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CCC32
Acolyte
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 Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 15:01:07
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I have looked intently online including this site for information about where the Monastery for the Sisters of St. Jasper of the Rocks is located. My wife wishes to play a monk of this order but i dont really have much information about it. Any further information would be highly appreciated.
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Wooly Rupert
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 17:12:01
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I found a rough online reference to St. Jasper being in someway related to Ilmater... but that doesn't connect with anything in the Realmslore as far as I recall.
Where did you find this reference CCC32?
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CCC32
Acolyte
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 17:49:03
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| The Sisters are dedicated to Ilmater. In Faiths and Pantheons there is a brief mention of the Sisters of St. Jasper in the description of Ilmater, and that is where my wife became interested, but no mention of where they would be located or any information about them. We searched online and found a small paragraph describing them as a female only group dedicated to Ilmater and the suffering of women due to childbirth and such, which only made her more interested, but it had no other information. www.davidcwood.com/adnd/campaign/bloodstone/ilmater.php |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 18:01:47
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Originally posted by CCC32
The Sisters are dedicated to Ilmater. In Faiths and Pantheons there is a brief mention of the Sisters of St. Jasper in the description of Ilmater, and that is where my wife became interested, but no mention of where they would be located or any information about them.
Faiths & Avatars didn't seem to have much info on them, either. All I saw was a reference to them as an affiliated order. |
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KnightErrantJR
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 18:18:11
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Its kind of a mixed blessing. I doubt much WILL be metioned about them, so if you end up developing your own details, they aren't likely to be contradicted. I asked about some of the saints associated with Ilmater a while back, and I think the concensus is that Ilmater has a lot of saints and that most of them are regionally recognized.
Now if only we know what Rocks they are of, we could pin down the geographic location! |
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The Sage
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The Sage
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Posted - 01 Mar 2006 : 01:19:03
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Faiths & Avatars didn't seem to have much info on them, either. All I saw was a reference to them as an affiliated order.
And the F&P WE doesn't provide anything to go on for this order either  .
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The Sage
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Posted - 01 Mar 2006 : 01:33:50
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Now if only we know what Rocks they are of, we could pin down the geographic location!
I don't recall any specific location in the Realms referred to as just the Rocks.
Hmmm... I'm going to dig through some of the older 1e/2e materials.
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CCC32
Acolyte
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Posted - 01 Mar 2006 : 02:46:12
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| Thank you so much for trying to help us. I'd appreciate anything you come up with and am going to keep looking too. If we can't find anything, I think she is going to come up with some stuff on her own, but would probably rather not! :) |
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Volo
Seeker
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Posted - 01 Mar 2006 : 08:47:37
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| I don't think that 'of the Rocks' is describing a location, I think it may be describing something that was of import to St. Jasper's life, or possibly his death. Much as the RW St. Anthony is sometimes called St. Anthony of the Lost. |
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Sarta
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Mar 2006 : 01:39:18
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Complete guess here, but "the rocks" conjures a coastal image to me -- whether it be an island or a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean.
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Steven Schend
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Posted - 06 Mar 2006 : 19:20:42
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Easy enough, for those who really want to place it, to make the Jasperian abbey a heretofore unmentioned site somewhere outside of the settlements on the Dragon's Head peninsula in Tethyr (if for no other reason than it sounds coastal and Tethyr has an established history with tons of abbeys and monasteries to Ilmater within its boundaries).
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Dargoth
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Posted - 07 Mar 2006 : 04:30:37
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Theres 2 chains of islands off Tethyr one called the Raking rocks and another called the Singing Rocks
Theres a Lone Rock off Procampur in the Sea of Fallen Stars |
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George Krashos
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Posted - 07 Mar 2006 : 04:41:41
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And of course the Wayrock. There are also the Rockshaws in the High Moor. What about the Arnrock in the Lake of Steam?
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The Sage
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Posted - 07 Mar 2006 : 05:00:04
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Originally posted by George Krashos
And of course the Wayrock. There are also the Rockshaws in the High Moor. What about the Arnrock in the Lake of Steam?
-- George Krashos
Hmmm... Given the fact the Arnrock is a volcano... the possibility of having the faithful of Ilmater construct a monastery there makes for some interesting considerations. Not the least of which that enduring the sufferage of living in such an environment would be quite the demonstration of each worshipper's strength of their faith.
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