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Markustay
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 Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 04:18:38
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Don't get the Shee thing. Also, weren't fey-ri elf/demons?
Yeah, i couldn't really get everything I wanted to, because there was a lot of mixing - i just wanted to show what groups split off of what (so feyri were from Fey - Eladrin, not common, 'garden variety' elves).
'Shee' is a holdover form an earlier version - my bad. I had Sidhe (all fey), Shee (Seelie), and Sith (Unseelie), which were all lifted from the The Shadowrift, which is one of the best damn RL products around. I decided that nomenclature didn't really fit what I was doing, so I got rid of it (but accidental left that one) Eladrin and Shee would both mean the same thing, except that some Eladrin can be Sith... so you can see why I ditched it). Apologies.
And all three are pronounced exactly the same, and sound the same to the human ear, which makes it very confusing to non-Fey. When Fey speak to one another, there is a sub-level of empathy going on, almost like low-frequency, that becomes part of their language - it gives their words the descriptors other langauges need (like adverbs and adjectives). Thus, when a Fey says 'Shee' (thats how it is pronounced), another fey knows precisely what branch they are talking about.
By the same token, 'leShay' are not really another ethnicity, either. Its just a 'leveled up' fey (archfey, usually). As I said, i just wanted to show what came from what, in what order (and add the orcs in there to get it all straight). |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 15:56:40
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snip Eladrin can be Sith... snip
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sfdragon
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Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 16:25:47
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| hey wooly, you should have put this above it " insert imperial march" |
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Ayrik
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Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 17:12:45
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Elves are all Sith? That does help explain the elven racial affinity for longswords.
Daemonfey have one fey or daemonfey or fey'ri parent along with one fiend parent, or two daemonfey parents ... but they are always at least half-blooded fiends (like "cambions" or "alu-demons" in AD&D).
Fey'ri have fey, daemonfey, or fey'ri parents ... but they are always at least half-blooded fey, sometimes "barely tainted" by diluted but potent fiend blood (like "tieflings" in AD&D).
"Fey" specifically means sun elves from Arcorar ("The Great King Forest", basically Cormanthyr and surrounding areas circa -5000DR) in the Realms.
"Fiend" specifically means succubi/incubi (one demon/tanar'ri species in AD&D) for most of the population. But a minority are other fiend species (other demons/tanar'ri, possibly daemons/yugoloths).
"Fey" and "Fiend" could technically be other species which fit the template, but in Realms canon there's only one group and they're all descended primarily from sun elves and succubi/incubi.
"Daemonfey" also has different contexts: it can refer to the general species (of daemonfey and fey'ri, along with their fiend-blooded relations, consorts, or allies), or specifically to those of "pure" daemonfey (not "impure" fey'ri) descent, or to those with the "royal/demonic blood" of House Dlardrageth, or to House Dlardrageth itself. |
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Markustay
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Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 18:37:31
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I just now realized I had left 'Orcs' off that damn chart, which was the whole reason I made the chart! They had gotten lost in all the revisions I did (and if you ever tried to get 'coding' right on this site, you'll know how hard that thing was to do). Common-sense should have dictated that they were just Ondonti (Fey that refused to live by anyone's rules, or 'Unseelie') that had become corrupted over-time, but I added the to the chart to avoid confusion. I could start a whole 'nother with just Ondonti at the top, branching-off into all the different types of Orcs and goblinoids, but there is not point in that - the chart now shows a very basic idea of what I am picturing (I added the Orcs).
Basically, Fey are 'born of the feywild' (one 4e creation thingy), but then split along the axis of 'chaotic, but with rules', and 'NO RULES'. Seelie, and Unseelie. Unseelie never meant to be bad/evil, it just works out that way a lot (its a 'capricious' vs 'malicious' thing). I picture the original Unseelie Elves being ones that didn't care about classic, aesthetic beauty, but went for a more 'natural' approach to life. That's why modern Ondonti would be the closest thing to those ancient fey. However, life kicked them around an awful lot (I figure the whole thing with the "who's land is who's" occurred post-Godswar, and Corellon purposely forgot to invite Gruumsh to the party), and now they are bitter, and like all True fey, their outward appearance began to reflect their inner character. In other words, they got uglier, because their personalities got uglier (Ondonti look more 'unfinished' than ugly, because they simply don't care about that sort of stuff).
