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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
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 Posted - 23 Sep 2004 : 17:57:19
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Originally posted by tauster
after an hour of joyful rereading "elminster in myth drannor", i found the sentence that i knew existed somewhere within this novel:
EiMD, page 353:
Henceforth, though our realm shall remain Cormanthor, this city shall be known as Myth Drannor, in honor of the Mythal Mythantar shall craft for us, and for Drannor, the first elf of Cormanthor known to have married a dwarven lass, long ago though that may be."
i concluded the following from that quote:
- the word "mythal" does not derive from Mythantar. if it would, mythantar would have named the spell after himself, something i did not read anywhere (or between the lines). imo it is more logical that way, because else there would have been a different name for mythals before mythantar.
- the origin of the "drannor"- part. do we know more of that elf? apart from EiMD i´ve never heard of him.
Thanks for the reminder here. I don't recall there being any other lore or mention of Drannor before or since the EiMD novel. Too bad, really, as I'm seeing his relationship with a dwarven woman being a fantasy medieval version of THE HONEYMOONERS in reverse. 
SES
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 23 Sep 2004 : 20:07:47
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Thanks for the reminder here. I don't recall there being any other lore or mention of Drannor before or since the EiMD novel. Too bad, really, as I'm seeing his relationship with a dwarven woman being a fantasy medieval version of THE HONEYMOONERS in reverse.
SES
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2004 : 08:19:42
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Thanks for the reminder here. I don't recall there being any other lore or mention of Drannor before or since the EiMD novel. Too bad, really, as I'm seeing his relationship with a dwarven woman being a fantasy medieval version of THE HONEYMOONERS in reverse.
SES
Who knows that anything his brain can conjure pales compared to what rattles loose from Ed's graying pate...
So what manner of person would Norton be, in this version of the Honeymooners?
Halfling, without a doubt, given the size of medieval sewers; besides, they're the only race that can make that battered fedora look work on them. 
Steven
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Wooly Rupert
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ChewyGumbal
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Posted - 09 Oct 2004 : 18:04:51
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If the elven cities that have mythals all have "myth" infromt of their name, why isn't Evereska, Myth Evereska besides sounding bad?
Does ne1 know wat Evereskas mythal did b4 the phearim attacked? |
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
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Posted - 09 Oct 2004 : 20:54:12
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Originally posted by ChewyGumbal
If the elven cities that have mythals all have "myth" infromt of their name, why isn't Evereska, Myth Evereska besides sounding bad?
Does ne1 know wat Evereskas mythal did b4 the phearim attacked?
One simple answer/excuse could be that it's not a hard and fast rule and if you want to keep the existence of your mythal secret from outsiders (so's they don't know all your defenses), you don't rename the city when the mythal goes up.
Steven Schend
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cpthero2
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Myth Drannor?
