Tell The Team: Special Lore Edition

[Tolero]

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We've been invaded! Flimsyfirewood, Purplefooz, Torc, and Dreamreaver have infiltrated the Tell The Team threads with some challenging lore questions!

Flimsyfirewood asks: "Why do you think the Giants and Quori fought thousands of years ago?"

[Ustice]

Flimsyfirewood asks: "Why do you think the Giants and Quori fought thousands of years ago?"[/QUOTE]

My guess would be the reason for most wars, and that is for control over limited resources.

[moorewr]

Flimsyfirewood asks: "Why do you think the Giants and Quori fought thousands of years ago?"


Where's MysticTheurge when you need him...?

Let me see how much of this I remember: something like.. the Quori were refugees from their own realm and went to Eberron in desperation, invading the minds of the giants.

[WolfSpirit]

Good Question...
I would like to know the answer as well, where are our Great Lore Peoples?

[FlimsyFirewood]

Resources?

Giants are big fleshy things who live in Xendrik.

Quori are spirits who flounce about in the dream world plane thing called Dal Quor.

If this war was really about resources... then what resources do they have in common? They don't even share a dimension...

... or do they?

[moorewr]

Resources?

Giants are big fleshy things who live in Xendrik.

Quori are spirits who flounce about in the dream world plane thing called Dal Quor.

If this war was really about resources... then what resources do they have in common? They don't even share a dimension...

... or do they?

Braaaiiinnsss....

[Borror0]

They were fighting for me. They all want me.

[UnderwearModel]

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Flimsyfirewood asks: "Why do you think the Giants and Quori fought thousands of years ago?"

The Plane of Dal Quor is the Plane of Nightmares.

The giants did not like nightmares.

Since the giants could not sleep because of the nightmares, the giants became very cranky. Not many things are worse than a bunch of cranky Giant Races.

The giants looked around to find out what was causing their nightmares.

They found that the Quori caused the nightmares.

In typical giant fashion, if you have an itch you scratch it.

The itch was the Quori, so the giants scratched the itch.

Now, the giants can count their sheep, eating a few, and catch some ZZZZs, without having a nightmare.

[Laith]

well, if wikipedia is to be believed (is it ever?):

40,000 years prior to the end of the Last War, the quori of that age invaded Eberron in an attempt to prevent the dawning of a new age but were repelled by the giants of Xen'drik, who managed to sever all connections between Eberron and Dal Quor using immensely powerful magic.

of course, for the "immensely powerful magic" that severed the connection between the planes, we have to look no further than DDO.com and our stormreaver storyline.

The question is what "new age" were they trying to prevent? Perhaps something related to the Draconic Prophecy?

edit: btw, i like UnderwearModel's answer better

[dragonruler]

Resources?

Giants are big fleshy things who live in Xendrik.

Quori are spirits who flounce about in the dream world plane thing called Dal Quor.

If this war was really about resources... then what resources do they have in common? They don't even share a dimension...

... or do they?

Ah but see as shown in von 2 the giants also managed to get into the dream realm and in titan quori spiders managed to get into the physical realm. So it is a battle over maintaining order in the realms so that each aren't competing in each other's main realms.

[Turial]

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Flimsyfirewood asks: "Why do you think the Giants and Quori fought thousands of years ago?"

The Quori are creatures of dreams. They and the giants shared space in the realm of dreams...which is where the first attacks against the giants occured. Rumor has it that the giants of xendrick were seeking a way to create another dream realm in which they would be safe. Apparently it didn't work and the giants sundered the connection between ebberon and Dal Quor by destroying the moon which was the physical link between the two. Though now there seems to be a bit of bleeding and the Quori are coming back.

[moorewr]

well, if wikipedia is to be believed (is it ever?):



of course, for the "immensely powerful magic" that severed the connection between the planes, we have to look no further than DDO.com and our stormreaver storyline.

The question is what "new age" were they trying to prevent? Perhaps something related to the Draconic Prophecy?

My recollection -- Dal Quor undergoes a very slow evolution between nightmare and light, and the Quori who invaded were fleeing the dawning of the age of nightmares...

[Quanefel]

During the last war, over 40,000 years ago the Quori invaded Eberron in an attempt to stop the coming of a new Age in Eberron. The Quori were repelled by the giants using their powerful magics to server the Quori connection to Dal Quor and Eberron.

[Ustice]

Resources?

Giants are big fleshy things who live in Xendrik.

Quori are spirits who flounce about in the dream world plane thing called Dal Quor.

If this war was really about resources... then what resources do they have in common? They don't even share a dimension...

... or do they?

Well, they were invading Eberron, and to top that off, they were invading the minds/spirits of the native inhabitants (that is how the kalashtar came about).

[Missing_Minds]

Ebberon creator Keith Baker has a thing for H.P. Lovecraft and decided to have a bit of an homage to him, much like B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski did with with the B5 TV movie Thirdspace.

[The_Phenx]

then what resources do they have in common?

Slaves... I would say thats a fairly good resource...

[totmacher]

maybe they got drunk one night and quori was all like you owe me five bucks and giants says i'm tapped out dude and quori was all like OH NO YOU DINT

and that's why they started fighting

[dragonruler]

maybe they got drunk one night and quori was all like you owe me five bucks and giants says i'm tapped out dude and quori was all like OH NO YOU DINT

and that's why they started fighting

lol ok tot wins

[Kraldor]

Ah but see as shown in von 2 the giants also managed to get into the dream realm and in titan quori spiders managed to get into the physical realm. So it is a battle over maintaining order in the realms so that each aren't competing in each other's main realms.

The Giant in VON2 is only a memory from Mistress Orphne's life used to torment her, it's not an actual living giant projecting himself into the dream realm.

[valorik]

raid loot?