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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 02 Jul 2013 : 20:13:34
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Just a small spoiler....Wulfgar, is a dick.
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Eilserus
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 02 Jul 2013 : 21:00:51
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| The Companions was a very good read. Looking forward to snagging my hard copy when it comes out in stores. I'd recommend refraining from actual spoilers since the novel isn't out yet in stores. |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 02 Jul 2013 : 21:53:16
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I thought this was going to be some kind of review.
This was not a kind move as most of us have to wait until August for this. I would have preferred it wasn't posted at all. I know you warned for spoilers but many of us are actually looking for information, not unsanctioned teases. Let WOTC tease us with the stuff.
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2013 : 22:31:42
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| If you want hard info google the book andlook for good reads a few reviews on the site. |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 02 Jul 2013 : 22:58:35
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Originally posted by silverwolfer
If you want hard info google the book andlook for good reads a few reviews on the site.
Many Thanks |
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 13:32:33
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I think we all knew that already. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 15:57:20
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Okay, now I am thoroughly confused - doesn't 'The (New) Sundering' take place between 4e and 5e? 
Why would Wulfgar even be alive? Did he also suck on a Shade? Or was he trapped in a magical bottle of alcohol for a hundred years? |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 16:40:27
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 17:44:42
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| Okay I did warn on spoilers, basically a God says go back to the living or go to paradise everyone is like lets gohelp drizzit, then wolfy is my life sucked and goes to paradise instead. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 18:07:46
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Drizzt Cuckolded Wulgar.
He should go back and help Drizzt's enemies. 
So this is how they are going to return to the 'golden age' of FR? |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 18:15:48
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| Nah they will die By the time the arc is done. I think it is just fan service. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
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Aldrick
Senior Scribe
909 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2013 : 21:06:03
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Originally posted by Markustay
Drizzt Cuckolded Wulgar.
He should go back and help Drizzt's enemies.
So this is how they are going to return to the 'golden age' of FR?
Spoiler from reading the reviews: Basically, from what I read in the reviews Mielikki gives Drizzt's companions a chance to be reincarnated or travel to their rewards in the afterlife. They can go back in exchange for fulfilling a promise to her, all of them save for Wulgar choose to go back. The book covers something like 25 years of time from the time of their reincarnated births till they find themselves in their 20's. They maintain all of their memories and identities, and as far as I can tell - are all reincarnated in bodies that appear similar to their old ones (though obviously younger).
There was no mention of the Sundering in those reviews. My guess anything Sundering related appears toward the end of the book, since it covers such a large time span, and is the first book in the series. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jul 2013 : 15:13:46
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Originally posted by Aldrick
There was no mention of the Sundering in those reviews. My guess anything Sundering related appears toward the end of the book, since it covers such a large time span, and is the first book in the series.
From what I got out of last year's Gencon seminars, the series is not really about the Sundering - its a lead-in. Yes, the Sundering IS taking place somewhere, at some point, but isn't the focus for the story.
Its basically marrying the old FR story concept (small stories about local groups of heroes) to the RSE concept (blow crap up and makes fans buy more books!) The story ties-into to the Sundering, but not directly. Thats how they put it forth last year. I assume some stories will be tied more directly to The Sundering, while others will only get a passing nod (as authors with egos write whatever the hell they want, and just pretend the story is about what they were contracted to write).
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Euranna
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 04 Jul 2013 : 19:24:07
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If you think about it, it is possible that the book coming out in March will also be during the time frame of The Sundering.
The description of The Companions states the beginning of the rumbles of The Sundering.
Markustay is correct. They said that the stories would be dealing with the iconic characters dealing with the current shift and at the end, Ao will re-write the Tablets of Fate. In a sense, I think that will be full hit of The Sundering, so it will be more at the end. Of course, I doubt it will be a snap of the fingers in time for the folks of Toril. |
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Emma Drake
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 04 Jul 2013 : 23:59:13
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Originally posted by Euranna
If you think about it, it is possible that the book coming out in March will also be during the time frame of The Sundering.
