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Starshade
Learned Scribe
Norway
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 Posted - 02 Dec 2018 : 11:46:08
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As I understand, the Nether scrolls were written in a lab now under the Grandfather tree, by 3 different species, avians, repilians and aquatic progenitor race in an 'secret organization'. Is there published sources why they did this? Seems for me the likely reasons is for their own use (rebuilding?) or to make the humans and elven civilisations destroy themselves.
Canon or noncanon ideas?
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6669 Posts |
Posted - 02 Dec 2018 : 17:49:41
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Serpent Kingdoms has the answers you are after.
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
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Posted - 03 Dec 2018 : 10:24:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
It was a class project that got a little out of hand. 
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"Goodness is not a natural state, but must be
fought for to be attained and maintained.
Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."
The Paladin's Virtues, excerpt from the "Quentin's Monograph"
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Starshade
Learned Scribe
Norway
279 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2018 : 22:39:23
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
It was a class project that got a little out of hand.
Actually not a bad suggestion, though funny.
The Jergal article I read some time ago, on the Wayback Machine (atm the web archive is broken...). I liked it.  |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 05 Dec 2018 : 14:32:43
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| I'd venture to say it would be no different than say a group of dwarves, elves, humans, tieflings, and dragonborn mages all getting together to discuss/study/share magical theories. Its just that during that time, the races that were in power were those mentioned. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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Thraskir Skimper
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 08 Dec 2018 : 07:55:56
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| Not so much written as accessible. More like a tablet collection of a spell library. |
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The Masked Mage
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 10 Dec 2018 : 04:33:05
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| I never really liked the idea that they worked together. I prefer the idea that someone gathered the magic lore of the different species. It makes much more sense. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 10 Dec 2018 : 09:30:47
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I always envisioned the Nether Scrolls as being somewhat analogous to wiki sites and hyperlinks, allowing the reader to move from focus to focus through basically "endless" pages of categorized magical knowledge.
The Nether Scrolls seem to be anchored to the Weave - they apparently always reform themselves somewhere in the Realms whenever they're lost or destroyed - so maybe they're related constructs. Mystryl predates the Scrolls which in turn might predate the Weave, they might have essentially defined all the "rules" which even allow magic to exist. I wonder if the Scrolls spontaneously change, edit, or update their contents whenever a new Mystra and a new edition of magic rules comes out ... likewise I wonder if they might contain self-contradicting, nonsensical, random, brilliant, or insane arcana during magically volatile Mystra-to-Mystra interregna. (Then again, there's no reason for Nether Scrolls to retcon themselves, reference sources for obsolete arcane lore are still always useful. Except this begs the question of why all future rules of magic wouldn't also exist in the same body of work, or at least why nobody - including Mystra, Azuth, Oghma, Cyric, and other deities - has ever consulted this future-relevant lore.)
I note that some Nether Scrolls were "lost" even before the fall of Netheril and have not (yet) been accounted for, while duplicates of a few others are known to have been (re)created by Mystra as gifts for Larloch. |
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Gary Dallison
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Why were the Nether scrolls written?
