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hammer of Moradin
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 30 Nov 2006 : 17:50:06
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Mark Sehestedt, longtime editor (curator?) of Dragonlance and, recently, Eberron ficton, has his first novel out. Read it, join the book club discussion on it, and, most importantly, enjoy it.
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"Hurling himself upon his enemies, he terrified them with slaughter!"
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 17:02:59
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Originally posted by hammer of Moradin
Mark Sehestedt, longtime editor (curator?) of Dragonlance and, recently, Eberron ficton, has his first novel out. Read it, join the book club discussion on it, and, most importantly, enjoy it.
Well met
Indeed, thank ye, hammer  In fact, whilst the tome may not be on the shelves until a tenday or so, i'll be putting up the Book Club threads later tonight. Hope to see many of ye there over the next month or so  |
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Mark S.
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 18:45:50
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Originally posted by Alaundo
In fact, whilst the tome may not be on the shelves until a tenday or so, i'll be putting up the Book Club threads later tonight.
Official on-sale date is December 5th, but this isn't one of those books with a strict on-sale date. The book is shipping now, and retailers are allowed to shelve it as soon as it hits the stores. That being said, this is the holiday season, and as a former retailer myself, I know that boxes and boxes of books can sit in the back room because employees are swamped helping customers.
I hope everyone likes it, and I look forward to reading everyone's comments.
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hammer of Moradin
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 19:05:34
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Ask for it. Some places let it sit in the back room because they see a date, and like Mark said, this is not a strict date, it's just when they expected it to be released.
It will introduce you to an area of the Realms that many of us know little about, but Mark brings to life with vivid strokes of the pen.
I'm thinking Mark's title should read something other than Acolyte, don't you Alaundo? |
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Candlekeep proverb: If a thing is said often enough, fools aplenty will believe it to be true. |
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turox
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 19:54:19
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So question for someone(Hammer really as I am blaming my curiosity on him.  Can I read this book with out reading the first 3 or would I be totally lost?
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"People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe."
Wizard's First Rule: Chapter 36, Page #397, US Hard Cover (revealed by Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander).
Explanation by Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 20:56:16
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| Will read this book eventually, though I do have other books on my to-read pile I'll probably read first. Still, I'll definitely get around to it. |
"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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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 21:44:07
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Originally posted by turox
So question for someone(Hammer really as I am blaming my curiosity on him. Can I read this book with out reading the first 3 or would I be totally lost?
Thanks
The class books have all been standalone novels. |
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turox
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2006 : 21:52:45
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| Thanks Wooly, I will go this weekend and see if I can find it. |
Turox Antas Dragonslayer -
"People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe."
Wizard's First Rule: Chapter 36, Page #397, US Hard Cover (revealed by Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander).
Explanation by Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
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Alaundo
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Lord Nemes
Seeker
Canada
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Posted - 02 Dec 2006 : 01:59:14
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I got my copy wednesday. It's always good news to receive a book 1 or 2 weeks before time...
There is still a lot of books on my "to read" list but I think it will be among the next books I'll read. It seems interesting.
Lord Nemes
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 03:32:04
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Thanks Wooly, I will go this weekend and see if I can find it.
But I still might read them. I'm in the middle of Bloodwalk and I like it. The characters are memorable. |
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Besshalar
Learned Scribe
Finland
166 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 13:00:08
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| Where exactly is the lake of mists I don't have any of my maps about and I can't find a mention in FRCS . |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 13:50:12
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| The Lake of Mists can be found just west of Thay and the Sunrise Mountains in the Hordelands, also known as the Endless Wastes. Its name comes from the water that continuously evaporates off its surface. The only major settlement at this lake is the town of Almorel at the lake's southwest borders. Not much lore is covered of this part of Fearun in the FRCS but you can read about it in the Unapproachable Eastand in the 2nd. Ed. sourcebook The Horde to be found at WotC download site. (Wolly, here you go again!) |
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Edited by - Ergdusch on 04 Dec 2006 14:01:12 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 17:27:58
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Originally posted by Ergdusch
The Lake of Mists can be found just west of Thay and the Sunrise Mountains in the Hordelands, also known as the Endless Wastes. Its name comes from the water that continuously evaporates off its surface. The only major settlement at this lake is the town of Almorel at the lake's southwest borders. Not much lore is covered of this part of Fearun in the FRCS but you can read about it in the Unapproachable Eastand in the 2nd. Ed. sourcebook The Horde to be found at WotC download site. (Wolly, here you go again!)
