A thread from RPGnet got me thinking about what a Flipped Faerun would look like ~ a Faerun in which the gods had directly opposite alignments from standard Faerun (CG=>LE, LN=>CN, etc.) So I started by writing a little bit about the House of Nature, home to two of my favorite gods ~ Lurue and Eldath. Check it out over on my blog and lemme know what you think?
well i absolutely refuse to click that link but i will say that an lawful good loth who commands her spawn in lawful good ways, might possibly make more sense for the incredebly lawful, ridgid society od the drow with order and disipline. also would an flipped forum reverse the gender and religion infused gender roles of faerun, so that male drow are the leaders and priests, where moradin and garl glittergold are both female? Whatever the case most of the elven pantheon and especially corellon would not be affected by such a switch due to being shapechangers
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Ideally this is what the joining of oaerth and faerun should have been opposites meeting and freaking out about it.
Good Goblinoids used to being harassed by primitive Humans and evil High Elves and Shield Dwarves, noble Kobolds and Dragonborn holding the line against cannibalistic Halflings, cruel Gnomes and vicious Bronze Elves, etc so on and so forth.
And making Oerth being a Godless world, or nearly so, would have been a groundbreaking twist compared to Faerun where you trip over Gods on every backalley trip. The Red Knight finding herself going Major God because these stranded Hobgoblins like her stuff, while Torm looks on bemused and Maglabyiet goes feral over being snubbed by his favoured people, having Bahamut left floundering with Draconian and Kobold worshippers, Lloth chuckling madly with ten's of thousands of new followers from races normally dead set against her very existence, could have made for a fascinating Age of Chaos to play through and write stories about.
Ideally this is what the joining of oaerth and faerun should have been opposites meeting and freaking out about it.
Good Goblinoids used to being harassed by primitive Humans and evil High Elves and Shield Dwarves, noble Kobolds and Dragonborn holding the line against cannibalistic Halflings, cruel Gnomes and vicious Bronze Elves, etc so on and so forth.
And making Oerth being a Godless world, or nearly so, would have been a groundbreaking twist compared to Faerun where you trip over Gods on every backalley trip. The Red Knight finding herself going Major God because these stranded Hobgoblins like her stuff, while Torm looks on bemused and Maglabyiet goes feral over being snubbed by his favoured people, having Bahamut left floundering with Draconian and Kobold worshippers, Lloth chuckling madly with ten's of thousands of new followers from races normally dead set against her very existence, could have made for a fascinating Age of Chaos to play through and write stories about.
what lore event are you talking about here? Is Oerth that primordial worl thing that existed alongside toril where dragonborn come from or is it some other established dnd setting just like the forgotten realms/faerun and ebberon, or someting else?
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Sorry, was bashing away at the phone while on my break at work. Yeah, Oerth, I believe there was an event where portions of the two worlds swapped, which is why Dragonborn ended up in the setting. Forgive me, I've been out of the Forgotten Realms/D&D settings for ... a good twelve years or more, I think, off the top of my head. Was it in the Time of Troubles that parts of the worlds 'swapped' or some other event
No, hit up the wiki. It was Abeir, the sister-world of Toril, that kind of swapped parts of it during some sort of cataclysmic event, and the Dragonborn got stranded in the world as their part of Abeir was transposed to Toril.
The primordials were forced to leave the forgotten realms, and created a new world. There, dragons ruled and dragonborn were made as slaves to them. There were many rebellions, but all failed. Except for a few. They were lead by shamans, who had learnt magic from the dragons. They created portals to another world: the forgotten realms. They came out and created their own civilization, making sure that they would never be slaves again. And I think that is a brief history of dragonborn and the two worlds.
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I published some more about a backwards House of Nature on my blog. While the previous installment covered Silvanus's bloodline and the entourages that are involved therewith, this one covers some of the other greater gods (Chauntea, Lathander, Ubtao) as well as a few assorted other gods who make their home in the House (the Cat Lord, Skerrit, Syranita). I'm planning for a part III covering the flipped Deities of Fury ~ enough have been stated in the lore to live with the other nature gods that I'm just gonna fold them in wholly to the House. Not sure what I'll do after that.....
As a sidenote, what makes my blog look untrustworthy? I mean, I know it's kinda gaudy and I could prolly do with some redecoration, but I do in fact want it to be slightly on the gaudy side....
