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Have I killed this thread?

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Have I killed this thread?

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Originally posted by Cleric Generic

Seeing as Abeir (that is, the material plane Laerakond, AKA Returned Abeir, came from) has virtually zero lore, it'd be a pretty good place for some homebrew shenanigans. I might try and do up a bit on Shyr, Karshimis and the Genasi therein, etc...

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

If using it as part of a new, non-Faerūnian setting, I’d call it “Laerakond” [pronounced “L-AIR-ah-KON-d”].
I settled on the ‘sounds’ of that coined name because they are different from the softer, more Celtic-green-and-pleasant-fantasy-Sherwood ‘feel’ of much of the most loved areas of Faerūn; if you’d prefer to echo that look and feel, call it something like “Tarathdeon,” instead.

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Seeing as Abeir (that is, the material plane Laerakond, AKA Returned Abeir, came from) has virtually zero lore, it'd be a pretty good place for some homebrew shenanigans. I might try and do up a bit on Shyr, Karshimis and the Genasi therein, etc...

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That is a falacy. "Laerakond" and Returned Abeir is not the same thing. In the "Questions for Ed Greenwood (2008)" (page 64), Ed says this:

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If using it as part of a new, non-Faerūnian setting, I’d call it “Laerakond” [pronounced “L-AIR-ah-KON-d”].
I settled on the ‘sounds’ of that coined name because they are different from the softer, more Celtic-green-and-pleasant-fantasy-Sherwood ‘feel’ of much of the most loved areas of Faerūn; if you’d prefer to echo that look and feel, call it something like “Tarathdeon,” instead.

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I've seen a lot of scribes use the two terms interchangeably, but it is clearly not correct, and "Laerakond" is not a part of the canonical Realms.

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Originally posted by Cleric Generic

I'll definitely try to pitch in. Got any particular areas of lore you want to focus on?

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Originally posted by Cleric Generic

One idea I had was that if the absence of gods from Abeir (returned or otherwise) means an absence of divinely inspired spallcasting, etc, it doesn't necessarily mean that poeple don't worship and that you don't get priestly types wafting about.

I quite like the idea of having cults or even entire religions lead by warlocks/wizards/sorcerers dedicated to single primordials or even pantheons of the beasties. Somehow it has a rather Conan the Barbarian feel to me, and perhapse, after the fall of most of hte primordials, their former dragon servants might have taken their place, acting as avatars of or messengers from their toppled masters.

Also, without quite so many crusading clerics and paladins/blackguards running around, druids, shamans and other such nature/primal spirit worshippers might get a better look in. similarly, without god-botherers arrayed against them, demon/devil/angel(?) cults might get bigger and braver.

Finally, in the aftermath of the Dawn War (or whatever you fancy), when Big Daddy stepped in to sort out the naughty children and separated Abeir and Toril, some gods might have been trapped on Abeir much like some primordials appear to have been trapped on Faerun. Much reduced proto-deities from the dawn of time out in hiding and trapped in mortal-ish form could be fun.

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