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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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 Posted - 09 Aug 2009 : 12:39:12
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What is the biggest creature, or monster or living thing on the face of toril?
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2009 : 14:06:47
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| It's Araumycos, enormous fungus beneath the High Forest |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Tyr
Learned Scribe
225 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2009 : 19:01:41
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| Wouldn't it be that fungus quasi-deity thing filling up the underdark? |
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khorne
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1073 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2009 : 20:29:16
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Why do you ask? 
Maybe he wants to scare the living sh-t out of his players? |
If I were a ranger, I would pick NDA for my favorite enemy |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2009 : 23:22:38
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Why do you ask?
people are always curious.why do we have a guiness book of records? |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 10 Aug 2009 : 01:43:10
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I suspect Tyr is right... "that fungus quasi-deity thing filling up the Underdark" under the High Forest is called Araumycos, and apparently back in early 3E, the Shades were looking for something down there, burning away big chunks of it at a time. I'd love to know *what* they were looking for... but any canon answer to that question is probably NDA, if it exists at all, so I have a few ideas of my own... lost Netherese artifacts, to put it vaguely.  |
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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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2009 : 22:07:17
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| i wonder if the realms has a blue whale? |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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Tyr
Learned Scribe
225 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2009 : 22:29:33
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| I think that'll be creatures like the Moonshae Leviathons |
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slayer
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 19 Aug 2009 : 11:24:34
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The biggest monster on Toril (and perhaps even in all the planes, excluding dragonic gods or bestial avatars) is the Tarrasque, it was created by the primordials during the dawn war but remains after the primodrials were banished to the elemental chaos. In contrast, the god's Astral Stalkers remained as well, but I don't think there are many of them (if any at all) on Toril.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Tarrasque |
"When you get to hell, tell em I sent ya, you'll get a discount" |
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Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
Netherlands
1280 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2009 : 16:16:05
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How much HP does Auromycos have then? :P
It has intelligence? Psionic powers?
Biggest mammal would be a whale of some sort.
The biggest cephalopod would be some sort of ancient kraken...
A collosal scorpion or spider might be found in Lolths Spiderweb Pits and could be summoned to Toril by the more powerful servants of the Demonqueen of Spiders.
Biggest humanoid are tp be found in the lost remnants of tombs of titans, probably undead aswell...
Jotunheim is a whole plane with supersized critters that would dwarf even the biggest versions of Torils large critters. |
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Iliyan
Acolyte
Croatia
42 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2009 : 13:10:24
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I'll have to throw my vote in with Araumycos.. I even remember reading a slight note on it in some 3.5e FR sourcebook on how it is known to devour things that venture inside it.
I think it was related to a rumored dwarven ruin it sits on. And yeah, it is bigger then the Torrasque. |
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LordManshoon
Acolyte
USA
12 Posts |
Posted - 24 Aug 2009 : 20:42:41
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| It's gotta be Araumycos. It covers an entire chunk of the Underdark by itself. |
Mastering myriad magics since Ed was young |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
879 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2009 : 19:46:43
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| If Shond Tharovin is still alive, he was a pretty big dude once he got turned into a gibbering mouther. He could cover three square miles, or stretch himself out as long as twelve miles according to Empires of the Shining Sea. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2009 : 20:29:56
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| I still think Araumycos is bigger, but I don't have the relevant sourcebook handy to confirm; IIRC, it covers the entire Underdark beneath the High Forest, and that's roughly 120 miles square according to the 3E FR map... or 14,400 square miles, give or take. Can anyone confirm or refute this? |
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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