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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7493647" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>Not necessarily because they work better, but they are better organized as they are members of the same family, so there are family bonds that tie them together, that said each of them have their own agendas, and those agendas will pull them apart as time goes on, but at the beginning they are unified. The Romans don't exactly have a lot of myths about their gods, which are basically Romanized versions of the Greek gods. These Roman gods and goddesses wake up upon the entry of a certain number or Romans and others through the gate.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I have some ideas on where to put the gate.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Apart from this description, Baldr is known primarily for the story of his death. His death is seen as the first in the chain of events which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the gods at </span></span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" target="_blank">Ragnarök</a><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">. Baldr will be reborn in the new world, according to </span></span></p><p><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1" target="_blank">Völuspá</a><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">.</span></span></p></em></p><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></em></p><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr</span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></span></p></em></p><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p></em>[h=2]History<a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate?action=edit&section=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAQAICTAEAOw%3D%3D" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Edit</a>[/h]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit">In ancient times, the seafaring human hero <a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Balduran" target="_blank">Balduran</a> returned from <a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Anchorome" target="_blank">Anchorome</a> with great wealth. Balduran used this wealth to build a wall at the end of the Chionthar river. Balduran later vanished, never to return.[SUP]<a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p77-9" target="_blank">[10]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p73-8" target="_blank">[9]</a>[/SUP] After Balduran vanished, local farmers took control of the wall and begin to tax sailors arriving. The sailors overthrew the ruthless farmers and the four eldest took control, calling themselves "dukes."[SUP]<a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p77-9" target="_blank">[10]</a>[/SUP]</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit"><a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate" target="_blank">http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur's_Gate</a></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit">Here's my idea, what if Balduran was actually Baldr the Viking God. After dying at the beginning of Ragnarok he was reborn in the Forgotten Realms and founded a city called Baldur's Gate. Among the treasure he accumulated in his voyage to Anchorome was a gateway back to his original home, or at least he thought it was. Some adventurers discover the gate in a cave under Baldur's Gate and they open it, and it leads to a Roman Encampment in Germania. The Romans take advantage of this and they pour through, and because of the magical chaos at the time during the Time of Troubles the Roman Gods are created by the power vacuum and the wild magic that exists at the time. The Roman gods at first aren't full fledged gods, they have memories implanted in them, and some of them are contradictory being from Greek or Roman retellings of classical myth, they draw power from the Roman Legions worshipping them, and Mars gets the idea to conquer a sizable empire in this region, so they take the City of Baldur's gate from within. Hekate introduces herself to Commodus, she stabilizes the magic around the city, and a romance ensues between the would be Emperor and the Almost a goddess. Since the Romans are sorely lacking in magic Hekate herself offers her services as a battlemage with the intent of later rising to full goddess status taking over from the death goddess Mystra is her aim. Mars takes over as general of one of the legions, he doesn't want to rule directly, as he wants to achieve godhood himself, but in order to do that he is trying to help Commodus conquer an Empire in Faerun, one problem is Commodus doesn't always listen to him, and there is a kind of tug of war between the two.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7493647, member: 6925649"] Not necessarily because they work better, but they are better organized as they are members of the same family, so there are family bonds that tie them together, that said each of them have their own agendas, and those agendas will pull them apart as time goes on, but at the beginning they are unified. The Romans don't exactly have a lot of myths about their gods, which are basically Romanized versions of the Greek gods. These Roman gods and goddesses wake up upon the entry of a certain number or Romans and others through the gate. I have some ideas on where to put the gate. [LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=sans-serif]Apart from this description, Baldr is known primarily for the story of his death. His death is seen as the first in the chain of events which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the gods at [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k"]Ragnarök[/URL][LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=sans-serif]. Baldr will be reborn in the new world, according to [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][I][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1"]Völuspá[/URL][LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=sans-serif]. [LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][/I][h=2]History[URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate?action=edit§ion=2"][IMG]http://www.enworld.org/forum/image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAQAICTAEAOw%3D%3D[/IMG]Edit[/URL][/h][LEFT][COLOR=#3A3A3A][FONT="Helvetica Neue"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#3A3A3A][FONT='inherit']In ancient times, the seafaring human hero [URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Balduran"]Balduran[/URL] returned from [URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Anchorome"]Anchorome[/URL] with great wealth. Balduran used this wealth to build a wall at the end of the Chionthar river. Balduran later vanished, never to return.[SUP][URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p77-9"][10][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p73-8"][9][/URL][/SUP] After Balduran vanished, local farmers took control of the wall and begin to tax sailors arriving. The sailors overthrew the ruthless farmers and the four eldest took control, calling themselves "dukes."[SUP][URL="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate#cite_note-FRA-p77-9"][10][/URL][/SUP] [url]http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate[/url] Here's my idea, what if Balduran was actually Baldr the Viking God. After dying at the beginning of Ragnarok he was reborn in the Forgotten Realms and founded a city called Baldur's Gate. Among the treasure he accumulated in his voyage to Anchorome was a gateway back to his original home, or at least he thought it was. Some adventurers discover the gate in a cave under Baldur's Gate and they open it, and it leads to a Roman Encampment in Germania. The Romans take advantage of this and they pour through, and because of the magical chaos at the time during the Time of Troubles the Roman Gods are created by the power vacuum and the wild magic that exists at the time. The Roman gods at first aren't full fledged gods, they have memories implanted in them, and some of them are contradictory being from Greek or Roman retellings of classical myth, they draw power from the Roman Legions worshipping them, and Mars gets the idea to conquer a sizable empire in this region, so they take the City of Baldur's gate from within. Hekate introduces herself to Commodus, she stabilizes the magic around the city, and a romance ensues between the would be Emperor and the Almost a goddess. Since the Romans are sorely lacking in magic Hekate herself offers her services as a battlemage with the intent of later rising to full goddess status taking over from the death goddess Mystra is her aim. Mars takes over as general of one of the legions, he doesn't want to rule directly, as he wants to achieve godhood himself, but in order to do that he is trying to help Commodus conquer an Empire in Faerun, one problem is Commodus doesn't always listen to him, and there is a kind of tug of war between the two. [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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