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It is incredible how this came up while I was looking for MOAR lore about the east 😍 now.... Will you talk about Impiltur next? 🌚

I take it that the orcs mentioned were the Gray Orcs. Alignment seems to matter less and less or it is forever morphing. Great Video, thanks for the research.

Appreciate this video -- I've been running my 4th campaign, first homebrew, in the Unapproachable East, mostly in the Great Dale in Uthmere, though it's about to transition to Rashemen and Thay for the remainder, and the dmsguild docs on those places give a little update to Thesk, it's nice to see it all collected in one spot here. Perhaps the biggest influence I took from Thesk was to add a small Shou Town into my updated Uthmere, and a bit of stuff about the Nine Golden Swords trying to expand into Uthmere and kick out the Shadowmasters.

No, Wizards are not like Harry Potter. Sorcerers are. Wizards in D&D learn how to manipulate the Weave. They only need to be smart. Wizards are like mathematians. Being gifted helps, but its 99% hard work.

I’m not sure how this works… but there too many adverts in this video. I love your stuff but the adverts are frustrating.

3:56 this is interesting - in 5e at least you can't banish a creature from Sigil to another plane, they are treated as if they were on their home plane already by the spell. Was this different in 2e? I thought the "you can only get into/out of Sigil via a portal" was there from the start?

I have no idea why this channel doesn't have more subscribers, you're doing an excellent job putting together lore from different sources, finding great visuals and you are easy to listen to.

19:40 "Common the language" Somewhat related, i just discovered that "Lingua Franka" (language of the franks) is not about france but an italian pidgin/merchant language which is also know under the name of Sabir

14:20 as a half szekely (hungarian subgroup) born in Szekelyland,Romania; i never heard that word, maybe a different dialect/ accent/ regionalism but i doubt that. (Edit) But i love the fact that it translated to "you know" like that fake story of how the kangoroo was named: "-Who are those nomads -oh those, those are ...(akward pass) tuigan (you know)."

No joke, this is my favorite Forgotten Realms lore channel on UA-cam. Awesome work, keep it up and looking forward to seeing the rest of Faerun (and maybe even the Utter East!).

Man. You're killing me 😂 I've listened to all your videos several times over. Sortof my go-to when doing household chores. I suppose we all need to eat our lore-veggies now and then, but this video is definitely a piece of broccoli.

Your videos are amazing and filled with so much lore and knowledge. I can't imagine how much and effort you put into researching all this.

does shaundakul exist in 5e? i also remember when krash (george krashos) was just a dude on the FR mailing list.

Chunky lore video... Nice :)

They have stopped putting lore in books because ppl stopped reading ...

Yay

Great to see another video, this looks like a lot of work, thanks!

This is amazing! I definitely needed this for my research of the Unapproachable East (as well as Faerûn in general).

The time stamps in the description are for the broad categories, but if you want more precise time stamps, here you go: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Golden Way 2:29 Geography 2:53 Thesk Mountains 5:45 Ashanath 7:21 Dragonjaw Mountains 9:34 History 9:35 Pre-Thesk 10:30 Origin of Thesk 14:01 Tuigan Horde 15:11 People of Thesk 15:11 Races and Cultures 18:27 Language 20:26 Architecture and Fashion 22:55 Life and Society 24:07 Economy 24:44 Law & Order 25:10 Defense & Warcraft 26:25 Religion 26:52 Adventurers 27:09 Government 30:42 Enemies 30:50 Shadowmasters 33:35 Thay 34:29 Settlements 35:02 Milvarune 35:43 Nyth 36:39 Phent 37:13 Phsant 38:28 Tammar 38:55 Telflamm 43:55 Two Stars 45:56 Other Cities 48:09 Outside the Cities 48:38 Outro

Bro can't decide what capital to rule from

I found it rather odd that distaff members of the Nine Hells suffered the most during the transition from edition to edition, with Bensozia, Cozbi, Naome and Malagarde being written out.

Such a useful video, dude. I concluded my previous campaign with an Avatar of Tiamat, upon defeat, yeeting half of the party into one of the hells (determined by a dice roll). They rolled a seven! So this is where the other half of the party have to go to rescue them!

