Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Kurtulmak 

22:22 Learn to Speak Kobold :)

Kurtulmak is a Turkish verb that literally means "to break free".

Sages of Candlekeep, ASSEMBLE!

Consider any six foot step to have 1d12-7 tripwires, unless already passed through. Also consider including self-resetting tripwires. Also consider floor tiles that trigger traps when pressed, or different traps when removed. Also consider magic crystals attuned to trigger traps upon the thoughts: "How could this get any worse?" "Seriously, AGAIN?" "At least that's over with." and "This place has too many traps."

kobolds. lol I played a kobold sorcerer once. was getting chased away from his clan/clutch for various reasons and was trying to hide. watch a wizard flub his casting of find familiar so to save his scales he presents himself to the wizard as his familiar. the rest is history. lol

AJ, you're a legend!!! Thank you for making this video, about to give a watch but wanted to give the biggest thank you imaginable for being so great to your fans! I'm a Picketteer for life!! Pickettosian? Pickettarian? Whatever.. I love the channel!

Didn't know of ascorath so I was making a dragon overgod in my homebrew world and my idea for him was asgoraths description thanks

that illustration of the scorpion on the kobolds pike pleases me to an extreme. im giggling 5 minutes after seeing it, and oh, theres a skunk's tail! love it, this guy is concierge in my next kobold mine, where a kobold clan is mining raw ores and gems under the directions from a skully and a greenie, two dragons who want to wallow in heaps of faw ores! the kinks of draconic creatures are very elemental. the Pc's stand a chance of winning a motherload of unminedcopper... making them nobles by extension through industry, trade agreements, and minting coinage. its gonna be a good weekend! thanks for the deep dive into the kobold mines, minds and hives! cheers!

In a Forgotten Realms trilogy [The Rage, The Rite, and The Ruin] the backstory of "Dragon's Rage" was revealed as a ritual created by the elves in secret. Even gold dragons were benevolent tyrants who ruled for thousands of years, and their word was law. The ritual turned all dragons into beasts for a time, and once stripped of their high intellect, dragons killed indiscriminately, thus ending the Dragon Kingdoms.

Great video as always AJ. I especially loved the little example of the kobold language at the end - that was delightful.

" Kituk thank big talkin' voice for tell of Kurtalmak"

The kobold in the armor looks like it has 2 frying pans strapped to its arms, lol

I have never used Kurtulmak in my games in any major way, but I like kobold semi-pantheon nontheless - mostly because it mostly consists of demigods, so it is not that hard to involve them in lower-level endevaours. Once I had my players brave the realm of Gaknulak, kobold demigod of traps and protection, to snatch a powerful draconic artifact that BBEG blue wyrm put there to confuse those who would seek it in his lair (weird I know). Gaknulak's realm of Aknuthrak, in Gehenna, was never officially detailed to my knowledge, so I made it a large warren-city of kobolds carved in rock of Khalas and partially hanging from underneath the volcano-layer, composed entirely of traps, full of secret vaults maintained by kobold petitioners. It mostly lacked in combat, of course, but the journey there was as dangerous as the destiation itself. And, thank you for making videos on more obscure parts of D&D lore!

what a rich history of races. The layers of life in the game is amazing!

Good vid A.J, I love kolbolds. There's nothing like a tribe of kobolds in their lair bringing a group of high level pcs down.

21:45 Ok I love that picture, it's like a sorcerer eldritch knight.

One of my favorite races and their awesome pantheon. Thanks a bunch, AJ, I thought I already knew all there was to know but you've surprised me again.

Kobolds have a soft spot with me. I thought Urds were mostly random mutations of Kobolds, that most disliked out of a sense of jealousy, and Urds act worse due to wings, conflicting with others. Wondering if there is any updates I should do with what I wrote with them recently. Since info on their gods were so limited for wealth and economics, I was assuming they might just partake in dragons wanting treasure for gaining treasures, or maybe an occasional worship of dragon gods like the one of hoards, for their own hoards.

Yaaaaay been waiting a while for Kurtulmak

Got to play as Kurtulmak Hahaha. In a divine game where the sessions were split between deity actions and their high priests. Alot of management but. Got revenge on the god of the urds and absorbed the urds in my flock. Best part was getting epic level characters to willingly choose to go after demons rather than my ascendant kobolds. Hahaha. Death mountain was my high priest's base XD

Drokking Kobolds and their foul deities. Dragons ftw!

At some point I think I'd like to make a paranoid kobold PC (because everyone bigger is out to get him and the gnomes are behind everything bad in the world) whose idea of security is to trap everything. Gunslinger: because boom. I want minefields, floors rigged to collapse on intruders, bombs that explode if you open doors the wrong way, oils spilling on everyone and then glorious fire to cleanse the intruders and so on. Then you go pick fights, retreat to your secured location, and snicker as the baddies suffer the most lethal episode of D&D "home alone edition" I can conceive of. It'd be good DM training for making the most challenging and evil traps ever. Like you disarm the decently well-hidden trap on the fortified locked front door. Then you open it only to ponder, for your last two seconds of life, “who the hell puts so many bombs above a fortified and trapped the door!?” as you trigger the second trap by opening the door that was never meant to be opened. Because that's how you trap people. You make them think they've outsmarted you and spring the real trap on them! I’d work those alchemy and tinkering tools hard…

To the gods death is but a doorway time is but a window

HOW DARE YOU?! My mother was a SAINT!!

