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Gelcur
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Posted - 13 Apr 2021 :  02:59:55  Show Profile  Visit Gelcur's Homepage Send Gelcur a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
I'm looking for demonyms and the adjectival forms for the Sword Coast, the Sword Coast North, and the Western Heartlands. I see they are separated into political areas in the 3E Political Region Map. I'm guessing like in our world someone or thing could have "layers", for example American and Californian.

I know within these regions there are names for say someone from Baldur's Gate, Baldurian. I vaguely remember there is a least one case in the Realms that the people and things from a region have different names.

At the end of the day I'm looking for catch all terms that NPCs might use to refer to a larger swath of people or goods from those regions.

The party come to a town befallen by hysteria

Rogue: So what's in the general store?
DM: What are you looking for?
Rogue: Whatevers in the store.
DM: Like what?
Rogue: Everything.
DM: There is a lot of stuff.
Rogue: Is there a cart outside?
DM: (rolls) Yes.
Rogue: We'll take it all, we may need it for the greater good.

The Arcanamach
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Posted - 14 Apr 2021 :  04:30:10  Show Profile Send The Arcanamach a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The 2e product Forgotten Realms Adventures has some of what you're looking for, though only a small portion of it is the Sword Coast.

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see
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Posted - 14 Apr 2021 :  07:25:54  Show Profile Send see a Private Message  Reply with Quote
If you mean those three regions as large swathes, I don't know of any. You could perhaps ask Ed Greenwood.
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Ayrik
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Posted - 14 Apr 2021 :  08:00:49  Show Profile Send Ayrik a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The North and The Savage Lands seemed to get conflated a lot in 2E. I still don't understand whether they're overlapping parts of each other or not, lol.

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TBeholder
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Posted - 14 Apr 2021 :  16:06:32  Show Profile Send TBeholder a Private Message  Reply with Quote
See the scroll Candlekeep Forum - Proper Adjectives of the Realms.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 14 Apr 2021 :  19:48:05  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by TBeholder

See the scroll Candlekeep Forum - Proper Adjectives of the Realms.



I was about to go looking for that one, myself, in response to this discussion.

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George Krashos
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Posted - 15 Apr 2021 :  00:37:34  Show Profile Send George Krashos a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The people of Impiltur are called Impilturians (although they have regional monikers that are used internally). Goods and other inanimate objects hailing from that kingdom are described as Impilturan.

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