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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 30 Nov 2019 : 09:03:39
A new home for random thoughts since the original is gone.
I decided on a date for the founding of port Nyanzaru.
1133 DR is when amns merchant houses bought a permanent presence in nyanzaru from chief Na N'buso.
Its after 1099 when trade with zakhara is opened. Its before house normal is exposed as trafficking slaves (I figure they are chultan slaves), it's also before a trade war in amn over chultan spices.
More importantly its after the disappearance of mezro in 863 DR which I figure gives rise to a time of great chiefs among the chultans in omu, mbala, and nyanzaru in the absence of mezros guiding light, each tribe forming it's own little kingdom and subjugation its neighbours. |
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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 11 Jan 2020 : 13:54:33
Looking at the followers of Eshowdow we have several distinct titles
The Abuya Deimshowa (speakers of shadow)
The Abuyaka (priests)
The Kenswa Tokashow (warriors and rogues)
The cult of Eshowdow are supposed to be a secret cult that nobody has yet discovered, which is a problem in itself.
The Abuya Deimshowa seem to me to be the senior members of the clergy and spend at least some of their time on the plane of shadow.
As an evil counterpart to Mezro, i've decided to link the cult of Eshowdow to the previously unknown city of Omu. The Abuya Deimshowa can be the secretive shadowy movers and shakers that emerge from their hidden extra planar home to induct new members into the cult and to give their orders.
As Omu was once a larger empire that covered much of southern Chult, i figure they had an army, and the Kenswa Tokashow were like the secret police enforcers keeping the army in line. Now that Omu's empire has fallen, the Kenswa are roaming bands of assassins. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 11 Jan 2020 : 13:12:07
Looking at the various religious practices in Chult.
There appear to be several different religious ideas that have overlapped and merged over time.
The Mazewalkers seem to me to be the organised religious organisation that represents the worship of Ubtao (a church if you will, although Ubtao is not a true god - not that that matters, you can create a church to worship a rock if you want whether the rock is divine or not).
The spiritlords practice ancestor, place, elemental, and animal spirit worship.
Lastly jungle druids.
This is according to Faiths and Pantheons, however, i'm conscious that this is very much an interpretation based upon the highly segregated character class based design (and there were many character classes), to offer organisations for each class to join and interact with.
The Mazewalkers seem like a sensible religious/political construct, whereby the city of Mezro holds and defines the religious teachings of Ubtao and spreads it to the rural, jungle dwelling Chultans through travelling priests who act as arbiters of religious / cultural law.
The spiritlords are claimed to be part of Ubtao, but i fail to see how an entirely separate method of representing the same deity would come into being in the same geographic and political niche. Instead i envisage that the spiritlords were the original pseudo religious practices of the Tashalarans that lived in the jungles of Chult before the Chultans arrived and displaced / absorbed them.
Over time the spiritlords were claimed (by the Mazewalkers) to worship Ubtao in his role as father of the jungle and therefore lord of all spirits, etc. This move was likely to reduce tension between the traditional spirit worshippers and the new establishment of Ubtao worship (circa -2800 DR ish).
The jungle druids seem to me to be the same as the spiritlords, but wizards have a totemist, wu-jen, spirit worshipping class, and a separate druid class so there might have been a need to keep the two groups separate. I dont see this need and common sense dictates that each tribal settlement have only one religious representative for the same deity. So jungle druids and spiritlords are the same thing for me, there is no reason why a witch doctor cannot also know the ways of nature, nor why a druid cannot commune with spirits. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 09 Jan 2020 : 12:06:42
I'm doing the wild dwarves at the moment and came across this quote in the 3e campaign setting
quote:
Mhair Jungles: Remnants of an old yuan-ti empire still live in isolated
pockets of these vast, sparsely settled jungles. Bloodflower, a
rare herb extinct everywhere else in Faerun, is harvested here to be
made into a potent healing salve. The jungles also hold wandering
groups of wild dwarves (survivors of a lost kingdom) who trade
enormous green spinel gems, but carefully guard the secret of where
they find them.
It got me thinking, and kind of makes sense that the dwarves from Bhaerynden (after Telantiwar took it) migrated west and did the usual thing establishing dwarf holds along the way.
So there would be dwarf holds in the Channath Vale and around the edge of Halruaa establishing by this group. Then i guess they setup a kingdom of sorts in the eastern edge of the Chultan Peninsula (now called the Mhair Jungle but then was just one jungle stretching all the way to Chult).
