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@ArcturusMinsk Год назад

whelp, the draconic civilization just proved to everyone that even an entire society, working together, can still roll a 1.

@mangacomics1601 Год назад

You mean a 1.

@Colonel_Spectre Год назад

Sun Elves: Start brutal war Dark Elves: respond and get punished Kinda f*cked

@MrRhexx Год назад

Wait until you hear they are not even allowed in Evermeet

@mangacomics1601 Год назад

Why did they respond? They weren't being attacked.

@jmbs9586 4 месяца назад

This story is at the level of Game of Thrones…all the injustice and war

@lbshitkkers 4 месяца назад

@@mangacomics1601 because another dark elf kingdom got attacked????

@SnowWolf9999 3 месяца назад

@@mangacomics1601 The kingdom of Miyeritar which had dark elves, moon elves and green elves was attacked and invaded by the Sun elves (the dark elves and sun elves were the two great elven powers at the time) so it basically started a war between the two superpowers and engulfed the smaller kingdoms of the other elves in proxy wars with the Sun elves invading other regions in the north and the dark elves invading the other regions in the south.

@andrzej6294 Год назад

In addition to the history of drows, it's worth mentioning, that the Fearzress (magical energy of the Underdark) is actually the remnant magic of the Corellon's Curse. So the drows now use as the source of their magical power the same magic, that made them what they are. And please, give Imaskari some love in the next episode, they are greatly unappreciated

@Xhalph Год назад

From the Forgotten Realms wiki: "The word faerzress is composed of faer (magic) and Z'ress (to hold dominance or to remain in force), which together mean magic that remained. However, its original term had faer and Z'ress inverted, which rendered the term as dominating magic. That older composition was much more telling about the primary task of these emanations: to keep the drow in the Underdark."

@arthurdotson9579 Год назад

Is the Fearzress the reason Drow magic enchanted items lose their enchantments when they make contact with sunlight? I don't know how it's done now, but back in the earlier days of the Drizzt novels, when he first came to the surface, his Drow magical scimitars, armor, and piwafwi cloak eventually degraded and became useless or fell apart due to contact with sunlight.

@TheBayzent Год назад

@arthurdotson9579 Yes, the drow equipment depends on Fearzess to work, partially at least.

@josephjohnson5415 Год назад

@@arthurdotson9579 everyone forgets that Lieral Baenre carved a rune on the world tree allowing drow magic on the surface, this includes faerzress. If the surface folk ever realized what they could do with this physical magical substance, there would be a great "gold rush" into the underdark because it would become like oil in powering their fantasy world.

@arthurdotson9579 Год назад

@@TheBayzent Thank ya.

@Shatterwings060 Год назад

I swear and continue to believe the Sun-Elves got a slap on the wrist as to comparatively what happened to the Drow. They should have been equally given the same curse to never see the sun again as the Drow were.

@cataquackwarlord5389 Год назад

An ironic twist on the curse for the Sun Elves could have been to bind them to the sun. Meaning that as long as they are in the light of the sun, they are healthy, but they will weaken and potentially even die whenever they are away from the sun. Such a curse would break their proud civilization and force them to be nomads, constantly traveling the world to stay in the light of day.

@EmilM-pb2hn 19 дней назад

Absolutely agree. Sun elves did oppress the Drow until everything befell

@christopherbottelson2340 4 месяца назад

Every....Single....Dark Elf.... Chills brother...well said... Love all your material Rhexx, never stop...

@sbits_yo615 Год назад

As someone who has been reading Forgoten realms books for the past 21 years, i cant say in words how much i love those Lore videos. Thanks you brother for your time and effort !!!

@theisjepsen22 Год назад

Any names on those books for somebody who wants to nerd this out?

@Xepent Год назад

Top 5?

@randalthor1327 9 месяцев назад

@@theisjepsen22 Icewind dale is the start of the Drizzt series, that has been going on for 30 some odd years. Time of Troubles is a great trilogy and the Elminster series is really good as well.

@justinmaitland7335 Год назад

The book where the sacrifice of the winged elves was revealed was well done, the bladesinger has such a powerful character arc. Dnd has such loving loresmiths.

@andrecro1 Год назад

Which book is it?

@cubescihist6737 Год назад

D&D: "In this universe, Good and Evil are OBJECTIVE and ABSOLUTE" Also D&D: Corellon, a GOOD-aligned deity, curses the innocent and the unborn.

