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from The North (Dire Woods):
Weather here bears no resemblance to the outer world and is highly magical (see Deeper Secrets below for wizard
weather). Creatures long extinct elsewhere are found here in abundance, though they die if forced out beyond the Dire
Woods' boundaries. Wild magic sites are almost commonplace herein, appearing at random then disappearing without a trace.

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from The North (Fang Island):
Fang Island is the site of a wild magic area
created in a failed attempt to formulate an extremely powerful ward. From time to time, random harmful
spells discharge there by themselves. Their bursts and radiance often rend the night. This wild magic area is self-generating
and has so far defied attempts by even the mightiest mages of the Arcane Brotherhood to destroy it.

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from Volo's Guide to the North (notes on wardmist spell):
The common use of wardings began in the North, probably in
ancient Netheril. The most ancient wards are found in tombs, in storage
areas under ruins, or in deep glades in the various forests of the North.
These ancient wards often have mythal-like magical alterations. These
include wild magic effects and prohibitions against magical items.

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from Elminster's Ecologies, Appendix 2 (The High Moor):
The Mobile Wild Magic Zone
Though no other mobile zones of wild magic are known, this field indeed seems to have all the properties of a
normal, nonmoving wild magic zone (as described in Running the Realms in the FORGOTTEN REALMS® Campaign Setting
box). The differences between a usual wild magic zone and this one are that this zone moves and is visible.
The zone has a maximum movement rate of 24. It is attracted to spellcasters - especially mages - and moves
toward them when they cast spells. The zone is usually spherical and has a diameter of 10 feet, but it has been
observed to elongate on occasion to an ellipsoid some 20 feet long and 5 feet wide at the center in order to engulf
two spellcasters at once. The zone hovers around spellcasters for 2d4 rounds before moving away, though it may
return if those spellcasters begin casting again.
[...] It has been described to me as a small field of scintillating light that is perhaps 10 feet in
diameter. It is said to rush toward people using a spell or magical item and surround them.

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from Volo's Guide to the Dalelands (The Constable's Tower):
It is not known precisely what is going on in the Tower, but some sort of
strange, deadly cycle of magic holds sway in here. It seems to have been first
encountered after Ilthond was killed by the demishade Gothyl.
[...] Some of these renewing magics seem to have kept the Tower from flying apart or
collapsing in the magical struggle that has gone on for at least a season now. This
titanic unleashing of forces can be detected in the town below only by the
occasional flash of light or tremor, but some people claim it is beginning to
emit drifting areas of wild magic and may ultimately force the abandonment
of Dagger Falls itself!

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from Volo's Guide to the Dalelands (Haunted Ruins of Moontassel):
Inside the wall stand the remnants of a small school of wizardry that was blasted
apart in a battle with rival mages long ago. The ruins were stripped of all magic that
could safely be taken away before the wall was put up, and adventurers are warned
that the wall has been sited so as to enclose a wild magic area created in the
battle. The wild magic area, reports go, does not extend all the way down into the
cellars of the riven school.

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Originally posted by TBeholder

Everywhere. Assuming frequency of major spellstorm incidents is roughly constant, the new affected areas appear as much as they vanish. There were decaying mythals (and no doubt other great spell-fields) and motile "bubbles" under Ravens Bluff. Time of Troubles added the Helmlands and "bubbles" from the Guardian's Tear.

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Originally posted by Zeromaru X

Anything he has mentioned works in a pre-Spellplague campaign.

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Originally posted by Storyteller Hero

The Moonshae Isles may have some wild magic areas near or at where the veil between the Material and the realm of Fey is thin.

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Originally posted by cpthero2

Learned Scribe Storyteller Hero,

Is that 4e/5e? I just don't recall that being a 3.5 or prior thing that existed.

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Originally posted by Storyteller Hero

The Moonshae Isles may have some wild magic areas near or at where the veil between the Material and the realm of Fey is thin.

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Originally posted by cpthero2

Learned Scribe Storyteller Hero,

Is that 4e/5e? I just don't recall that being a 3.5 or prior thing that existed.

Best regards,

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Originally posted by Storyteller Hero

The Moonshae Isles may have some wild magic areas near or at where the veil between the Material and the realm of Fey is thin.

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I remember mentions in 4e of a fey faction acquiring a foothold in the isles when the Spellplague weakened planar barriers.

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Originally posted by cpthero2

So, this is just a 4e and beyond thing, is that correct, regarding spellstorms?

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from Volo's Guide to Cormyr (Mouth o' Gargoyles):
  The battle also left a more lasting legacy: a wild magic curse that makes the whole village an unreliable locale for spellcasting. Spells almost always go awry
here, and magical item effects go wild most times they are invoked.
[...]
The mere presence of magical items doesn't awaken the curse, but any visitor who tries to activate even the most minor magic creates an immediate spellstorm of
wild magic effects that spirals off in all directions. For example, trees turn blue, shrubs begin to levitate and drift about, leaves turn to glass and metal shards and
fly about in all directions, stone turns to water, earth is hurled up into wavelike immobile shapes, and birds explode into fireballs here and there.

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from Elminster in Myth Drannor:
And so it was that a spellstorm was unleashed in the Court of Cormanthor that day. A true spellstorm is a fearful thing, one of the most terrible dooms one can behold, even if one lives to remember it.

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Originally posted by cpthero2

Master TBeholder,

I was referring to the reply you had on 07 Apr 17 at 08:05:50. I just am not familiar with spellstorms, if those were only a 4e invention post-Spellplague?

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Originally posted by cpthero2

Master Rupert,

Thank you! I honestly had no idea. haha

Do you have any sources I could look into? I haven't been able to dig any up.

Thank you much.

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Originally posted by Copper Elven Vampire

Nothing says I'm here like a Cleric of Erevan Ilesere in a Wild Magic Zone. lol. I love the idea of a Rod of Wonder in a Wild Magic zone. lol.

Fireballs turn to chickens, Lightning bolts turn to Fireflies. Acid bolts turn to mud, Cones of Cold turn to talcum powder. A Blade Barrier turns into a swirling cloud of autumn leaves. Your arrows turn into snakes, your swords turn into sticks and all your tricks and pranks and chaos run amok.

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