I'm guessing that kingdom fell to the yuan-ti and the dwarves split and went further west to Chult proper establishing holds in the mountains that then fell to firenewts. They split again and this time established holds in the lowland areas around the jungle. Over time the jungles reclaimed the holds and by this time dwarf numbers were so low that traditional clan society fell apart and the dwarfs just fled into the jungle in small groups abandoning their ways and becoming nomadic hunters.
All that is i suppose canon. What makes me curious is that the group that migrated west to Chult was said to be the largest migration from Bhaerynden. To me this means it was the most important, perhaps contained royalty and perhaps contained the largest amount of significant treasures (magical, cultural, monetary, etc) from the fall of that nation.
It is mentioned that the dwarves once had access to Elder Runes of enormous power, but they have been lost. One rune i believe was used in the Murghom region which is relatively near to the Great Rift (i also think it was used prior to the establishment of Bhaerynden). What if these Elder Runes were in Bhaerynden at the time of its fall and a number of them were taken west to Chult. I believe that the Chultan migration is the only group that did not return to reestablish the Great Rift when Telantiwar fell which explains why they have remained lost.
These Elder Runes could be hidden in the Mhair Jungle or even remain as sacred stones among the wild dwarves, who have long forgotten what they represent (and use them to copy tattoos onto their body).
It also means that we can use the wild dwarves of Chult as a hiding ground for powerful dwarven magic items from ancient Bhaerynden. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 07 Jan 2020 : 20:18:06
Unfortunately i'm focusing almost exclusively at the beginning of the realms in 1357 DR. That doesn't mean i'm excluding 1400 lore, but it does mean i'm retro-expanding it to have it's roots in 1357 DR.
Thus far i'm focusing on the Jungles of Chult region, which as i understand it, is the only part of the peninsula that wasn't swamped, which also means i don't really know all that much about the Tashalar, Samarach, Thindol, etc (yet).
If i had to take a guess i would say that the survivors from the likes of Samarach and Thindol retreat to the Jungles of Chult and went native (the Thingulf were originally Chultan and so might be welcomed back by their kin). Samarach and THindol were near the western side of the region that sank.
Samarach and its people are isolationist, i would imagine they would gladly return to Samarach when it comes back and resume their "staying away from everyone".
On the other side. The Tashalar and Lapaliiya would presumably be forced into the Shaar and the Border Kingdoms.
The Tashalans are part Calishite and seem to be the more aggressive so i can imagine them trying to take more land than they had before the sundering.
Just a guess right now. A more educated answer will need to wait until after i've worked on Samarach, THindol, Tashalar, and Lapaliiya |
| keftiu |
Posted - 07 Jan 2020 : 19:16:37
Have any thoughts on what the populations whose land sunk during the Spellplague are like nowadays? |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 07 Jan 2020 : 08:53:37
I think I will go with dark elves. They aren't drow because they never bred with demons or devils and so were not affected by the magic of the elven court.
The empire of mhairshaulk fell long before the elves would have arrived and the elves lived in the jungles of chult while the yuan ti were centred on tashalar and the mhair and black jungles.
However the fire nets arose -13500 dr so the dark elves could have fought with them. The fire nets live underground so it's possible the dark elves live in the underdark as well beneath the aldani basin. That's how they have managed to stay secret for so long.
Not drow though, dark elves |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 06 Jan 2020 : 20:38:30
quote:
Scale Cleaver
XP Value: 600 GP Value: 3,000
Polyhedron Newszine 76
This weapon appears to be a skilfully crafted
long sword with intertwining symbols in the language
of the rare race of marsh-dwelling elves in
the jungles of Chult. Those able to decipher the
symbols can tell that the blade was crafted to aid
the elves in their long struggle against the lizard
men. Against beings with a natural, scaly covering, such as lizards, snakes, dragons, fish, and so
on, the weapon is a sword +5. In addition, it
grants its wielder a magical bonus against foes
clad in armor made of natural scales. Against all
other opponents, the sword is + 1
So apparently there are elves living in what is presumably the Aldani Basin in the Jungles of Chult, and they had a long struggle against the lizardmen.
I'm not aware of any elves existing in or around the Chultan Peninsula at any point in history.
