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EltonRobb
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 21 Feb 2025 : 01:16:44
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One of my possible players in my Saga of Chondath campaign wanted to play an adventurer from Nimbral. Since my campaign is set in 1369 DR, this is after the time of troubles and Cyric's supposed killing of Leira.
Question is: could she fake her own death and is waiting for the perfect time to return?
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LordofBones
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 21 Feb 2025 : 01:56:23
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| According to 5e, this is what happened. Now, why Leira had the big brain idea of crippling herself and having her worshipers and portfolio usurped by another deity is another story entirely. |
Edited by - LordofBones on 21 Feb 2025 01:56:53 |
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Athreeren
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 21 Feb 2025 : 13:03:18
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Originally posted by LordofBones
According to 5e, this is what happened. Now, why Leira had the big brain idea of crippling herself and having her worshipers and portfolio usurped by another deity is another story entirely.
I don't think there is a non-weird explanation to this, but I could see her pretending to be dead and push her clergy to say it's all a trick, so that when she actually dies, people would believe the same thing, with that belief facilitating her resurrection. But that's really farfetched. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 21 Feb 2025 : 19:21:30
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| I have several theories for why she may have done it. Essentially, working with the other gods of magic to strip Shar from access to the shadow weave and eventually the weave. Partly this would be so that Shar didn't absorb her and instead recruited Cyric to be her pawn. She thus corrupted Cyric... and the story we have from the gods of deities killing each other over courting other deities... Cyric getting locked away like Loki by Tyr, Lathander, and Sune, etc... were methods to cover that certain gods went to Abeir to protect the humans that went there (or alternatively... to expand Ao's hold there, as he's not as strong as he pretends to be). A lot of it works on the idea that Mask and Leira worked together because Savras foresaw what was coming (not perfect clarity... snippets of what was coming). |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
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EltonRobb
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 22 Feb 2025 : 00:23:11
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| I wish they just turn back time and go with the original Boxed Set (the one with the horse rider). This is confusing for someone just getting back into the Realms. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 22 Feb 2025 : 02:33:41
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Originally posted by LordofBones
According to 5e, this is what happened. Now, why Leira had the big brain idea of crippling herself and having her worshipers and portfolio usurped by another deity is another story entirely.
Where does it say she was faking it? |
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Leira, Goddess of the Mists
