So what can you tell me about "Antediluvian"?
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ahhhh!!!Nifft said:
Curse my bad typing/spelling!! NOoo!!!!
hahah!!Yeah I bet they were Anti-deluvian or would that be Anti-Deluge(ian)?!
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Hmmm.....well it sounds like you could set a really cool D&D game that way.
Humans often seem to all speak the same language already...
Interesting point about Gilgamesh!
I guess you could make the Swim skill have a "Swim Feat" prereq. and be a 'cross class skill' for everybody!! haha!!
And if you get tired of the campaign you bring on the flood!!
mmmm..Chtulhu!
That must be why Howard’s writing came to mind, I must have read something where he was borrowing from Lovecraft.
Maybe the other writer was Burroughs and not Wells?
Maybe I'm thinking about The Land That Time Forget?!
Brennin Magalus
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shadow said:
Actually, it was angels, not fiends, and the text speaks of the offspring of the union of angels and mortals positively (i.e., the offspring are more akin to Aasimars than Tieflings).
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Brennin Magalus said:
Well the verse actually says 'sons of God' and thats left things up for a lot of debate
The phrase is used elsewhere in the Old Testament to refer to angels, but then Lucifer and his cohorts were angels as well - so it may refer to them.
Another theory (which I don't think holds much water) is that the sons of God refers to the descendents of Seth (youngest son of Adam and Eve) and Daughters of men refers to the descendants of Cain - so they were entirely mortal.
Also if they were akin to Aasimar then they weren't using the alignment system since Nephilim were part of the 'wickedness' which filled the earth.
Anyway a further theory is that after Lucifer and his crew were cast out of heaven they set up an earthly reign and set themselves up as 'gods'. Their half-mortal offspring (the Nephilim, Men of Renown) are the classical heroes of myth (eg Hercules, Gilgamesh etc - both of course sons of 'gods')
These fallen angels brought the supertechnology often associated with Atlantis and instigated a golden age on earth. This was also helped by the fact that the 'Firmament seperating the waters' esablished at Creation provided a huge vapour shield around the planet which caused a greenhouse effect so that plants grew abundantly and animals grew to incredible size (eg the giant dragonflies and all the other megafauna of prehistoric times ) - ie abundant food, high standard of living and hedonistic lifestyles.
Despite all this however a few Sethites (descendents of Seth) remained true to the 'Creator' and of these Noah and his family were the last.
God broke the firmament causing the flood and the rest is (literally) history
A fact I heard on discovery channel that really freaked me was that the ancestral 'Amazon' and 'Congo' rivers once had a common source! (back in the Pangea days) because this resonantes with the biblical description of the river that flowed from Eden and then split into four
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DaveStebbins
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Perhaps Howard came to mind because his writings of Conan and Kull were both antediluvian. He envisioned them both in different pre-historical periods of earth's antediluvian ages.paulewaug said:
For some reason (meaning I can't confirm it without more research than I care to perform) the word also conjures up the works of Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith to me. They were both very careful wordsmiths, and the word antediluvian has a musical sound to it that seems to evoke the sorts of forgotten eras which they often wrote about.
Desdichado
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Next time you want a definition, you're probably better off trying a dictionary first, and then posting here.
On a related note; I can't find psionic in any dictionary, and I tend to wonder why we don't just use the word psychic like the rest of the non-gaming world?
On a related note; I can't find psionic in any dictionary, and I tend to wonder why we don't just use the word psychic like the rest of the non-gaming world?
Well into the 1920's and '30's the term antediluvian was entrenched in geology as an actual fact with many of the Jokalhaups events/floods at the end of the last ice age being used to prove that the earth had indeed been briefly flooded.
Throughout the 19th century the word was used to refer to anything sufficiently ancient enough to be different from things today.
Throughout the 19th century the word was used to refer to anything sufficiently ancient enough to be different from things today.