@user-vm9xz4kv9z Год назад

I don't see the contradiction, just because a Good being can do something bad it doesn't mean Good and Evil aren't objective

@cubescihist6737 Год назад

@@user-vm9xz4kv9z You are right. But I don't know, I always imagined gods to be above humans, and therefore, be above this kind of actions. But I guess gods in D&D must have the exact same flaws as humans and aren't necessarily wiser. Just more powerful.

@Bloodletter87 Год назад

Interesting detail about the Ilythiir: Dun-Tharos, the seat of the Rotting Man in 3rd Edition, was built on top of dungeons of Ilythiiri make. So they spread far more east than shown on most maps.

@Aerowarrier Год назад

I really want to make a campaign where after having some time to get your party known by people, you’re approached by either the mayor of the city you’ve been working in, the leader of the underground crime syndicate, or some outside force that isn’t truly known. Regardless of who contacts you, it leads to you descending into the Underdark to steal/rob/buy a spelljammer from mindflayers, then to travel into some dwarven or gnomish place to get weapons with the end goal being to travel to space and destroy the comet. It turns out that the mayor is a gold dragon and the crime boss is a green dragon, the two of them having pooled their resources to hire people to destroy that comet and free dragon kind from the Draco rage. The third party, however, is a black dragon, who also wants to destroy the comet but intends to drop it on top of the city in the process, ya know typical comic book villain shit like black dragons do

@annatarsoly941 Год назад

Amazing idea! I would love to play through this, or at least hear about it if/when you run it!

@YeaItsMeMatt89 Год назад

What an epic tale brought to us by one of the greatest loremasters on RU-vid!!! Thank you for all of your hard work brother!! 💚

@joshuaosiris Год назад

Yeah, Ed Greenwood, Scott Ciencin, Troy Denning, J. Robert King, James M. Ward, or David Wise didn't bring it to you.

@YeaItsMeMatt89 Год назад

@@joshuaosiris I'm not subscribed to any of those people.

@joshuaosiris Год назад

Dude they are some of the people who wrote the lore, fool!

@YeaItsMeMatt89 Год назад

@@joshuaosiris Who's the fool here me or the person who thinks MrRhexx has not mentioned all those names in literally all his videos?

@josephjohnson5415 Год назад

I created a "Return of Araushnee" campaign 5 years back because I always thought she got a bad deal with the writing of elf lore. Corellon just happened to marry an "evil bitch" out of all the other seldarine? No! So the campaign has your elf or drow characters re-examine clues about the fall and the descent to prove her evil or exonerate her culpability. In my own homebrew you discover that while the overgod AO deals with deities the overgod OO (the grey one) deals with mortals. And the mortal races would be hampered by how OP the elves were. Corellon was given a choice, willfully diminish them or watch their dominion be shattered from with in. Corellon could not take any action that would demand he shine any less brighter. OO departed and everything was good for a time. With Araushnee's help ( because she was friends with the Goddess Nauladii who returned from the Prime with the mortal Template required to make mortal species) they made elves into a reality and many different flavors. Her people were darker skinned and lived closer to the earth and hunted the things that flourished in dark places, keeping other elves safe as they lived high in the trees mostly ignoring the combat below. Corellon would be tricked into giving her a bejeweled spider necklace that was in fact was a slime called Lolth from the abyss. Lolth need only Bite her, and did so while she carried the twins. Lolth could not corrupt her heart but her children weren't protected. Seeing his sister suffering, Vhearun breathed in all the poison that was in the womb. When the twins were born Corellon rejoiced at seeing his Daughter but rejected the corrupted Vhearun, even question Araushnee fidelity (which causes the scorpion God to leave the seldarine in disgust). This breaks her heart and lolth seeps in. From that point it was a losing battle against lolth for control of her body. Previous lore picks up here with lolth striking Corellon and being banished. But Corellon realized this was how OO would break him, and a deep melancholy set in that affects all elves thru him. A desire for the perfect past. The second part of the campaign see the characters help the goddess Nauladii separate Araushnee from lolth. (She had to wait until lolth was a greater God with power enough for both of them to become intermediate goddess.) This allows Araushnee to create a trinity with her children, and creates a proper redemption arc for drow characters. It also touches off a major civil war in the underdark (which would have been part three but we never got that far). Sadly, WOTC and RA want to go a God vs godless civil war for drow, which I think is terrible lore.

