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    Default [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    Where can I find medium sized apes living in the wild in the forgotten realms? What apes would be medium sized? Would gorillas count as medium sized apes?

    I'm making a revised ranger with an ape animal companion and I'm working on backstory and cultural aspects of my character etc.

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    Chult seems like a likely place to have found a Gorilla companion.

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    The Ranger in our party rescued a gorilla from captivity in a traveling caravan outside of Neverwinter...

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    According to XtgE Druid Tables, Apes can be seen in Forest terrains.

    So clearly they can be found all over the Faerunian North, which is heavily forested.

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    Apes, in the real world, use to refer to orangutans, chimpanzees, gorilla, bonobo, and gibbons if I am not mistaken? So gorillas should fit as medium sized apes.
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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    Quote Originally Posted by Fnissalot View Post
    Apes, in the real world, use to refer to orangutans, chimpanzees, gorilla, bonobo, and gibbons if I am not mistaken? So gorillas should fit as medium sized apes.
    That is correct, Ape is a tailless monkey, divided into great apes and lesser apes. Great apes include chimps, gorillas, orangutans, humans, and a few others (including several extinct species). Lesser apes are mostly native to Asia, and I don't remember the species included. There is no canonical species named 'ape', so the entry in the MM is rather non-specific. In fiction, Ape usually refers to gorillas, but in the case of 5e, is probably an orangutan or chimp, as gorillas aren't 'medium' creatures.

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    Quote Originally Posted by lperkins2 View Post
    That is correct, Ape is a tailless monkey, divided into great apes and lesser apes. Great apes include chimps, gorillas, orangutans, humans, and a few others (including several extinct species). Lesser apes are mostly native to Asia, and I don't remember the species included. There is no canonical species named 'ape', so the entry in the MM is rather non-specific. In fiction, Ape usually refers to gorillas, but in the case of 5e, is probably an orangutan or chimp, as gorillas aren't 'medium' creatures.
    There is no large ape released by WotC as of now though, so I would at least be ok with gorillas going under Apes. You could then say that it is a smaller gorilla if anyone wants to complain?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vintrastorm View Post
    Where can I find medium sized apes living in the wild in the forgotten realms? What apes would be medium sized? Would gorillas count as medium sized apes?
    "Humans are bloody everywhere these days." -- an elf, probably

    Quote Originally Posted by Vintrastorm View Post
    I'm making a revised ranger with an ape animal companion and I'm working on backstory and cultural aspects of my character etc.
    Since the setting's apes include arctic yeti, it seems pretty reasonable to have apes everywhere from the sub-arctic to the tropics.

    Unlike the real world, they presumably can feed off of magical plants & hunt magical non-hibernating prey animals in the winter of temperate and colder regions.

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    Default Re: [Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

    After a quick trip to wikipedia and doing some comparisons; Gorillas(1.2-1.8m standing straight, 70-200kg) are closer to a black bear (1.2-2m standing straight, 40-250kg) than a polar bear (1.8-3m standing straight, 150-700kg) in size and height. Black bears are medium while polar bears are large; so medium should be fine for a gorilla.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WalterO’dim View Post
    The Ranger in our party rescued a gorilla from captivity in a traveling caravan outside of Neverwinter...
    THIS. Solves several problems in one. A ranger would surely want to rescue a wild animal that was unfairly imprisoned. Maybe his goal is to return Mogo back to his homeland.

    So for generations did the sainted skull of Caius Anicius Magnus Furius Camillus Æmilianus Cornelius Valerius Pompeius Julius Ibidus, consul of Rome, favourite of emperors, and saint of the Romish church, lie hidden beneath the soil of a growing town. At first worshipped with dark rites by the prairie-dogs, who saw in it a deity sent from the upper world..
    - H.P. Lovecraft, "Ibid".

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