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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore

Australia
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  07:58:04  Show Profile Send George Krashos a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Now that Ed has let the tarrasque out of the bag on social media, I can't wait for his first DMs Guild piece which will involve a visit by Mirt to Ormpur, a small "dungeon" set there and ... Volo's Guide to Ormpur. Sheer bliss.

-- George Krashos

"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus

BARDOBARBAROS
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Greece
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  08:14:10  Show Profile  Visit BARDOBARBAROS's Homepage Send BARDOBARBAROS a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Great News!!!

BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!


"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2)
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Gary Dallison
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  08:44:49  Show Profile Send Gary Dallison a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Now that is a nice early christmas present. I wonder what lore nuggets will be hidden within.

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Irennan
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Italy
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  13:17:13  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Great news indeed, I'm looking forward to it.

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Brimstone
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USA
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  16:01:23  Show Profile Send Brimstone a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What did I miss?

"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Irennan
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Italy
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  16:03:24  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone

What did I miss?



Ed's publishing short stories, mini Volo's guides and adventures on the DMGuild.

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Brimstone
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USA
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  16:07:52  Show Profile Send Brimstone a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Irennan

quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone

What did I miss?



Ed's publishing short stories, mini Volo's guides and adventures on the DMGuild.


SWEET!

"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore

Canada
1281 Posts

Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  16:56:02  Show Profile Send Seravin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
How do we convince him to do Volo's Guide to the Moonsea?! :)
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Arivia
Great Reader

Canada
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  19:00:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nice! Super excited for this.
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Irennan
Great Reader

Italy
3805 Posts

Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  19:15:59  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Seravin

How do we convince him to do Volo's Guide to the Moonsea?! :)



Ed has said that he'd rather write many Volo's guide to small regions or single settlements, than fewer but larger guides to whole regions.

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Seravin
Master of Realmslore

Canada
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Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  20:08:18  Show Profile Send Seravin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I wonder what era the guides will be set in. Praying the 1300s like the other guides.
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Irennan
Great Reader

Italy
3805 Posts

Posted - 22 Oct 2016 :  20:18:22  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Seravin

I wonder what era the guides will be set in. Praying the 1300s like the other guides.



I have a feeling that they will be set in the modern era, tbh, judging from this comment:

quote:
I'm afraid there is no "Volo's Guide to Sword Coast 2." Volo is mentioned in passing in Death Masks and other recent novels. He is the author of the just-released Dungeonology (Matt Forbeck wrote that book and voiced Volo), and I wrote Elminster's introduction (it's in an envelope at the beginning of the book). Elminster and Volo spar in the margins throughout the forthcoming Volo's Guide To Monsters (I wrote them both; the Wizards staffers wrote the meaty monster lore they comment on). Also, coming soon from my pen and DM's Guild, Mirt the Moneylender visits Ormpur, the City of Saffron, is a short fiction tale and an associated "dungeon"...and soon to follow, also from DM's Guild, you'll see Volo's Guide to Ormpur.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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sno4wy
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USA
466 Posts

Posted - 26 Oct 2016 :  17:32:55  Show Profile Send sno4wy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This is super exciting!

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but is anyone able to tell me how Volo is still alive? I couldn't find much information on the FR Wiki about the man himself, other than that he's a scholar and minor wizard. He appears to be human, is it by blessings of the gods and/or his association with Elminster that his life has been extended?

I realize that that tidbit fundamentally doesn't matter, as it's always been about the substance of his guides than the "man" himself. However, is there more information about the Volo behind the guides, at the very least, secrets into his longevity?
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Irennan
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Italy
3805 Posts

Posted - 26 Oct 2016 :  17:37:59  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Mystra made him a chosen. She did that as a contingency (since she had foreseen the Spellplague) and hid parts of her essence in the most unsuspectable people, Volo among them. Ed drops this tidbit, among many others, in Death Masks.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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sno4wy
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USA
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Posted - 26 Oct 2016 :  18:20:09  Show Profile Send sno4wy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Irennan

Mystra made him a chosen. She did that as a contingency (since she had foreseen the Spellplague) and hid parts of her essence in the most unsuspectable people, Volo among them. Ed drops this tidbit, among many others, in Death Masks.



