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John Daker
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 Posted - 19 Jun 2020 : 14:09:00
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Just because you can use the Realms for horror doesn't mean it's a good fit. They created an entire separate setting for the horror stuff -- let's keep it there.
I disagree wholeheartedly. Many of the fictional scenes and lore details I’ve read in Realms publications over the years are quite horrific. This includes cosmic-evil horror (a la “At the Mountains of Madness,” which seems to be one of the new adventure’s inspirations) and body horror (a la “The Thing,” another obvious touchstone for the new adventure). Both styles of horror are prominent in works by numerous FR authors, including Ed Greenwood.
I sympathize with the desire to keep the Realms distinct from other settings, but that doesn’t mean only one kind of story should be told there. Quite the opposite! Just because horror has less frequently been the dominant tone for adventure modules in the Realms doesn’t mean it’s a bad fit for the setting.
And anyway, there are precedents for FR horror modules going all the way back, for example Nightmare Keep. Of course there will be high fantasy mixed with the horror tropes here too. The Realms isn’t as narrow as you seem to suggest.
Will the new adventure be any good? That remains to be seen. Is it thematically or generically unsuitable for the Realms? Absolutely not. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 19 Jun 2020 : 16:29:14
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I can't say I've read all of the Realms material in existence, but none of the stuff I've read -- including most of Ed's stuff -- had horror in it.
You are correct that the Realms has room for lots of types of stories... But that doesn't mean that another genre should just be stuffed in there. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11829 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jun 2020 : 16:58:28
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Originally posted by lookatroopa
Funnily enough, it wouldn't be the first horror-themed adventure set in Icewind Dale (see Dungeon 220's King of the Wolves).
Thanks for the heads up. I don't recall that one and will go take a look. To note, the editorial in that issue is from the author and in it he says that the story concept came from Chris Perkins... and since Chris is mentioned as doing quotes in some of the articles about Rime of the Frostmaiden there may be links. |
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Diffan
Great Reader
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Posted - 19 Jun 2020 : 23:01:05
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Considering that the Forgotten Realms has been a "kitchen sink" style setting for some decades now - including all manner of cultures that are reminiscent of Vikings, European Knights, Wizards, Shamanistic magic, Ninja and Samurai, Spirit and Land Magic, Psionic and Far Realms weird science (including Spelljammer), portals to other worlds, Pirates (both Sea and Sky) that use Firearms - I don't see how yet another genre like Horror can't find a nichè within the diverse setting.
Places like Damara and Vaasa are exciting and "gothic" in style plus have the Carpathian style similar to old Wallachia/Transylvania. Easy place to put classic horrors such as Vampires, Werewolves, and Liches with hordes of the Living Dead. Thay is another place that offers a similar "undead" centric theme to use for a horror game. I've always liked the frontier areas for survival horror type games - including the North, the Moonsea, and the further reaches of Cormyr myself. |
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keftiu
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Posted - 19 Jun 2020 : 23:17:11
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Originally posted by Diffan
Considering that the Forgotten Realms has been a "kitchen sink" style setting for some decades now - including all manner of cultures that are reminiscent of Vikings, European Knights, Wizards, Shamanistic magic, Ninja and Samurai, Spirit and Land Magic, Psionic and Far Realms weird science (including Spelljammer), portals to other worlds, Pirates (both Sea and Sky) that use Firearms - I don't see how yet another genre like Horror can't find a nichè within the diverse setting.
Places like Damara and Vaasa are exciting and "gothic" in style plus have the Carpathian style similar to old Wallachia/Transylvania. Easy place to put classic horrors such as Vampires, Werewolves, and Liches with hordes of the Living Dead. Thay is another place that offers a similar "undead" centric theme to use for a horror game. I've always liked the frontier areas for survival horror type games - including the North, the Moonsea, and the further reaches of Cormyr myself.
Funnily enough, one of the stories I hold dearest in the Realms is The Rose Window, a horror short from one of the "Realms of..." anthologies. |
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PattPlays
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 20 Jun 2020 : 10:58:45
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You gotta remember the simplicity of the design team heads nowadays.
"Alice in wonderland in the underdark" > Out of the abyss
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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RealmProtector
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Posted - 23 Jun 2020 : 00:10:24
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Three of the four Citadels series books I'd say was horror, with Sentinelspire being the exception. All of the Dungeons series books. Bloodwalk and Frostfell from the Wizards series definitely could be as well.
