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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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 Posted - 17 Sep 2007 : 01:55:16
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I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with... |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2007 : 02:40:10
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with...
Wow Rino!!!
And you too Erik!!!
I thought this scroll was Sex & the Realms...Not Sex With The Realms
ttfn....I'm off Stormriding!! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31727 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2007 : 09:15:29
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Now, while he's busy...
*quietly removes the "Calishite Dancing Girls Dressing Room" sign from Alaundo's chamber door*
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*places sign above my own chamber door*
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2007 : 16:33:32
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with...
In the immortal words of that one girl: "That's hot." 
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Wow Rino!!!
And you too Erik!!!
I thought this scroll was Sex & the Realms...Not Sex With The Realms
Meh--same thing.
Cheers
P.S Would a "Who/what's Hot in the Realms" thread be just a little too geeky/RL-escapist, or isn't this fantasy?
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 00:16:02
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Why, thank ye, Rino... I never realised ye felt about me so strongly Please, step into my chamber 
This thread is so funny!
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P.S Would a "Who/what's Hot in the Realms" thread be just a little too geeky/RL-escapist, or isn't this fantasy?
It's fine, we all need to "escape" now and then. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 01:03:21
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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P.S Would a "Who/what's Hot in the Realms" thread be just a little too geeky/RL-escapist, or isn't this fantasy?
It's fine, we all need to "escape" now and then.
That's what fantasy's for, really. That, and everything else.
One of the truest, most expressive media out there.
Now then, after that community service message . . . back to sex. 
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 02:38:31
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with...
In the immortal words of that one girl: "That's hot."
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Wow Rino!!!
And you too Erik!!!
I thought this scroll was Sex & the Realms...Not Sex With The Realms
Meh--same thing.
Cheers
P.S Would a "Who/what's Hot in the Realms" thread be just a little too geeky/RL-escapist, or isn't this fantasy?
Nope, we are just waiting for you to start it! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 15:27:10
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Nope, we are just waiting for you to start it!
RW, I am *far* too serious a writer to put my focus into something like that.
Cheers
EDIT: As this is my 1000th post, I thought I'd drop in to note . . . that this is my 1000th post.
As Wooly observes below, I think the location of this post (in a cheerful discussion about fantasy sex) and its tone (whimsical in its bemused hypocrisy) is a pretty neat and trim picture of myself as a Candlekeep scribe.
Thanks for a thousand posts of good memories, Candlekeep! |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36798 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 18:06:44
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Nope, we are just waiting for you to start it!
RW, I am *far* too serious a writer to put my focus into something like that.
Cheers
And yet, your 1000th post was in a scroll about sex... |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 19:14:20
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Originally posted by Xysma
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
RW, I am *far* too serious a writer to put my focus into something like that.
So, when are you planning on starting this?
Egg-zakly.
Seriously though, I'm not a starter--just a continuer. And a perpetuator. And a decider.
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31727 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 00:21:24
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Thanks for a thousand posts of good memories, Candlekeep!
And thank you for sharing many of these memories with us Erik. 'Tis certainly something I've come to appreciate very much.
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*Hey Big Al, does this promotion now mean Erik's entitled to his own "quality-time" with the Calishite Dancing Girls Quartet?*
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 02:28:42
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Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Thanks for a thousand posts of good memories, Candlekeep!
And thank you for sharing many of these memories with us Erik. 'Tis certainly something I've come to appreciate very much.
...
*Hey Big Al, does this promotion now mean Erik's entitled to his own "quality-time" with the Calishite Dancing Girls Quartet?*
Oh No!!
Sage, erik is much to serious of a writer for things like that! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 07:39:41
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Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Thanks for a thousand posts of good memories, Candlekeep!
And thank you for sharing many of these memories with us Erik. 'Tis certainly something I've come to appreciate very much.
