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[King_of_the_weasels]

Store the gems to sell for later, unless someone actually has a REAL use for the gems that I'm not aware of, split the pieces of eight equally,dump the hide armor since it's; to large to use, smells horrible, is hide and no one would buy it.  Keep the morning stars since you never know when large bludgeons could come in handy.

[RedWarrior0]

I will be doing some occasional fluff-relevant stuff in the thread.

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Lord Urist came out of the tent he had just went into.

"I smell kobold."

Idaho: "If there are any kobolds near, they won't know you. It happened ages ago."
Urist: "Hm... Fine."

Lord Urist goes back into his tent.

Idaho: "Some of you may not know much about the northern dwarves. They are in three clans, Clan Morul, Clan Sankis, and Clan Urist. Each is patron of one of the three dwarven treasures: Gold, and other precious metal, Gems, and other stonework, and Ale, and other foodstuffs. They meet at Fort Citadel, where conflicts usually are resolved without bloodshed, or, if blood must be shed, they make trial by combat, and in general do their best to avoid a clan war. Each has its own ancestral home and a mighty weapon their patriarchs carry.

The first lives mainly to the south of Fort Citadel. It is their territory through which we will pass. While South Dwarfia is a mighty stronghold of theirs, it is technically property of all the clans. Their ancestral home at Fort Copperblazes, which was once a copper mine, and later the lair of a red dragon, and now again a copper mine, is elsewhere. The Platinum Hammer is their weapon, and they are patrons of Gold.

The second is mainly to the west of Fort Citadel. Their territory borders the Northern Sea, where a great fleet once sailed against them, and was destroyed. Their first ancestral home at Boatmurdered collapsed in a strange madness, as though the Far Realms were present, but New Fort Boatmurdered is thriving. The patriarch of these patrons of Gems carries the Emerald Sword.

The last lives to the north and east of Citadel. Their ancestral home deep in the Cold Mountains is well-named. Fort Nist Akath they call it, "Fear the Winter". Some time ago, they drove kobold-kind out of Dwarfia, and those they could not drive out were destroyed. The Lord Urist you know is a nephew of the Patriarch Urist, and truly is one of seventy or so Lords Urist. They are patrons of Ale, and his uncle carries the Burning Axe."

[Dwarmin]

((I'll fill in the Southern Dwarves. Plot hooks goooo!))

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Thoten nodded. He thought he has smelled Kobolds too...and maybe imagine he saw some little red eyes, in the dark. It wasn't a pleasant memory, his last encounter with them.

He heard faintly through the flap of the tent, a treatise on North Dwarves. Interesting, but he had his own stories.

The Southern Dwarves we're collectively known as the patron of the 'fourth' Dwarven Treasure-War. While Northern Dwarves were lawful, Southen Dwarves were chaotic, to a degree-many of them had advanced beyond the simplicity of a single mountain serving as the entirety of the World.

Lonh ago, dissatisfed Dwarven warriors had sundered from their bretheren and gone into the inhospitable lands, to strengthen themselves...most of them were gone now. There were only three major clans left.

Clan Ashbeard are the tenders of the Desert-and the cursed Fortress of Bones in particular, though they maintain outposts near water sources to provide a steady income servicing caravans travelling across the desert. They are odd, in that they don't actively live entirely in stone-many of them live on the surface. Descending into the Fortress for hunting and clean up duty still takes up most of their workdays however. Among Dwarves, they are fairly rare-most of them were wiped out a long time ago, and their numbers have yet to recover. Their weapons and armor usually employ animal motifs-such as the ram, hawk, wolf or wasp- and elemental Sun symbols. it was somewhat less known a select few are practioners of Warlock magic.

Clan Icebeard didn't stop until they reached the land of snow...they established a small empire in the arctic mountains of the Southern frosted wastes, building it on the untapped riches of gold and gems located therein. Of course, it attracted attention...the Icebeards have constantly fought off invasions of Snow Elves and Snow Orcs since they arrived. These days, no one dare approach them-the Icebeards have become viciously defensive and intolerant toward visitors. Their ancestral weapons are wicked barbed pikes, rimed in frost.

