Of course there are infinite variations in Ages, but the problem is just what you said: the way that things can change. Why is it that there are certain points where changing features in Ages makes a completely new Age? Like you were saying, an Age is like a house, and you can change many things about it. But there are some changes that would not change the house itself, but still make it practically a different house. Changing owners, for instance, would make it a new house because it's not the old owner's house anymore. The framework is intact but the interior and occupant have changed. This seems to be what happened with the Age that Gehn ruined for Atrus (I've never read the books, so I don't know much about it). I just don't see how the Age "remembers" itself and tolerates certain changes but not others. Technically, any change should make it a different Age, since it's a new chain of possibilities. So why does the Art and the process of linking act nicely towards us, instead of being strict and making every change a new Age?

So,... maybe I can say that a book Pakei had just finished writing had it's pages torn out and shoved into the descriptive book for Armetisia. It would just require a small adjustment in the story. Saying that Jalak survived a combining of two worlds? Anything is possible, so I guess that's okay, right?

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MogwaII, 爪口ム山丹工工, #04938979, or Jim Greene

Well it seems to be that adding things to Ages keeps it the same Age it's only the dramatic removal/change in elements that make it a new Age.

And if you randomly mixed and matched pages you would be lucky to have a stable Age at all and if it was some how stable and functional it would be a very different Age.

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Thelonius "Prof" Higginsbottom

member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent

"I invented the term the Bevin Generation do I get a spot in Mystlore?"

The resulting age was actually more stable than the original age jalak wrote.(i think i will change his name, because there is an age in uru called that) Even though bleen sounds unstable, it isn't so much. My idea of Bleen is that it is an age that could at anytime be changed, lost, or destroyed unexpectably, it holds together as long as it takes for it to fulfill it's purpose.

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