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| Kilvan |
Posted - 20 May 2025 : 15:14:03
Hey all, I'm putting together lore and timeline of the Shining Lands for my campaign, and I'm struggling to find some details, most notably the date when Veldorn was invaded by monsters, that gnomes call "The Storm of CLaws and Fangs".
According to Ed in his Veldorn video, a portal opened by a wizard named Queldress Irkhaladar was the cause of the influx of monsters, that proceeded to destroy everything in Veldorn and then turned on each others. That event would become the start of what we now know as Veldorn the Land of Monsters or the Beastlands. I just cannot find the date when that happened.
I know that in 127DR, Veldorn stablished formal trade relations with Durpar, so it has to be after that. Then in 143DR-147DR, Beholders took over multiple Durpari cities. So I'm guessing the portal was opened, or at least when the combined monsters that came out descended on Veldorn, was in the 15-20 years period in between. Unless the Beholders who attacked Durpar had nothing to do with the portal and it is a coincidence, but it seems unlikely. Just having a confirmation that it was in that period would already clear things up.
Side note, in the same video Ed refers to the vampire Saed, the Beast-Chieftain who kept peace between the beasts tribes, as an Imaskari wizard, while the Shining South sourcebook say he was a merchant from Turelve turned into a vampire slave in a pact with Shar for immortality. Those two things are conflicting almost directly, because if Saed WAS a former Imaskari wizard he would have been thousands of years old and probably wouldn't have sought immortality in some pact with a vampire and tricked into becoming a slave.
Thanks!
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 01 Aug 2025 : 12:35:30
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Originally posted by TBeholder
Or the second one is an impostor who took the name of a deceased high-up along with his status (whether after killing him personally or not). Many such cases.
Nah, that's his real name... the fake thing is the stories about a wandering Imaskari mage, from whom he was named because his mother loved the stories. The stories themselves were created and used as an excuse by those who governed Unther, Telflamm, what would become Chessenta, and the eastern Shaar. They were used to explain away excessive abuse by their own personnel by blaming them on "Saed the Imaskari Mage, who wanders the countryside hunting beasts for their magical material uses, and generally causing trouble", but the stories were given extra angst and "Saed the Imaskari Mage, the last surviving Theurgist Adept" over time was turned into an obsessive lover whose relationships always failed. |
| TBeholder |
Posted - 31 Jul 2025 : 08:43:50
Or the second one is an impostor who took the name of a deceased high-up along with his status (whether after killing him personally or not). Many such cases. |
| polytrack |
Posted - 31 Jul 2025 : 07:52:54
Saed was once an Imaskari sorcerer, but after centuries of hopeless wandering following the fall of Imaskar, he became a merchant in Turelve to conceal his identity. |
| Kilvan |
Posted - 20 May 2025 : 17:17:06
I did, no luck |
| EltonRobb |
Posted - 20 May 2025 : 15:29:37
Did you try the Grand History of the Realms? |
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