Having spent so much time in libraries, Candlekeep is very close to me. Do you have similar aspects of your lives that you've pulled into your games or campaigns as I've done?
When my wizard Zaganna was in a bit more of a chaotic mood, she decided she really wanted a way to sneak into Candlekeep. To bypass the 'no magical travel, only entry through the front door' part of the door she donated an illustrated collection of children's books with pictures of many different locations in the realms, including one of Candlekeep. She had enchanted it so that when she touches her copy and says the command word, it opens the doors on the linked book and allows a tiny illustrated version of herself to travel from book to book
Another way to go about Candlekeep could be to simply not bother with mapping it. A place large enough and convoluted enough, especially with hidden doors, and possibly shifting mechanisms and magic, could simply be treated as impossible to understand or navigate for an outsider. I'm sure we've all at some point been in a space so large and convoluted that we simply had no idea where we were, and would struggle even to retrace our steps. The two areas like this that come to mind for me are universities and a mall I went to once in a major city that was a couple million square feet with literal hundreds of stores.
I didn't know Ed was a Librarian! Fellow Information professional here, but on the Archives side. Major props. It's crazy sad that so many states in the US are defending and gutting public libraries.
Due to all of the moral panic, I might add. Libraries in general have had to adapt to the digital landscape since the early 00s but are also at least in part responsible for the Digital library model and database repository in general.
Candlekeep has a special place in my heart. My first character was a cleric of Azuth. He was in search of a root magical language that could replace material and somatic components. He got into Candlekeep by allowing the library to make a copy of his notes on the subject.
I knew i couldn't be the only one thinking: there should exist a language of mágic to make spells More Easy/fast/powerfull. I call it barroqui (for the barroco art, remanesent of the los Time with greater mágic). Pd: english Is my second language if i Made a mistake.
Ah Candlekeep... The library I would love to have :) Definately could use at least a bigger room for all of my books hahah. Thank you for your work Mr. Greenwood and I have to thank my dad for introducing me to all of this.
candlekeep is actually the location i’m most familiar with, and i’ve had the opportunity to run multiple campaigns and one shots there and i’ve always had a blast there
My adventurers are about to hear in there. Last session, we ended at the town of Beregost. They're in search of a tome that has the cure one of our players needs. Our wizard was heavily mutated by a sibriex, and even though most mutations were healed, the final one, her missing voice box, hasn't been healed. They know that this place has a tome than can help, and are on their way to find it.
I guess I speak for everyone who played Baldur's Gate when I say Candlekeep feels like our cosy home. Thanks for sharing a bit of its secrets Ed. I would really like to know how much impact the Bhaalspawn had in Candlekeep, since it was his place of origin. How much important was it in the history of Candlekeep? The most important event ever? Maybe top 5? Maybe it was not relevant at all?
For the Avowed of Candlekeep, that topic is one of those "things we don't talk about." Though they will discuss it if pressed/there's a good reason. Their customary silence about it means they're excluding it from important events in their history, as much as possible.
Ive first heard of candlekeep through Neverwinter Nights 2 - it had a prestige class called Scholar of Candlekeep that specialized in making metamagic cheaper. Since then I was always fascinated by the concept of a grand library that contains the greatest of hoarded knowledge, to the point just spending some time there would fuel numerous magical breakthroughs
Candlekeep is one of my favorite locations in all of the Forgotten Realms. It is the proof that not all challenges should be or can be solved with the sword. A keen intellect, diligent research, and patient wisdom are of eternal value. It is also exciting to think that in order to gain entry into Candlekeep, the players themselves are literally adding to its lore with whatever written works they submit for the price of admission. Finally, what a wonderful and exciting gift from Ed Greenwood in his sharing of some hitherto unknown secrets of Candlekeep. What the reveal of these secrets portends for future adventures involving the greatest library in the Forgotten Realms is mysterious and exciting!
A used book store in Detroit is about 50 feet wide, 150 feet long, 4 stories high and boasts 1 million books. The Library of Congress has something like 51 million books. So how many books are in Candlekeep? How many books are in the library of Silverymoon?
