[FR] two Forgotten Realms questions

[grodog]

1. I think an adventure was published sometime in the FR history about a floating wizard's tower that's partially ruined and inaccessible unless you can fly up to it (the lowest portion of the tower is several stories above the ground). I recall it being a high-level adventure. Any ideas what it was, when it was published, etc.? This may have also been a part of a FR novel that I read aeons past too, so it may not be a published module; I think that something like this was published in Dungeon in the past few years, but I just don't keep tabs on FR stuff closely enough to recall. Any pointers would be most appreciated

2. Are the Roger Moore Forgotten Realms index files available anywhere for download?

Thanks

 

[Agamon]

1. sounds like a floating citidel from Dragonlance. I'm not aware of any FR adventures featuring such a thing (and shame on the unoriginal author of said adventure, if it does exist).

2. Not sure what that is, but my Google-fu found this: http://www.wizards.com/ForgottenRealms/fr_index2.txt

On a related note, it's not pretty, but I'll be darned if absolutely everything Realms-related isn't here.

 

[maransreth]

I cant remember the name of the floating citadel, but I do remember that the Knights of Myth Drannor went through it and cleaned a bit of it out. It was in the Sembia/Dales area and had beholders on it.
I do remember first reading about it many years ago in a FR novel and then in a FR sourcebook, but I dont remember it being a module.

If I get a chance (and someone else doesnt beat me to it) will look in the Campaign Setting boxed set as that is where I think I saw it.

 

[glass]

1. I think an adventure was published sometime in the FR history about a floating wizard's tower that's partially ruined and inaccessible unless you can fly up to it (the lowest portion of the tower is several stories above the ground).

IIRC, there was a tower somewhere that skipped straight from basements to second or third storey with the intervening floors no longer being present. It was from an article from Dragon, one of the series they ran a while back* detailing locations in the Realms.

Not sure that was quite what you were after, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

EDIT: There were also the floating cities of the Archwizards of ancient Netheril (and modernday Shade) of course.


glass.

* They may still be running it, I don't buy Dragon anymore

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

1. I think an adventure was published sometime in the FR history about a floating wizard's tower that's partially ruined and inaccessible unless you can fly up to it (the lowest portion of the tower is several stories above the ground). I recall it being a high-level adventure. Any ideas what it was, when it was published, etc.?

Thanks

Dragon Magazine.

I think.

In one of the Greenwood series about places in the Realms, it detailed a floating tower.

I think a floating tower is also mentioned in some of the old 1st & 2nd ed stuff. Specifically Waterdeep & the North & Savage North (?). Anyway, I think its somewhere in the North of Faerun (The North boxed set?).

I'm pretty sure its been mentioned multiple times.

Dungeon might very well have made a module out of it at some point.

 

[Brakkart]

The adventure module Undermountain II: Maddgoth's Tower featured a floating citadel in a large cave under Waterdeep.

As several have said already, one of Ed Greenwoods Dragon magazine articles detailed a floating tower, which I believe was hovering above a hill.

The beholder Manxam (an ally of the Zhentarim) has a large floating rock anchored by a thick chain to the ground in the vicinity of the village of Snowmantle (near the Citadel of the Raven) to the west of the Moonsea. That I think is the place that the Knights of Myth Drannor attacked and heavily damaged. More info about it (but not much more) can be found in the old Ruins of Zhentil Keep boxed set.

Hope some of that is useful to you.

 

[NiTessine]

I think there was something along these lines in the computer games Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II. A ruined elven fortress from ancient times, I think.

I also recall there is a very old floating tower in a marshland somewhere in the North or the Western Heartlands, but the powers keeping it aloft are failing and it keeps occasionally dunking into the fetid waters. I'm not sure which particular swamp it was, but I'm tempted to say it's the Marsh of Chelimber.

 

[Brakkart]

I think there was something along these lines in the computer games Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II. A ruined elven fortress from ancient times, I think.

The elven fortress from these games was designed in the shape of a hand reaching up from the ground. It didn't float at all, but is still a very cool location!

I also recall there is a very old floating tower in a marshland somewhere in the North or the Western Heartlands, but the powers keeping it aloft are failing and it keeps occasionally dunking into the fetid waters. I'm not sure which particular swamp it was, but I'm tempted to say it's the Marsh of Chelimber.

I know there is the Uthtower that sinks and resurfaces in the Mere of Dead Men, it is detailed in Dungeon magazine #73.

 

[grodog]

Thanks for the pointers Agamon: for whatever reason, I wasn't able to find the files googling site:wizards.com.... I'll check out the toril.info link, and also candlekeep.com, too.

On the module/novel front, it was definitely FR, not DL, and it may have been an adventure from Elminster's early days (hence from a novel, unless anything like that was ever published). It was outdoors, not underground either as I recall....

 

[J_D]

Volo's Guide to Cormyr describes the Falling Tower in Kirinwood. It is all that remains of the seat of the Kirinar noble family, and has been floating about 60 feet off the ground for centuries. Ardest Kirinar founded a college of wizardry and a brotherhood of wizards he intended to control, but a spell duel between ambitious mages destroyed the college, most of the lesser students, the entire Kirinar family, and the ground floors. All that remains is the tower's upper floors, floating.