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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
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Posted - 13 Mar 2019 : 21:10:42
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quote: Originally posted by dazzlerdal
I can certainly get behind that as an idea.
I think i still need a black market economy of sorts for evil creatures elsewise an army of evil firbolg would not survive.
Maybe the hallucinations that Thorin experiences in the Hobbit are a fairly decent approximation of what happens to people who accumulate too much gold. I reckon i could create a new monster that lives in the astral or ethereal that is attracted to gold and possesses those nearby (to get them to acquire more gold).
An "Astral Possessing Spirit" sounds cool! It feeds off the accumulated essence of metals maybe... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 14 Mar 2019 : 02:11:09
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quote: Originally posted by dazzlerdal
To have all vaguely intelligent creatures suffer from an attraction to a shiny but otherwise useless material seems a bit too far.
That's because it's not "all vaguely intelligent creatures" and it's not the gold itself that attracts them. It's the wealth -- which happens to be represented by gold, because gold is a beautiful, mostly useless, yet still rare commodity. |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Mar 2019 : 15:02:33
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Coal is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand it can actually filter water in the ground.
On the other if it is exposed to the surface and leaches into drinking water it can be poisonous. |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
Posted - 21 Mar 2019 : 21:38:08
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Had a few thoughts about Synnoria and the Sword of Cymrych Hugh.
So Synnoria is ruled by a matriarch at the moment (according to a novel), but in the past it was ruled by a King Kaminas.
Apparently King Kaminas had a daughter who tried it on with King Deric of the ffolk of Corwell (although i'm twisting that story).
So what happened to the royal family of Synnoria?
Add into the mix is the dwarves in Darkwalker clearly hate the elves and the feeling seems mutual. I get that this is probably just to mirror tolkienesque rivalry but in FR we now need a reason to explain it.
So i came up with a bit of a story. The sword of cymrych hugh was crafted by the dwarves as a gift for the queen of Synnoria when she married Kaminas. At a later date the queen was riding through the Myrloch Vale when she was attacked by Kazgoroth. Horribly injured by the Beast all attempts to heal/revive her failed. The elves blamed this upon the gem used in the pommel of the sword which appears to have drawn her soul into the sword (accounting for the intelligence of the blade and its purpose to slay Kazogoroth), and so the elves hate the dwarves for causing the death of their queen and the dwarves hate the elves because they were blamed unjustly and because the elves were ungrateful about the kingly gift they were given.
Anyway Cymrych Hugh ends up in Synnoria and the sword chooses him as its owner. Kazgoroth is slain and everything works out in the end, except that Kaminas declines of grief and moves onto Evermeet and his daughter runs away from her forced marriage and is lost, thus ending the royal line of Synnoria.
I've also made Anhaern Rhyllgallohyr the twin sister of the queen and she possesses a sister blade to the Sword of Cymrych Hugh (although it is not enchanted or intelligent). Also decided that the Sisters of Synnoria would be established during/after the war with kazgoroth and so Anhaern is the first captain of the sisters and fought with Cymrych Hugh against Kazgoroth.
Gives a bit more backstory to existing NPCs and magic items and is my attempt at explaining a few things in the novels. |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Mar 2019 : 09:36:36
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Randomly musing again, this time about king durnhal and queen Morgan being pursued by Prince ketheryll.
I decided a while ago that it would be a sovereignty dispute between the high kingdom of the Moonshaes and the kingdom of corwell.
I've rewritten history a bit since I figured kings aren't just declared by default, events actually happen to unite an entire people and that someone declares themself king. This happened for the island of Gwynneth and Alaron at the same time when cymrych hugh became high king.
So how then does a kingdom of corwell evolve independently of the high kingdom. I figure that power would be devolved first with the rykers being declared regents and they rule Gwynneth in cymrych hugh name so that he doesn't have to micromanage both callidyrr and Gwynneth.
Then at some point the people of Gwynneth would want their own king for prestige and because other islands have one (moray). When the high king fights back against the northmen the clans agree but only if they can appoint a king of their own (who is still a vassal of the high king).
This we now have a king of the ffolk on Gwynneth. This causes problems when high king gwylloch moves the capital of the high kingdom to llyrath on Gwynneth as he builds the castle of skulls. Issues over sovereignty eventually result in king durnhal and queen Morgan being accused of treason and the crown Prince hunting down the entire Ryker clan.
I've got a little event where king durnhal and queen Morgan take refuge on corlyths hill and crown Prince ketheryll is unable to hurt them (thanks to the magic of the guardian - caoimhin which the ffolk corrupted to corlyth). This provides an origin to the wayfire tradition and is also the start of the settlement of corwell (until this point the ffolk of Gwynneth had been steadily moving west from Cantrev kingsbay so Cantrev corwell wasn't founded yet.
