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moonbeast
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 Posted - 30 Jun 2018 : 21:16:17
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What the hell is it? It looks like a new category of Waterdhavian coin. That is how it is portrayed in Dragon Heist, with at least one artwork of Jarlaxle (??) throwing the damn coins around like he was some Faerunian billionaire.
But even in the OFFICIAL Lords of Waterdeep boardgame (canon material), the coin tokens used in that game does not have anything shaped like this new coin. This coin has what seems to be an "hourglass" shape (kinda like a stylized black widow hourglass shape).
Here is a link to the image, last used on Jeremy Crawford's Twitter feeds, which has the D&D logo in the center:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgpK47RU0AAy3MG.png
Here is the actual coin "portrayed" in Dragon Heist cover art, where Billionaire Jarlaxle and other Waterdeep nobles are surrounded by the prolific coins:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfDGfxGUwAECCwQ.jpg
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Edited by - moonbeast on 30 Jun 2018 21:21:46
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Kentinal
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Jun 2018 : 22:26:08
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The one question might be is it Waterdhavian? Other cities and counties have their own coins.
If is gold, silver, or other real metal there is value recognized for them. It might be Drow, eyc. |
"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
"Judgement" copyright 2003 by Elizabeth Moon |
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moonbeast
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 30 Jun 2018 : 22:35:11
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And here is yet ANOTHER promotional banner art where (on left) Jarlaxle is jingling this hourglass-shaped coin with one hand. It's like he's a very very bored villain. Or something.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dey77tkV4AYGEjq.jpg
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 01 Jul 2018 : 00:07:28
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| The hooded Thanos wannabe is a clone of Manshoon. |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 01 Jul 2018 : 05:25:43
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It's a gold piece from Zhentil Keep known as a "glory" or "weeping wolf". Might be a hint as to where Jarlaxle's allegiances lie.
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
Edited by - George Krashos on 01 Jul 2018 05:26:09 |
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moonbeast
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 01 Jul 2018 : 14:43:18
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious about the hooded Thanos wannabe.
I'm curious about the third butterfly.... I suspect its a shapechanged wizard |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
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moonbeast
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Jul 2018 : 23:08:56
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| And maybe the goldfish (Xanathar's pet) is an unfortunate polymorphed Young Gold Dragon? |
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Balmar Foghaven
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2018 : 05:13:21
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| Except that they're not embossed with the weeping wolf on the cover image, but rather with a dragon. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 02 Jul 2018 : 23:27:15
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How many times in the last hundred years has our own currency changed what's pictured on it, yet kept the same basic shape. If you don't look at the image of the coin in Jarlaxle's hand in this, but instead look at the coin images at the bottom corner.... the right side coin on each COULD be a wolf sitting on its butt howling. The other side... no clue, its like some weird blur... it could maybe be a face.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dey77tkV4AYGEjq.jpg
Oh, and the goldfish is not a polymorphed young gold dragon, because Xanathar is staring at it with his central eye open. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
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Kentinal
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Jul 2018 : 01:51:56
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Oh, and the goldfish is not a polymorphed young gold dragon, because Xanathar is staring at it with his central eye open.
Maybe lunch or just a pet? *wink* |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 03 Jul 2018 : 02:11:10
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Originally posted by sleyvas
How many times in the last hundred years has our own currency changed what's pictured on it, yet kept the same basic shape. If you don't look at the image of the coin in Jarlaxle's hand in this, but instead look at the coin images at the bottom corner.... the right side coin on each COULD be a wolf sitting on its butt howling. The other side... no clue, its like some weird blur... it could maybe be a face.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dey77tkV4AYGEjq.jpg
Oh, and the goldfish is not a polymorphed young gold dragon, because Xanathar is staring at it with his central eye open.
Maybe the fishbowl is some exotic material that prevents magic (and beholder eyebeams) from passing thru it. |
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ElfBane
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 03 Jul 2018 : 15:49:52
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Originally posted by George Krashos
It's a gold piece from Zhentil Keep known as a "glory" or "weeping wolf". Might be a hint as to where Jarlaxle's allegiances lie.
-- George Krashos
Hmmm, aren't the Zhentil Keep folks pretty much LE? Jarlaxle strikes me as NE on normal days, and approaching CN on days he wants to knock the Llolth crowd down a notch or five. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 03 Jul 2018 : 17:14:36
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Originally posted by ElfBane
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Originally posted by George Krashos
It's a gold piece from Zhentil Keep known as a "glory" or "weeping wolf". Might be a hint as to where Jarlaxle's allegiances lie.
-- George Krashos
Hmmm, aren't the Zhentil Keep folks pretty much LE? Jarlaxle strikes me as NE on normal days, and approaching CN on days he wants to knock the Llolth crowd down a notch or five.
Coin is coin, especially for someone like Jarlaxle who is willing to make use of others.