I bet the endless chant gets really annoying when the monks get down to Alaundo's last prophecy which hasn't come true yet. I can just imagine monks marching around repeating something like "Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine...Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine...Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine..." Then one day Ulraunt loses it and launches a fireball at the chanters from a library window.
That's a longterm one. As in, I have to check so much lore (the brilliant and nice Bruce Cordell, now at Monte Cook Games, brought us the Far Realms and all of its delights...).
Keep these coming plz!!!!! Maybe he can talk about hellgate keep or mulmaster or any locations on the moon sea would be cool. Please do an extended one on undermountain and Halaster!
The timing on this video is perfect, to a spooky degree, I daresay: I've a PC in one of my games who has a book she cannot for the life of her write into, because it refuses to be written into, and where else should she decide to turn to for guidance? I think we might decide that it might be connected somehow to this book that writes itself, eh?
I am presently playing a far-traveler warforged illusionary wizard in candle keep. I am researching in these strange far away lands why I having visions of Tempest Satyrs casting Shocking Grasp.
Usually, as both player or GM, researching as a PC Magic User or including a wizard/cleric spell that copied books and mundane scrolls verbatim was something I always did. It just seemed like it would be a fundamental spell for a fantasy world. Wouldn't duplicate magical tomes or scrolls of course and it didn't translate anything, just a photocopy spell basically. Material component was ink, quill, and enough "paper" (my own world was mostly using papyrus and vellum scroll "books", like a Torah, still)
The Forgotten Realms are as rich as Middle Earth. I've played in so many campaigns that were set there. I am starting a new campaign this summer and there was no question about where we were going to set it. We're using 5e DnD but still using the original FR boxed set for reference. That boxed set is a thing of beauty, and we are very grateful for these videos because they make our FR experience even richer.
I'd love more lore on the religions in general but especially Sune, though I fear that will mess with my headcanon on the subject XD. There's so much to this world that I love, thank you so much for these videos. I also always wanted to know what the systems are that they usually use for school for spellcasters. Is it mostly just wizards taking on apprentices, or are there schools or guilds that focus on bringing people in with talent and teaching them? If I had to pick one city from Faerun to learn magic in, what would be the best? You know- or top 3 cities/towns XD
I have a video coming up on the nitty-gritty of learning spells. The best city to learn magic in right now would be Silverymoon. So many good resident tutors, accomplished mages who aren't megalomaniacs.
I remember playing the original Baldur's Gate like 24 or 23 years ago. I found the "Tome of Leadership and Influence" at the Gnoll Stronghold and thought: "Cool, with that in my inventory they sure let me back into Candlekeep!" Well, they didn't... 😅 Love all the Forgotten Realms lore and wish I could visit the Candlekeep Library in real life.
@@jugro7639 well sure but there are some items you might want two copies of. Considering the book in question is a very powerful and rare magical item that can magically improve the charismatic capabilities of a person as they read through it. This is the kind of book they'd likely want more copies of if they exist.
since the novels are considered lore by what you noted on a previous video. Candlekeep no longer has wards during the time of the Herald book, thanks to El being duped by a certain Litch :)
Wouldn't it be an absolute pain to keep all of the books & scrolls from being ruined by the humidity since it is built right on the sea (with the sea mists mentioned in the video), or is it magically protected? ;)
A question for Ed: How much of a role has Robert W Chambers and his work around the King In Yellow had on your work? My mind goes to Lolth and her taking over and absorbing other worlds of existence into her Demonweb Pits.
Very little, BUT I have enjoyed both the take on him that Robin Laws has done (for Pelgrane) AND a great new D&D adventure by Alex Kammer, entitled THE END OF EVERYTHING, which is going to Kickstart soon (from Frog God Games). I think it's a new "classic" adventure everyone should read or play. Don't miss it! (And if you want an entire creepy campaign around the King In Yellow, look at Robin's work: it is superb!)
