I've been reading too much of the forgotten realms wiki this weekend. Everyone is leaving Waterdeep soon, so I need to actually have some cool places for them to go and some really cool stuff to find.
While trying to figure out where Tavin's from I wound up reading a lot about the Netheril Empire. A fascinating use of a couple of hours.
Our game is set in 1495DR, so the Empire is falling to ruins again, 100 years ago the final floating city returned from the Shadowfell and started conquering stuff. They went in there about 2000 years ago to avoid the literal, physical collapse of their civilization. Before their flying cities crashed down from the skies and killed nearly all their inhabitants, the people of Netheril made a number of fantastic inventions and created modern magic as everyone but the elves know it.
Of course they found the magical documents it's based on in the ruins of another, more ancient civilization. They were found by a man named the Finder, read and explained by the great Arcanist, Nether.
Pages of the scrolls are scattered all across the world, and grant the reader amazing magical powers. Zavidua Pabrovund happens to have a single scroll hidden away in her tower, a page of the final chapter, Ars Factum, or Of the Creation of Artifacts. It's a page from the middle of the chapter outlining all of the worst ways of making magical artifacts, like turning Aberrations into small rocks.
While trying to figure out where Tavin's from I wound up reading a lot about the Netheril Empire. A fascinating use of a couple of hours.
Our game is set in 1495DR, so the Empire is falling to ruins again, 100 years ago the final floating city returned from the Shadowfell and started conquering stuff. They went in there about 2000 years ago to avoid the literal, physical collapse of their civilization. Before their flying cities crashed down from the skies and killed nearly all their inhabitants, the people of Netheril made a number of fantastic inventions and created modern magic as everyone but the elves know it.
Of course they found the magical documents it's based on in the ruins of another, more ancient civilization. They were found by a man named the Finder, read and explained by the great Arcanist, Nether.
Pages of the scrolls are scattered all across the world, and grant the reader amazing magical powers. Zavidua Pabrovund happens to have a single scroll hidden away in her tower, a page of the final chapter, Ars Factum, or Of the Creation of Artifacts. It's a page from the middle of the chapter outlining all of the worst ways of making magical artifacts, like turning Aberrations into small rocks.
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