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Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions
I've been working on a project for a while now coming up with alternate versions of areas, npcs, and history of the forgotten realms.
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 1
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 2
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 3
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 4
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 5
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 6
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 7
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 8
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions: Issue 9
Issue 9 is the latest (released today) and features a rewrite of the Moonshae Isles to include lore from all editions into the 1300s timeline as well as remove the novel events to make the region more interactive.
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This project has morphed into a wordpress site because its easier to update and maintain.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/
Most of it is still under construction and I've started by focusing on the Old Empires region (starting with Unther). Hopefully in the end I will have detailed every region, settlement, deity, organisation, npc, and magical item in the realms.
The most complete pages are below:
Home Page
Some of my own rules I've been working on
ARRGS Classes
ARRGS Magic
ARRGS Magic Items
ARRGS Options
ARRGS Races
ARRGS Skills
Running the Realms
Divinity
Faerunian Pantheon
Entropy
Tchazzar
Mulho-Untheric Pantheon
Mulho-Untheric Pantheon
Ass-Uraqn
Gil-Geamesq
Horus-Re
Ish-Tarri
Ram-Manu
Set
TiaMa'at
Organisation
The Church of the Sky Father
The Church of Hoar
The Church of Ish-Tarri
The Church of Ram-Manu
The Cult of the Old Gods
The Cult of the Queen of Chaos
The Enclave
The Eternal Claws
The Northern Wizards
NPCs
Old Empires NPCs
Maladraedior
Meiandringolousaert
Nezram
Seh-Om
Races
Humans
Dwarves
Rakshasa
Spellweavers
Regions
Chessenta
Luthcheq
Akanax
Airspur
Mulhorand
Skuld
Raurin
Unther
Dalath
Messemprar
Nissel (Red Haven)
Niz'Jaree (Firetrees)
Shussel
Ssintar
UnthalassLast edited by dazzlerdal; 2018-08-26 at 11:20 AM. Reason: updating links
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2015-06-25, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 1 Contents
Dragons of the East: Iyrauroth “The Dragon Sea Overlord”
Laerakond: Overview of an Alternate Abeir
Rulesword: Trimming 3rd Edition One Step at a Time
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Vaasa - An Alternate History
The Knights Below: Adventure Path - Episode 1
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 2 Contents
Dragons of the East: Telos “The Lost Primordial”
Ryan Rahuba Presents: Lycanthropy – Origins
Laerakond: Timeline of an Alternate Abeir
Rulesword: Trimming 3rd Edition One Step at a Time
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Damara - An Alternate Timeline
The Bloodstone Lands: Adventure Path – Episode 1
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Vaasa - Zhengyi the Witch King
When Is a House Rule Not a House Rule: Skills
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Vaasa – The Warlock Knights
The Knights Below: Adventure Path: Episode 2
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 3 Contents
Deities With a Difference: Tiamat
Ryan Rahuba Presents: Shifters – A Racial Description
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Damara – Higenzi the Witch
When is a House Rule Not a House Rule: Skills
Deities With a Difference: Bahamut
The Bloodstone Lands Adventure Path: Episode 2
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Damara – Order of Fallen Princes
Laerakond: The Barrier Mountains
Rulesword: Trimming 3rd Edition One Step at a Time
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Damara – The Bloodfeathers Lineage
The Knights Below: Adventure Path – Episode 3
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 4 Contents
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires - Mythology
The Adventures of Aytros Falconwing: On The Run (Part 1)
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Mulhorandi-Untheric Pantheon
When is a House Rule Not a House Rule: Skills
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires – A History of Akanu
Deities With A Difference: Gilgeam
The Bloodstone Lands: Adventure Path - Episode 3
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires – An Alternate Timeline
Deities With a Difference: Tchazzar
Rulesword: Trimming 3rd Edition One Step at a Time
Laerakond: The Sea of Fire
The Knights Below: Adventure Path – Episode 4
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 5 Contents
Dragons of the South: Alasklerbanbastos “The Great Bone Wyrm”
Welcome to the Jungle: The Magic of Maztica
When is a House Rule Not a House Rule: Skills
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires – A History of Thay
The Bloodstone Lands: Adventure Path – Episode 4
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires – A Modern Timeline
Deities With a Difference: Set
Laerakond: The Hundar Isles
Rulesword: Trimming 3rd Edition One Step at a Time
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Church of the Dark Lady
