What is Nephilium (sp)?

[Tzarevitch]

This question is to anyone who has played Gates of Firestorm Peak?

What is nephilium? I may have misspelled the word, but it is that metal in the adventure that seems to resemble glassteel.

Does anyone know what its characteristics are? I have been running the adventure for several weeks now, my players have just discovered the stuff and they are trying to find out what it does. I keep finding references to the metal, but I can't figure out what is special about it other than its semi-transparency and the fact that it seems to be an alloy of iron and something else.

Does anyone know anything about it?

Tzarevitch

 

[the Jester]

First, let me just say that that is the _coolest module ever_ for Cthulhu flavor in DnD... I ran it last year and it was a blast.

Nephelium is functionally just like iron except for its tranlucency. As far as I know it's only ever been mentioned in Firestorm Peak.

By the way, if you need one there's a good conversion of the neh-thalggu on the Mystara website (under Brain Collector.)

 

[Shade]

Nephilium is also in the Sunless Citadel. I believe that it is described as having the hardness of iron and the transparency of glass, but I don't have the module with me.

 

[Plane Sailing]

It may just be chance, but the name Nephilim originally came from the book of Genesis (chapter 6 v4).

 

[Strongheart]

It may just be chance, but the name Nephilim originally came from the book of Genesis (chapter 6 v4).

Ah yes, a race of giants I believe

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I thought this was going to be a thread on the d20 version of that RPG...

 

[Neqroteqh]

Nephilim

Nephilim, depending on who you ask, can be translated as either "Fallen Gods" or "Giants". I once checked a Hebrew translation dictionary, in which the word was listed as meaning "Fallen" or "Abortion". Aborted Gods, perhaps?

(I got in an argument with my theology professor over the meaning. Never argue with a Catholic theology professor over the meaning of a Hebrew word- you'll always lose that argument.

 

[hong]

Silly people. Everyone knows that a nephilim is someone who bonks dead people.

 

[Lothaire]

The verse if anyone is interested Gen 6:4 (Taken from the Oxford Revised English Study bible, an academic non-demoninanational bible)

"In those days as well as later, when the sons of the gods had intercourse with the daughters of mortals and children were born to them, the Nephilim were on the earth; they were the heroes of old, people of renown."

The study notes relate that the Hebrew words for "sons of the gods" is of caananite extraction and roughly mean "pantheon" or assembly of gods.

This reference is taken to refer to fallen angels. Though the way the Old Testament is written other gods (The Ashtoreth and Baalim; female and male gods of the Caananites respectively) are treated as real and working forces. They are however perverted, vile and unworthy of worship, and their power pales before that of the true god of Israel.

I'm addressing this from a strictly academic sense, so I hope no one takes offense.

And going back to gaming, I think that quote would be a cool thing to base a D&D game on.

 

[Saturn's Halo]

From the Ashes of Angels

I've studied this matter long and hard, actually. I'm with hong.

But if you want to take a trip and read a pretty good book on somebodies particular off-beat belief on the Nephilim, check out Andrew Collins "From the Ashes of Angels". I mean, there is the part about sun tan lotion from 10 o00 BC and that silly little chapter about a leprechaun, a talking coconut and early incarnations of Bert and Ernie, but the rest is actually quite... new? Avant-garde? Revolutionary? Similar to drinking electric blue-green kool aide?

I mean, really, if you want to learn about the Nephilim, that's the book. True or not, it's a fine tale.