@Gen-Rev Год назад

This is actually really good. I love playing with Drow history, they get such a raw deal.

@josephjohnson5415 Год назад

@@Gen-Rev D&D will always need an antagonist for the party to face, and drow historically have been among the best of the bad guys. Dragon magazine with drow on the cover sold 20% better than typical covers. But as years go by they deserve a proper character arc. D&D is mostly correct that races or species should not be inherently evil or good, but they go about the wrong way enforcing real world views on to the game arbitrarily instead of giving a story oriented theme explaining the change of view. Now in forgotten realms they say "oh there were good drow all along, hiding away". A real cop out retcon. Instead I had the players engage in a titanic proxy fight between multiple powers, engage with a history and its mythology including interviewing some of the participants of those events, and then allowed them to make the choice and either light a spark of hope or snuff it out. At the end Araushnee returns as an actual mother/fate goddess and forms a trinity with her two kids. Her alignment is chaotic neutral (with good tendencies), she moves to Ysgard (because each soul is worth fighting for). Eilistree moves back to Avandor. Vhearun shifts to CN (with evil tendencies) and moves to pandemonium (a realm of perfect silence in a plane of screeching wind). Lolth being originally a slime, like her handmaidens, is attacked by shevaresh the black archer. But she defeats and devours him providing her a new core and allows her to extend her influence it more surface elves and encourage them to in time to commit evil in their hunt against the drow. So in the end she has both drow worshippers and unknowingly surface elf worshippers. (The yochol that helped set the event into motion, correctly tells you that lolth actually gained in all of this matter. But that doesn't stop lolth from punishing the yochol, having a goddess ripped out of you and having to eat a new one is pretty painful.)

@Gen-Rev Год назад

@@josephjohnson5415 I don't know if I would call it a copout. To me it makes sense, This was a large group of people and not all of them would respond to Lolth. A lot of Drow were cut off, but Eilistraee left specifically to give them something else to follow. I do like what you've done here, and I do agree maybe they didn't do it the right way. But I do like the idea of there being Drow who slipped through the cracks. Maybe they worship entirely different gods after being cut off... I also like the idea of it not being Corellon who cut them off but something the other elves did, they just blamed Corellon. I tend to always have a city of Drow that didn't leave the surface, curse or no curse. But that's just me. Normally another god had pity on them and claimed them... (depending on who I'm running the game for, lol)

@josephjohnson5415 Год назад

@@Gen-Rev My issue with the recent changes is the drow is the narrative motive behind the debacle. The drow have been "allowed" to have isolated good communities since 1999 in the TSR published "The Drow of the Underdark" in 2nd edition. This has clearly being forgotten or conveniently ignored to smear gen X and early millennial players as inherently racist for pre-assigning the evil moniker upon the drow and thus... "black people" (which they also co-opted orcs into their fantasy identity. Or anything else the corporation decides to levy against the players as being a "hate crime of imagination"). Thats the real issue I have with the recent drow changes. While for 20 years it's been acceptable to say that while most drow are evil and under the sway of an evil goddess a small minority were in fact good. I believe if one wishes to earnestly change the dynamic it should be in play and not in mandates. My own drow city (Ssirn'uniaren, Beautiful water or as Lolth calls it Li'Nruun Che'el, aka The Boring City) is an extremely ancient city that lies beneath Kozakura/Wa on the continent of Kara-tur ( I lived in Japan at the time of the campaign and half the players were Japanese) Its a city of 5 main caverns that descend like a spiral staircase and connected mainly by a major underdark river that runs thru the first four levels. Each main cavern has a ruling noble family (which are controlled opposition to each other) above the typical nobility which were governed by a group of Yochol, that Lolth correctly accuses of purposely making the city boring but seems oddly less interested in intervening as the governance was a reward for a great victory the head yochol achieved. There's also whisper gnomes (who are good) and a hobgoblin legion (who are lawful evil) which are 2nd class citizens. And a traveling band Myconiods that that help with mushroom cultivation which are illegal to impede or disturb (plentiful food and water after all make this city a veritable paradise and to threaten that is immediate death.). There are then the slaves which are mostly orc and goblins for menial tasks, while human "pets" are seen as status symbols. The drow operates as Yokai on the surface, often "spiriting away" unwanted children, kidnapping skilled workers or assassinating folks that ask too many questions. But thru a portal system they can get almost anywhere in the world.

