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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
 Posted - 09 Dec 2011 : 07:48:08
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
BEAST!! I could KISS you!! I would also love any of those ideas- except maybe 7, but only because I'm not familiar with it. And to add to that list, MORE LIRIEL!!!
Woo hoo! And unlike Sage, I have no Lady K to worry about... 
*Smooches*
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Originally posted by Dennis
Maybe all the mortals who ascended. A series called The Kiss of Divinity, or Gods and Mortals, or The Ascension of the Great.
Yeah, I'd like some clarification on how Obould I became the exarch of Gruumsh, given the Kingdom of Many-Arrows friendly relations with the rest of the League of the Silver Marches/Luruar for a time. Eric has suggested some good possible rationalizations for it all, but that example of ascension really leaps out at me. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2011 : 14:01:55
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Originally posted by BEAST
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Originally posted by Dennis
Maybe all the mortals who ascended. A series called The Kiss of Divinity, or Gods and Mortals, or The Ascension of the Great.
Yeah, I'd like some clarification on how Obould I became the exarch of Gruumsh, given the Kingdom of Many-Arrows friendly relations with the rest of the League of the Silver Marches/Luruar for a time. Eric has suggested some good possible rationalizations for it all, but that example of ascension really leaps out at me.
I'd like to know more about lives of Azuth, Velsharoon, and Kiaransalee shortly before, during, and after their ascension.
Something occurred to me...Is there "racial discrimination" among the deities? Do "pureblood" deities look down on ascended mortals? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2011 : 14:03:30
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This would be a fun read:
A trilogy featuring Jeriah and some non-famous chronomancers. Chonomancy is less tackled in the Realms that it's time we see how exactly does it work . As I noted in other threads (I made), the emphasis on time-travel and other time-related magic does not necessarily have to cause some major RSEs. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
731 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2011 : 15:00:18
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| I would love to see haflings more represented in the Realms, and I'd like to see them being more than thieves tbh Always wanted to see some warrior, ranger or wizard. Vohnkar, the nelwyn warrior from Willow ywas an interesting char to be developed, besides looking like a half-sized Valygar Corthala ofc... |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2011 : 23:30:06
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Originally posted by BEAST
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
BEAST!! I could KISS you!! I would also love any of those ideas- except maybe 7, but only because I'm not familiar with it. And to add to that list, MORE LIRIEL!!!
Woo hoo! And unlike Sage, I have no Lady K to worry about...
*Smooches*
That can be read as both a curse, and a blessing.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2011 : 05:21:13
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by BEAST
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
BEAST!! I could KISS you!! I would also love any of those ideas- except maybe 7, but only because I'm not familiar with it. And to add to that list, MORE LIRIEL!!!
Woo hoo! And unlike Sage, I have no Lady K to worry about...
*Smooches*
That can be read as both a curse, and a blessing.
Sage, my friend, please have a webcam handy and running when the Lady K sees your comment. I want to see the reaction!  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2011 : 07:21:35
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Sage, my friend, please have a webcam handy and running when the Lady K sees your comment. I want to see the reaction!
You want to see me cowardly avoiding an enraged Lady K as she swings my replica Darth Vader lightsaber in an attempt to re-enact Mace Windu's decapitation of Jango Fett? |
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LastStand
Learned Scribe
130 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2011 : 09:01:58
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Hrmm I had to do some thinking with this and came up with just some things I would want to read about:
* I'll echo the request for more of the shade princes.
* Something set in Rashamen and featuring the Wychalaran - preferable written by Elaine Cunningham.
* A badass female assassin, fighter type character with a heavy dose of anti-hero as protagonist - Written by Paul S. Kemp.
* Maybe a novel with an archer (arcane archer) as protagonist - I started playing through NWN (dusting off the game a bit) with one and thought it might be an interesting class to read about.
Above post by Sage sounds fascinating... I would watch that.  |
"Don't. The battlegrounds that you and I have returned from alive are too different."
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2011 : 11:14:36
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Sage, my friend, please have a webcam handy and running when the Lady K sees your comment. I want to see the reaction!