As well as the Cleric Quintet, from the Chaos Curse to the Vampire that was a great horror series! Also a couple short stories in the anthologies were defiantly horror thinking of Jander Sunstar. Horror in the realms is fine by me, I for one will be picking this book up if anything to read how they wove the horror into the story. I'm a huge COC fan anyway. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 23 Jun 2020 : 03:37:52
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I guess we have different definitions of horror. I can only think of one or two things that I've read that I would even consider close to being horror.
That said, though, just because the setting has had horror tales before doesn't make it a good fit. We also had Once Around the Realms. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
Poland
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Posted - 01 Jul 2020 : 21:43:01
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It would be great for the game to take place in Sossal and the Great Glacier instead, seeing Auril is worshiped there visibly, and has influence there, with Iyraclea being specifically active there.
Especially that Sossal needs to be more fleshed out. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 01 Jul 2020 : 22:28:20
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| Wonder if they'll try to link this adventure and the chult one via the ring of winter and artus cimber |
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keftiu
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2020 : 00:11:19
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Wonder if they'll try to link this adventure and the chult one via the ring of winter and artus cimber
He was an Exarch of Auril’s back in 4e, which also suggested she might be on some kind of path to being less evil. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2020 : 00:29:48
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Originally posted by keftiu
He was an Exarch of Auril’s back in 4e, which also suggested she might be on some kind of path to being less evil.
From what it seems this plotline was abandoned, with Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness being unmerged in canon from what it seems, with Ed suggesting the Queen of Air and Darkness possibly impersonated Auril when asked about these retcons, Ed himself thinking they will be established as just working together:
https://twitter.com/CineastBenRowe/status/1228217386689413120
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1228370295649599488
As part of the storyline of Auril being less malicious, was with Silvanus destroying the black gem of Tharizdun that was corrupting Auril - without it, she was still evil, but not pure evil, and redeemable.
Although a very slim alternate possibility, that this is a misdirection, and Auril lacking the Black Diamond in her symbol (which she still had in 4E), might mean she indeed is free of Tharizdun/The Dark God's influence, and that other info is a misdirection from WoTC.
With Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden possibly being about fully freeing Auril from Tharizdun's/The Dark God's influence with Artus Cimber's help.
With the horror aspect will be from servants of Tharizdun - and Auril will possibly try to free him, or possibly take (some of) his power for herself (like Asmodeus).
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 02 Jul 2020 : 01:17:58
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Yeah, so if Auril had actually disappeared during the spellplague and we ACTUALLY had the Raven Queen in her spot during the spellplague to the sundering rough timeframe, then Auril is yet another "returning" god along with Talos.
I'm kind of chalking that up on my board of "if that's true, where did Auril go... is she available to have been in Abeir?".
I do want to keep the lore of Aurilandur though, because I'd love to play with the storyline that Aurilandur (as Auril) was the frost sprite queen, meanwhile there is another god, Rellavar Danuvien, who is "the frost sprite king". Canonically, Rellavar has never been mentioned in FR I don't believe, but the idea going through my head is that the two were involved somehow (as in maybe they were lovers, maybe she's his mother, maybe she's his sister, maybe he just overthrew her, etc...). To note, Rellavar is mentioned in MToF, so he is canon for 5e as an elven deity. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2020 : 03:14:00
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| Yup, even if the Queen of Air and Darkness and Auril are separate, it would be neat to keep the Aurilandür backstory, seeing how it even fit with Auril's rather "fey" behavior, and her being an embodiment of nature, as many fey are, and even being noted as exiled from Arborea. And how it actually developed her more than just (seemingly/falsely) being the the Queen of Air and Darkness, seeing as you mentioned it elaborated on her connection to Rellavar Danuvien. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 21 Jul 2020 : 21:14:05
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I asked Brian R. James about Auril, and he revealed some very interesting details:
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
Baltas asks a great question about the true nature of Auril, the Frostmaiden. During my time as a Forgotten Realms designer I attempted to weave plot threads into lore that would be slowly revealed over time. The redemption of Auril was one such thread. Sadly, WotC moved in a different direction and I was unable to deliver the full story as I had envisioned. The short version is this:
For the first time in several millennia Auril is now free from the corrupting influence of the Queen of Air and Darkness. The two were once separate entities, then conjoined as one, and are now separate again. After regaining her freedom and true identity following the events of the Stormstar Requiem, Aurilandür is now aligned with Silvanus who is aiding the Frostmaiden in repairing her relationship with the Seelie Court of Stars.
Clearly, WotC is moving forward with Auril being evil, as shown in the previews for the upcoming adventure Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. In my view, the antagonist of that adventure is in fact the Queen of Air and Darkness, now falsely masquerading as Auril while seeking a new host to corrupt with the Black Diamond.
