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1d4chan>Zimriel: /* The Novels */

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The Novels

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	In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]]~~, betrays his~~ master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to channel a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?		In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice, betrays his [[wizard]] master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to channel a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?

	In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!		In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!

1d4chan>SaltyMan: /* The Novels */

2023-03-04T00:22:18Z

The Novels

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	{{spoilers}}		{{spoilers}}
	In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to ~~channe~~ a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?		In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to channel a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?

	In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!		In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!

1d4chan>SaltyMan: /* The Novels */ Fucking Salvatore. I watched the movie lol.

2023-03-04T00:19:15Z

The Novels: Fucking Salvatore. I watched the movie lol.

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	{{spoilers}}		{{spoilers}}
	In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone.		In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone. Actually the tower and the gem was a ''total'' rip-off from Conan the Destroyer down to the two party members: the Crenshinibon being an expy the "Heart of Ahriman" from the movie, the tower Cryshal-Tirith being the tower Amon-Thoth, collapsing when the gem's stolen. Conan's expy being obviously Wulfgar and thief Malak from the movie for Regis, and Kessel being some old-ass wizard using mirrors to channe a troll-like tower guard. Jesus Christ Salvatore, it's easy when the Internet wasn't invented to plagiarize, eh?

	In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!		In '''Streams of Silver''', with Kessel dead (um, spoiler?), Bruenor talks his friends into seeking out the lost dwarfhold of Mithral Hall, his ancestral home. It proves no easy journey, for the dread [[dragon]] who drove the dwarves away still lurks in its shadowy depths. Boy, nobody ever thought of writing a story like THAT before!!

46.253.255.150: /* The Reghedmen */

2022-06-21T10:06:29Z

The Reghedmen

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	===The Reghedmen===		===The Reghedmen===
	The indigenous peoples of the Icewind Dale, the Reghedmen are nomadic reindeer hunters who have inhabited the Dale for generations, colonizing the areas from the Reghed Glacier to the Sea of Moving Ice. They are similar in some respects to the more famous Uthgardt tribes, who inhabit regions further south from Icewind Dale, but have their own distinct pantheon and tribes, though they do share the basic pantheon of [[Tempus\|Tempos]] and [[Primal Spirits\|patron totem beasts]] and a similar deep distrust of ~~arane~~ magic.		The indigenous peoples of the Icewind Dale, the Reghedmen are nomadic reindeer hunters who have inhabited the Dale for generations, colonizing the areas from the Reghed Glacier to the Sea of Moving Ice. They are similar in some respects to the more famous Uthgardt tribes, who inhabit regions further south from Icewind Dale, but have their own distinct pantheon and tribes, though they do share the basic pantheon of [[Tempus\|Tempos]] and [[Primal Spirits\|patron totem beasts]] and a similar deep distrust of arcane magic.

	Originally, the Reghedmen were bitter enemies of the Ten-Towns and raided them frequently, but that came to an end after the two groups were forced to work together to fend off a mad wizard wielding a powerful fiendish artifact who sought to conquer the dale. Many of the inhabitants of Caer-Konig and Bremen in later editions descend from Reghedmen survivors who briefly merged with the town's population, before deciding collectively to return to "the old ways".		Originally, the Reghedmen were bitter enemies of the Ten-Towns and raided them frequently, but that came to an end after the two groups were forced to work together to fend off a mad wizard wielding a powerful fiendish artifact who sought to conquer the dale. Many of the inhabitants of Caer-Konig and Bremen in later editions descend from Reghedmen survivors who briefly merged with the town's population, before deciding collectively to return to "the old ways".

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden */

2021-10-08T12:53:32Z

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

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	==Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden==		==Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden==
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	An adventure for 5th edition D&D, where the players ~~investigate~~ the ~~cause~~ of an ~~endless winter~~.		An adventure for 5th edition D&D, where the players attempting to stop an endless winter brought to the Dales by [[Auril]] the Frostmaiden (natch), who's looking to strengthen her domain of cold and snow by forcing a constant winter in the north. The Dales are covered in a blanket of snowclouds and is ravaged by snowstorms, threatened by hungry wildlife and many other threats. The players start out in the Ten-Towns, dealing with local issues and getting used to the remarkably [[Ranger\|survival-heavy gameplay]], before getting embroiled in small adventures outside the cities. At the midpoint of the story, a clan of [[Duergar]] threatens to destroy the Ten-Towns, and finally, the journey goes to Auril's Abode to end her physical form, and to a lost Netherese city in the Reghed Glacier.

			The adventure has an emphasis on isolation, survival, body horror a la the Thing and a surprising amount of wacky encounters. The book also features a lot of the weirder aspects of the [[Forgotten Realms]], especially at the end, where it turns into something akin to a weird 50'es sci-fi story.

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1d4chan>The Hat That Was: /* The Reghedmen */

2021-08-18T05:51:45Z

The Reghedmen

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	===The Reghedmen===		===The Reghedmen===
	The indigenous peoples of the Icewind Dale, the Reghedmen are nomadic reindeer hunters who have inhabited the Dale for generations, colonizing the areas from the Reghed Glacier to the Sea of Moving Ice. They are similar in some respects to the more famous Uthgardt tribes, who inhabit regions further south from Icewind Dale, but have their own distinct pantheon and tribes, though they do share the basic pantheon of [[Tempos]] and [[Primal Spirits\|patron totem beasts]] and a similar deep distrust of arane magic.		The indigenous peoples of the Icewind Dale, the Reghedmen are nomadic reindeer hunters who have inhabited the Dale for generations, colonizing the areas from the Reghed Glacier to the Sea of Moving Ice. They are similar in some respects to the more famous Uthgardt tribes, who inhabit regions further south from Icewind Dale, but have their own distinct pantheon and tribes, though they do share the basic pantheon of [[Tempus\|Tempos]] and [[Primal Spirits\|patron totem beasts]] and a similar deep distrust of arane magic.

