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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 30 Aug 2006 : 00:19:58
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One of my players ran a Tunlar barbarian, and basically just wanted a barbarian that live near Cormyr and hated the Zhentarim. By the time that Champions of Valor came out, I had him nailed down as a Mir. I had also started to flesh out a family member of his as a member of the Cult of the Shattered Peak, based on the information that I could find in the FRCS, Races of Faerun, and Champions of Valor.
For some reason the reference in Lost Empires of Faerun on page 112 about the Tunlar being decended from the Angardt barbarians, a tribe of barbarians that "chose to retain their ancient traditions of sorcercy," never jumped out at me.
I would guess this would make a Cultist of the Shattered Peak a bit more of an outcast in Tunlar society, if the culture isn't specifically against arcane magic.
I had also assumed that the Tunlar might be more, um, at least apathetic to magic since Ed's responses about the Tunlar seemed to indicate that they could deal with an outlander like Thaalim Torchtower because he didn't use too much overt magic. Would this just mean that Thaalim might be looked upon more negatively if he used magic that the tribe had never seen, or is it just that the tribe is okay with certain displays of magic and not others?
At any rate, given that I missed the LEOF reference, am I missing anything else about the Tunlar? What kind of sorcery would be part of their tradition?
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 30 Aug 2006 : 07:38:15
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There are some bits about Thaalim Torchtower in Elminsters ecology's, The Cormyrean Marshes, but I think that represents his followers as bandits, not as a separate people.
My opinion on Tunlar magic would be somewhat accepting to magic as long as it was based around divination and protection more than manipulating and harmful magic. I think they have enough knowledge of magic through their contact with other people to not be awed by the unknown. I can see them more as mystics than traditional wizards and sorcerers; its more a cultural antipathy against the practises of mages than a fear of magic as such.
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Tunlar Barbarians, Angardts, and Current Culture
