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sunstone theory part 1
Thu Feb 20 05:55:36 2003
Sunstone theory:
Sunstones in myth and legend:
Sunstones are a major source of historical and folklore legend. This is inspired
by the obvious: a stone that can create light energy and show its bearer’s
desires is not just any ordinary rock. Throughout the period shrouded in the
mists of time, known as ‘the sheltering’ sunstones provided a key role on the
survival and path to sentience of dinosaurs that lived in the world beneath.
The path to sentience:
·
Asteroid fall occurred in the late cretaceous, pulverizing the land around·
it and causing much of it to fall to just above sea level. The actual area the
meteorite struck became what is now known as the rainy basin, and the
surrounding mountains are splash damage. From the impact
Later on as world·
temperatures warmed, the area around the crater became isolated from what is now
western Africa and turned into an island. The dinosaurs, still not
technologically advanced were still smart enough to shelter from the nuclear
winter caused by the impact, hiding in a network of huge fissures in the earth’s
crust for around 2000 years. This later became the legendary ‘World Beneath’
While underground, the dinosaurs began to use tools and become·
‘civilized’, though the natural instinct to attack and defend remained stronger,
so the food chain remained the same
About 2 years after the entrance to the·
world beneath, dinosaurs discovered the sunstones. Soon they were widely used as
tools for lighting, energy and as a source of nourishment by plants for the
herbivores
After the millennia long side effects of the meteor’s impact·
subsided, an alliance was formed between the raptor clan ‘redclaw’ and a tribe
of ornithomimids. The two tribes united, the raptors slaking their hunger on the
abundant crustaceans and fish that lived in the underground lakes and seas of
the world beneath. Together a small party of these allies ventured out into the
rejuvenating earth’s outside, being the first dinosaurs to see the sun in over
1500 years.
The group brought back seeds of almost extinct plants, and·
discovered much to their amazement that a group of large mammals had established
itself on the island. The raptors ambushed a family of these animals and
captured them to return to the world beneath. The head raptor- whose name can be
pronounced something like Howlripgrowl, named these animals kharandonsta, or the
hairy legged ones. I guess humanity would have been quite annoyed at
Howlripgrowl had they been smart enough to figure out what an insult was.
·
As the influence of the new carnivore-herbivore alliance grew, members from all
the tribes joined it or formed other alliances
One hundred years later and·
the first vestiges of civilization began to emerge under Dinotopia. Though
humans at this stage were treated as slaves, they were rapidly becoming more
respected by the dinosaurs as equals due to their quick learning minds and able
bodies. Though there were over 12 different ‘hercar’ alliances, there were three
who were more powerful than the others. The first was the first alliance now led
by the elderly Howlripgrowl and the others were the Pothenian alliance, one
which was especially recognized for its good treatment of humans. He third was
the Kintoram alliance, notable for its aggression and skills at building.
·
Though wars between the alliances were still common a code of conduct during war
and peace (a sort of Geneva Convention) was developed by the Thratos alliance
for the governing of life. This was universally accepted between all the
alliances. It was later to become the codes of Dinotopia
After over 25000·
years of living in the underground caverns, planners for Pothenia began to make
ready to travel overland en masse. Less than fifty years after the plans were
suggested by the first human citizen ever, every last human and dinosaur in the
world beneath had exited to the lands above, setting the scene for the
pre-Dinotopia era
As you can see, the sunstone played a significant role in the development of the
Dinotopia that we know. A great grotto of these stones was found in the world
beneath. Unfortunately the radiation produced by the stones made plants sicken
and die in the actual ‘sunstone cave’ so the dinosaurs were forced to remove
them from their natural structures and carve them into small, normally
quadra-triamal (43 sided), shapes. There were only two sunstones ever found that
had no flaw however and only these were truly exceptional in the light they
provided, sufficient to provide one of the two great caverns of the world
beneath with light for growth. This was the move that began the sentience of
dinosaurs. The first beginnings of philosophy sprang from the light of the
sunstones and they became the greatest tools of the young flourishing tribes.
When the raptors first stood on the threshold of the world beneath
Garma’han’vurai, one of the raptor sages described the scene as ‘the first dawn
seen by our kind for 5000 years’. The dawn he referred to however was not the
rising of the sun, for it was evening as they arrived, It was the sunstone,
carried by Howlripgrowl, being fully rejuvenated by the solar rays that was the
rising sun that Garma saw. The first humans captured by the Dinosaurs referred
to them as ‘mutaki-hatchi’ Lit: ‘bringers of the light’ in the early years of
settlement the dinosaurs learnt how to create the Atlas cradle from ore deposits
in the world beneath and purifying substances found only on the surface of the
earth.
‘ I stood upon the gate to the open air, one of the first to breathe from the
great vastness that our ancestors drunk so heartily from and watched as one of
the first to see the great red ball that exists only in legend as the sun. As I
watched it fade once more into the night that fluctuates so rapidly here on the
surface of the earth I saw one sun set and another rise, the first dawn seen by
our race for five thousand years. It was a symbol. The old passing away, but in
falling into darkness, giving new strength and light to the young, as we shall
bring strength and hope to our kin’
The memoirs of Garma’han’vurai