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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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 Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 00:21:52
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Im just wondering if anyone could please tell me if this tower still exicts in the year 1374 DR.
Many thanks!
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 00:57:27
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Originally posted by Nicolai Withander
Im just wondering if anyone could please tell me if this tower still exicts in the year 1374 DR.
Many thanks!
Haven't heard that it doesn't exist at that time... |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 01:49:30
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 03:49:23
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| Indeed, it was launched somewhere but we've never found out where. See also the Cormanthyr sourcebook and it's companion, The Fall of Myth Drannor. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 04:41:01
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Only the Tower itself flew away. The remainder of the rest fell to ruin during the Fall or afterward.
Note that the destruction of the extradimensional spaces and rooms and whatnot is unlikely--only their easiest and known physical access points.
Thus, if you know exactly how things were set up in days of yore, you could have the possible chance of accessing those hidden rooms and the treasures within them.
As it was, Steven Schend was being purposefully vague [as well as rushed on that deadline in time and cramped for space in words].
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 25 Nov 2008 : 06:55:45
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| It's also detailed in the Anauroch adventure book. The physical tower fell to ruin, however, the extradimensional tower that resides in the tree is still present and accounted for, although a little more worn for wear by the time the adventurers get to it. |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 00:54:49
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So if one wanted access to the "tree" ergo the Nether Scrolls.. What would one have to do?
Any help is greatly needed! |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 04:13:23
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Anauroch: Empire of Shade
The elves who built the school went out of their way to make entry difficult for the uninvited. The shifting entrance to the main tower has been destroyed, along with the structure. Two fairly easy methods of entry remain, however. The first is a portal located in the rubble that marks where the central tower once stood. The second is the wreck of Windsong Aerie; a determined party also might force its way in by breaching the walls of the Shadowsong Tree.
Windsong Tower rings will redirect any portal in Myth Drannor to the tower's entry hall. |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2449 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 04:42:45
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| Any gate within 5 miles of the city, actually. There's also an extremely rare 7th level spell that allows the caster to use any gate anywhere in at least Realmspace to teleport to the central building of the complex. Requires a Towerkin ring to cast, however. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 14:58:28
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Well, there's also the Greater Windsong Tower rings, they allow you to use any portal to wind up at Windsong Tower.
Both rings also positively affect the teleportation error chances of spells. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3736 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 18:46:10
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Originally posted by Nicolai Withander
So if one wanted access to the "tree" ergo the Nether Scrolls.. What would one have to do?
Any help is greatly needed!
-Ask the Shadovar. If I'm not mistaken, the Shadovar were able to remove the Nether Scrolls with some ease, whereas other entities have labored for years, and still failed. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 19:50:03
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| It's not really that the Shadovar succeeded so much. They went to Windsong tower looking for more information on the Book of the Black and discovered the Scrolls there totally by accident. No one knew they were there, so no one was looking for them there. Most just saw it as a ruin of the old school. There are other ways to get in to the tower without a ring or even the portal. Usually would-be intruders were turned by the guardian, but he had been falling into a torpor-like mediation the last few centuries and the Shadovar happened to be looking around while he wasn't paying attention. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3285 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 19:56:45
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-Interesting take Ashe. 
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to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3736 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 19:59:37
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
It's not really that the Shadovar succeeded so much. They went to Windsong tower looking for more information on the Book of the Black and discovered the Scrolls there totally by accident. No one knew they were there, so no one was looking for them there. Most just saw it as a ruin of the old school. There are other ways to get in to the tower without a ring or even the portal. Usually would-be intruders were turned by the guardian, but he had been falling into a torpor-like mediation the last few centuries and the Shadovar happened to be looking around while he wasn't paying attention.
-Hmm...Pretty being coincidence there...
-When I asked Rich Baker, he gave an "actual" reason, which can be looked up, if anyone cares. |
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Vol. III- Spells of the Elves
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Edited by - Lord Karsus on 26 Nov 2008 20:00:12 |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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3240 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 20:08:43
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| What was Rich's reason? I'm only going by what is published in Anauroch:EoS, mind you, so if there are more ideas, I'd love to hear them since I'm gearing up to run the adventure! |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 21:45:37
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| So... Are the scrolls/ the tree no longer in the windsong tower plane in 1374? If not where? |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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3736 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2008 : 22:14:23
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
What was Rich's reason? I'm only going by what is published in Anauroch:EoS, mind you, so if there are more ideas, I'd love to hear them since I'm gearing up to run the adventure!
-I'll have to dig through his replies sometime later. I scanned his current active thread, but I didn't ask in that one. I asked in the previous incarnation of it, which I will poke around and look for. |
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Vol. III- Spells of the Elves
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 27 Nov 2008 : 04:20:22
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Originally posted by Nicolai Withander
So... Are the scrolls/ the tree no longer in the windsong tower plane in 1374? If not where?
Okay, this is the SPOILER for the Anauroch adventure, so if you're going to play in it, no peeking!!
The Nether Scrolls were taken in their beech tree form to a site in the Anauroch desert near the city of Shade. There, Sharrans had created a dead magic zone that covered the entire desert, centered on the tree itself. Hadrhune himself is overseeing the corruption of the tree to translate the Nether Scrolls from Weave magic to Shadow Weave. Fortunately, with the help of an ancient elf guardian and the Chalice of Amaunator, the adventurers are able to stop the ritual. Unfortunately, the side effect of the ritual destroys the Sharn Wall and scatters the scrolls (except for one) across the entire face of Toril.
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