So in other words, Elves (and most fey) are beautiful because they are very superficial. It may not have started out that way, but both branches - Elf & Orc - have gone to the extremes with their philosophies. This isn't an individualistic thing, BTW. Its a group thing. It was by the individual when they were all True fey (living in faerie), but thats no longer the case. It takes generations for the changes to occur now, without divine intervention; see the Sea Elves for a MAJOR exception to that rule. They're proof that elves are Fey, and like all fey, can change their form. Most fey have just become 'locked' because they don't have access to the energies of the feywild. So I guess what some of these gods have given their followers (and I would now include Lolth in this, when she 'blessed' her children) is really 'Fey(wild) energy'. Somehow, it allows them to adapt quickly to a situation, on an individual basis. Hmmmmmmmm.....
Time for some new musings: WHAT IF... 'Fey energy' as I just called it was really just time itself? Its temporal energy. Since fey are techncially immortal (even Elves can choose to live beyond their lifespans), their Gods just add more 'time' to them, because things take longer now that the First World is destroyed. The feywild is actually a bit of that First World that is leftover - its one of the few places that hasn't changed since the beginning. It still retains its 'timelessness'. Thus, you apply time to something, and the Fey shift into a new form (I am starting to think everything about the fey is related to time - I've said around these halls often enough how I think Elven High Magic is nothing more than powerful wish-type magic (Divine) applied to the Butterfly Effect. Going one step further, 'temporal Energy' might just be how raw magic manifests within the feywild. Whereas raw magic = positive energy {Life} in the Prime material, its Time in Faerie. And since I connect Life Energy (Mana) to the Gaea (and negative/Necrotic energy to the Ymir), then using my Overcosmolgy template, each different Supernal (Dimensions) manifest raw magic in a different way, dependent upon their nature. Some other things are starting to coalesce, but this isn't the right thread. I'm getting into the 'Guts' of D&D/magic/the universe now.
And YEAH, if you haven't read-through The Shadowrift, do yourselves a favor and do so. Its excellent. The closest thing we ever got to any real fairy-lore pre-4e. It may not be FR canon, but its still has tons of great concepts that can be applied anywhere (and the Sith look like vampires - pale, majestic, powerful, and very much 'goth' LOL). So if you run into an evil (Unseelie) Archfey in the feywild, then yeah, thats a Sith. In all senses of the word.
'The Force' is just a high-level psionic path that enables you to access Raw Magic and manipulate the universe (Raw Magic = 'Ultimate Potentiality' - its basically the energy of GOD itself... who no longer exists... sort of). Thats what Wish Magic is - the Dgen are just leftover 'foremen' from the time when the first world was being constructed, and they still have the power to draw from that source and create whatever they want - Ultimate Potentiality. Thus, a force-user it just someone who has trained their mind enough to access some of what a genie does naturally. Warp reality. Its just not nearly as powerful (although, it did get Anakin's mom pregnant... or so she claims...). Hmmmmm... metaclorines as particles of Raw Magic? Now you guys have me thinking in SW terms, and I HATE SW. |
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Markustay
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Posted - 27 Jan 2018 : 19:01:34
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In the third paragraph above I started to address 'individual vs group' philosophies, but then I got side-tracked (what a surprise). This touches upon the whole 'Unimind' concept I used to play around with a lot (I still use it, its just in the background more now) - the idea that groups form a 'collective consciousness', and out of that consciousness, manifestations of their beliefs can be made material (so basically, my whole theory concerning 'Dogma').
So as a group, Eladrin (our old Gold/Silver Elves) are superficial, but as individuals, that can be any part of the spectrum. Same goes for Orcs, or anyone else for that matter. Elves look 'pretty' because their race likes pretty things. Orcs are all about primal rage, and their visages express that; however, an individual Orc may be raised in high society - wear a monocle and tophat, and be right fine gentleman - but he'd still look like a scary monster. Thats part of the 'group thing'. They can only change as individuals (basically, re-writing their cultural DNA) if they get Divine help. And BTW, its really not different from RW DNA science... unless you can tell me what mechanism is it that makes a group of fish decide to grow legs and go for a walk? 'Evolution' is just a made-up word - you may as well say, "Its magic!", because it amounts to the same damn thing. Renaming something you don't understand doesn't make it something else - it just tricks people into thinking you are smart.
