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Motherload: Tales of the High Seas

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Motherload: Tales of the High Seas

by: Christine-Anne McCaoli

A series of short episodic stories, serialized in Epic Hierarch Monthly and collected in a single published novel. The stories mainly follow the exploits of The Top Hat Crew.

The works were well received and reasonably popular, despite the fact that the work took place in a self contained world that played fast and loose with canon, with the out of place rampant use of High Elemenstation and appearance of many of the 100 swords of Sepathok. None the less it captured the flavor and adventure of The Great Breakening better than most other Elemenstor works and so remains a fan favorite dispite the continuity issues. However, when the series was completed and compiled into a novel, it was explained that the series was actually a collection of popular Battalian legends based on actual historical events - although what truly happened may be lost forever due to the horrible maintenance of records that the era of the Great Breakening was famous for.

Discussion

I don't see anything anywhere that specifically states that these stories are non-canon. -Tim
Well.. first of all... they really make no sense if you try to fit them into the larger history of Battal. Besides, they do state that they pulled things from all over the timeline to build a "greatest hits" style world. -Maxx Loxx
that could all be easily explained by Timesorc'ley. -Tim
yeah.. but that would be LAME! -ml
mudking
Actually, the author's note at the end of it explains that the stories all happened in one way or another as cannon during the Great Breakening, but they are told from the perspective of bards from the TRotE era, who have forgotten some of the details as the stories have been passed down, and embellished others with things from later history to make the songs more popular in modern taverns. So they are both part history and part legend. You must remember that records from this era are spotty at best thanks to historians long acceptance of Grabling Froomchop's The Great Bore concept. Link Seawalker, for instance, problably didn't actually wield any of the 100 Swords of Sepathok, but rather similar enchanted swords. But to the modern peasant, they would prefer the story have more recognizable items and developments. - Zeta

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