Portals to the Abyss | DragonLance Saga
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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Imagine being a God that can’t actually enter the world you’re actively influencing. Until one day...
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about the Portals to the Abyss. I would like to take a moment and thank my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. I am pulling this information from the Legends trilogy in addition to the Towers of High Sorcery sourcebook, and the Dragonlance Wikipedia.
Discussion
The Portals of the Abyss, otherwise known as the Portals of Travel, the portals of Suffering or the Portal of the One God, was originally intended to be doorways between the five Towers of High Sorcery and other strongholds of Magic. Some unknown time in the earliest days of the orders, the conclave planned on their creation, and to allow them to remain open, permanently. If a Wizard didn't have to waste their own magic with a teleportation spell, it would serve all in the Orders a great deal of studying and time. Their construction and imbuement took decades, though the archmages focus was unrelenting.
Their focus was narrow, allowing travel between the towers, but the reach of the portals ended up breaking through space-time, into the other planes of existence. The White Robe archmage, Ombril Tucuri had overseen the construction of the portals, and was to be the first to activate and enter them. He activated the Portal at Istar, planning on traveling to the Lore-Spire in Palanthas instantly. However, when the portal opened and he stepped through, he gazed out at the red barren wastes of The Abyss instead! You see, when in construction, Takhisis noticed the probing into the Abyss, and rearranged the passages of netherspace so that all portals opened into her realm. Once Ombril opened the portal, and gazed into the Abyss, he immediately noticed the Dark Queen and closed the portal instantly, sealing himself inside.
The conclave were beside themselves due to their disastrous failure, and made plans to destroy every portal to protect Krynn from the Dark Queen. They traveled to the tower in Istar, but Takhisis’ power had taken hold and protected the portals, so they removed it to a location unknown and lost in time. The Daltigoth Portal was believed to be destroyed during the Lost Battles with the Istar Empire in 19 Prae Cataclius. The Losarcum Portal was believed to have been destroyed, but in 346 Alt Cataclius Tasslehoff Burfoot and his uncle Trapspringer Furrfoot entered a portal in The Ruins. The Wayreth Portal was present until 356 Alt Cataclius, but its current whereabouts is unknown. The Palanthas Portal was removed to Zhaman.
In their failure to destroy all of the portals, they took another approach. They imposed a restriction on the portals. A restriction so severe, it would ensure they could never be used again! Together, the archmages of the Conclave focused their magic to alter Ombril’s creations, requiring only the most powerful of Black Robe mage, paired with the willing, pure-hearted priest of a God of light. Secured in the belief that the portals would never be able to be opened again, they abandoned the portals to time.
My father once told me, after I lost a close friend in my youth, that time fixes everything. Well, in this particular case, time was all that was needed for the portals to be activated not once, but twice! The first time was with Fistandantilus the Dark. He sought to use the Kingpriest Belindas, but ended up finding a true-hearted priest in the monk Brother Denubis. Fistandantilus traveled to the Tower of Palanthus to use the portal there, but unknown to him, it was transferred during the Lost Battles to his old stomping grounds, Zhaman. They both traveled to Zhaman, opened the portal and perished in the blowback of conflicting magic.
Centuries later, yet at the same moment of time, Raistlin Majere traveled back in time, defeated and joined essences with Fistandantilus, and used the Reverend Daughter Crysania to travel to the tower in Palanthus, and then Zhaman...
Thank you for watching today's Dragonlance Setting video. Do you think there will ever be a Black Robe wizard strong enough to open the portals, and even more unlikely, a Priest of Good willing to help them? Leave a comment below!
Much to her dismay the portals to the abyss are a multiverse based conduit that occurs naturally through elemental force primordial...& at it's most powerful. Though she need not concern her...self for the most part second guessing occurs at all due to her having chosen evil instead of honor as a entity. Be it Takhisis, Tiamat or some unknown horror of feminine origin yet *her* it is.
It is to her dismay due to the likes of Lolth, Asmodeus, Tharizdun & each. Perhaps you can guess at why, what, when, where or how that is..
I always loved the anecdote about the portal in the palanthas tower of high sorcery where the only reason opened the doorway to the abyss was because a wizard wanted to get laid... after being seduced by the queen of darkness...
lol, I've not heard that before.
Me doing this is the exact reason I shouldn't be allowed to learn wizardry on Krynn
Fantastic. .
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Love these vids !!
Thank you for watching!
That incantation was incomplete you forgot the last two words that are most important and they are "Pea's and Carrots".
Doh! You're right!
So essentially it opens to Avernus ,1st layer of hell , tiamats realm ? Or is the abyss a krynn specific realm of the dark gods ? Planescape says otherwise .perhaps dalamar will be that mage ? I'm not too familiar with the war of the souls , only have the 1st book
In Dragonlance it's only referred to as The Abyss. It's where most of the evil gods dwell, though not all. I don't think they connected with Planescape, but I am admittedly ignorant about that setting.
@@DLSaga in the campaign books it clearly identifies krynns gods on specific planes instead of the dome of creation or abyss's . I guess to a deceased soul of krynn it would be just as the lore says gods are powerful after all ..just me being autistic lol
It does not open to Avernus. Hell and the Abyss are completely different places. Some settings, like Forgotten Realms actually have both Hell and the Abyss. But the distinction made there is that Hell is a primarily Lawful Evil plane, The Abyss is a Chaotic Evil plane.
It can be assumed that if Tiamat hadn't been imprisoned in Avernus, her dominian would actually have been in the Abyss like Takhisis and not hell; as Tiamat is primarily chaotic evil. (Though she is kind of both)
That said, since Dragonlance only has the Abyss as far as I'm aware, the Lawful VS Chaotic distinction may as well be irrelevant. That said, Hell and the Abyss are still different things, with different rules, and functions differently between settings.
@@orangexlightning interesting ,so you're not one for the d&d multiverse concept? What if tiamat took on takhisis ? Guess the dark queen being a greater god would make mince meat out of tiamat .dragonlance has been the subject of so many gaming disputes it's not funny on this subject.personally I'd think a god would be offended having an impersonator running around -js .one argument I hear is in tasslehoff descriptions and others of the abyss it's almost verbatim for the 1st layer of avernus , also demogorgon was consulted eluding to a multiverse .I appreciate your insight , I guess it breaks down to if one wants a truly unique universe of its own krynn or a multiverse then ?
@@cuckmckneelburg1st222 The multiverse has always been a thing. Dragonlance has even had crossovers with other settings. The fact of the matter is, it's both. There IS a multiverse, and Krynn is a part of it, but at the same time, the individual settings are still independent of one another, so the rules of one don't automatically apply to another one.
The rules of every world are different. Some things are different, others are not. I didn't have any reason to bring up the multiverse is all.
I love DL a lot and would love a series like this on it but the narration style is killing it. Talking to toddlers or babies .....
I’ll wait to see what they mean by that.
Raist
He's the man, man!
Lol. I see why you dont have more subs.
Educate me.