Clan Mossbeard is hardly known at all-but they exist, in the forgotten Jungles that occasionally dot the sweltering Southern Continent. Much like the Ashbeards, they cling to ancient ruins, keeping what lies beneath from emerging upon the lands-and slaying those who attempt to delve, and bring horrors back with them unintentionally. They are barely like any Dwarves you know-they wear little armor, and attack with the tactics of subterfuge and ambush over bravery and audacity. Clanmoss beard, when represented, usually are shown carrying boomerangs and small knives, their ancestral weaponry.

[RedWarrior0]

Also, new rule: you can make history canon. Such as the Domain of Large Spiders (The original spider is named Helob). And Southern Dwarvishness.

Also, the seasons are a little wonky, since this world is a Klein Bottle.

Edit: wait, no they aren't. The seasons are caused by magic. The solar cycle is a giant flaming elephant doing laps from north (as it were) to south, across the middle of the sky. The world seems just as flat; a (purely hypothetical; none exist so far) map drawn of the world would be the fundamental polygon of a Klein bottle, with the far south meshing well with the far north backwards. The east and west just mesh normally. Seasons are the same everywhere. Heat differences are caused by magic.

[Shoruke]

Any chance of me being able to decide that there is an Archivist's Guild? Or that all mage guilds (in sufficiently populous cities) have archivists in them? It won't be too bad if the answer is "no", there's always churches and temples and the like... I even have a spell to find some of them >.>

If nothing else, I think we should make it canon that the Githyanki destroyed the Illumians' extraplanar uber-library, like it says in Races of Destiny. Otherwise, the justification for Syelyi's and Veshnoal's Cabal being on the material plane is kinda shaky. Also, if we ever visit the plane of shadow, we need to stop by Elirhondas. That place is basically Dwarf Fortress: Illumian Edition. Quest hooks just write themselves there, seriously. Ever-changing geography? We need to secure a source of new magical building materials. We're under attack by fiends or what have you? Go kill some. Our city is on top of a volcano? Awesome dungeon crawl to kill the guy who's trying to make it erupt.

On that note, what are the odds of finding a Githyanki in this campaign? Because if we do I am liable to assassinate it unless I figure it would be of great help to me alive.

[Haika]

I don't know about an Archivist's guild, but you could always have him be a part of one of the Psion houses, the Tailire or whatever they are called. Olive has strong connections to them, or at least the shaper house.

[RedWarrior0]

Hm... You may find a Githyanki. It may be a Quest NPC. No, not Lord Urist. A side quest NPC, or a post-journey quest NPC. You might also find a Githzerai willing to help you out, or who would help after you fight alongside the 'yanki against mind flayers. Or something.

[The Fool]

Just a warning, but Shoruke and I will most likely attack the Githyanki. The Illumians and the Githyanki are like Vulcans and Romulans (to use a Star Trek reference), they REALLY hate each other.

So any news of whether I can use the Quori Nightmare class as a Synad?

[Haika]

Should be interesting when we meed the Synad. Olive speaks their racial language. At least I think I took Synad, that's the one with three heads that sometimes show when you don't look directly at them right?

I wonder how a language for that works, probably has some sort of echo based thing, to go with three heads talking through one mouth or something...

[RedWarrior0]

Just a warning, but Shoruke and I will most likely attack the Githyanki. The Illumians and the Githyanki are like Vulcans and Romulans (to use a Star Trek reference), they REALLY hate each other.

So any news of whether I can use the Quori Nightmare class as a Synad?

I suppose you can...

Synads don't actually have three heads, just three minds.

[The Fool]

Actually, when all power points are expended featureless misty heads appear over the shoulders of the Synad. You can catch a glimpse of the heads in dim light as well. So yes they do have three heads. Do spells that grant bite attacks grant three bite attacks? Not that I'd ever use one, but out of curiosity.

[RedWarrior0]

Actually, when all power points are expended featureless misty heads appear over the shoulders of the Synad. You can catch a glimpse of the heads in dim light as well. So yes they do have three heads. Do spells that grant bite attacks grant three bite attacks? Not that I'd ever use one, but out of curiosity.

I'd thought more like the three misty heads were more like semi-real projections of the rest of the Synad's mind

[RedWarrior0]

There will not be a game Friday. I have reasons to expect this to die, as well, in which case I will let people know.

[Haika]

but... but.... I liked this character.. XD

[Shoruke]

But... But...
The new-ness...