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<blockquote data-quote="Neil Bishop" data-source="post: 4664171" data-attributes="member: 55494"><p>I'm planning to use some similar ideas for my first attempt at a 4E campaign. I also plan to set it in FR but it will be the pre-Spellplague Realms. In fact, it will be set in 1372 DR, the time of the 3E setting book, and I will ignore every single novel published after that date.</p><p></p><p>I'm using the Norse Fimbulwinter for inspiration. Fimbulwinter is the "great winter" (literal translation) that precedes Ragnarok. The cause will be the release of what is, in 3E terms, a xixecal (cf <em>Epic Level Handbook</em>) that is the offspring of Auril and Kostchtchie and is otherwise a primordial (and probably just Rorn the Blazing Fury reskinned).</p><p></p><p>I found a thread once that talked about using the ancestor mounds of the Uthgardt as the focal points of a great ritual that holds an unnatural winter in check and that this is the purpose of the annual gatherings of these tribes. I could never find the thread again, and I didn't save the poster's name, but I'm using this as inspiration. One of the party's goals will be to stop the ancestor mounds from being corrupted. If/when they are corrupted, winter comes earlier and earlier culminating in the release of the imprisoned xixecal.</p><p></p><p>I also want to give the party the opportunity to release (an aspect of) Bazim-Gorag, the Firebringer, to buy some time but at a terrible cost. I'm not quite sure how this will play out yet but I will use the 3.5E adventure <em>Prison of the Firebringer</em> from <em>Dungeon 101</em> (IIRC) as inspiration.</p><p></p><p>3.5E's <em>DMGII</em> also had a magical event called the <em>Killing Frost of Ghulurak </em>that will inspire something in this campaign. Perhaps that will be the name of the xixecal at a bare minimum.</p><p></p><p>In the end, three pieces of art will largely inspire the campaign:</p><p></p><p>-Wayne Reynolds' excellent piece picturing the winter witch from the 4E adventure <em>Winter of the Witch</em> from <em>Dungeon 162</em>;</p><p>- the picture of the ice-encrusted tower from <em>Menace of the Icy Spire</em> in <em>Dungeon 159</em>; and</p><p>- the picture of the xixecal in 3E's <em>Epic Level Handbook</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neil Bishop, post: 4664171, member: 55494"] I'm planning to use some similar ideas for my first attempt at a 4E campaign. I also plan to set it in FR but it will be the pre-Spellplague Realms. In fact, it will be set in 1372 DR, the time of the 3E setting book, and I will ignore every single novel published after that date. I'm using the Norse Fimbulwinter for inspiration. Fimbulwinter is the "great winter" (literal translation) that precedes Ragnarok. The cause will be the release of what is, in 3E terms, a xixecal (cf [I]Epic Level Handbook[/I]) that is the offspring of Auril and Kostchtchie and is otherwise a primordial (and probably just Rorn the Blazing Fury reskinned). I found a thread once that talked about using the ancestor mounds of the Uthgardt as the focal points of a great ritual that holds an unnatural winter in check and that this is the purpose of the annual gatherings of these tribes. I could never find the thread again, and I didn't save the poster's name, but I'm using this as inspiration. One of the party's goals will be to stop the ancestor mounds from being corrupted. If/when they are corrupted, winter comes earlier and earlier culminating in the release of the imprisoned xixecal. I also want to give the party the opportunity to release (an aspect of) Bazim-Gorag, the Firebringer, to buy some time but at a terrible cost. I'm not quite sure how this will play out yet but I will use the 3.5E adventure [I]Prison of the Firebringer[/I] from [I]Dungeon 101[/I] (IIRC) as inspiration. 3.5E's [I]DMGII[/I] also had a magical event called the [I]Killing Frost of Ghulurak [/I]that will inspire something in this campaign. Perhaps that will be the name of the xixecal at a bare minimum. In the end, three pieces of art will largely inspire the campaign: -Wayne Reynolds' excellent piece picturing the winter witch from the 4E adventure [I]Winter of the Witch[/I] from [I]Dungeon 162[/I]; - the picture of the ice-encrusted tower from [I]Menace of the Icy Spire[/I] in [I]Dungeon 159[/I]; and - the picture of the xixecal in 3E's [I]Epic Level Handbook[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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