D&D General Weave Your Tale in the Forgotten Realms With 8 Epic Subclasses (D&D Beyond Article)

[Paul Farquhar]

You have the Princes of Elemental Evil and the Elder Elemental Eye (AKA you know who). Nothing says that a 5e paladin needs to be good.

But I interpret paladin's powers as coming from their oath - which might be to a deity, hence the confusion. I prefer to always keep the deus entirely in the machina in my games.

 

[mamba]

Sure, but it's not Oath of the Elements, which would make sense with elemental gods and princes roaming the multiverse.

The name is Oath of the Noble Genie, but based on the description Oath of the Elements would be more appropriate imo.

“Paladins who swear the Oath of the Noble Genies draw their might from the Elemental Planes”

 

[mamba]

“Nafas is a noble genie, a rare type of genie endowed with the power to reshape reality. A word uttered by Nafas can transform a pauper into a prince, return the dead to life, or bring a meteor’s might crashing down on his enemies.

and that guy needs a low level party to take care of things for him?

They gave him a CR 23, which is in the realm of the Demon Lords and Arch Devils we have stats for, and much higher than the stats we have for a Toril deity.

Auril? That is because a tier 2 party is supposed to win the fight, not because CR11 and up is appropriate / reserved for minor gods or more powerful entities

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Auril? That is because a tier 2 party is supposed to win the fight, not because CR11 and up is appropriate / reserved for minor gods or more powerful entities

Her weakened state is also a plot point. Although the cause of that never made it into print.

 

[Parmandur]

and that guy needs a low level party to take care of things for him?

Nice, he wants them to.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Her weakened state is also a plot point. Although the cause of that never made it into print.

It's admittedly been a while since I went through RotFM, but I seem to recall that Auril's weakness was due to putting a lot of her power into the nightly ritual she's using to trap Icewind Dale in eternal night/winter.

 

[FarBeyondC]

It's admittedly been a while since I went through RotFM, but I seem to recall that Auril's weakness was due to putting a lot of her power into the nightly ritual she's using to trap Icewind Dale in eternal night/winter.

That and maintaining the barriers that make entering/exiting the region nearly impossible.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

But...does it, though?

Don't know about 2024, but it's right there under The Weave of Magic in the 2014 PHB.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

In 4E Calimshan was dominated by Genies, but one of the few vits of 5E lore from SCAG on Calimshan was that the Genies were overthrown and pushed into the desert by a revolution led by a religous prophet (Chosen of Ilmater, IIRC).

In this new book, the regional Feat for the region is "Genie-Touched".

From what has been published about 16th century Calimshan, it seems only Calimport and maybe one or two other cities are in mortal hands (and also now bastions of high technology) and the Genies rule the wastes with some nomadic people caught between them. In my interpretation, paladins are basically the enforcers of the genies' states and personal slaves. The genies aren't necessarily integrated into Calimshan's culture, they're a separate culture encroaching on it who occupy the same territory.

I'm not sure if the revolution will be retconned, or if a second wave of genies came to naughty word up Calimshan's late 15th century status quo.

 

[SkidAce]

Yeah, I know the Vaati are something else again, but I figured one group of powerful outsiders who live on an Elemental Plane is roughly equivalent to another. Hence why I brought up Kossuth, Grumbar & co., though I could have easily included Yan-C-Bin.

I like the Melnibonean ones from old Dieties and Demigods better.
Kakatal, The Fire Emperor, The Burning Storm
Straasha, Lord of Water, The Swirling Wave
Misha, Sovereign of Winds, The Rushing Gale
Grome, King of Earth and Root, The Stone Fist