Since they are obviously very insular and secretive (the fact they are undocumented anywhere else says to me that they have remained very well hidden), i'm tempted to make them wild elves or perhaps dark elves.
If they were wild elves it is tempting to make them from the elves that lived in the Calim Desert before it turned to sand. If they are dark elves then perhaps not all elves of ilythiir turned to Ghaunadaur and other demon worship, and a small group fled further west and hid amid the Jungles of Chult where none would find them.
I'm not sure if wild elves are any good at making longswords or crafting magic items of great power, but the illythiiri certainly were. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 06 Jan 2020 : 07:45:23
After a bit of thought and research I noticed that there is no mention of the reproduction of an avolakia, they are also pretty powerful.
Sooo, I decided to make the avolakia the heralds of kyuss and make them the original high priests of kyuss that he consumed (it says killed in the history but I think devoured is more fitting). What came out of kyuss were the avolakia.
The undead thing I decided to make an aside, as ras nsi is too far from chultengar for any real conflict, but undead appear throughout chult for some reason.
The avolakia are the heralds of kyuss, the high priests of his cult. They are working to retake Kuluth Mar from the Great Conclave of spirit naga and then release Kyuss from his imprisonment. |
| doccarnby |
Posted - 05 Jan 2020 : 22:47:57
The avolakia sound to me like something Kyuss made to deal with a rival necromancer. They eat the rival's zombies, then raises their own not only to replace any friendly zombies that got destroyed, but also so they can feed themselves without needing to eat Kyuss's other servants. Presumably he kept them on a pretty tight leash up until he ascended.
Edit: You can easily slam your thoughts and mine together: the avolakia are what Kyuss made to deal with Ras Nsi's undead. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 05 Jan 2020 : 15:52:58
A few monsters found so far that involve Kyuss.
Avolakias (MM2)
Ulgurstasta (Fiend Folio)
Larva Mage (4e Monster Manual)
Herald of Kyuss (4e Monster Manual 3)
Wormspawn Praetorian (4e Open Grave)
I think i'll be renaming the enormous maggots i created to be Ulgurstasta (although i'll not make all of them intelligent, and i wont have them created as siege weapons)
Avolakia are odd, they seem like something derived from Kyuss, but they eat undead. Perhaps the blood worms response to the undead of Ras Nsi, or perhaps what is created when blood worms infest a genuine undead.
Herald of Undead i think will be the remnants of Kyuss' high priests (he may have slaughtered all his high priests, but that doesnt mean they couldnt return as something, reanimated by the leaking power of Kyuss |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 04 Jan 2020 : 12:19:29
So, tomb of annihilation has this magical field that drains life from everyone and is used to feed an atropal.
Looking at existing lore on chult there are lots of hints at a shadowy demiplane type prison that is coexistent with the material plane region of chult.
The abuya deimshowa have a connection with shadows and the shadow plane. Eshowdow is a creature of shadows that was released from somewhere around the valley of lost honour (where the eshowe and presumably abuya deimshowa journeyed to this shadowy demiplane).
Ubtao has his mazes and it seems like the afterlife involves a maze that people must travel through in order to reach ubtao and eternal salvation.
Undead return to life a lot in chult (and it's all across chult so I don't think it's down to Ras nsi's ability (all the races of chult burn their dead to prevent them returning).
Dendar and seth are supposedly imprisoned in eternal slumber on another plane but with access through the peaks of flame.
It's a recurring theme of shadowy planes that can imprison souls and that causes those who die to have their bodies become undead.
So I'm thinking that the Atropus (from the Elder Evils book) sent a portion of itself to Toril (it was supposedly devouring another world in realmspace), and that crashed into the peaks of flame and left the trail from the valley of lost honour to Kuluth Mar.
Now the presence of this piece of atropus has strengthened the plane of shadow around c
The Jungles of Chult, so that those who die do not have their souls pass into the ethereal plane and then onto the outer planes.
Instead they are sucked into the Shadow Plane where they become food for the Atropus and a number of other denizens trapped there (the sarrukh creatures of legend).
At the same time as the soul crossing to the shadow plane, negative energy from there infuses the body and animates it as undead.
Ubtao teaches his followers about mazes and it acts as a kind of ritual the soul petitioner can perform on the shadow plane which if done correctly allows them to return to Ubtao's own demiplane where they empower him.
