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[Triumph]

I'm curious about the Sea Elves. Are Dimernesti/Dargonesti magic-users all renegades or do they actually come out of the water to take the Test? Its hard to picture Dargonesti doing this.

Speaking of Dargonesti, are they an evil race of elves or generally good?

Will there be stats for Sirines, like the blue girl (who could turn into a bear IIRC) whom Caramon befriended during his stint as a gladiator in Legends?

 

[woodelf]

(although I remember there this one time, at band cam...err...where some Canadians were *gasp* melting the nickel (5 cent) because nickel was valuable at that time).

...or was it copper...I cannot remember which. Heh.

Well, US pennies are ~95% nickel, and US nickels (and dimes and quarters) are ~95% copper. Dunno if that's true for Canadian coins.

 

[DragonLancer]

Will there be stats for Sirines, like the blue girl (who could turn into a bear IIRC) whom Caramon befriended during his stint as a gladiator in Legends?

Sirines have already been printed in 3rd edition. You can find the stats for them in the Monster Manual 2.

 

[jonesy]

I'm curious about the Sea Elves. Are Dimernesti/Dargonesti magic-users all renegades or do they actually come out of the water to take the Test? Its hard to picture Dargonesti doing this.

I don't believe there has ever been any actual contact between the wizards conclave and the sea elves. Either the conclave hasn't even tried to find out about them, or they have had enough problems on land not to bother.

 

[Stormprince]

I'm curious about the Sea Elves. Are Dimernesti/Dargonesti magic-users all renegades or do they actually come out of the water to take the Test? Its hard to picture Dargonesti doing this.

Speaking of Dargonesti, are they an evil race of elves or generally good?

Will there be stats for Sirines, like the blue girl (who could turn into a bear IIRC) whom Caramon befriended during his stint as a gladiator in Legends?

Well, as the sea is technically much larger than the continent, I always figured that there were "satellite" organizations of the Tower...a few Dargonesti/Dimernesti have gone to the Towers in the past and brought back the teachings to their people...they have developed their own Tests, rituals, and the like....you figure, as a people of the sea, they truly feel the tides of the moons. *hmmms* I think that I might write up an article on the Sea Elves and the Towers...

The Dargonesti are "good" elves, as are the Dimernesti...they are just even more reclusive and reticient than even the other elven peoples.

There are stats for Sirines in the Monster Manual two. However, we may go into more detail on them in one of our later products...just keep an eye out

Christopher

 

[woodelf]

The way that I kind of view it is this: making pure steel isn't an easy process, requiring quite a bit of smelting, mixing in the right amounts of copper (I believe, but my mind's not all here today, so I could be wrong) with iron, and getting out the impurities. If the steel was treated in a special way, such as the folding process used in the crafting of katanas, or mixed with a different alloy to make it useless as a weapon (if it's melted down, it loses its qualities, or the like). A single steel coin could represent twice its weight in actual steel.

well, an iron-copper alloy would be pretty crappy, i'd wager--i don't think they mix very well. [edit: cursory search can only turn up one modernt copper-iron alloy, and itas 97% copper, used for semiconducters,etc.] Though i think they'd be pretty easy to separate, because they have very different melting points, so it wouldn't be much of a measure to keep people from using the iron in coins for other purposes.

Anyway, strictly speaking, steel is just iron + carbon (originally from charcoal or soot). However, most steels have other elements in them, with nickel being one of the most common--can't say i've ever heard of copper benig used.

 

[Razuur]

Dark Knights of Takhisis?

Who are they? They sound pretty cool.

I never read much beyond the two trilogies, and plan on picking up the DL CS am importing Ansalon to my Homebrew world...

The Knights of Takhisis must have come way later, eh?

Sort of an antithesis to Solamnic Knights?

Razuur

 

[Stormprince]

Dark Knights of Takhisis?

Who are they? They sound pretty cool.

I never read much beyond the two trilogies, and plan on picking up the DL CS am importing Ansalon to my Homebrew world...

The Knights of Takhisis must have come way later, eh?

Sort of an antithesis to Solamnic Knights?

Razuur

The Dark Knights (who started as the Knights of Takhisis and then evolved into the Knights of Neraka) were created at the bequest of the Queen of Darkness in the years leading to the Chaos War. They are indeed the dark mirror of the Solamnic Knights.

The Dark Knights have three orders:

The Knights of the Lily: the dark warriors.
The Knights of the Skull: the warrior-priests of Takhisis.
The Knights of the Thorn (Gray Robes): the warrior-wizards that drew upon all three moons through their goddess.

They were founded by Ariakan, the son of the Dragon Highlord Ariakas and the Sea-Queen Goddess, Zeboim, who had been captured by the Solamnic Knights during the War of the Lance. During the time he spent with them, he learned of their codes and used them to form the basis of a new knighthood, dedicated to ultimate law (and evil), which would become necessary to truly stop the mad god, Chaos (Dragons of Summer Flame). Unfortunately, Ariakan died during the Chaos War, and with the absence of the gods, the Vision left the Dark Knights. Over time, they began to degenerate, until now they are an organization of tyrants that care for little more than power (Ariakan, although evil, had a somewhat 'nobler' vision, but it died with him).

Christopher

 

[AmerginLiath]

1. Are the Dargonesti and Dimernesti higher than ECL 0, with their shapeshifting abilities?

2. Will there be much info on the cities of Ansalon ? The books have made good use of them, and I'd love to adventure in Palanthus, Sanction, or Gwynned...

3. Are there plans for clerical prestige classes for the different gods (I liked the classes in FR's FAITHS AND PANTHEONS)?

4. Will there be a discussion of what MM (and other books) creatures are/aren't present on Krynn?

5. Any take on the concept of Krynnspace or the solar system beyond Krynn (such as the moons and the other planets)?

6. Are we ever going to see pictures of the other gods beyond the major ones we see pop up on occassion?

 

[Stormprince]

1. Are the Dargonesti and Dimernesti higher than ECL 0, with their shapeshifting abilities?

Yep

2. Will there be much info on the cities of Ansalon ? The books have made good use of them, and I'd love to adventure in Palanthus, Sanction, or Gwynned...

Count on it! We're definitely exploring the world in much greater detail! Expect to find out far more about the world than anyone ever knew before!

3. Are there plans for clerical prestige classes for the different gods (I liked the classes in FR's FAITHS AND PANTHEONS)?

Most definitely!

4. Will there be a discussion of what MM (and other books) creatures are/aren't present on Krynn?

Yep, all that and more will be covered in our Bestiary of Krynn.

5. Any take on the concept of Krynnspace or the solar system beyond Krynn (such as the moons and the other planets)?

Nope, as far as we are "officially" concerned, we're not dealing with Spelljammer what-so-ever, just as we are not "officially" dealing with Ravenloft or mentioning Oerth or Toril...the world is a much different place now, as of the events that occured in the Chaos War and the War of Souls.

6. Are we ever going to see pictures of the other gods beyond the major ones we see pop up on occassion?

Yep! Once more, you can count on it! I think that Dragonlance has a great pantheon, and the "other" gods are more than overdue for their own time in the spotlight.

Christopher