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perm
Acolyte
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 Posted - 27 Sep 2011 : 09:09:22
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I remember reading somewhere in some source about it. It's described as a town of either gnomes or halflings, I'm not sure. It is remote in the woods, and is constantly cloaked in a mist to outsiders, and I think they got lost in it. Can anyone help me out?
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Brimstone
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Sep 2011 : 11:20:17
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Gouf
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 27 Sep 2011 : 14:59:53
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Well Luiren is a country of almost a million halflings. The Purple Hills in Tethyr have several exclusively halfling towns. Secomber in the north, east of Daggerford is almost 50% halflings.
Any of those? |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Sep 2011 : 20:56:42
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| Are you possibly thinking of the Trail of Mists? Or Fryndul, an illusion-protected gnome village in the Shar-reach (Dragon #269)? |
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perm
Acolyte
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Posted - 28 Sep 2011 : 09:13:59
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I actually don't know where it may be :|
I feel like it would be in the heartlands, western heartlands or south-central faerun... it's just bugging me haha. I will look into those suggestions |
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Therise
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Sep 2011 : 18:11:49
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Originally posted by perm
I actually don't know where it may be :|
I feel like it would be in the heartlands, western heartlands or south-central faerun... it's just bugging me haha. I will look into those suggestions
Do you remember any other defining characteristics of the village? Was it perhaps a published module, or was it a dragon/dungeon article?
Were the gnomes (or halflings) there known for anything in particular, were there any personalities you remember?
Were there any ruins or special things nearby? Was it in a valley, or were there hills?
Any potential clues might help...
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Grunker
Acolyte
Denmark
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Posted - 28 Sep 2011 : 21:22:01
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| The only place I can think of is Lantan, but that doesn't fit with your locations. |
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Seabus Mythforger
Seeker
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Posted - 29 Sep 2011 : 08:30:57
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| It sounds alot like Mount Nevermember but that wasn't Forgotten Realms, it was Dragonlance. Had all kinds of fast talking gnomes and weird, cooky inventions. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 29 Sep 2011 : 18:27:02
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My memory, while no longer perfect, is pretty darn good, and 'locales' are my specialty, and I can't say that's ringing any bells - sorry. 
It sounds similar to a couple of places in Sunset Vale, but not exactly (the whole 'cloaked in mists' thing is unfamiliar).
There was also a homebrew settlement in some article here at the 'Keep, just inside the border of the High Forest (SW corner, IIRC), but I think that was a hidden, multi-racial settlement and not 'small person' specific. |
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Nilus Reynard
Learned Scribe
Canada
137 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2011 : 04:34:33
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quote:
Originally posted by perm
I remember reading somewhere in some source about it. It's described as a town of either gnomes or halflings, I'm not sure. It is remote in the woods, and is constantly cloaked in a mist to outsiders, and I think they got lost in it. Can anyone help me out?
Could it be somewhere in the Moonshae Isles? I know that there are communities of Halflings there.
That's all I can think of at the moment. |
Nilus Reynard
Doom Master of Beshaba, Hand of Despair.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2011 : 06:30:06
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Originally posted by The Sage
Could you be thinking of Songfarla -- a community of gnomes in the Sunrise Mountains?
By Thay right? |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
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
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31772 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2011 : 08:38:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
Could you be thinking of Songfarla -- a community of gnomes in the Sunrise Mountains?
By Thay right?
Pretty much. The Sunrise Mountain range marks the western border of the Endless Waste with Thay. |
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Snowblood
Senior Scribe
Australia
388 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2011 : 15:34:56
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my bet is Trail of Mists beneath the High Forest...which does have outlets in Waterdeep, Lantan and Songfarla which is perpetually covered in illusions and mists
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Snow
Learned Scribe
USA
125 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2011 : 20:49:40
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Is it the gnome enclave in the Daggerdale forest (Spiderhaunt?)where the gnomes have learned to co-exist and survive amongst monstrous spiders?
I'm away from books ... so that's the most I can go on right now. |
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Cbad285
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 31 Jan 2012 : 07:12:29
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Spiderhaunt Woods.
Check out the secret of spiderhaunt |
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coach
Senior Scribe
USA
479 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2012 : 00:50:53
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i have an option for everything but your cloaking mists (unless there is something about the "Sleepy" in Sleepy Wood that helps hide the community):
there is a halfling community called Waukeshire "of several hundred" who live in the Sleepy Woods inside Bloodstone Pass
they have a tunnel network for defensive purposes under their town that each dwelling has an entrance to |
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