Thank you! I haven't read Death Masks yet. This is good to know. :D I guess although Volo is hardly unsuspectable to us, in the Realms he'd just be the equivalent of a wandering journalist who pens things that are perhaps most notable in his world as getting on Elminster's nerves. Sounds more like someone with a death wish than normal Chosen material, huh? XD

Edited by - sno4wy on 26 Oct 2016 18:21:10
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Irennan
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Italy
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Posted - 26 Oct 2016 :  19:46:07  Show Profile Send Irennan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It's a bit convenient. There are countless anonymous people after all, so it could have been anyone. Volo just got lucky I guess. Although it does make sense, if you think about it, since his proven ability to survive and run away may have led Mystra to think that he would not only be an unsuspectable recipient, but also hard to kill. In any case, it brings Volo back and allows for more books, which is just so needed in this era of the Realms.

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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire

USA
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Posted - 29 Oct 2016 :  23:45:53  Show Profile Send Markustay a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Looking forward to this. I do love me some "Volo's Guides".

Maybe he and I can reconcile with Realmslore, since I am re-doing the FR maps based on the Fonstad ones, which he says are 'the closest thing to my originals'.

"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone

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Marco Volo
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France
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Posted - 31 Oct 2016 :  08:18:22  Show Profile Send Marco Volo a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Great news ! Thanks, George
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Gelcur
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Posted - 11 Jul 2024 :  10:59:10  Show Profile  Visit Gelcur's Homepage Send Gelcur a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Did these ever come out? Maybe I missed them.

The party come to a town befallen by hysteria

Rogue: So what's in the general store?
DM: What are you looking for?
Rogue: Whatevers in the store.
DM: Like what?
Rogue: Everything.
DM: There is a lot of stuff.
Rogue: Is there a cart outside?
DM: (rolls) Yes.
Rogue: We'll take it all, we may need it for the greater good.
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore

Canada
1281 Posts

Posted - 11 Jul 2024 :  22:20:46  Show Profile Send Seravin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I see some noise about it from 2023, but nothing recent. I don't think they ever came out. Yet another disappointment for us Realms lore fans.
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Delnyn
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USA
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Posted - 20 Aug 2024 :  00:13:20  Show Profile Send Delnyn a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Irennan

It's a bit convenient. There are countless anonymous people after all, so it could have been anyone. Volo just got lucky I guess. Although it does make sense, if you think about it, since his proven ability to survive and run away may have led Mystra to think that he would not only be an unsuspectable recipient, but also hard to kill. In any case, it brings Volo back and allows for more books, which is just so needed in this era of the Realms.


I strongly doubt Volo has any clue about being a Chosen.
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore

Malaysia
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Posted - 20 Aug 2024 :  03:08:08  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Volo was made a Weave Anchor but I don't think he's a Chosen (of Mystra). And he's not aware of it.

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1294674202008616962

Edited by - questing gm on 20 Aug 2024 03:08:29
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ElfBane
Learned Scribe

USA
283 Posts

Posted - 20 Aug 2024 :  09:37:45  Show Profile Send ElfBane a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Is there a God/Goddess of Bards? I would think that if Volo was a Chosen of anything, it would be something tied to entertainment. SOMETHING gives him his immortality!
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Ayrik
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Canada
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Posted - 20 Aug 2024 :  23:14:12  Show Profile Send Ayrik a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It all started with Mirt, didn't it?

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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer

USA
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Posted - 21 Aug 2024 :  17:53:47  Show Profile Send TomCosta a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Bards tend to worship Oghma and/or Milil, at least your stereotypical musician type, though other options certainly exist like Lliira or Gargauth for more sinister bards perhaps, among others.
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ElfBane
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USA
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Posted - 22 Aug 2024 :  09:21:39  Show Profile Send ElfBane a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by TomCosta

Bards tend to worship Oghma and/or Milil, at least your stereotypical musician type, though other options certainly exist like Lliira or Gargauth for more sinister bards perhaps, among others.



Thanks for the reply!
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