As Ubtao is not a true God he cannot have an outer planar domain of his own, but there is nothing to say that he does not have access to demiplane (created by spellweaver perhaps and linked to the temple of ubtao) that can act as a sanctuary for souls in chult.
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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 03 Jan 2020 : 08:22:44
Awesome, thanks, I shall look up those monsters tonight.
As for the portal, it is already there in canon so i will include it and use it to explain and develop thing further.
Overland migrations are fine and used a lot in canon, but they tend to leave behind stragglers and legacies of their centuries long migration.
The ghostwise as far as I know have no other population pockets between Luiren and chult, so that rules out (for me) a traditional method of travel and instead means they hopped from one place to another (using magic - or an aeroplane). But that's just how I deal with things |
| doccarnby |
Posted - 03 Jan 2020 : 02:24:31
quote:
Originally posted by Gary Dallison
I might look for more aberrant style worm infested monsters to relate to Kyuss.
In the 3e Fiend Folio there's the ulgurstasta, which is explicitly linked to Kyuss, and the century worm and lucent worm, which aren't but feel like they could fit in with the sorts of experiments in mad science wizardry Kyuss was up to. The century worm even has a stomach full of other, smaller worms that grow in the bodies of creatures the century worm eats.
The Ghostwise halflings make sense, but I'm not really familiar with this area of the Forgotten Realms, why a portal between the Mhair and the Lluirwood rather than a slower diffusion of exiled Ghostwise west? |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 02 Jan 2020 : 10:00:26
So, Dur Unkush mentions that a ritual is performed every 44 days, I'm presuming it is to stop some evil from occurring.
The pyramid of the moon mentions that it reappears every month, it is filled with spirits and turns those who remain into spirits.
I'm wondering why 44 days was chosen. The only thing I can find is that 44 days is how long it takes for the moon to do a full orbit of the earth and in presuming the designer chose that number for a similar toril analogy without realising toril is 1.5 times bigger than the earth. So I will have to assume that the moon of toril is smaller but closer.
I guess every 44 days the guardian naga of Dur Unkush gets people to perform a ritual and that keeps the pyramid of the moon out of phase with Toril, except for a single night in the month (during the ritual itself perhaps).
The Silver Priestess in the pyramid could be one of the queens of Mbala who tried to work some magic using Orolunga / Dur Unkush and failed.
Perhaps she tried to restore her husband (king Quomec) back to life, but he was already caught in the energies that blanket chult. Instead part of the pyramid was blasted out of phase with Toril along with everyone involved and they now exist as evil spirits. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 01 Jan 2020 : 20:42:00
Come across mentions of the ziggurat of Dur Unkush which is unlocated but is said to rise from the marshy jungle floor.
The ziggurat causes sleepwalking in nearby humanoids and makes them head towards the ziggurat to take part in a secret ritual overseen by a huge jungle serpent.
I've decided to merge the ruins of Orolunga with the ziggurat of Dur Unkush.
Orolunga is located near the marshy Aldani Basin, and has a guardian naga that protects the ruins, and a large ziggurat.
There is also a ziggurat of Lord Quomec that appears to be located exactly where Mbala is in Tomb of Annihilation so i can merge both of those and now have the name of a King of Mbala.
Not sure what to do about the Pyramid of the Moon. I could make it unrelated to Chult and be a temple of Selune, or twist the legend so that it is some evil trap, and the silver priestess is an old queen of Omu or Mbala. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 30 Dec 2019 : 19:22:05
So, floating buildings hidden in Chult, disguised by the overgrowth of the jungle. The magic was provided by Trustan and Ortaun, who since they lived centuries ago and have magic similar to skyships i presume were from Halruaa.
Not sure what to do with the magic towers. I'm assuming outcast Halruaan wizards created a few floating towers in Chult, or perhaps some rich Calishite satraps paid for Trustan and Ortaun to create the towers for them.
Apparently Trustan and Ortaun had a hidden backdoor in the magic that allowed them to access any building using their magic.
And on to enormous maggots. Not sure what to name them. Titanolarva. Kyusslarva. Maggotaurus Rex. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 30 Dec 2019 : 02:58:44
Thanks, Eric did the initial work, i'm just playing with the elements he laid out.
I now need to add in an enormous maggot creature, i think if a bloodword doesnt find a host and starts feeding off its kin then it becomes a hideous bloated monstrosity.
