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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 07:42:36
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Well met, scribes, sages, scholars, experts, oracles, weirds, soothsayers, and prophets.
I'm terribly interested in adapting the Master of the Yuirwood Prestige Class (Una) to other regions. This PrC allows the character to use Menhir Circles as portals both inside the Yuirwood and beyond.
So today my search for Realmslore has led me to ask whether you know of any Menhir Circles or Standing Stones in canon references OUTSIDE the Yuirwood. Of course, as DM, I can have such things appear where I choose but I always like to start from canon sources and expand from there.
Know ye of any such things?
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sfdragon
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 09:36:39
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ummm.... teleportation circles, in 4e could be used as such.
in 3.5 the only ones i know of are either in that star elf community or in aglarond |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 15:25:30
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| Standing stones and stone circles are part of ancient human and dwarven culture across northern Faerūn -- with some known further south, such as in Amn and the Lake of Steam region -- as tombs, religious and other monuments. They're also part of the druidic culture, for instance the Druid's Grove in Shadowdale and others in the Moonshaes. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 16:57:47
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| -Concerning the connection between random teleportation-devices and the Master of the Yuirwood PrC, I wouldn't link them. That is to say, the Masters of the Yuirwood understand the secrets to allow them to utilize the teleportation/planar travel menhir network in the Yuirwood, but not such things in other places. To remedy the problem with that, however, it's just as easy to rename the PrC the "Masters of the _________", and have said prestige class operate such devices where ever ___________ is. |
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 17:06:47
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Originally posted by Dagnirion
-Concerning the connection between random teleportation-devices and the Master of the Yuirwood PrC, I wouldn't link them. That is to say, the Masters of the Yuirwood understand the secrets to allow them to utilize the teleportation/planar travel menhir network in the Yuirwood, but not such things in other places. To remedy the problem with that, however, it's just as easy to rename the PrC the "Masters of the _________", and have said prestige class operate such devices where ever ___________ is.
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 17:16:51
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I've been sneakily leaving menhirs and stone circles all over the Realms the last decade or more. There's one in Blackstaff Tower to the east of Waterdeep, and there's a number of them mentioned (at least as ruins) in Lands of Intrigue in various places in Amn, Tethyr, and Erlkazar. Sorry I can't be more specific on these but you've got sources to search now....
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 17:25:06
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quote:
Originally posted by Na-Gang
That is exactly my intention.
-Or, to make it more powerful and/or broad, you can create some sort of portal nexus, similar to the portal nexus created by Aryvandaar as portrayed in The Last Mythal trilogy. They'd be able to use portals all over the place, instead of just one localized area. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 19:42:54
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Any I come across in lore I place on my maps indicated by a small 'paw-print' icon (it looked the most like something 'natural'). Druid Groves are different, and I usually indicate them with a 'Tree' icon (although most of the ones I found were with a Menhir, so I used the Pawprint).
Some of these ancient 'monuments' can be found as far east as Kara-Tur (the Issacortae and Pazruki peoples both have certain 'Celtic' aspects to their culture).
The highest concentration of them I have found was in the Lands of Intrigue (thanks to Steven Schend) and in the Unapproachable East. However, thats only because designers for those regions thought to include them, and they can indeed be found anywhere you need them to be. 
As an aside, as a DM I would allow something similar using the Ancestor Mounds found throughout the North - they serve pretty much the same purpose - a natural place where a priest/Druid/Shaman can 'access' powers greater then himself (spirits, Fey, Elemental beings, etc...). Don't know if that helps you at all, but it would be an interesting twist for an Uthgardt Shaman to have powers akin to a Druid of the North (Yuirwood).
Edit: These Articles may be of some use to you - I remember reading about a Druid portal that went from Ilighōn to some other island (Tharsult?), but I'm not sure it was in these articles. Still, there is some stuff in there under some of those categories that could relate to what you are doing. |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 20:08:09
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Originally posted by Markustay
Edit: These Articles may be of some use to you -
Ah, the Perilous Gateways. I loved that article series. Some of them were really good... |
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