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Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:05 am Ur-Flan... or just Ur

"The Ur-story concerns the inevitability of death and loss and the ways we deal with it"... like, say, necromantic studies? ;-)

http://wisdomofthewest.blogspot.com/2008/06/ur-uk-story.html

Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:04 am

Good ref Irongolem. I loved that passage from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It makes you think that confronted with their own mortality the Ur-Flan might have turned to dark powers to escape the inevitable fate of mankind.

Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:25 pm

The search for the "fountain of youth" is never ending and nothing new.

I really liked the tie-in of the anceint Chaldean city of Ur, with the Ur-Flan of Oerth. I've always considered Greyhawk to be set within the time of our own distant past.

I pronounce it O-earth, for "Old Earth." Cool

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