[FR] Dungeon of Swords (suspected Error in FRCS 3e)

[Oaken25]

Ah, the one book I didnt look though. Forgot that those books had info on places in them.

 

[jester47]

Aaron,

After searching Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast and Prayers of the Faithful to no avail, the Demihuman Deities supplement proved to be the proverbial jackpot. From page 69:

"Major Centers of Worship: Endar Aglandtor, the Sword Grotto, is an abbey of the Luckmaiden hidden in a series of dwarf-dug caverns hewn from the base of a granite uprising known as the Tor of Swords."

There is another paragraph or so of information about the temple. Let me know if you don't posess DD and I'll summarize for you.

EDIT: added page #....

I don't have the book, but I can see by the description that it is not a match for what was published in the FRCS under the Dungeon of Swords.

Aaron.

 

[Henry]

I don't have the book, but I can see by the description that it is not a match for what was published in the FRCS under the Dungeon of Swords.

Aaron.

Jester, attack it this way:

Just how much material has been written on the Dungeon of Swords?

probably very little. Possibly little enough that the authors and editors don't have a whole lot of familiarity with it. Someone would probably catch if Myth Drannor was described as "an old Drow settlement." But not that many might remember the whole "old Netherese General who was a collector of Swords and made a tomb" story.

Very likely, someone flubbed by not figuring that the Dungeon of Swords was fleshed out at all, and took artistic license.

 

[trentonjoe]

I don't have it with me but I am 95% sure there was mention of the dungeon of swords in the 1E and 2E boxed sets.

It was a tomb of an expert swordsman and I believe (but this might be an inference) that the swordsmen was to supposed to be a death knght guarding his enchanted blades.

 

[jester47]

Oh, well, its like that then...

I just got done reading the whole (both of them) listing for the dungeon of swords in Elminster's Ecologies Appendix II. A CAREFUL reading indicates that the complex is vast and is made up of many different layers of diggings and such. Here is the paragraph that caught my eye:

Several ruins are located in the Serpent Hills, and the ruins are
from many different time periods. However, a relationship may
exist between several of the oldest ruins. Nobody has done a thorough study of the ruins, but I have collated enough information to give me an inkling of an idea.
within.

So what we could be looking at in the FRCS is a part of the greater complex. Some things do have crossover. The portal to the evermoors is there, and the idea that there is an extensive teleportation network is in the ecologies.

So there really is not any contradiction, but rather a narrowing of scope. There is no description of it in the OGB, but there is in the grand tour of the realms in the BBB (Big black box). However I remember a place guarded by flying swords in the editions previous to the FRCS book. And I think that is what is driving me crazy, is that I saw it and dont remember where I saw it. Maybe I am just remembering wrong.

As gameplay goes, I worked around it yonks ago.

Thanks for everyones help.

Aaron.