ANYHOW... Individuals are individuals, and do not have to conform to their cultural definitions of things. An elf can enjoy ugly things (I am sure more than one has found Picasso... talented). Just as an orc can gain an appreciation for fine art ("I believe Van Gogh's Sunflowers are the epitome of superd interpretation and a delightful use of color"). What I did here is try to explain cultural alignments, which aren't so much of 'a thing' anymore in D&D, but they are still very much there, under the surface.
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And as for how my last two posts pertain to the topic - I think very much so. "Where we come from" is as much about psychology as it is about a physical location. Nature & Nurture go hand-in-hand. |
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WillyLos
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Posted - 28 Jan 2018 : 14:35:50
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| Markustay, is this usually how it works? The thing with leShay and fey. Or do other species become different when they 'level up'? |
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Lord Karsus
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Posted - 28 Jan 2018 : 21:11:04
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Not according to the Grand History of the Realms. It specifically avoids saying just that. Are we gonna have that old argument again? The absence of proof is not proof itself? YOU taught me that.
-The Sarifal article implied and all but outright stated that the leShay are the Fey Creator Race, and the leShay are native to the Plane of Faerie.
-That said, even if you thought that the leShay are not the Fey Creator Race (and I'm very iffy about that, since I don't really like the race), nothing in any source to my knowledge says that the Fey Creator Race (whoever they were) was native to Toril, and then left to go elsewhere. |
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Markustay
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Posted - 29 Jan 2018 : 00:47:13
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Not all lore can be taken at face value anymore, because of all the continuity changes. i agree with you that the LeShay are Archfey (powerful Fey), and that they came form fairy. It doesn't mean they were always in the Feywild, and in fact, I have found lore stating that the Fomorians controlled the feywild before the Fey did, so that predates the (setting-specific) entry in the GHotR.
But its a little more complicated than that, and I think I have it all figured out (and what I mean by that is, a way in which ALL the lore can remain consistent). It has to do with time, and changes. After all, you can't say humans were on the Earth 50,000 years ago. There may have been something that looked sort of similar to us, but those weren't humans. And yet, all humans came from Earth (or so the lying Gov't tells us LOL). I think the proto-fey originated in the feywild, and those were more like Will-O-Whisps, and then Corellon (and perhaps others) shaped them into the Fey... which are MUCH more than just Eladrin and Elves. Those are just two offshoots of one particular type. The smaller fey never left, so they've always been fey. Its the big ones that keep confusing everyone with their terminology (I picture 4e Gold and Silvers Elves saying, "I no longer identify as an Elf... I'm an Eladrin now").
So, because we have two very different types of fey (actually, hundreds, but I'm just placing them all into two umbrella-categories) - the tall fey (Elves), and the small ones (all the rest) - we can apply certain lore to one group or the other, or both. In fact, I am starting to wonder why the fey are even considered a creator race, since they don't seem to have had any part in making all the rest.
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Markustay, is this usually how it works? The thing with leShay and fey. Or do other species become different when they 'level up'?
In 4e they did - they had that weird tier system. Not sure if its carried over to 5e, in any way.
I believe dragonborn were able to 'grow wings' at tier 3, so there you go. Not that actually makes them another race, but neither are the LeShay.
LeShay were something that got written up in 3e, before we had 'fey' (well, we always had them, they just never discussed them in detail before). So the 'High' (Gold & Silver) elves became Eladrin, and eladrin is just a fancy word for the tall, majestic fey ('trooping fairies' in folklore). So now we have actual fey, and we still have that old lore about the LeShay, except that the LeShay are written up as VERY high level (they were in the epic book, no?), so the general consensus is that those LeShay were really very high-level Eladrin all along... we just didn't know it back then (because we didn't even have the word 'Eladrin'). In fact, now we have 'archfey', so the LeShay just get rolled into that. They're not something different, its just a different name for the same thing.
