EBERRON: Draconic Phophecy = the bible?

megamania · Dec 31, 2004

PLEASE- Please don't get mad but at the WoTC site someone asked about what the Dragons do on Eberron. After thinking about it long and hard, I had a thought.

The Draconic Phophecy = the bible.

Okay this said......

The dragons are studies a series of events and possible future events. No reason given.

Some of these dragons are trying to take what they understand to be cosmic truth and influence the world with it. No reason given.

I was thinking about it and it reminded me of the bible and how people read it, study it, and process it. Some gain great wisdom from it. Others gain strength from it. Some purpose. etc....

Some want others to believe it as they do. They do this both by pacife means and other means.

just like the bible

I hope this will not be taken up wrong. It is not meant to be. It just struck me so profoundly that I needed to mention it.

jester47 · Dec 31, 2004

Your point is not without merit. However I think I would point out that this is done with many many religious texts. So I would not say it was the bible only, but rather it is a religious text and can have the uses that a religious texts in the real world also have.

Aaron.

ydirbut · Dec 31, 2004

PLEASE- Please don't get mad but at the WoTC site someone asked about what the Dragons do on Eberron. After thinking about it long and hard, I had a thought.

The Draconic Phophecy = the bible.

Okay this said......

The dragons are studies a series of events and possible future events. No reason given.

Some of these dragons are trying to take what they understand to be cosmic truth and influence the world with it. No reason given.

I was thinking about it and it reminded me of the bible and how people read it, study it, and process it. Some gain great wisdom from it. Others gain strength from it. Some purpose. etc....

Some want others to believe it as they do. They do this both by pacife means and other means.

just like the bible

I hope this will not be taken up wrong. It is not meant to be. It just struck me so profoundly that I needed to mention it.

That's Certainly an interesting interpretation.

Psion · Dec 31, 2004

Kai Lord saw a similar interpretation.

FireLance · Jan 1, 2005

In my view, for a better treatment of the Draconic Prophecy, look at Belgarath the Sorcerer, by David Eddings. In particular, at the time when the various Prophecies were not yet complete. Because the Draconic Prophecy is still being written in the current age of Eberron, and what is making a whole lot of dragons nervous is that it is writing itself on the humanoids of Khorvaire (those with dragonmarks).

Now, to borrow an idea from Eddings, wouldn't it be cool if there was not one but three different prophecies with different ideas of how the world will turn out, and the PCs are the ones that get to choose, influence or affect which destiny will prevail...

Starglim · Jan 1, 2005

FireLance said:
In my view, for a better treatment of the Draconic Prophecy, look at Belgarath the Sorcerer, by David Eddings. In particular, at the time when the various Prophecies were not yet complete. Because the Draconic Prophecy is still being written in the current age of Eberron, and what is making a whole lot of dragons nervous is that it is writing itself on the humanoids of Khorvaire (those with dragonmarks).

Now, to borrow an idea from Eddings, wouldn't it be cool if there was not one but three different prophecies with different ideas of how the world will turn out, and the PCs are the ones that get to choose, influence or affect which destiny will prevail...

Nice analogy. Another possible comparison would be the Koran or the Book of Mormon when they first appeared, when a new divine revelation was in the process of being transmitted leaving many people (not least the prophets themselves) waiting for the next part, debating the meaning of what had already been recorded, or questioning whether it was real and what it all meant.

shilsen · Jan 1, 2005

I like FireLance and Starglim's analogies, mainly because both take into account the fragmentary and incomplete nature of the Draconic Prophecy. Parts of The Prophecy are perpetually appearing in various ways and places, so there is no single/complete version of the Prophecy in existence, leave alone one which can be accessed by someone. If you want to compare it to the Bible, you either need to compare it to the pre-codified form with all the various books and gospels available without a clear agreement on what is or is not apocrypha. Or, though this is much more of a stretch, the proliferation of different Bible translations during the 15th-17th centuries.