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silverwolfer
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 Posted - 05 Mar 2014 : 21:27:15
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So we have the madin of frost for 5e, sending down the winter to freeze things over.
What religion or organization, do you think on faerun, would deny that it is happening, and nothing magical about it?
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Wooly Rupert
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 05 Mar 2014 : 23:46:01
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I don‘t know anything about this 5E event.
But note events in past Realmslore where an endless magical winter came to the land ... the Ring of Winter, the Crystal Shard (to a lesser extent), even the creeping glaciers of the North. Good old Zhengyi had something going, too, which seemingly froze big chunks of Vaasa. And there‘s always some portal to an icy elemental demiplane or some self-proclaimed bigwig genasi/elementalist mucking around with cold.
These things typically concern only inhabitants local to the region - the Realms by and large is hardly aware or interested (or able) to contest it. Sometimes one of the much-vaunted Chosen decides to put other ‘pressing matters‘ on hold long enough to step in and properly address the issue.
Methinks little Auril Frostmaiden has always been given short shrift in the Realms. A little cold is good for the soul.
But this entire endless-winter trope is thematically dull, Disney and Narnia already been there and done that. I perservere in my hope that those annoying pointy-eared fey folk leave for warmer climes. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 06 Mar 2014 : 01:22:48
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Dwarves would probably be very reluctant to pay such tales any heed. They mostly dwell underground, anyway.
If anything, it might drive more of the surface-foraying ones back below, not so much for fear of surface happenings, but out of respect for the old ways.
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 Mar 2014 : 05:30:22
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quote:
Originally posted by silverwolfer
So we have the madin of frost for 5e, sending down the winter to freeze things over.
What religion or organization, do you think on faerun, would deny that it is happening, and nothing magical about it?
Some sort of elves probably. They tend to be out it a little. "What Ice Age? It's getting hot! A-choo! Hot, I say!"  |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 08 Mar 2014 : 18:49:02
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Originally posted by silverwolfer
So we have the madin of frost for 5e, sending down the winter to freeze things over.
What religion or organization, do you think on faerun, would deny that it is happening, and nothing magical about it?
A religion that worships FOXes. Where the followers generally beleive what FOXes say must be true. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 08 Mar 2014 : 20:50:34
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Careful Mournblade. Heed the Wooly One.
1485 is only the first year of the Frostmaiden's Winter. Faerûn has has many freak winters before so I very much doubt that it's received any significant attention beyond what one of those previous freak winters have in the past yet. |
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ywhtptgtfo
Seeker
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Posted - 11 Mar 2014 : 00:46:35
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
And please keep real-world politics out of the discussion.
We should talk about the 3 partitions of Thesk by Rashemen, Thay, and Aglarond. |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Mar 2014 : 09:26:34
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Originally posted by hashimashadoo
Careful Mournblade. Heed the Wooly One.
The funny folk from certain faction of certain place are convinced that "somebody should lay the law" for everyone else and they are cuddly little marysues to whom it should not apply. Which is exactly why they are so eager, of course.
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1485 is only the first year of the Frostmaiden's Winter. Faerûn has has many freak winters before so I very much doubt that it's received any significant attention beyond what one of those previous freak winters have in the past yet.
Of course, but elves try to think in centuries. And they have a habit of ignoring little things that inconvenience them as something beneath their notice, if otherwise they would have to actually think. You know, like - "Oh, those humans? Don't mind them, they will go away."  |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 11 Mar 2014 : 22:52:25
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Methinks mere winter - no matter how remarkably harsh, barren, cold, and long it may be - is just not quite as noteworthy and memorable as, say, having magical blue storms rip half your world apart every time that goddess gets herself killed again.
There are so many things, bad, horrible, unbelievable things, which occur in the Realms that it seems to me a particularly snowy winter season just won‘t be a topic which much concerns anybody once it‘s come and gone. |
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 12 Mar 2014 : 00:29:03
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| Not knowing what's going on with Legacy of the Crystal Shard, I'd say segments of the common population would deny it. There would be the occasional superstitious man that would blame the cold on gods, but there'd also be the common sense, no nonsense house wife that would say it was just a harsh winter. Harsher than expected, but nonetheless it would take more than a fooled squirrel or rabbit (that didn't store a lot of nuts, or grow a thicker coat, respectively) to convince her a god changed the weather. |
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So about that global warming...