Really interesting!

I generally take the outcome of Asgorath's duel with Erek Hus as a defeat rather than a death. I roll with the idea that Zehir (Set, interestingly enough) wanted to swipe the portfolio of dragonkind after the death of its current holder, and poisoned Asgorath before the battle in an attempt to expedite the process. Seeing that he was outmatched and sensing the treacherous cause, Asgorath formed two portions of his power into new deities which were unaffected by Zehir's poison and thus able to bring down the King of Terror. Meanwhile, Asgorath, battered and (to at least some degree) diminished, withdrew to recover. This seems to settle any temporal inconsistencies, and only deviates slightly from the more traditional interpretation of the myth. Given Asgorath's rather aloof attitude, it wouldn't be too surprising if he didn't actually bother telling anyone- mortal or deity- that he had survived. This could lead to the misconception (perhaps even among some gods) that the battle had been the death of him. Given his nature as an elemental, it is fully possible that he could survive that amount of time without any mortal worshippers. That being the case, it could be that his interaction with Kurtulmak was his first since the Dawn War. Not a lorebite/perspective everyone will be interested in, but one I enjoy nonetheless.

21:30 ....know as the Shining One and I have no idea why." Ten seconds to find the answer on Google. "Kurtulmak was a brilliant kobold leader, able strategist and given of great charisma and acumen. During his adventures he came across an ancient artefact, a glowing suit of armour able to blind his enemies, and was therefore nicknamed by his followers “The Shining One”."

according to The orcs of Thar Kurtulmak is known as the shining one because he wears a magic armour, an artifact that can produce blinding light and allows him to avoid the blows of his enemys. A Shaman of the Shining one can cast a flash of light from its Gri gri and blind foes (save at -2 fight at -4 for 1d6 rounds if failed) ones per day. :)

Kobolds > Goblins... FIGHT ME !!

13:53 that is incredible.

You think THESE names are hard to pronounce? Wait till you get to Kuo-toas.

Ah Kobolds... I recall my friend that played a Half-Orc Barbarian and for some reason after fighting with a crazed pack of kobolds... he took one as a pet/baby and carries it in his knapsack. Named the Kobold 'Meeks'. It proved useless in combat, only hangs about as an odd accessory. Couldn't translate for us. Eats a lot. Looks at me funny as I glare at it. Even now I'm still tempted to kill that shifty eye vermin.

Hey there I have that issue of Dragon Magazine,haven't read it in years! 😃

Kurtulmak means "to escape" in turkish and zehir means "poison" in turkish

Back in action. I'll watch the naga video next. Keep it up

Nice work. I feel like every line in the script is a plot hook or a start of an awesome campaign idea. By the way, do you have any knowledge about the Pathfinder RPG? If so, have you ever considered doing one of their creatures in a sort of mini-series? Many of them are based on D&D monsters, but they do have some great lesser known mythological creatures as well as plenty of weird and wonderful original ideas. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, AJ! Keep on being awesome!

if theres something that gets me uncomfortable, its hooks.

As one with a setting where Kobolds are heavily featured, I thank you for your work. Secondly, you have confirmed a theory that I have long held: Gnomes are dicks. In fact, feel free to re-do your Gnome video with "Gnomes: Why they're dicks.". It'll be a quick video. ;) I particularly loved the brief shot of the Kobold/Lizardman/Troglodyte pic. Vastly different races, yet reptilian to the core. Nice.

Is it too much to hope the next diety video will be Garl Glittergold the gnome god.

The token god of my favorite race, nice.

Hey, I got my GED in Astoria(IRL, A town in Oregon.). XD That and my first lvl 20+ character(Aldor Maxis, a gladiator/fighter to begin with, eventually the God of trade in that campaign(a wonderful story). Good times(1996?). :D

Cool

I sware the picture of this guy from deity’s and demigods looks like a He-Man villain.

could you do a thing on the dark lords of ravenloft im running a cure or strahd and want some input on other dark lords worth bringing in on that game

Seeing as how it is official that Ao is one of many creators who all work for a higher god, according to the epilogue of the Time of Troubles novel series, isn't it possible that he isn't the same as the dragon god?

Do a video on Eladrin please

Hold up I’m new to dnd… and this wasn’t planned.

