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Gary Dallison
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George Krashos
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 Posted - 27 Oct 2019 : 12:44:41
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Originally posted by Gary Dallison
I think you and George may have added a few dates in there, or I am misremembering my GHoTR.
My bad about the founding date. The north-south migration in a sourcebook probably founded ruathym first. Then the land migration detailed by Ed in his thread probably founded illusk and kept going to ruathym. Then George's south to north migration could have come at an earlier or later date (it was a lot longer).
I'm glad I didn't miss any other dates though, I still see no activity from ruathym until a few thousand years later to settle the nearby islands which definitely needs a reason to justify the isolation and inactivity of a bunch of supposed seafaring nomads.
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
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Posted - 27 Oct 2019 : 17:41:42
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This is what I have for a sidebar in Crown of Eaerlann. Note, I'm still debating whether to keep the language around the Host Tower or not. Arguably it contradicts existing lore.
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Arakhora
“Arakhor” is an Elven term that translates loosely as "one who protects the forest," or "tree warden." Akin in some respects to nature elementals, the arakhora drew life, energy, and intelligence from the forest in which they dwelt and gave back a forest's energy by serving as a caretaker and guardian. Writings preserved from the height of Aryvandaar by the church of Labelas Enoreth suggest that the arakhora were a form of elder treant, perhaps the progenitors of the treant race in its modern form. The last known living arakhor is the Grandfather Tree, located in the northwestern reaches of the High Forest. Aside from the arakhor stump on the western bank of the Unicorn Run, the only other known arakhor, living or dead, is the petrified arakhor that has been transformed into the Hostower of the Arcane in Luskan. (Other sources indicate that it is nothing of the sort, but is a dwarf-built edifice.) The legendary giant king, Tark of Thundercloud Keep, is said to have felled the arakhor by the Unicorn Run after his cloud castle got tangled in the arakhor’s upper branches.
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Gary Dallison
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ericlboyd
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Posted - 27 Oct 2019 : 19:35:17
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As for how they work, look at spirit of the land in MM2, page 189. The way I wrote it up is that the Grandfather Tree can create an advanced 60 HD spirit of the land at will (one at a time).
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Gary Dallison
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sleyvas
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Posted - 27 Oct 2019 : 22:27:05
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Hmmm, I hadn't really thought about grandfather tree being a portal nexus, but yeah, I guess it would fit. I also like Eric's assumption that it works like a spirit of the land from the 3e monster manual 2. It might be interesting if it could give the woodling template to any being that does something …. maybe since Yggdrasil's Child is about runes being put on it, maybe if someone carves their name in its trunk they can take on the woodling template (carving their name requiring some special tools, possibly attuned to them via some odd process).
On the idea of their having been a similar tree on the unicorn run that was cut down.... maybe this wood was used by Netherese in construction of portals and other magic items. A similar tree down in the Yuirwood makes sense to me as well, given that there are known to be gates there as well (via their menhir circles, but perhaps these circles are drawing upon the power of a hidden tree). Maybe another down near durpar/Ulgarth in the Ajmer Forest which might explain the Viking type influences in said area (i.e. norse temples nearby, Ulgarth nearby and maybe the "northmen" that came down to the Utter East were pursuing rumors of some sort tied to a tree similar to the one in Ruathym). In fact, if there was a tree in the Ajmer and it had been harvested from and used to construct the portal that the Arkaiun came through and the portal in Shandalaur in Ashanath that the Rus came through... maybe that can fit with its malfunctioning. The people that inhabit Ulgarth are probably at least partly drawn from the Illuskan bloodlines that came through and were raiding Mulhorand for a while as well. |
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ericlboyd
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Reimagining Ruathym
