Quote from Forum Archives on April 2, 2011, 4:19 am

Posted by: j.becker <j.becker@...>

I personally believe that Dick Wulf and the other contributors based Eden Again very squarely upon Narnia, and the relationship of Earth to Narnia (which, of course, is never fully explained by Lewis anyway...) is probably a good model for Eden Again to Earth.

I think the Great Rescue is clearly a parallel event to the Gospel, not a replacement. If Eden Again were in Earth's primeval past-- it would make even more sense..a forerunner and a precursor in a lost age of history or an alternate universe.

Tolkien used this device with Middle Earth--it is most assuredly a lost earth age. As per the Silmarillion, Illuvatar (the chief, and really only true Deity of Middle Earth) is clearly meant to correspond to Jehova and the Valar are angels, with Melkor as a shadow of Lucifer. In Tolkien's cosmology the elves are immortal uless slain or dead from grief but even when they die, many are reincarnated into the world again. Men, on the other hand, had no clear conception of what the final destiny of the departed soul would be. The Silmarillion book portrays that Men were jealous of the elves and wished for their immortality, but the wise said that Illuvatar had prepared a different liberation and destiny for Man that would ultimately prove better than the Elf gift.

Tolkien was a deeply religious man and there can be little doubt that this was an intimation of the coming of the Lord, the atonment and the ressurection. He had simply made the Elves and other beings of Middle Earth part of a different plan and end separated from that of Man, with whom the Gospel would be concerned.

I think this device would work well with Eden Again as well.

--> -----Original Message-----
> From: jude@chez-vrolet.net
> Sent: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:52:17 -0500
> To: dragonraid@welovegod.org
> Subject: [DragonRaid] A few random questions...
>
> One thing I'm trying to get a better picture of is the DragonRaid
> setting. I'm trying to do some "in canon" writing, but wouldn't want to
> contradict anything present in the game. (Though I do suppose artistic
> license does apply).
>
> Anyway...
>
> 1) What is the relationship between the Sacred Scrolls of EdenAgain and
> the Bible of Earth? I remember reading something sometime ago that
> explained it rather clearly, but I can't remember it any more. Which
> leads me to my next question...
>
> 2) Does the 2nd Edition of DragonRaid do away with the EdenAgain taking
> place in the same "universe" as Earth? That is, the derelict spaceship
> that we find mentioned in the LightRaider handbook no longer exists and
> any connection between Earth and EA is the same as between Earth and
> Narnia? So that the Great Rescue is a parallel event to the Gospel
> (which is a parallel event to Aslan's slaying for example).
>
> 3) I don't come from a confessional or high church background, so don't
> read way too much into this, but how do the sacraments (or ordinances
> depending on your tradition) of the Lord's Supper and Baptism translate
> into the living symbolism of EdenAgain? I understand that the Passage
> Lakes form something of the Biblical symbolism of being made part of the
> Body of Christ, but then again only partly, and only if you squint a bit.
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
> --Art
>
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