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Seethyr
Master of Realmslore
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 Posted - 25 Mar 2021 : 00:52:54
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Ok I’m randomly posting about this because I had a dream about it last night. Out of nowhere...wth?
Anyway, James Lowder’s Ring of Winter was possibly my first Realms book. I will always credit him and Douglas Niles for being my biggest inroads to the setting.
I remember a giant genie(?) named Skuld? Is that accurate, that’s what I popped up in my dream.
What was that creature? It was attached to an item I believe? Was Skuld and archomental? Why was he named after a city?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 25 Mar 2021 : 03:11:22
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The city could have been named after him.
It's more likely, though, that the naming is either a coincidence, or that both the genie-ish dude and the city were named after some prior Skuld. The name Skuld comes from Norse mythology (though I myself was more familiar with it from an anime that lifts that name and some others for its goddess characters). |
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Gary Dallison
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2021 : 00:04:40
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Originally posted by Gary Dallison
Skuld was some kind of unique servitor creature from mulhorand, there are numerous references to mulhorandi magic and words regarding skuld.
I've puzzled over him for a while and I'm thinking that he Skuld was a former noble punished for a most heinous crime, his punishment involved eternal slavery (something a mulan noble would greatly despise) and his name was stricken from history and his own memory, instead he remembered only skuld as the place of his birth or punishment.
As for what his crime was, well that could only be the attempted or actual (and I would go with actual) assassination of a pharaoh or some other truly treasonous act.
I've been looking through the history and not found anything that matches up with his age so I might have to make something myself.
Just my thoughts
How much of that was homebrew (I'm thinking everything except that he WAS a "being" from Mulhorand... and perhaps not even that). I'm only asking because if he WAS a genie and from the Mulhorand area, maybe the gods themselves made him serve them as a tasked genie (like an architect genie)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Architect_genie
Maybe the city was named after its architect, who was tasked to make it by the gods. Maybe it was known as the "city of eternity" because it was so well constructed by the tasked genie (its noted that they do make constructions that are inordinately well built... and maybe this genie was a particularly adept at being an architect genie by being blessed by a number of deities). |
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Seethyr
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2021 : 03:50:05
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| It’s been so many years since I’ve read the book, but from what I remember he was pretty OP. Imo he must’ve been some type of genie lord if anything. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 26 Mar 2021 : 23:45:12
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| did HE have 4 arms or only the statue? Asking because the only 4 armed genie I know of is a tasked genie, slayer.... which is created from any other tasked genie who finally goes insane from performing the same work over and over until they finally snap. Sound like him? Two of the arms would be like great cat paws. |
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Gary Dallison
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Seethyr
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Posted - 27 Mar 2021 : 12:30:10
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| Is there any indication of his whereabouts (or that of his medallion(?)) by the conclusion of the story? I might want to throw him into my campaign as a minion. My players are getting up there in level to handle Skuld sizes threats. It won’t be easy to get it to Maztica but I could give it a background with a reference point. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 27 Mar 2021 : 12:30:11
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Originally posted by Gary Dallison
His statue had 4 arms and the medallion depicted him with 4 arms.
Once manifested he could have 2 arms or 4, I'm guessing he could have as many arms as he wanted. They were all human arms and hands though.
Ok, then he was definitely "different" then, and not someone importing a standard monster in. |
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JamesLowder
Forgotten Realms Author & Game Designer
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Posted - 18 Feb 2023 : 22:39:56
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Originally posted by sleyvas
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Originally posted by Gary Dallison
His statue had 4 arms and the medallion depicted him with 4 arms.
Once manifested he could have 2 arms or 4, I'm guessing he could have as many arms as he wanted. They were all human arms and hands though.
Ok, then he was definitely "different" then, and not someone importing a standard monster in.
Skuld was not derived from game rules or an existing creature, as I recall. I created him for the story and he was whatever the story needed him to be. |
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