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I did find out one thing that I need a little help with. One of the Arcane Brotherhood is neutral and can be a patron for the party. They are from a famous wizard family (Harpell). I'm trying ...

Just read the one-paragraph description in the Folio, the GH wiki, and Frederick Weining's article in Oerth Journal #5, and you're good to go!

I'd go a step further (or closer) and only recommend ...

I admit that I don't know much about Blackmoor, but it always seemed filled with so much lore of stuff that I just didn't get, like eggs and whatnot.

Well, that'd be a reason to use the area for ...

Blackmoor seems like the obvious place to put Ten-Towns. It's to the extreme northwest, one of the coldest places in the Flanaess, on the edge of civilization, barbarians nearby (the Zeai), plenty of ...

I've never really understood the separation of Grey and High elves.

They're loosely inspired by Tolkien's Sindar and Noldor.

I hate introducing high elves into the realm of Celene. They weren't there in the original sources

That's a good point. The ancient Celene described in my history covers much more territory than m ...

Hello all,

I found this wonderful essay. I'd like to know who wrote it

Gary Holian.

I assume that the U1 authors didn't understand the climate / weather of the Flanaess

Honestly, I just think it's because it came from TSR's UK division and the authors tried to make most of their s ...

In The Complete Book of Elves had it that the various worlds were settled by "nomadic high elves," making them sort of the default elven race from which other elven lines sprung.

The summoning of a really powerful extraplanar being (demi-god, demon lord, etc.) might also cause temporary "blips" in the cycle.

In the interview "While I had not contemplated the scenario of a t ...

Thinking about this further:

- The blinding effect being usable at will might be too powerful.

- The banishment effect only being usable once per day might not be powerful enough, depending on w ...

I'm not completely sure what you're asking us to explain, but:

1. I assume the Suel and Baklunish did have colonies outside of their respective basins. The Suel probably (I'm not basing this on can ...

Here's a possible translation into Pathfinder 1st edition stats:

The Cube of Light and Dark—Major Artifact

Aura: Overwhelming evocation; CL: 25th
Slot: None; Wgt: 2 lbs

Description:
The Su ...

It's worth reading Rick Miller's take on the Vale of the Mage in [url=https://archive.org/details/oerth_journal_18]Oerth Journal #18.

I dunno, I think bragging about a pass nobody uses isn't as impressive as claiming to rule France.

I think that as Sterich is a vassal state of Keoland, it's likely "steward(ess) of the Great West ...

If the pass is abandoned, probably it's no longer a practical route, whether because of monsters, bandits, avalanches, landslides, sinkholes, weather, planar anomalies, or some other reason. If that i ...

I love how varied the interpretations are for Keoland's feel and the detail of thought everyone has applied!

Yeah, I think that's an advantage Greyhawk has, that many of its realms have room for mu ...

[url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8644]Here's an earlier thread on the development of Keolandish and Common that I think is worth reading.

All the areas where Oerdiian-speakers dealt with Baklunish speakers.
And given that Oeridians were dealing with the Baklunish before the Twin Cataclysms, Common or its antecedents as some sort of p ...

The only drawback to creating a Keoland-specific calendar is it's slightly more of a hassle in play to have yet another calendar to convert.

I see your point, Vulcan, but I will argue that it is not ash from the volcanic Hellfurnaces that maintains the Sea of Dust,

It is in part. As Greyhawk Adventures detailed, different regions of the ...

So, I was wondering why Keolandish would use a dating system based on Aerdy’s declaration of universal peace half a continent away? Keolandish is older and uconquered for a thousand years; wouldn’t th ...

Insofar as Ket is Turkey, it makes sense that Bissel and the Gran March could be like Bulgaria and Romania. "Kimbertos" is a vaguely Greek name.

On the other hand, Ket isn't exactly Turkey. "Bey" i ...

This character is inspired by the character played by Joe Manganiello on Critical Role, which might make Matt Mercer's take on Vecna some sort of 5e backdoor canon?

More than backdoor, since The E ...

Rip, I'm interested in your evaluation of this book's treatment of Corellon, Lolth, primal elves, eladrin, etc. as well as the Raven Queen and shadar-kai. I'll check if there's a better thread in whic ...

From [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=749]my Nerull article:

"Wee Jas is seen as an interloper who formed her own kingdom in a domain rightfully belon ...

