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Originally posted by Lukas Kain

Ahh, that makes a lot sense. I thought since you don't read too much about Impilturan graveyards except for Halls that dead kings are buried in that they must be doing something else with the dead. So would the services be largely based on the prevailing church of the city/region, or does the Triad have some collective program?
I've just begun reading your newest article George, and it's already very interesting.

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Originally posted by kysus

I just finished reading the article, alot of good and interesting stuff in there. with all these lore tidbits in there will you pursue any expansions on some of the lore you wrote in the article for candlekeep or the dmsguild? I ask because i see alot of potential new articles that could be derived from the lore in this article that i'm sure many of the scribes here would be interested in seeing.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

So then George. Im loving the origin for the magic surrounding the forests of cormyr.

I do have a question that im wondering if you had already thought about. Im pretty sure after some discussions with scribes at the keep, that thauglor was said to have a link to the magic of the land. Does that then mean that Thauglor has sired a child with an Obaskyr and thus become part of this magic that preserves their vitality.

It would be a delicious irony if thauglor lost control of the land to the elves only to then steal it back by impregnating one of the obaskyrs the elves bequeethed it to.

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Hi again, all. I bring you Ed's response to Wooly Rupert, re. this: "It was suggested that I bring this idea to Ed...
Hypothetically speaking, what do you think would happen if a half-dragon descended from Thauglor popped up in Cormyr? If this half-dragon tried to make a claim on the throne, how would everyone (commoners, nobles, royals, Vangey) react? Even more, what if this half-dragon was descended from Thauglor on one side and Azoun IV on the other?
Or how about a descendant of Iliphar?"
Ed replies:


Hi, Wooly. I have to be careful what I say here, due to two outstanding NDAs (which, yes, should lead everyone to suspect that this is a topic that has already been considered amongst Realms creatives). The short answer to all four of these queries is that reactions would be 'all over the map,' so to speak.
Vangey (or his successors) are primarily concerned with the stability of the Dragon Throne. HOW they will guard the throne depends on who it is doing the guarding (Vangey or Caladnei or . . .), what the situation is in the kingdom, and what events unfold.
There will always be nobles who will fiercely oppose any non-pureblood-human vying for the throne, and fight one who seizes it. Then again, there will always be nobles who seize on any pretender, potential usurper, or rival claimant to the current holder of the throne, and advance this challenge to the reigning monarch or regent, for reasons of personal gain, or to "reform" the realm, or for other reasons specific to them.
Individual Obarskyrs will have a wide variety of reactions to any rival/newcomer (but will tend to resist "bastards" in favor of the kin they know, except as pawns/allies against specific kin they hate or fear, because there are SO many bastards around already, and they would rather support and work with bastards they know well, and personally like. War Wizards and many senior-in-years nobles will react in the same way, and for the same reasons . . . but it's important to remember that there are no "class-wide" reactions to claimants, half-dragon or otherwise.
Or to put it another way, not all commoners will think X, all nobles think X or Y, and all royals think X or Y or Z. Everyone will react individually.
If any stereotypes about Cormyreans can be advanced, there will be general prejudices like this: we prefer humans we know, and know to be Cormyrean born and bred and resident, over humans who "come out of nowhere" or are known to have been far away from Cormyr for some time. We will prefer humans over non-humans (such as elves; many oldblood families, noble or common, believe "Cormyr" is a human land wrested from elves who should never be allowed to return to anything resembling power, locally) and we will prefer human-like, "civilized" non-humans (elves, halflings, gnomes, dwarves) over known-to-be-dangerous races (half-orcs, orcs and goblins, etc.), and those "evil folk" over "monstrous half-breeds" (shapechangers, lizardfolk-like half-dragons with scales and tails and other obvious "this ain't a human" features.
That isn't to say that certain nobles and wizards of Cormyr (including War Wizards) won't be fascinated by a half-dragon, and their potential power, or with elves of the lineage of Iliphar (and more than one such individual is known to exist, in Cormyr, though the Royal Court isn't certain of all of their identities or whereabouts) . . . but the general bulk of the populace is going to want a human king or queen, preferably of the House of Obarskyr or failing that bastard offspring of the traceable blood of the Obarskyrs or perhaps Baerauble, and failing that of one of the oldblood families (and at this point, of course, the fierce struggle over WHICH ruling family would erupt, probably into open civil war).
Yet Cormyr will always be a place where bastards and other throne claimants wait in the wings, supported by this or that cabal of nobles and watched by the War Wizards and various Crown agents.
A half-dragon claimant who can claim AND PROVE (to most who care) descent from both Thauglor and Azoun IV would have a stronger claim (and public support) than any other half-dragon, but by no means more than the scores to hundreds of human Cormyreans who can claim and prove Azoun IV's involvement in their ancestry, or Obarskyr blood from other monarchs (or princes, who at the time of the dalliances hadn't yet come to the throne).
In fact, what keeps Cormyr from erupting in civil strife often is the counterbalance between SO MANY possible (weak) claimants. Eliminate all fullblood Obarskyrs, and all of those claimants come into play, yes, but then it becomes a game of "who can stay alive?" among the claimants.
And remember: a half-dragon would probably still have a claim that was weaker in public support than, say, a certain ghazneth with the last name Cormaeril . . .


