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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all. As many helpful scribes have pointed out, Azuth, your player's elf can't be "the first elf on the moon." Unless she somehow goes way, way back in time.
In Ed's campaign, the moonscape is very much like a largely-unspoiled elven forest (save that moonlight is blue-ish, daylight has a silver sheen, and reflections shimmer), and there's abundant forest wildlife (accent on the "wild"), with settlement taking the form of meandering roads linking small "clearing" farms and hamlets.
Now, that's not to say she can't try to be "the first elf on the moon" . . . and get a REAL surprise when she arrives there.
Long ago, Ed suggested to the RPGA (of which he's a Charter Lifetime Member) that the moon be a "relief valve" for any Realms campaign, a place where a DM located commerical-published adventures they wanted to run, that didn't "fit" with the campaign they'd developed, if they wanted to avoid a long trip across the face of Faerun to a spot where the misfit adventure seemed "best located."
PC dreams should be striven for, just as real-life dreams. They don't always work out, but life IS the striving. So I'd say "go for it," and see what happens.
love,
THO

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Originally posted by Alisttair

Greetings Great Greenwood.
In Volo's Guide to the North, it is mentioned that a group of elves fought and slayed Grintharje, a balor tanar'ri who ruled tue keep for centuries.
What would be the identity of these elves (names, possible class, etc...)??

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Just after the start of the Year of the Wave (1364 DR), the Keep's patrols captured seven Evereskan elves spying on the citadel and brought them to Grintharke. The bored balor decided after 17 months of thoroughly interrogating (in other words, despicably torturing) the elves to allow himself a chance at play. He faced all seven elves in his personal gladiatorial arena. They were allowed to fight him fully armed with their own weaponry, for none in the Keep felt they stood a chance against Grintharke (especially since none of the tanar'ri in the Keep could face him themselves). Once the elves were revived from their drugged states, they sprung their trap. As Grintharke and none of the other tanar'ri were familiar with the Shattering Swords of Coronal Ynloeth, they could not have known what dangerous items Grintharke's foes wielded against him. The balor stood firm, toying with the elves and striking to wound to prolong his foul playtime. When one elf finally brought the Shattering Swords together, the blades exploded in a flurry of razor-sharp shards that immediately engulfed the wielder and then descended on the balor. While any other foe would have died instantly, flesh stripped from bone by the shard swarm, Grintharke's toughened flesh and magic resistance actually allowed him to survive for a whole minute before expiring. In that time, he managed to draw at least three of his elven foes into the swarm with him and witness their deaths before his own.

With the fall of Grintharke, the four remaining elves sought to destroy as many of the tanar'ri commanders of the Keep as possible while they stood in shock around the arena. Though the elves only survived a few minutes beyond Grintharke, they managed to destroy Grintharke's vrock second-in-command, the only tanar'ri capable of controlling the other greater and true tanar'ri.

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Originally posted by althen artren

So are the star elves from the moon?

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all. As many helpful scribes have pointed out, Azuth, your player's elf can't be "the first elf on the moon." Unless she somehow goes way, way back in time.
In Ed's campaign, the moonscape is very much like a largely-unspoiled elven forest (save that moonlight is blue-ish, daylight has a silver sheen, and reflections shimmer), and there's abundant forest wildlife (accent on the "wild"), with settlement taking the form of meandering roads linking small "clearing" farms and hamlets.
Now, that's not to say she can't try to be "the first elf on the moon" . . . and get a REAL surprise when she arrives there.
Long ago, Ed suggested to the RPGA (of which he's a Charter Lifetime Member) that the moon be a "relief valve" for any Realms campaign, a place where a DM located commerical-published adventures they wanted to run, that didn't "fit" with the campaign they'd developed, if they wanted to avoid a long trip across the face of Faerun to a spot where the misfit adventure seemed "best located."
PC dreams should be striven for, just as real-life dreams. They don't always work out, but life IS the striving. So I'd say "go for it," and see what happens.
love,
THO

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Originally posted by althen artren

So are the star elves from the moon?

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all. As many helpful scribes have pointed out, Azuth, your player's elf can't be "the first elf on the moon." Unless she somehow goes way, way back in time.
In Ed's campaign, the moonscape is very much like a largely-unspoiled elven forest (save that moonlight is blue-ish, daylight has a silver sheen, and reflections shimmer), and there's abundant forest wildlife (accent on the "wild"), with settlement taking the form of meandering roads linking small "clearing" farms and hamlets.
Now, that's not to say she can't try to be "the first elf on the moon" . . . and get a REAL surprise when she arrives there.
Long ago, Ed suggested to the RPGA (of which he's a Charter Lifetime Member) that the moon be a "relief valve" for any Realms campaign, a place where a DM located commerical-published adventures they wanted to run, that didn't "fit" with the campaign they'd developed, if they wanted to avoid a long trip across the face of Faerun to a spot where the misfit adventure seemed "best located."
PC dreams should be striven for, just as real-life dreams. They don't always work out, but life IS the striving. So I'd say "go for it," and see what happens.
love,
THO

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

In Ed's campaign, the moonscape is very much like a largely-unspoiled elven forest (save that moonlight is blue-ish, daylight has a silver sheen, and reflections shimmer)

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Originally posted by gomez

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

In Ed's campaign, the moonscape is very much like a largely-unspoiled elven forest (save that moonlight is blue-ish, daylight has a silver sheen, and reflections shimmer)

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So does that mean the moon, when viewed from Toril, is green? Iow can those forests be seen?

