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Lord Rad
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Posted - 08 Jan 2003 :  11:22:55  Show Profile  Visit Lord Rad's Homepage Send Lord Rad a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Ok, im currently reading The Sorcerer, and so far on three occasions, people have been refered to as resembling the looks and mannerisms etc. of a thkaerth! Ive never heard of this, and I dont have any monster compendiums or anything to hand to check up on it, does anyone know what is it and where i can find the details?

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kahonen
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Posted - 08 Jan 2003 :  20:24:05  Show Profile  Visit kahonen's Homepage Send kahonen a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rad

Ok, im currently reading The Sorcerer, and so far on three occasions, people have been refered to as resembling the looks and mannerisms etc. of a thkaerth! Ive never heard of this, and I dont have any monster compendiums or anything to hand to check up on it, does anyone know what is it and where i can find the details?

I've just done a search of all of the 2nd and 3rd edition core rules and some of the supplements (Magic of Faerun etc) and can't find it. Sorry I couldn't be of more help
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zemd
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Posted - 08 Jan 2003 :  21:16:09  Show Profile Send zemd a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Exactly the same for me!
Sorry
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Lord Rad
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Posted - 08 Jan 2003 :  23:01:36  Show Profile  Visit Lord Rad's Homepage Send Lord Rad a Private Message  Reply with Quote
hmmmmm strange! Maybe the author, Troy Denning can help out with this one?

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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
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Posted - 09 Jan 2003 :  09:55:23  Show Profile Send Mumadar Ibn Huzal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Not sure if it is mentioned, let alone explained in there, but has anyone checked the Realms of Shadow anthology to see if there might be something in there...?
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Thomas M. Reid
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Posted - 09 Jan 2003 :  23:40:25  Show Profile  Visit Thomas M. Reid's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi, all.

At Rad's request, I got in touch with Troy Denning and posed the question to him. Here's what he had to say:

"I don't remember where I picked this term up--probably an old game product set in the North--but I THINK a thkaerth is a very large, very woolly herd beast used by elves for both meat and wool. I tend to picture a cross between a goat and a buffalo."

So there you go, for what it's worth. Hope this helps!

Thomas

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Lord Rad
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Posted - 10 Jan 2003 :  08:31:32  Show Profile  Visit Lord Rad's Homepage Send Lord Rad a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Excellent! Thanks Thomas (and Troy). Thats exactly how I imagined it, especially as the creatures looks were compared to Khul, a Vaasan

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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
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Posted - 21 Jan 2003 :  13:52:40  Show Profile Send Mumadar Ibn Huzal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
A nice new addition for a revised Monsters of Faerun book... which ought to be published in the same layout as the other FR books... There's still several creatures missing... I haven't seen the cooshee yet for example.
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Arion Elenim
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Posted - 21 Jan 2003 :  19:46:08  Show Profile  Visit Arion Elenim's Homepage Send Arion Elenim a Private Message  Reply with Quote
..uhm....so basically, it's a rothe'?

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ericlboyd
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Posted - 12 Apr 2019 :  19:19:40  Show Profile  Visit ericlboyd's Homepage Send ericlboyd a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Arion Elenim

..uhm....so basically, it's a rothe'?



Email from Ed confirms:

"It's the name, in one of the barbarian tribe dialects, of surface rothe. It would be unusual for that dialect term to pass into wider usage, but quite possible, if herds were sold at markets in the North, butchered and hung/smoked, then salted and shipped, for the merchants doing so got the name for the beast they'd sampled, liked, and bought a herd of from the right seller."

My guess is the tribe would be the human barbarians of the Greycloak Hills.

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Dalor Darden
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Posted - 13 Apr 2019 :  00:03:52  Show Profile Send Dalor Darden a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Man...plugging away at that High Forest jam aren't you Eric. ;-)

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AJA
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Posted - 13 Apr 2019 :  00:48:59  Show Profile Send AJA a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I know one thing; a thkaerth is not a thareea. Even though they probably share the same color. And smell. And even though a thkaerth could probably be used as a thareea in a pinch.

Also [ moving along... ], speaking of barbarian dialects and names for rothé, Ed gave up another in a 2010 reply to the boards about his original Uthgardt barbarians;
"....to stay near herds of "oroths" (musk oxen), "garauthae" (rothe) and "halagar" (stags, caribou, reindeer; the barbarians knew there were different sorts of hooved and antlered beasts, but didn't have different names for them)...."


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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 13 Apr 2019 :  04:28:40  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I don't know about anyone else, but I do not like the word thkaerth. It doesn't flow off the tongue.

It sounds almost like someone with a lisp saying "scarce."

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AJA
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Posted - 13 Apr 2019 :  04:51:18  Show Profile Send AJA a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I've got the "Th" as "tuh," as in "tough." And KAERTH, with the hard "k" sound of "Care."

Quickly followed by "Aerth," like Gary Gygax would pronounce one of his alternate Oerths.


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