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Conquest of Unther Campaign
The Knights Below: Adventure Path – Episode 5
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 6 Contents
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Old Empires – The Scribes’ Guild
The Bloodstone Lands: Adventure Path – Episode 5
Welcome to the Jungle: Races of Maztica
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Dragon Empire of Unther
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Brotherhood of the Griffon
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Science of Divinity
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Time of Dragons
Laerakond: The Sea of Corynactis
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Chessenta – The Empire of Tchazzar
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Free Republic of Unther
The Knights Below: Adventure Path – Episode 6
The Knights Below: Campaign Journal
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2015-06-25, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 7 Contents
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Maztica
The Watch Lineup
Welcome to the Jungle: Cult of the Viperhand
Deities With a Difference: The Masked Lady
Deities With a Difference: Qotal
Welcome to the Jungle: Maztican Beastmen
Welcome to the Jungle: The Jaguar Knights and Eagle Knights
Deities With a Difference: Zaltec
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2015-06-25, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 8 Contents
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Kazgoroth the Beast
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Druids of Moonshae
Deities With a Difference: The Earthmother
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Dynasties of the Ffolk
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Heralds of the High King
Deities With a Difference: Grond Peaksmasher
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – An Alternate History
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Cults of Fury
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Greystone Pack
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles - High Lady Ordalf Moonshayl
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Banshrae
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2015-06-25, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Issue 9 Contents
Alternate Dimensions Presents: The Moonshae Isles
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Callidyrr
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Corwell
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Dwarvenhome
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Gnarhelm
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Korinn Archipelago
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Moray
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Norheim
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Norland
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Oman
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – Snowdown
Alternate Dimensions Presents: Moonshae Isles – The Myrloch Vale
Appendix #1 – Complete Timeline
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2017-10-17, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Morphed this project into a wordpress site.
At the moment only pages for places and organisations and people in Unther are populated. Will update it as often as I can with new content. All thoughts and views are welcome.
https://wordpress.com/view/alternate....wordpress.com
Working on the enclave now.
For the moment I'm thinking that its headquarters are in a portal nexus (a demi plane where the portals from around the region connected to so you could travel around quicker if you had the right portal keys). That's why the enclave's headquarters is said to be all over the greenfields, because the portals from the nexus actually exit all over Unther (but more than a few no longer function).
History wise I'm thinking that the enclave was formed from one or two members of the Brotherhood of Black Flame (formed by the mages that Gilgeam persecuted out of paranoid fear) that stumbled across the portal when the Brotherhood was destroyed and they fled and accidentally discovered the portal nexus (the sources say some of them fled to the Planes so a demi-plane fits that piece).
Over time the organisation stopped fighting Unther and instead started working towards preserving Untheric magical lore. I'm also linking the Amethyst Sodality to the Enclave (enhancement for Lost Empires of Faerun by Ed Bonny). That group of formerly Imaskari mages infiltrated the Brotherhood of Black Flame hoping to use them to destroy Unther, it was one of the Sodality that possessed the portal key (unknowingly) and discovered the portal nexus. However the links between the Sodality and the Enclave have long vanished (the portals only function within a region (Unther), so the infiltrator could not get back to Ulgarth where the Amethyst Sodality survives as a secret society like the Knights of the Shield).
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/the-enclave/
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2017-11-06, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mostly finished the story of Raurin, broken it up into distinct ages.