	Originally, the Reghedmen were bitter enemies of the Ten-Towns and raided them frequently, but that came to an end after the two groups were forced to work together to fend off a mad wizard wielding a powerful fiendish artifact who sought to conquer the dale. Many of the inhabitants of Caer-Konig and Bremen in later editions descend from Reghedmen survivors who briefly merged with the town's population, before deciding collectively to return to "the old ways".		Originally, the Reghedmen were bitter enemies of the Ten-Towns and raided them frequently, but that came to an end after the two groups were forced to work together to fend off a mad wizard wielding a powerful fiendish artifact who sought to conquer the dale. Many of the inhabitants of Caer-Konig and Bremen in later editions descend from Reghedmen survivors who briefly merged with the town's population, before deciding collectively to return to "the old ways".

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* The Novels */

2021-08-15T21:07:44Z

The Novels

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	The (slightly inaccurately tagged) Icewind Dale Trilogy was the second set of novels to be printed for the [[Forgotten Realms]], after the [[Moonshae Trilogy]]. It was the literary debut of that most infamous of [[drow]], [[Drizzt Do'Urden]] - though not the chronologically first of Drizzt's stories, which would be presented as an unnamed trilogy some time after Drizzt became popular. In this series, Drizzt is Strider not Aragorn; he's got no arc, ''needs'' no arc. As for the Dale, only the first book actually deals in that.		The (slightly inaccurately tagged) Icewind Dale Trilogy was the second set of novels to be printed for the [[Forgotten Realms]], after the [[Moonshae Trilogy]]. It was the literary debut of that most infamous of [[drow]], [[Drizzt Do'Urden]] - though not the chronologically first of Drizzt's stories, which would be presented as an unnamed trilogy some time after Drizzt became popular. In this series, Drizzt is Strider not Aragorn; he's got no arc, ''needs'' no arc. As for the Dale, only the first book actually deals in that.

			{{spoilers}}
	In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone.		In '''The Crystal Shard''', Akar Kessel, a once-insignificant wastrel of an apprentice [[wizard]], betrays his master and is himself betrayed, and left for dead in the snow. "Luckily" in the aforementioned snow he stumbles upon the eponymous shard: a powerful and malevolent artifact called Crenshinibon. Kessel's pathetic need for rethpekt allows him to be seduced, and he starts becoming a dark lord in an ice palace, ''Snow Queen'' style. Down in the Icewind Dale, [[dwarf]] [[fighter]] Bruenor Battlehammer has adopted [[barbarian]] Wulfgar as his indentured man and archer Catti-brie as... we don't know exactly what, she's mostly there [[Incest_Smith\|to tease Wulfgar]]. Bruenor and Wulfgar assemble the Ten Towns ''and'' the barbarians to defeat eeevil, with the help of renegade [[Drow]] [[ranger]] Drizzt Do'Urden (playing Batman) and [[halfling]] [[rogue]] Regis (playing... Circe, with his gemstone). As noted ''TCS'' wasn't a Greenwood joint so wasn't intended for the Realms as originally written; it works fine as a standalone.

1d4chan>QuietBrowser: Added a basic summary of the Ten-Towns and other settlements/locations of note, corrected the local barbarians from the Uthgardt (who live further south) to the Reghedmen.

2021-08-15T19:00:30Z

Added a basic summary of the Ten-Towns and other settlements/locations of note, corrected the local barbarians from the Uthgardt (who live further south) to the Reghedmen.

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 ==The Region==
 [[File:Ten towns map-5E.png|thumb|right|500px|The Ten Towns of Icewind Dale]]
-Icewind Dale is an area of arctic tundra that is the northermost explored area of Faerun; civilization consists of the Ten-Towns - a confederation of ten minor settlements, a local dwarfhold, and wandering tribes of nomadic barbarians called the Uthgardt. The Ten-Towns are centered around three lakes that house knucklehead trout, a strange fish whose bones can be worked like ivory. The "civilized" population (not counting the indigenous barbarians) is predominantly fishermen, hunters, trappers, miners, craftsmen, dwarves, and merchants who come for the local trade in ivory, gems and furs.
+Icewind Dale is an area of arctic tundra that is the northernmost explored area of Faerun; primarily home to wandering tribes of nomadic barbarians called the Reghedmen, it has gained small permanent settlements made up of fishermen, hunters, trappers, miners, craftsmen, dwarves, and merchants who come for the local trade in ivory, gems and furs.
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 ==The Novels==
 The (slightly inaccurately tagged) Icewind Dale Trilogy was the second set of novels to be printed for the [[Forgotten Realms]], after the [[Moonshae Trilogy]]. It was the literary debut of that most infamous of [[drow]], [[Drizzt Do'Urden]] - though not the chronologically first of Drizzt's stories, which would be presented as an unnamed trilogy some time after Drizzt became popular. In this series, Drizzt is Strider not Aragorn; he's got no arc, ''needs'' no arc. As for the Dale, only the first book actually deals in that.