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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 1957398" data-attributes="member: 4682">About the novels.I think the Prism Pentad is good up through the first 4 books. The last book was a stinker. But there was a good reason behind it's stinker-ness. Troy Denning (co-creator of DS) was assigned to writing novels for Dark Sun after his work writing the Wanderer's Journal in the Original Boxed Set was finished.TSR put an iron wall between novels and game design. As Troy was writing the fifth book, he was intending it to finish in the home of the Dragon. At the same time, the games department had just assigned a designer to write an accessory for the location. The games accessory was published first, causing Troy to hack his manuscript up so as to make it fit what the games department had just published.  And it shows.About the Blue Age halflings.I'm pretty sure that the Pristine Tower was already in existence before the "brown tide". I really like Malhavoc's Chaositech as a good model for lifeshaping technology of the halflings of the Blue Age.About the Green Age halflings. Rajaat had gathered a clique of some halflings with which he was coordinating the return to the Blue Age. When Rajaat's Champions rebelled, the Rajaat's halflings were sealed in the dimension called "The Black". In 3e terms, a coterminous/coexistent plane. One can travel through the black an equal distance to the "Prime" world. Rajaat was sealed inside a manufactured dimension inside the Black. Very much like the permanent 3e psionic power called genesis. Rajaat's halflings returned to the Pristine Tower and set up shop there. It is they who is used the Pristine Tower upon the sorceress hero to change her. They hoped to turn her to releasing their master Rajaat.Rajaat's halflings also discovered a way to project themselves out of the Black into the Prime. The result on the Prime was something that was called by residents on the Prime, a Shadow Giant. A monstrously huge incorporeal manifestation. The Shadow Giants were feared by all as there was no known way to slay them. One of the heroes accidentally discovered how. Anyway, just something that added to the flavor of the setting in a minor way.Regards,Eric Anondson</blockquote>

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