I'm an optimist, plus, I love libraries! And I'm not just saying that through my familiarity of Candlekeep through the first Baldur's Gate game, I actually visit libraries! ;)
For everyone, the entrance fee is only for their first visit. For clergy of Oghma and Deneir, they write up their own dream-visions sent by the god, as a chapbook, and that "counts" and lets them in.
@@edgreenwoodofficial 😁 I - and all us fans - appreciate it! A friend of mine was actually wondering what dwarven gestation is like & how long it is, if you don't mind the digression from Candlekeep?
Hey Ed, speaking of liches, I've always wondered who would win in a fight between Larloch and Halaster? And who would you rank higher in terms of knowledge and ingenuity?
My only prior experience of Candlekeep was when I grew up there and eventually left Candlekeep only to have my adopted dad die immediately and then they slammed their doors in my face because I didn't have a new book for them.
Master Greewood, I have a question regarding the teachings of Oghma, the Father of All Knowledge. What would Oghma interpret when a Paladin, who is his chosen one, destroys a Phylactery of a Lich that is a Grimoire of spells and knowledge? The Dogmas of Oghma state that all knowledge must be preserved at all costs, right?
Right. That would be a penance-quest for the Paladin at the least, and a quest to replace as much of the lost tome as possible from other sources, if any exist.
@@edgreenwoodofficial Even if the paladin is a Lawfull Good guy? They are not bound by their alignment, but by their love for the knowledge. Oghma is a Neutral deity, the paladin insn't. Futhermore, isn't the duty of the Wise God be the judge of ideas and innovations, choosing which would be remembered and forgotten? So, wouldn't it be the duty of the paladin, chosen by God, to act as his right hand and execute judgment? Wouldn't the difficult and painful decision to destroy the book be punishment enough for a lover of knowledge?
Whenever one speaks of divine "duty" one is on dangerous ground: the perilous footing of presuming to understand a deity, and their reasoning, and even to debate with me, a mere recorder, of what a deity is, and should do, and will do. Thinking they understand gods is how mortals get burned. Truly, you are bold!@@waysouwagner
They briefly touched on Spirit Soaring in this video, which replaced the Edificant Library, but then it was wrecked by the Ghost King in the earliest events of the Spellplague. So really, unless there's a surviving temple to Thoth somewhere in Mulhorand, Candlekeep is practically peerless in the (known) Prime Material Plane.
If I am allowed to be self indulgent, my most powerful character ever was my level 17 Evoker from Halruua. Nathicana Zorathyr "The Evocatrix" who could lay waste to armies if necessary, but as a lawful good devotee of Mystra, cast as few spells as possible during an adventure.
One of the questions i got for you ED, has to do with...how D&D is portrait as a story line and history versus how it actually is in games. For example ... how can sarevok disguise himself and go in candlekeep in the game with tons of dopplegangers... how was he not clensed of concealing spells...how can such an evil being surrounded by evil beings in the places that holds so much knowledge on all these things? Secondly, was it always meant that the novels and story telling of the realms be more fantastic and layback then what would actually happen in the real world of the game or world? The reason I ask this, is because I don't find that it makes a lot of sense how dungeons master portrait let say Vecna....as a level 20-30 lich that does 1 thing at a time and gets defeated by a party that is joking around a table and goofing off. I find most DM's or even in novels, to over simplify these extremely intelligent beings that if any adventurer would approach would be obliterated in 5 seconds or sent into this pocket dimension. Perhaps held in status or trigger traps that would unleash hell...or just have vecna use simulacrum and teleport elsewhere. I find that most DM's or even some story tellers just want to create these grand story and narratives so that the realms evolves....but to be honest, why would beings like ZASTAM or Vecna...beings of extremely old age and high intelligence want to risk it all. They didn't live for hundreds of years by confronting everyone or just casting 1 spell at a time versus a 5 or 6 man party. In my mind its totally unconceavable to have anyone challenge Vecna...he should have 50 contingency spells and spell triggers...etc...
