Meta:Crossover-Aspekt - Dauer der Plage

duration of the Scourge

publication	ingame	sys.	source	ed.	publisher	ref.	claims	author
1993, ??		ED	Earthdawn	1	FASA	p.10	the Scourge lasted 400 years and ended earlier than expected (game information) "For four hundred years the Horrors roamed the land, devouring all they touched while the people hid in terror, until the slow ebb of the world's magic forced these loathsome creatures to retreat to the astral pit that spawned them. The Horrors departed before the magicians and wise men had believed they would;"
						p.28	the Scourge is projected to last 600 years "[..] during the projected time of the Scourge, six hundred years, [..]"
						p.29	the decrease of the mana level stops in 1415 TH (beginning of the Scourge in 1008 TH), so the Scourge lasted around 400 years; it ended "hundreds of years" too early "Finally, in the fourteen hundred and fifteenth year of the Throal Calendar the ball stops falling, hanging an inch above water. [..] It is too soon by hundreds of years for the Scourge to have abated."
						p.30	shortly before the mana level stabilises scholars in Throal come to the conclusion, that the Scourge should be almost over based on how much the world's magic has weakened "[..] just prior to the cessation of the ball's drop. Throal scholars and magicians believe that the strength of the world's magical aura may have dropped enough that most of the more powerful Horrors have already begun to flee." the Throalic scholars suspect that the Therans deliberately overestimated the duration of Scourge (estimate: 600 years, see p.28 above) "They doubt the accuracy of the Theran calculations of the Scourge’s length, believing the Therans to have erred conservatively so that they might enter the new world first, and dominate it."
						p.138	the Scourge ended earlier than expected (game information) "[..], the Scourge ended earlier than predicted [..]" the Scourge lasted 400 years (game information) "During the approximately 400 years of time known as the Scourge [..]"
1994, December		SR	Harlequin's Back	2	FASA	p.23	the Scourge lasts 600 years "[..] with the Enemy's window occurring roughly 300 years on either side of the apex [of the mana level]."	Tom Dowd