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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 202961" data-attributes="member: 2174">>>>1. What happened in Rauxes? Is Ivid dead? >>>This has been left deliberately vague. Priests of Hextor _announced_ that Ivid was dead, which triggered a mad power rush to the capital. That event swallowed the city in magical chaos, trapping such luminaries as Duke Szeffrin, Ivid V (assuming he still lives), Xaene the two-headed lich, Holy Censor Spidasa (late of Medegia), and Emasstus Carcossa (high priest of Pholtus), several of whom probably still languish in a Rauxes dungeon.>>>2. What is the Egg of Coot that has assumed power in Blackmore?>>>The Egg of Coot was a character in Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign. Gygax later added Blackmoor to Greyhawk. When Fred Weining wrote that section, he harvested certain details from Arneson's basic D&D adventures. The Egg of Dave's original Blackmoor campaign (as detailed in the Judges Guild product "First Fantasy Campaign") was many things, the most obvious of which seems to be a pretty harsh parody of E. Gary Gygax. In Living Greyhawk, he's an enigmatic, probably alien creature with several different insanities. To get a better idea of what Fred was going for in his writeup, you might want to check out an online article he wrote on the subject some years back. A google search for "Blackmoor" and "psychlops" and "Oerth Journal" ought to turn it up.>>>3. What's the deal with Prince Thrommel? Did the Scarlet Brotherhood catch him (as the book suggests) and sell him to Iuz & the Temple of Elemental Evil or is that just a ruse?>>>This is one of those mysteries that has been a part of the setting since 1983. In hindsight, we should have resolved the issue difinitively in the LGG (I would have probably unified Veluna and Furyondy once and for all). Thrommel was in fact trapped in the Temple of Elemental Evil, and appears there in the original adventure. He also appears, somewhat modified, in Monte Cook's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. The issue of how he got to the temple is not covered in either source, but I suggest that he in part led the forces of weal at the Battle of Emridy Meadows, which made him lots of enemies in the temple. They somehow got their paws into him at a later date (573 CY, I believe, the battle taking place in 569 CY). >>>4. Why is Drax of Rel Astra so kind? I thought he was a chaotic evil animus?>>>I'd love to do more with Drax in the Journal. He's evil, but his is a calculating, Machiavellian evil. You might think that Drax is acting like a good guy now, but rest assured, he's going to come out winning in the end.--Erik</blockquote>

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