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    CBebris@aol.co
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    Azrai, the Shadow World, and Me

    Greetings, all:

    Since posting (in the Nesirie thread) the other day, I've been contacted via
    private email by several members of this list asking me to post some
    information of general interest. So here goes:

    (1) What was the status of the Shadow World trilogy and guild book at the
    time BR was put on hold?
    To the best of my knowledge, Shadow Moon was partially written. Blood Spawn
    was written and partially edited. Design on Charge of the Cold Rider had not
    started yet, though as the climax of the series, we had notes and ideas about
    what it would contain. The guild book had not been started at all.
    A little while ago, someone posted to the list asking who owns the
    copyrights to these items. TSR owns all rights and therefore has sole
    decision over what happens to these materials.

    (2) What am I working on while BR is on hold?
    As I think most of you know, when WotC took over I did not join the exodus to
    Seattle. I do, however, maintain a freelance relationship with the company.
    My latest editing project, THE SYLVAN VEIL (Dragonlance), recently reached
    store shelves.

    (3) Did I really say that Azrai's body is floating in the Astral Plane with
    the rest of the Cerilian gods?
    Alexander MacLeod has gently reminded me that not only did I say this, but
    apparently I was recorded on audiotape! Given what strange circumstances
    surrounded that utterance, I'm not surprised I can't remember saying it. It
    was at a Shadow World seminar at Gen Con '97--Sunday morning, my last day as
    a TSR employee and my last seminar with Ed Stark. We were looking forward to
    it in a bittersweet sort of way, but when it came time to begin the
    seminar--no Ed. So I started without him, but all the while the thought,
    "Where in the Abyss is Ed?" was looping through my mind. As it turns out, a
    scheduling error had the seminar listed as taking place in two different
    locations--and Ed was at the other one, running a seminar with a different
    group of people and wondering where in the world *I* was :)

    Anyway, that distraction explains how I came to violate my own
    Be-Ambiguous-About-Azrai rule. I would, however, like to state two caveats.
    First, game information is only canon if it's printed in a TSR product--if
    and when BR is revived, those in charge can and will make their own decisions
    about Azrai, regardless of anything that may have been said in a convention
    seminar. Second, that cataclysm at Deismaar did some really weird things on
    both sides of the Shadow World/waking world border. Even if Azrai's body was
    blasted into the Astral, that doesn't mean some Shadow World incarnation of
    him didn't spring into being at the same time. (Or that it did.)

    Heck, I know what you're all really after here--you want to know whether the
    Cold Rider is Azrai. Well, I'm not saying! ;)

    Carrie Bebris

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    Randall W. Porter@6550
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    Azrai, the Shadow World, and Me

    - ----- Begin Included Message -----(snippity do da)
    (3) Did I really say that Azrai's body is floating in the Astral Plane with
    the rest of the Cerilian gods?
    Alexander MacLeod has gently reminded me that not only did I say this, but
    apparently I was recorded on audiotape! Given what strange circumstances
    surrounded that utterance, I'm not surprised I can't remember saying it. It
    was at a Shadow World seminar at Gen Con '97--Sunday morning, my last day as
    a TSR employee and my last seminar with Ed Stark. We were looking forward to
    it in a bittersweet sort of way, but when it came time to begin the
    seminar--no Ed. So I started without him, but all the while the thought,
    "Where in the Abyss is Ed?" was looping through my mind. As it turns out, a
    scheduling error had the seminar listed as taking place in two different
    locations--and Ed was at the other one, running a seminar with a different
    group of people and wondering where in the world *I* was :)

    Anyway, that distraction explains how I came to violate my own
    Be-Ambiguous-About-Azrai rule. I would, however, like to state two caveats.
    First, game information is only canon if it's printed in a TSR product--if
    and when BR is revived, those in charge can and will make their own decisions
    about Azrai, regardless of anything that may have been said in a convention
    seminar. Second, that cataclysm at Deismaar did some really weird things on
    both sides of the Shadow World/waking world border. Even if Azrai's body was
    blasted into the Astral, that doesn't mean some Shadow World incarnation of
    him didn't spring into being at the same time. (Or that it did.)

    Heck, I know what you're all really after here--you want to know whether the
    Cold Rider is Azrai. Well, I'm not saying! ;)

    Carrie Bebris- ----- End Included Message -----

    ...and what a memorable seminar it was. *sigh* That was the glory year for BR.
    I'm going to run a BR adventure at the Con this year. After that, if BR doesn't make a comeback, I probably won't either.

    Randax

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    Jim Cooper
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    Azrai, the Shadow World, and Me

    CBebris@aol.com wrote:
    > Heck, I know what you're all really after here--you want to know whether the Cold Rider is Azrai. Well, I'm not saying! ;)<

    Oh you little tease ... >:D

    (Of course, she just had to say that didn't she ...)

    :)

    Cheers,
    Darren

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