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ETERNAL EDITION
 The Age of Gods was closing. Eternity had
come to an end. The heavens shook as the armies of Falis, the supreme God of Light,
clashed with those of Falaris, the supreme God of Darkness. In the seemingly endless
battle, the earth wept and the oceans trembled in fear.
The final battle between the survivors, Marfa, the Mother-Goddess of Creation, and
Kardis, the malevolent Goddess of Destruction, echoed to the ends of the earth.
At the climax of their fierce battle, a continent separated, creating a land on
which both the goddesses of light and darkness perished like a flame and flickered
away.
Several thousand years later, the land to the south of the continent of Alecrast
has become known as "Lodoss - The Accursed Island."
Hi, I decided to put up this website in honor of one of the coolest anime series that I have ever seen... Record of the Lodoss Wars. I am heavily into RPG's. I've played AD&D a lot, and I guess that you can say that my RPG expierience started with Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
When I first saw this series, I was immediately hooked. I did some research on Record of the Lodoss Wars, and was stunned to find out that it was an RPG in japan. These pages are the result of most of the imformation that I could find on the internet, and resources available to me. I hope that these
pages are informative to you, as I had a lot of fun putting them together. Laters, and enjoy! Samhain_13.
In the Age of Eternity...
Record of Lodoss War is an epic fantasy anime series (Japanese Animation), chronicling the adventures of a party of heroes. Based loosely on the American RPG D&D(tm), a Japanese RPG called "Sword World RPG" came to life, developed by Ryo Mizuno and Group SNE, and became very popular in Japan. Lodoss War was a supplement for Sword World, and consisted of three books -- Lodoss War Companion I, II, and III. A novel series and manga series (comic book) were written and produced, based on the RPG campaign by Group SNE. In 1991, these stories were finally adapted into a 13 part Original Animation Series (OAV) title "The Record of Lodoss War" (or "Lodoss Island War Record", in its literal translation).
The original animation series is based on the novels but much had been changed. The first eight episodes cover the first novel. The last episodes of the OAV cover volumes six and seven of the novel series, but it was seriously altered to compress the series. Many side adventures were cut out from the anime series allowing it to follow the main story thread.
 Several years later, another anime series, called the Legend of Crystania, was released. These series takes place in the mystical land of Crystania, located on the southern continent Djana En. The Legend of Crystania is considerably different from Record of Lodoss War, as it takes place 300 years in the future.
Most recently has been released the Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, a new Lodoss War series. Chronicles covers the original novels in much greater detail. It begins after OAV episode 8, and ignores the events in OAVs 9-13. Chronicles is a 21 part series, and details the war agaist Marmo and the fight to stop Wagnard from resurrecting the goddess Kardis. However, there are many new characters and the timeline of events is greatly expanded. Lodoss War RPG Eternal Edition will be based upon the new Chronicles timeline.
The RPG
Lodoss War RPG uses the Fuzion RPG system, jointly developed by R.Talsorian Games and Heroes Games. Why Fuzion? Fuzion is used in dozens of anime RPG, including Bubblegum Crisis, Usagi Yojimbo, VOTOMS, and Dragonball Z all of which are anime RPGs. It is only logical for Lodoss War, yet another anime series, to utilize the Fuzion mechanics system. Furthermore, the Fuzion core rules are Free, yes free. You need not buy anything, just download the web-book (HTML or .PDF), from this website. Also, please visit my Atomik Fuzion Website and download the Atomik Magick plug-in, you will need it (all addresses are given on the previous page).
This is Lodoss War RPG Eternal Edition. The previous Prologue Edition was an early release. The Eternal Edition contains more information and many corrections, including details on monsters and new locations. As back ground, this final edition of the Lodoss War RPG uses OAV episodes 1-8 and the Chronicles series as background material. The events which took place in OAV episodes 9-13 are ignored, as they did not happen as such in Chronicles.
Just to clarify matters, this RPG is a real RPG, not an email or MUD web-game, or any sort
of computer game (there is, indeed, a real Lodoss War RPG for Nintendo or Saga). This is a
real role-playing game, like D&D.
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