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Razz
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 12 Jul 2008 : 15:53:19
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One of the silly things WotC had such a problem with in 3rd Edition was redundancy. We have two planetouched races that are both humans with ancestry from natives of the Plane of Shadow. The Gloaming and the Shadowswyft. The difference being one is a native to the Plane of Shadow and the other to the Material Plane.
So my question is, why is WotC always so vague about the types of ancestry such races have? What creature native to the Plane of Shadow spawned the gloamings? I am guessing maybe humanoids with the Dark or Shadow template. But then, how is a Shadowswyft produced and how is a Gloaming produced? And why such vast physical differences?
The Shadowswyft physical appearance actually generally works, but the Gloamings appeareance look so alien and specific, as if their ancestor were an actual moth-like, humanoid, glowing native species of the Plane of Shadow.
The way I have it in my Realms games, Shadowswyfts are "shade-touched". As in they carry the bloodline of someone who was a Shade from the City of Shade. So we have Netherese humans (majority), Shadowswyft (uncommon), and Shades (rare) as occupants of the City of Shade.
But I am curious to the gloamings ancestry. Any idea what it could be or what to say it was?
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Lady Fellshot
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 12 Jul 2008 : 20:01:28
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| Well, You could make them more specific to the Underdark and say that gloamings have a Gloura somewhere in the bloodline, or that they might be half gloura. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 15 Jul 2008 : 02:29:54
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There were also three Shadow-touched templates in Dragon #322 (along with another Shadow-race, the Dark Ones, which was split further into two sub-groups).
There was a great write-up of a city for the Plane of Shadow in there - the City of Lanterns. Definately a good issue, and I usually hate Shadowcrap.
Now that the Shadar-Kai are human (they were Elves, then Fey), they appear to be the race that the Shades are part of (don't ask), and are yet another race living in the Shadowfel.
Amazing what a busy place shadow has become over the years. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 15 Jul 2008 : 02:42:17
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Originally posted by Markustay
Amazing what a busy place shadow has become over the years.
It's so kewl and awesome sauce that everyone has been migrating there! 
Wait until you see what they have planned for Shadowdale... |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 15 Jul 2008 : 10:44:00
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| I don't think there's a single race from where they could trace their ancestry, maybe bezekira tieflings |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 15 Jul 2008 : 21:25:34
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Wait until you see what they have planned for Shadowdale...
OH! Dear god no.....  |
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Gloaming ancestry?
