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Originally posted by Snowblood

Hi George...when did the Elven realm within the Gray Forest, finally fall?????

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Originally posted by The Sage

Very impressive George. Any chance you can tell me a little more about the works/songs of the 'Skald of Battle?'

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Someone one asking for information on Clan Ironshield. Here's a little bit of stuff that may assist.

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Originally posted by Zireael

I'm looking for info about Alashar Crywinds (the wife of Telamont Tanthul).

BTW great stuff Krash, I'll have to look into earlier replies... Manshoon's family is worth saving on my HDD.

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Originally posted by Kyrene

George,

How canonical is the above Ironshield piece? Of course, you probably know where I'm going with this... how canonical are terms like "stone-shouldered" and "kuldalagh" for inclusion in the 'Realmspeak' glossary?

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Originally posted by Kyrene

George,

How canonical is the above Ironshield piece? Of course, you probably know where I'm going with this... how canonical are terms like "stone-shouldered" and "kuldalagh" for inclusion in the 'Realmspeak' glossary?

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Originally posted by The Sage

Very impressive George. Any chance you can tell me a little more about the works/songs of the 'Skald of Battle?'

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I knew that the reference would get you excited.

I've got a few thoughts which I'll likely get into some decent format in a week or so. Basically, they are additions to the bardic music repetoire.

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by coach

George,

Has there ever been a line of Damaran Kings developed? (either pre- or post- glacier advance/receding)

and while i'm asking what about Sossal too? (since we know when the LAST one was, just not much else)

I'm guessing 'twould be easy to run the Bloodfeathers line back only 3 centuries hehe

i know it was a shoehorn not in Ed's original Realms and perhaps that's why it was one of the few monarchies that didn't receive any GHotR love

Thanks in advance

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Teshar really isn't all that close to the Ride in relative terms and as for Aubayreer, Eric and I always thought that he'd spent little of his life, save for his childhood and adolescence, in Teshar proper. Eric alluded to this in his GHotR snippet (p.62) and I always focused more on his time after he'd arrived in the eastern lands of Impiltur and then his founding of Milvarn.

Just what information were you after?

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Which "powerful tome" are we talking about?

-- George Krashos

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Mhaelosian Mantles

In the Year of the Broken Lands (191 DR), the arcanist Eltraggar, Mage Royal of Hlondath collected the spell lore of mantles into a single libram of inestimable worth titled Mhaelosian Mantles. This tome of Art was said to describe in exacting detail the nature and function of spell mantles and provide the means and understanding to allow epic spellcasters to create one or more of these legendary spell fields for which the arcanists of Netheril were so famous. Eltraggar is known to have perished at the hands of a young Hastos Auglamyr at the Battle of Crowns Aflame during the Crown and Scepter Wars between Cormanthyr and Hlondath, but the whereabouts of his most coveted libram of spell lore died with him. Hlondath was abandoned in 329 DR as the Great Desert of Anauroch spread east, killing that realm’s fields and livestock, and while adventurers and treasure-hunters explored much of ruined Mhaelos in the fifth century of Dalereckoning, no word was ever received about the discovery of Mhaelosian Mantles, nor its likely whereabouts.

Many years later, the tome was noted as being in the possession of a young mage named Aubayreer Mindosel who was apprenticed to Agannazar of Neverwinter in the Year of the Lissome Apprentice (461 DR). Aubayreer was the son of a minor lordling of the realm of Teshar, a land that was founded by human settlers of Hlondath in the cleared lands between Rystall Wood and Cormanthor in the Year of Leather Shields (-75 DR). How the tome came into Aubayreer’s possession remains a mystery to this day. Travelling west, it is said that Aubayreer was accepted as an apprentice at the School of Wizardry in Neverwinter after trading knowledge found in Mhaelosian Mantles for his position there. Whilst in Neverwinter, Aubayreer received tutelage from the aforementioned Agannazar and his colleagues in magery, Illykur, Presper and Grimwald, who would found the wizard cabal known as the Covenant in the years to come.

Aubayreer remained in the North for several decades, building his skill in the Art, before returning to the lands of the Inner Sea. Teshar had fallen in 479 DR to raids and assaults from the drow of the Twisted Tower, so the kinless and landless Aubayreer travelled to Myth Drannor where he was apprenticed for a time to Saerangol the Hooded One. Aubayreer subsequently left the City of Song after a handful of years and travelled further east, working as a mage-for-hire in Impiltur and briefly studying under Lerthaun Durlarven, uncle of the reigning king of Impiltur, Harandil I.

