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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6748584" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by lord_gore:D'oh! I dunno why but I totally missed that depiction!Anyway, thanks for the tip.Ok, I just thought that it sounded like that particular LoD wanted to brings some humans under the Overlord's direct influence while letting them discover and settle in a new continent. That could have been the case as well...I don't think that either the Dragons or the Lords of Dust are THAT keen in unfolding the Prophecy as they deem fit. They TRY to manipulate it, but in most cases there are so many requirements for a prophecy to come into being or into being voided that they need hundreds or thousands of coincidences to set an Overlord free, and not all of them are guided, some happen by chance, just as they fail by chance...On another note, a prophet or a loremaster close to the heroes could warn them of the impending probability of a passage to come into being and they just step into the fray and battle their way to "safety" from that prophesied catastrophic event.Furthermore, I think that the Prophecy has its way, unbeknownst to mortals, and the events might be postponed but not voided (much like Judgment Day from the Terminator series) and thus the heroes are only delaying the inevitable. This could explain the patience of the Lords of Dust or the madness/fury of Zenobaal, for they seem to know how it ends (Armageddon? Ragnarok? Creation collapsing onto itself and rebirthing itself anew?). There are so many possibilities...[off topic]My heroes encountered by chance the greatest aboleth settlement of Eberron. Having successfully bested them all, they plundered their ages-long hoard and retrieved two particularly interesting rewards: one was an Altar of Transmutation (eldritch device) while the other was the Heart of the Aboleths (artifact).Seeking an explanation on what was the artifact's function, they discovered that the aboleths weren't from this creation. They were a race of a now lost creation, which abruptly came to an end. Having foresaw the impending doom, they reunited themselves and slew their own god, sacrificing its power to escape that impending extinction and to travel to a safer creation (Eberron's).[/off topic]So, as you can see, I've introduced something like Moorcock's Multiverse: it's on many layers, through time and space and with a a constant: the Prophecy, that rules the balance of Multiverse, allowing for the various creations to be given birth, live and die, just like everything and also preventing different universes to eat each other.But this is known only to the greatest being (namely immortal beings, demigods and gods), while the less powerful being can only see the smallest effects of the Prophecy within their small world, not on a planar or universal scale.In my opinion, both the Overlords and the mightiest Dragons know that this creation will come to an end and they just try to delay it, ruin it or rule it (depending on their personal viewpoint). Exceptional beings can rise to godhood and escape their fate, others simply cannot: they will just die when their time will come.Of course, this is the explanation I've come up with. Yours will surely be different, taking into account different factors.Hell, it could even be possible for the Prophecy to die! Just imagine the Underverse from the Chronicles of Riddick: what if the Negative Energy that permeates it found a way to subvert or taint an universe or, even worse, the Prophecy itself?Just my 2 cents.</blockquote>

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