@xo-1320 10 месяцев назад

@@josephjohnson5415 actually this works for some of them as they are created either directly by their god or are so entwined with them that they really should be reflections of them. Also, the Mind Flayers are just generally incompatible with all sentient life.

@cameronpearce5943 Год назад

I love the idea of playing a coven of spellcasters who came from times of great ruin. A survivor from the Saruuk, Dark Elves, Netherese, and Imaskari respectively, maybe trying to avenge their fallen people or preserve what little of their culture is left and ensure such ruin never befalls another civilisation

@marcvanlieshout3220 Год назад

Dude i love your stuff to me you are like a college professor on the history and physics of dnd. Keep going love ya man.

@Xhalph Год назад

Excellent video! I've previously incorporated Crown Wars history into a drow character. He starts out with typical drow supremacist attitudes, and an evil might-makes-right alignment. In the course of his ruin-delving adventures, he finds evidence that his House was originally founded by dark elf refugees from Miyeritar. This causes an identity crisis, and he's initially disgusted by the thought of being descended from innocent victims. Hopefully he mellows out and becomes more kind-hearted. A big theme for him is, "You can take the drow out of the Underdark, but can you take the Underdark out of the drow?" Ideally I'd want one of three endings for him. A) He's last seen walking into a magical storm to stop it, mirroring the wizards who fought against the Dark Disaster. B) He retires to his own private demiplane where can finally relax and study The Art to his heart's content. C) He and a group of other dark elves reconcile with the surface elves enough that he is able to go live on Evermeet and study to be a High Mage.

@cameronpearce5943 Год назад

That's awesome :D I hope they have some amazing adventures!

@Gen-Rev Год назад

Drow characters are great, there's just so much there to play with. This is pretty rad.

@Blade_291 Год назад

One of the things i heard/read ( it's been so long, i don't remember where) was that Corellon's anger at Lolth was so great that all he needed was an excuse to curse and banish those that resembled her.

@sond.lollipop8919 Год назад

OMG finally someone actually makes a video about the Elvs history and fall without just saying they fell like literlly every other d&d channel

@krissybaglin9206 Год назад

I always wonder if it was actually Corellon who created the curse, or something else. For one the dark elves had only just seen some of them drawn to Lolth by the time the sun elves started committing atrocities. Like they sun elves pushed the drow towards embracing Lolth out of necessity. And the Dark Disaster, be it a rebel cell, the sun evles, or LOLTH who created it, only served to cement their depenancy on Lolths power and offerings. The curse could have been targed by the sun elves. Because in the end of the day, it'd have been easy for a God of Corelleons nature to simply target specifically the elves corrupted by Lolth, not unborn, not the innocent, not the Ellistrians and the Seldarinites. I personally see it as high magic cast by the elves and not of Corellons INTENT to damn ALL dark elves. Afterall, CORELLON OFFER ELLESTREE a place in the Seldarine. They said she didn't have to go with her mother. That she was forgiven for her 'role' since she was innocent and had no intended to hurt her father. So why would that SAME God who cared for their daughter and didn't hold her responsible for the actions of her mother, hold HER flock responsible and push them for the actions of her MOTHERS flock and the other Dark Seldarine.

@lauraw2526 Год назад

Lolth creating it would be an interesting twist.

@ryansauer5964 Год назад

Perhaps you're right, perhaps Corellon may have intended to only affect those that worship loth, but due to the recent surge of power Lolth obtained, she twisted the curse to affect all dark elves. As both a spiteful act against Corellon, but to also ensure that she would hold the Drow as her own possessions and source of power forever. Since of course in Lolth's god portfolio she is the god of all Drow.

@krissybaglin9206 Год назад

@@lauraw2526 It's definitely possible. I mean she's just fucking unleashed demon lords in the underdark as part of her plot to seize more power, but in that case she's weakening the LOLTHIAN Drow and all their main rivals in the underdark AND weakening the Demon Lords in the abyss to seize more power for herself. Also I cannot suggest as a fandom adopting the term 'Lolthian' and 'Eilistraean' when talking of the Drow, because they're the main two denominations of Drow and honestly as time goes on, Eilistraee is going to have more sway over the drow, ESPECIALLY since the whole 'UNLEASHED DEMIGORGAN IN THE MIDDLE OF MENZOBERRAN' will likely lead to a large exedos of Lolthian Drow to Eilistraees embrace and subsequently a larger faction of Refugee Drow in the northern folds of Faerun. In my campaigns set 30-50 years post current canon I tend to have Eilistraean Drow being more prevalent on the surface in major cities like Waterdeep, Silverymoon, and Neverwinter.

