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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6747635" data-attributes="member: 61026">That's a holdover from 2E, apparently, and the purple prose of Ed Greenwood (and Jeff Grubb) in &quot;Cormyr: A Novel,&quot; released April, 1998. The Candlekeep site <a href="http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/cormyrforcesa.htm" target="_blank">has a whole lot more on that</a>, including a reference to &quot;the original purple dragon that gave the kingdom that name, Thauglorimorgorus.&quot; (Ah, the polysyllabic names that Ed Greenwood throws around everywhere. . . .) If you want listings of the deployed troop strength of Purple Dragon Knights in the fortresses of Cormyr, that's where you want to go, because it has details about troop concentrations at the locations of Suzail, Marsember, Arabel, Castle Crag, Halfhap, Tilverton, High Horn, Eagle Peak, Skull Crag, Wheloon, and Thunderstone. (There's also plenty of et cetera, including tactics and ranks.)The Steel Regent of Cormyr, <a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Alusair_Obarskyr" target="_blank">Princess Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr</a>, had been a Purple Dragon Knight. (Link to Forgotten Realms on wikia.com.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6747635, member: 61026"] That's a holdover from 2E, apparently, and the [I]purple prose[/I] of Ed Greenwood (and Jeff Grubb) in "Cormyr: A Novel," released April, 1998. The [I]Candlekeep[/I] site [URL="http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/cormyrforcesa.htm"]has a whole lot more on that[/URL], including a reference to "the original purple dragon that gave the kingdom that name, Thauglorimorgorus." (Ah, the [I]polysyllabic names[/I] that Ed Greenwood throws around everywhere. . . .) If you want listings of the deployed troop strength of Purple Dragon Knights in the fortresses of Cormyr, that's where you want to go, because it has details about troop concentrations at the locations of Suzail, Marsember, Arabel, Castle Crag, Halfhap, Tilverton, High Horn, Eagle Peak, Skull Crag, Wheloon, and Thunderstone. (There's also plenty of [I]et cetera[/I], including tactics and ranks.) [I]The Steel Regent of Cormyr[/I], [URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Alusair_Obarskyr"]Princess Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr[/URL], had been a Purple Dragon Knight. (Link to Forgotten Realms on wikia.com.) [/QUOTE]

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