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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
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 Posted - 29 Jan 2016 : 19:35:33
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 29 Jan 2016 : 19:49:11
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Yeah, this is taken from the product history for the ''Seven Sisters'' book, at the DMsguild
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The fact that there were seven sisters was first noted in FOR4: The Code of the Harpers, and by that time, readers knew about six of them. The missing sister was the drow Qilue, who was first mentioned as a high priestess of a temple of Eilistraee in Dragon #176 (December 1991), coauthored by Ed Greenwood and Steven E. Schend, although her connection to the Seven Sisters wasn't noted at the time.
''The Seven Sisters'' finally completed the tale of the Seven Sisters by putting Qilue into her correct context as the seventh and youngest of the siblings. However, it did far more than that by giving considerable details on all of the sisters, helping to differentiate them and describe who they were as actual people. With each Sister getting about seven pages of text each, The Seven Sisters helped them to become some of the best described characters ever for the Realms.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
Edited by - Irennan on 29 Jan 2016 19:50:16 |
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The Masked Mage
Great Reader
USA
2420 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 18:07:59
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I personally was never really a Qilue fan. She always struck me a somewhat useless, even in Silverfall - which made no sense. The chosen of 2 goddesses who pretty much single-handedly holds back the pit of slimey-slimes below and Halaster Blackcloak and the Eye's guild and the combined strength of Skullport and the Skulls should be much more badass in my book.
Really the only drow who's ever been truly bad-ass is Drizzt - all the others, no matter how powerful they are described to be, die easily and usually its because someone did something stupid. To bring the scroll back to its intent... Dying easily and for something stupid that made pretty much no sense at all reminds me of Khelben :D. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 18:25:43
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Originally posted by The Masked Mage
I personally was never really a Qilue fan. She always struck me a somewhat useless, even in Silverfall - which made no sense. The chosen of 2 goddesses who pretty much single-handedly holds back the pit of slimey-slimes below and Halaster Blackcloak and the Eye's guild and the combined strength of Skullport and the Skulls should be much more badass in my book.
She always got the short end of the stick, and they had her killed without even letting her fight for her life :( |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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Shadowsoul
Senior Scribe
Ireland
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Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 21:00:01
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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
#8213; J.R.R. Tolkien
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 21:05:02
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| Well, she was inserted (even if perhaps she would have just been a high priestess of Eilistraee, instead of being one of the Seven as well). But I really like the how they made her and Laeral very close. |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
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slow-wizard
Acolyte
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Posted - 01 Feb 2016 : 08:34:10
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Originally posted by The Masked Mage
Dying easily and for something stupid that made pretty much no sense at all reminds me of Khelben :D.
One of the good way to describe Khelben's death. Boo for the one who came up with that brillant idea. |
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A rant about Khelben