The shining Lord :D

Hay AJ have you used a plaig doctor in any of your campaigns

Great AJ,a nasty little god ill check this vid out after I get home from work. Do you have any characters that have ascended to godhood? If so you should do a video on it...im sure there would be great interest from your rabid veiwers! Just a thought 👹

In my campaigns, Kobolds were originally doglike goblinoids. They gained "dragon blood" through ancient dragon worship and rituals, which changed them only cosmetically and spawned the Urds. Some tribes still have fur. They are the ultimate b-list enemies. Magical weapons that are especially effective against dragons, reptiles, and-or goblinoids are all bolstered against Kobolds. Unlike reptiles, they are warm-blooded. Also, most dragons are offended when anyone remotely acknowledges they are dragon-kin. In a meeting place of the outer planes, when gods are forced to sit down and talk, most of the other gods insult the Kobold gods as being mere myths made real by delusional mortals ascending to the divine through mortal belief and believing their own lies. Yeah, I have clashing narratives of reality with the gods... I was inspired by mythology when I was a teen and first got into AD&D. "Which story is real?" I played with them though, the players will never really know unless they become the top gods of many pantheons... never, in short. So, to them, the answer is "What does your character believe? That one is true." I love spicing my fantasy games with reality confusion, keeps it interesting and lets me (as a DM) have a bit more freedom to make interesting stories for my players to play in.

Aj do you know what happened to the warriors song versionyou uploaded? I cant find it anywhere.

I feel bad for whoever makes fun of them.

Hay AJ have you heard of the crimson Vail

haha, A temple or dungeon dedicated to the God of Traps reminds me of that (underrated) movie series Final Destination. In that series of movies death is basically pissed about some people not dying when they were supposed to, so the whole movie he's trying to "balance the scales" but the pesky people like living too much. Through horrible (and sometimes hilarious) series of events he picks off the survivors one by one until only some (leaving it open for sequels) are left alive at the end. In the movies the survivors are beaten, poked and prodded into paranoia over every little sound and motion since anything (literally anything) could be the death of them. One person walks outside of an office building (maybe a hospital... It's been awhile) with another of the characters. They talk over some sort of plan to survive and contact the other people who are marked for death. One person walks a bit away from the other (never split the party) to make a phone call. While the other waits, a child also outside the hospital-office playfully scares a flock of pigeons. They take wing into the sky but not before running into and releasing the lever on nearby construction equipment. It seems the "hospoffice" was replacing a window on the (double or triple digit) floor. The lever the birds flew past released the raising mechanism completely and a giant 10x10 pain of glass falls on one of the movie characters... It doesn't cut the person in two, like reality would have it. No, it doesn't even break! It does however fall directly on top of the person, ACME anvil style, turning the person into what looks like a human coffee table... Such great movies

Make a trap in which all the traps inside of the building are extremely easy for the players to find an extremely easy for them to deactivate an on them deactivating the last one it Arms the actual trap and seals them in Forever making teleportation or any other form of moving outside of that impossible hell you could even have teleported to another dimension

Kurtulmak,lolx2.....as deities go he's not that tough,i can see other deities beating him up and stealing his lunch money!

Well it's where my first capaning took place I'll ask my dm to discrib it so I can tell you

Talk about the monk. Tabaxi way of open hand monk current character

All of these stories are why I favor kobolds over filthy gnomes.

so... basically Loki, just less sexually active, with more scales and definitely more bile.

What is DR in the dates what is it's origin

Do gods or at least demi gods, have stats I mean some of them don't seem that strong

Got anything on the Visage? I faced one in the second edition module that included the first arch lich... Damnit, can't remember the name it's an expansion on a dead first edition city... Bah, it has a 2 part name. XD Myth dranor! Thank you brain! Lol. Yeah, there is a Visage there that made me derail that whole module at about lvl 12. XD Yeah, I ended up planar after that moment, thanks to an antimagic lake it lived on, and my confidence in a ring of water walking. Let's just say, I lost millions and committed suicide (unsuccessfully) by jumping into a Vortex Stone I found in the temple of the gods of Lahnkmar, a tornado that lead to the elemental plane of air, and a situation that depriver my Urban ranger friend 2 wishes(after her he turned me into a developmentally challenged little girl) and a strained relationship between he and his djinn friend after an amount of time where I set sail in a ship made of cheese and bread mortar, and the findings therein upon the elemental plain of air(Ruins of an armory, IE: ruined shields, broken walls/etc). LOL Let's just say I never failed to make a lore role again after that. It's probably why I ever did t lose everything when I put on that neo-umberhulk helmet I mentioned in the other videos comment section. Live and learn, y'all. Hehehe!

I made a player sheet on a dragonborn ranger it was hard

Please, after my brain hemmorage, please do a Baelnorn. Lol #Still

I played a game with some people and they had Colbolds that were hyena men. That's a cool idea and all but why not just give them a different name rather than replacing an established race? Also they should be in a biome that makes sense, grasslands or Savanna rather than temperate mountains. Or you could have them there as an invasive species. The irony is that I've written some fantasy Africa inspired stuff for Warhammer, fleashing out the Southlands that Games Workshop has sadly neglected in my opinion.

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Whatever happened to troglodytes cuz they have completely changed them over the various Editions

Kurtulmak did nothing wrong

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