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Legacy: War Of Ages is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Legacy: War Of Ages is published by Kalos Comics.
Author's Note
It has been thirty years since Legacy: War Of Ages was first published in 1993 by Black Gate Publishing. How time flies.
The year before, in 1992, the US Congress had amended Section 304 of Title 17, making copyright renewal automatic, and dramatically curtailing the entry of works into the public domain. The same year, Rutger Hauer starred in Split Second, an action movie set in a London permanently flooded due to what was then called "global warming". The Internet was the domain of universities and academics, and Gopher was the primary way that people interacted with it. The World Wide Web was barely two years old, and little known: it was literally invented while we worked on Legacy: War Of Ages. The iPhone was 14 years away.
The future was not yet written.
In 2023, the setting of Legacy: War Of Ages seems quaint, even amateurish -- and for good reason. It is an artifact of its time, with all that entails. What seemed progressive at the time now reads as hokey, or ableist, or patriarchal. We won't defend it, but neither will we make apologies for it. We were the best people we knew how to be at the time.
Despite all of that (and its many other flaws), I think the core theme of Legacy is still relevant: life is short, even for immortals. Don't waste it. Appreciate your friends and loved ones.
Because no one lives forever.
Brandon Blackmoor
February 12, 2023
Books
- Legacy: War Of Ages Core Rules (English)
- Blades: Immortal Steel (English), a supplement for Legacy: War Of Ages
- Warlock: Black Spiral Core Rules (English), a supplement for Legacy: War Of Ages