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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
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 Posted - 30 Jul 2013 : 23:39:43
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I used an online random Town name generator to come up with these options to add to my Fallen Realms map as new locales for the world. Which of them, in any of the lists, feel the most Realmsian? (I've put an asterisk next to the names I really like.)
Fantasy-style Town Names
Goldash *
Newshore
Drachedge
Redlyn
Corholt
Coldnesse
Merrilea
Bycoast *
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Celtic Town Names
Corwe *
Llanfyll
Angorth *
Rhiney
Harli
Llaisy
Conni
Pandy
Caerphy
Llethy
Egyptian Town Names
Desol
Arak
Maada
Astis
Hety
Mimed *
Atwak
Basty
Doseb
Memphun *
English Town Names
Booford
Maybluff
Adton *
Bythorp
Cuford
Beehill
Heawood
Beostone
Seford
Hidon *
Greek Town Names
Methi
Lazom *
Cyra
Laeusae *
Manta
Zomea
Epinth *
Losae
Sama
Aralo *
Norse Town Names
Themibyr
Thenidalr *
Bjangiskali
Runiskali
Armolftoft
Otryggvik
Aringbekkr
Herlebekkr
Brotidalr
Thormifell *
Roman Town Names
Caesius
Aligus
Arnunum
Nemia *
Lixantha *
Valeium
Dunium
Veria
Ternia
Ampsalum *
Saxon Town Names
Hawold
Tastow
Caleah *
Haford
Hahyrst
Castow *
Ontun
Tahyrst
Batun
Watun *
Slavic Town Names
Kalohan *
Jovo *
Bebravce
Tupova
Dubnava
Svica
Liny
Zombery
Nice
Mavske
Sumerian Town Names
Ugad
Dona
Anah
Alan
Shemish *
Ashkad *
Eshnur *
Kemashk
Eleur
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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
148 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2013 : 04:25:09
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Hmm, I'm not sold on setting the Fallen Realms 50 years after 1372 DR. The general consensus seems to be that the final arcs in the 3E sourcebooks end in 1375 DR. Also, there is a ten year gap between those books and the beginning of the 4E era.
Now, the bulk of what occurs during and after the Spellplague hits won't have much of a place (if any) in what I'm creating. I might add in some of it, but I won't be "replacing" existing lands with the new ones. Instead, I might seed them onto a new "risen" continent(s) or one of the existing continents that doesn't have any/little canonical information about it.
But, I really haven't though that far ahead yet.
What I'm certain of is that the 50 years will come after either 1375 DR or a later date +50 year. If I go with 1375, the fist year of the Fallen Realms will be 1425 DR.
This also comes out of how my hex map is developing. I have wrought A LOT of changes, and 50 years from 1372 DR probably won't be long enough for the PA-events to settle down; however, I have decided that the world will still be mid-apocalypse (but nearing the end of the upheavals), so it doesn't matter if things aren't completely settled.
There will entire regions that are still being contested, and there will be numerous refugee camps/ports scattered across Faerūn where survivors group together in hopes of building new lives or rebuilding ruined lands.
Here are some major tidbits about the new North...
Waterdeep is gone. The Ruins of Undermountain still exist. A new city called Shadowfade floats above the sea near where Waterdeep once stood. It is a Shadovar city that was built as a mockery of Waterdeep.
Silverymoon lies in ruins, as do many of the cities of the North. Neverwinter still stands, as does Everlund, Griffon's Nest, Longsaddle, Loudwater, Mirabar, and Sundabar.
Loudwater has grown significantly (roughly x4). Many refugees have flocked to it, believing it will become to the North what Waterdeep once was. Loudwater has conquered Llorkh and kicked the Zhents out. (It wasn't hard after the power structure of the Zhentarim fractured.) |
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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
148 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 20:33:19
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Since Lloth doesn't exist in the Mirrored Cosmology, I have to come up with a different background for the drow gods. I want to create a drow deity with two unique drow aspects -- one male and one female. The male aspect will be strongly associated with spiders and spider-kin while the female aspect will be associated with scorpions and scorpion-like monsters.
The deities won't be 100% drow specific since drow are rare in the cosmology. For the Male Aspect, his worshipers will include not only drow, but also araneas, chitines & choldriths, draegloths *, driders, ettercaps, harpoon spiders, lhosks, neogis, phase spiders, spellgaunts, and vermin lords.
For the Female Aspect, her worshipers will include not only drow, but also asheratis, bhukas, draegloths *, dune hags, dustblights, kaortis, rukanyrs, scorrow, stingers & scorpionfolk, stonesingers, and vermin lords.
Both will be Intermediate Deities, but there will be a more powerful sexless deity that is/was the basis for the existence of the two deities. That being will be a dead or slumbering. If dead, the being was once a Greater Deity. If slumbering, the being is an Elder Evil. (I'm leaning towards the latter.)
* Draegloths (and the yochlol) were created by the sexless being. |
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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
148 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2013 : 20:39:52
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| There will also be a additional Lesser Deity associated with intelligent/semi-intelligent beings with multiple limbs (arms and/or legs) [athachs and centaurs, for example] and a Demigod associated with intelligent/semi-intelligent beings with multiple heads (ettins and death dogs, for example). |
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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 15 Aug 2013 : 18:00:10
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Originally posted by Knightfall
I used an online random Town name generator... <snip>
Where did you find this? I've been looking, but I haven't found one that does it culture-specific.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Knightfall
Learned Scribe
Canada
148 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2013 : 19:32:47
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Originally posted by Markustay
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Originally posted by Knightfall
I used an online random Town name generator... <snip>
Where did you find this? I've been looking, but I haven't found one that does it culture-specific.
donjon; RPG Tools |
Edited by - Knightfall on 20 Aug 2013 19:33:11 |
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The Fallen Realms (post-apoc. Toril) [D&D v.3.5]
