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| Shadowsoul |
Posted - 25 Jul 2015 : 22:17:15
Have there ever been any knowledge on the ruins that are with in Araumycos? |
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| Bladewind |
Posted - 28 Jul 2015 : 19:30:06
I like the batrachi involvement angle. Probably the Zhoukoudian bullywug surface realms' last resort attempt at saving themselves from the unleashed primordials or their giant agents later on. |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 28 Jul 2015 : 01:04:56
How about this: the first example on Toril of a race (just which one is up for grabs, but I'm going with the batrachi) attempting biological warfare on ... the giants? At war with the giants, their centres of power smashed by the Tearfall causing them to move inland, perhaps the ruling batrachi came up with baby Araumycos, intending to unleash it on the giant mountain strongholds to the north. The experiment went badly wrong, Araumycos got out of control (and self-aware - "awaken intelligence" from REF3 Lords of Darkness anyone?) and this simply hastened the demise of the batrachi as a race and power group.
Alternatively, and this concept is one I tried to push with the Sundering, Araumycos is from Abeir and came to Toril in an earlier Sundering event when the worlds merged for a time.
-- George Krashos |
| Bladewind |
Posted - 27 Jul 2015 : 20:03:18
Its symbiotic relation with the High Forest makes it curiously fragile when removed from its anchor, though its unsure if its a psionic tie or a nutrition one. It makes me think its a purely natural phenomena; a singularity moment for a hyper fecund Myconid race centered under the High Forest, as the myconoid entity reached a large enough collective conscience level to achieve a divine spark.
After druidic activity sponsored/taught by treants the bounties of their magics seep deep into the soils of the High Forest, into the caverns feeding Araumycos uncommonly immense growth.
So I believe any of the early races capable of terraforming magics could have been the cause of Araumycos. So Batrachi, Dragons and Giants are all likely candidates for its appearance. I personally like to think it arrived as a spore on a meteor, in a primitive Spelljamming manner, blossoming as a fungul growth on Toril and seeding the first interloper Myconoid races.
Perhaps the Star Mounts, Grey Peeks, Nether Mountains and Lost Peeks are so steep because of the crater formed by Araumycos's impact? |
| Markustay |
Posted - 27 Jul 2015 : 15:01:55
I would hazard to guess a creator race, but it could have been some other early culture we know nothing about (draconic or even dwarven, for example).
I'd like to point out that if you know anything about archaeology (and I am sure most of us have watched the History/Discovery Channnels), then you know stuff that used to be on the surface gets buried rather quickly (on a planetary scale). A few thousand years and entire, immense structures disappear (pyramids, etc). Now just picture how deep stuff would be if it was 35,000 years old?
I am saying this so people realize it doesn't necessarily have to have been something subterranean; it could be that it was a surface civilization and that Araumycos may have either been placed there on purpose or by accident. Then nature just took its course and buried the whole thing.
I would also like to say I think it may predate the Star Mounts... or may even be the cause of the Star Mounts.  |
| Derulbaskul |
Posted - 27 Jul 2015 : 12:03:37
Spell weaver ruins would make sense geographically, as would sarrukh ruins.
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| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 26 Jul 2015 : 02:56:57
Nope. Some elves believe that they at the very least existed during the time of Vyshantaar - if not before - and the Netherese interest in them seems to indicate that there's magic to be found - other than that, nothing. |
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