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CTrunks
Acolyte
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 Posted - 03 May 2016 : 07:08:51
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Originally posted by Irennan
I appreciated the discussion and your contribution in trying to reconcile the lore in Archmage with previous faerzress lore, but I still have a few doubts.
Hey, that's fine, even I've got doubts on this one. And discussing this sort of thing is honestly kinda fun for me, since I'm not sure we'll ever get an answer, and a fan theory is better than a resigned shrug, ya know?
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Liriel's rune borught faerzress magic on the surface, that I know. Drow had no problem using Weave/divine magic there, before she did.
Oh, I don't deny that I may have interpreted her motivation for creating the rune to be more than just retaining their innate abilities. Although... I'm not sure if it completely shoots it in the knee, or just kicks it really hard; we only know the drow can bring their magic to the surface, not if faerzress can survive exposure to sunlight.
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The Faerzress being used as a battery seems counterintuitive to me, given that--according to what's been said in Archmage--the radiation is acting like a planar barrier. If it was used as a battery, then why wouldn't the summoning work on the surface, differently from other faerzress-based magic?
I fully admit, this is the weakest part of my theory, and the part I'm least... confident on. I'd have to honestly sit back and think on it.
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Originally posted by sno4wy
Is this the part where we put our faces in our hands and sob quietly?
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Merrith
Learned Scribe
135 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2016 : 19:22:22
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Originally posted by Tanthalas
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Originally posted by Sothron
3. This is how Tiago goes out? Really? This guy has been built up over how many books now just to go out like that? Pshaw. What a complete waste of a character. This fight lasted I think 3 pages in the book? And it ended up like, to borrow a pro wrestling meme, LOL CENA er DRIZZT WINS! where the good guy takes all the damage, gets his ass kinda handed to him but somehow makes one move at the very end and that's the end of the match folks. Unreal.
I disagree. Tiago had already been defeated by Drizzt more than once and had long outlived his usefulness to the story.
And I honestly don't think Tiago was handing Drizzt his ass, quite the contrary, I think Drizzt orchestrated the whole ending of the fighting. It was pretty awesome.
This. The ship on Tiago being interesting had long since sailed, his early brashness towards the established power players of Menzo (Jarlaxle, Gromph, etc) and even the Matron Mothers at times had been beaten down lately to remind him of his place, along with the constant reminders to him that his obsession with Drizzt was not only stupid, but likely to end up in his death, which it did, and in a way I enjoyed immensely. |
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Mirtek
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 16 May 2016 : 23:26:56
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
The Shades had at least three active flying enclaves, at one point. In addition to Shade proper and Sakkors, there was a third enclave, mentioned in the Neverwinter campaign book. The name escapes me at the moment; there was not much info on that enclave, other than that it was parked neared Thay and was basically a flying siege engine.
I think the one attacking Thay was more like a big flying fortress than a full enclave |
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sno4wy
Senior Scribe
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 29 May 2016 : 22:31:26
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While this may be an attempt at keeping continuity, it does open possibilites for more development, and it raises a lot of questions (like: when did the Shadovar get so many enclaves, are they older Netherese cities that have been restored, or other surviving Netherese enclaves. What are the 40 surviving cities going to do now? Etc...). Hopefully, Ed was teasing something that we'll see some of the books that he's going to publish through the DMG. That said, there is just so much stuff in Ed's Realms that we never got to see (although he does insert tidbits of lore in his novels), these 40 cities could very well be part of it.
In either case, thanks for sharing, sno4wy! |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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He better not!( MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR MAESTRO HERE)
