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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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 Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 17:08:57
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While that may be true, you don't honestly believe that the person who thought-up that year wasn't thinking about the famous seven, do you?
Sure... it can be anything NOW... but we know what it was supposed to be... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 18:31:06
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Originally posted by Markustay
While that may be true, you don't honestly believe that the person who thought-up that year wasn't thinking about the famous seven, do you?
Sure... it can be anything NOW... but we know what it was supposed to be...
*shrugs* It's certainly possible... There are 2300 entries on the Roll. I doubt that anything specific was planned or thought up for even as many as 25% of them. |
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Menelvagor
Senior Scribe
Israel
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Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 18:46:10
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Wow, people really paid attention to my request not to make lewd comments regarding my question! For some reason, I feel almost disappointed, like something has let me down...
And no, that was not an invitation for lewd comments! |
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation in the dust, are crushed before the moth?" - Eliphaz the Temanite, Job IV, 17-19.
"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" - Ecclesiastes VI, 6.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 18:54:46
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"So thats why I've been calling it my 'Blade of Honor' all these years".
Happy Now?  |
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Menelvagor
Senior Scribe
Israel
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Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 20:17:01
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I was happy earlier, simply surprised. See above post, last sentence.
But anyway, we should stop hijacking Ed's scroll with simple banter (although I never liked the term 'hijacking'. I prefer to call it 'Thread Drift'.) |
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation in the dust, are crushed before the moth?" - Eliphaz the Temanite, Job IV, 17-19.
"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" - Ecclesiastes VI, 6.
"There are no stupid questions – just a bunch of inquisitive idiots."
"Let's not call it 'hijacking'. Let's call it 'Thread Drift'." |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 23:32:44
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Menelvagor
Well, Year of the Seven Sisters might refer to their disappearence...
Or it might refer to another set of seven sisters, ones who have nothing to do with a goddess. Not everything on the Roll of Years is associated with some major event.
That's what I was thinking. After all, the Realms does have something of a history with "two" groups of seven things -- like the two groups of "Lost Gods" for example. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 12 Mar 2009 : 23:33:38
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
While that may be true, you don't honestly believe that the person who thought-up that year wasn't thinking about the famous seven, do you?
Sure... it can be anything NOW... but we know what it was supposed to be...
*shrugs* It's certainly possible... There are 2300 entries on the Roll. I doubt that anything specific was planned or thought up for even as many as 25% of them.
Indeed. It may even be difficult to understand some of the more confusing names themselves because the particular aspects they are referencing were set down in the Realmslore long ago, and have yet to be fully explored in the material. Or the person/people responsible for those particular year names had ideas about what they could refer to at the time of compiling the Roll of Years, and then forgot all about them.
As it is, I sometimes tend to view the Roll of Years as an archaic source of information about the Realms as it was back when the Roll was first put together. There may have been a lot of good ideas and references floating around at the time that were incorporated into it, and then either ignored, forgotten, or simply cast aside as progress on the setting's design shifted elsewhere. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 02:38:58
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Very true, Sage, very true.
Although Ed has something in mind for every last year he named when creating the Roll, and then again in a later session of augmenting and expanding. He can't, of course, reveal any of those events that may or may not now happen in canon lore, but he DID hint this far:
The Seven Sisters referenced in that year name aren't the same Seven Realms fans have already "met." (And no, this isn't a change or a retcon; they never were.)
"Azuth's Woe" is the poetic/prophetic nickname of a being, not a misfortune befalling Azuth in that year. The being referenced caused Azuth "woe" (and earned the moniker) many years earlier.
So saith Ed. Who also reminded me that many of the events anticipated and then commemmorated in year names are indeed small, local, little-known things, not necessarily "big" happenings.
love to all,
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Jakk
Great Reader
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 03:52:15
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Very true, Sage, very true.