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*Hey Big Al, does this promotion now mean Erik's entitled to his own "quality-time" with the Calishite Dancing Girls Quartet?*
In that case I will have a few loud complaints, Alaundo has thrown me out seventy-six times, along with my "Have Realmslore will...(there are sensitive people here after all)" sign. Master of Realmslore or not, I get the feeling that Alaundo wants them all for himself . |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
5695 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 09:04:49
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Originally posted by Jorkens
In that case I will have a few loud complaints, Alaundo has thrown me out seventy-six times, along with my "Have Realmslore will...(there are sensitive people here after all)" sign. Master of Realmslore or not, I get the feeling that Alaundo wants them all for himself .
Alas, there's simply not enough to go around, Jorkens. Give one person one and they'll all want one. Best I just keep the lot |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 19:16:17
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Originally posted by Alaundo
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Originally posted by Jorkens
In that case I will have a few loud complaints, Alaundo has thrown me out seventy-six times, along with my "Have Realmslore will...(there are sensitive people here after all)" sign. Master of Realmslore or not, I get the feeling that Alaundo wants them all for himself .
Alas, there's simply not enough to go around, Jorkens. Give one person one and they'll all want one. Best I just keep the lot
You guys are just too funny.
Maybe I should include Calishite Dancing Girls in my next Realms novel . . . if and when that materializes.
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 20:26:23
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by Alaundo
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Originally posted by Jorkens
In that case I will have a few loud complaints, Alaundo has thrown me out seventy-six times, along with my "Have Realmslore will...(there are sensitive people here after all)" sign. Master of Realmslore or not, I get the feeling that Alaundo wants them all for himself .
Alas, there's simply not enough to go around, Jorkens. Give one person one and they'll all want one. Best I just keep the lot
You guys are just too funny.
Maybe I should include Calishite Dancing Girls in my next Realms novel . . . if and when that materializes.
Cheers
And a bit o' Stormriding for good measure my friend! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 21:39:50
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Maybe I should include Calishite Dancing Girls in my next Realms novel . . . if and when that materializes.
And a bit o' Stormriding for good measure my friend!
Ah, alas, said beautiful femme is one of Ed's signature characters, and I would hardly touch her without permission, supervision, and direct instruction. ( )
But yes: the Real Storm Silverhand. Accept no substitutes.
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Mkhaiwati
Learned Scribe
USA
252 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 21:51:35
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
But yes: the Real Storm Silverhand. Accept no substitutes.
hmmm.... Alustriel and Qilue would be very close seconds, however.
Of course, I say this as I gird myself with my Codpiece of Restraint. |
"Behold the work of the old... let your heritage not be lost but bequeath it as a memory, treasure and blessing... Gather the lost and the hidden and preserve it for thy children."
"not nale. not-nale. thog help nail not-nale, not nale. and thog knot not-nale while nale nail not-nale. nale, not not-nale, now nail not-nale by leaving not-nale, not nale, in jail." OotS #367 |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 20 Sep 2007 : 03:29:28
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Maybe I should include Calishite Dancing Girls in my next Realms novel . . . if and when that materializes.
And a bit o' Stormriding for good measure my friend!
Ah, alas, said beautiful femme is one of Ed's signature characters, and I would hardly touch her without permission, supervision, and direct instruction. ()
But yes: the Real Storm Silverhand. Accept no substitutes.
Cheers
Erik, be carefull what you wish for!
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9918 |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 20 Sep 2007 : 15:23:50
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Erik, be carefull what you wish for!
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9918
I didn't really think he'd go and do it, but well! As I say in the thread, levity isn't a bad thing in the face of all thie 4e angst.
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 20 Sep 2007 : 15:24:32
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Yesss. She'll eat your alive, Erik.
If you're lucky.
warm and willing LOVE,
THO |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2007 : 01:49:04
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Erik, be carefull what you wish for!
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9918
I didn't really think he'd go and do it, but well! As I say in the thread, levity isn't a bad thing in the face of all thie 4e angst.
Cheers
Expect the unexpected my friend
And yes I thought a few chuckles around here could do nothing but help! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Lady Kazandra
Senior Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 10:07:20
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with...
Hehe. I was just thinking the same thing about numerous women in the Realms. 
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36798 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 14:36:16
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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I can think of numerous men in the Realms I wouldn't mind being with...
Hehe. I was just thinking the same thing about numerous women in the Realms.
Me, too. All at the same time!