Imaskar
Raurin Empire
Imaskari Successor States
Desert
Got the Imaskaroloth as the big bad. Madryoch the Ebon Flame, aka Martek, aka Ambuchar Devayam, aka Tan Chin as the secret big bad manipulating everything.
The Sandvoyagers Guild are secretly run by the Amethyst Sodality which are a group originally set up by surviving Imaskari Artificers that wanted to recover the magics of Imaskar and restore it but their descendants are mostly concerned with trade (picture a non evil Knights of the Shield). The common folk whispering about a Secret Imaskari Empire are really referring to the Amethyst Sodality who have a monopoly on trade passing through former Imaskari Lands.
Madryoch escaped from his imprisonment and possessed Tan Chin. Tan Chin failed in his attempt to become emperor and fled to Raurin. Called Amadryk (pronounced Madrek, now known as Martek to myths and legends) he attempted to get hold of as much Imaskari magic as possible and empower himself with a huge ritual. It backfired and he became a demilich tied to the 5 star gems.
Madryoch wants to be alive again. he has seeded Raurin with clues and hints so that adventurers can retrieve his phylacteries and bring them to Solon where he intends to destroy them using the Shadow Stone (big orb that drains all magic when activated - but allows people keyed to it to keep casting using it's own Weave). Once the phylacteries are gone he can restore himself to life and rule all.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/raurin/
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2017-11-09, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay so the Imaskaroloth is drawn to the Stars of Mo-Pelar. It knows they bind it to Raurin and can sense them when they are above ground or outside concentrations of magic. It can't destroy them (can only drain non permanent magic) but it can keep them and hopefully find a means of destroying it later.
The Stars of Mo-Pelar are currently housed in highly magical buildings; the dome of Kahnathaeg (Carthag), the Tomb of Amun-Re, the Crypt of Badr Al Mosak, the Tower of Set (beneath the Oasis of the WHite Palm) (the 5th lies with Madryoch in Solon).
When anyone recovers one of the stars of Mo-Pelar, the Imaskaroloth immediately begins chasing them. The party needs to recover all five of them in the hopes of destroying the Imaskaroloth. Once they recover the 4th in the Tomb of Amun-Re, the Imaskaroloth traps them inside (its a mile wide and just sits around it like a massive whirlwind of destruction). Once the party decides to face the music and take on the Imaskaroloth anyway they will be whisked away by Madryoch to Solon (teleporting anyone touching one of the Stars of Mo-Pelar into prison cells inside Solon).
At least that's the kind of adventure I'm kind of planning to join the Desert of Desolation modules and the adventure module in Solon.
Also detailed more of the locations in Raurin to try and link the places to existing lore such as the Gates of Shul, the Hinjaz, the Tomb of Amun-Re, the Tower of Set, the city of Carthag.
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2017-11-13, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think I'm mostly done with Raurin for the time being. The skeleton is there for me to build on for the history of Mulhorand and Durpar and Imaskari successors.
Onto Chessenta or Mulhorand next
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2017-11-20, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Found a lovely bit of lore in the Westgate dynasties about King Ashtukzu I of the Mulan Dynasty.
He was meant to conquer Westgate for Unther in -27 DR, but instead crowned himself King of Westgate.
He deposed the reigning King Ryndarth II "the Masque King" as a doppelganger. Well I checked Ed Greenwood Presents and the tradition of masquerades around the Sea of Fallen Stars originally comes from Chessenta which in -27 DR was Unther controlled (and I'm calling Akanu). So now the Masque King was originally from Akanu and fled a few years back after he was connected to a series of high profile disappearances and outed as a doppelganger. He possessed a very distinguished mask and that was now owned by King Ryndarth. Gil-Geamesq and his court hear about this and put two and two together and realised King Rhyndarth II was actually the same doppelganger.
So they send Ass-Tukzu to reveal him as a doppelganger (King Ryndarth II was last of his dynasty) and secure Westgate with a mercenary force.
