name_tamer Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Back in 4e Kingdom of Champions, we were treated to Lyonesse, which was a sort of pseduo-mystical (actually, IIRC, technology-based) "hidden land" off the coast of Britain. With the revamp of the HERO games website, we now have a Champions Universe Database, a portion of which is dedicated to Places and Things. Lyonesse appears in this database, with the following description: "An extra-dimensional/underwater mystic realm located off the coast of Europe, home to (among others) the fiendish Fomorians." I recognize all of the places and things on the database as appearing in 5th Edition, except I don't recall seeing Lyonesse in any 5e materials. I also searched Ghost-Angel's index and didn't find anything about Lyonesse there. Is this a hint of things to come, or was there an error in compiling the CU Database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Re: Lyonesse? IIRC Steve Long mentioned in a recent chat that he was thinking of doing something with Lyonesse for a future Champions book. However, AFAIK nothing about Lyonesse has previously been mentioned in any Fifth Edition source. It's possible that this is the result of input from Cryptic Studios, although I have no evidence of that. Personally I'd love to see Lyonesse make a comeback, as I considered it and its related extra-dimensional realms to have a lot of potential. The description you quote mentions several features of the 4E Lyonesse from Kingdom Of Champions; and we still have the Progenitors, the principle origin for the Champions Universe version of it, in current continuity. Mind you, Steve Long might have to reconcile Lyonesse with Hero's "Tuala Morn" fantasy setting. I'd love to have a 5E in-continuity incarnation of my favorite 4E NPC hero, Nuada of the Silver Hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_tamer Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Lyonesse? Thanks, LL, for speculating along with me. The Cryptic angle does seem like a possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Lyonesse? No, it's not an error. It's something that will see coverage in the future, though I'm not necessarily saying it is or isn't going to have anything in common with the 4E version beyond the name and the generalities of that one-line description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_tamer Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Lyonesse? It's something that will see coverage in the future 5E or 6E? Or don't know/can't say yet? Thanks for the response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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