So much has been said there though. Honestly I haven't even gotten through all the old books on the place and the 5e book does a good job of referencing and building on those things as well. Lots of media for undermountain and waterdeep, but you are correct that what IS written leaves much more unsaid.
@@edgreenwoodofficial I’ve once read a short post of yours on Twitter I believe in which you briefly described the city guard commanders for each ward. They were brief condensed descriptions but I found them so insightful and so powerful on a narrative level that just opened a world to me. That’s the Realms magic, that’s your wise craftsmanship magic. I’d love to see a sequitur on that.
Question: i dont get if a dragon with taste for having this as its lair and deny anyone else access - what in place would be able to stop that from happening?
Will we get any new dnd 5e update on region of faerun that is not sword Coast? Like far east, shining south, utter east, hordeland and beautiful east (Ra-Khati, samphar, murghum, Khazari) and so on that we can buy in future... Any new source material that is not sword Coast would be wonderful.
"The libraries have left their stamp on me."
I remember when libraries stamped things. Ah, to use check-out cards to check out books ...
Having spent so much time in libraries, Candlekeep is very close to me. Do you have similar aspects of your lives that you've pulled into your games or campaigns as I've done?
Didn't had the opportunity to, but now I'll be thinking about it haha
Are there any libraries in the real world that could give a person the sense of feeling that candlekeep would?
Wanted to ask you, is there a place where I can find dwarf language?
@@Malvisk ever visited the Library of Congress in Washington DC?
If Ed was my librarian as a kid, I’d probably be a wizard by now.
When my wizard Zaganna was in a bit more of a chaotic mood, she decided she really wanted a way to sneak into Candlekeep. To bypass the 'no magical travel, only entry through the front door' part of the door she donated an illustrated collection of children's books with pictures of many different locations in the realms, including one of Candlekeep. She had enchanted it so that when she touches her copy and says the command word, it opens the doors on the linked book and allows a tiny illustrated version of herself to travel from book to book
I’ve always loved this location, and always feel happy whenever I’m reading an FR novel and the story takes our heroes to Candlekeep.
I'm so glad you connect with it!
Another way to go about Candlekeep could be to simply not bother with mapping it.
A place large enough and convoluted enough, especially with hidden doors, and possibly shifting mechanisms and magic, could simply be treated as impossible to understand or navigate for an outsider.
I'm sure we've all at some point been in a space so large and convoluted that we simply had no idea where we were, and would struggle even to retrace our steps. The two areas like this that come to mind for me are universities and a mall I went to once in a major city that was a couple million square feet with literal hundreds of stores.
I didn't know Ed was a Librarian! Fellow Information professional here, but on the Archives side. Major props. It's crazy sad that so many states in the US are defending and gutting public libraries.
Due to all of the moral panic, I might add. Libraries in general have had to adapt to the digital landscape since the early 00s but are also at least in part responsible for the Digital library model and database repository in general.
Candlekeep has a special place in my heart. My first character was a cleric of Azuth. He was in search of a root magical language that could replace material and somatic components. He got into Candlekeep by allowing the library to make a copy of his notes on the subject.
That it awesome
I knew i couldn't be the only one thinking: there should exist a language of mágic to make spells More Easy/fast/powerfull.
I call it barroqui (for the barroco art, remanesent of the los Time with greater mágic).
Pd: english Is my second language if i Made a mistake.
Ah Candlekeep... The library I would love to have :) Definately could use at least a bigger room for all of my books hahah. Thank you for your work Mr. Greenwood and I have to thank my dad for introducing me to all of this.
candlekeep is actually the location i’m most familiar with, and i’ve had the opportunity to run multiple campaigns and one shots there and i’ve always had a blast there
My adventurers are about to hear in there. Last session, we ended at the town of Beregost. They're in search of a tome that has the cure one of our players needs. Our wizard was heavily mutated by a sibriex, and even though most mutations were healed, the final one, her missing voice box, hasn't been healed. They know that this place has a tome than can help, and are on their way to find it.
