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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 03 Jul 2014 : 12:07:10
Does anyone know any details of these artefacts, such as their names, their history, their origin, their powers. Or are they just unnamed artefacts there purely to allow Iakhovas to do whatever the novel writer wanted at the time.
I'm trying to rationalise Iakhovas' actions during the Seros war but all i keep coming across is he really wanted to get this artefact or that artefact and he used one to blow up a wall or knock down a tower etc. Its not terribly forthcoming on details so i cant really understand why Iakhovas bothered with the war in the first place.
Also how come he started in the Trackless Sea and then moved into the Sea of Fallen Stars supposedly to find these ancient artefacts from the dawn of time, but of course the Sea of Fallen Stars was not one sea way back when until the Tearfall and i'm pretty sure his backstory has him wander the oceans of Toril and not a large sea at the center of one continent so why would his artefacts be in the Sea of Fallen Stars.
I'm wondering if it should not have been done the other way around. Iakhovas started in the Sea of Fallen Stars and wanted to escape into the oceans so he could wreak unlimited havoc there. |
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| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 03 Jul 2014 : 15:52:21
Hmmm, i would have thought Iakhovas and Umberlee would have been involved and at war much earlier such as during the batrachi empires (given that batrachi originally came from the sea and those two are heavily sea based), plus their conflict isnt mentioned anywhere else so it would have to be really ancient.
It also doesnt seem that Umberlee did very well to hide these artefacts. It sounds like they were all hidden in the sea, when she could have had an ally stash them on land somewhere so that a sea based creature would have difficulty getting them.
I think i might reorganise events a bit and have Iakhovas brought to the Sea of Fallen Stars with the Shalarin by accident (which would have to happen a bit earlier than normal). Of course in my world the Shalarin come from their own world (as was eluded to several times in the various sourcebooks before it was decided they came from the other side of Toril), and for me that world is Abeir. So i will be having Iakhovas and Umberlee having a fallout before the Tearfall and he happens to be removed to Abeir while she remains on Toril.
Dagon we know set up the Wildtide Gate to abduct the Shalarin so i will have Iakhovas accidentally trigger it early by attacking the Shalarin on Abeir. They all get dumped into the Sea of Fallen Stars in 1368, Iakhovas attacks the Sharksbane Wall from the Seros side and everything continues according to the main timeline from there (except for the unnamed artefacts).
Iakhovas is of course looking for a means to escape Seros and get out to the ocean (Dagon can be helping him). So Iakhovas allies himself with the evil races and eventually heads for Myth Nantar (where he knows there is a way for him to be banished from Seros). He lets them perform their ritual and poof he is free.
As an aside it looks like some arch wizard named Pythan trapped and bound a bunch of great evils in the depths of Seros (in the trenches), so taking a bit of a leap i think Dagon is actually trapped in the bottom of the Trench of Lopok or maybe a portal to his home plane is bound shut so he cant get through to Seros. Myth Nantar could have been built on a previous settlement which had its own mythal/mantle that was where Pythan performed the ritual to bind the creatures in the first place. By reversing the ritual to banish Iakhovas they release Dagon (i always like having unintended consequences to super powerful displays of magic).
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| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 03 Jul 2014 : 13:09:02
I don't think any of his items were ever named or the totality of their powers explained. As far as I'm aware, all of the artefacts were stolen from mages of various contemporary cultures (I'm guessing mostly elves, but also giants and dragons perhaps?) before Iakhovas attempted to attack Umberlee shortly after the end of the War of Three Leaves. It was then Umberlee who scattered them precisely so that it would be harder for them to be gathered together again. |
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