Red Wizards... of Leng?!

[Desdichado]

Did anyone else catch that little blurb in the podcast?

Someone said in the RIP thread that Thay was becoming like Mordor and Ssaz Tam (or however you spell it; no, Primal, I don't care to know the correct way) was like Sauron, but it looks like it was specifically compared to Leng.

Which is pretty freakin' awesome. I've been accused—justly—of turning every game I run into Call of Cthulhu but I never thought I'd hear an official source make overtures in that regard to Forgotten Realms.

The Forgotten Realms have never—and I really mean never—looked so interesting to me.

 

[DandD]

What's Leng?

 

[Shroomy]

What's Leng?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau_of_Leng

 

[Wolfspider]

What's Leng?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leng

EDIT: Oh, nevermind.

 

[Shroomy]

I've always thought of it as a kind of mythic, evil, transdimensional Tibet.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I've always thought of it as a kind of mythic, evil, transdimensional Tibet.

Yeah, a bit like Lovecraft Shangri-La.

Cheers, LT.

 

[frankthedm]

The 4E Tiefling will work well enough for the Men of Leng.

Bloated purplish spiders chill on the plateau of Leng too. I don't remember if they were intelligent or not though.

Magic the gathering even had a Library of Leng card. Not sure if that was a reference to the Cthulhu mythos though.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I do like the way Rich Baker and Bruce Cordell described the updated version of Thay. A remote, scary place dominated by evil wizards is much cooler than the current version, which is an accessible, orderly place dominated by evil wizards.

 

[Desdichado]

I've always thought of it as a kind of mythic, evil, transdimensional Tibet.

Except when it was in the Dreamlands. Or Antarctica.

I do prefer the Tibet interpretation, though.

 

[Henry]

Except when it was in the Dreamlands. Or Antarctica.

I do prefer the Tibet interpretation, though.

Don't tell me the 4E bug is biting at your heels, too.