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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 04 Jul 2009 : 16:14:06
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Originally posted by Daviot
Then again, the Arcane Age have some very specific rules about time travel, and a ninth level spell to make limited 1-year trips.
And then, Mystra, Azuth, Oghma, Deneir, and Labelas Enoreth collectively watch out for time travelers. And Labelas' Knights Paradoxical are more or less Faerūn's "Time Police". That being said, you definitely could find out information on the Imaskarcana in the past; you just couldn't physically take it (or any magic item) back to the present with you.
For me, the "rule" in arcane age was a way to try to make characters in one time setting fit within all the parameters of Netheril - i.e. we don't want a wand of magic missiles going back to before the Netherese general invented it. Silly if you ask me, especially considering the lengths TSR went to blend the worlds in to Planescape and Spelljammer settings, you could go back in time in Krynnspace, hop a Man-O-War and be on Toril any time.
Also, the original Old Empires accessory had the Font of Time in Mulhorand (which is right next to Imaskar, by the way) which allowed time travel under an entirely different set of rules.
And there's an astronomical feature (a constellation, as I recall) in Greyspace that can toss spelljamming vessels to random points in time and space. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 07 Jul 2009 : 03:08:48
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Just a little point of trivia... it's curious to me that the only Imaskarcana that we have any sort of information about are the odd-numbered ones...
Edit: And apparently I'm the only one who finds this fact curious... not really surprising, as I have a rather curious sense of curiosity...  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 11 Jul 2009 : 07:01:08
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I've long held the (personal) view that there are lots of Imaskarna - the term originally being used in Imaskar to denote a magic or lore repository. There are the "offical" Imaskarna (of which yes, we've only seen the "odd" ones - but in my view that is because the even ones are ... well, slightly more ... mobile and the seventh, ties them all together ...) and then the other Imaskarna made by various wizards and groups/cabals of that realm.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 11 Jul 2009 : 15:54:50
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Lesser and Greater Imaskarkana... I like that better then 'True' and 'False'...
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
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Posted - 11 Jul 2009 : 16:41:02
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Originally posted by Markustay
Lesser and Greater Imaskarkana... I like that better then 'True' and 'False'...
<especially since Ed's were turned into the 'False'>
You sure about that Mark? The 'False' Imaskarkana, as far as I know, come from Robert Sullivan's article in Dragon #281 "Imaskarcana: Faces of Magic" |
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