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
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Queen of Air and Darkness
The oldest myths and legends tell of a race of vile entities that once presided over the remains of a dying universe. These immortal beings of evil incarnate had drained their realm of all life and power. So it was that in the last age of their race, these entities breached the barrier between their realm and ours, pushing shards of unspeakable evil through the fissure between realities. With the power of the shards, they hoped to corrupt the most powerful beings of our cosmos into enacting their vile schemes.
Eons passed as the scions of elemental evil slowly succumbed to oblivion. When only a handful of their kind remained, the plan they had enacted so long ago finally came to fruition. A divinity from our realm, capricious and curious to a fault, found and took hold of the shard of evil. To the archfey Aurilandür, the shard appeared as a black ten-faceted jewel, looming entropy reflected in its soulless gloaming.
This unwise act opened the archfey’s thoughts and essence to the vile entities trapped in their collapsing universe. The link from the Black Diamond corrupted the fey goddess in an instant, transforming the once cheerful and benevolent Frost Sprite Queen into a cold and hateful husk of her former self. Wretched beyond any hope of her own physical death, Aurilandür retreated into the dark subconscious of the entity that had subsumed her—the Queen of Air and Darkness.
—Demonomicon of Iggwilv
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 21 Jul 2020 : 21:51:27
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Originally posted by Baltas
I asked Brian R. James about Auril, and he revealed some very interesting details:
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
Baltas asks a great question about the true nature of Auril, the Frostmaiden. During my time as a Forgotten Realms designer I attempted to weave plot threads into lore that would be slowly revealed over time. The redemption of Auril was one such thread. Sadly, WotC moved in a different direction and I was unable to deliver the full story as I had envisioned. The short version is this:
For the first time in several millennia Auril is now free from the corrupting influence of the Queen of Air and Darkness. The two were once separate entities, then conjoined as one, and are now separate again. After regaining her freedom and true identity following the events of the Stormstar Requiem, Aurilandür is now aligned with Silvanus who is aiding the Frostmaiden in repairing her relationship with the Seelie Court of Stars.
Clearly, WotC is moving forward with Auril being evil, as shown in the previews for the upcoming adventure Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. In my view, the antagonist of that adventure is in fact the Queen of Air and Darkness, now falsely masquerading as Auril while seeking a new host to corrupt with the Black Diamond.
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
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Queen of Air and Darkness
The oldest myths and legends tell of a race of vile entities that once presided over the remains of a dying universe. These immortal beings of evil incarnate had drained their realm of all life and power. So it was that in the last age of their race, these entities breached the barrier between their realm and ours, pushing shards of unspeakable evil through the fissure between realities. With the power of the shards, they hoped to corrupt the most powerful beings of our cosmos into enacting their vile schemes.
Eons passed as the scions of elemental evil slowly succumbed to oblivion. When only a handful of their kind remained, the plan they had enacted so long ago finally came to fruition. A divinity from our realm, capricious and curious to a fault, found and took hold of the shard of evil. To the archfey Aurilandür, the shard appeared as a black ten-faceted jewel, looming entropy reflected in its soulless gloaming.
This unwise act opened the archfey’s thoughts and essence to the vile entities trapped in their collapsing universe. The link from the Black Diamond corrupted the fey goddess in an instant, transforming the once cheerful and benevolent Frost Sprite Queen into a cold and hateful husk of her former self. Wretched beyond any hope of her own physical death, Aurilandür retreated into the dark subconscious of the entity that had subsumed her—the Queen of Air and Darkness.
—Demonomicon of Iggwilv
Works for me as an idea (that its now actually the QoA&D using Auril's name), especially if there's some thing wherein she's got to FIND someone to be her representative (because I picture the QoA&D like I view some other deities... they're more like a possessing entity that takes over another god as a parasite and without a "host" they soon lose the ability to harvest worship energy). I will be surprised though if WotC does do that though. Of course, if they DID do that, I'd love to see the use of Aurilandur as a frost sprite and avariel deity (which would also entail developing true frost sprites). |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11829 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jul 2020 : 11:09:05
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Originally posted by Baltas
I asked Brian R. James about Auril, and he revealed some very interesting details:
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
Baltas asks a great question about the true nature of Auril, the Frostmaiden. During my time as a Forgotten Realms designer I attempted to weave plot threads into lore that would be slowly revealed over time. The redemption of Auril was one such thread. Sadly, WotC moved in a different direction and I was unable to deliver the full story as I had envisioned. The short version is this:
For the first time in several millennia Auril is now free from the corrupting influence of the Queen of Air and Darkness. The two were once separate entities, then conjoined as one, and are now separate again. After regaining her freedom and true identity following the events of the Stormstar Requiem, Aurilandür is now aligned with Silvanus who is aiding the Frostmaiden in repairing her relationship with the Seelie Court of Stars.
