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jda1053
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 17 May 2005 : 03:24:57
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Hi Folks!
I am trying to set up a campaign in the Moonshae Islands several hundred years before the time of the novels (and the return of the Beast). I am working under the assumption that if I can find out where they came from, it might be easier to construct their culture.
I believe that the elves came to the Moonshae Isles around -9800 DR and the Northmen started raiding/settling around 100 DR.
In FR2 Moonshae Isles on page 4 it says that:
"The first humans arrived from the
south, sailing slow but seaworthy coracles
from an unknown land. These men
fled a mighty foe and erected fortresses
and palisades to protect themselves.
But whatever they feared, it did not
pursue them here.
More and more of the men arrived,
soon claiming most of the large isle of
Alaron as their own. Grudgingly, the
Llewyrr moved aside, withdrawing to
the wilder reaches of the isles. But it
seemed that the human arrivals would
never stop, as word spread of a place
where none need fear the tyrants boot
or the evil sorcerers spell."
Could these humans be escaped slaves/refugees from Tethyr around -670 DR to -370 DR?
Any help/criticism is appreciated!
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 17 May 2005 : 13:01:04
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The answers you seek are in "Races of Faerun", p.106. Basically, the Ffolk are today largely an isolated group of Tethyrians descended from a large wave of immigration from the Western Heartlands in c. 467 DR. There were human inhabitants of the Moonshaes before this Tethyrian immigration (the original Ffolk) and they should be considered native to the isles and there 'all along'. A group of Illuskans (from Ruathym it is likely) had conquered the northern Moonshae isles before the coming of the Tethyrians - this event is undated but given how they started colonising the Sword Coast and the North from about -200 DR onwards it would be after this date - and this accounts for the 'barbarians' noted in FR2 and the novels.
-- George Krashos
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jda1053
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 17 May 2005 : 14:48:16
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Thanks a bunch! |
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