Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:36 pm
Re: The Fall of Lynn
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Or it still exists, and the Chainmail map is wrong or incomplete.
Or the Dragon Annual #1 map is accurate, but in the future rather than the past.
Or the Chainmail map and the Dragon Annual #1 map describe parallel versions of Oerth, and each is completely accurate for a separate iteration of the world.
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| We know that the city survived, because Robilar visited it in the 560's. |
I believe you're referring to this passage in Oerth Journal #7:
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| When questioned by the other members of the Circle about Robilar's trip to the east, Otto pointed to a map that Heward made for Mordenkainen and indicated that he believes that Robilar was headed to the Empire of Lynn, on the western shores of the continent of Oerik. It seems that Robilar had "acquired" a powerful relic called the Orb of Clerics (evil) and was taking it to a Temple of Zuggtmoy located there, for what purpose is unknown." |
But that source said the Empire of Lynn, not the City of Lynn.
Roger E. Moore's "The House on Summoner Court" in the same issue mentions "A deserted city on the far western end of Oerik" as one of the destinations of a cubic gate carried by Erac's Cousin. I suppose that could be Lynn.
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| A deserted city on the far western end of Oerik. A building near the spot where the PCs appear was once used as a base for exploration, but this was five centuries ago. The ruined city is inhabited only by monsters but contains some wealth. The city seems to have had no historical connection to the peoples of the Flanaess; it is very worn, tens of thousands of years old. |
The actual reason the Chainmail material doesn't mention Lynn is that Lynn isn't part of the setting Chris Pramas wanted to create, so he overwrote it with his own stuff.
I believe that in the Black Moon Chronicles, Lhynn fell (directly or indirectly; it's been a few years since I read them) due to demons coming out of a rift to Hell thanks to the machinations of the Cult of the Black Moon. If you wanted, you could connect that to the Demon Wars in the background of the Chainmail/Sundered Empire setting, which took place about 1,000 years ago.
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