@maromania7 Год назад

There's something he didn't mention for some reason. the sun elves were ALSO dealing with devils.. The same Fallen Solar that had attempted a coup alongside lolth had been working alongside them, using thier hubris. Malkazid, now an archdevil, wants ALL elves and thier gods dead, including Lolth and the drow. During the third crown war, he was directly helping them, and to this day he continues convincing elves to war with each other to weaken the power of both Lolth and the Seldarine. So a good chunk of this was likely something Lolth was just taking advantage of. Definitely involved, but hard to tell how much was her and how much was Malkazid just wanting the Sun elves to kill thier own kind.

@MarcoCam1314 Год назад

Or the more reasonable and realistic reason for why is because all gods are a bunch of selfish assholes that only care about the domain they hold power over and little else. We've seen gods of all sorts, even the "good gods" do some fucked up shit, Lathander for example destroyed many gods and caused so much chaos in his quest for making everything in his image, he didnt care, he did what benefited him and his godly domain. Helm also an example, didnt care that the world needed Mystral to exist correctly, he still killed her when she tried to stabilize magic and resulted in countless deaths and even entire planes of existence being destroyed, cuz he is the god of "protection" but only cares about his duty at hand, regardless of consecuences. Ao himself, the literal all powerful made lots of incredibly stupid decisions despite having the power to solve them in a perfect way, and even then he, the all knowing, didnt care what the consecuences were. So yeah, not hard to think Corellion would just dont care and take the easiest route he could, the own elvish pantheon allowed and permited the elves to suck all magic from the world, regardless of what may that cause in the future or for existing creatures, so i dont think morality or compasion should be expected from deities unless it relates to them and their whims. Like the Loth theory is pretty ineresting, still it may just be that he is an asshole.

@lordmars2387 Год назад

You missed 4 "big" things 1st. The excuse for the peaceful annexation. The high elves were elves that escaped the fey. The king of the sun elves traced/claimed his ancestry went back to the lost prince of the green elves (abducted by fey). So pretty please give me the kingdom it should have belonged to my ancestor. 2nd. (Not sure of the cannonicity of this) it wasn't prayer to the gods that caused the descent. It was a ritual on par with the first sundering to force corellon to sanction the dark elves. It backfired horribly killing all the mages involved though its purpose fulfilled. This also led to the sanction of sun elves that had commissioned the ritual. 3rd. When the leaders of the sun elves were cornered in the 5th war they too resorted to foul pacts including a fallen angel that was pretty important if memory serves. 4th. The dwarves had travelled to the western continent during the crown wars. They bore witness to war crimes (I now suspect that storm) and offered shelter to the other sentients. When the other peoples left the new dwarfholds they carried with them the dwarves name for the land Faerüin, a direct callout to the elves actions; this is how the continent got its name. The dwarves took all this as a lesson not to get involved in others politics which has led to their largely isolationist nature. Dwarves also hate how the subsequent generations of elves act as if their people had never sinned, though that's more likely projection of their biases as the dwarves also don't talk about the spawn wars and their ancestors misdeeds. (This is good roleplay fodder, though last time I used it I just got shouted down with "DUG TOO DEEP, DUG TOO DEEP" which is weird because she wasn't playing an elf and we weren't in middle earth.)

@Shadowslave604 Год назад

very well done. glad to see such in depth history and lore brought to the internet for ppl to learn. i have met so many players that have no idea why the FR is the way it is. they just look at the FR and whine about how they dont understand and how it should be changed for whatever reason. thanks to you and others like you we can point ppl here to watch a video that summarizes entire works of lore into digestible pieces for ppl that had no previous knowledge of the world and its history. Gratzi Good Creator...

@lanasartlife Год назад

That’s really the fault of the org of the game. You have to seek out learning about the lore.

@Shadowslave604 Год назад

@@lanasartlife lol exactly and to bad they tried to retcon the past lore and novels and versions of the game. I started with adnd first edition and swapped to 2e and then players options. At one time i had every dragon and dungeon magazine and every lore book and novel. Now i just play for fun once and awhile. I was always the one getting ppl to read lore and the novels lmao

@joshuaosiris Год назад

@@Shadowslave604 Wait wasn't it AD&D and 2nd AD&D?

