Tharizdun

[GT]

OK--- In "22 Questions On Tharizdun", Gary states that the Tharizdun entrapped in WG4 is but an avatar as opposed to the "Entital" being trapped in prehistory by Pelor, Rao and others. He places the Temple as being built shortly after the Suel-Bakluni Wars (c. -520 CY, c. 5100 S.D.; and the imprisonment of said avatar at roughly 750 years before the (then) current timeline (c. -180 CY or c.5340 S.D.) Does this fit into the Oligarchal timeline in general? I have this obsessive need to take these various pieces of the puzzle and make some sort of whole out of them... ^__^

[Scott]

Timelines were not Gary's strong point. He also didn't mind writing later material that sometimes didn't mesh with older material as well as it could have; it worked great for the current project and the DMs could sort the rest out. The greater Tharizdun story provides good examples. I never liked the idea of the mini Tharizduns popping up every now and then.
I'll have to pull out the Tharizdun module and read the background to see if those dates work.

[GT]

You are correct about timelines--I put one together from the narrative for AErth... The avatar thing didn't bother me too much--how many avatars did Vishnu have... Eleven? Twelve? It makes more sense to have a fragment of "Big T " in WG4 than "This is the whole deity who required an alliance of the Gods of Weal to imprison", n'est-ce pas? ^__^

[geneweigel]

Gary explained to me about 8 years ago (when I asked what the derivatives were called), that one of the "Mini-Ts" (in particular the one that was/is still loose and running around) didn't have an alternate name so they're all just collectively known as "Tharizdun".