A fellow librarian, his love shows through with candlekeep
I guess I speak for everyone who played Baldur's Gate when I say Candlekeep feels like our cosy home. Thanks for sharing a bit of its secrets Ed. I would really like to know how much impact the Bhaalspawn had in Candlekeep, since it was his place of origin. How much important was it in the history of Candlekeep? The most important event ever? Maybe top 5? Maybe it was not relevant at all?
For the Avowed of Candlekeep, that topic is one of those "things we don't talk about." Though they will discuss it if pressed/there's a good reason. Their customary silence about it means they're excluding it from important events in their history, as much as possible.
@@edgreenwoodofficial Thanks for the clarification Ed! I always wondered about it since I was a kid. God bless you my friend
The way Ed is able to be so detailed in his descriptions of his settings has always made me REALLY want to play a D&D campaign with him as DM.
The lore and knowledge you folks present for us Realms-people is fantastic. Appreciate you sirs, and all the info you share!
I am running a game in Candlekeep later today. It is fortuitous that this video was released. Thank you for all the great videos, Mr. Greenwood.
Ive first heard of candlekeep through Neverwinter Nights 2 - it had a prestige class called Scholar of Candlekeep that specialized in making metamagic cheaper.
Since then I was always fascinated by the concept of a grand library that contains the greatest of hoarded knowledge, to the point just spending some time there would fuel numerous magical breakthroughs
The endless chants were my absolute favorite thing about my attempted playthru of Baldur's Gate. I LOVE YOU ED!
I've never heard Qilue's name pronounced this way but it makes much more sense now. Thank you!
Candlekeep is one of my favorite locations in all of the Forgotten Realms. It is the proof that not all challenges should be or can be solved with the sword. A keen intellect, diligent research, and patient wisdom are of eternal value.
It is also exciting to think that in order to gain entry into Candlekeep, the players themselves are literally adding to its lore with whatever written works they submit for the price of admission.
Finally, what a wonderful and exciting gift from Ed Greenwood in his sharing of some hitherto unknown secrets of Candlekeep. What the reveal of these secrets portends for future adventures involving the greatest library in the Forgotten Realms is mysterious and exciting!
Thank you! I'm loving doing these videos! It gives me an outlet to talk about things that never made it to print.
I've loved Candlekeep ever since I played Baldur's Gate when I was young. Great interview, thank you for sharing!
HOLY COW those are some juicy secrets THANK YOU ❤I was planing to have candlekeep have a role in my campaign, now i have to 😁
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! I could go on about Candlekeep all day. ;}
I love Candlekeep, one of my favorite locations even when I first came across it back with 3.5 Forgotten Realms!
Mr. Greenwood, you sir are very much appreciated for sharing your magical world with the rest of us.
Stay well
thank you for loving so much the world you created ed
A used book store in Detroit is about 50 feet wide, 150 feet long, 4 stories high and boasts 1 million books. The Library of Congress has something like 51 million books. So how many books are in Candlekeep? How many books are in the library of Silverymoon?
That bookstore is awesome. :-)
"Does that mean Vecna is back in the Realms?!"
"It would appear so, wouldn't it?!"
That is such a DM response, it's almost a cliche. 😆
I remember Candlekeep for a different reason. It was the tutorial area and one of the final areas of the first Baldurs Gate game on PC.
I bet the endless chant gets really annoying when the monks get down to Alaundo's last prophecy which hasn't come true yet. I can just imagine monks marching around repeating something like "Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine...Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine...Bane shall stub his big toe and there will be ten years of famine..."
Then one day Ulraunt loses it and launches a fireball at the chanters from a library window.
I loved the bit about keeping track of lore so people wouldn't rewrite history...
I'd like to request that Ed expound upon the subjects of the Far Realms and the Great Old Ones. Please and thank you.
That's a longterm one. As in, I have to check so much lore (the brilliant and nice Bruce Cordell, now at Monte Cook Games, brought us the Far Realms and all of its delights...).
Keep these coming plz!!!!! Maybe he can talk about hellgate keep or mulmaster or any locations on the moon sea would be cool. Please do an extended one on undermountain and Halaster!
