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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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 Posted - 12 Sep 2025 : 03:15:41
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If this sounds like I'm copying AJA's Five NPCs you Meet in Waterdeep thread ... I kind of am... but mimicry is a form of flattery.
So, what's this thread about? Seethyr and I and dozens of others have over time developed some fun lore about Anchorome, Maztica, and Lopango and even Abeir in how it interacted with these regions during the years between the spellplague and second sundering. Absolutely none of it is canon of course. But its been fun. But what we've developed could use more NPC development, because that ends up spurring more lore.
So, in the interest of having a good time, I'd like to invite anyone here at candlekeep who just wants to write up some npc idea within these regions to share the idea. Now when I say "an NPC" I am very truly not limiting this idea to "humanoid" type beings. By all means, if you'd like to develop a dragon, a giant, a spirit being, an elemental trapped by the aearee millenia ago, etc... feel free. In the end, its all about story. I honestly have no specific development in mind right now myself for the first NPC's that I'll write, but I'm going to just throw out the basis of some ideas to give people some examples... as I think that might help.
Sieyasumar of the Many Colors, a Poscadari elf who lives on the border of the Pasocada basin with her tribemates. Her tribe are known for their colorful bison hide tents due to her skill at painting. She is often found at work on a stretch of animal hide using her dyes to make pictures of the various animals of the plains in which they reside. She is particularly fond of making images of horses, coyotes, mountain lions, hawks, and elk, but she often paints much smaller creatures such as rabbits, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, magpies, cardinals, pheasants, turkeys, and butterflies. Some say that she creates connections with these paintings to actual beings in the spirit world, and through them she is able to summon aid for her people in time of need. She has heard much of the "red wizards" that have come to build a small settlement in the canyon walls near and above the ancient evil city of Esh Alakar, and like most in her tribe, she does not trust them. But, in particular she has heard, and even acquired through intermediaries, the paints and dyes of these "Faerunmin". They are an excellent material that do not dry out as fast and maintain their color without spoilage much better than her own pigments, but she dare not venture there herself, for fear that they will take her spirit. But she has heard of another settlement of these "Faerunmin", said to lie far to the East along a great lake of immense proportion. The settlement is known as "Fort Flame", and while its people are alien to the ways of the spirit world, it is said they are not dark of spirit. So, she has taken it in her head that she must travel to this settlement, and seek out someone who will teach her how to make these pigments, and in return she will agree to create for them some "true art" as she refers to her hide paintings.
A thri-kreen from "the Land of the Insect Men" who was born with latent magical abilities as a sorcerer has uncovered a long hidden secret that there are still spellweavers in the underdark connecting to the city of Esh Alakar. He is wrongly convinced that he can trace his lineage back to these spellweavers, and that this is the source of his magical talents. He seeks someone who will help him find this hidden group of spellweavers so that "he can find the truth behind his ancestry".
A dryconad, an extremely rare form of fey being resemling a horse sized dragon whose skin is made of woody fiber and which is covered in hair resembling leaves and/or blades of grass. Some folk from Faerun refer to them as "Woodling Drakes", but in truth their origins are a bit more of a mystery. Like a dryad, they are said to be merged with a certain tree for life, and its thought by some that they are the offspring of male dragons who took on humanoid form and mated with a dryad. Faerestilindigus of the Adusgee Forest is one such dryconad who was born bonded to a great maple tree in a grove of maples. These trees have come "under attack" of recent by beast men of sorts who have taken to "tapping" these trees taking their sap away, and as a result he seeks heroes to end the silent torment of his neighbors.
An Abeil soldier has been sent by his hive queen to find her daughter who has been kidnapped by hags. The hags intend to administer a potion that they hope will pervert the abeil "princess" and use her to create a corrupted form of royal jelly from the spores of fungi and other rotting vegetation.
That's my start for right now, as its getting late. I want to come up with some more human and poscadari elf, etc.... ideas later, but this is what hit me as I was writing this up for now.
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Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
Edited by - sleyvas on 12 Sep 2025 12:37:29
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The NPCs You Meet in the True World
