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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 06 Jun 2009 : 22:40:07
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That is indeed an awesome bit of lore. I am especially impressed that he spun it without having to contradict what's in the FRCG.  |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2009 : 22:50:44
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Agreed.
I love the way Ed made the Titans as powerful as gods yet DIFFERENT than the gods. I told him so, and he reminded me that being as various "lost" gods (the Seven Lost Gods and others) are remembered by mortals only in (distorted) legends, that doesn't prevent the Titans from BEING those "lost gods."
Ed has also made the Titans into a version of the stock "Destroyer of Worlds" trope (they lay waste to worlds they invade, by devouring life-energies, and so must continually move on), and thereby linked them to all the fantasies where there's a quest to "close a gate" to keep some evil out of a world (just to pluck forth one at random, Lin Carter's OUTWORLDER) and, once again, to one of Ed's favorite long-standing fantasy tropes: the battle for control of gates that link worlds (Philip Jose Farmer's WORLD OF TIERS series and many, many others).
Lovely stuff. He hasn't lost his touch, to be sure.
(edappel, Ed tells me he's at work on a message for Alan; do you want it written as from Elminster, or as Ed?)
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Sage of Stars
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 06 Jun 2009 : 23:01:27
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I feel one of my rare needs to delurk coming on . . .
THO and everyone, some years back, at a convention, when Realms fans were deep in arguments over whether or not dragons were a "Creator Race," and Ed had let on that there was a time when dragons ruled the Realms, before humans came to dominate, Ed and I had a chat about the ancient past of the Realms.
He said that in his opinion, dragons had "come to" the Realms through magical gates or rifts, and stayed because they found the word to their liking.
"But why did they come?" I asked him. "Were they adventurers? Or bored teenagers looking for new thrills? Dragons fleeing overpopulation and needing to find new lands full of food to rule over? What?"
"I think they were fleeing something," Ed replied. "A group or race more powerful than the most powerful dragons, who had started to enslave dragons."
Ladies and gentlesirs, I believe we now know who that race or group was! 
Now, back then when Ed and I were talking (it's highly worth the time to sit and chat with Ed at conventions, believe me), I raised a design objection to that "fleeing from a more powerful group" theory by asking: "What about Bahamut and Tiamat and other dragon gods in the game?"
Ed replied (I am of course paraphrasing) that gods aren't all-seeing and all-knowing, however much priests may claim they are. And that gods can be duped, or manipulated, or even taken over by some Overpower that speaks through them, and so gains a measure of control over their worshippers.
Holy dancing dragons, Batman! So if Tiamat is secretly a Titan, or the mind-slave of an unseen Titan "puppeteer" . . .
I believe I can hear the sound of DMs starting to rejigger their campaigns, on all sides of me! |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 06 Jun 2009 : 23:04:42
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You, sir, remember things all too well!
I now know why Ed added this line to me, in the e-mail in which he sent me his lore-reply to Wooly:
Sage of Stars just may have something to add to this, once you post this and he reads it. Let's just keep mum for now, and see (heh-heh).
Ladies and gentlesirs, they're all around us. We stand in the midst of . . . a conspiracy!
love to all,
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
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Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 01:05:59
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Originally posted by Sage of Stars
I believe I can hear the sound of DMs starting to rejigger their campaigns, on all sides of me!
Or DM's ignoring it completely. But that's another great thing about Ed: he doesn't care if you mix and match, or selectively ignore lore to better suit your campaign, your players, or your preferences. In fact, he expects you to. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 01:25:00
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Ed has also made the Titans into a version of the stock "Destroyer of Worlds" trope (they lay waste to worlds they invade, by devouring life-energies, and so must continually move on)...
I knew it! Ed's a Galactus fan.
Awesome write-up Ed. This is indeed where the grandness of your lore-crafting ability shines through. You compliment, rather than contradict previous work on Returned Abeir -- ensuring that fans of either the pre- and/or post-Spellplague Realms can find something to use here.