Perhaps we can retool-it to mean an 'archfey' who is a 'loner'. Normally when we say archfey we mean a member of the Fairy Court nobility, and 'LeShay' would be someone of the same power level, but has no part in structured fairy society. There you go. |
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Lord Karsus
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Posted - 29 Jan 2018 : 23:53:48
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| -The only thing I don't like with that is the concept of unformed, "proto-fey". Just like Elementals are manifestations of their respective elements that just kind of manifest, Demons manifestations of the chaotic and evil Abyss that just kind of manifest, Devils manifestations of the lawful and evil Hells that just kind of manifest, and so on, I consider Fey creatures manifestations of the Plane of Faerie that just kind of manifest. A Plane of Faerie flower opens, and out pops a fairy. A Plane of Faerie brook bubbles, and out pops a nixie. A Plane of Faerie grove is very mystical, and there's an Ent that just has always been there. That's only my two cents about it, obviously. |
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sfdragon
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Posted - 30 Jan 2018 : 01:59:48
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| you know, there could be more than one fey creator race not just the le-shay |
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Markustay
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Posted - 30 Jan 2018 : 02:50:20
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-The only thing I don't like with that is the concept of unformed, "proto-fey". Just like Elementals are manifestations of their respective elements that just kind of manifest, Demons manifestations of the chaotic and evil Abyss that just kind of manifest, Devils manifestations of the lawful and evil Hells that just kind of manifest, and so on, I consider Fey creatures manifestations of the Plane of Faerie that just kind of manifest. A Plane of Faerie flower opens, and out pops a fairy. A Plane of Faerie brook bubbles, and out pops a nixie. A Plane of Faerie grove is very mystical, and there's an Ent that just has always been there. That's only my two cents about it, obviously.
Well, i sort of cover that with some of the mythos I wrote up int eh Maztica Alive! thread. basically, the Wilderlands (the original name of the feywild, before the Fey took it over) throw-off Will-O-wisps, in much the manner you just described. That's like the plane's 'soul stuff'. then it all it takes is a god, or some other powerful being (possibly even an archmage) to put some flesh around that and get and elf/eladrin. However, just like those other planes you mentioned, if left to its own devices, the proto-Fey (will-O-wisp) will eventually 'level up' and go to its evolved form - that of a sprite, or Duende (brownie)... unless a brownie is the evolved form of a sprite. that would make a brownie a 'second evolver' . LOL (and NO, I have never seen or played any Pokemon - I just have four sons).
Sidhe/LeShay just take an extra little something to make them into what they are, and that happened a long time ago, and now they just procreate in the usual fashion (although I still say True Fey can't breed anymore - the immortal ones are the last of their kind). Things like 'Cetaurs' are 'specials', as probably are Treants. Maybe Treants are where the souls of fallen elves go. Actually, treants might be some form of 'fairy elemental' (some mythos have an element of 'Wood'). The improved treants - whatever those things were called - those might be archfey. Perhaps that's a form they take when they get really old but don't want to die (although I did say they can't die, but they still age, and being a tree will stop that)?
And I think centaurs are a the hybrid form of a Chevall, that has gotten 'stuck' post Dawn War. A group of elves learned how to become horses(and centaur as a hybrid form) for the defense of elven lands (fey woods, etc), in much the same way lythari become wolves. Only they've completely lost the ability to change, having been away from the Feywild so long (in the Feywild, they should still be Chevall).
Actually, just use what I use - ALL fey may take one animal form, as a natural ability, as often as the want. The animal is normally hereditary, but not necessarily. Other animal forms can be added with the use of racial feats. Thus, a chevall is just an elf with the horse form. Its a little different than prior lore, but so what. Maybe the hybrid form should be a feat as well (so you can automatically become a horse, but to become a centaur you'd need a racial feat). I'd probably apply the same to Lythari, who also don't usually have a hybrid form.
I guess Orcs (Ondonti) could all take the wolf form at one time, which could be why they and goblins are so close to them. Who knows? Maybe that's what all wargs started out as? (i had to bring it back around to orcs, BTW)  |
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sfdragon
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Lord Karsus
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Posted - 30 Jan 2018 : 21:19:37
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orcs = hyenas. right Ed.. looks at hyena laughing while nodding
-It's actually a little funny, looking at pictures of what Orcs were in the earliest 1e products, and comparing them to how they're portrayed in newer illustrations. |
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Dalor Darden
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 00:05:05
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I'm leaning heavily now toward the Orc vs. Elf division having happened well before they came to Faerun.
