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<blockquote data-quote="Corinnguard" data-source="post: 9140111" data-attributes="member: 7033886">Nope. I have never heard of this story before.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I can, however, imagine that some time had elapsed between the time of the eruption, and the time people from mainland Greece or the neighboring islands returned to Thera. What do you suppose these outsiders found when they arrived at where Thera was supposed to be? What did they tell everyone else about what they saw when they got there? What probably did happen afterwards was a game of telephone where each retelling of the story was different than the one before it.This particular game of telephone lasted for centuries until the first archeologists showed up and began to reveal what really happened on Thera thousands of years ago. They used science to tell everyone a new story, and what we now know became a part of human history. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Mind you, just because science says this is how and when an event happened, fantasy novels and RPGs don't have to follow the science in order to further their plotline or to describe a facet of the overall setting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corinnguard, post: 9140111, member: 7033886"] Nope. I have never heard of this story before. ;) I can, however, imagine that some time had elapsed between the time of the eruption, and the time people from mainland Greece or the neighboring islands returned to Thera. What do you suppose these outsiders found when they arrived at where Thera was supposed to be? What did they tell everyone else about what they saw when they got there? What probably did happen afterwards was a game of telephone where each retelling of the story was different than the one before it. This particular game of telephone lasted for centuries until the first archeologists showed up and began to reveal what really happened on Thera thousands of years ago. They used science to tell everyone a new story, and what we now know became a part of human history. ;) Mind you, just because science says this is how and when an event happened, fantasy novels and RPGs don't have to follow the science in order to further their plotline or to describe a facet of the overall setting. ;) [/QUOTE]

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