Gomez

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all.
I conveyed your post to Ed, Knight of the Gate, along with MY post (to make sure he didn't have any disagreements with what I said when speaking for him), and he says:

"Right on" in both cases. Both you and Knight of the Gate have put it very much as I would; we're all thinking of these deities in the same way.
Knight of the Gate, your suspicion is correct: a beloved of a warrior departing for war or away at war would pray to all the deities of war: Tempus that the fighting went well, Torm that the "right" cause or side (always, of course, the one the beloved's warrior is part of) prevailed thus far and will continue to prevail, and Helm that the warrior (and any he or she is charged to protect) survived unharmed, or in wounded, as lightly as possible. There would also be prayers to Lathander (renewal), Chauntea (natural vitality/cycle, therefore auspicious healing and endurance of diseases/taints that cause wounds to fester), Eldath (that water be pure, and free from disease, and that it cleanse, etc.) and so on (including to patron dieties of the clan/family/dwelling-place of the warrior, for the reasons you outlined: to bring the warrior back home [alive and unharmed if possible; failing that, as alive and as lightly harmed as possible; failing that, last message or token; failing that, honourable/meaningful death - - and above all, death - - that is, freedom from undeath, and a horrible undead existence]).
Venerations, for almost all beings in the Realms, is always a tapestry of pantheism, not monotheism. Aside from priests and paladins, very few individuals in the Realms are dedicated to a lone deity.
There is a very short popular "common prayer" made by those (even "civilians" forced to fight by circumstances) going to war/at war:

All divinity protect us,
Our own wits deliver us,
Our own strength defend us,
Our cause prevail!

There is also a very short popular 'common prayer' made by others on bhealf of those going to war/at war:

May the sun and the moon see (him/her/them) whole
May the strife go well
May it soon be ended
May all endings be bright in the long passage of years

Hope that helps.
Ed


So saith Ed, creator of the whole show, and still its busiest ringmaster.
love,
THO

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Hi again, all.
Knight, we have had moments of weakness, to be sure. Torm and sometimes Lanseril sometimes advocate exploiting what's easy pickings, especially from the Zhents or Red Wizards or other "bad" targets/potential victims. We tend to let Torm pilfer from evildoers. Yet here's the double key: some of our players run their characters as genuinely altruistic (Florin, Doust, Jhessail), and we ROLEPLAY all "war council" discussions within the party, always (and Ed encourages this). The Knights don't often "dungeon crawl" so much as we navigate subplots and endless intrigues, so we usually go into a situation with aims held high, rather than reacting to monster attacks and traps.
So we genuinely DO "stand up for good" (though we can be wrong about consequences and other individuals as often as the next guy), and doing so makes us feel better, and we enjoy that sort of play. In Ed's hands, the Realms is a fascinating place, and being as we can call on Harpers for food and shelter if we ever get really destitute, money is secondary to DOING things. Adventurers tend not to have much social status anyway, we aren't interested in bigger houses and kidney-shaped swimming pools because we're always on the move and because we tend to see them as stationary targets where we "know" a rich corrupt merchant can be found (lounging in HIS pool, I mean), so we're not all that interested in material things, except as means to ends. It doesn't hurt that we found some rich treasures early on and hid them well, and so can call on them if we have to . . .
love,
THO

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Originally posted by Azuth


Lady: could you ask Ed if he plans on publishing further tales of the Knights? I have always felt that The Sword that Never Sleeps was a great book, but it left unanswered the exact story of how Rathan and Torm joined the Knights. Since the books say "series" and not "trilogy" is seems that additional books could be published. If the exact answer is NDA, I'll take whatever answers Ed can skirt around. Many thanks!

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Lady: could you ask Ed if he plans on publishing further tales of the Knights? I have always felt that The Sword that Never Sleeps was a great book, but it left unanswered the exact story of how Rathan and Torm joined the Knights. Since the books say "series" and not "trilogy" is seems that additional books could be published. If the exact answer is NDA, I'll take whatever answers Ed can skirt around. Many thanks!

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I'm sure Ed would love to write a dozen 600-page novels about the Knights... What WotC wants to publish is a different story, though, and they're the ones who decide what does and does not see print.

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Originally posted by The Sage
A search of the "So Saith Ed" archive would -- specifically those concentrated on the Knights and their published adventures -- would be recommended.

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…and has been done, but still leaves me yearning for many answers; fear not, Sage: I do attempt to use the search feature before posting my questions.