Good stuff, as always. |
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Baleful Avatar
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 02:06:07
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Yes, indeedy! I especially like the way it explains how characters (the inhabitants of Shade) and even gods (Cyric, Shar) could do things "they shouldn't have been able to do" . . . we now know it was the unseen help and influence of the Titans making such things possible. Perhaps with everyone not knowing it . . .
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 06:50:11
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The only thing I could possibly add to Ed's great 'Laerakond Now!' lore is that if you use it to replace Anchorome, you should double all distances (which leaves lots and lots more room for cool stuff, like ruins and 'bandit Kingdoms').
In fact, BRJ was asking me recently about using Ed's far-western Island chain (which was detailed in an L-List entry I found) in a version of Anchorome, and if we go back to the original concept of Anchorme just being the Island Chain, then Laerakond could be the continent 'behind' them.
I feel a map coming on....
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 15:43:25
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Hi again, all.
I bring a reply of sorts from Ed to Rhewtani, re. this query: "I understand that the city Tsornyl was destroyed by a Moander-related creature in 75 DR. The House of Tsornyl lost most of its members in that incident.
What was the basic status of the House in the later eras (specifically, 1340s-1350s).
I know the city was reduced to a village. Did the house regain any footing or does it eventually die out?"
Rhewtani, a proper answer from Ed is still forthcoming, but he wanted you to know right away that the family line persists. Specifically:
There is indeed still a House Tsornyl, though these days they are few in number, go by another name, and are powerful in another place in the Realms.
So saith Ed. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser, as Alice might have said . . .
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jun 2009 : 22:14:26
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Wonder work on Returned Abeir sir. I might actually use that bit at least in
passing.
More questions for the que:
Who or what made the Onaglym, when was it created, and what was its purpose?
What are some of the elf clans that have gone extinct due to the Weeping War?
Which of the mage schools in Myth Drannor did the adventure "Lashan's Fall" occur in?
Next time I have a neat theory about Hesperdan I want to give out to the
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 00:19:08
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Hi Lady THO and Ed,
I recall mention that the original Realms only went as far east as Thay and perhaps the Endless Wastes (before TSR added whole continents). If a character (before the Kara-Tur days) inquired about what laid far beyond even the Unapproachable East and the known world for the people of Faerun, what would be the answer? What rumors and stories trickled through the wastes about potential distant locales, legendary denizens and fabled realms? What in those rumors and tall tales are fact?
Thank your both for taking the time to answer questions.
Also that wonderful post of Ed's about Laerakond as applicable to pre-4E Realms, just fantastic. It helps open up a whole new realm of possibilities without restricting anything. It's done in a way that is coherent with the rest of the setting and offers a number of enticing plot hooks. As always a pleasure to read and ponder over. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 02:45:51
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Hi, all.
News flash from Ed: the 2008 Spin A Yarn story, which is over 20,000 words long (and incorporates, if only in small and sneaky ways in some cases, EVERY LAST STORY ELEMENT suggested here at the Keep and by the seminar audience at GenCon) has been turned in to Wizards. Its working title is: VOLO BREAKS A HOT TALE, and tells me it is set in Waterdeep and even has a plot, "once you get to it."
So, expect some forthcoming reading pleasure on the Wizards website.
love to all,
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 03:01:27
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Hi again, everybody. A few swift matters . . .
althen artren, a little bird tells me we may in the fullness of time learn more about Hesperdan in published Realmslore.
That is: already-written but not-yet-published, canon Realmslore (and no, not a Spin A Yarn story).
Dark Wizard, it's a pleasure to answer the questions you and every scribe pose here at the Keep, for both Ed and myself. Ed is one of those writers who never forgets that, behind and beneath all the contracts and marketing strategies and author tours, he does this for fans, not for publishers.
