Shades of Eternity
Legend
the way this thread has gone, seems thematically appropriate 

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I always enjoy your well-researched threads, Snarf, and can appreciate that you would prefer to "go the primary source" as much as possible rather than get information from secondary sources like Mr Welch (I happen to be a big fan of his, but I'm not going to try to convince you to like him; different strokes for different folks). I would humbly suggest that there are some worthy nuggets of TTRPG history to be found on Youtube coming from "primary sources" so perhaps do not discount it entirely.Cool. I'm sure he's fine, and maybe he was around for usenet, too. But this was a random question that didn't have a source, and apparently it is from a youtube video.
When it comes to TTRPG history, I don't do youtube. We have excellent books and actual source documents. Call me old-fashioned, but I try to do historical research on TTRPGs from written sources and not from internet personalities, whether pretty old or pretty young.
ETA- to get this back on topic, I still do not know what this is about. I assume it's about the later references in the DA series of modules.
I always enjoy your well-researched threads, Snarf, and can appreciate that you would prefer to "go the primary source" as much as possible rather than get information from secondary sources like Mr Welch (I happen to be a big fan of his, but I'm not going to try to convince you to like him; different strokes for different folks). I would humbly suggest that there are some worthy nuggets of TTRPG history to be found on Youtube coming from "primary sources" so perhaps do not discount it entirely.
Interviews with some of Arneson and Gygax's original D&D players I find fascinating, for example - I found David Megarry's Dungeon! channel was a good place to start (here: David Megarry's Dungeon! ) but I have seen a number of interesting interviews with some of the oldest of old-timers over the years and I think even if the information comes in the form of oral history, the fact it's from primary sources makes it in my eyes as valuable as written history compiled later (the best sources are of course contemporaneous written sources).
In my never-run planning for a Blackmoor campaign, I was going to have the Egg of Coot being a space-warp that had some sort of sentience -- not understandable to humans, but it acted with volition ("insane" acts, but still acts). And the "person" referred to as the Egg of Coot was an older human male, not from Blackmoor but from another Prime Material Plane. He was mad from his experiences "in" the actual Egg, and claimed to have created everything as a game; yes, it was going to be EGG. Anyway, EGG and the Egg were going to be a weird gestalt being, a psionic combination of both.