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Mask
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 21 Sep 2006 : 19:04:38
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Greetings fellow scribes (although I doubt I should call myself a scribe),
I have a question. In an upcoming campaign I'm going to play an high elf of possibly noble descent. I have read Elves of Evermeet with much joy, but I do not own a copy myself and it's been a while since I've read it. I was wondering, because of your infinite wisdom and knowledge, if you could tell me some of the noble family names.
I know about the Nimesin and Durothil family, but I don't really want to play an elf from those families. I would like to be from a family that's not very haughty/arrogant towards other elven subraces (although I don't mind about the other races).
So if you could suggest a particular family, that would be even better, but the names of certain families are sufficient in my eyes.
Thank you very much for your time.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 21 Sep 2006 : 19:53:37
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| Look through the Cormanthyr sourcebook. It's free on WOTC web page. Cues Wooly. Linkage. :) |
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Edited by - Kuje on 21 Sep 2006 21:20:45 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 21 Sep 2006 : 20:52:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Kuje
Looks through the Cormanthyr sourcebook. It's free on WOTC web page. Cues Wooly. Linkage. :)
*grins* Believe it or not, Linkage is the name of the work version of the HTML page that has all my links and everything... The home version is Linkies.
Anyway... Here's the link to the Wizards downloads page.  |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2006 : 21:21:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Kuje
Looks through the Cormanthyr sourcebook. It's free on WOTC web page. Cues Wooly. Linkage. :)
*grins* Believe it or not, Linkage is the name of the work version of the HTML page that has all my links and everything... The home version is Linkies.
Anyway... Here's the link to the Wizards downloads page.
Knifty. :) |
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
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Beirnadri Magranth
Senior Scribe
USA
720 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 03:33:25
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| i'll second that cormanthyr book as a source for you. it specifically details dozens of noble families including agendas archmages elders etc. |
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Mask
Learned Scribe
104 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 16:26:01
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| Awesome! Thanks alot people. I knew you wouldn't let me down. |
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GothicDan
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 23 Sep 2006 : 00:02:38
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Also, note that the Durothils have historically always been described as the paragon of Lawful and Good Elven virtue and honor. I never saw them as really haughty myself. :)
Nimesin, on the other hand.. Eh.. |
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Dungeon Moron
Acolyte
41 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 16:24:37
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Another question related to this topic:
I wish to find a rather conservative and ancient Gold Elf family who migrated to Evermeet after the Fall of Myth Drannor and resides there still.
That is all that the profile consists off.
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Alediran
Acolyte
Argentina
36 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 17:01:24
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| There are many Durothils residents of Myth Drannor who did that. |
Alediran of House Tir'ent from Evermeet, the most knowledgeable elven family about Faerūn.
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Marc
Senior Scribe
658 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 17:42:30
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| Of course that I'll suggest Mistrivvin clan (all about them is in mentioned downloadable sources, though I have a lot of homebrew history) |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 17:50:14
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| You can check the resources we've already linked to, or check out Elves of Evermeet. |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 24 Aug 2015 : 13:01:54
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quote:
Originally posted by GothicDan
Also, note that the Durothils have historically always been described as the paragon of Lawful and Good Elven virtue and honor. I never saw them as really haughty myself. :)
Durothils are known as the oldest surviving Gold elf clan and one of the most widespread, too (they had enough of good sense to remove themselves from Aryvandaar when the fan began to take direct hits)...
But where this Lawful and Good comes from?
Prominent Members:
Patriarch/Lord Speaker: Laosx Durothil (N gold em R7)
Clan Heir: Vhoorhin Durothil (CG gold em W1/F1)
Clan Elder: Uschymna Durothil (LG moon elf W22; High Mage);
Clan Archmage: Kuornos Durothil 'The Starseer' (LN gold em W21)
baelnorn: Lady Synnorha Durothil (LG gold elf baelnorn W20)
Lady Ahskahala Durothil (CG gold ef F16)
- C:EoE.
There is some trend toward L and G, but that's it. Not exactly a House of paladins or something, nor is it unique for them. |
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GothicDan
Master of Realmslore
USA
1103 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2015 : 07:01:30
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Wow, first time I've logged in in.. Forever. Ahem.
The NPCs you pointed out, I believe, prove my point pretty well. The Cormanthyr product was printed for 2E, when demihuman alignment tendencies were more strongly cleaved to in published NPCs. Considering "most Elves" were CG then, the fact that there's THREE Lawful ones and one Neutral one vs. two Chaotics means the Durothils very strongly favor Lawfulness for Elves. |
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"That attitude should be stomped on, whenever and wherever it's encountered, because it makes people holding such views bad citizens, not just bad roleplayers (considering D&D was structured as a 'forced cooperation' game, and although successive editions are pointing it more and more towards a me-first, min-max game, the drift away from 'we all need each other to succeed' will at some point make it 'no longer' D&D)." - ED GREENWOOD |
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Elven Avenger
Acolyte
Brazil
27 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2015 : 11:52:27
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Wow! GothicDan! Time to speak about elves and lawful tendencies towards them again! Long time no see, welcome back, if I may say so! Haha!
A time ago you started an article about the Crown Wars, have you finished it? |
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GothicDan
Master of Realmslore
USA
1103 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2015 : 14:19:23
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Ha, thanks for the warm welcome!
And.. That was so long ago, I didn't even remember. I've had a pretty tumultuous few years. |
Planescape Fanatic
"Fiends and Undead are the peanut butter and jelly of evil." - Me
"That attitude should be stomped on, whenever and wherever it's encountered, because it makes people holding such views bad citizens, not just bad roleplayers (considering D&D was structured as a 'forced cooperation' game, and although successive editions are pointing it more and more towards a me-first, min-max game, the drift away from 'we all need each other to succeed' will at some point make it 'no longer' D&D)." - ED GREENWOOD |
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