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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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 Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 01:13:29
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Tried to find another thread about this, but there was only one, and it quickly turned into something else entirely (not even FR related).
So, here's my question: Is this site still occupied?
Also, why 'holme'? Isn't that suffix usually used by dwarves? (and the fact that there is an enormous cave-complex underneath the entire wood gives me all sorts of nifty ideas where that's concerned). 
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BenN
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 04:01:55
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Originally posted by Markustay
So, here's my question: Is this site still occupied?
It is occupied by survivors from the second fall of Myth Drannor. |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 05:27:34
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Originally posted by Markustay
Also, why 'holme'? Isn't that suffix usually used by dwarves? (and the fact that there is an enormous cave-complex underneath the entire wood gives me all sorts of nifty ideas where that's concerned).
"That's not the same as how the Dwarves say '-holme' at all. That's just how N'Tel'Quessir record it. Because their crude ears cannot tell the difference."  |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 05:51:16
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Actually, I was thinking of providing a 'fix' with a little homebrew/fanlore. I was going to tie it to some other 'dwarfy stuff' I have mentally going on around (and under) Cormyr.
IIRC, there is even a fallen dwarf kingdom right there, in the Thunder Peaks.
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Originally posted by Markustay
So, here's my question: Is this site still occupied?
It is occupied by survivors from the second fall of Myth Drannor.
Now I'm even more confused... Myth Drannor re-fell?
Next you're going to tell me the Netherese and Imaskari re-fell... oh... wait... 
What about 1e/2e/ early 3e era? Was it completely abandoned? Was it a ruin, or just 'empty'? I seem to recall something about it from somewhere - maybe the Spellfree novel? I thought there were folks that still guarded it.
So it was completely 'emptied' as part of the Retreat? Or was something else involved? I never read any of the elf novels from late 3e - Myth Drannor was retaken, at least in-part, right? They lost that again? That seems rather pointless.  |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 15:04:56
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| IIRC it was lightly inhabited by Elves before The Elven Crusade to retake Myth Drannor. It was the staging area. I guess after Shade Enclave dropping on Myth Drannor the Elves withdrew to a known secure location in the area. |
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Wrigley
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 20:48:45
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| Before Spellplague it was protected by Deeping Dale's inhabitants who count many half-elves to their numbers and some elven protectors who stayed here by choice. |
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The Masked Mage
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Jan 2017 : 21:35:46
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According to pretty much every source I know of, Semberholme was never entirely abandoned during the Retreat... the reason for this can be traced back to the legends about its significance to Corellon.
I have Semberholme as kind of a more secretive Evereska... the elves are there, but their magic has successfully obscured their presence completely for centuries.
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cpthero2
Great Reader
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Posted - 20 Sep 2020 : 22:04:08
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Explorer Markustay,
I was just looking into some Semberholme material and ran across a canon note that there are agents of the Eldreth Veluuthra that are there as of 1374 DR. Obviously not a "lived" in space as most would think of it, but nonetheless interesting. That was in Champions of Ruin, p. 79.
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