Although Ed has something in mind for every last year he named when creating the Roll, and then again in a later session of augmenting and expanding. He can't, of course, reveal any of those events that may or may not now happen in canon lore, but he DID hint this far:
The Seven Sisters referenced in that year name aren't the same Seven Realms fans have already "met." (And no, this isn't a change or a retcon; they never were.)
"Azuth's Woe" is the poetic/prophetic nickname of a being, not a misfortune befalling Azuth in that year. The being referenced caused Azuth "woe" (and earned the moniker) many years earlier.
So saith Ed. Who also reminded me that many of the events anticipated and then commemmorated in year names are indeed small, local, little-known things, not necessarily "big" happenings.
love to all,
THO
Once again, my curiosity hath been piqued. I suspected as much regarding the "big happenings" matter, given Ed's love for RSE's, but I'm very curious now about the identities of the "Seven Sisters" and "Azuth's Woe"... and I'm not even going to ask those questions, because I already know the three-letter answer to both.  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 05:45:20
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So Sage was correct - Ed just has a 'thing' for the number seven?
Note - there's no need to elaborate - I am fully aware of the mystical symbology involved with that number. I'm a big 'three' man myself.  |
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khorne
Master of Realmslore
Finland
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 09:32:28
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| For all we know the year of the seven sisters refers to the the seven orc sister who build the first orcish tapdancing club. |
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arry
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
317 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 12:09:44
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Thanks very much for your reply Lady Hooded!
@Markus Ni!  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 13:47:59
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quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
So Sage was correct - Ed just has a 'thing' for the number seven?
Note - there's no need to elaborate - I am fully aware of the mystical symbology involved with that number. I'm a big 'three' man myself.
He also likes animated skulls, I've noticed. Which is understandable, as it's a cool concept. I've been fiddling with an NPC, myself, that is nothing but a skull. |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 13:52:12
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Hi my question to is this:
The Karse Stone: It talks about being heavy magic, what is heavy magic and what are it uses? Is it the last remanent part of the old weave? so many questions really... what could a archwizard do with the karse stone? |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 16:48:10
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Heavy Magic is discussed, if I recall right, in the Netheril box set from 2e.
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Originally posted by Portella
Hi my question to is this:
The Karse Stone: It talks about being heavy magic, what is heavy magic and what are it uses? Is it the last remanent part of the old weave? so many questions really... what could a archwizard do with the karse stone?
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 17:17:16
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
He also likes animated skulls, I've noticed. Which is understandable, as it's a cool concept. I've been fiddling with an NPC, myself, that is nothing but a skull.
Yeah, I kinda dig the skulls myself, and have connected all of the canon versions to Demilichs - Ed's are just a more powerful, flying (and flaming) form of those, and I even have a HB concept for one.
I call it the Psuedo-Lich (just to make it similar to the equally ill-named Demi-Lich). Basically, its a Lich that has gotten so ancient and decrepit that it transcends into a Demi-Lich state before its skelton fully disintegrates. In this state, the head 'detaches' and flys around (like Ed's skulls) and has all the same attributes as a Demi-Lich, but the rest of it's body is hidden away somewhere, and it has to return to it every 24 hours or so. Its sort of like combining a Demilich with a Penanggalan and a Crypt Thing. The body CANNOT move and may even function as the thing's phylactory (I haven't decided about that yet). I was also going to make it Vampiric, like the Penanggalan, but decided to save that for yet another HM monster (the Vampiric Lich).
Undead are just so much fun.
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Originally posted by arry
@Markus Ni!
Don't 'Ni' me... I still find it... suspect. <where's our 'Razz' smiley?>
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crazedventurers
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 17:38:34
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Originally posted by Markustay
So Sage was correct - Ed just has a 'thing' for the number seven?
Indeed he does, one of the 'seven' that has been mentioned very briefly in passing is the 'Seven Swanmays of the Kings Forest' (Cormyr).
THO, did the Knights ever encounter these seven? And is Lharave (featured in FRO the Old Gray Box Set) one of those seven?
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So saith Ed. I've never said he was sane, have I?