Unfortunately Ass-Tukzu crowns himself king Ashtukzu of the Mulan Dynasty. That annoys Gil-Geamesq to no end. He now mistrusts the whole House of Ass (of which the godking Ass-Uraqn known in normal FR as Assuran, was the founder) and so he begins making plans to remove Ass-Uraqn from Unther and his position of power as head of the armies.
That's why Ram-Manu comes from Akanu to Unther, and how he manages to subvert all the major temples in a short space of time with precision timing, he had the help and support of GIl-Geamesq and his priests and the armies of Unther.
Assuran flees to Akanu and becomes Hoar overtime while Ramman is now the lord of battles and the three thunders and leader of Unther's armies.
This pattern of Gil-Geamesq becoming suspicious of godkings and putting in plans to remove them is something I intend to repeat over the course of Unther's history.
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2017-12-06, 03:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Meiandringolousaert is taking shape now.
Decided on her history and her lair and adding some flavour to it as well as some motivations and quirks.
Need to work on her magic and deeds and her ultimate fate (which is to die)
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...meiandringous/
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2018-01-01, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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After a short break for Christmas I'm back and working on Gil-Geamesq.
Here is what I have so far. He's the same awful lunatic as before but now with added depravity.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/gil-geamesq/
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2018-01-10, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Added a page on Maladraedior as he is quite an important player in Unther
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/maladraedior/
He lives in an ancient dwarven chamber that prevents the Smoking Mountains from erupting violently. He has a number of magical artefacts and magic rituals at his disposal. I'm giving him an organisation of his own and an alternate explanation for his longevity and mastery of magic (one that doesn't involve anything Time of Troubles related).
He will likely be a counter to Gil-Geamesq and TiaMa'at in the current year and then as time progresses he will be a counter to Alasklerbanbastos and his Dragon Empire and the Church of Tiamat.
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2018-01-16, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Updated Unther quite a bit. Detailed the Uthangol Mountains and added in an old fortress from the time of the First Empire.
I've made the Iron Citadel (in the Uthangol Mountains) the headquarters for a sauroid race known as the Gaund. These Gaund were once sarrukh of Okoth but like many clans they used their body shaping magics on themselves too much and were branded no longer sarrukh by the leaders of okoth. This prompted the civil war (many clans practiced bodyshaping on themselves) that destroyed Okoth and led to the planewalking.
Now the Gaunds are a subterranean race of lizardmen with 3 red eyes and grey skin that are exceptionally intelligent. They once lived in the Lake of Steam region but were hunted to extinction there by beholders and have long since returned to the Smoking Mountains, Black Ash Plains and Uthangol Mountains.
Their purpose will be as a foil to the sarrukh of okoth who are trying to infiltrate Unther and Mulhorand through the various cults.
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2018-01-26, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...he-all-father/
Finished an outline of the Church of Gil-Geamesq, I've tried to explain away how Zimrilim manages to keep hold of power when Gil-Geamesq in unpredictable and his underlings are all as ambitious and amoral as himself (he consumes large quantities of serthe which has imbued him with enhanced attributes and innate magical abilities, as well as extending his life.
Also tried to explain how the Citadel of Black Ash from Powers and Pantheons has a senior priest with the title of Autarch which sounds far too much like a title from western faerun. I've created a growing cult of Bane within the church that will be using the title Autarch which is corruption of old Netherese words which spread to Amn and then to the Vilhon and Chessenta/Threskel before Autarch Kabarrath Telthaugh (before he granted himself the title of Dread Imperceptor and split from the Orthodox Church to create the True Church of Bane).
Now that I've covered all the major organisations and settlements its time to go back and populate everything with people and items and history.
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2018-02-08, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Since I'm adding so many magic items now I thought I had best quantify the rules I am using to create such magic items.