In the Year of the Upright Man (535 DR), Aubayreer gathered a host of young, landless Impilturian nobles and led them across the Sea of Dlurg, to the foothills of the Dragonjaw Mountains. There he founded the realm of Milvarn, with its capital Milvarune, and established the first permanent human settlement in the Dragonjaw Mountains since the time of Narfell. In the centuries that followed, Milvarn continued to prosper under the guiding hand of Aubayreer’s wizard-ruler descendants, and close ties with surrounding lands were fostered and strengthened. These ties culminated in the marriage of Spell-Prince Elthar, heir to the throne of Milvarn, to Queen Thara of Aglarond in 1237 DR. Elthar was slain at the hands of unknown assassins in the Year of Pain (1245 DR) but given his younger brother Khalreer’s lack of talent for the Art, it is thought that the aged Jholnareer, Mage-King of Milvarn, entrusted much spell lore and secret magic, including Mhaelosian Mantles, to the Grey Sisters of Aglarond. In this fashion, the Simbul chanced upon this mighty legacy of Netheril when she came to serve the throne of Aglarond, and used it to awesome effect in the years that followed to defend the realm against the evil wizardry of Thay.

In the Year of the Leaping Dolphin (1331 DR), the mage Alamanther was destroyed in a great spellbattle against a trio of unknown Red Wizards of Thay. It is believed that the Simbul had entrusted Mhaelosian Mantles to him, bidding Alamanther to study it and keep it safe in the tower of his former master Ustragus in Altumbel. Despite Alamanther’s death, the tome did not fall into the hands of the Red Wizards, for none had any knowledge of it when interrogated over the next handful of years by a vengeful Simbul. In fact, knowledge of the whereabouts of Mhaelosian Mantles was one of the great mysteries of Faerûn for many years afterward until the Year of the Tankard (1370 DR) when it was offered for sale almost half a world-away in the great beholder city of Ooltul, deep beneath the sands of Anauroch. The would-be seller, whom some observers described as a dusky-skinned male elf with serpent-like eyes, disappeared soon after and Mhaelosian Mantles with him. The book’s current location remains a mystery and it is well-known that the Simbul is driven to recover this trove of Netherese spell lore, no matter the cost. Those who handle the tome or learn of its whereabouts should expect a visit from this most volatile of the Chosen of Mystra.

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Ah yes, THAT powerful tome.

Problem is, that one was found on the other side of the Desertsmouth Mtns - again, a bit of a hop, skip and jump from the Ride.

Of course, if you'd been referring to the books known to sages as Ordu's Amazar or the Enchiridion of Shaelath that would have been different. But you weren't.

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by Kyrene

George,

How canonical is the above Ironshield piece? Of course, you probably know where I'm going with this... how canonical are terms like "stone-shouldered" and "kuldalagh" for inclusion in the 'Realmspeak' glossary?

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Not sure how to answer that. If you regard everything that I write as 'canonical', then the answer to your question is "very". If you think I'm just regurgitating published realmslore or giving you the contents of secret Ed realmslore missives, then the answer is "not so much". Canon, shmanon - if you like what I've written, then for you it should be as canon as canon can be.

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by coach

George,

Has there ever been a line of Damaran Kings developed? (either pre- or post- glacier advance/receding)

and while i'm asking what about Sossal too? (since we know when the LAST one was, just not much else)

I'm guessing 'twould be easy to run the Bloodfeathers line back only 3 centuries hehe

i know it was a shoehorn not in Ed's original Realms and perhaps that's why it was one of the few monarchies that didn't receive any GHotR love

Thanks in advance

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Hmm, missed this post from a while back.

The lineages contained in GHotR were made up of Steven's existing Tethyr line, his unfinished and unpublished Amnian line (which I tidied up), the unpublished and still undetailed Cormyrean line and Eric's Westgate lineage. Other lineages like Aglarond, Dambrath, and Silverymoon existed but had never been cobbled together in that form. I'd done the Velprin one when I had formalised Impiltur so that one was "waiting in the wings" as it were. The only ones created specifically for that book (and done in a mad rush I might add) were Narfell and Raumathar. If I'd had more time, I'd have done Sossal, Illusk/Luskan, Damara and likely the Netherese survivor states. Calimshan is doable - and I have a rough outline for it - but would be by far the biggest of them all and wouldn't have been done for that product no matter the lead time!

So, in a long-winded way, the anser is: no, there haven't been lineages formalised for Damara and Sossal. That's not to say I don't have any ideas for these, but I'm inclined to devote my (always short) leisure time to other projects.

Sounds like a good opportunity for someone here at the Keep to come up with something.

-- George Krashos

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