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Gustaveren
Learned Scribe
Denmark
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 Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 13:23:13
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I am wondering since I am considering to use the canon gem lore that garnets in folktales are the hardened blood of divine avatars
Would mystra and potentially also shar have blood there would be unique in colour compared to the avatars of the other gods due to the existence of the weave and the shadow weave?
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Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
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Lord Snowblood
Acolyte
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 15:10:16
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 18:18:57
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| Since she was formerly a human, I'd go purely with red for Mystra or Midnight. For Shar though... nothing says she was ever humanoid. Her blood should be black as night. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 18:30:58
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Corellon bleeds Elves.
So it makes no sense that Gruumsh and Lolth want to cut him up so bad... he'll just make more of the little suckers. 
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
Since she was formerly a human, I'd go purely with red for Mystra or Midnight. For Shar though... nothing says she was ever humanoid. Her blood should be black as night.
While I understand your sentiments about Mystra/Midnight, I can't help but picture her get hurt and blue light 'weeping' from the wound.
For Shar, I think blackish (dark grey) smoke issuing from her wounds would be more appropriate. She isn't darkness, she is shadow (although at one time she may have been darkness - I think 'the light' altered her being).
Now I'm thinking each deity would bleed a physical manifestation of their portfolio. Not sure how that would work and not seem silly in some cases. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 19:41:24
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| Considering the function of blood, I don't think that deities or their avatars should have any... |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 19:48:39
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| I'd think blue flames/light that when it's touches something physical turns to something like quicksilver. Kinda like the terminator ....due to its concentration of magic is somewhat animate Can coelesce. |
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Imp
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Tarlyn
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 21:32:49
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| I would go with Silver fire and Silver & blue blood for Mystra. For Shar, black that blends into shadows and melts away in sunlight. |
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Gustaveren
Learned Scribe
Denmark
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Posted - 02 Sep 2012 : 23:35:44
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Originally posted by Tarlyn
I would go with Silver fire and Silver & blue blood for Mystra. For Shar, black that blends into shadows and melts away in sunlight.
Assume there was some garnets made from the blood of shar's avatar
What would it take to destroy them? sunlight? light from a spell? indestructible?
I was considering:
It would be cool in a shar temple if
there was some decorations containing garnets there consisted of shar's hardened blood
They could act as some kind of divine focus for some kind of spell trap or empowerment of shar clerics spellcasting or the strength of the shadow weave, but
what should it take to destroy them? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 03 Sep 2012 : 02:32:36
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'd go with a silvery-blue, sparkling (and possibly sparking) blood.
Yes, with a very pronounced silvery radiance. [Perhaps with little sparkling stars apparent in it's make-up?]
Of course, this might also be a query for Ed. I'd imagine he'd have some pretty interesting thoughts on this.
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Sep 2012 : 02:45:42
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Bluish silver. [The combination of the colors of silverfire she granted her Chosen, and of the unraveling magic during the Year of Blue Fire.] |
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Gyor
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 03 Sep 2012 : 07:28:40
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What is the colour of blood from Mystras avatar?
