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<blockquote data-quote="Shroomy" data-source="post: 4897462" data-attributes="member: 32739">Sure.&nbsp; The adventure was largely inspired by a pair of Dragon magazine articles.&nbsp; The first was Wolfgang Baur's &quot;Dreams of Arabia:&nbsp; Creatures from Antiquity&quot; from issue 334.&nbsp; In my original pitch, Hazar was actually the adventure's main villain and Emrett (she had a different name up until recently) was her apprentice (though they still hated each other).&nbsp; Also, Hazar was not a sphinx; instead she was an evil simurgh (a monster from Persian myth that appeared in the Dragon article), which is where the peacock and bird themes originally came from.&nbsp; The second Dragon article was from the &quot;Class Acts:&nbsp; Druid&quot; article from Issue 339 that introduced a more scholary, fey-orientated variant druid called a sidhe scholar.&nbsp; Emrett was originally a sidhe scholar, which is were the fey and academic themes originated.&nbsp; With all that done, I submitted my initial query to Paizo in late September 2006 and I waited, not knowing until later that WotC was reassuming control of the magazines.&nbsp; After they did take them back Paizo transferred the slushpile to Wizards and Chris Youngs contacted me in late July 2007 and told me he was interested in publishing the adventure.&nbsp; We had numerous discussions about the adventure and it changed multiple times as we went back and forth until it was largely similar to what you see today (by that time, 4e had been announced, so I was actually incorporating some of the new ideas regarding the newfangled &quot;Feywild&quot; into my adventure).&nbsp; I had about two months to write the 3.5e draft and turned it in on 11-30-2007.&nbsp; Originally, it was going to appear that winter, but then it got delayed again until the spring, but the impending release of 4e and the resultant changeover in the magazines seemingly did not bode well for me.&nbsp; However, after 4e came out and I got a full look at the system, I asked Chris if I could convert it to 4e, and after a while, he agreed.&nbsp; There was some back and forth with Chris (and through him R&amp;D) about what 3.5e elements to keep and what needed to be changed (Emrett was a perfect fit for a fey pact warlock and I'm much happier with her in 4e, as in 3.5e she was a bit of a glass cannon who needed to cast a long list of spells before she could survive combat, much less be effective at it), and then he turned me over to Steve Winters, who worked with me again.&nbsp; Again, there was a lot of discussion and then I set out to essentially re-write the adventure.&nbsp; I handed it in early June 2009 and then there were some more changes that had to be made due to space considerations.&nbsp; Luckily, some of what got cut is going to appear in a Side Trek in the near future.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shroomy, post: 4897462, member: 32739"] Sure. The adventure was largely inspired by a pair of [i]Dragon[/i] magazine articles. The first was Wolfgang Baur's "Dreams of Arabia: Creatures from Antiquity" from issue 334. In my original pitch, Hazar was actually the adventure's main villain and Emrett (she had a different name up until recently) was her apprentice (though they still hated each other). Also, Hazar was not a sphinx; instead she was an evil simurgh (a monster from Persian myth that appeared in the [i]Dragon[/i] article), which is where the peacock and bird themes originally came from. The second [i]Dragon[/i] article was from the "Class Acts: Druid" article from Issue 339 that introduced a more scholary, fey-orientated variant druid called a sidhe scholar. Emrett was originally a sidhe scholar, which is were the fey and academic themes originated. With all that done, I submitted my initial query to Paizo in late September 2006 and I waited, not knowing until later that WotC was reassuming control of the magazines. After they did take them back Paizo transferred the slushpile to Wizards and Chris Youngs contacted me in late July 2007 and told me he was interested in publishing the adventure. We had numerous discussions about the adventure and it changed multiple times as we went back and forth until it was largely similar to what you see today (by that time, 4e had been announced, so I was actually incorporating some of the new ideas regarding the newfangled "Feywild" into my adventure). I had about two months to write the 3.5e draft and turned it in on 11-30-2007. Originally, it was going to appear that winter, but then it got delayed again until the spring, but the impending release of 4e and the resultant changeover in the magazines seemingly did not bode well for me. However, after 4e came out and I got a full look at the system, I asked Chris if I could convert it to 4e, and after a while, he agreed. There was some back and forth with Chris (and through him R&D) about what 3.5e elements to keep and what needed to be changed (Emrett was a perfect fit for a fey pact warlock and I'm much happier with her in 4e, as in 3.5e she was a bit of a glass cannon who needed to cast a long list of spells before she could survive combat, much less be effective at it), and then he turned me over to Steve Winters, who worked with me again. Again, there was a lot of discussion and then I set out to essentially re-write the adventure. I handed it in early June 2009 and then there were some more changes that had to be made due to space considerations. Luckily, some of what got cut is going to appear in a Side Trek in the near future. [/QUOTE]

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