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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8349366" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Your comprehension is -just- fine, Vince!</p><p></p><p>One of the core conceits of the Howardian Universe of Kull and Conan is that magic and other forms of "Strange Science" have been around forever. The Valusians, a group of serpent-men and the children of Yig, who became known as Set the Serpent God, once ruled the entire world and modified animals and plants to serve their ends. They mapped the stars and developed crazy technology before they pissed off the Gods by not -cloning- or -modifying- an animal, but creating one whole-cloth, usurping the power of the Gods. (Not that the gods were happy with them, anyhow, what with them wiping out their Frog-People neighbors in their world-conquest and using genetic modification to make all the other planetary inhabitants into serpenty things).</p><p></p><p>So the gods sent Dragons (Dinosaurs) to conquer the Earth and the Valusians retreated into the earth to hide for millions of years before the Dragons died out and Man found their ancient cities. Kull the Conqueror? He becomes king of Valusia, one of their major cities, millennia after early humans learn writing, language, magic, and more from the stoneworks the ancient Serpent-Men left behind.</p><p></p><p>And that's not even getting into the oftentimes Sci-Fi techiness of the Old Gods and their servants...</p><p></p><p>So having ancient highly advance cultures lost to time and meaning? Spot-On.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8349366, member: 6796468"] Your comprehension is -just- fine, Vince! One of the core conceits of the Howardian Universe of Kull and Conan is that magic and other forms of "Strange Science" have been around forever. The Valusians, a group of serpent-men and the children of Yig, who became known as Set the Serpent God, once ruled the entire world and modified animals and plants to serve their ends. They mapped the stars and developed crazy technology before they pissed off the Gods by not -cloning- or -modifying- an animal, but creating one whole-cloth, usurping the power of the Gods. (Not that the gods were happy with them, anyhow, what with them wiping out their Frog-People neighbors in their world-conquest and using genetic modification to make all the other planetary inhabitants into serpenty things). So the gods sent Dragons (Dinosaurs) to conquer the Earth and the Valusians retreated into the earth to hide for millions of years before the Dragons died out and Man found their ancient cities. Kull the Conqueror? He becomes king of Valusia, one of their major cities, millennia after early humans learn writing, language, magic, and more from the stoneworks the ancient Serpent-Men left behind. And that's not even getting into the oftentimes Sci-Fi techiness of the Old Gods and their servants... So having ancient highly advance cultures lost to time and meaning? Spot-On. [/QUOTE]
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