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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
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 Posted - 03 Feb 2014 : 20:32:22
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I find this in "Netheril: Empire of Magic" p.8:
" ... owl bears, creatures given existence by the Creator Races
thousands of years ago."
Any mention anywhere else ?
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11711 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2014 : 22:26:00
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| there was this really really horny bear.... and this poor owl... and a spool of duct tape. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Feb 2014 : 12:10:27
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Old Owl Well was named in honour of the Caravan War where scouts working for the Terraseer killed the local population of Owlbears.
I always thought that owlbears were the creations of mortal wizards...guess that's not the case in the FR. |
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_Jarlaxle_
Senior Scribe
Germany
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1600 Posts |
Posted - 04 Feb 2014 : 17:41:58
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As the sage Tony diTerlizzi reveals:
http://diterlizzi.com/home/owlbears-rust-monsters-and-bulettes-oh-my/
So owlbears were created by a wu jen from Kara-Tur (Hong Kong) who wanted to have dinosaurs that looked like beaked bears, or who wanted to develop bears with nightvision abilities!
On a more serious note, I think I read somewhere that one of the creator races - the batrach or the sarrukh, but I think the later - experimented with mixing animals, and were the creator of creatures like owlbears or pegasus. Is that right, fellow sages? I'm not sure if this information is canonized (in Serpent Kingdoms, maybe?) or not (in one of the Candlekeep tomes?).  |
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Edited by - Barastir on 05 Feb 2014 15:53:42 |
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Newt
Acolyte
Australia
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Posted - 06 Feb 2014 : 06:42:04
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| Maybe they were created by the Aearee, the other creator race. If you wanted to create a powerful guard you would start with something like a bear as your base chassis. Those teeth were probably off-putting so they gave it a beak to give it a less hostile face. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 Feb 2014 : 16:28:05
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Originally posted by Newt
Maybe they were created by the Aearee, the other creator race. If you wanted to create a powerful guard you would start with something like a bear as your base chassis. Those teeth were probably off-putting so they gave it a beak to give it a less hostile face.
Or only the winged variant was their idea, and then someone said - "hey, those things are awfully overweight to fly far anyway, but low-light vision and somewhat better brains alone are useful traits for a guardian monster", and derived/repeated with the simplified common version. |
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
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Posted - 07 Feb 2014 : 10:02:00
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Originally posted by TBeholder
Or only the winged variant was their idea, (...) and derived/repeated with the simplified common version.
Or the commoner version was an earlier experiment that worked very well, or that escaped and for some reason did better than the winged version (maybe the winged ones were heavily eliminated by dragons, afterwards). But I don't remember the aearee being widely known as the ones that made experiments mixing animals. Not that they couldn't make one or two of their own experiments, of course! 
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"Goodness is not a natural state, but must be
fought for to be attained and maintained.
Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."
The Paladin's Virtues, excerpt from the "Quentin's Monograph"
(by Ed Greenwood) |
Edited by - Barastir on 07 Feb 2014 15:41:18 |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 09 Feb 2014 : 22:54:34
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In the Cormyr series there is mention of a (now presumably extinct) 'giant owlbear'. I would assume you'd simply attach the Dire template to the normal one. They looked pretty-much like the regular ones, but were around 12' tall. The humans expanding into the area caused them to disappear (although in the novel, it was a group of elves fighting one).
There were also small 'forest roth' at that time, which also vanished. My assumption with those is that they still survive, but as an off-shot - those are the small underdark variants, taken in the Night below long ago. It may have even been a massive raiding pogrom by Drow that wiped the populations out.
When you do maps, you also get a feel for the flora and fauna that were part of Realms history. |
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