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mhamza
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 Posted - 22 Jun 2014 : 12:20:51
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I haven't read the Lady Pentinent series (though I know what happened)and a friend of mine and I would like to do a campaign involving the resurrection of Vhaeraun, Selvetarm and Eilistraee using the Crescent Blade. Searching the wiki we didn't find any information regarding its whereabouts so do any of you know what happened to it?
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Irennan
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Jun 2014 : 13:23:27
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AFAIK its fate is left vague. Maybe it was shattered (so you would have to recover the shards and reforge it), maybe it was abandoned and recovered by some random (a la The One Ring), or Corellon/other deities took it.
You could also have the Blade be some sort of backup for Eilistraee, perhaps she hid part of her identity in it (so that she would be able to return somehow) and -since she merged with Vhaeraun- he's there too. There's also the possibility (not my idea) that Eilistraee and Vhaeraun actually managed to reincarnate in a couple of mortals, but without their memories, powers and so on. Recovering the (shards of the) Crescent Blade and the parts of E/V's minds still in it, could allow the two siblings to acknowledge who they are and -considering that they now, after the reincarnation, have the perspective of a mortal and know what they go through because of divine errors- even improve or their approach to how they ''fight their battle''.
Also we know that the sword lost its soul-killing powers at some point (since Cavatina survived it. It's possible -and likely- that the weapon never actually had those and that its capabilities were largely exaggeraed, since it would be ooc for someone like Eilistraee to create something like that. In truth the fact that a lesser deity managed to forge a blade capable of killing even greater deities is very gimmicky, but w/e), so the ones who were killed by it still exist somewhere/somehow. Maybe a shard of Selvetarm's power was captured in it when Cavatina killed him, allowing him to come back too.
This could be the reason why other deities are interested in the sword (or in its shard), to allow (or prevent) the return of E/V/S.
A positive thing (the only one, to me) about the events in those novels is that the ending is muddy and open, so the people who don't want to entirely ignore them can still work around the events to get whay they want. |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
Edited by - Irennan on 22 Jun 2014 13:44:02 |
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mhamza
Seeker
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 Jun 2014 : 13:48:21
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Originally posted by Irennan
AFAIK its fate is left vague. Maybe it was shattered (so you would have to recover the shards and reforge it), maybe it was abandoned and recovered by some random (a la The One Ring), or Corellon/other deities took it.
You could also have the Blade be some sort of backup for Eilistraee, perhaps she hid part of her identity in it (so that she would be able to return somehow) and -since she merged with Vhaeraun- he's there too. There's also the possibility (not my idea) that Eilistraee and Vhaeraun actually managed to reincarnate in a couple of mortals, but without their memories, powers and so on. Recovering the (shards of the) Crescent Blade and the parts of E/V's minds still in it, could allow the two siblings to acknowledge who they are and -considering that they now, after the reincarnation, have the perspective of a mortal and know what they go through because of divine errors- even improve or their approach to how they ''fight their battle''.
Also we know that the sword lost its soul-killing powers at some point (since Cavatina survived it. It's possible -and likely- that the weapon never actually had those and that its capabilities were largely exaggeraed, since it would be ooc for someone like Eilistraee to create something like that. In truth the fact that a lesser deity managed to forge a blade capable of killing even greater deities is very gimmicky, but w/e), so the ones who were killed by it still exist somewhere/somehow. Maybe a shard of Selvetarm's power was captured in it when Cavatina killed him, allowing him to come back too.
This could be the reason why other deities are interested in the sword (or in its shard), to allow (or prevent) the return of E/V/S.
A positive thing (the only one, to me) about the events in those novels is that the ending is muddy and open, so the people who don't want to entirely ignore them can still work around the events to get whay they want.
Ah, thanks then, we eventually came up with the idea that it was retrieved by a demon in service to Lolth who plans to use it to gain divinity ala Asmodeus with Azuth and overthrow her. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 22 Jun 2014 : 14:44:00
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| You know, it being "the crescent blade" and having ties to a moon goddess..... would it be interesting (and I'm just throwing this out to spitball it) if its power source were tied to the ice moon Zotha that fell from the sky during the Tearfall.... or maybe somehow related to the fey-related hag goddess Cegilune which is purported to have ties to the moon? |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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Irennan
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Jun 2014 : 15:08:08
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Ah, thanks then, we eventually came up with the idea that it was retrieved by a demon in service to Lolth who plans to use it to gain divinity ala Asmodeus with Azuth and overthrow her.
Sounds cool. It would be hilarious if he somehow managed to actually deceive Lolth and put her in a situation where the only way to not be overthrown was to act and help her children return.
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You know, it being "the crescent blade" and having ties to a moon goddess..... would it be interesting (and I'm just throwing this out to spitball it) if its power source were tied to the ice moon Zotha that fell from the sky during the Tearfall.... or maybe somehow related to the fey-related hag goddess Cegilune which is purported to have ties to the moon?
Well, this is how the sword was created:
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It was said that Eilistraee plucked a pebble from the heavens and tossed it to earth. It grew as large as a boulder and very hot. It was made of moonmetal; if you look at the moon, you can see a hole in the shape of a crescent. The boulder was forged into a crescent-shaped blade with enchantments.
The latter part probably means that it was forged from material coming frome Selune itself (or one of its tears). Unless this is all a mere legend. We can only speculate on how the heck Eilistraee managed to forge something capable of killing everything but Ao.
It surely was some gimmick put there so that the books could advance with their ''holy crusade'' thingy (which doesn't fit the Dark Dancer in the slightest tbh), but what you propose makes sense. If Zotha was a powerful primordial of some sort, one could picture its power being able to defeat a god.
Nonetheless there's the fact that the sword was destroyed/rebuilt/infiltrated by a demon, it even lost some of its capabilities at some point (I guess that Eilistraee herself negated them, or that after being broken the blade was not the same) and I doubt that an artifact loaded with the power of something akin to a Greater God could be so easily manipulated. |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
Edited by - Irennan on 22 Jun 2014 15:50:49 |
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