Secret College of Necromancy, a d20 sourcebook published in 2001 by Green Ronin, includes an obvious Vecna pastiche called the Ghoul. It's notable mainly for being co-authored by Vecna Lives! author D ...

Rasgon, have you given more thought to the quaggoth-bugbear-hobgoblin-goblin continuum? I'd love to read your take on it. (I can't recall any gods associated with the quaggoth.)

As always, a tip of ...

I came upon this thread while searching the forums for "Dreadwood" and wonder if any of you have developed the "Neheli plague" (i.e., the disease that has afflicted arcane spell casters in Keoland for ...

Jason's index is very useful. Most of my additions above came from looking through it and checking to see which ones were above ground. I ignored the ones sourced to D3, Q1, Dragon #298 and #300, and ...

Clannair Blackshadow - member of the Shapechangers gang in Greyhawk City. Vecna Lives! page 29; City of Greyhawk: Feuds, Folks, & Factions, 52-54,76; From the Ashes Campaign Book page 11.

Derke ...

If Mordenkainen inducts him, it must be part of his army, right?

Dragon #37 gives Mordenkainen the following troops:

Medium Cavalry: 500 (Regulars)
Light Cavalry: 500 (Regulars)
Light Horse ...

Did you invent Angmor & Turavati, or are they derived from an obscure but Rasgon-recollected source?

I think Angmor was supposed to evoke Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I was going for Southeast Asian ...

A History of the Penanggalans

The penanggalan curse was brought to the Flanaess in 294 CY by the Rhennee to Marion Arkenwold, the Lady of Dimhaven in Bissel, through her nurse, a Rhennee witch. She ...

The Old Ogre's Daughter

Zog the Old was the most terrible ogre in the Lortmils, feared among ogre clans for his great strength and rage. Some said he had spawned directly from the blood of Erythnul ...

The Stranded Traveler

The Western Road between Greyhawk and Dyvers hugs the northern fringe of the Gnarley Forest. Centuries ago it was even wilder than today, and merchants traveled in large, arme ...

The Barony of Shelspring is ruled by Baron Jharmok Redlee Neheli, according to the Living Greyhawk campaign. Stokedor Redlee Neheli is his brother and chancellor. Jharmok is a fighter, and Stoakdor is ...

Outside of the various imprisoned gods in Castle Greyhawk, do we have many other imprisoned deity-level figures in Oerth?

Okay, here's a brief list of deity-level figures known to Oerth who have be ...

If Sewarndt was 25 in the Marklands, he would have been 10-12 when the Lorinar sisters were assassinated. And, he's Neutral, not evil.

Yeah, probably too young, unless he was influenced by other p ...

I recall Gygax saying in one of his online Q&As that Nyrond was behind the Scarlet Brotherhood’s abduction of Thrommel. So a Nyrondese lord killing some Urnst nobles doesn’t seem crazy.

From Oe ...

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Bastrayne of Woodwych (Baron)

Bastrayne isn't in Greyhawk Adventures, but he qualifies as a "neighboring lord" and he's unpleasant enough that I think we definitely have to consider him a suspec ...

Turin Deathstalker left Greyhawk in 582, according to From the Ashes, so it has to be prior to that. Likewise, Guiliana Mortidus escaped Molag in 582 according to The Adventure Begins. Living Greyhawk ...

According to the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, page 62, Iuz's priesthood had eliminated their rivals in Dorakaa and exterminated independent lords in the next half-century after the founding of the Horne ...

I don't know, but the version of it detailed in Thomas Kelly's "Dwur Kingdoms of the Lortmils" in Oerth Journal #33 is blatantly inspired by Mystara's Rockhome (though not exactly the same).

There was an earlier thread on the Iuz imposters here: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5625

Is there any reason the original timeline is superior to Aaron Froke's alternate one?

The longer timeline seems better to me.

I agree that Iuz would be well known as a national power in CY 569 ...

I think that the koalinth should not derive from that moment of Oerth's prehistory: humanoids are late-comers to the Flanaess, introduced during the Baklunish-Suloise Wars.

Well, we know there was ...

On a related note, besides Dragon 68, do any of you have other sources to recommend regarding the Koalinth? I like how O-D featured a religious schism between traditionalists who venerate Maglubiyet, ...

Also, I remember a variant warrior class from a Dungeon Magazine adventure on the Dark Continent. I believe it was the Battle Dancer. It was re-written in the Dragon Compendium, but I can't find the ...