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| Dalor Darden |
Posted - 30 Dec 2019 : 02:54:41
That is awesome when something Ed did actually matches up with what you are doing! I mean, Kyuss was originally a “Greyhawk” thing, but you are really making him work in the Realms. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 30 Dec 2019 : 02:46:48
quote:
createvmind, Ed did indeed create Chult, and populated it with lots of nasty insects and maggot-like parasites, too (never published by TSR). I'll prod him to dig up his old, old notes on this topic.
Its from 30th December 2008 |
| Dalor Darden |
Posted - 29 Dec 2019 : 20:57:17
Sweet!
Where was that? |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 29 Dec 2019 : 20:41:23
Found a quote from Ed's scrolls that says Ed's original chult was full of large maggot like parasites. I'll take that as justification that kyuss belongs in chult after all. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 25 Dec 2019 : 19:19:13
So the fourth peak of the peaks of flame became a shattered peak and a sacred temple to the wild dwarves around 700 dr.
I figure this means the volcano blew itself apart on this date, and thereafter became home to the great wyrm emerald dragon that now resides there and she gathered the dwarves to worship her.
So before that date I'm having the fourth peak be a lair of imvaerharno. The question is why would he have a lair here and in ruathym (see the legend of inferno and the fire newts). I think the gathering of fire newts was a means to an end.
The only thing I can think of that might be some use to inferno is the emeralds of mershaulk. I figure these prototypes for the nether scrolls are weave anchors but for their own mini weave. With them inferno could get people to access a weave he controls, or he could tune them into the weave and would be in direct control of these weave anchors and thus be able to bar people from the weave.
It's easy to imagine not all of the emeralds were stolen by tashalan slaves that fled to lapaliiya and then onto lhespen and then stolen by gnolls. It's also easy to imagine that from lapaliiya one or two might have been found by calishites and sold north or stolen by pirates or even northmen and ended up in ruathym (the light at the bottom of the shaft in the fortress ruins at ruathym is green I believe) |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 20 Dec 2019 : 21:27:21
Working on a lifecycle for the kyusspawn (my name for all the creatures of Kyuss - which thus far is the Bloodworm, the Quanlos, and the Spawn of Kyuss).
I figure that something in Kuluth-Mar is creating the bloodworms, either it is the creature known as the Herald of Kyuss (perhaps Kyuss' high priest before Kyuss murdered all his followers), or perhaps the obelisk in which Kyuss is imprisoned exudes these bloodworms (like Halloween 2).
The bloodworms crawl around looking for a host to infect. If its a humanoid then the worms burrow inside and lay eggs. They give the host accelerated healing, but require it to eat ever greater amounts of food (it eventually starves to death from the enormous energy requirements).
Once the host dies, the bloodworm eggs hatch and begin to feast upon the flesh of the corpse. They also reanimate the corpse (they are small at this point and dwell in the muscles, heart, brain, etc so they keep the body in a state between living and death - it is not undeath though) and move it towards other living creatures. This is the Spawn of Kyuss.
Anything struck by a Spawn of Kyuss is showered in bloodworms and if one burrows into the victim the lifecycle starts all over again.
If a bloodworm burrows into an insect egg, then it creates a Quanlos, like a large mosquito filled with larva. When the quanlos attacks a victim, it injects these larvae into the body. The larvae then eat the victims insides and emerge as miniature quanlos.
I might look for more aberrant style worm infested monsters to relate to Kyuss.
I figure the Great Conclave of spirit naga are actually trying to keep the monsters of Kyuss at bay (perhaps the naga cannot be infested and so live in Kuluth-Mar trying to kill the Kyusspawn which are a danger to all living things). |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 20 Dec 2019 : 12:54:35
Came across an odd mosquito like creature that injected its victims with larvae that then chewed their way out of the host. I decided to make them one of a number of creatures I now term Kyusspawn that infest the Chultengar region. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 18 Dec 2019 : 20:38:51
Found mentions of halflings in Chult, a perilous gateway article hints that there may have been a tribe of wild halflings in the jungle at one point (before they were slain and raised from the dead).
Wild halflings to me say Ghostwise, and it would appear that there is a portal connecting the Mhair Jungle to the southern Lluirwood where the Ghostwise used to live (before they were driven out following -65 DR ish).
I reckon a tribe or two of ghostwise halflings hidden amid the Chultengar would fit quite well with the feel of Chult. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 18 Dec 2019 : 11:26:01
Finished working on my mythology surrounding the sarrukh and Merrshaulk and the yuan-ti.