The description of The Companions states the beginning of the rumbles of The Sundering.
Markustay is correct. They said that the stories would be dealing with the iconic characters dealing with the current shift and at the end, Ao will re-write the Tablets of Fate. In a sense, I think that will be full hit of The Sundering, so it will be more at the end. Of course, I doubt it will be a snap of the fingers in time for the folks of Toril.
Salvatore always writes his own stories. No doubt this story has been tweaked and shaped somewhat by the Sundering event to come, but I'm guessing that 90% of it is the book Salvatore was planning to write all along.
-- George Krashos
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 05:20:28
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Wulfgar is free to go to the Halls of Tempus. He wasn't a happy guy since he came back from being in Errtu's clutches, so he can be with his god. I've never been a big fan of him, anyway.
But oh, these promises the others make to Mielikki. I wonder what they could be. There is always a catch, ey? I hope it's nothing too serious. |
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 06:40:03
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Mielikki : Hey can you all like make drizzit less broody? Really hard for me to get worshipers, if he keeps going around like an emo elf, fresh in the middle of high school, and just got done listening to an evanescence linkin park , mixed CD. So yeah... cheer him up, and let everyone think he is some bad ass drow and make me a cool goddess to follow me again? Okay?
Wulfgar : Screw you , the man stole my family, woman, and pretty much every reason to live, even replacing me as the son to my dwarven adopted father.
Regis: Yes Ma'am!
Cattibri: I WANT MY HUNK OF BURNING LOVE BACK!!!!*said in stereotype fashion* |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 09:58:40
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| Well, that proves it. Wulfgar's the smart one. |
"Then I saw there was a way to Hell even from the gates of Heaven"
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lordsknight185
Seeker
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 12:23:49
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Originally posted by silverwolfer
Just a small spoiler....Wulfgar, is a dick.
Telling us things we already know is not a "spoiler" |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
3802 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 12:32:37
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Originally posted by Chosen of Asmodeus
Well, that proves it. Wulfgar's the smart one.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 13:14:13
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This thread just made me think of a new group for my own campaign - the Sons of Wulfgar. They are a group of barbarians whose main goal is to find and exterminate any Drow they find.
They are not good guys, and thye are not bad guys. They just have an agenda.
Its pretty sad that by the end of the Companions, instead of everyone making Drizzt happy, he made all of them Emo. Maybe thats what 5eFR will be like - No-one talks; they just stare at each other with angst. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 13:33:18
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Originally posted by Markustay
Its pretty sad that by the end of the Companions, instead of everyone making Drizzt happy, he made all of them Emo. Maybe thats what 5eFR will be like - No-one talks; they just stare at each other with angst.
Do they actually get depressed Oo? |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 18:21:18
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Originally posted by silverwolfer
Mielikki : Hey can you all like make drizzit less broody? Really hard for me to get worshipers, if he keeps going around like an emo elf, fresh in the middle of high school, and just got done listening to an evanescence linkin park , mixed CD. So yeah... cheer him up, and let everyone think he is some bad ass drow and make me a cool goddess to follow me again? Okay?
Wulfgar : Screw you , the man stole my family, woman, and pretty much every reason to live, even replacing me as the son to my dwarven adopted father.
Regis: Yes Ma'am!
Cattibri: I WANT MY HUNK OF BURNING LOVE BACK!!!!*said in stereotype fashion*
BRUENOR: Doo Oi get t'whack some bloody oorrcs? |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 18:22:09
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Originally posted by Markustay
Maybe thats what 5eFR will be like - No-one talks; they just stare at each other with angst.
. . . angstily. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
789 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jul 2013 : 18:54:31
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| No you get a speech therapist . |
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jerrod
Learned Scribe
157 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 03:37:26
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| Drizzt makes ME depressed! I think lolth should send her order of myrlocar after him and put he out of his misery |
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The Compainons *spoilers*
