One thing you might find interesting. Richard Awlinson, the author of the novels you mention, isn't a real person. It's a pen name for Scott Ciencin and Troy Denning, who all wrote the novels together, but wanted to use a pseudonym instead of taking credit for the novels. That's why there are no other books by that author.
well, kind of. Scott wrote the first two books, and Troy wrote the third. The second was edited by James Lowder, and James wrote the followup "Prince of Lies", but he wrote it under his own name, not the Awlinson pseudonym.
Actually, she wanted to preserve her own life. Without a God of Magic suppressing mortals abilities, 10th, 11th, and the one 12th level spell become possible to cast again. That 12th level spell rips the power of a chosen god away from that god and gives it to you, making you a god and killing the god you chose to power-drain. Sure, the only time it was ever used the gods stopped it ASAP, but it nearly destroyed the world because Karsis chose to replace the god of Magic (via magic... dumbass >
@@MeepChangeling Even that, though, is for her followers. When that happened, it damaged the weave so badly it still hasn't been repaired. Sometimes, you can do things for more than one reason.
In your Time of Troubles video, where did you find the high-detail image of the Forgotten Realms dieties that appears at about 2:10? I've never seen that one before.
@@ANonymous-bh1un It's not D&D in that pic. That's an MtG image of planeswalkers. If you know anything about planeswalkers, then you'll know the pic fits the topic well, regardless of the source.
"The lord of murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sewn from their passage. So sayeth the wise Alaundo." I love Baldur's Gate and the time of troubles hehehe
I'm from Brazil, 46 years old and I've been playing D&D since the 2nd edition. I just found your videos. Thanks! I just miss subtitles to understand some words, mostly place names or npcs that I don't recognize, because the automatic subtitles don't get the correct pronunciation sometimes. But it's alright. Really, fantastic job! Thank you again!
Baldur's Gate I is a little spotty, it was their first roll. Baldur's Gate II however is a goddamn masterpiece and usually tops the first place on all types of gamesites top RP games of all time.
I really like your work summarizing important parts of the history of the realms. I noticed the absence of Kelemvor in your presentation and I think this is because you only refer to the "Avatar trilogy" and the campaign but there are two more books to take into account: "The Prince of lies" and "Crucible". These novells refer to the time after the time of troubles and explain how cyric rules the realm of the dead and tries to become the only deity in the realms. He does so by writing the Cyrinishad, a book that tells the time of troubles story in a very perverted form in which Cyric was the sole hero. The book contains magic so powerful that even a deity that reads the book will completely believe it to be true (which happened to mask). At the end Kelemvor manages to bring rebellion to the city of the damned and dethrone Cyric and he becomes the new God of the Dead. It is an interesting story one shouldn't miss when talking about the Time of Troubles.
This. You cant really talk about the time of troubles and 2 mortals ascending to godhood and leave out Kelemvor. Plus hes kinda unique for being a non evil god of death.
Myrkul and Bhaal have recently come back too, if you're interested, Bhaal taking the portfolios of murder and Myrkul that of death (while Kelemvor retained the portfolio of the dead). Bhaal returned after the last Bhaalspwan died, while Myrkul returend as a result of the Second Sundering.
I would be interested to see you tackle Tiamat as a lore subject. She has a bunch of stuff going on in the Realms history. Her stuff in the Time of Troubles was super convoluted but interesting.
Baldur's Gate got the timing of the siring of the Bhaalspawn a bit askew. The game says that the Children of Bhaal were sired during the Time of Troubles, but the events of the game only happens ten years after the ToT, but Charname is 20 at the start of the game. I think the most common fanon for BG is that the prophesy predicting Bhaal's death was originally told centuries before, so Bhaal had prior warning and was siring Bhaalspawn long before the Time of Troubles. I mean credit where due, in "Throne of Bhaal", one of the Five (powerful Bhaalspawn trying to gather as much power by killing all the other Bhaalspawn) is a fire giant, and another is a half-dragon.
Thanks for putting this one out @Jorphdan! My kids watch these and always groan when you say, 'the ph is silent' because they can't stand that it's silent. lol
Hey I'm running the Shadowdale module (and soon the other 2) during the Time of Troubles. Loved your synopsis, as I haven't read the novels in like 10 years. It's the 5th session of a return to 2nd edition for my Sunday game. I've been running 2nd since 1990 but never played the published adventures. Things were already "past that". After a couple of 5e campaigns I said "let's play this instead" and here we go!
Great job! A lot of these types of explanatory videos can be tedious to watch, but you went right through the heart of it without missing the contextual information. Thank you!
I wish you would explain a few concepts. How gods get powers from worshipers, what avatars actually are, what souls are in this world. It’s cool if you don’t but I’m really curious.
My dude!! You are an amazing personae! Thanks for all your videos!! The best movies, quality sound, your voice is always easy to understand, easily if you not fluently in english, and it is quite okay tone to keep listening for a few videos! Following all your forgottenRealms, just such a beatiful world 🤠🤜
Keep up the good work. Thank you it’s so nice to have something to go to when there a not sure moment or when some that is just trying D&D for the first time.
