Subject: The titles existed before RPGs, too.
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Posted on: 2008-11-29 18:26:00 UTC
I play D&D, but my first association with the word "Ranger" will always be The Lord of the Rings, which is where Gygax got it. Presumably, Tolkien got it from somewhere, too.
As for "Paladin," my guess is that it was first an order of knights or something like that, but I don't know for sure.
~Neshomeh
Following the events of Crashing Down, the PPC has moved into a new era, an era of crises and catastrophes, true, but for the most part of normal, every-day work. That doesn't mean, though, that nothing changes.
The End of the Beginning is a loose collection of stories from the next few decades of PPC history. It embraces the era known as Ten Years Hence, passes into the depths of Thirty Years On, and eventually comes to rest in an incredibly distant time, more than sixty years from the present. Here, in a PPC nearly three times its current age, many things are different, but many others have remained the same as they always were. That's what makes the PPC the PPC, after all.
While most of End of the Beginning cannot yet be released due to spoilers for Crashing Down, this time period is so far into the future that it doesn't reveal anything. All it does is show what the PPC of 2069 might be like. How we get there is still to be revealed.
TheEnd of the Beginning: Seventy Plus
hS
I'm quite interested in reading all of these fics. Aren't there other PPC fics, though? And if so, where can I find them? Is there an archive for this type of fic?
Hell if I know where but it's somewhere in that general direction. *guestures right, left and center* There's the Tangled Webs archive, once again Hell if I know where. I just cling to the links whenever someone posts them for newbies and forget to bookmark.
I was actually in the middle of updating when I stumbled on this. So, for those who want to wait an hour or two, you'll have all the latest links!
The List of Everthing PPC
The Complete List of PPC Fiction
Seventy years of Legoluster missions. Gah...
That said, great job, hS.
It's of the same high quality that comes from any hS production, and offers a very intriguing view of the future that seems ever so slightly WoW-inspired. Still a fascinating read, and it's nice to see the Illian-Sims kids (I assume that's who they are, anyway) turning up.
The only query I have is the timeline. What does the 2009 Epidemic refer to? If it's the slew of disasters we've endured this year,shouldn't it be 2008? And if it isn't... oh Gods, there's one NEXT year?!
:P
I'm not sure how... Rangers and Paladins are rather older than that, I think. Anyhow, I've never had anything other than peripheral contact with WoW, so I can't really comment.
The timeline, as you say, is a list of titles rather than a timeline. There isn't an actual epidemic there, just... well, you'll see when I get the whole thing up.
hS
Anyway, great work, and sorry for being such a fangull on our last encounter.
I play D&D, but my first association with the word "Ranger" will always be The Lord of the Rings, which is where Gygax got it. Presumably, Tolkien got it from somewhere, too.
As for "Paladin," my guess is that it was first an order of knights or something like that, but I don't know for sure.
~Neshomeh
More like a somewhat loose group of knights who served SuperInflated!Charlengmane in the early middle ages, supposedly killing thousands of moors. Their names are Roland( or Orlando in italian), Oliver, Rinaldo, his brother Ricardetto(I think), Rogero, Bradmante, Malagigi(I think) Astolfo, and a few others, although the name escapes me.
THe Real World doesn't have any minis, and you misspelled Charlemagne by accident... Wait, do Real World misspellings actually create anything?
Paladins
hS
It's just that people (such as me) immediately think D&D when those terms were put together.
... I've never played either. I just sort of got them by cultural assimilation -- I hang around with people who have.
hS
Epidemics are fun. *g*
... On the other hand, if you're Todd McCaffrey and that's all you can write about, they're just annoying. {= P
That said, I did enjoy the story. Makes me wonder what ideological shifts happened to bring about the different names--Paladin for Assassin, etc. The PPC decided to make itself look more "white hat," perhaps? Interesting stuff.
~Neshomeh
It looks like a good future. And an interesting one. Plenty of changes, but the 'Sues persist and so we remain.
Very well done as always, hS. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. :D