Klaskornus was a powerful outcast devil from Avernus who traveled freely between Toril and Abeir during the Second Sundering using unknown magic. He stole items of power and value from both worlds under the guise of maintaining multiversal balance.
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Nipo was the smallest of the Three Sisters isles in the Celestial Sea off T'u Lung. A rocky, windswept island home to flocks of seabirds, it was once used as a penal colony for criminals & rogue wu jen, & was later inhabited only by isolated hermits
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Joshto Wanner was a caravan guard for the Iron Throne mercantile organization. He was strong & agile, and his arms were tattooed with skulls. Despite this frightening appearance, he was a coward who would run from any losing battle to cut his losses
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Artist: Chris Seaman Mike Mearls, Greg Bilsland, Robert J. Schwalb (June 2010). Monster Manual 3 4th edition. Edited by Greg Bilsland, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 57. ISBN 978-0-7869-5490-2.
Narzugons were powerful baatezu and the elite cavalry of the Nine Hells, riding across the planes on errands from their infernal masters. Their favored steeds and only desired company were the horrifying stallions known as nightmares.
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The Once Dry Toad Inn was a lively and popular inn on Alaron in the Moonshaes, known as one of the best places to get a warm meal in Warlsbry. Adventurers could pay the innkeeper, Seamus Duffee, for leads on potential employers.
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21 Years Ago: Resurrection was released.
Written by Paul S. Kemp and featuring cover art by Brom, the novel is the sixth and final book in the War of the Spider Queen series.
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Winter Zulth was a mapmaker in Waterdeep and secret member of the Moonstars, furnishing them with maps and even a ship.
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Swordsea hakes were a species of whitefish that began their lives in the Firedrake Bay off the coast of Tethyr's Firedrake Shores region & migrated up towards the Sea of Swords, and, eventually, to the Sea of Moving Ice.
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Artist: Todd Gamble Jeff Grubb, Bruce R. Cordell, David Noonan (September 2001). Manual of the Planes 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 146. ISBN 0-7869-1850-8.
The Olympian Glades of Arborea, sometimes simplified to just Olympus or Arborea, was the Outer Plane in the Great Wheel cosmology model embodying the chaotic good alignment.
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Jack Torver was the proprietor of Torver's Post, a general store in Leilon. A devout Lathanderite, Jack would often parrot messages from sermons he attended to his customers. He also served as a member of Leilon's town council.
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Artist: Carl Frank Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel (July 2006). Monster Manual IV. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 101. ISBN 0-7869-3920-6.
Greathorn minotaurs were a subset of minotaurs with larger horns than their ordinary cousins. They were infused with the elemental earth, which gave them tough rock-like skin and the ability to glide through earth as fish swam through water.
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Frost druids were a loosely-organized order of druids in Icewind Dale that venerated Auril, the Queen of Frozen Tears. They were known to wield ice sickles that cut the enemies down with their biting cold.
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30 Years Ago: The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier was released.
The 2e book contained extensive lore about the North, including a huge timeline, info on dozens of settlements, a treatise on Daggerford & full color map.
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On the Night of Pirates in Waterdeep, a pirate band held a mass wedding with festhall girls, but razed the building during the party.
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Thayan glassfish was a species of beautiful freshwater fish that was kept as a status symbol, filling the piscinae of royals, nobles, and wealthy merchants, including those with coin from the land of the Red Wizards, Thay.
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Artist: Valerie Valusek Ed Greenwood (July 1995). Volo's Guide to Cormyr. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 161. ISBN 0-7869-0151-9.
Traitor's Heads was a betting dice game played in Cormyr. it required a large cloak or velvet cloth; a set of five six-sided dice; and two skulls, one of which had had the top sawed off. The intact skull was placed on the center of the cloak or cloth
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GooGooGooJoob was a wandering bard transformed into a walrus by an angry wizard after sleeping with his wife. Driven mad, he could only speak through song and lived in a sunken wreck in the Dragon Reach, where he traded help for stories and fish.
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Artist: Matt Wilson Eric L. Boyd, Erik Mona (May 2002). Faiths and Pantheons. Edited by Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 92. ISBN 0-7869-2759-3.
Beshaba was the chaotic evil intermediate deity of accidents, bad luck, misfortune, and random mischief. She was renowned for being spiteful and malevolent and was revered more out of fear than out of religious faith.
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The Raven Museum was a historical and art museum in the city of Ravens Bluff, owned by the city government, acting as a central repository for the city's history.
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33 Years Ago: The Shining South was released.
The 2e book detailed the nations of Halruaa, Luiren, Durpar, Var, Estagund, Dambrath & Ulgarth. Two adventures & color map were also included.
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Giant velvet worms could grow up to 30 feet long, and moved around on twenty stubby limbs. They could sense prey through both darkvision and tremorsense, and hunted by spitting glue, thus immobilizing their victims before injecting them with venom.
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Have you got your Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery yet? With fresh dishes straight from the Realms, fresh lore and adventure ideas, and fresh artwork throughout, it's the perfect feast for your gaming table.
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Rice was a cereal grain and a common staple food on Toril, found in Kara-Tur, Maztica, Zakhara, and Faerûn. It was used in religious ceremonies and magic; and even made into rice candy and other sweet treats and handfoods.
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Artist: Francis Tsai Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Travis Stout (February 2005). Lost Empires of Faerûn. Edited by Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 93. ISBN 0-7869-3654-1.
Countess Sarya Dlardrageth was a half-fiend sun elf sorceress, leader of the daemonfey, and a princess of House Dlardrageth. She was over five thousand years old as of the late 14th century DR.
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