If a portal was opened that brought the first elves to Faerun and it was opened long enough then Orcs would have found it too if they were fighting the elves already.
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Markustay
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 03:19:13
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Yeah, my idea for all of that was that the division betwen the two happened in 'The Time Before Time', so before the current iteration of the multiverse.
1) The 'Gods' appear in the Aethers (Estelar & primordials)
2) The construction of the First World begins
3) Corellon discovers The Wilderlands, a plane of primal beauty. He creates the Eladrin (High Fey) out of the plane's inhabitants (Will-O-Wisps
4) Corellon and Grumsh disagree on how to lead the Fey, they fight, and Gruumsh leaves with the Dokalfar (place he went to still undetermined)
5) Black Diamond Affair happens - Danu sacrifices herself to create the demiplane of Faerie and the Fey leave the First World
5) Dawn War happens, and Ends when The Lattice of Heaven is shattered
6) Progenitor Giants enter the Wilderlands (future Feywild) and extablish kingdoms
7) As the shattered Prime Material coalesces into 'bubbles of matter', these begin to form new worlds (within the Bubbles, called 'Crytsal Spheres').
8) Godswar starts up soon after, then end when a bunch of gods die, The War of Light & Darkness should have been a Sphere-Specific battle of that conflict. In at least one sphere, a 'new sun' is created.
9) The realm of faerie is moved to within the Wilderlands, which starts to become the Feywild.
10) The war between the Fey and the Giants causes the Fey to create new magic, banishing the dragons to the fractured Prime Material Plane.
11) Except for a fey Foorians Kingdoms, the giants are all subjugated. The Fey send the elves to the new Prime Material worlds to resolve any issues they caused with the dragons. Orcs 'come out of hiding' on these worlds (they had gone 'underground' before the Material Plane was shattered).
12) Tintageer is destroyed. Dwarves also begin to appear in other parts of the Prime worlds, the 'unripened' babes of the Jotunbrūd.
13) The elves cast the Sundering Ritual, "reaching backwards and forwards in time", changing the face of Toril forever. The laws of Equivalent Exchange cause Tintageer to sink in the past, and Evermeet is created.
Thats the first time I tried to put all my thoughts into a cohesive timeline, and I kept running into problems. It needs a LOT of work. Regardless, the split between the Alfar (Fey) and Dokalfar (Unseelie Fey) happened before the First World Apocalypse.
The Feywild (once 'the Wilderlands') is a 'mirror' of the True World. Although technically a part of the First World (which was the entirety of the physical universe at that time), it was a reflection, some say, on the 'underbelly of the Heavens' (Godly realms), whereas the Shadowfell was the actual shadow of the first World, cast upon the Lower Realms. As the nature of the universe changed, so too did both of those planes, and all the direct connections between planes were lost when the Lattice of Heaven was shattered (which lead to the necessity of Gates). I don't think Orcs - the first Dokalfar that followed Gruumsh - were ever 'in' the Feywild. I think they hid in the 'deep places' of the primal [i]First World, and when that was shattered, they wound-up all over the multiverse, on just about every world.
But YOU can say one particular group was lead away by Gruumsh, and created the Orc World (although you seem to have totally steered away from the concept the world started out theirs). Hmmm... just thought of another interesting way to spin things... I need to roll that nugget around in my brain for awhile... let it fester...
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sleyvas
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 03:23:33
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I'm leaning heavily now toward the Orc vs. Elf division having happened well before they came to Faerun.
If a portal was opened that brought the first elves to Faerun and it was opened long enough then Orcs would have found it too if they were fighting the elves already.
Thoughts?
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Markustay
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 03:40:16
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If you check what I wrote above (and I was trying to keep it cohesive with the stuff I wrote in the Maztica thread, regarding the 'Over-Cosmology'), the separation HAD to have happened VERY early, as in 'before the world was created' early.
The Orcs were already there (everywhere) because they were underground, hiding, in pieces of the first World that latter became the D&Dverse.
Later, when Gates were opened, large groups of orcs could have moved around, from world to world. This is how we get all the different 'ethnicities' of Orcs. |
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Dalor Darden
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 03:43:29
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Originally posted by Markustay
If you check what I wrote above (and I was trying to keep it cohesive with the stuff I wrote in the Maztica thread, regarding the 'Over-Cosmology'), the separation HAD to have happened VERY early, as in 'before the world was created' early.
