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varyar
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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 Posted - 31 Jan 2012 : 23:34:25
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No canon AFAIK
I'd just call it 'The First Age'
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varyar
Learned Scribe
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 00:07:18
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Before Ice Age...there was Water Age!
Seriously, though, this could be a good one for Ed. You might want to drop by his thread. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 00:30:27
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Originally posted by varyar
Hi all,
I'm starting to get back into the Realms again after a few years away from it, and skimming through my copy of Grand History, I noticed that it starts with the end of the great ice age and the sketchy rise of the Creator Races. Is there any canon information or informed speculation about what was going on before that? What, if anything, do we know about the ice age and whatever preceded it?
It was cold, very cold. |
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varyar
Learned Scribe
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 05:13:52
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Originally posted by varyar
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
It was cold, very cold.
That's just what they want you to think!
Hey, it's pretty difficult to have an ice age when it's not cold! |
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1602 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 09:45:13
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| And Toril was dominated by huge furred (wooly?) mammals... Most people think they are all extinct, but maybe one or another persists in another place, maybe even in another crystal sphere... |
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Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."
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varyar
Learned Scribe
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
1098 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 16:26:57
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Originally posted by Dennis
Before Ice Age...there was Water Age!
In fact, you're quite right Dennis. The ice age itself was known as the Shadow Epoch, a period of global glaciation precipitated by Dendar the Night Serpent devouring Toril's sun.
Prior to the Shadow Epoch, much of the world was covered in water. The dominant civilizations during the Blue Age were peopled by progenitor Batrachi and aboleths. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 16:47:20
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varyar
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 18:08:01
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
In fact, you're quite right Dennis. The ice age itself was known as the Shadow Epoch, a period of global glaciation precipitated by Dendar the Night Serpent devouring Toril's sun.
Prior to the Shadow Epoch, much of the world was covered in water. The dominant civilizations during the Blue Age were peopled by progenitor Batrachi and aboleths.
This Blue Age reminds me of Dark Sun's prehistory as I dimly recall it. Didn't they have a watery world in the beginning, too, and then the halflings did something weird to create a more typical green planet?
As for Faerun's Blue Age, hm. I think you could fit humans into there, on some small level. Fantasy caveman island dwellers worshipping Selune and Shar (and a few other primordial deities - Mystra in whatever incarnation she had back then, Chauntea, a sun god, and a death god, perhaps?) |
Out Now on the DMs Guild:
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Leira the Mistshadow:
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Vandria Gilmadrith, Lady of Grief:
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/481871/Vandria-Gilmadrith-Lady-of-Grief |
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
1098 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2012 : 18:30:07
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Originally posted by varyar
This Blue Age reminds me of Dark Sun's prehistory as I dimly recall it.
Well, Dark Sun is just Faerūn's distant future. They have a 'Tyr' region afterall. jk, of course. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 00:46:40
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
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Originally posted by Dennis
Before Ice Age...there was Water Age!
In fact, you're quite right Dennis. The ice age itself was known as the Shadow Epoch, a period of global glaciation precipitated by Dendar the Night Serpent devouring Toril's sun.
Prior to the Shadow Epoch, much of the world was covered in water. The dominant civilizations during the Blue Age were peopled by progenitor Batrachi and aboleths.
Interesting. I suppose Auril dreams of the day when she can reset the time back to Ice Age. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 01:21:35
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
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Originally posted by varyar
This Blue Age reminds me of Dark Sun's prehistory as I dimly recall it.
Well, Dark Sun is just Faerūn's distant future. They have a 'Tyr' region afterall. jk, of course.
So long as there's cannibalistic halflings in Toril's future... I'll be happy.  |
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 01:37:59
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 02:20:02
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Originally posted by Arivia
As long as there's cannibalistic halflings in Toril's now I'll be happy.
I've always been tempted to adapt the Jerren from 3e's Book of Vile Darkness for the Realms.
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
2965 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 02:22:11
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| Oh lord. Where? In the shadows of Westgate, scurrying about, ever-ready to take a bite of flesh from your heels? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 02:50:08
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Originally posted by Arivia
Oh lord. Where? In the shadows of Westgate, scurrying about, ever-ready to take a bite of flesh from your heels?
Well, it's said that Westgate's sewers are home to horrible monsters and nefarious critters.
Cannibalistic blood-lusting halflings could find purchase there. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 04:34:45
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| Those pesky halfling vermin are already dangerous, likely to steal your dagger then throw it into your back. Not as bad as kender, but not too far off. |
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