Here's the link: the Wizards downloads page. |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 17:40:33
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Ergdusch
The Lake of Mists can be found just west of Thay and the Sunrise Mountains in the Hordelands, also known as the Endless Wastes. Its name comes from the water that continuously evaporates off its surface. The only major settlement at this lake is the town of Almorel at the lake's southwest borders. Not much lore is covered of this part of Fearun in the FRCS but you can read about it in the Unapproachable Eastand in the 2nd. Ed. sourcebook The Horde to be found at WotC download site. (Wolly, here you go again!)
Here's the link: the Wizards downloads page.
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Besshalar
Learned Scribe
Finland
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 18:27:59
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| Thanks that is so far to the east that I hardly ever look at that part of the maps anyway. |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 18:44:37
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IIRC it is not even on the poster map of the FRCS anymore, and not to be found on any of the regional maps in the UE. Apparently the game designers themselves have not looked so far to the East since 1990. 
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I was incorreect! There has been at least someone that looked at this remote part since 1990, and that very recently. In Dragon #349 (Nov 06 issue) all of the hordelands has been revisited, including the Lake of Mists. I see my error. |
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Edited by - Ergdusch on 05 Dec 2006 13:13:42 |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 19:29:57
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OK, I bought this novel today, along with Darkvision (and a non-fiction, non-FR related hardcover by Richard Dawkins  ), and it's in my to-read pile. The story hook greatly interests me...I can't remember the last time I read a fantasy novel about a mother's search for her child. That's refreshing. |
"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."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
Edited by - Rinonalyrna Fathomlin on 05 Dec 2006 19:30:18 |
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ShadowJack
Senior Scribe
USA
350 Posts |
Posted - 08 Dec 2006 : 13:25:40
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| Just picked this book up at my local bookstore. I can not wait to read it after the sample chapter from WotC website. I know it will be a good read when the first chapter leaves me wanting more! I also like his choice of classes so far. A War Wizard, a Raumathar Battlemage, I am intrigued! Now what was a group of War Wizards doing that far east? |
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Dec 2006 : 20:42:42
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I'm really looking forward to reading this book but I haven't seen it in any stores here in the UK so far 
The Wizards series has been great so far and i'm intrigued to see Mark's work for the first time as an author.
It'll be nice to read a "frosty" novel this winter too...(despite being Englands warmest winter since the 1600's ) |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
USA
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 22 Dec 2006 : 04:31:23
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| They have actually been around since the 1st edition Fiend Folio, but I don't think there was much about them in 2nd edition. In 3.5 they finally get officially updated in Frostburn. |
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 22 Dec 2006 : 09:08:59
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| Ain't the frost folk discribed in the 3.5 Frostburn sourcebook very much comparable to the earth's inuits (eskimos)? |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 22 Dec 2006 : 16:51:23
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The Frost Folk are the creepy guys that can shoot a blast of cold out of their left eye, and have pale skin and hair.
Ice Folk (yeah, the name is a little too similar) are what you are thinking of, and they match up pretty well with the inhabitants of the Great Glacier, as described in FR 14 Great Glacier. |
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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
151 Posts |
Posted - 22 Dec 2006 : 17:50:35
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Just a couple of questions about this novel (I am considering picking it up):
- How much of the Unnaproachable East can be "seen" in it? Is it just "wilderness -> Winterkeep" or does the character travels around, let's say in Rashemen and one does actually gets to read bits about Rashemen?
- Where does the main character hail from?
In advance, thanks a lot!
Bocklin
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Mark S.
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 23 Dec 2006 : 07:05:41
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Originally posted by Bocklin
- How much of the Unnaproachable East can be "seen" in it? Is it just "wilderness -> Winterkeep" or does the character travels around, let's say in Rashemen and one does actually gets to read bits about Rashemen?
The story opens in the woods north of the Lake of Mists (out by Almorel). There's a bit of the Wastes, a new site called Hro'nyewachu, and Winterkeep. No Rasheman at all.
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Originally posted by Bocklin- Where does the main character hail from?
Cormyr.
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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 23 Dec 2006 : 11:00:21
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Interesting! Thanks Mark.
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Quite right, hammer. Must have slipped through the net at some point. 'tis corrected