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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 26 Jul 2012 : 18:28:45
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I'm re-reading R.A. Salvatore's Neverwinter to get ready for Charon's Claw. I noticed early on there was a reference to either Dalia or Sylora's ex-lover,Temberle. So does this mean that one of Cadderly's boys survived the 100 years and fell in with the Ashmadai...or is this a typo? I recall Dalia and Sylora were both involved with a guy named Themerlis or something similar, in Gauntlgrym.
After the primordial's awakening, just how big is the city of Neverwinter? It looks like a grand place, if the novel's cover art is accurate. However, the novel itself doesn't really make it seem all that big. I'm at the part where Barrabus is helping the citizens repel an attack by Valindra, and I've got the impression of a decently sized frontier town, not the city we see on the dustjacket.
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phranctoast
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 26 Jul 2012 : 19:41:11
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| Deceptive cover art? Guantlgryms cover art had Drizzt and Dahlia fighting which never happened in the novel. |
Currently reading: Spider and Stone by Jaleigh Johnson: Sequel to Mistshore |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 26 Jul 2012 : 21:51:27
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I'd guess that the character name is probably a typo, because I just don't see Cadderly's brood ever hooking up with the likes of Dahlia--much less, double-crossing her and becoming one of her victims.
However, it's possible that this is just a case of mistaken identity, and that the name "Temberle" is more common than we think.
You're right that Bob describes the location as Neverwinter Town in the 1460s DR, recovering from the eruption. But the Neverwinter Campaign Setting indicates that Neverwinter becomes a thriving walled city by 1479 DR.
According to the FRCS (3E), Neverwinter was once considered a "Huge City", back in 1372 DR.
So it's possible that in the [EDIT: 1360s 1460s] DR, there are parts of the city that are in ruins and are being rebuilt, while some parts of the city made it through the eruption relatively unscathed. Perhaps some of the larger towers were coated in volcanic ash and suffered superficial damage, but not structural damage, so they remain standing during the reconstruction of the city?
In the Lockwood cover art for Neverwinter, I see gate statues, a nondescript sunken expanse, and towers and walls on a hill off in the distance. It's possible that the ambiguous intermediary expanse is the primary destruction zone which suffered the most from the lava flow, while the towers up on the hill came through all right. |
"'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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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 30 Jul 2012 : 22:55:10
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Neverwinter gets considerably rebuilt between 1460 and 1479, though not up to its former glory. It's a thriving city again, though still wild/unclaimed in parts. Definitely a frontier sort of place. 
More detail than that, I can recommend checking out the NCS book. Matt Sernett, Ari Marmell, and that one really tall guy did a decent job, IMHO.
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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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Neverwinter--the city and the novel (Spoilers)