The Orcs were already there (everywhere) because they were underground, hiding, in pieces of the first World that latter became the D&Dverse.
Later, when Gates were opened, large groups of orcs could have moved around, from world to world. This is how we get all the different 'ethnicities' of Orcs.
I like the idea that orcs were all over the place...because in the original story we have of the Lottery, Gruumsh PUTS them in all the pieces of the land. |
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Markustay
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Posted - 31 Jan 2018 : 04:44:37
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Yeah. I like that as well. 'The Gods' not allowing them 'their own place' wound up being serendipitous, because they "hid within all the nooks & crannies of the universe".
I just tried linking all of that to Orcus (there HAS TO BE a link... just look at that name!), but unfortunately I had to scrap what I had. When I did some Orcus research (Man, is there a LOT of lore on that guy! he could BE his own setting!) Orcus was human once. Go figure.
He also may have been female - there is a very subtle hint to that affect - when he materializes, he cycles through all his incarnations, starting out as your atypical 'ebil priest' of some cult, then changes into a "woman-like larvae", and then becomes a Mane, then a Bar-Igura, etc, etc, all the way up to Balor, then Orcus (and even Tenebrous - his undead state), and then back to semi-dead Orcus. I wanted to make him a lietenenat of Gruumsh's that lead 'his people' underground while Gruumsh went off to fight in the Dawn War, but Orcus was definitely mortal, if not human. I mean, it is still possibly to say he was an Orc Priest during his life, but the lore specifically says he died 'thousands of years ago', not tens of thousands of years ago. Still not definitive, but I think we'd be stretching the intent of the lore on that one. The idea is that Orcus was a human mortal, who died, became a demon, and rose up through the ranks.
I Even found a bunch of interesting Acerarak lore while researching Orcus - apparently Acerarak started out as tielfing warlock. Who knew. Acerarak was a follower of Orcus (thus, Orcus has to predate Acerarak... hmmmm...) |
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Lord Karsus
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If a portal was opened that brought the first elves to Faerun and it was opened long enough then Orcs would have found it too if they were fighting the elves already.
Thoughts?
-Or, they could have been purposefully brought like the early Elves were. The Fey Creator Race opened portals from the Plane of Faerie to Toril to basically harass and undermine the various Dragon barons. If you want to go with the hypothesis that Orcs were brought by the Fey Creator Race as well, they definitely have the capability to harass the Dragon barons of the time and would check that box. Plus, removing them from the Plane of Faerie- if that's where they were- kills two birds with one stone. Basically throwing your trash in someone else's yard and not worrying about it anymore. |
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sleyvas
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Originally posted by Markustay
I just tried linking all of that to Orcus (there HAS TO BE a link... just look at that name!), but unfortunately I had to scrap what I had. When I did some Orcus research (Man, is there a LOT of lore on that guy! he could BE his own setting!) Orcus was human once. Go figure.
So were the Orcs in Nexal now in Maztica... just saying.
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Markustay
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lies! All lies!
No-one else may become Gruumsh's blessed children!
Ya know... I think you may have hit on the precise piece of lore that made me completely NOT interested in Maztica the first time out. I read that, and that boxed set went right in the closet, next to all my other gaming stuff I knew i wasn't ever going to look at again (the DD/FR stuff was all on a bookshelf right next to my bed... in lieu of a night table. Getting to my books was much more important than a silly alarm clock).
To be fair, the Kara-Tur box spent a little bit of time in that closet as well. Until all the interest for it got drummed-up on the WotC site. Then I fell in love with it. Weird.
You know whats weird - that bookshelf got completely annihilated during the fire (the whole room did - so much paper acted as an 'accelerant'). You now what I had left? All the stuff I put in the closet - the closet was untouched (smells smoky though). That's all in my garage. I may even still have that Maztica box.
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TBeholder
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and its basically a bunch of earthmotes (2nd edition calls them land islands).
Yup. Hence "Chukchee is not a reader, Chukchee is a writer!" is one of the main factors contributing to attitude toward 4e "development".
