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2021-06-20T15:30:32Z

Added quote from MM

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	This might just as well be called The Dawn of Time and its significance is that this is the oldest approximately datable event in [[Discworld]] history. Referred to in {{MM}}, this is - approximately - the time when [[Um]] was destroyed in a war with the [[Ice Giants]] or buried by a volcanic eruption - accounts vary - give or take two thousand years on either side. Professor [[Flead]] of [[Unseen University]] is pretty definite about this and asserted as much to Miss [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] and to [[Moist von Lipwig]] when seeking to date the [[Umnian Golems]], the survivors of the catastrophe that destroyed [[Um]], and which had spent nearly sixty thousand years buried deep beneath the surface of the Disc.		This might just as well be called The Dawn of Time and its significance is that this is the oldest approximately datable event in [[Discworld]] history. Referred to in {{MM}}, this is - approximately - the time when [[Um]] was destroyed in a war with the [[Ice Giants]] or buried by a volcanic eruption - accounts vary - give or take two thousand years on either side. Professor [[Flead]] of [[Unseen University]] is pretty definite about this and asserted as much to Miss [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] and to [[Moist von Lipwig]] when seeking to date the [[Umnian Golems]], the survivors of the catastrophe that destroyed [[Um]], and which had spent nearly sixty thousand years buried deep beneath the surface of the Disc.


			{{MM}}: ''For what it’s worth, we think there was a natural ice dam up in the mountains, which burst and flooded half the continent. The stories about Um say it was destroyed in a flood, so that fits. The golems were washed away with the rubble, which ended up against some chalk cliffs by the sea.”''

			''“How did you find out they were down there? It’s…well, it’s nowhere!”''

			''“The usual way. One of our golems heard one singing. Imagine that. It’s been underground for sixty thousand years…”''



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AgProv: Hmm. One account says "Ice giants" and one says "volcano". Still, this was 60,000 years ago!

2016-08-01T23:17:06Z

Hmm. One account says "Ice giants" and one says "volcano". Still, this was 60,000 years ago!

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	This might just as well be called The Dawn of Time and its significance is that this is the oldest approximately datable event in [[Discworld]] history. Referred to in {{MM}}, this is - approximately - the time when [[Um]] was destroyed in a war with the [[Ice Giants]], give or take two thousand years on either side. Professor [[Flead]] of [[Unseen University]] is pretty definite about this and asserted as much to Miss [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] and to [[Moist von Lipwig]] when seeking to date the [[Umnian Golems]], the survivors of the catastrophe that destroyed [[Um]], and which had spent nearly sixty thousand years buried deep beneath the surface of the Disc.		This might just as well be called The Dawn of Time and its significance is that this is the oldest approximately datable event in [[Discworld]] history. Referred to in {{MM}}, this is - approximately - the time when [[Um]] was destroyed in a war with the [[Ice Giants]] or buried by a volcanic eruption - accounts vary - give or take two thousand years on either side. Professor [[Flead]] of [[Unseen University]] is pretty definite about this and asserted as much to Miss [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] and to [[Moist von Lipwig]] when seeking to date the [[Umnian Golems]], the survivors of the catastrophe that destroyed [[Um]], and which had spent nearly sixty thousand years buried deep beneath the surface of the Disc.


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AgProv: I guess this needs an entry as it's the first datable event in the timeline, but blowed if I can add more....

2016-08-01T23:15:36Z

I guess this needs an entry as it's the first datable event in the timeline, but blowed if I can add more....

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This might just as well be called The Dawn of Time and its significance is that this is the oldest approximately datable event in [[Discworld]] history. Referred to in {{MM}}, this is - approximately - the time when [[Um]] was destroyed in a war with the [[Ice Giants]], give or take two thousand years on either side. Professor [[Flead]] of [[Unseen University]] is pretty definite about this and asserted as much to Miss [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] and to [[Moist von Lipwig]] when seeking to date the [[Umnian Golems]], the survivors of the catastrophe that destroyed [[Um]], and which had spent nearly sixty thousand years buried deep beneath the surface of the Disc.

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