Earthdawn is a Fantasy role-playing game, or RPG produced originally by FASA?.

The game differed from the fantasy troupe of games such as Dungeons and Dragons but drew heavily upon games such as Runequest. The game was tightly bound to its setting, a region called the Barsaive.

In synopsis, the world has suffered an invasion from otherworld dimensions that have scoured the land of life. The players take the role of survivors who hid from the slaughter in magical shelters, but are now emerging to explore the land.

The game had an intricate history that helped set the tone and goals of the Emergence.
Ed note: This sentence makes no sense to someone not familiar with the game. What is the Emergence? It would be best to explain it, reference it or delete it.

The two major power groups are the Dwarves of XXXX and the magic using Theran Empire (???). The Empire had taught the people of the Barsaive how to survive the astral attack and the dwarves were some of their most astute students. However once the danger was past the dwarves decided to rebel and set up their own independent kingdom. When the Theran's returned to the Barsaive they faced a rebellion against their distant rule.

The Theran's are based in the magical floating city of Sky Point while the dwarven realm's capital is the underground city of ???.

Magic in Earthdawn

Earthdawn's magic system was simultaneously Earthdawn's most innovative and most derivative aspect. It was highly varied but its essential idea that everyone had access to magic particularly that used to perform their jobs and assist in daily tasks was borrowed almost wholesale from Runequest.

Similarly Runequest Sorcerors can be seen to have a strong influence on Earthdawn's Astral Magic users.

Despite this Earthdawn's ideas and particularly its integration of the setting's magical philosophy into the game's rule system were distinctive and enjoyable.

Ed notes: a nice article - I don't want to edit it because I don't understand the subject, but there is grammatical confusion. You use present tense and past tense interchangeably. If the game no longer exists, use past tense, else use present. The previous paragraph is a key example.

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