This is something we all take for granted today we expect our RPGs-tabletop, console, or computer-to come with in-depth imagined settings. While Dungeons & Dragons was really just a rules set, loosely rooted in fantasy fiction and European mythology, EPT was a complete setting, with history and languages and cultures. In 1974, shortly after D&D stepped out and said "hello" to the world, Barker's Empire of the Petal Thronebecame the second RPG ever published. Barker immediately recognized this new art form-the roleplaying game-as a way to share his Tékumel with the world. In the early 70s Barker was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons by Mike Mornard, one of the play testers of the original game. Worse, the reservations broke open, and the natives wanted their planet back. Cut off from the interstellar space lanes, and subject to massive geological upheavals, the sophisticated futuristic society of humans and their alien allies devolved into barbarism. Tékumel, her sun and two moons, and four other planets in the system, vanished from "normal space" and became trapped in a pocket dimension. They built their palaces and mansions on the shores of the warm seas. The empire seized control of it, and herded the hostile native populations into reservations before starting to terraform it to their tastes. Tékumel, originally called by this galactic empire Nu Ophiuchi, was originally a resort world. These eventually take to space and explore the galaxy. Nuclear war eventually wipes out the human civilizations of the Northern hemisphere, leaving the planet to new cultures of African, South American, and South Asian descent.
Tékumel exists sixty thousand years in our future, on a distant planet.
While Tolkien set his languages in the distant past, Barker placed them in the far future.
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