Apparently Merrshaulk and the other serpentfolk gods were created when the World Serpent fractured after the creation of the yuan-ti and the naga.
However, the yuan-ti and naga only existed in Mhairshaulk at that time, so how did Okoth and Isstosseffifil learn about this new deity when there is no indication of any connection between the sarrukh of these empires (and possible hints that the empires were not friendly to one another, with Okoth having outcast the sarrukh of the other empires).
Furthermore, Merrshaulk or Sseth or some other deity that resembles the World Serpent is the only deity worshipped in Okoth and Isstosseffifil, none of the other fractured gods are worshipped which says that they were unknown in those lands.
Only Mhairshaulk and those successor realms of Mhairshaulk (Serpentes, Najara, Hlondeth) worship the likes of Shekinester, Varae, and other gods that supposedly arose from the fracturing of the World Serpent.
Lastly if Merrshaulk came into being after the yuan-ti were created then that means Merrshaulk was named after Mhairshaulk. That seems a little like yuan-ti vanity.
I believe that the stories of the sarrukh gods are all from the perspective of the yuan-ti, and have been corrupted by the passage of time. I reckon the World Serpent fracturing myth was caused by the fracturing of Okoth society and the migration of the sarrukh to other empires. It might also have been further confused with the tales of Jazirian and Ahriman from the Outer Planes.
Merrshaulk was likely a real being, who probably led the sarrukh to found Mhairshaulk. He used fleshwarping powers on himself and became the first anathema (not a yuan-ti anathema but a sarrukh anathema). It was Merrshaulk who created the yuan-ti and the naga by consuming other creatures and combining their DNA to form new beings.
Ultimately Merrshaulk took his fleshwarping abilities too far and his own body fell apart to form other great serpentine creatures of legend (Varae, Shekinester, Ssharstrune, Squamata, Amphisbaena, Dendar).
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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 17 Dec 2019 : 13:04:58
Noted repeated mentions (in other sources) of calishite mines and slave gangs in the jungles of chult, but can find nothing in the main sourcebooks (Jungle of Chult adventure and Tomb of Annihilation) on the region.
So I figure a mine needs to be near mountains. It also needs to be near the coast if it is a foreign enterprise (so they can be resupplied.
The mistcliffs are out because the jagged coastline and cliffs make it impossible to establish a beach head.
I figure amn wouldn't exactly welcome calishite satraps into port nyanzaru. The kobold mountains and peaks of flame are on the southern edge of chult and a bit far away.
That leaves the luo peaks / sky lizard mountains which has no details on it other than pteramen live there. I figure calishite satraps have coastal villas and send teams of slaves through the jungle to the mountains. Any slaves that die in the jungle or killed by pteramen are replaced by any natives they can find or from slaves bought from pirates / slaves- I figure this is where the jahan pirates come in.
Found an entry in undermointain about captains of the ship the storm kraken who sell chultan slaves in skull port and I presume take slaves from skull port to chult and sell to calishites.
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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 16 Dec 2019 : 20:40:04
So according to Tomb of Annihilation
quote:
The Black Opal Crown was once worn by the archmage
Sadamor of Netheril. Legend speaks of how Sadamor
saw the depths of humanity's evil reflected in the opal
of his crown. Heartbroken, he created a doomsday device-
a sphere of annihilation- to swallow the world but
was consumed by his own creation.
Given the proximity to Halruaa, the tale sounds slightly similar to that of Raumark who was an excellent seer and who jumped into a sphere of annihilation (i think).
Do we know what Raumark's surname (or first name, you could easily have Raumark be either) was? |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 16 Dec 2019 : 17:24:10
That's fine, cheers for looking into it. I'll just use this thread instead. |
| Alaundo |
Posted - 16 Dec 2019 : 16:28:28
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Originally posted by ElfBane
It is possible that The Wayback Machine could have some of the "Reimagining Chult" thread. You may wish to give that a try. Also, the Mods/Webmasters may do sitewide backups that include all threads. They probably don't, but it wouldn't hurt to contact Wooly or Alaundo.
Well met
Apologies for the delay. Alas, the Wayback machine doesn't have many snapshots of Candlekeep, and whilst there is one on the date in question, it is two hours after the issue we had. Typical. Previously to that, it's some months prior, unfortunately. |
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