To answer your questions:
The original Realms did not end at Thay, nor the Wastes beyond. "Known Faerun" ended about two mapsheets east of Thay, with "everyone" knowing that there were lands, strange and exotic and never seen except by dragons and other flying creatures, or folk with access to magic or flying steeds, beyond (east of, and south of) what the maps showed.
Of course, bards and priests and everyone else knew they were free to make up all sorts of wild stories about those Far Lands - - and did so, especially when they needed excuses to account for contraband, things gone missing, and failures of magic or grand plans.
As a longtime player in Ed's home Realms campaign, I can confirm that this was what folk "knew" and were told. From my notes I can probably dredge up half a dozen tales our PCs heard in taverns or around firesides, down the years of play - - and some persistent names and rumors I took note of.
I do know that Ed has always had some secret maps of a few realms clustered around a sea-gulf, with open sea to the east, that didn't get shared with TSR back in the day because they specifically called a halt to his sending in stacks of lore, and said (I paraphrase, of course) "Save it for some other day or other project, we've got more than enough to work with here."
I also know that Jeff Grubb took the attitude that what Ed never submitted and got paid for was still Ed's, not part of TSR's purchase of the Realms, but I have no idea how Hasbro's lawyers, all these years later, would view those unseen lands. I suspect Ed will be reluctant to share details of them here for fear of landing himself - - and Candlekeep - - in possible legal troubles.
Nor does it seem likely, unless Eberron's newest incarnation and the current WotC business models fail utterly, that the Realms will be resurrected in a form that would want new lands added to the east.
After all, we now have Laerakond/Returned Abeir to play with, to the west, and we STILL don't have half the level of detail Ed wanted, for the familiar bits of Faerun. Remember his DRAGON article on Crimmor? Ed wants about every third city as one travels along major trade-roads in the Realms (including every capital city, of course) detailed to that level, with the ones between left to individual DMs to flesh out.
Ah, so much to do, and so little time . . .
love,
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Nightseer
Acolyte
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 03:07:30
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Whoa...
What issue was the "DRAGON article on Crimmor" in? |
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
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830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 03:41:05
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Lady THO,
Thank you for your reply. I suspected the majority of details on those far lands would old NDAs or virtually so given the direction TSR and WotC chose to take with the areas beyond Faerun. Already the lore tidbits you revealed give me much to digest. Knowing how Faerun proper actually used, rumored about, elaborated upon, or embellished those areas goes a long way in "filling in the map" (so to speak) in a continuous way coherent with the overall vibe of the Realms.
Jeff Grubb is right of course, having Ed's interest (and general fairness) in mind as opposed to some corporate lawyers doing their job. Ed should hold his unrevealed creations to unleash if and when he decides and the time is appropriate. We never know what will happen in the future or what setting-altering calamity may befall the Realms. Alternatively, perhaps Ed will someday consider them as seeds for a standalone setting that we could all not-so-stealthily slip east of the Faerun map with a knowing wink and nod amongst fans.
Going back to your response, you said "Known Faerun" ends two map sheets east of Thay. How much distance is two map sheets? What was on those map sheets?
I'll throw one last comment out, preaching to the converted style. We certainly don't even have half of the detail Ed wants (or most of us here want). Even then, that's only about a third of the setting. Its mind boggling how much room and potential there is, despite some misplaced perception to the contrary.
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Originally posted by Nightseer
Whoa...
What issue was the "DRAGON article on Crimmor" in?
It was in Dragon #334.
An excellent article and a sorely missed style of article now that I don't get Dragon. The article gave Crimmor a character, life, and history of its own far beyond the brief blurbs it gets in most books. |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 04:56:14
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I'm sorry, but I saw the avatars of the two scribes above me (Nightseer and Dark Wizard) and all I could think was 'JAWA RAID!'.
Ok, I'm better now. |
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:02:42
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Looking at how Shar acts made what her goal is, I was wondering whether Shar could be a deified Primordial, rather than a 'mere' deity. History seems to oppose this idea, but if you look at how Shar works in Shadow Realm (from Paul Kemp), it is not hard to imagine her being one - possibly without the other gods being aware - seieng as she was bron from the chaos like the primordials themselves.