Clearly, WotC is moving forward with Auril being evil, as shown in the previews for the upcoming adventure Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. In my view, the antagonist of that adventure is in fact the Queen of Air and Darkness, now falsely masquerading as Auril while seeking a new host to corrupt with the Black Diamond.
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
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Queen of Air and Darkness
The oldest myths and legends tell of a race of vile entities that once presided over the remains of a dying universe. These immortal beings of evil incarnate had drained their realm of all life and power. So it was that in the last age of their race, these entities breached the barrier between their realm and ours, pushing shards of unspeakable evil through the fissure between realities. With the power of the shards, they hoped to corrupt the most powerful beings of our cosmos into enacting their vile schemes.
Eons passed as the scions of elemental evil slowly succumbed to oblivion. When only a handful of their kind remained, the plan they had enacted so long ago finally came to fruition. A divinity from our realm, capricious and curious to a fault, found and took hold of the shard of evil. To the archfey Aurilandür, the shard appeared as a black ten-faceted jewel, looming entropy reflected in its soulless gloaming.
This unwise act opened the archfey’s thoughts and essence to the vile entities trapped in their collapsing universe. The link from the Black Diamond corrupted the fey goddess in an instant, transforming the once cheerful and benevolent Frost Sprite Queen into a cold and hateful husk of her former self. Wretched beyond any hope of her own physical death, Aurilandür retreated into the dark subconscious of the entity that had subsumed her—the Queen of Air and Darkness.
—Demonomicon of Iggwilv
Coming back to this conversation to possibly bring in some other scribes' views.
I want to thank you Baltas and Brian, because my eyes had glossed over these statements in the above.... and they open up a LOT of possibilities related to some things that both myself and Markustay have said in the past (to give credit, Markustay had the original idea). He thought that the original Queen of Air and Darkness, whom you never "see" her actual form... she's a malevolent feeling from darkness on a throne... should actually "infect" other powerful immortal beings. He came up with something that he called "the Regalia of Winter", and it would be all of these items that would be used to enslave powerful beings to her servitude.
In the above it would seem that the black diamond is linked to a grouping of items that are shards of pure evil (much like the one that Tharizdun used to create the abyss). Thus, one might tie the story of Talos and his one eye to this theory as well... as the blackness under his eyepatch might be because he (as Kozah) became infected by a similar object. Similarly, the story that Gruumsh IS Talos might be something where a being such as Corellon actually used one of these artifacts of pure evil against Gruumsh to make him lose his eye (and thus the story of Corellon and Gruumsh's is told from the viewpoint of Corellon).
This also opens up some interesting ideas such as … Telos, the lord of Felliron…. what is it that the Warlock Knights of Vaasa are actually mining? Some other primordial entities like Entropy as being a portion of Pandorym, which also has ties to some strange crystals you can mine down in Durpar.
It can also open up a basic question of what exactly were the "dawn titans". Were they the "primordials" or were they beings POSSESSING the primordials.... and were many of the "Primordials" actually dragons. So, in essence, the "dawn titans" had "dragon mounts", and somehow after the splitting of worlds the dragons "cast down" their masters and the "dawn titans" went to sleep. Could it be simply that the dragons cast off the entities that were riding their consciousness? Were the more elementally aligned beings easier to take over because of Tharizdun's actions to stab a shard of pure evil in the elemental plane... and was the "movement" of the abyss and the spellplague and the coming together of these two world all related to this core change.
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 31 Jul 2020 : 23:24:47
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was looking at dragon+ and read this about the upcoming thing. Its talking about fighting with Auril in her 3 forms
We wanted to have the sense that you’re fighting Auril backwards in time. Her first form is called the cold crone. It’s this old, hunched, tripartite creature that combines the features of a goat, a wolf, and an owl. Her middle form is called the brittle maiden—a svelte, angular, feminine creature made of jagged ice. Her third form is called winter’s womb, resembling a radiant diamond that contains her divine spark. It represents Auril in her most primal form. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
Poland
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Posted - 31 Jul 2020 : 23:33:41
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Hmm:
- the cold crone. It’s this old, hunched, tripartite creature that combines the features of a goat, a wolf, and an owl. - Cegilune?
- Her middle form is called the brittle maiden—a svelte, angular, feminine creature made of jagged ice. - Aurilandür?