This is the continuation of my series of Consorts of Hell where I am looking primarily at the 1st edition sources.

I understand that; l didn't intend "if you ignore Ivid the Undying" as a critici ...

The promise of TSR not interfering with the setting goes back to the folio. The material Gygax and Kuntz posted in Dragon is like all material in Dragon 'Unofficial". Dragon magazine was meant fo ...

If you're relying solely on 1st edition sources and not Ivid the Undying, this is a solid theory.

-Maybe, but the Touv are clearly inspired by sub-Sahara Africans, who weren't noted for their sea-going navies.

In a quick search, it seems the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum#F ...

Note that Baalphegor was the primary villain in "Caermor" in Dungeon #2, which was reprinted in the Dungeons of Despair anthology (1999).

Dungeon #135 gave her a personal guard of erinyes known ir ...

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If it does not exist then extracting it from manure would be impossible. If we can add mithryl as a material, we can remove potassium nitrite as occurring on nature.

Adding mithral as an element do ...

[url=https://www.reddit.com/r/GhostsofSaltmarsh/comments/c4uqai/how_to_buildflesh_out_the_towns_of_burle_and/]Here's a discussion on Seaton and Burle on Reddit, with some suggested maps.

https://i.ibb.co/fF7hH2t/seaton.png

From my reading, and the basis for my query is that the heroes are hired at the beginning of Steading, IIRC, by a group of Merchants outside Istvin instead of by the Earl because the city had been sim ...

Yeah, the above quote is from the worst case ending.

From GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, page 121:

"The black bubble that has engulfed Istivin becomes transparent 1-10 days after Lolth weaves the gateway between the worlds. Individuals may move freely ...

From The Eyes Have It by Rose Estes, page 8:

"Lolth's methods for gathering a world to her cause began with spinning a web, weaving a bridge between her abysmal plane and a point on Oerth—in this c ...

On a different subject (but related to this thread), what module introduced H’Thiss Kaa?

I think the source is [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=445]Ke ...

If I'm not wrong, Seragrimm's kingdom would look like this on Anna Meyer's map:

https://i.postimg.cc/rm5Wv3y7/avesta.png

Maria Deltorre posted an alternate origin for the name "Sasserine" on Amedi, the namesake of the Suloise barbarian savages in the jungle, was a suel mage of power who resigned that position to expand ...

The Oerth connections were more explicit in the hardcover version. That, and the maps provided in the Flanaess map inserts and Savage Tide path later on, are why the fan community associates Cauldron ...

David Arun Del, the bishop of Sybarate Island (whose names resonate with Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Italian or Spanish), the wizard of Sybar, Pareesh Riest (whose names resonate with Sanskrit and possibl ...

Though it doesn't take the appearance of a megalith or stone circle, the Fountain of Good Health from L1 The Secret of Bone Hill seems to have some connection to them.

From the module: "Upon comma ...

Oh, and the Maze of Menhirs on Tilagos Island in the Nyr Dyv, as detailed in "The Library of Lost Resort" in Dragon #132.

The Faerie Court of Rings in the Welkwood.

And conceivably the Blood Ob ...

I suppose Atienne's Grove from WG10 Child's Play is another example. "When the PCs arrive at the druid’s grove, they see a large hill with ancient oak trees growing on its slopes. The hill is crowned ...

The Twisted Forest in the Pomarj.

Possibly the Screaming Valley in the Cairn Hills, though I think those "stone monoliths" are supposed to be of relatively natural origin.

The "circles mentioned ...

There's a Greyspace, it assumes that Celene is both larger and further away than Luna.

Side question: Does anyone know what Year One of the Olven Calendar commemorates?

There's no canon here, but in the Oerth Journal #1 timeline it represents the year the "Four Elven Realms of the E ...

Dungeon #124, page 15: "Since the beginning of history, humanity has measured time in Ages. Ages of Glory, of Dreams, and even of Great Sorrows mark the human tally of years, giving a sense of order t ...

A double solar eclipse would only happen on Goodmonth 11.

Why that day?

Because it's [url=https://ghwiki.greyparticle.com/index.php/Dark_Night]Dark Night, the only night of the year that has a d ...

Yeah, I think we're meant to assume that Liga appears the same size in Oerth's sky as Earth's sun appears from Earth, and somebody just didn't do the math.

A double solar eclipse would only happen on Goodmonth 11.

I'm no expert on celestial mechanics but I think we just need to divide 365 by the orbital period of each body to find out how many times they eclipse Liga in the year. So 13 times a year for Celene ...

