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jordanz
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 00:27:52
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What would you guys say are the most dangerous "locations" in the realms? Please name specifically unclaimed or "wild" areas.
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Pharaun Mizzrym
Acolyte
Canada
34 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 00:31:39
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| Thay, maybe Icewind Dale in terms of natural dangers |
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Charles Phipps
Master of Realmslore
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36782 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 00:39:14
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The most dangerous place in the Realms? Between Azoun IV and a woman willing to bed him!    |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 01:34:09
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Standing on a dragon's hoard, saying: "My, that's a nice coronet," just as the dragon decides it feels like having some grilled meat.
Or Undermountain. |
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Daviot
Senior Scribe
USA
372 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 02:42:48
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For natural dangers, I'm voting the Raurin Desert/Plains of Purple Dust. It has most of the dangers the Anauroch has, plus dust storms of the titular purple dust (sandstone with manganese for color) that last days and suffocate people in them, and then more unfriendly fauna than any other place I can think of: human nomads, lizardfolk, cloud rays, purple worms, at four types of dragons (blue, sand, brown, and rattelyr). Toss in the Dustwall, Giant's Belt, and other border mountain ranges, and you get more dragons (red, silver, deep, copper, fang), a plethora of giants (athach, cloud, cyclops, eldritch, fire, hill, stone, sand, storm), rocs, perytons, wyverns, and yrthaks.  |
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Skeptic
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1273 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 02:57:29
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The backlands, because not many knows that the entire region is a serpent's nest. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 08:34:23
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| Anauroch or even worse, Anaurochs underdark. There is of course places such as Larlochs crypt and Undermountain also, along with numerous other individual dwellings and lairs. |
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Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 09:08:54
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| The Underdark in general. No food, no water, no certain ways, no light and lots of creepy and very hungry monsters ... |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 15:51:16
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The Underdark in general. No food, no water, no certain ways, no light and lots of creepy and very hungry monsters ...
...who can see in the dark! |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 16:08:36
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| Indeed, the Underdark, although Icewind Dale is up there too--it must get really, really cold! |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 16:10:25
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| most certainly Underdark |
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
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Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 17:15:00
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| The Underdark, Thay, Halaster“s Halls, Larloch Crypt, Myth Drannor pre-Last Mythal, and the jungles of Chult (hungry T-Rex are nice things...) :P |
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riot the outsider
Learned Scribe
USA
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 21:12:18
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| Thats simple, the Simbuls bedroom. Who know what will happen to you in there. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 21:55:35
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I have always thought that the Dragonspine Mts north of the Moonsea are one of the most dangerous areas. Filled as it is with humanoids, connections to the underdark, Zhentarim operations and of course dragons.
I'm sure there are more hostile places...but operating from Phlan or some such place, it quickly turns hostile in those mountains. |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2007 : 23:43:19
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Within 15 ft of any of the Chosen of Mystra.
Within 30 of a very hungry terrasque. |
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khorne
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1073 Posts |
Posted - 03 Nov 2007 : 14:16:04
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| The Deep Underdark, without a doubt. The upper reaches of the Underdark are nothing compared to the bottom... |
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Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
Netherlands
1280 Posts |
Posted - 03 Nov 2007 : 15:19:26
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Originally posted by Daviot
For natural dangers, I'm voting the Raurin Desert/Plains of Purple Dust. It has most of the dangers the Anauroch has, plus dust storms of the titular purple dust (sandstone with manganese for color) that last days and suffocate people in them, and then more unfriendly fauna than any other place I can think of: human nomads, lizardfolk, cloud rays, purple worms, at four types of dragons (blue, sand, brown, and rattelyr). Toss in the Dustwall, Giant's Belt, and other border mountain ranges, and you get more dragons (red, silver, deep, copper, fang), a plethora of giants (athach, cloud, cyclops, eldritch, fire, hill, stone, sand, storm), rocs, perytons, wyverns, and yrthaks.
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Wow!
My next human Turami nomad ranger is going to be one though git, hailing from the Plains of Purle Dust.
Personally I'd stay 10 miles clear of any temple of Talona. |
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Valdar Oakensong
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
159 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 00:39:55
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freyar
Learned Scribe
Canada
220 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 01:02:00
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| Lots of support for Icewind Dale, but wouldn't the Spine of the World be worse? |
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sparhawk42
Learned Scribe
104 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 02:21:05
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I feel that the almost anywhere in the realms can be a dangerous place for anyone to live or play. Dark danger and hidden evils seem to fill the world (not to say there aren't bastions of good throughout Faerun). This is part of the reason I don't understand the need to add the whole "Points of Light" thing to the realms, its plenty dangerous as it is. Which to me, is a good thing, after all our characters have to have something to do when they aren't getting drunk in the local tavern.
Anyway if I had to vote I think I'll say the entirety of Thay. |
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
USA
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USA
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 06:26:50
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| What's that "kingdom of monsters" in the Shining South? Veldorn or something like that. Anyways, the monsters there band together to keep from being driven out. |
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GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
527 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 10:54:00
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Sian
Senior Scribe
Denmark
596 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 11:58:33
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| within 30 ft. of two Manshoon's doing the Manshoon wars :p |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 12:04:13
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| I'd have to say the Underdark... and also the Underdark...and, oh yeah, did I mention the Underdark? |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 04 Nov 2007 : 14:59:09
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| The most dangerous place in Faerun... anywhere in the company of a group of adventurers... |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 06 Nov 2007 : 04:18:02
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| storm silverhand's bedroom |
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Most dangerous places in the realms?
