D&D 5E Rise of Tiamat: Attack on Waterdeep

[aco175]

The God Catcher[/I], a 4e era novel, establishes that the walking statues were all rendered inert after going crazy during the Spellplague and that, in fact, some of them have been built over or hollowed out and turned into tenements and such (including the eponymous statue).

That being said, the Sundering that ushered in the 5e era could easily have brought them back to life somehow. I'm not sure if they show up in Death Masks. I'll have to have a look.

EDIT 2: Am looking at an excerpt from Death Masks, and in it Vajra, the new Blackstaff, recalls that Khelben had showed her how she could use the remnants of the staff to reawaken the walking statues, which were still where they'd been left when they stopped rampaging. I don't know if she actually reawakens any of them later in the novel or not, though.

Most of the things I read was from another reddit page from someone else looking things up, or quoting another source- since we all know if you read it on the internet it must be true. Here

 

[pukunui]

Thanks for that. As I mentioned upthread, the excerpt of Death Masks I read last night included a bit where Vajra Safahr was magically viewing each of the walking statues in turn and remembering that Khelben had showed her how she could use the broken Blackstaff to reactivate them. I have not read the whole book, however, so I don't know if she actually does that or not. Since some of them have people living in them now, I think it would be rather destructive if she did bring them back online.

I've asked Ed on Twitter but he'll probably say he can't answer due to an NDA.


Still, it's my game, so I could include a walking statue if I really want to. If I do, though, it'll have to be in the background, as my game is tonight, and I don't think I have time to stat one up.

EDIT: Actually I think I'm going to have to put this off until the third (and supposedly final) cult retaliation event. I need more time to bring it all together. I'll have this one be a little more low key.