Each magical power has its own number of uses. range. and activation method. Magic items are also now very very expensive to create but that is deliberate - commoners earn sp per year - skilled workers earn 10s of sp per year - merchants earn maybe 1 gp per year - nobles earn between 1 gp and 10 gp per year - high nobles earn up to 100 gp per year - royalty up to 1000 gp per year. That means even a king would struggle to commission a magic item withoug a lot of planning and monetary reserves.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/arrgs-rules/
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2018-02-09, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Did a bit of restructuring to tidy things up and make the menus easier to construct for me. There are now drop downs at the top of each page.
New URLs below
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...arrgs-classes/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s-magic-items/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s/arrgs-races/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/home/npcs/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres.../maladraedior/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...meiandringous/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...-of-ish-tarri/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...h-of-ram-manu/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...he-all-father/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...ueen-of-chaos/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s/the-enclave/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...res/chessenta/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...mpires/raurin/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...ires/threskel/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...mpires/unther/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...unther/dalath/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...er/messemprar/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...sel-red-haven/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...ree-firetrees/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...nther/shussel/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...her/unthalass/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...eric-pantheon/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...eon/ass-uraqn/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...n/gil-geamesq/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...eon/ish-tarri/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...heon/tchazzar/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...theon/tiamaat/
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2018-02-11, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Added a page containing magic items.
Also added an explanation as to why the history of Unther in canon sources is slightly different to mine.
The Geamesq-Samata (The Epic of Gil-Geamesq), also known as the false history of Unther. It is a continuous work produced by the government of Unther (the Church of the All Father) which alters historic events to put Gil-Geamesq in a better light.
It is this false history that makes Gil-Geamesq the son of E-Nlil, the victor of the Orcgate Wars, the rightful heir of E-Nlil, Gil-Geamesq and his victory tour of Unther after the Orcgate Wars, etc.
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2018-02-18, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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So I changed Isimud to E-Simud and made him the last son of E-Nlil (being the son of a divine being he gets an incredibly long life).
Created a new magic artefact known as the Cowl of Eyes which allows him to see through all kinds of illusions and scry far off places and generally be a divining expert. I'm debating making this artefact one of the Imaskarcana which I've alluded to by allowing it to replicate itself (like the Mask of TiaMa'at) and that E-Simud can communicate with it and that it seems to have bestowed massive amounts of magical knowledge upon him.
I've decided on the Imaskari portal network being a legacy of the spellweavers that had a presence in this land long ago (and may have constructed the stone colossus). The spellweavers all over Faerun disappeared during their Grand Conjunction event (except for Jergal). I've tried to link this disappearance to the lore in the ecology of the Spellweaver and George Krashos' Jergal article (the sstar gems which I've also made the same as chardalyn).
Spellweaver preence in the Old Empires accounts for the pyramid structure in both Ascore and the influence on the Old Empires so I need to place a few really ancient pyramid like "Nodes" around the Old Empires but keep them soooo hidden that no-one has found them yet (maybe in the lake in Murghom/Semphar - perhaps the Okothian ruins in Azulduth are built atop the Node - or perhaps the node is extraplanar in nature and can only be reached by a portal).
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s/the-enclave/
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2018-02-28, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Added in a loose tie that E-Nlil once embraced Ass-Uraqn as a brother and Ass-Uraqn was widely believed to be next in line to succeed E-Nlil should the worst happen.
However Ass-Uraqn didn't want to be ruler and when the worst did happen he never pressed his claim. Thus he was really miffed when Gil-Geamesq betrayed him and helped Ram-Manu oust him from Unther (Gil-Geamesq believed Ass-URaqn was going to press his claim to the throne thanks to his paranoid delusions).
Now trying to link Bane into Chessenta and Assuran.
I think pre 700 DR Bane will be trying to establish a mini kingdom in Akanu, Ass-Uraqn will thwart that plan and the two will have a huge showdown atop Mount Thulbane from which neither are ever seen again.