What does Ed think of this idea?
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:18:37
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quote:
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hi, all.
News flash from Ed: the 2008 Spin A Yarn story, which is over 20,000 words long (and incorporates, if only in small and sneaky ways in some cases, EVERY LAST STORY ELEMENT suggested here at the Keep and by the seminar audience at GenCon) has been turned in to Wizards. Its working title is: VOLO BREAKS A HOT TALE, and tells me it is set in Waterdeep and even has a plot, "once you get to it."
So, expect some forthcoming reading pleasure on the Wizards website.
love to all,
THO
Awesome news! My thanks, Lady, for the update.
I'm looking forward to some new Volo-fiction. |
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:25:51
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Or not, if you prefer; I designed both the continents of Faerūn and Laerakond to function perfectly in isolation, each as a campaign setting.
Noticed that - one of teh dumbest ideas of WotC was to NOT make it into two settings. With two setting books. And two player guides. And an adventure. Missed chance, really.
Ah well. I haven't done much with Abeir. I may get a chance to play in it come GenCon.
How does the lore re: the Dawn Titans work in 4e Realms? I am stuck to canon, but how to match it?
And does this mean this Gods War occurred after Toril was created, so after the fight between gods and Primordials (I am thinking Titans are Primordials, and the Primordials were already defeated by then)?
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:28:38
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Originally posted by gomez
quote:
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Or not, if you prefer; I designed both the continents of Faerūn and Laerakond to function perfectly in isolation, each as a campaign setting.
Noticed that - one of teh dumbest ideas of WotC was to NOT make it into two settings. With two setting books. And two player guides. And an adventure. Missed chance, really.
Ah well. I haven't done much with Abeir. I may get a chance to play in it come GenCon.
How does the lore re: the Dawn Titans work in 4e Realms? I am stuck to canon, but how to match it?
And does this mean this Gods War occurred after Toril was created, so after the fight between gods and Primordials (I am thinking Titans are Primordials, and the Primordials were already defeated by then)?
Gomez
I think the Titans and Primordials are "apples and oranges". It was in answer to how to fit Laerakond into pre-SP realms without the "Returned Abeir" baggage. In other words, a different take on the same place, not lore to the current 4E. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:37:07
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Yes, but the Primordial vs Gods war also happened in the Pre-realms, iirc, before Toril was created.
And my question was how to fit it into 4th ed Realms.
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Nightseer
Acolyte
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 06:40:08
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Originally posted by Knight of the Gate
I'm sorry, but I saw the avatars of the two scribes above me (Nightseer and Dark Wizard) and all I could think was 'JAWA RAID!'.
Ok, I'm better now.
Your Droids belong to me now. |
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 10:37:30
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| Actually I thought NS and DW's avatar looked a lot like the dink-dinks(the little creatures who helped Lonestar find Yogurt):P |
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Nightseer
Acolyte
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 10:46:27
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Oh, it's Dr. Manthingy. I was wondering where you wandered off to. Did you get lost, or something? Now all we need is your boy JD to show up and then you two can whisper sweet nothings to one another.
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Blueblade
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 16:02:58
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I seem to recall someone (Rich Baker? Bruce Cordell? The new lore stuff, explicitly, somewhere?) explicitly saying the Dawn Titans (a WotC invention, not Ed's) ARE Primordials.
Dark Wizards, years ago at the GenCon "Ed Roast," Julia Martin brought in the Realms map she'd inherited from Jeff Grubb or Steven Schend: Ed's turnover "master map" photocopies taped together and magic-marker-colored. I distinctly remember she said it was "55 or 59, depending on whether or not you count the sheets that are empty sea except for a few tiny islands" sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper, all oriented horizontally (east to west, to someone looking at a map with north at the top). Ed also drew less-detailed "player's maps" (what you can buy as a PC in the Realms, or assemble out of your own head from your own traveler's knowledge) and lots and lots of city, town, village, and Dale maps, plus fortresses and dungeons, and turned most of them in to TSR. I've seen photocopies of some of the originals, and except for being hand-lettered, they're of professional quality. Dead Orc Pass is even a professional-level topographical map.