And Sage, you definitely have to go find that redhead I mentioned in the other thread! |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 16:39:57
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Originally posted by The Sage
Apparently. I suddenly feel like I'm missing out on something.
I think not, that's just a common misperception people often have.
As long as you are happy with with what you have your never
"missing out".
I think Wooly is just try to spice up this scroll |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Charles Phipps
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 06 Oct 2007 : 12:07:54
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Heya,
Sex is a big part of our games, though we generally run the Forgotten Realms as a trifle more prudish than Ed Greenwood does. It's more amusing to have the Obarskyr family be this collection of gigantic lotharios rather than have it just be business as usual in Faerun. It also adds a bit of spice that it's a similiar quirk of Elminster.
Frankly, I don't get the impression the family unit as we know it exists in the Forgotten Realms. It's very much a progressive society well above and beyond our own existing one. In FR canon, if you introduce two men and say they're husband and husband then no one will bat an eyelash. Ditto, single parenthood and multiple children spouses with completely no stigma attached to brothels.
One of my favorite moments in game was where a PC bedded Larael, not knowing who she was, and ended up summoned before Khelben. He was positively wetting his pants but, well, of course Khel doesn't care. Khel gets sex from his wife and she gets sex from everyone else. Not much of a sex drive on that one (well, Larael would disagree but she's woman enough for many men...)
Pausing for a second, really, that's so amazingly far removed from all but a small portion of our society that it's actually pretty damn unlikely that the typical Forgotten Realms villain would have families and loved ones. The Super CoupleTM of villainy is Ashemmi and Semmenon with apparently him having no real problem with the fact his lover bearing the child of another man.
The only time we see genuine jealousy seems to be the result of political or merchantile activities. Take, for example, the Moonflower dynastic strife and the problems there are purely the result of the desire for the throne on the part of the villains.
Manshoon, Fzoul, and Halastar Blackcloak are three villains off the top of my head. I can't imagine under any circumstances the former two would have families or children because they're the most narcissitic men on the planet. Halastar Blackcloak is a romantic but I doubt that he'd ever become obsessed with a woman enough that he'd take her down to his cave. Gromph Baenre executed his daughter's mother in cold blood.
Frankly, it's odd but even villains aren't particularly possessive about their lover as if there was literally no value to marriage except as a societal contract. The Crucible has Malik horrified at his wife's adultery but only in the context that he's going to be humiliated by it. There's no sense of entitlement there or anger that other settings could get away with.
I don't think people quite get how consistent that the Realms has depicted The People There do Not Think like Earth People Regarding Relationships. The most realistic relationship was the Spine of the World and that oddly felt UTTERLY divorced from the realms as I knew them.
I think that it causes a lot of people to shy away from "serious" realmstelling because the culture is so difficult for people to broach in many ways.
Oddly, I had the same description of the Realms and religion being utterly removed from "real world" but internally consistent. In the realms, you have absolutely no imperiative to be "Good" from society. No, seriously, if you want to say 'screw the 9-5, I want to rape and pillage' then you have ample religions that say that it is great to do so. Talk about moral relativism, you have societies built around completely anti-social behavior.
Just join the Zhents if you want to be a selfish bast. You'll get Banite Heaven and some slave girls.
If you remove sexual moores from society and religious guilt, you have a pretty alien cultural mindset. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2007 : 18:27:00
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Originally posted by Charles Phipps
Heya,
Sex is a big part of our games, though we generally run the Forgotten Realms as a trifle more prudish than Ed Greenwood does. It's more amusing to have the Obarskyr family be this collection of gigantic lotharios rather than have it just be business as usual in Faerun. It also adds a bit of spice that it's a similiar quirk of Elminster.
Frankly, I don't get the impression the family unit as we know it exists in the Forgotten Realms. It's very much a progressive society well above and beyond our own existing one.........
Have to disagree here old chap.
I would in no way claim about the realms tha it is "It's very much a progressive society well above and beyond our own existing one"
The more reading and research I do on medievil europe, the more and more it sounds much like the Realms! Seeing as how we have evolved and progressed since then, I would say some might see the Realms morays as "turning back the clock" to a more liberated and sexually free time. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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