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Dracandos the Spellsage
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 10 Jul 2005 : 01:31:21
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Greetings. I wish to learn more of the infamous Volothamp Geddarm. Who exactly is he? Where is he from? How did he get to know the great Elminster so well? ect. Any sourcebook that descirbes him well or any link would be useful. My thanks
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Jul 2005 : 01:39:42
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Originally posted by Dracandos the Spellsage
Greetings. I wish to learn more of the infamous Volothamp Geddarm. Who exactly is he? Where is he from? How did he get to know the great Elminster so well? ect. Any sourcebook that descirbes him well or any link would be useful. My thanks
Some info about him can be found in Ed's replies here on the boards, see my sig. :)
Some info about him can be found in Volo's Volo's Guides. He's also been stated and given lore in various sourcebooks. See the sig again. :)
He's been turned into a frog before and he also makes appearance in last years Spin a Yarn from Gencon, the links can be found in my WOTC FR FAQ on those boards or in Ed's thread on page 48, I believe. |
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Edited by - Kuje on 10 Jul 2005 02:00:21 |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 10 Jul 2005 : 04:12:05
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Originally posted by Kuje
He's been turned into a frog before and he also makes appearance in last years Spin a Yarn from Gencon, the links can be found in my WOTC FR FAQ on those boards or in Ed's thread on page 48, I believe.
Indeed. As the Lady Hooded One said many months ago -
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Inevitably, it was, and as a result Volo (for his own protection, the Old Mage insists) spent some time as an ornamental frog sculpture in Elminster’s pond. He’s free again now, and I fear we’ve all not heard the last from Volo. :}
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Ed tells me Volo was freed almost two years ago, Realms-time, but there’s “free” and there’s “free,” if you know what I mean. Readers of Ed’s 2003 Spin A Yarn story know what he was briefly up to (and what most of the Seven Sisters think of him), and Ed tells me he also appears in the ‘thus-far-unseen, but handed in months ago’ 2004 Spin A Yarn story. I know some scribes will leap to tell me these stories aren’t canon, but to them I reply: this is VOLO we’re talking about, people! Volo!
P.S. There are several unpublished New Adventures of Volo DRAGON columns floating around in the WotC vaults, and some HORRIBLE poetry penned by Volo, too. To say nothing of a fragmentary ‘heaving bosoms’ broadsheet serial he started, ere one of his imprisonments . . .
love to all,
THO
The 2004 Spin A Yarn story, or rather the first two parts, is now available on the WotC site:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/spinayarn2004p1
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/spinayarn2004p2
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Dracandos the Spellsage
Senior Scribe
466 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2005 : 17:32:55
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Well met. My thanks |
Death strips away the masks men don to hide their true nature - The Slayer's Guide to Undead
The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos shall be sown from their passage - So Sayeth the Wise Alaundo
Whenever magic one doth weave, 'tis never ever wise to deceive - Elminster
Strength and power come from knowing and controlling what others do not, but never reveal all that you know - Vecna
I have been known to cast a blue mage spell now and again - Dracandos the Spellsage |
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Thureen Buroch
Learned Scribe
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Sir Luther Cromwell
Learned Scribe
Canada
158 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jul 2005 : 16:08:55
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 11 Jul 2005 : 17:17:30
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Kuje
He's been turned into a frog before and he also makes appearance in last years Spin a Yarn from Gencon, the links can be found in my WOTC FR FAQ on those boards or in Ed's thread on page 48, I believe.
Indeed. As the Lady Hooded One said many months ago -
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Inevitably, it was, and as a result Volo (for his own protection, the Old Mage insists) spent some time as an ornamental frog sculpture in Elminster’s pond. He’s free again now, and I fear we’ve all not heard the last from Volo. :}
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Ed tells me Volo was freed almost two years ago, Realms-time, but there’s “free” and there’s “free,” if you know what I mean. Readers of Ed’s 2003 Spin A Yarn story know what he was briefly up to (and what most of the Seven Sisters think of him), and Ed tells me he also appears in the ‘thus-far-unseen, but handed in months ago’ 2004 Spin A Yarn story. I know some scribes will leap to tell me these stories aren’t canon, but to them I reply: this is VOLO we’re talking about, people! Volo!
P.S. There are several unpublished New Adventures of Volo DRAGON columns floating around in the WotC vaults, and some HORRIBLE poetry penned by Volo, too. To say nothing of a fragmentary ‘heaving bosoms’ broadsheet serial he started, ere one of his imprisonments . . .
love to all,
THO
The 2004 Spin A Yarn story, or rather the first two parts, is now available on the WotC site:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/spinayarn2004p1
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/spinayarn2004p2
Part three is up:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/spinayarn2004p3 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 11 Jul 2005 : 17:20:04
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Unfortunately, the best of the group, Volo's Guide to Waterdeep, is absent from that list.
Given the popularity of the city, I'm not surprised at all by this abscence. |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Jul 2005 : 01:09:05
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Unfortunately, the best of the group, Volo's Guide to Waterdeep, is absent from that list.
Given the popularity of the city, I'm not surprised at all by this abscence.
I wouldn't really have said any of the areas covered are unpopular. |
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