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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3104492" data-attributes="member: 11697">Several good sources of stuff...1) 'Gates of Firestorm Peak' - the original source of what has become known as the Far Realm. I don't have the module handy, but it had the PCs trying to seal up a reopened gate of sorts that was a relic left behind by a race of ancient elves who had accidentally opened it up into a cthulhu'esque nightmare realm.2) 'Monstrous Compendium Annual #4' - this had a number of the monsters from Gates of Firestorm Peak in it with some really good flavor text and some seriously creepy artwork for the Brood Gibberling (amongst others).3) 'Guide to the Ethereal' - another Cordell book, this one had numerous Far Realms references within the darkest depths of the Ethereal, suggesting that the Far Realm was an alternate multiverse, another branch of reality bubbling up from the raw probability of the trackless ethereal seas, as different from the Great Wheel as the Great Wheel was to it. This book had the first mention of the Dharculi (3.5 Planar Handbook), and the writeup of Licister's Gap is one of the coolest things that Bruce Cordell has ever written.If I recall correctly it correctly, Xaxox seems to draw heavily upon Licister's Gap for inspiration.4) 'Lords of Madness' has some stuff on the Far Realms, suggesting that a chance bleedover between the two opposing realities led to an entity known as Piscithes (sp?) the Blood Queen creating the first Aboleths in the primordial prime material plane of the Great Wheel cosmology. Mak Thum Ngatha of the Psurlons may be linked to that place as well.5) Fiendish Codex I had a brief reference to an ancient and imprisoned Obyrith lord having struck a deal with a Far Realms entity known as Bolothamog (sp?), and a group of gibbering mouthers in Sigil all simultaneously screaming the same message over and over and over again perpetually, calling for the ancient fiend to fulfill his side of that unknown and ancient deal. Bolothomog is detailed in Lords of Madness as a far realms entity who seeks to prevent contact between his reality and the reality of the Great Wheel, seeing the Great Wheel as much of a threat to him and his kind as we might view him and his kind.But, that said, I've been working pretty heavily with my own spin on some Far Realms things in my current campaign. Lots of Psurlons, lots of Mind Flayers, lots of insane former factols of the Bleak Cabal, etc etc.</blockquote>

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