- winter’s womb, resembling a radiant diamond that contains her divine spark. It represents Auril in her most primal form. - the Black Diamond/Shard of Pure Evil/The Queen of Air and Darkness herself(itself?). |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 01 Aug 2020 : 01:14:45
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The adventure requires you to fight Auril ...   
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 01 Aug 2020 : 01:43:53
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Originally posted by Baltas
Hmm:
- the cold crone. It’s this old, hunched, tripartite creature that combines the features of a goat, a wolf, and an owl. - Cegilune?
- Her middle form is called the brittle maiden—a svelte, angular, feminine creature made of jagged ice. - Aurilandür?
- winter’s womb, resembling a radiant diamond that contains her divine spark. It represents Auril in her most primal form. - the Black Diamond/Shard of Pure Evil/The Queen of Air and Darkness herself(itself?).
Yeah, I was trying to piece that concept together myself, but honestly, I am not sure they went that far. The part that surprises me most is the "radiant" diamond.... so, shining bright. If its travelling backwards in time too, that just kind of doesn't fit that that's her at her most basic if that's also the black diamond. |
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Zeromaru X
Great Reader
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Posted - 01 Aug 2020 : 01:44:23
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Yeah, in three forms. That someone on Twitter described as WotC Freudian views on women,  |
Instead of seeking change, you prefer a void, merciless abyss of a world... |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
Poland
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Posted - 01 Aug 2020 : 13:10:34
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Originally posted by George Krashos
The adventure requires you to fight Auril ...
-- George Krashos
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Yeah, in three forms. That someone on Twitter described as WotC Freudian views on women,
Hmm, I think JRPGs, and up to a level computer and console RPGs are an influence for an idea to "fight a god", and the multi-fazed, multiform nature of it.
With Freudian nature, I think though the battle with Auril is indeed influenced by the idea of the Three Faces of Eve/the Triplicate goddess.
I also expanded on it though possibly having a deeper sense (ie the multiple hosts of the Black Diamond).
I guess though this battle would also male more sense lorewise, if it followed Brian R, James suggestion the "Auril" is in reality the Queen of Air and Darkness/The Black Diamond, weakened without a host.
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Yeah, I was trying to piece that concept together myself, but honestly, I am not sure they went that far. The part that surprises me most is the "radiant" diamond.... so, shining bright. If its travelling backwards in time too, that just kind of doesn't fit that that's her at her most basic if that's also the black diamond.
Well with the Radiant Diamond...it's interesting black colored objects, can give the brightest light - the sun has black body, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
(Although I also might give WoTC to much credit XD And black body radiation being a result of heat, is cold is just ultimately the lack of heat but still...)
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Wolf and owl, OK sure, wolves and snowy owls are cool imagery for ice and snow. Goats though? Goats? Sure, mountain goats can live in pretty cold temperatures but they're not cool like wolves and owls.
I think the goat elements, are due to the "chimera-crone" form of Auril, being inspired by Cailleach - an Gaelic hag goddess of winter, associated with goats (and "horned beasts"), as well as owls and wolves. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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11829 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2020 : 15:23:03
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Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden
The White Rime Assassins of the frozen north can disappear right in front of your very eyes during a blizzard even if only inches away. Their command of ice, wind, and snow is only matched by the coldness in their hearts. Perhaps most well known for their signature shuriken, shaped like snowflakes, these weapons are known to hit with a critical punch enhanced by the force of the wind and the chilling cold which digs into flesh and bone.
Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573308) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 18 Aug 2020 : 17:02:09
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Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden
The White Rime Assassins of the frozen north can disappear right in front of your very eyes during a blizzard even if only inches away. Their command of ice, wind, and snow is only matched by the coldness in their hearts. Perhaps most well known for their signature shuriken, shaped like snowflakes, these weapons are known to hit with a critical punch enhanced by the force of the wind and the chilling cold which digs into flesh and bone.
Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573308) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
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sleyvas
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sleyvas
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden
The White Rime Assassins of the frozen north can disappear right in front of your very eyes during a blizzard even if only inches away. Their command of ice, wind, and snow is only matched by the coldness in their hearts. Perhaps most well known for their signature shuriken, shaped like snowflakes, these weapons are known to hit with a critical punch enhanced by the force of the wind and the chilling cold which digs into flesh and bone.
Snowstar Shuriken of the Frostmaiden (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573308) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
-Very cool.
Thanks, this is an instance where art drove creation. I was thinking how much some snow flakes looked like throwing stars, then I pictured a "snow ninja" and thought... well, they COULD be hard to spot in a snow storm wearing white.... and now we see how to put some icy monks into the realms, possibly even counters to the monastery of the yellow rose. |
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Lord Karsus
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
