The Little House of Tranquil Dwelling.This device was originally found on a planet far from Tékumel in the crater of some long burned out atomic explosion.Īdditionally, there is “The Alluring Maiden of Ngá.” This 'item' is an android with “the ebon hair and paper-white skin common to all androids of the ancients.” This android operates as an assassin (6 Hit Dice Armour Class 1). The Lightning Bringer: This is actually a piece of ancient artillery. The Chariot of the Gods: This is a flying vehicle, actually an ancient air car. What results is a mélange of science and sorcery à la Thundarr the Barbarian, not that the scholars of Tékumel would perceive any incongruity.Īmong the miscellaneous 'magical' items described in EotPT, there are: Either the magic of Tékumel's plane conveniently meshes with old universe technology or the nature of technology has somehow been altered in Tékumel's current plane (or, perhaps, a measure of both). Magic is explained as an interaction between psychic ability and extraplanar energies – and said energies are often associated with beings such as demons and gods. Yet there is a great deal of 'magic' that is not technological per se. Old machines took on a divine aura, and as they failed, men lost the knowledge to repair them.Natural resources had been carelessly depleted.The wheels of technology require many types of natural resources and deprived of them, they slowly ground to a stop.Īrticles of “ancient” technology are treated as magic items in EotPT.
#The empire of the petal throne series
When Tékumel entered the dimensional plane it occupies in the Empire of the Petal Throne setting, a series of cataclysms called the “Time of Darkness” occurred.
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