What a wonderful layer.

I wish there was more info on shars followers i find the idea of them fascinating wish we had a clearer in of there ranking structure and how dark justiciers work.

Thank you so much! I’ve been looking everywhere for videos that provide good info on Thay! I’m going to be running a campaign that will come to heavily involve Thay, so this resource is very valued and appreciated!

One correction: Nylessia is the Factol of the Mercykillers like Aryl Swansong is the second in comand. You confused them with the Harmonium in the story.

githzerai seem to be cool with this faction as they can also create stuff out of planar energy and mind power

the pillar of skulls is a good place to find info about many obscure things. it is one of the main reasons for adventurers and scholars to come to Avernus

Oinos (I-n-o-s, οίνος) means wine in greek so this is so funny to me. Wine demon 😅

The torturing of the souls is punishment for their sins in life, as agreed upon in the pact primeval. Lawful does not mean "good". Lawful means they follow a set of rules, and are orderly, but will use loop holes to play the system.

Stranger things is an insult. They need to make their own shvt not ripoff everything from my entire upbringing. Demogorgon isn't for a bunch of stupid ass little kids pretending they have powers. Worse they made Demogorgon into some pansy little trash mobs. Please...as a licensed DM and 16 year employee at TSR..... don't ever give that trash ripoff show credit for stealing from dungeons and dragons. They didn't even pilfer correctly. They deserve zero credit.

Not Kiarannslee!😭 Kiaran-sah-lee = Kiaransalee Great video!

9:15 I've always heard "neh-ROOL," but I can't vouch for it beyond that.

Finally some one talks about this place. There’s something fascinating about Pluton being the very bottom of the multiverse. The antipode of Amoria of Elysium.

I love that you talked about all of the comamnders of asmo.

Wow. As a Greek I feel very proud and honored that my culture has influenced so much this game!

Another banger

Hades is horrifying. It seems like the worst place imaginable. One thing I don't understand is how do you not want to go to a place? Do you fake a destination, maybe pretend you're going to a 7/11, and that will take you to the place you really wanted to go? I very much enjoyed this.

Why are these Yugoloths you keep speaking of? You mean the Daemons.

Pluton, the dead bottom end of the Realms. The final despair and home of loss and evil.

Woooooo!

Don't know if it's an unpopular opinion or not but I dislike having real world pantheons in D&D. Toril is not supposed to be Earth. Just sticking in historical deities with basically no alterations feels very uninspired. It makes the setting seem less like its own unique universe with its own history, cosmology, and lore.

Funny thing about Cegilune; she is both a Godess and a Night Hag, and noone really knows her origin. My theory is that she IS Hecate, but uses this disguise for her scheming and more foul Hag rituals. Cegilune is a lunar godess too, after all. Two gods with very similar portfolio's on one plane? Seems suspicious. Also, Night Hags are very much favored by Devils, as one had an Archduchess title even, before nepotism claimed her. So Hecate having realms in the Hells would fit a secret Night Hag God-Queen. Personally, I like to see Hecate/Cegilune as the Neutral Evil Magic Godess counterpart to Mystra's Neutral Good, and even have a headcannon where the shard of Celune that struc Shar and created Mystra, also created Hecate within the shadow of this new Godess. Shar and Selune draw inspiration from Nyx and Selene, the Godesses of the Night and Moon respectively from the Greek Pantheon. I could go on about this deep, interconnected rabid-hole born from decades of writing, edition changes/overhauls to the lore and straight up plotholes, but when it comes to Cegilune, this is pretty much all I have landed on. There is supossedly also a link between Cegilune and the Queen of Air and Darkness, but I am not done with that puzzle yet-

Great video! Can't wait to see which plane you do next, looking forward to learning about Carceri and Arborea. Would also be interested in some of the changing lore on Dragons in DnD!

great video, thx for the investigation!

They have completely ruined dnd turned into some sort of slapstick comedy thing

I hear this as Nippleheim.

The concept of law written in common tickles me in the most pessimistic way 😋

Love your videos, would be cool to see an entry on Zuggtomy !