Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 6 hours 22 minutes
* Paths in Depth: The Liberator
* Development history and perspective.
* Origins in legacy of ork slavery.
* Expanded to include any who feel the call to fight slavery and oppression.
* Latest version deemphasizes slavery to expand story hooks and possibilities.
* Josh talks about bringing modern-day perspectives into fictional situations (and the pitfalls thereof).
* Possible internal disputes among followers of the Path...
* Follow-up comment about Aban and dragon colors as possible homage to Dungeons and Dragons...
* Email from Scott: Detecting dragons in Namegiver form.
* Email from Ramethzer0: Questions about group patterns.
* Email from Lee: Liberators and binding/commanding spirits?
* Email from Mortium: Origins and fate of t’skrang...
* Paths in depth: Purifier
* Dan calls out his favorite quote from the essay.
* Development history of the Purifier.
* Current version is no longer exclusive to obsidimen, but still owes a lot of its lore and concept to those Namegivers.
* Original version concepts were split into two paths (Brother of Stone, Purifier) and one Discipline (Gauntlet).
* Focus on the natural balance of the natural world...
* Email from RamethZer0: Discipline (or path) focused on alchemy?
* If you can explain to Josh what gap needs to be filled by an Alchemist Discipline, please write in!
* Insight from Lou about the choices were made by Living Room Games for Dvilgaynon and possibly why.
* Dragons in Depth: Icewing aka Dollmaker
* Silvery blue scales.
* Origin of his moniker; ice storm summoned by his wings.
* Very old, very large...
* Episode 99! Next week our 100th episode with special guest Opti, aka Scratch.
* Paths in Depth: The Messenger
* Development history; first appearance in RedBrick’s Namegiver’s Compendium.
* Setting origins as obsidiman messengers being highly desired for inter-city communication.
* Original version didn’t feel like its role in a game was considered.
* Pop culture inspiration: The Postman, Book of Eli, pony express...
* Episode 100! Thank you to everyone who has been with us on this amazing journey, and we hope you stick around as we continue!
* Please forgive Josh’s audio in this episode. We’re not sure what happened.
* We are joined by special guest Opti, aka O.C. Presley.
* We talk about how Opti came to the world of Earthdawn, his experiences working as a freelancer in the RPG industry and starting his own company...
* Email from Sebastian: Thoughts on a homebrew alchemist Discipline.
* Design insights on new talents and knacks.
* Email from Chad: Group symbol and vinyl stickers.
* Email from Lee: Pop culture and historical references for Alchemy.
* Email from Aaron: Difference between “elder” and “great” dragons?
* Dragons in Depth: Vasdenjas, aka Talespeaker
* Killed during the assault on Sky Point during the Second Theran War...