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Last Updated: 2007-07-28 |
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This campaign encompasses both Robert E. Howard's Hyborean "history" and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. The history of this world is therefore quite different from the history of ours. A number of pre-human civilizations inhabited Earth, stretching back nearly a billion years. Human civilizations have risen and fallen for the past 20,000 years. Atlantis was real, as were Mu and Lemuria. None of this, however, is known to the average person, and the few "in the know" do not have the whole story. The default campaign setting is the near future (~2050). Technology in the First World is breaching TL 10. Most of the developed world is TL 9. The rest of the world hovers between the stone age and the early industrial age. Magic is not unknown in either the Lovecraft or Howard stories. Dark Conspiracy's Empathic system is a good match for the magic described in the stories. Again, the average person does not know of the existence of magic (other than as presented in popular culture). The powers-that-be and the practitioners of the magical arts want to keep it that way. Organizations
The Great Old Ones
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