Gods, all this writing and he's running a constant fantasy version of Coronation Street in his head, too. .
shudder,
love to all,
THO
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ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
Learned Scribe
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 18:17:09
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Originally posted by Malcolm
Okay, I admit I've totally lost track of the chapbook author thing. Is there an up-to-date list of all the wrong guesses? And just what, EXACTLY, did Ed say about the author (i.e. clues thus far)?
Thanks, all.
This is the list I have. I think I have all of the guesses, but I'm not positive.
Incorrect guesses:
Alaphondar
Giogioni Wyvernspur
Vangerdahast
King Azoun
Valantha Shimmerstar
Elminster
Storm
Tessaril Winter
Glarasteer Rhauligan
Aerilee Summerwood
Laspeera
Garen Thal
Filfaeril
Volothamp Geddarm
Tanalasta
Alusair
Jorunhast
Dimswart
Thone
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 19:48:05
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Greetings All,
Just a quick question. Was my list of Myth Glarauch questions one of those topics too broad
in scope, or is it one of those areas covered by a Dyson Sphere NDA? Just Curious.
I was wanting to know, could we have reoccuring spot of Elven clan info. I loved the stuff on
the two or three clans that were mentioned previously on Ed's scroll.
Blade of Honor? Boy, there isn't anything honorable I do with my blade.
It's more a... oh never mind. Not important. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:11:47
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Originally posted by althen artren
Blade of Honor? Boy, there isn't anything honorable I do with my blade.
It's more a... oh never mind. Not important.
A Short Sword of Backstabbing? (for those who remember 1E)
(Apologies to Ed, THO, and mods for the... 'thread drift' I believe was the term Menelvagor suggested... but I couldn't resist that one.) |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:42:40
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Hello again, all.
Ed is busy with hospital stuff today, but I'll field crazedventurers' question:
"Indeed he does, one of the 'seven' that has been mentioned very briefly in passing is the 'Seven Swanmays of the Kings Forest' (Cormyr).
THO, did the Knights ever encounter these seven? And is Lharave (featured in FRO the Old Gray Box Set) one of those seven?"
Damian, the Knights have encountered various members of those Seven over the years, though never the entire group, formally, as a group. So far as I know, Lharave isn't one of them, but is a friend and ally who has worked with them more than once. Ed will of course elaborate and correct, as the opportunity arises.
love,
THO
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:48:50
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. . . And to Jakk, I respond:
No, of COURSE you couldn't.
No apology necessary, though if it's around behind me you're interested in, perhaps shortness is a good thing . . .
She observed innocently, looking off from a hilltop across upland Cormyr, to the interesting landmark of Angrul's Oak (a massive dead oak that stands where two streams meet, due west of The Dead Well, halfway between it and the Belflow (the stream that runs southeast from Arabel to the Wyvernwater). [Yes, an extremely subtle example of obligatory Realms reference, there - - but one can never have too many useful landmarks, yes?]
love,
THO |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:49:52
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Is Dathae of Essembra one of the Seven?
And speaking of PftF lore, I've also come-across TWO different "...of the six curses" characters, one of whom gained a seventh curse (although one was afflicted with them, and the other gave them out, IIRC)
'Six' being Ed's ebil number.
And as long as I'm bringing up PftF, where is/was Carathta? There is a reference to Veloghon of Carathta in the Veloghon of Vigilance entry.
I have more, but I'll sneak 'em in here and there. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:54:59
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Heh.
Markustay, there are more "of the six curses" characters than that, though they may not have made it into printed canon Realmslore (and any number of "of the three curses" or "four curses" or fill in the number, too). That's because it was briefly VERY popular to adopt such a nickname, because it sounds grand without being TOO threatening (unlike, say, "I am Marghon the Mage, Destroyer of Thrones").
And, no, she replied sweetly, Dathae isn't one of the Seven, either. She belongs to ANOTHER secretive group, about which only Ed can really say more . . .
love,
THO
P.S. I am SUCH a tease. Time to spank me, someone. Line up, fellas.
