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mhamza
Seeker
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 Posted - 04 Sep 2014 : 01:09:08
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I don't know about you guys but I always found sorcerers more interesting than wizards, especially since their magic is tied to their blood. Anyhow, besides The Simbul and Storm Silverhand are there any other famous sorcerers in the realms, and if so are there any novels that focus on them?
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Edited by - mhamza on 04 Sep 2014 01:17:55
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 04 Sep 2014 : 04:42:53
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Going from memory...
There is the curious case of Ravendas. The 1998 Villains' Lorebook lists Ravendas as "Fighter." But she's referred to as a sorceress back in 1994's Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast. Either Volo got it wrong, the details in the Villains' Lorebook are wrong [possible, given the fact that Crypt of the Shadowking was written in 1993], or she's capable of both. But I suppose this would be an instance of newer lore trumping old.
Ed's "Wyrms of the North" article for Miirym refers to an Archsorcerer Torth.
The "Derlusk" write-up in Border Kingdoms articles published in both POLYHEDRON and on the WotC site, reference Jonsra Burunmere, former stablemaid, "now ArchSorceress Supreme of the island realm of Shamandra." |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 05 Sep 2014 : 01:53:49
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Mmm, sorcerers as a specific class are basically a 3E invention. (Dismissing any so-called sorcerer class suggestions in Dragon, etc, since they were entirely different and unrelated.) I am hesitant to apply 3E-onwards sorcerer class specifics to every pre-3E character who happened to have some variant of the word *sorcerer* in his moniker.
Even ancient modules had sorcerer NPCs - invariably just magic-users, illusionists, mages, or other specialists who definitely used the wizard ruleset. Yulash the Sorcerer, of Sorcerers Isle, in the AD&D1E FRC1 Ruins of Adventure (aka Pool of Radiance) module is a fine example of this.
I suppose one could (perhaps even should) treat such characters as proper sorcerers if revisiting these old adventures with post-2E rules. But at the time they were basically just wizards with pompous, exotic, or threatening titles. |
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Famous Sorcerers in the realms?
