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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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 Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 12:43:54
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-I was close.
-Explanations are easily possible, the most basic of them being that the individuals Spelljamming who were aware to some degree of Maztica saw it as a "wasteland", with nothing they believed to be worth the bother of landing, exploring, colonizing, etc. |
(A Tri-Partite Arcanist Who Has Forgotten More Than Most Will Ever Know)
Elves of Faerūn
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rjfras
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 15:47:33
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I'm currently running my group through the Shining South. I told them before we started that I was going to do a new area rather then the Cormyr/Daleland/Waterdeep/Sword Coast area that the last campaign I ran was in, as well as the campaign another guy in the same group DM'd that I played in before that.
They started in Tashalar/Lapalyiia and have been across half the Sharr and are now currently in Luiren. They will soon be in the Black Jungle and back in Lapalyiia. I clued them in as they were passing through before of a few things that were going on or just rumors of some ruins and such, so they have a few options of what they want to do or they could head back to Calimshan/Tethyr, where all but one of them was born, where things are also happening as they have heard through rumors and news. |
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see
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 20:50:30
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quote:
Originally posted by Dagnirion
-Explanations are easily possible, the most basic of them being that the individuals Spelljamming who were aware to some degree of Maztica saw it as a "wasteland", with nothing they believed to be worth the bother of landing, exploring, colonizing, etc.
Maztica has cities and agriculture, which can be seen from a distance and prove the presence of inhabitants. Inhabitants are potential slaves, and both the mind flayers and neogi are slavers, as are human groups such as the Chainmen. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 20:55:56
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quote:
Originally posted by see
Maztica has cities and agriculture, which can be seen from a distance and prove the presence of inhabitants. Inhabitants are potential slaves, and both the mind flayers and neogi are slavers, as are human groups such as the Chainmen.
-Which doesn't necessarily make Maztica worth the bother. If it's too much of a hastle, traders are certainly going to pass, and slavers and other individuals involved in such "dubious" professions might as well. Concerning slavers, it simply may also be a case of "untapped potential". A slave ring has a source of "resources" here, so they're not going to tap into a new source until their old source runs out. Again, theories as to explains the 'whys'. |
(A Tri-Partite Arcanist Who Has Forgotten More Than Most Will Ever Know)
Elves of Faerūn
Vol I- The Elves of Faerūn
Vol. III- Spells of the Elves
Vol. VI- Mechanical Compendium |
Edited by - Lord Karsus on 22 Dec 2008 20:56:19 |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 22:46:11
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| Or the Spelljammer races could have a long standing prophecy that any ship landing in Maztica may end up "Being destroyed in a great cataclysm..." Of course, everyone else would have liked to know about that particular Abeirattion too! LOL |
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