an indirect escape route; moving from demiplane to demiplane. In one demiplane, he found the maenads, who were likewise trapped in the Black. He managed to enact a ritual that freed themselves and him, bringing them to Athas with him (this was about a century ago). It's implied that they somehow were involved in this ritual, since it mentions that some maenads are bitter that his promises about better lives have gone unfulfilled, and some of them are bitter that he has forgotten &quot;the maenads who sacrificed so much to free him from the Black.&quot;I'm the wrong person to ask here, and I'm not stepping into the mire of this debate. Personally, I think it's better for the magazine to print DS monsters instead of just referring people to athas.org.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 1450430, member: 8461"] Hm, I thought I made this clear in the summation I gave above. The elan were created by psionicists of The Order, roughly around the time of the old campaign setting of DS (about three hundred years ago), in and around Nibenay. When The Order fell apart, they were freed, and even today most of them are found in Nibenay. The maenads are somewhat more mysterious. When Andropinis was imprisoned (in [I]The Cerulean Storm[/I]) in the Black, he was actually confined in a demiplane in the Black. However, using his own considerable power, he found an indirect escape route; moving from demiplane to demiplane. In one demiplane, he found the maenads, who were likewise trapped in the Black. He managed to enact a ritual that freed themselves and him, bringing them to Athas with him (this was about a century ago). It's implied that they somehow were involved in this ritual, since it mentions that some maenads are bitter that his promises about better lives have gone unfulfilled, and some of them are bitter that he has forgotten "the maenads who sacrificed so much to free him from the Black." I'm the wrong person to ask here, and I'm not stepping into the mire of this debate. Personally, I think it's better for the magazine to print DS monsters instead of just referring people to athas.org. [/QUOTE]

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