@dylanknight4847 Год назад

Long time watcher, first time commenting. I love your content. I appreciate how much work you put in to these videos 🖤

@TheAvatar5261 Год назад

I watched literally any video you make. I normally listen to your stuff in the car or at work. Keep up the amazing work.

@A1990MusicMan Год назад

Love this series and all your work, thank you for taking the time to put it all together!

@joshuaanderson7457 Год назад

Loving the content man. I always appreciate the deeper dives into the lore since they always give me ideas to use for the games I run. I am going to run the escape from the crystal moon from your store and this video gave me the idea to include an Easter egg about the moon getting blasted by dragons.

@danielderamus9573 Год назад

Loving this Rhexx! I could never figure out the time line on my own. Thank you for putting out such a detailed history of the Realms!

@christineherrmann9374 Год назад

i'm running Forgotten Realms and we're all playing elves. i knew some of this history, but this is just so well-laid out. Thank you!

@lusalma5404 Год назад

I would recommend Elaine Cunningham's Evermeet: Island of Elves

@Jake006100 Год назад

Love your content man. It really makes my day when I see you drop a new video!

@annatarsoly941 Год назад

I literally just found your channel, and inly watched this, and the previous one about Toril's history, but it already helped me a lot! I'm starting DMing next month, amd I'm not confident enough to build a new world, but I like to be (or at lest seem) well-informed and historically accurate. This little (?) series of yours helps me a lot in this, thank you so much for making them!!! (And you earned a new subscriber:))

@BDTMack Год назад

Awesome! So excited to see another deep dive into the history of the Realms!

@adamessex7743 Год назад

Legit awesome stuff! Thanks for doing all of this deep history research and putting up a video for it.

@Bloodletter87 Год назад

What an amazing video. I've read through the grand history of the realms multiple times, but still couldn't get it sorted right. The visualizations helped a lot.

@Alithea_Ancunin 2 месяца назад

26:46 Sir, I need to commend you for the delivery of that part. It is so good, caused goosebumps and all. Excellently done!

@danielzarkos Год назад

I think these are the best videos! Even being long, they're so instructive in the lore and fun to watch! Thanks for making these!

@jonram783 Год назад

Me, before learning Dark Elf history: Man the Drow suck 😤 Me, after learning Dark Elf history: ... So who wants to slay a god! 🔪

@zer0homer Год назад

Amazing stuff, Rhexx! Will be waiting for more lore dives, as I'm looking at a challenge to master play-by-post organized roleplay in Forgotten Realms.

@ernestomuchanga7082 Месяц назад

One of the best videos about elves in the channel in my opinion.... Really like it❤

@chadreese9501 Год назад

Loved your previous lore video’s and I’m really enjoying this series!

@otisspunkmeyer1865 Год назад

You are the reason that I keep coming back to world building and DMing. Anytime I see your videos, I always feel inspired, and I just want to thank you for the fantastic job you do at covering so many things

@coreypacillo8204 Год назад

Finally back with lore!!!! I always look forward to your videos man!

@oliveragag8576 Год назад

Given what they did to the dragons it's hard to feel bad for them.

@muhammadedwards8425 Год назад

The Sun and moon elves also killed all the good dark elves and destroyed the green elf kingdoms. With the Dracorage destroyed, I imagine the dragons would want some retaliation

@hellup 5 месяцев назад

I got chills when you described the curse released onto the dark elves. Beautiful story telling.

@stevieturner9338 Год назад

Thank you Mr Rhexx. Long time subscriber. Watch about 90% of yiur videos i reckon over the years. This was really informitive. So the elves made a fixed point in time. In a sense. Cool.

@nicolaspermanne5051 Год назад

Great videos ! It's always a good moment to relax and watch your videos to learn more about the world we play in ! If you have the time, something that could be nice for this series of videos is a general timeline with all the event and how they are connected to each other.

@Mixedpuppy 10 месяцев назад

Wow you cleared up some hazy and co fusing history of the elves for me. I appreciate the work you put into this.

@braedenaldridge8452 Год назад

Awesome video. Thanks for the hard work you put into it😊

@knvo Месяц назад

I love your videos. I always have a new campaign idea after i watch these!