And then, of course, there's the HUGE original map of the city of Waterdeep, that covers the floor of a large room . . .
Cartographers and map-lovers of the Realms, let us collectively swoon together.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 16:09:24
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
I do know that Ed has always had some secret maps of a few realms clustered around a sea-gulf, with open sea to the east.. <snip>
I'll trade Ed my first born for a copy of that.
Then again, I wouldn't want to do that to Ed... the kid is 6'5" and never stops eating...
Anyhow, I have LOTS of room on the K-T map for a gulf with some cities, and Wizbro can't get mad at something if they don't know where it came from...
Can't blame a guy for trying...
quote:
Originally posted by Blueblade
Cartographers and map-lovers of the Realms, let us collectively swoon together.
You had me at 'Hello' (or rather, "realms map").
Realms Maps make me drool like one of Pavlov's dogs. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 18:28:32
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Originally posted by Blueblade
And then, of course, there's the HUGE original map of the city of Waterdeep, that covers the floor of a large room . . .
Cartographers and map-lovers of the Realms, let us collectively swoon together.
BB
How does that map compare to the 10-poster map of Waterdeep that was in the City System boxed set?
(Note: I've got two or three copies of that map set! I do not, however, have enough wall for all of them... I don't think my wife would even entertain the idea of putting them up in the living room! ) |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 20:09:09
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The map Blueblade's referring to DWARFS the City System map. We're talking over 20 17" x 35" inch white pieces of paper, with buildings drawn on them as black outlines ("empty boxes" not "filled in boxes"). A typical rectangular two-to-three or three-to-four storey Waterdhavian building, with street-level shop and two or three floors of living quarters above, is a rectangle of about 3/4" wide by around 1" long (in other words, the base of an old Airfix model soldier figure will JUST fit inside one, which is how Ed denoted where "the PC party" was, where Watch patrols were, where "bad guys we were following" were, and so on. Trees, ponds, public pumps, fountains, and statues were all included, too.
In other words, HUGE. Two lucky gamers, out there in the world, have copies of this (aside from whoever kept it at TSR, if it didn't just go into the dumpster): it was a "door prize" at a long-ago PHANTASM convention in Peterborough, Ontario (the Guests of Honor that year were Richard and Lilly Garfield, and Ed), and it was a charity auction item at a Milwaukee-era GenCon.
Ed didn't send it to TSR on 17x35 mapsheets; he sent it to them on foolscap-length photocopies, overlapped copiously to minimize photocopier "around the edges" distortion (so buildings would line up, and all distortions, by judicious cut-and-paste surgery, could be shifted into the "white space" of streets and alleys.
When CITY SYSTEM came out, all of us original players were greatly disappointed, not just at the small size of the maps, but at the "districts get strong color hues" rather than having cobbles, dirt, and building roofs. I'm a big girl; I can tell boundaries by myself by reading street names and referring to a 1-page district boundaries guide.
Ah, well . . .
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 08 Jun 2009 : 20:45:47
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Wow... I'd love to see that original map.
I'd love it even more to own a copy of it, but that's rather unlikely, thinks I. |
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
313 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jun 2009 : 00:27:51
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Heya,
quote:
Originally posted by gomez
Looking at how Shar acts made what her goal is, I was wondering whether Shar could be a deified Primordial, rather than a 'mere' deity. History seems to oppose this idea, but if you look at how Shar works in Shadow Realm (from Paul Kemp), it is not hard to imagine her being one - possibly without the other gods being aware - seieng as she was bron from the chaos like the primordials themselves.
What does Ed think of this idea?
Logically, if Shar's a primordial, then so is Selune. |
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~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.
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