There's a scene in the Vecna: Hand of the Revenant comic book where Acererak brings a wounded Vecna to his throne so that its "necrotic energies" would heal him. It's possible that it's this event tha ...

In the real world, you get an [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_season]eclipse season twice a year, and in that time you get a solar eclipse during the new moon and a lunar eclipse during th ...

And a Rushmoors oriented Timeline would place him there and the existence of Tycheron near "modern day" Dyvers around where in the Common Year chronology?

According to the back cover of Vecna Lives ...

There's some obfuscation in Vecna Lives, but details there like the conflict between Vecna and the Neheli are why later authors associated Vecna with the northern Sheldomar.

There is some indicatio ...

This article supposes that Vecna's Empire was based in the Sheldomar Valley. My question is why is there no lore on Vecna and/or his empire and their relations with Celene?

There's very little lore ...

There is some Druidy stuff in the back story for "The Standing Stone". It is non-specific in location but I have put it in the Suss Forest & some of the description in the module suits this.

Th ...

Is WG10 Child’s Play? If so, is Atienne the Great Druid of Perrenland/The Bitter North as the GML lists the adventure taking place in Perrenland?

Dana

WG10 claims to be set in "the monarchy of R ...

"The Nature of Druids in the Flanaess: The Old Faith" by Paul J. Stormberg in Oerth Journal #15 details all the archdruids of the Flanaess, and the Great Druid. Fanon, obviously, but worth looking at.

Is there a particular relationship between Keoghtom and Keoland or the Keo-flan? Is he revered in some manner by Keoish History? I'm looking for a connection that may not be there. rolleyes

Li ...

Sounds like there is some kind of elven settlement in the copse as well.It may be ruined, however.

Excellent, so not a town but in Veluna

Okay, here's the Living Greyhawk Journal #3 reference: "After much study a gentleman known only as 'The Inquisitor' has determined that the Field of Peren, ...

Have you read The Sea PeopleEvil Tide, Night of the Shark, Sea of Blood.

GA1 The Murky Deep. Whitton is Saltmarsh, Desarius is Delleb or Boccob, and Manannan Mac Lir is Osprem.

"The Ecology of t ...

Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, page 29:

"The geography of Veluna is generally unremarkable. All forests of importance have long since been clear cut, leaving only the Ironwood, on the southern border, ...

Another possibility maybe more likely, is that the Great Kingdom renamed the Kingdom of Zelrad as "the County of Idee" immediately after conquering it and deposing the Zelrad dynasty.

Quick summary of events:

-323 CY: Port of Langshallow founded by the Suel house of Zelrad.
-253 CY: Saint Idee of the Sails is martyred; Langshallow is renamed in her honor.
-197 CY: Rebellion ag ...

In reading the regional Gazetteer's history of Naerie, I see that the House of Zelrad founds the Kingdom of Zelrad and renames the city of Naerie as Idee. The rival Kingdoms of Idee and Okalasna sprig ...

Ashdown

Looks like this reference is in error. There's no "Ashdown" mentioned on page 34 of Night Arrant, but page 341 describes a character named Runewort (his nickname is Hop), son of Kay of A ...

Anatal

Eastern coast of central Hepmonaland, in the Kyalo Hills northeast of Alocotla.

Alocotla {Alacotla}

Northern shore of Lake Tchlapac, in central Hepmonaland.

Alhaster is the capital of Redhand in the Bandit Kingdoms. It's most thoroughly detailed in "Backdrop: Alhaster" in Dungeon #131 and in the accompanying adventure "The Prince of Redhand."

"The Prin ...

What year was the Red Death supposed to hit in WG8?

Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, page 24: "The Great Kingdom saw a brief, violent resurgence during the reign of Ivid V, who assumed the Malachite Thro ...

Samwise posted two other parts of his timeline, which expands on what the LGG and LGJ presented and may present further instances of plague.

He went into much more detail in his article [url=http:/ ...

One of the founders of our hobby and one of the most unsung contributors to Dungeons & Dragons, Len Lakofka has passed away at the age of 76. Along with the many adventures, classes, spells, and rules he created, Len was also father of the Suel in Greyhawk, designer of their gods, and namesake of the Lendore Isles. The value of his work goes without saying, but his presence will be sorely missed. The adventures of Leomund go on.

Len Lakofka 1944-2020 [DISCUSS]