Post/Author/DateTime	Post
ekomega 06-19-06, 02:58 PM	I find it an amazing tale of bravery and heroism. Especially since the captain of the Starwind, Tessian d'Lyrandar, died 110 years before airships went into service for House Lyrandar. Even more amazing is that the Starwind sailed into Sharn in 841 YK, nearly 150 years before airships went into service, and only 30 years after the first lightning rail went into service. The article states that the ariship flew in 814 YK (probably a typo), which is 176 years before the first airship went into service, and 3 years after the lightning rail. For a 184 year life, it certainly must be disappointing for Corvin d'Lyrandar's ghost to be remembered for an airship voyage that could only have occurred in the last 8 years of his life. How hard is it for the authors to fact check the timeline in the ECS (pages 224-5) before writing an article? I expect a little more from David Noonan, an author and developr I usually admire and whose work I respect.
Gantores 06-19-06, 03:31 PM	I also enjoyed the meat of the article, but was bothered by the in-consistancy of the dates. It would have been much better had they been sailing a Storm ship, though I do not have the ECS infront of me to validate dates those were sailing either.
shironiku 06-19-06, 03:55 PM	House Lyrandar was working on a spell to make their ships invisible to scrying, and somehow the magic catapulted the airship into the past!
DarkWarriorKarg 06-19-06, 04:09 PM	To WotC: Star Trek-level time anomalies and retcons are NOT an acceptable plot line development. I stopped paying attention to these articles a year ago. I find the errors entertaining, though.
Bluebrush 06-19-06, 06:48 PM	Good article, aside from the glaring time errors. Easily solvable: 1: Substitute "Airship" for "elemental galleon" in your head and in your handouts. or 2: House Lyandrar, and other organisations, had non-elemental flying ships (which didn't see common usage due to their major expense and reletive slowness when compared to the lightning rail) long before the gnomes worked out how to make a boat fly with a fire elemental.
Sithis 06-20-06, 12:57 PM	The article states that the ariship flew in 814 YK (probably a typo)... I would hope so. 814 is the year Corvin was born. All in all though, getting the right dates is a pretty minor detail. The quality of the Sharn Inquisitive articles come from their writing and ideas, not from having the correct numbers. Just change the numbers to something that makes sense. If this was work published in a book I bought I'd be disappointed, but a free web supplement having an error most people would never even notice (I certainly wouldn't have) is hardly a major problem.
The Brat Prince 06-21-06, 05:50 PM	I would hope so. 814 is the year Corvin was born. All in all though, getting the right dates is a pretty minor detail. The quality of the Sharn Inquisitive articles come from their writing and ideas, not from having the correct numbers. Just change the numbers to something that makes sense. If this was work published in a book I bought I'd be disappointed, but a free web supplement having an error most people would never even notice (I certainly wouldn't have) is hardly a major problem. What Sithis said. I enjoy the Inquisitive just on the basis of the really decent plot hook stuff it offers, not because whoever writes it is an expert on Eberronian history. I think it's a shade nit-picky and downright petty to pick at a few date errors that pretty much no one with a life outside Eberron would really care about. So it's wrong, big deal. Adjust the dates and everything's shiny.
The Fireballed Mage 06-21-06, 07:21 PM	House Lyrandar was working on a spell to make their ships invisible to scrying, and somehow the magic catapulted the airship into the past! Yes, that a secret develop plan, the Wroat Project. It was an attempt to hide vessels from scrying magic but via a strange accident, flung the airship back in time many years. It should be noted that this project in no way is related to the famous Middle Dura Project (named after a district in Sharn). The Middle Dura Project was an attempt by House Cannith to develop a unique weapon of mass destruction. This project was well underway in Cyre during the Last War, with the activation date for the device set on or around the 20th of Olarune, 994. Sadly, the fact the Day of Mourning coincidently happened just then means we will probably never learn the outcome of that experiment. :D
Teron Gorefiend 06-21-06, 10:11 PM	An airship on a long, uncontrolled journey across strange lands and distant times... that's kind of cool. Very pulp. Start with a party of PC's on an experimental airship attempting to reach the Ring of Syberis. They make a startling magical discovery, then something goes terribly wrong and they're off to fight the dino-halflings of Olarune and rescue the jungle princess of the future! It's silly and cliché - you know you want to do it... ;)
ekomega 06-22-06, 12:14 AM	Perhaps the airship was just on a routine expedition, and was brought down by a hurricane, and then crash landed, and then the ground was shaken by the greatest earthquake ever known. The survivors had to escape on a tiny raft on the rapids. I can see it now... "Oh no... it's a sleestack... I mean... Q'barran Lizardman from the past! And look, it's a paku... I mean.. feral gnomes... and a Fire breathing dimetrodon.. I mean... a dragon.."