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TwigB
Acolyte
South Africa
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 Posted - 13 Oct 2005 : 09:22:22
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So all the dragons are going crazy and eating most anything...
But how fast is the rage spreading? Is it blanketing the entire realms and weak willed dragons succumb faster or is it spreading like a ripple effect? I read the Rite and i'm guessing ripple effect.
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Shadovar
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 13 Oct 2005 : 09:46:45
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| Spreading as fast as you can imagine, but not too fast not too slow, except that the effects of the rage waxes strongly as time passes. Weak willed wryms? I assumed that they will fall into the rage easily, strong willed ones take a little more time to succumb to the rage. Whether it is blanketing the realms? I say yes. |
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Kianna
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 13 Oct 2005 : 14:04:10
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Crennen FaerieBane
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 13 Oct 2005 : 14:39:35
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No, this is in reference to Richard Lee Byers novel trilogy - especially the first book, "The Rage," but of course encompassing the whole trilogy as well.
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 13 Oct 2005 : 22:41:10
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| Not to disagree too strongly, but it absolutely does have to do with the King Killer Star. The Rage occurs when the star is visible in Faerun's firmament. The explanation for these "rages" or flights of dragons is detailed in the Year of the Rogue Dragons trilogy, which involves an "unnatural" rage sans the star's appearance. The repurcusions of this most recent rage are also detailed in the two Realms of hte Dragons anthologies and Queen of the Depths. |
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DDH_101
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 02:32:15
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Originally posted by TomCosta
Not to disagree too strongly, but it absolutely does have to do with the King Killer Star. The Rage occurs when the star is visible in Faerun's firmament. The explanation for these "rages" or flights of dragons is detailed in the Year of the Rogue Dragons trilogy, which involves an "unnatural" rage sans the star's appearance. The repurcusions of this most recent rage are also detailed in the two Realms of hte Dragons anthologies and Queen of the Depths.
Hmm... but not once did Richard Lee Byers mention the King Killer Star in the Year of Rogue Dragon series.
As for how fast the Rage is spreading, it depends totally on the dragon itself. I wouldn't use "strong-willed" or "weak willed" because in the novels the King of the Talon of Justice, Lareth, succumbed to the Rage even though he is one of the most powerful dragons.
I think it has more to do with the wisdom of the dragons as the ones that seem truly wise and less likely to act rashly don't seem to fall into maddness. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 02:38:07
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But Lareth also refused to sleep, originally because he trusted no one else to guard the slumbering dragons, but eventually due to paranoia. I don't think he was either weak willed, nor unwise, he just made a mistake and pushed himself too far, so far that he couldn't resist the Rage anymore.
Its entirely possible that the Mythal that the elves created to cause the Rage was set to "go off" whenever the King Killer Star appeared, as a sort of timing device. As Tom pointed out, Sammaster altered the Mythal's natural rythym. I wouldn't necissarily say this was a mistake. |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 03:11:01
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I actually prefered the idea that the Dragon rages where natural rather than induced event
A few ideas
The Elves created the Mythral so a rage would happan every X number of years. The X happans to be the same amount of time it takes for the King Killer to leave Toril system and reenter ie Much like Haleys Comet which reappears every 70 years or so)
A cool idea would have been to actually put the Mythral on the Comet so every time Comet comes close to Toril all of the Dragons go into a Rage. it would have been a smart move for the elves to as the Dragons would never be able to find the Mythral |
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Murray Leeder
Forgotten Realms Author
Canada
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 03:52:40
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| I invite you all to look up "Prisoner of Hulburg," Richard Lee Byers' story in Realms of the Dragons, which clarifies the relationship between the Rage and the King-Killer. |
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TwigB
Acolyte
South Africa
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 08:38:31
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But how fast is it spreading, most of the choas occured in the north, what about the dragons in say, Halruaa or Dambrath etc. are they just not mentioned. In Realms of Dragons they mentioned Foilsunder (a green going crazy in the Winterwood) and thats somewhere along the lake of steam...One of Var (or Estagund) main cities is secetly ruled by a dragon (a king raging )...The Rite seemed to indicate a source to the Rage in the North, so a ripple effect makes sense, but Foilsunder so far from the north raging...confusion |
Edited by - TwigB on 14 Oct 2005 08:49:16 |
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khorne
Master of Realmslore
Finland
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 13:01:25
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Originally posted by TwigB
But how fast is it spreading, most of the choas occured in the north, what about the dragons in say, Halruaa or Dambrath etc. are they just not mentioned. In Realms of Dragons they mentioned Foilsunder (a green going crazy in the Winterwood) and thats somewhere along the lake of steam...One of Var (or Estagund) main cities is secetly ruled by a dragon (a king raging)...The Rite seemed to indicate a source to the Rage in the North, so a ripple effect makes sense, but Foilsunder so far from the north raging...confusion
That simply means Foilsunder has the mental strenght of a banana. |
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