(I moved this from Jpane001's thread A Question Posed Against the First Age to it's own thread since his was already a couple of months old)
Hello all, I've been absent from the forum for a while, and figure what better thread to post my return than something relating to The First Age (one of my favorite topics, btw). Relating to Jpane001's original question, I have to ask another similiar question: If dinosaur bones were found even after the Great Cataclysm, then why weren't there any Q'qr fossils found as well? If any one has any theories as to why this is, I'd be interested in hearing them.
Also, I'm still reading The Dark At The End, and as always, F. Paul doesn't disappoint. I had to force myself to not read it all in one sitting. I also hope that once Paul finishes with his last set of YA Jack books, that he will consider writing some books about The First Age. I know, I know; I've mentioned it before. The First Age books would be along the lines of Fantasy/Horror, and give some more enlightening details about the trevails of Glaeken, Rasalom/The Seven, The Lady, Srem, and the Q'qr race, and perhaps even the Great Cataclysm.
And speaking of Srem, I found a new song that made me think of what her life may have been like. About her possible tortured existance as a cursed Cassandra, and being manipulated by the Otherness and the Ally due to her extraordinary Gift of Seeing.
Some of my favorite lines in the song can be found in my revised signature, but I've copied the lyrics in their entirety below. Musically, the song may not be for all, but I thought it fit Srem's haunted life (from what little we know of it) fairly well. The link to the song "Book of Dreams" can be found at the very bottom of the page.
Lyrics to "Book of Dreams" (by Witchbreed):
Slide and Slick as a Serpent
Unique and Mysterious
A danger for the Mind
The Greatest Gift You'll Find
Cursed and Long Forgotten
Lost and Left to Die
Cast Aside from your Kind
A Poison in My Eyes
Silence Divides the Way
Of Fire and Flesh Empire
Father Watcher, Ancient Eye
Disciple of the Night
Of Fading Lights and Shining Darkness
We dance and Spin
This Fragile Light You Spread Away
Like Tired Wings
I Walk Alone Born of Shadows
Heart Has Turned to Stone
I Walk Alone In the Shadows
My Heart is made of Stone
A Lightning Breaks the Mist
Embraces the Future Life
With Empty Hands of Hope
The Saddest Way to Die
Slave of Tyrant Dreams
A Walker of Endless Skies
Soulless Shade of Salvation
And This Silence Never Dies
I Walk Alone
Dark Soul
I never Die
Lost Dogs
I've learned the Lie
Hello all, I've been absent from the forum for a while, and figure what better thread to post my return than something relating to The First Age (one of my favorite topics, btw). Relating to Jpane001's original question, I have to ask another similiar question: If dinosaur bones were found even after the Great Cataclysm, then why weren't there any Q'qr fossils found as well? If any one has any theories as to why this is, I'd be interested in hearing them.
Also, I'm still reading The Dark At The End, and as always, F. Paul doesn't disappoint. I had to force myself to not read it all in one sitting. I also hope that once Paul finishes with his last set of YA Jack books, that he will consider writing some books about The First Age. I know, I know; I've mentioned it before. The First Age books would be along the lines of Fantasy/Horror, and give some more enlightening details about the trevails of Glaeken, Rasalom/The Seven, The Lady, Srem, and the Q'qr race, and perhaps even the Great Cataclysm.
And speaking of Srem, I found a new song that made me think of what her life may have been like. About her possible tortured existance as a cursed Cassandra, and being manipulated by the Otherness and the Ally due to her extraordinary Gift of Seeing.
Some of my favorite lines in the song can be found in my revised signature, but I've copied the lyrics in their entirety below. Musically, the song may not be for all, but I thought it fit Srem's haunted life (from what little we know of it) fairly well. The link to the song "Book of Dreams" can be found at the very bottom of the page.
Lyrics to "Book of Dreams" (by Witchbreed):
Slide and Slick as a Serpent
Unique and Mysterious
A danger for the Mind
The Greatest Gift You'll Find
Cursed and Long Forgotten
Lost and Left to Die
Cast Aside from your Kind
A Poison in My Eyes
Silence Divides the Way
Of Fire and Flesh Empire
Father Watcher, Ancient Eye
Disciple of the Night
Of Fading Lights and Shining Darkness
We dance and Spin
This Fragile Light You Spread Away
Like Tired Wings
I Walk Alone Born of Shadows
Heart Has Turned to Stone
I Walk Alone In the Shadows
My Heart is made of Stone
A Lightning Breaks the Mist
Embraces the Future Life
With Empty Hands of Hope
The Saddest Way to Die
Slave of Tyrant Dreams
A Walker of Endless Skies
Soulless Shade of Salvation
And This Silence Never Dies
I Walk Alone
Dark Soul
I never Die
Lost Dogs
I've learned the Lie
Srem Wrote:(I moved this from Jpane001's thread A Question Posed Against the First Age to it's own thread since his was already a couple of months old)
Hello all, I've been absent from the forum for a while, and figure what better thread to post my return than something relating to The First Age (one of my favorite topics, btw). Relating to Jpane001's original question, I have to ask another similiar question: If dinosaur bones were found even after the Great Cataclysm, then why weren't there any Q'qr fossils found as well? If any one has any theories as to why this is, I'd be interested in hearing them.
First---Fossils in nature are a rarity. You pretty much have to be killed at the water hole and have your bones pushed into the silt so that the minerals are leeched out. In no way shape or form should we think that because we have discovered bones, that we have found all of the bones there are to find.
Second--- Maybe, the people that lived during the Great Cataclysm found it necessary to obliterate all traces of the Q'qrs. I could see them burning them all in bonfires so that nothing but ash remained.
Good question!
Srem Wrote:(...) I have to ask another similiar question: If dinosaur bones were found even after the Great Cataclysm, then why weren't there any Q'qr fossils found as well? If any one has any theories as to why this is, I'd be interested in hearing them.
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The Q'qr's second set of arms were boneless, so no "four-armed fossils". Also, if Q'qr could mate with humans, their bone structure could be close to ours.
And as KRW explained, maybe there were not that many fossils left to begin with.
Trying to be nice