AND lasses! |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:56:58
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Oh, and "more" is good. Sneak 'em in whenever, or just step forth and ask boldly. We LIKE bold sorts, here in this chamber of the Keep. 
love to all,
THO |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 22:23:40
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quote:
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Heh.
<snip>
And, no, she replied sweetly, Dathae isn't one of the Seven, either. She belongs to ANOTHER secretive group, about which only Ed can really say more . . .
love,
THO
P.S. I am SUCH a tease. Time to spank me, someone. Line up, fellas.
AND lasses!
If teasings earn spankings, this lineup already consists of every scribe in the 'Keep, by my readings of Ed's scrolls and my estimated count of occurrences of "NDA" and similar turns of phrase... 
I'm going to make another attempt to put two and two together... and probably achieve a sum of five... by asking if the mysterious long-awaited announcement has anything to do with Castlemourn... and yes, I entirely understand if an affirmative answer can't be given. Taking stabs at answering unanswerable questions is how I stay sane, believe it or not...  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 22:35:03
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Heya,
quote:
Originally posted by ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
This is the list I have. I think I have all of the guesses, but I'm not positive.
Incorrect guesses:
Alaphondar
Giogioni Wyvernspur
Vangerdahast
King Azoun
Valantha Shimmerstar
Elminster
Storm
Tessaril Winter
Glarasteer Rhauligan
Aerilee Summerwood
Laspeera
Garen Thal
Filfaeril
Volothamp Geddarm
Tanalasta
Alusair
Jorunhast
Dimswart
Thone
You missed out at least Myrmeen Lhal (I should know, I was the one who suggested her because I had shockingly run out of named characters to suggest (due to everyone else suggesting them)...  ) |
Zandilar
~amor vincit omnia~
~audaces fortuna iuvat~
As the spell ends, you look up into the sky to see the sun blazing overhead like noon in a desert. Then something else in the sky catches your attention. Turning your gaze, you see a tawny furred kitten bounding across the sky towards the new sun. Her eyes glint a mischevious green as she pounces on it as if it were nothing but a colossal ball of golden yarn. With quick strokes of her paws, it is batted across the sky, back and forth. Then with a wink the kitten and the sun disappear, leaving the citizens of Elversult gazing up with amazed expressions that quickly turn into chortles and mirth.
The Sunlord left Elversult the same day in humilitation, and was never heard from again. |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 23:09:04
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Belts loosened, scribes:
*shoves to the front of the line* SLAP! Now what else I should
do while I'm back here?
No, definite a broadsword of backstabbing, Jakk.
Ahem.
Ed, has there ever been a spell developed by a mage in the Realms that can
sever the Weave connection to another spellcaster like Mystra can, or is
that solely her perview. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 23:18:02
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Hi again, all.
Here's the latest, from Ed:
Jakk, I do hope sometime this year (hopefully before the summer) to be able to announce something more about CASTLEMOURN (no, nothing bad, and nothing about changing publishers for it or anything like that), but the announcement THO has been alluding to has nothing to do with that. Really.
althen artren, Azuth could cut off mortals' connections to the Weave, but no mortal spellcaster I know of ever successfully developed such a spell. Some worked on ways to (imperfectly) "steer" dead magic areas to temporarily achieve the same result, though.
Now, if there are going to be spankings, scribes, surely being the Creator of the Realms should count for SOMEthing . . .
So saith Ed. Whose opinions I always hold dear.
love to all,
THO |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 23:33:41
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quote:
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hi again, all.
Here's the latest, from Ed:
Jakk, I do hope sometime this year (hopefully before the summer) to be able to announce something more about CASTLEMOURN (no, nothing bad, and nothing about changing publishers for it or anything like that)...
Well, that's good news. I've been slowly working to get my first CASTLEMOURN campaign together over the last year or so. So any potentially new material that may be heading our way will help me out significantly.
Thanks for the update Ed. |
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