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either e/em/eir pronouns OR fey/fem/fear OR be/bim/bos pronouns {if you don't want to learn new words, singular they is OK}
yeah i simply belive that any website that looksto have been created somewhere between 1990 and 2000 during the time of the early internet is not a place i can trust
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either e/em/eir pronouns OR fey/fem/fear OR be/bim/bos pronouns {if you don't want to learn new words, singular they is OK}
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well i absolutely refuse to click that link but i will say that an lawful good loth who commands her spawn in lawful good ways, might possibly make more sense for the incredebly lawful, ridgid society od the drow with order and disipline. also would an flipped forum reverse the gender and religion infused gender roles of faerun, so that male drow are the leaders and priests, where moradin and garl glittergold are both female? Whatever the case most of the elven pantheon and especially corellon would not be affected by such a switch due to being shapechangers
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
Why won't you look at the link? Is it because of the name?
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
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i simply did not trust the link.
and you actually made me click the link.
and the website also seems untrustworthy, just like the link.
so i am not going to read the article that link links to.
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
I did, and it was fine. Nothing happened.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
Just a D&D enjoyer, check out my fiverr page if you need any worldbuilding done for ya!
Ideally this is what the joining of oaerth and faerun should have been opposites meeting and freaking out about it.
Good Goblinoids used to being harassed by primitive Humans and evil High Elves and Shield Dwarves, noble Kobolds and Dragonborn holding the line against cannibalistic Halflings, cruel Gnomes and vicious Bronze Elves, etc so on and so forth.
And making Oerth being a Godless world, or nearly so, would have been a groundbreaking twist compared to Faerun where you trip over Gods on every backalley trip. The Red Knight finding herself going Major God because these stranded Hobgoblins like her stuff, while Torm looks on bemused and Maglabyiet goes feral over being snubbed by his favoured people, having Bahamut left floundering with Draconian and Kobold worshippers, Lloth chuckling madly with ten's of thousands of new followers from races normally dead set against her very existence, could have made for a fascinating Age of Chaos to play through and write stories about.
what lore event are you talking about here? Is Oerth that primordial worl thing that existed alongside toril where dragonborn come from or is it some other established dnd setting just like the forgotten realms/faerun and ebberon, or someting else?
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
Sorry, was bashing away at the phone while on my break at work. Yeah, Oerth, I believe there was an event where portions of the two worlds swapped, which is why Dragonborn ended up in the setting. Forgive me, I've been out of the Forgotten Realms/D&D settings for ... a good twelve years or more, I think, off the top of my head. Was it in the Time of Troubles that parts of the worlds 'swapped' or some other event
No, hit up the wiki. It was Abeir, the sister-world of Toril, that kind of swapped parts of it during some sort of cataclysmic event, and the Dragonborn got stranded in the world as their part of Abeir was transposed to Toril.
Hurrrr, sorry.
The primordials were forced to leave the forgotten realms, and created a new world. There, dragons ruled and dragonborn were made as slaves to them. There were many rebellions, but all failed. Except for a few. They were lead by shamans, who had learnt magic from the dragons. They created portals to another world: the forgotten realms. They came out and created their own civilization, making sure that they would never be slaves again. And I think that is a brief history of dragonborn and the two worlds.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
Just a D&D enjoyer, check out my fiverr page if you need any worldbuilding done for ya!
Oerth is the world of Greyhawk.
Abeir is the twin of Toril, that the Primordials live on.
Oerth isn't involved in the events of the Forgotten Realms, except for Spelljammer, and Mordenkainen.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
That is it. But otherwise the lore is right.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
Just a D&D enjoyer, check out my fiverr page if you need any worldbuilding done for ya!
either e/em/eir pronouns OR fey/fem/fear OR be/bim/bos pronouns {if you don't want to learn new words, singular they is OK}
Running: Neurally Ambiguous: Geppetto Must Die (Shadowrun 5e) (NSFW website)
Support my RPG writing and streaming on Patreon!
Lucifer's Shards: Sub-Creations Taking Root in Ein Soph Aur {an rpg blog}
Many gods, no masters. Re-enchantment or bust!
yeah i simply belive that any website that looksto have been created somewhere between 1990 and 2000 during the time of the early internet is not a place i can trust
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
Fair enough. But I like the concept that is being given.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
Just a D&D enjoyer, check out my fiverr page if you need any worldbuilding done for ya!