This is the best D&D/FR channel on YT at the moment, btw. Thanks :)
The timing on this video is perfect, to a spooky degree, I daresay: I've a PC in one of my games who has a book she cannot for the life of her write into, because it refuses to be written into, and where else should she decide to turn to for guidance? I think we might decide that it might be connected somehow to this book that writes itself, eh?
I am presently playing a far-traveler warforged illusionary wizard in candle keep. I am researching in these strange far away lands why I having visions of Tempest Satyrs casting Shocking Grasp.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 😂
Usually, as both player or GM, researching as a PC Magic User or including a wizard/cleric spell that copied books and mundane scrolls verbatim was something I always did. It just seemed like it would be a fundamental spell for a fantasy world. Wouldn't duplicate magical tomes or scrolls of course and it didn't translate anything, just a photocopy spell basically. Material component was ink, quill, and enough "paper" (my own world was mostly using papyrus and vellum scroll "books", like a Torah, still)
The Forgotten Realms are as rich as Middle Earth. I've played in so many campaigns that were set there. I am starting a new campaign this summer and there was no question about where we were going to set it. We're using 5e DnD but still using the original FR boxed set for reference. That boxed set is a thing of beauty, and we are very grateful for these videos because they make our FR experience even richer.
I'd love more lore on the religions in general but especially Sune, though I fear that will mess with my headcanon on the subject XD. There's so much to this world that I love, thank you so much for these videos. I also always wanted to know what the systems are that they usually use for school for spellcasters. Is it mostly just wizards taking on apprentices, or are there schools or guilds that focus on bringing people in with talent and teaching them? If I had to pick one city from Faerun to learn magic in, what would be the best? You know- or top 3 cities/towns XD
I have a video coming up on the nitty-gritty of learning spells. The best city to learn magic in right now would be Silverymoon. So many good resident tutors, accomplished mages who aren't megalomaniacs.
I envision Candlekeep as the monastery and library from Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose.
One of my games’ party is currently in Baldur’s Gate and I’m trying to
Encourage them to Candlekeep.
I remember playing the original Baldur's Gate like 24 or 23 years ago. I found the "Tome of Leadership and Influence" at the Gnoll Stronghold and thought: "Cool, with that in my inventory they sure let me back into Candlekeep!" Well, they didn't... 😅
Love all the Forgotten Realms lore and wish I could visit the Candlekeep Library in real life.
If you brought that they'd probably let you see a few of the more closed off areas in reality.
@@ApocRNG Maybe. Or they already have a copy.
@@jugro7639 well sure but there are some items you might want two copies of. Considering the book in question is a very powerful and rare magical item that can magically improve the charismatic capabilities of a person as they read through it.
This is the kind of book they'd likely want more copies of if they exist.
@@ApocRNG True. Especially because it disappears when it is read. 😅
so cool! as a oghma devotee i think we all lore nerds love to know more about this place
since the novels are considered lore by what you noted on a previous video. Candlekeep no longer has wards during the time of the Herald book, thanks to El being duped by a certain Litch :)
Yeah! I was thinking this too. The weavemaster stuff is really cool
Me and my friends love candle keep it's home to some of our best companions and allies our lvl 20+ characters still really on them
Wouldn't it be an absolute pain to keep all of the books & scrolls from being ruined by the humidity since it is built right on the sea (with the sea mists mentioned in the video), or is it magically protected? ;)
thats why we have acolytes, spirit servants, etc.
Gnomish de-humidfiers work great!
I have to restrain myself from automatically liking every post Ed is involved in, but so far no regrets either way.
A question for Ed:
How much of a role has Robert W Chambers and his work around the King In Yellow had on your work?
My mind goes to Lolth and her taking over and absorbing other worlds of existence into her Demonweb Pits.
Very little, BUT I have enjoyed both the take on him that Robin Laws has done (for Pelgrane) AND a great new D&D adventure by Alex Kammer, entitled THE END OF EVERYTHING, which is going to Kickstart soon (from Frog God Games). I think it's a new "classic" adventure everyone should read or play. Don't miss it! (And if you want an entire creepy campaign around the King In Yellow, look at Robin's work: it is superb!)