@--ginebra3589 9 месяцев назад

Dark elf or not, the amount of booba in those drawings are great.

@dosyatt1205 Год назад

I dont play nor ever plan to play dnd but i just can't stay away from it's lore and especially through your videos. Thanks, Rhexx!

@kingbeerz7978 Год назад

Hey Rhexx, I loved the video and the history, super cool to learn about the tears in particular. I also wanted to say thanks for putting out your PDFs, I’ll be starting a campaign of Rime of the Frost Maiden soon where I’ll be playing a Vampire from your rules (gonna take advantage of that darkness), so thanks for providing this cool new way to play.

@DeafEnder Год назад

32 seconds new record bby!

@pretzelpanda Год назад

Absolutely love this one. Legendary work

@anthonymiddaugh4097 Год назад

what a good video. I love all of these but this one was intense! such good stuff.

@anderslundtoft2315 Год назад

I have been waiting Mr Rhexx ;)

@tyrannicaltypomichaeltester Год назад

Amazing content as always

@gaelickledoher4773 6 месяцев назад

It is amazing the information you share in this video

@Summonization Год назад

As always Rhexx beautiful! Another beautiful video! Love what u do! ❤

@killsomethin Год назад

I love ur work ! Thank u for an excellent job of this wonderful creation!

@Domdrok Год назад

Thank you for the history lesson! Years ago, when I didn't know anything about the different settings, I didn't think I liked Forgotten Realms. But now I love the comprehensive lore.

@KelsaRavenlock 11 месяцев назад

Thinking about all the creatures and races in DnD made me think about the insane growth in the lore. When I first played the original game there was 3 or 4 playable races and only 9 monsters none of which included a dragon but did for some reason include 3 varieties of slime monster (Green, Black, and Cube). The big bad was a Beholder and most the fights were Kobalds and Gnolls with skeletons being a problem mostly while camping or near loot. Trolls, Bugbears, and Owlbears rounded out the serious threats.

@ASwallie65 Год назад

Idk where else to say this but I love your PDFs! You should consider making a mega bundle where you can buy them all for maybe a discount of the total price

@mason7108 Год назад

Love this series

@dantebzs Год назад

Great video as always! One recomendation for a video: a quick fire of races' origins, kinda like what you did with the Derghars at the end of this one. Then people will show more interest in some of them and it makes for next videos...

@Lord_Daeman Год назад

The dragons rolled a Nat 1 on their hail mary spell attack.

@mariovaudry6272 Год назад

Great work , like always . Also cant wait for my sands of doom ! My players are trilled

@Hollowbarista Год назад

Ty for the video! Much appreciated!

@williamjanak2013 Год назад

Videos like this are wonderfully nerdy.

@derskalde4973 Год назад

One thing you forgot to mention, is how much this curse changed the dark elves physically (and I can't remember if you mentioned it in one of your Videos about the elves or drow, or if I read it somewhere else). Apparently, they were called dark elves due to their dark skin, which was of a rich brown hue (so they seem to have looked pretty much how most Anime portray them), before this curse turned them a coal black. But anyway, great Video, and thanks for doing these videos. You explaining these is conveying way more and much more understandable than when I look them up. Your Work is much appreciated. Also, can we agree that almost everything is the sun elves fault?

@catoblepasomega Год назад

That matter is actually a bit inconsistent. Going by the Evermeet novel the drow were *always* ebony-skinned with white hair, well before the Crown Wars and their banishment to the Underdark, and it was such on other planes that had them too-Kiaransalee was a 'dark elf' from another plane who taught Lolth herself the name 'drow' for elves that looked like her. (again, before their banishment to the underdark)

@muhammadedwards8425 Год назад

Yes, but Moon elves were not too good themselves. Moon elves helped the Sun elves in most of their crimes. The Sundering and dracorage as well as the crown wars. Where they did not help, they stayed neutral. Still Sun Elves were mainly at fault

@amberjane4862 Год назад

I know you said that you don't get much views on these lore style videos but I am subscribing because they are great!

@tyrecies Год назад

Great video MrRhexx

@ADT1995 Год назад

Thank you so much for all your videos, in my group I'm essentially considered the lore master and a lot of that is because of you. It also really helps me appreciate the things that we encounter during the game Also it feels good when I ask to make a knowledge check, and the answer to a particularly high roll is "yeah your character knows whatever you know"

@razzelmire2008 Год назад

You can always find free downloads of PDFs of every Forgotten Realms books from previous editions to read through. Far far more lore there than 5e crap will ever provide. WotC stopped lore writing when 5e came out.