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It would very much fit if these races are related to this original migration, since its only a planet away. Personally, it would also fit if these "lizard folk" were something a bit different from the standard lizard men, and the same with the "bird folk" not being the standard aarakocra.
They were explicitly called lizardmen and aarakocra in some sources (including Realmspace, see references in FRwiki).
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which were all lifted from the The Shadowrift, which is one of the best damn RL products around.
Which is weakly related at best to ey elsewhere.
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so I got rid of it (but accidental left that one) Eladrin and Shee would both mean the same thing, except that some Eladrin can be Sith... so you can see why I ditched it). Apologies.
And all three are pronounced exactly the same, and sound the same to the human ear, which makes it very confusing to non-Fey. When Fey speak to one another, there is a sub-level of empathy going on, almost like low-frequency, that becomes part of their language - it gives their words the descriptors other langauges need (like adverbs and adjectives). Thus, when a Fey says 'Shee' (thats how it is pronounced), another fey knows precisely what branch they are talking about.
What's #1250 on Mr. Welch's list, again?
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Or, they could have been purposefully brought like the early Elves were. The Fey Creator Race opened portals from the Plane of Faerie to Toril to basically harass and undermine the various Dragon barons. If you want to go with the hypothesis that Orcs were brought by the Fey Creator Race as well, they definitely have the capability to harass the Dragon barons of the time and would check that box.
Either the dragons look out for thieving louts, or hunt them, either way distracted from more subtle folk, indeed. |
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Either the dragons look out for thieving louts, or hunt them, either way distracted from more subtle folk, indeed.
-And, let's be honest: even though they're 1st level fodder by themselves, Orc Hordes are very dangerous things. |
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Ayrik
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| If orcs are 1HD across (almost) their entire population - unlike (demi)humans who tend to be less and have relatively few "exceptional" individuals - then they'd also have enough impact on the ecology to ramp everything up a little bit. Fewer "weak" prey and predators (animals and monsters alike), more "strong" ones capable of surviving encounters with orcs. I almost imagine a world where every creature which is normally soft and cute and fluffy is a little "tougher" and "meaner" ... bunnies with claws, ducks with hardened hides, puppies with vicious fangs, lol. |
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If orcs are 1HD across (almost) their entire population - unlike (demi)humans who tend to be less and have relatively few "exceptional" individuals - then they'd also have enough impact on the ecology to ramp everything up a little bit. Fewer "weak" prey and predators (animals and monsters alike), more "strong" ones capable of surviving encounters with orcs. I almost imagine a world where every creature which is normally soft and cute and fluffy is a little "tougher" and "meaner" ... bunnies with claws, ducks with hardened hides, puppies with vicious fangs, lol.
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Markustay
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Originally posted by Markustay
which were all lifted from the The Shadowrift, which is one of the best damn RL products around.
Which is weakly related at best to ey elsewhere.
Seriously? Its one of the few RL products I liked. that, and the monstrous compendiums. I guess if you aren't playing ravenloft your reasons for liking something shift.
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Originally posted by Markustay
so I got rid of it (but accidental left that one) Eladrin and Shee would both mean the same thing, except that some Eladrin can be Sith... so you can see why I ditched it). Apologies.
And all three are pronounced exactly the same, and sound the same to the human ear, which makes it very confusing to non-Fey. When Fey speak to one another, there is a sub-level of empathy going on, almost like low-frequency, that becomes part of their language - it gives their words the descriptors other languages need (like adverbs and adjectives). Thus, when a Fey says 'Shee' (thats how it is pronounced), another fey knows precisely what branch they are talking about.
What's #1250 on Mr. Welch's list, again?
I don't get the reference. |
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sleyvas
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Originally posted by TBeholder
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Originally posted by sleyvas
[quote] It would very much fit if these races are related to this original migration, since its only a planet away. Personally, it would also fit if these "lizard folk" were something a bit different from the standard lizard men, and the same with the "bird folk" not being the standard aarakocra.
They were explicitly called lizardmen and aarakocra in some sources (including Realmspace, see references in FRwiki).
Yeah, that's why I used the word "Personally". I know that they were lizard men and aarakocras. But considering that the aarakocra now looks nothing like the aarakocra of old, I guess it doesn't matter. We can give those races any look we want just so long as they basically look like lizard men and some kind of bird folk. |
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When did Orcs come to Faerun