I Love How Loth (Spider Queen) Sent a Demon to open Box with Piece of “Time of Troubles,” --INSTANTLY SHUTTING OFF MAGIC FOR SECONDS--- (ALL DEFENSES & SHIELDS DOWN) Dwarf’s Battle axe Chopped a 1st House Matron’s Head in half Ending Invasion on “Mitral Hall,” THE SPIDER QUEEN ENJOYS WATCHING MORE CHAOS FOR HER FOLLOWERS.
I came here because I was looking history on The Time of Troubles. (Thanks Cadderly) I've discovered a gem! I'm watching them entire lore playlist. Thank you for working so hard on all these videos.
just became a recent fan of all the videos jorphdan! I myself a DM to a group that travels Faerun through the running of module/book adventures, and you have been ALOT of help sorting things out for me since the wikia is usually...well daunting. I was curious if you might ever do a video on the old gods and possibly their connection to toril.
Jergal became Merkul's chamberlain in the city of the dead. Mystra was killed by Helm when she was rescues by Kelemvor's party (which included Cyric, Midnight, and Adon of Sune) Helm killed Mystra on the Celestial Stairway in Cormyr. Kelemvor's party made their way to Elminster in Shadowdale for he was a known Chosen of Mystra and it was hoped that he could aid the party in locating and obtaining the Tablets of Fate. During the Battle of Shadowdale, Bane's avatar was slain by Elminster, only to be reconstituted by Mirkul. It was determined that the tablet that Bane stole was hidden somewhere in the the city of Tantras. Conditions in the City of Tantras were severe. The priesthood of Helm, bolstered by the presence of their deityseparated
If you want to increase your realms lore by + 5, playing baldurs gate as you mentioned would be a great idea! (they are very long games so if you don't have a lot of time, I recommend you play BG2 shadows of Amn over the others, despite it coming second in the sires). Thanks for the video!
It's funny to watch this video 2 years after publishing where your goal was reaching a thousand of subscribers, now having almost 60.000. Keep up good job!
There were also 3 graphic novels by DC comics (that's where I learned about this event many years ago). I dont' have the issues in physical but I have them in digital after A LOT of search. It's a fantastic event to play! the avatars of the gods are really fantastic allies and enemies!
I always wondered what happened to Hoar/Assuran - my favorite deity in Forgotten Realms. Though when playing a character in Unther, usually the forgotten Untherian god, Anu.
Will we every get a video about Vecna's uprising and nearly taking over Sigil and the Lady of Pain and how that was kinda the reason for edition changing?
Vecna is actually a character from the Greyhawk setting (the original D&D setting of Gary Gygax) and Sigil is the centerpiece of Planescape, which was its own thing. Technically, Vecna's incrusion to Sigil (via way of the Ravenloft setting) doesn't have anything to do with Forgotten Realms or its history, if you want to specifically stay with that for this series.
I feel like opening it up to a more D&D Lore in the future. There is plenty of Forgotten Realms but people seem to be more interested in what's in their PHB rather than the novels.
It's actually Magic the Gathering art of the Planeswalkers, just seemed to fit. Here's a link. orig13.deviantart.net/c0d7/f/2012/252/6/b/6bd6c324cda62be3999b74e5e0ea706c-d41iikm.jpg
I loved the "Time of Troubles", it was a great way to explain the changes the game was making between "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" and 3rd Edition, particularly with magic. Unfortunately, they tried the same thing with the Spellplague for the switch from 3rd to 4th Edition, with less than satisfactory results.
Hey there! First of all, great video! Helps a lot when trying to understand how all the events of the Time of Troubles fit together. I was kinda surprised, however, that you didn't mention Kelemvor at all. From what I know, he was supposed to be quite important to all this, and, I think, used to travel with Cyric and Midnight. Am I mistaken? Or maybe you're planning a future video on him?
wait wait wait, I'm old and I played AD&D when it was new - and that was maybe 10 years or more before the Time of Troubles. maybe it was too explain 2nd to 3rd?
Hello, I have a theorem involving the time before times. The first proper mortals were the Solarians and Imerian, the only ascendant race, but the gods, forbiddens, and eternals turned against their ways, dividing the 2 races into good and evil. For the Imerians, that turned them into angels and demons. For the Solarians, that turned them into the dragonkin and Cerudanians. But before the Cerudanians had a chance to even emerge, the corruption of the 3 death entities already ended the Cerudanians before they had a chance to properly emerge in the mortal world. In the wake of this, the energies bound by them were both scattered and lost, heading only to the forces with amazing regenerative powers, especially the leviathans, and to other dimensions.
If you guys are really interested in these events. The Avatar Trilogy novels cover all of it very well. And there are even audiobooks. Also I don't know why he left out Kelemvor, who became Lord of the Dead.
Oh my god yeah you have to play the Baldurs Gate series. Baldurs Gate 2 is the best, it's a bit more polished. Both games are on your cellphone now so you should download them... or torrent them and put them on your phone for when you need a time waster. Hundreds of hours of game play. And a unbelievable amount of replayibility.
Agreed, definitely play through the BG games, they have fantastic random snippets of lore in the in-game books, the whole bane/baal/merkul and jergal thing is in one (might be a 3 part book). Best thing about BG1 is how many different potential party companions you have especially if you get enhanced edition. you can play through multiple times and feel like its a very different story each time.
Nihility although in BG2 there are 22 different companions and in BG2 almost all of have personal quests and party banter with each other which was really expanded on in the 2nd game.
