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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7997864" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Obviously Anauroch is magic - the Spine of the World mountains do not extend far enough south to create an area of rain shadow that large.Accounts vary though, some don't blame the phaerimm directly - some hold that responsibility likes with the Netherese mage Karsus who damaged the weave trying to gain the power to stop the phaerimm.The magical effect created by the phaerimm appears to resemble Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting, but on a much larger scale. Alternatively, one might hypothesise that magic, like water, is required by living things, and thus damaging the weave created a similar effect to the absence of water. In that case, one might hypothesize that the changes to the weave that have occurred recently it might allow the Anauroch to start to return to life.The phaerimm are very Lovecraftian enemies, and it would be cool to bring them back, mind controlling a colony of mind flayers into mind controlling* a lost city of degenerate netherese survivors in the frozen north into creating an army of Black Ice Scream Zombies to attack Icewind Dale.<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/6/64/Phaerimm.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200401203007" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />*If you think that is silly try reading the Lensman novels.</blockquote>