From s9406058@student.anu.edu.au Wed Jul 10 07:25:42 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:43:04 +0900 From: Shawn Reply-To: mystara-l@io.com To: mystara-l@io.com Subject: [Mystara] The Level of Immortals Below is a table of the computed activity levels of a number of the immortals from Mystara. For a full description of the table and its' use please see the text after the table. Immortal Name Level YIA Source Error Activity Level Ahmanni Turtlerider *C 1257 BC GAZ14 5 1.619 Al-Kalim 3 1000 AC WOTI 2 0.2 Alphaks 20 1900 BC WOTI 4 1.078 Alphatia 16 1775 BC WOTI 3 1.857 Asterius 27 3500 BC HW 5 0.673 Atruaghin 32 795 BC GAZ14 1 0.154 Atzanteotl 31 1500 BC HW 1 0.235 Benekander 1 3000 BC HW 5 -.--- Calitha Starbrow 18 5000 BC WOTI 5 3.163 Danel Tigerstripes *C 792 BC GAZ14 4 1.287 Diamond 16 700 AC WOTI 5 0.207 Diulanna 18 ?? WOTI ?? Djaea 34 3000 BC WOTI 4 0.293 Eiryndul 20 1300 BC WOTI 5 0.856 Faunus 11 ? WOTI ? Frey/Freyja 13 2400 BC WOTI 5 3.789 Garal Glitterlode *T 3000 BC HW 5 8.911 Great One 26 ?? WOTI ?? Halav 17 1000 BC HW 5 1.182 Hattani Stoneclaw *C 792 BC GAZ14 4 1.287 Hel 36 ? WOTI ? Ilsundal 33 1800 BC HW 1 0.221 Ixion 36 ? WOTI ? Ka 35 ? WOTI ? Kagyar 28 5500 BC WOTI 5 0.845 Karaash 5 ?? WOTI ?? Khoronus 36 4000 BC WOTI 5 0.319 Korotiku 32 ? WOTI ? Koryis 10 1000 BC WOTI 5 4.02 Loki 30 2400 BC WOTI 5 0.352 Mahmatti Running Elk *C 452 BC WOTI 1 1.044 Masauwu 28 1000 BC WOTI 5 0.261 Mealiden Starwatcher 23 250 BC WOTI 1 0.3 Mrikitat *E 491 AC PC4 1 0.150 Noumena 34 500 BC WOTI 4 0.110 Nyx 33 ? WOTI ? Odin 36 ? WOTI ? Opal 13 ?? WOTI ?? Orcus 25 800 BC WOTI 5 0.348 Ordana 31 ? WOTI ? Palartarkan *T 1000 BC HW 5 4.467 Pearl 10 ?? WOTI ?? Petra 17 1000 BC HW 5 1.182 Pflarr 25 1600 BC HW 5 0.502 Protius 29 ? WOTI ? Rad 22 845 AC WOTIf 1 0.045 Rafiel 21 3000 BC HW 1 1.253 Ranivorus *C 900 BC HW 5 1.364 Rathanos 28 3000 BC HW 5 0.521 Razud 31 1500 BC WOTI 5 0.235 Ruaidhri Hawkbane *I 593 AC PC4 1 6.672 Tahkati Stormtamer *C 1675 BC GAZ14 5 1.918 Talitha 25 ?? WOTI ?? Tarastia 30 1800 BC HW 5 0.290 Terra 36 ? WOTI ? Thanatos 35 ? WOTI ? Thor 28 2400 BC HW 5 0.443 Valerias 31 ? WOTI ? Vanya 23 600 BC HW 5 0.383 Wogar *I 1257 BC GAZ14 4 36.272 Yav *C 510 BC CHA 2 1.086 Zirchev 17 1000 BC HW 5 1.182 KEY ?? - Unknown YIA ? - Immortal so old, they have forgotten their mortal existance or immortal very old, that is older than 5000 BC. *I - Level unknown, Initiate *T - Level unknown, Temporal *C - Level unknown, Celestial *E - Level unknown, Empyreal YIA Year Immortality Achieved (year as per Thyatian Calendar) Source WOTI - Wrath of the Immortals, Codex of the Immortals HW - Hollow World Boxed Set, Dungeon Master's Sourcebook GAZxx - Gazetter of the number indicated WOTIf - Wrath of the Immortals, The Immortals' Fury PCx - Creature Cruicible of the number indicated CHA - Champions of Mystara, Explorer's Manual Error Error level in year given as YIA. Error level has a value between one and five with five being attributed to a high error and one to no error. Activity Level Calulated to year 1010 AC when the information for the level of the immortal is most current. It is taken by dividing the number of years the immortal in question has been an immortal by the minimum number of power points (WOTI: 55) that is required to reach their current level minus 300 (the number of power points it takes to be a first level immortal). * - Activity level of immortals where their level is unknown is taken as the mid power point value of the range for that class. For example for a temporal class immortal the number divided by is 450 (midway between the power point minimums for 9th and 10th levels, with the minus 300). NOTES As can be seen many of the actual ages of the immortals have a high degree of error inherant in them. I will not try to explain all the reasonings for the YIA chosen for each immortal but I will explain the choice for some of them to give you an idea of what an error reading of 5 incurs. The Northern Reaches immortals (minus Odin) are all given a YIA of 2400 BC which is a time given in HW when the Antalian tribes were flourishing. The Traldar immortals are all given a YIA of 1000 BC which is a time given in HW when the Traldar lands were invaded by gnolls. Eiryndul is given a YIA of 1300 BC