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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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 Posted - 04 May 2007 : 22:04:16
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Eytan, where'd you pull this name for the strange magical artifact in the sunrise mountains?
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Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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EytanBernstein
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 05 May 2007 : 16:41:07
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| Hmm... I was wondering when someone was going to ask about this one. I used Koruna as a variant of crown or circle, somewhat like the word corona. Daarthos is modeled off the darthos muscle, a muscle of slow contraction. (Primarily found in the reproductive region of the body in both sexes, though more association with males). I can't say much about the band because I have future plans for them, but I see them as a sort of "male power" counterpart to the matriarchal drow. |
http://eytanbernstein.com - the official website of Eytan Bernstein |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
12020 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2007 : 23:33:41
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| Just a clarification, they are all mulan/rashemi casters, correct (just making sure they're not some dark elf folk from Undrek'thoz with a mulan leader)? |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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EytanBernstein
Forgotten Realms Designer
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Posted - 06 May 2007 : 11:43:00
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| You're correct. They have absolutely nothing to do with drow, other than perhaps that they share a similar gender-dominant philosophy (though related to males instead of females). Why they feel this way may be developed in some future project. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 12 Apr 2020 : 00:27:27
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Hey, was anything ever done with this artifact? Just curious. Its yet another artifact found around Thay that people have found with unspecified nature to it (like the one beneath Amruthar which has some ties to Kossuth, and possibly similar to the Athora mentioned in George's article). This one being in the sunrise mountains and a source of fascination for some male dominant warmages (and apparently Eytan named it after the muscle which controls the temperature of one's testes.... so … the testes of a primordial entity.... maybe.. or maybe just a close name).
From this article http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frcc/20070425
While many Thayans look down on warmages as narrow-minded louts, they can't deny the usefulness of having a contingent of these casters in their armies. From the perspective of the Red Wizards, warmages make excellent subjects because they are powerful weapons but lack the magical protections to defend themselves against mental control. A band of politically neutral warmages has arisen in Thay in recent years under the leadership of Norano Reked (N Mulan male warmage 14). Calling itself Daarthos Koruna after a strange magical artifact the members discovered in the Sunrise Mountains, the band serves Thay as mercenaries for hire. The Daarthos Koruna are seven circlets that render their wearers undetectable by magical and psionic means. For the most part, the band clears out the ruins of the Sunrise Mountains and Delhumide, but they have been known to perform special missions for a number of zulkirs. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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