A few years after the disappearance of g The castle of skulls, the ffolk of Gwynneth declare a new king (and dynasty) and he founds the kingdom of corwell with a new capital at Cantrev corwell (Well away from Alaron). The new king immediately swears fealty to the high king.
So I'm thinking of a new organisation, something like Morgan's Wall, which has a number of clans of central corwell (away from Cantrev kingsbay) that is staunchly opposed to the refounding of the high kingdom and also hates any alliance with the northmen (blaming the failure of the high kingdom for the ffolk ceding all claim on the northmen isles) |
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2019 : 23:17:47
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Found an obscure reference: "A fourth may lie in the depths of the Korinn Archipelago, and a fifth is said to be in the northwestern reaches of Anauroch." See Lost Empires of Faerun, page 108. |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2065 Posts |
Posted - 08 Apr 2019 : 23:41:27
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quote: Originally posted by Gary Dallison
Added in some more dates for synnoria and defined more how it progressed from a monarchy to a theocracy.
Basically kaminas was king and his daughter herene was in love with deric. They were forbidden from marrying and synnoria was sealed with magic to keep them apart. Deric dies and centuries later herene is forced to marry Ridinlahr who then becomes a Lord and consort of herene (like Prince Albert is consort of queen elizabeth). Herene dies of a broken heart, childless. Kaminas goes to evermeet and Ridinlahr is left as Lord of synnoria. He falls in love with belshareen and makes the harp for her. She dies and he then leaves for evermeet as well (I like the irony of repeating fates).
This synnoria is left without an heir and so the high priest of the temple becomes ruler.
I used Eric's advice for utilising existing characters. Ridinlahr was a Lord of the llewyrr, so the question was how did he get to be one. Then synnoria becomes a theocracy of sorts and so how did the royal line die out. We know kaminas had a daughter and the druidhome novels say that herene died childless so I made Ridinlahr a consort and thus rule could pass to him on herenes death and his fate is already sealed.
Hopefully ties up a few loose ends
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
6350 Posts |
Posted - 09 Apr 2019 : 21:02:32
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Another odd thing in Halls of the High King.
quote: Old Taunn, a netmender of Aithelar, has breathed his last. He was buried at sea yestereve. Xmnn is said to be the last of The Company of the Red Sword, an adventuring group that retired to the Moonshaes some forty-six summers ago when the Sword Coast lands (particularly Tethyr) grew too hot for their comfort. The Company hid a great treasure#151;gold, gems, carved ivory and jade statuettes, pearls, and magic, too!#151;somewhere on the Isles and never touched a copper piece of it as one by one they grew old and died. No one knows the horde#146;s resting-place now, but local lore has always held it to be somewhere underground near Aithelar. Taunn never spoke of the treasure during his gray years, despite the prodding of his greedy coworkers. But on his deathbed he muttered, #147;The princess#146;ll never wear her armor now!#148; These words are thought to apply to a winged suit of magical field plate armor of exquisite design, silverplated and chased into flattering curves, made for a princess of the Lantanna almost ninety years ago. The armor gave the wearer the power of flight, reflected back many spells (including magic missiles, and had gauntlets that could hurl balls of flame in battle! The Company stole the armor with the princess in it; neither she nor the armor were seen again. Some Ffolk believe the princess herself, one Lhysstyliir, still dwells somewhere on the Moonshaes, aged and bearing another name. Some even say she will come to fight for the Isles in a time of great need, wielding the awesome powers of her armor. The Lantanna have no princesses now; their noble families long ago renounced their titles and opened the ranks of their governing Council to all citizens.
Its very odd in its specificity, 46 summers ago (from 1357 DR presumably, the adventuring company fled to the Moonshae Isles from Tethyr. Now in 1319 DR the ten black days of Eleint happened so in the years prior to that there may have been some trouble in the region. the only other Tethyr related event i have is in 1295 DR where King Jaszur of Tethyr is slain and all the crown jewels are stolen.
Now the adventuring company are supposed to have stolen a princess from Lantan at some point, and her plate mail suit (which was made 90 years ago. Presumably the plate mail suit was made to fit the adult her so that puts the princess at least 108 years old in 1357 DR. The princes is supposed to still be around and fabled to ride to Moonshaes rescue but somehow became separated from Old Yaunn and the suit of plate mail.
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
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ElfBane
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 11 Apr 2019 : 11:46:50
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I've found a genealogy of the Moonshaes High Kings (don't remember where I found it though, it's not from the GHotR). But does anyone know of a genealogy of the kings of Corwell/Gwynneth?? Thanks! |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 11 Apr 2019 : 22:53:20
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Well, They're not really "royal" lineages, are they? They are local lords running their feifdoms. It would be the same as tracking the family lines of the Silver noble families of Cormyr. Useful to the chasers of the obscure, but not particularly necessary. Gary, why don't you list the actual 'royal' lineage here for all to see?
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Gary Dallison
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