And alignment isn't a factor for membership, and even less so for citizenship. I seem to recall a Harper that lived in Zhentil Keep, not long after the Time of Troubles. |
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 03 Jul 2018 17:21:35 |
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sno4wy
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Posted - 03 Jul 2018 : 19:23:54
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| According to the WotC videos about the Xanathar products, the goldfish is just a goldfish, and it's Xanathar's most prized possession. Perhaps this fact is one of the indicators of Xanathar not being entirely right in the head (do you even call that thing a head when it's also the beholder's body?), but the goldfish isn't even the same goldfish. Xanathar's followers have had to take great pains in replacing it when the previous one passes without Xanathar's knowledge, for they fear that if he ever finds out that his pet goldfish died, shit would hit the fan. |
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moonbeast
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Wooly Rupert
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The Masked Mage
Great Reader
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Posted - 07 Jul 2018 : 21:26:23
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by ElfBane
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Originally posted by George Krashos
It's a gold piece from Zhentil Keep known as a "glory" or "weeping wolf". Might be a hint as to where Jarlaxle's allegiances lie.
-- George Krashos
Hmmm, aren't the Zhentil Keep folks pretty much LE? Jarlaxle strikes me as NE on normal days, and approaching CN on days he wants to knock the Llolth crowd down a notch or five.
Coin is coin, especially for someone like Jarlaxle who is willing to make use of others.
And alignment isn't a factor for membership, and even less so for citizenship. I seem to recall a Harper that lived in Zhentil Keep, not long after the Time of Troubles.
Similarly, Allegiance and Alignment are not the same thing. Zhents range many alignments. Most drow are CE, but that's certainly not universal. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 08 Jul 2018 : 01:00:13
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Originally posted by moonbeast
#1. This is one very dead Halfling rogue/thief. Trying to steal the Xanathar's pet goldfish is beyond brave….
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NanqvM6aOxQ/maxresdefault.jpg
#2. Official D&D Merchandise baubles are coming….. that Waterdeep hour-glass shaped coin will be embossed with…. things other than a wolf. See sceeenshots below (from Twitter). Hell, I might want to buy one of these coins, but first I'd like to know a bit more background on this Waterdeepian currency.
Oops sorry. Waterdhavian.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeyU8rXVQAE-xhX.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeyU8rWUEAAQp8B.jpg
Ah, that's a much clearer picture. It confirms its a dragon... with tentacles like an illithid? |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 08 Jul 2018 : 03:26:29
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| It looks like a brass dragon... Don't some dragons have like tendrils hanging from their chins? |
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moonbeast
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Posted - 08 Jul 2018 : 03:34:09
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
It looks like a brass dragon... Don't some dragons have like tendrils hanging from their chins?
Yes. D&D gold dragons are sometimes portrayed this way…. I remember, since I collect all the published D&D illustrations (so that I could show my players the creatures they encounter).
https://www.aidedd.org/dnd/images/dragonGold.jpg
Also the Kara-Tur lung dragons are portrayed having long tendrils/whiskers.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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moonbeast
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moonbeast
Senior Scribe
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2018 : 18:47:17
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| What's the ring….. which faction? Wonder Twin Powers? |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Aug 2018 : 20:30:06
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 05 Aug 2018 : 18:25:10
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| I'm guessing Waterdeep is the Lord's Alliance. The others are the Zhents, Emerald Enclave, and the Harpers, so I'm guessing the ring is the Iron Gauntlet by process of elimination unless, they are not depicting all of the trinkets, in which case the Waterdeep badge could be its own thing, and the ring could be the Lord's Alliance as Brimstone suggests. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 Aug 2018 : 02:05:00
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I Looked the Symbols up in Rise of Tiamat. Order of the Gauntlet is missing. The Ring is upside down. It's Lords Alliance.
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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moonbeast
Senior Scribe
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2018 : 04:07:58
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| Yes, I also checked the faction symbols as they were presented in the AL books (Adventurers League). You are right, the ring is the Lords Alliance, since the Lords Alliance symbol is that of a crown. The Order of the Gauntlet symbol is…. predictably, a gauntlet clutching a sword. |
Edited by - moonbeast on 07 Aug 2018 02:27:41 |
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 13 Aug 2018 : 19:01:05
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The coin is definitely a coin, and it's called a gold(en) dragon. A bunch of us held it in-hand at the convention. It's weighty and wonderful.
Remember, for the lore-minded, that:
-Waterdeep calls gold pieces "dragons"
-In previous editions, Waterdeep did not mint its own gold coins, having more than enough from other sources
-They were ruled for a couple of centuries by the wizard Ahghairon
There's no reason, following the rise of Laeral as Open Lord, that the city couldn't have started minting its own gold coins, with Ahgairon on the face. It's what I might do, given the opportunity... |
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Waterdeep Dragon Heist: that coin-like symbol?
