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Wrigs13
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 26 Jan 2009 : 12:36:28
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Hi,
I am trying to find some information on Lantan. Does anyone know which books actually contain useful information on the region? preferably in 3rd ed but I am willing to trawl through 2nd ed books for background inforamtion.
Cheers
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 : 13:14:33
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Lantan has virtually nothing written about it in the Realms canon. However, if you take a look through some of the older material, you can find a few tidbits in several sourcebooks. For example, the entries for Gond in most of the FR deity books mention some details about the Wonderbringer's faith in the gnomish nation. The 3e FRCS also contains lore about Lantan.
That being said... Faiths & Avatars for Gond, the 1e and 2e FRCS, and the Perilous Gateway articles featuring Lantan. Prayers from the Faithful also -- which also contains some Lantan tidbits -- particularly in the section on "The Argyr". And Races of Faerūn.
Additionally, see AJA's very intriguing [and popular] fan-based interpretation:- http://web.archive.org/web/20040929112902/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2566/lantan.htm
[Note: the above URL utilises the Internet's Wayback Machine, so you'll need to copy and paste the link into your browser's address bar]
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Edited by - The Sage on 26 Jan 2009 13:15:21 |
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Wrigs13
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
201 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2009 : 13:36:10
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Cheers,
Very comprehensive list, shame that so little has ever been written. |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2009 : 15:27:28
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| And there will be no more, since Lantan is completely destroyed by the spellplague. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 : 17:49:27
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. . . Unless you prevail upon Ed, by asking the right questions in his thread, to share more of his unpublished notes with us. I KNOW he has some; I've seen them. He yielded up Nimbral, after all . . .
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Wrigs13
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
201 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2009 : 08:57:23
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| Spellplague? when did that happen? |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2009 : 13:35:25
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I think MT's answer describes it best from this scroll.
For more information you can do a search on the forums for the term 'Spellplague'. There's a lot of scrolls out there. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Jan 2009 : 15:55:39
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Originally posted by Wrigs13
Spellplague? when did that happen?
That's my response too, although most likely for different reasons.  |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 28 Jan 2009 : 02:36:19
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-I am glad that you are getting some help in your quest. I was the one who responded to your original question in The Wizards Forums. I see you also started a thread in the FR Forums. Keep asking questions, we will keep giving answers! 
BRIMSTONE/18DELTA 
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thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
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Darkmeer
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 22 Jan 2010 : 06:10:42
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quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
Lantan has virtually nothing written about it in the Realms canon. However, if you take a look through some of the older material, you can find a few tidbits in several sourcebooks. For example, the entries for Gond in most of the FR deity books mention some details about the Wonderbringer's faith in the gnomish nation. The 3e FRCS also contains lore about Lantan.
That being said... Faiths & Avatars for Gond, the 1e and 2e FRCS, and the Perilous Gateway articles featuring Lantan. Prayers from the Faithful also -- which also contains some Lantan tidbits -- particularly in the section on "The Argyr". And Races of Faerūn.
Additionally, see AJA's very intriguing [and popular] fan-based interpretation:- http://web.archive.org/web/20040929112902/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2566/lantan.htm
[Note: the above URL utilises the Internet's Wayback Machine, so you'll need to copy and paste the link into your browser's address bar]
Thank you Sage, I'm grateful that you had this information. I had thought it lost when Geocities went down. Thanks so much!
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 22 Jan 2010 : 07:07:40
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Originally posted by Darkmeer
Thank you Sage, I'm grateful that you had this information. I had thought it lost when Geocities went down. Thanks so much!
Aye.
I've actually got all that Lantan material saved on one of my TB caches, so even if it disappears from the web completely, I'll still have it available for those scribes interested in reading it.
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Darkmeer
Senior Scribe
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2010 : 14:20:40
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Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Darkmeer
Thank you Sage, I'm grateful that you had this information. I had thought it lost when Geocities went down. Thanks so much!
Aye.
I've actually got all that Lantan material saved on one of my TB caches, so even if it disappears from the web completely, I'll still have it available for those scribes interested in reading it.
That's good to know. If I ever lose that information, I'll PM you for it. After re-reading it (after over a year hiatus from doing so), I like it just as much, perhaps more because it makes Lantan feel alive all over again.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Lost in Lantan