@ADT1995 Год назад

@@razzelmire2008 I like the system of 5e (not quite as much as I like Pathfinder 1e, which is basically 3.5 with a couple of key changes that I thought made it better) but they definitely put lore on the backburner when it came out.... Then dumped it in the trash in the last few years. My group primarily plays 5e nowadays, but we've got so many houserules that bring back a lot of what we liked about 3x/pf1. But even when we aren't playing 5e we still play in the forgotten realms, although because WotC decided they didn't care about lore anymore we use a lot of lore from older editions

@mammonclarke Год назад

Thanks for another great video!

@koljaleffek7290 Год назад

1:30 red hand of doom is indeed a great adventure 🤗 one of the first great adventures we played.

@frankacciarito6099 Год назад

Amazing content and very in depth

@lancearmada Год назад

4:50 ok thats unbelievably cool. I may not be running forgotten realms, but this conflict is going in my world lore.

@Dark-Lord-Of-The-Sith Год назад

Lolth is The Mother, her embrace is all that is needed.

@rykonjm Год назад

Days of refreshing your channel have paid off

@sadist.wizard 3 месяца назад

Best lore videos in the universeeee thank you for bestowing this knowledge upon me

@moparmullet9112 Год назад

Oh hell ya , u saved my day sir ty for the new vid. Been nothing but bud light lately

@Quinton151 Год назад

Fuck yeah! New History Video! This is just what I needed for my campaign! Thanks!

@Besomar_Surahat Год назад

I'm making a dwarf whose whole purpose in life is to learn wish so he can shorten the lifespan of all elves This will come in handy for my professional hater

@ryansauer5964 Год назад

Fulfill your wish. Let the dwarven grudge be settled!

@william5658 10 месяцев назад

Ahahaha

@lancearmada Год назад

this is so useful for explaining elves in my custom setting!

@relemblade Год назад

Loved this video. And the channel.

@ryanlaurie8733 Год назад

My main take away from this is that the elves are just as petty, fallible, and prone to mistakes and greed as any other race, but they'll pretend they're better right up until (and even past) the end.

@fourfours9928 Год назад

i was JUST looking if this video was out yet

@aldrinfulgar9005 Год назад

Another banger of a episode!

@kristiandimitrov7066 Год назад

My favourite topic: elves. Great video as always.

@tomislavdamyanov667 Год назад

Best video series ever.

@aldwinfulgar2063 Год назад

Going to love this episode

@LaoshRa Год назад

saw the d&d movie yesterday (can definitely recommend it). there was a short shot that showed the tears of selûne (as explained in this video around 4:20) which i only learned about one day prior, thanks to this very video. it made me realize that the script truly respected the source material (not a given these days) which made me enjoy the movie more. so... thanks for that.

@joedan5366 Год назад

yes the crown wars only place I could find in depth video this is great

@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH Год назад

Bless MrRexx

@grizzlytooth3768 Год назад

I really love that you’re doing this. For close to a year I’ve been trying to find comprehensive content for the lore of Forgotten Realms, but I can’t seem to find much outside the wiki (which as far as I can tell doesn’t have a chronological history page). Where do you go to find all this information?

@LefeinNoel Год назад

Damn these are great. Greatly enjoyed. Thanks 😊

@giominus7402 4 месяца назад

Remember the old saying, Around Elves, watch yourselves.

@taravati181 Год назад

Love your work

@JeriDro Год назад

I feel pity for the dark elves, once you cross the line into demon summoning, you're doomed.

@josephjohnson5415 Год назад

Most folks don't realize the sun elves were banging demons as well creating a breed of elves called the Fey'ri. Of course, they didn't punish the whole species, just the specific houses in the last crown war.

@SirPogsalotCreates 11 дней назад

9:40 "the hubris of the elves was at their peak" 13:14 "the hubris of the sun elves would reach to even greater heights" welp

@JC_Storm-33 7 месяцев назад

Ok, new to your channel and have to say I love the content. Question, is Sands of Doom still available? I have been waiting to DM an adventure like this for a long time. The last I did of around 1984 with the Lost City. Thank you and keep this amazing content flowing.