[Discuss] Remembering the good times

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 6/28/07, Lyman Stone <lymanstone at alltel.net> wrote:
>
> > God, that is going back a long way. I remember being told about the
> > whole North-South divide when I started playing, who had caused it
> > and so on. Ubent was actually the first realm I started in, but I
> > retired my first character, Rogan, there quite quickly. It was
> > large when I joined, and going to war I think. Isadril and Omsk, I
> > remember that too. It is a pity that so many people from those
> > times seem to have left now.
>
> I remember being told stories about Omsk, the North/South divide,
> Isadril, Elador, etc. I came in right before the Fall of Avamar,
> though, so I was mostly after all that.
>
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Never is enough attention spent on the good, so I will join in this
remembering.

I walked EC since before the days W. Sirion took control of Brunk. I watched
the Great War rage for years. Fontan fall, rise, fall and rise again in body
alone. Sirion go from a powerhouse, to a laughing stock, and end as a
dominator. Coimbra and Riombara both fought each other and both met their
end from the angle they least expected. Fallengrad replaced Isadril, just as
it was replaced by Ysseria. Perdan's armies went from limitless and
unorganize to disciplined and brutal, to insufficient and defeated. Caligus
rose, fell, rose and collapsed. Oligarch surged from
doom and blazed brightly only to flicker and die in the
end. Eleador is but a whisper, and Ubent a shadow. Of the deep south I know
nothing that I can say here. I have seen great and little names slide from
the memories of others, Lysander, Antonio, Doomgiver, StopItNow, Jain, to
name but a fraction. I have watched the rise of four tax systems, designed
the governments of three nations, founded one guild, and the fall of nine
kingdoms on that continent alone.

I have memories a plenty and records even more and there is one thing I can
say: I have regretted nothing and enjoyed it all. Battlemaster has it's
faults, and it's
trials, it's idiots and it's geniuses, it's 'winning' and it's
'losing', I have been the greatest
hero and the most fiendish villian, but always has it been fun.

Thus I thank those who I have had the pleasure to play with, and Tom for
making it possible.
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