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...,and Yostur Ulhmond, a young fighter from the villages of the Snow People in Thar, blond-haired and strong as an ox.

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all. Sorry for the silence for a few days, but Ed slipped away from his writing for a day to do some signings and interviews and a panel (DM Masterclass, with Robin Laws and Philippe Menard) at Toronto's annual crowded zoo of a geek get-together, FanExpo . . . and I slipped away from MY work to seize the opportunity to chat with him for a bit. FanExpo is fun, but the glaring shortcomings of that disaster of a convention centre were readily apparent.
Anyhoo, we're both back on duty. Wherefore I can bring this Ed response to Dalor Darden:

The Snow People are a blond, white-skinned, stockily-built nomadic hunting human people who hunt the elk and rothe and "highsnows deer" of Thar, having moved into the area after the fall of the "beast-men" (ogre) kingdom there (although the Snow People and various marauding monsters, such as hungry dragons swooping to devour, routed the last ogre tribes and reduced ogres to the rare few hardened raiding bands still encountered in the area today, the power of the ogres was broken by continuous internal feuding and dragonfeeding raids (plus similar raiding by wyverns, perytons, etc.) coupled with the slow but mighty rise in local power of the flind and orcs in the mountains, that ended in vicious wars of mutual extermination). The Snow People have "high" (mountain) and "low" (rolling hills/open country) villages that they move between, along favored routes of encampments where they may tarry for as long as a month or as little as overnight, depending on weather and how good the hunting is. Fur-wearing but hardened to the cold and wise in the ways of the Moonsea North wilderlands, they are considered "barbarians" by more southerly folk (think of a smallish race of blond Conan the Barbarians). As much as any stereotype or overall characterization can be correct, they are a lusty, brawling, cheerful, hardy people, of simple pleasures and past-times are great fear/respect of undead and arcane magic, who tend to see priests as "defenders of mortals by appeasing/tricking/steering the gods."


So saith Ed. Creator of the Snow People, Thar, the Moonsea . . . and oh, yes, the Realms.
love to all,
THO

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Originally posted by Snowblood

So Ed would it be a safe bet to think that the "Snow People" and the horse riding barbarians of the Ride are related?????

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Important postscript:
Some of which still exist and are "operating" to this day.
love,
THO

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

From Ed's original Realms turnover (1986):

Some gates "work" only for living creatures, others for living creatures plus organic matter carried by them (in direct skin contact), some for living creatures plus organic matter in close contact (i.e. carried in satchels, packs, strongchests) or indirect contact (on wagon or automaton/enchanted item/mechanical/undead mount that is in contact with living creature), and sone for inorganic material in various of the aforementioned relationships with living creatures.
Others are "open" to everything (items, breezes, precipitation, etc.) passing freely in one direction or both directions.
A particular gate may exhibit any or all of these properties at particular times or when particular conditions/circumstances occur. Experimention is often necessary to avoid diaster for wayfarers.


So saith Ed. So, yes, objects can be thrown/roll/be blown/drift, or fall through SOME gates, at particular times, and so pass from world to world. usually unaltered.
love,
THO

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