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Why are their no dragons in Egypt?

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Cranstonvm

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« on: <06-13-11/1551:51> »
 I was reading one of the books dealing with dragons (one of the source books) they said in a comment that dragons are not able to go into Egypt. Why is this? Or did I misread something?

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« Reply #1 on: <06-13-11/1644:50> »
Deals with a VERY old magickal 'agreement' from back in the 'EarthDawn' Era. the essence being that the local passions didn't like the dragons overly much and puta curse to strike down a dragon if they set claw on Egypt. Apparently the dragons take it seriously enough not to mess with it
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« Reply #2 on: <06-13-11/1737:26> »
Which tells you just how much of a heavyweight these things are!
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« Reply #3 on: <06-13-11/1815:27> »
Wait a minute let me get this straight,
(Disclaimer:  I have never actually read earthdawn, and have no real plans to)
Wouldn't that imply that these Passion things are still around in the Sixth World?  I mean, what's keeping the Greats to that agreement?  The Passions would still need to be around in order to enforce this thing.

Also, I have no idea what a Passion is.

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« Reply #4 on: <06-13-11/1834:15> »
Just because Shadowrunners don't know about it, doesn't mean they aren't around.
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« Reply #5 on: <06-13-11/1929:16> »
Passions are a Earthdawn way of Saying 'Gods', but they are more archetypes than anything else. The two major pantheons I was aware of Were the Barsivian Passions and the ones of What was Egypt's Precusor. In fact the Egyptian ones names were slightly changed versions  some of the elder form egyptian translations of the Gods Names. To wit, The Egyptian Passions are still around. And they are VERY powerful
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« Reply #6 on: <06-13-11/1939:21> »
Or, to put another way:

Bill Robinson:  "Jesus is coming and he is pissed!" - Maximum Overdrive
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« Reply #7 on: <06-13-11/1954:18> »
Ugh. As much as I hate ED connections, this is making the hamster in my brain spin his wheel like someone gave him crank.

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« Reply #8 on: <06-13-11/1959:36> »
Ugh. As much as I hate ED connections, this is making the hamster in my brain spin his wheel like someone gave him crank.
As if my Coked Out Cow wasn't bad enough...
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« Reply #9 on: <06-13-11/2001:22> »
food for thought, neh?
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« Reply #10 on: <06-13-11/2327:50> »
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« Reply #11 on: <06-14-11/0432:16> »
maybe Egypt is/was the territory of the once-referenced 'You-Know-Who' . . .

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« Reply #12 on: <06-14-11/0840:01> »
Actually....that would be Aztlan and the Big 'V' (we do not speak the name) that hunts dragons
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« Reply #13 on: <06-14-11/1007:19> »
Ah, the Great Hunter.

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« Reply #14 on: <06-14-11/1114:41> »
The Passions are still around, but without avid followers they are pretty weak.  It's kind of a symbiotic relationship with Passions:  Passions spring forth from a set of metahuman emotions/impulses, metahumans emulate Passions to gain power, Passions gain power from emulation/worship, metahumans emulating Passions gain greater power...and so on.  Without active emulation/worship, the Passions weaken and wither away.

However, there is evidence that some are still around in some form or another (take a look through Harlequin's Back for an example in the fluff).  Given how cautious dragons can be, it is unsurprising that they don't set foot in Egypt.
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