So saith Ed. Who has talked at great length with TSR and later WotC designers about such matters, I happen to know (because I eavesdrop shamelessly when it suits me to do so).
love,
THO

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Originally posted by kysus

I have many questions, its just a matter of me organizing my thoughts to post them in a orderly manner so as to not to flood the forums with a quintillion questions all at once. I think the most pressing few for me right now would be how do you and the other authors come up with the varies elven names for people, clans, places, and objects. Is there some book or website that is used for this because all the names i see authors use are very cool looking while mine are like bleh, i've tried to look through the elven dictionary on the ck site but it doesnt contain alot of the words im always looking for and is really hard to locate stuff, not to mention again im really really bad at coming up with convincing elven names for the varies things so i've always been curious as to how this is done among the varies authors.

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And for my second question would you have happened to have worked out the coat of arms for the varies elven clans (Nelnueves, Keoves, Alavara, Berethryl, Elian, Oeryl) in the oracle. Im trying to document as many of the elven coat of arms as i can.

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Originally posted by kysus

And for my second question would you have happened to have worked out the coat of arms for the varies elven clans (Nelnueves, Keoves, Alavara, Berethryl, Elian, Oeryl) in the oracle. Im trying to document as many of the elven coat of arms as i can.

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Originally posted by Shadowsoul

I cant seem to find that article from Gencon. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Cheers

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Originally posted by TBeholder

Reading it. So far this looks like a superfluous clone of EV. With superfluous extra waving to Gold Elves and followers of Shevarash.
"Because you can never have too much redundancy, excessive redundancy, or overexuberant redundancy."

Oh, and also the baelnorn with phylactery.

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Originally posted by Lukas Kain

Hey George, I hope life is treating you well. I was wondering about the Mage Royal of Impiltur Selarbrin. He took over when his great-uncle Calabrin passed, and that was in 1270 by Dale Reckoning. I'm just wondering what his story is since he's clearly over a hundred years old and it was said he didn't have the same talent with longevity magics that his great-uncle did. Is he a descendant of this Selarbrin? I've always been curious about him. What's his deal?

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Originally posted by KanzenAU

Hi George,

Is your Jergal article still available anywhere? The Realms Secretariat site seems to be undergoing a slow rehaul and I can't find the write-up. If I recall correctly, you linked Jergal with the pyramids of Ascore, and I was hoping to incorporate that information into the Ascore entry for my "Cyclopaedia of the North" that will accompany my latest map.

Thanks as always!

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