The trouble with the League of Samathar keeps Unther from doing anything about it. Ass-Uraqn might be the cause of the terrible storm in 677 DR that sinks Unther's fleet on its way to the Wizards' Reach.
Now Bane creates names Stellac Benadi Imperceptor in 735 DR so I'm thinking the showdown between Bane and Ass-URaqn occurs after that (but not long after). It is the disappearance/death of Bane that is the catalyst for him achieving true godhood (worked for Tchazzar and he was alive at the time and active in Chessenta as well trying to make his own kingdom).
I'm thinking Ass-Uraqn has a set of gloves that allow him to call terrible storms. I'm thinking of mixing the Staff of Fury with the Gloves of Lightning to create the Gauntlets of Vengeance. An old Imaskari item that Ass-URaqn had enhance over the millennia. Every time someone injures the wielder they gain a charge. That charge can be used to send lightning at someone nearby but if charged enough then it can be used to call storms of potentially unlimited power (depending upon the number of strikes against the wielder).
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2018-03-15, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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My beginnings of a page for Entropy. He is listed as an NPC and not a god because he has not yet attained the level of power to make him a demigod or true god and it serves to show that anyone can establish a church and gain worshippers before they attain godhood.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres.../npcs/entropy/
I've tried to keep his origin suitably vague via Entropy's own memories of his life but they only become concrete once he gains sentience.
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2018-03-23, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions
Added a page that will be the first of many pages on races of Toril beginning with Humans (Mulan and Turami)
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/races/humans/
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2018-04-18, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions
I added a page about Spellweavers to try and tie in George Krashos' excellent article on Jergal Lord of the End of Everything with a few of my developing ideas about the origin of Untheric and Mulhorandi culture and a few stray quotes about a race that may have warred with the sarrukh long ago.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres.../spellweavers/
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2018-05-16, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions
I have the base outline of Mulhorand available.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...res/mulhorand/
I've tried to expand somewhat on the history and distinguish it from real world Egypt.
The animal headed gods are now depicted as such because of the rise of beast cults during the second empire. The title of Pharaoh comes from the Imaskari title of Empheroar (meaning Lord Artificer), the gods have the same names but their history is based wholly on events within Faerun.
I've attempted to set up a governing dynamic in Mulhorand whereby the Pharaoh is the ultimate power and the Church of Horus-Re administers to the central government. Beneath the Pharaoh are the Divine Precepts who are the titular heads of each church (the Pharaoh is the Divine Precept of the Church of Horus-Re so is the most powerful man in Mulhorand) and each Church has an area of responsibility in central government. Beneath the Divine Precepts are the regional governors, known as Precepts, who implement policy within the regions.
Mulhorand has a standing army, known as the Legions of Dawn, each of which is recruited and maintained by the Church of Anhur, but each legion is often commanded by those loyal to the Church of Horus Re. The Precepts have a militia known as the Pehtemi (Shields of the People) who act as local police forces and internal patrolmen.
Just need to work on the specifics for now.
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2018-07-16, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions
After a very long break (had to do a work based certification), I'm back to working on this.
I've been working on my version of the rules a fair bit
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...arrgs-classes/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s-magic-items/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...arrgs-options/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...s/arrgs-races/
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres.../arrgs-skills/
I've also returned to Dalath to try and finish the skeleton articles I have been working on. It now has a secret group of slaves (the Fire Drakes) trying to free Dalath from the rule of the Freeholder houses, but in secret the Fire Drakes are supplied and organized by the Freeholder Houses who in turn are beholden to the Millennium Wyrm.
The Cult of Tiamat wishes to infiltrate the Fire Drakes (believing them to be dragon worshippers) but every time it gets close a rebellion occurs and all the slaves (and the Fire Drakes) and its cultists are slaughtered
If anyone has any information or ideas for Dalath I'd really appreciate it, as there is precious little I can find on the settlement so I'm mostly making it up here.
https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpres...unther/dalath/