You want to see me cowardly avoiding an enraged Lady K as she swings my replica Darth Vader lightsaber in an attempt to re-enact Mace Windu's decapitation of Jango Fett?
Duh, yeah! Imagine the hits that will get on Youtube! |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2011 : 14:33:56
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OK, here are two dream novels that came straight to my mind.
1) a set of adventurers meet in a tavern in Sigil and figure out they are all from Fearun and while waiting for the next assignment or to continue their journey, they share their adventure stories from all over Farun and the planes. Anthology style.
2) Same situation, but in a tavern in the Border Kingdoms and the adventurers being low level or medium level PCs who share their little adventures in the BKs. I think it is sometimes really nice to have lower level chars. Stories are less epic and you can put more emphasis on descriptions of surroundings, clothes, weapons, shops etc, as the story can be more slowed down than the epic ones. |
"You make an intriguing offer, one that is very tempting. It would seem that I have little alternative than to answer thusly: DISINTEGRATE!" Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick 625 |
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Firestorm
Senior Scribe
Canada
826 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2011 : 02:38:05
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Originally posted by Ayrik
Actually, I think the untold story of Lady Telamont has been told well enough already.
Not well enough. Not yet. It'd be interesting to see his childhood, his apprenticeship to Karsus, his finding Alashar, his dabbling and later mastery of shadow magic, and his covert schemes to one day punish the bitch goddess who masterminded his wife's murder.
Well, we already know how he found Alashar. She was supposed to assassinate him lol. I loved the short story "The lady and the shadow" |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2011 : 12:51:54
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I'd like to see more than that. Though of course, the enemies-turned-lovers part was... cute. |
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Idamar of Thay
Acolyte
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Posted - 12 Dec 2011 : 16:30:43
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I always enjoyed origin stories of legendary character, specifically when they were unknowns. The early days of an arrogant red wizard apprentice named Szass Tam. Jarlaxle meeting other rogue nobles hiding in the slums of Menzoberranzan to discuss forming a band.
It's also fun to story important events of the Realms from the perspective of other people. For example how did Shade cope when they first arrive in the Shadow Plane after Karsus's Folly? That is, before the princes mastered shadow magic and became shades themselves. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2011 : 23:59:54
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I'd love a novel about Obould during the time of the Transitions trilogy. The spiritual nature of the orcs could be really fun for Salvatore, given his DemonWars Saga.
A barbarian protagonist who isn't afraid to use magic, or a barbarian shaman for a protagonist is something I would like to read about. |
"...the will is everything. The will to act."--Ra's Al Ghul
"Suffering builds character."--Talia Al Ghul |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2011 : 07:38:27
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Originally posted by Idamar of Thay
It's also fun to story important events of the Realms from the perspective of other people. For example how did Shade cope when they first arrive in the Shadow Plane after Karsus's Folly? That is, before the princes mastered shadow magic and became shades themselves.
Hopefully, Paul's latest trilogy would delve more into this. If not as the main plot, at the very least, as minor but critical sub-plot. |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2011 : 12:43:39
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Copper Elven Vampire
Master of Realmslore
1078 Posts |
Posted - 15 Dec 2011 : 02:11:19
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I REALLY, REALLY want a new series with Fox as the main character indeed!! More Erevan Ilesere and possibly add the Shattering Swords of Coronal Ynloeth, considering Fox already has the Bracer.
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 15 Dec 2011 : 03:24:08
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Originally posted by Copper Elven Vampire
I REALLY, REALLY want a new series with Fox as the main character indeed!!
I would certainly love writing that. There are lots of ideas . . .
Read Eye of Justice when you get the chance, btw.
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More Erevan Ilesere and possibly add the Shattering Swords of Coronal Ynloeth, considering Fox already has the Bracer.
Well, she had it at one time--she doesn't (necessarily) still have it.