which is midway in between the time when Ilsundal achieved immortality and the time when he affected the elf migration of Mealiden Starwatcher. Razud is a given a YIA of 2500 BC which is 500 years before the Alphatians left their homeworld. Diamond is given a YIA of 700 AC as WOTI said that his immortal existance was 'a few hundred years ago'. I believe the activity level of Diamond may be taken across to the other Dragon immortals since the others have absolutely no restriction on their YIA. Ruaidhri Hawkbane has an error level of 1 since I assume that when he slew the last werehawk he achieved immortality, if this assumption is wrong then the error level would be 5. The list of immortals chosen is taken directly from the WOTI main list which is the reason for the lack of some immortals, the other immortals are generally not chosen as there is very little information which can help attain their YIA and even less on their current level. Some of the other immortals, though, have made it into the list where information does exist on their YIA. A number of these values appear to be a bit high, whether this is the truth or an artefact of the process by which they are found I am uncertain, though they are probably more true than not. The immortals not included include most humanoid immortals, the Red Steel immortals, the Sea People immortals, the Immortal Set Module immortals and random other immortals. USE OF THE TABLE Now that the table is created how does one use it? The easiest use is to identify the immortals who should be the movers and shakers in the gaming world. These immortals are those who have the lower values for the Activity Level. From this we see that Rad, Al-Kalim, Mrikitat, Atruaghin Diamond and Noumena are all very active immortals. Most of these immortals seem to make sense in this role except for Noumena who is not really mentioned as having done much or being active recently. For this reason alone I believe that Noumena should become much more active in the gaming world - more like Atruaghin. The other immortals, apart from these two, one should note as all becoming immortal recently (all in the AC), and in fact there is only one other who became an immortal in the AC, Ruaidhri Hawkbane. This seems to point out that recent immortals are more active early in their immortal life than older immortals. On the other hand are the largely inactive immortals. Some immortals who have high values like Koryis, Frey/Freyja and Calitha Starbrow are merely not very active immortals. Note - as said above for those immortals who do not have an accurate level they seem to have quite high activity levels as well. Special circumstances like Benekanders' may alter the activity level of other immortals. The actvity level given should not be considered as carved in stone. The more complex use of the table is to see when an immortal should go up another level. To do this the activity level column is used in conjuction with the table in WOTI page 55. Take Ilsundal who needs 14 000 power points to reach the next level (1 000 extra). He has an activity level of 0.221 and has been an immortal for 2 810 years. Using the following equation years + X _________ = activity level pp where years is the amount of years the immortal has been an immortal pp is the amount of power points required to go up a level X is the extra number of years to go up a level activity level is the activity level of the immortal in question Therefore for Ilsundal 2810 + X ________ = 0.221 14 000 Therefore we find X to be 284. This means that Ilsundal should reach the next level in the year 1294 AC. Please write to me with glaring mistakes in my logic. Also if you have accurate (or more accurate) dates or levels for immortals which I do not this would also be appreciated. I can be reached at s9406058@student.anu.edu.au This table as with things like it from digests will be placed on my homepage. I will update this list on that page if new information comes to hand, though I will not bother this list with such minor details. The URL of my homepage is http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5304 Shawn Stanley s9406058@student.anu.edu.au http://members.tripod.com/~stanles/ http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5304/