Candlekeep Forum
Candlekeep Forum
Home | Profile | Register | Active Topics | Active Polls | Members | Private Messages | Search | FAQ
Username:
 Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?

 All Forums
 Realmslore
 Sages of Realmslore
 Haptooth Hill and Hap		  New Topic  New Poll New Poll
 Reply to Topic
 Printer Friendly
Author Previous Topic Topic Next Topic  

eomer
Acolyte

Russia
28 Posts
Posted - 11 Apr 2006 :  11:14:53  Show Profile  Visit eomer's Homepage Send eomer a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Why were hill and village named like that? Or what does word "hap" in Haptooth mean?

I looked in Volo's guide to Dalelands abd in Cormanthor and found no clues, other then that Venom used to dwell there and hill had a different name at that time.
Also Volo writes that it looks similar to the tooth.
Yours Faithfully, Konstantin aka Eomer

Kuje
Great Reader

USA
7915 Posts
Posted - 11 Apr 2006 :  17:29:12  Show Profile Send Kuje a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The Curse of the Azure Bonds module should have some info on that place as well as the novel of the same name.
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium
Go to Top of Page

The Sage
Procrastinator Most High

Australia
31774 Posts
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 :  01:32:57  Show Profile Send The Sage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
As for the name "Hap"... perhaps it simply demonstrates the villages share a connection with the huge gray-white stone tooth-like mountain nearby. Haptooth Hill is an extinct volcano which means it was there and named long before the tiny collection of buildings that is Hap grew up near it.

The Hap Hills itself are perhaps named from the Dragon Reach ballad "Lost and Hapless" -- a "Faerūnwide expression for hopelessly wandering in the trackless wilds." This could be where the basic "Hap" names originated.
Candlekeep Forums Moderator

Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct

Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)

"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood

Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage
Edited by - The Sage on 12 Apr 2006 01:33:34
Go to Top of Page
  Previous Topic Topic Next Topic  
 New Topic  New Poll New Poll
 Reply to Topic
 Printer Friendly
Jump To:
Candlekeep Forum © 1999-2024 Candlekeep.com Go To Top Of Page
Snitz Forums 2000