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2011 : 01:17:22
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Inspired by DC' Infinite Crisis:
Torils: Infinite Chaos. I'd like to see an alternate version of Toril and its famous inhabitants. I'd like them to be varied, not uniformly shadowy, dark, or pure good. But a mix of the three. Say, Elminster being young and handsome, quick to anger, but still chaotic good. The Simbul being very patient yet still as powerful as her self in the original Toril, which for the sake of this post, I shall name Toril Prime. Telamont being an ally of Mask, scheming to obliterate Shar and avenge his wife's murder. Shade Enclave, Halruaa, Skullport, Sembia and Luscan being cities of Reborn Netheril. Thay divided into North and South, ruled by Szass Tam and the Zulkirate (Lallara, Nevron, Yaphyll, Rhym, Dmitra, Lauzoril, Thrul) respectively. Imaskar being the biggest threat to all the realms as it begins its campaign for world dominion. |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2011 : 02:57:52
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Larloch Vs Halaster
for keeps. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2011 : 03:11:42
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Originally posted by althen artren
Larloch Vs Halaster
for keeps.
How is Halaster supposed to get past Larloch's 60+ lich-servitors? |
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Copper Elven Vampire
Master of Realmslore
1078 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2011 : 18:34:51
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| Halaster has one of the Manshoon clones with him in Undermountain, so at least he'd have some help. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2011 : 19:00:18
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2 vs 60+... each supposedly of nearly equal level. |
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Skeptic
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1273 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2011 : 19:41:28
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
I want to see a pair (or more) of novels about Mirt. Written, of course, by Ed Greenwood.
Book I: Undermountain
Book II: Merciless
Book III: Old Wolf
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2011 : 07:46:39
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The Return of Jhaamdath and the Awakening of Auppenser. To rebuild their realm, the survivors of fallen Jhaamdath seek aid [mundane, psionic, and magical] from practically anyone, including the illithids and their evil god, Ilsensine.
When Mystra returns, she decides to gather as many allies she can to help her watch her back. And so she awakens Auppenser... |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
8030 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2011 : 10:40:14
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creyzi4zb12
... I love orcs, and they seem to be getting a lot of attention nowadays. But I don't think.....perhaps not everybody likes to read about bloodthirsty-foul-smelling orc protagonists....But I think it would be a change... I wish somebody would make a novel which has the scro on it ...
Not everybody likes to read about "peaceful" civilized neutered orcs either. Obald's little nation has received much attention, but nobody has really written about the other orcs of the Realms. The ugly dirty savage marauding evil ones who live by strength and steel and stealth. Yes, the scro do need more mention than they've received, although outside of their Spelljamming element they're really not a lot different from standard orogs. |
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Roboginger
Acolyte
USA
7 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2011 : 19:01:41
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| I would love a story in an urban setting, including a master of disguise perhaps a bard who hides in plain site. |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2011 : 21:11:21
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I'd love to read more about the Crown Wars and the early Dwarven clans, but it's been implied that it ain't happening.
Stories about the newly redeemed dark elves escaping the Underdark.
We had a series about a Dragon Rage. Maybe a story about an Orc Horde, from the orcs PoV?
Josidiah losing Gwen.
Zak and Jarlaxle, with the Spider Mage.
Qarlynd Melarn and the City of Hope.
Sorry Elaine, but more Liriel! You did too good a job with her to not want more. Maybe a short story about her dealing with the fact that 2 of her goddesses have died.
I've read nothing about Halrua, and it interests me. Maybe an Evermeet or Cormyr style book about it.
More about Araevin Teshur and/or the new residents of Myth Drannor.
A story about the founding of Menzo, or any drow city. |
"Those with talent become wizards, Those without talent spend their lives praying for it"
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2012 : 04:18:51
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Larloch: Evil Batman Halaster: His Joker
You cannot plan for madness. Please, Im sure Halaster
has all sorts of things on storage in Undermountain
that could level the playing field. Plus, I think
there is a trapped (god?, elder evil?, infernal lord?,)
Let me look around a little for the notation I saw and
add it to the conversation.
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Drizztsmanchild
Learned Scribe
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2012 : 08:12:09
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Elminster vs Ao...similar to Spock vs Q. Not a battle but a debate.
And El vs Raist crossover...(not trying to start an xvsy debate) its just something I would like to read.
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