You guys should definitely have a discussion with Mr. Greenwood and AJ Pickett.
Love from Australia Ed! 🐉🪄⚔️🍻🔥
So cool Ed! Thanks
I don't know what will happen next, but D&D has a bright future, I feel it
If Hasbro doesn't screw it up
Yeah, there almost wasn't a Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition 10 years ago because of them.
I'm glad you think so! :}
I'm an optimist, plus, I love libraries! And I'm not just saying that through my familiarity of Candlekeep through the first Baldur's Gate game, I actually visit libraries! ;)
Love the Vids keep it up.
I'm so curious about if other servants (clerics/paladins/monks) of Oghma and Deneir still owe the entrance fee (I imagine the answer is yes)...
For everyone, the entrance fee is only for their first visit. For clergy of Oghma and Deneir, they write up their own dream-visions sent by the god, as a chapbook, and that "counts" and lets them in.
@@edgreenwoodofficial thank you so much for replying!
@@SoakedNDnotSorry My pleasure! Always happy to talk Realms if I see a lore query! Realms forever!
@@edgreenwoodofficial 😁 I - and all us fans - appreciate it! A friend of mine was actually wondering what dwarven gestation is like & how long it is, if you don't mind the digression from Candlekeep?
All Love for the Creator of the Realms! Are you sure you’re not an avatar of Oghma Ed? 🍻🔥
Hey Ed, speaking of liches, I've always wondered who would win in a fight between Larloch and Halaster? And who would you rank higher in terms of knowledge and ingenuity?
Mr Greenwood...is the location of Larlochs "phylactery" recorded in Candlekeep as well?
No. Larloch's been very careful about that.
Im curious what the limitations of the knowledge in Candlekeep are, especially in regards to the multiverse or the gods.
Beautiful content, as always
This was awesome, thanks for the awesome lore and for creating my favorite campaign setting. =^_^=
Hi Ed, there are other libraries. Several in Amn, and a remote one east of that area. Can you tell us about them. Thank you.
My only prior experience of Candlekeep was when I grew up there and eventually left Candlekeep only to have my adopted dad die immediately and then they slammed their doors in my face because I didn't have a new book for them.
Master Greewood, I have a question regarding the teachings of Oghma, the Father of All Knowledge.
What would Oghma interpret when a Paladin, who is his chosen one, destroys a Phylactery of a Lich that is a Grimoire of spells and knowledge?
The Dogmas of Oghma state that all knowledge must be preserved at all costs, right?
Right. That would be a penance-quest for the Paladin at the least, and a quest to replace as much of the lost tome as possible from other sources, if any exist.
I think then a certain paladin of Oghma might lose his powers. hahahaha
Thank you very much Master @edgreenwoodofficial
@@edgreenwoodofficial Even if the paladin is a Lawfull Good guy? They are not bound by their alignment, but by their love for the knowledge. Oghma is a Neutral deity, the paladin insn't.
Futhermore, isn't the duty of the Wise God be the judge of ideas and innovations, choosing which would be remembered and forgotten? So, wouldn't it be the duty of the paladin, chosen by God, to act as his right hand and execute judgment?
Wouldn't the difficult and painful decision to destroy the book be punishment enough for a lover of knowledge?
Whenever one speaks of divine "duty" one is on dangerous ground: the perilous footing of presuming to understand a deity, and their reasoning, and even to debate with me, a mere recorder, of what a deity is, and should do, and will do. Thinking they understand gods is how mortals get burned. Truly, you are bold!@@waysouwagner
I don't really do anything without motive so I write that into every character I make. They all have a specific reason for being a adventurer.
I really love Ed's humility and sense of humor. Wish he could be injected with a bit of Elvish blood and live forever. :)
How does The Master's Library in Impiltur compare to Candlekeep?
I think the eddificant library by r.a. Salvatore is good too. 😊
They briefly touched on Spirit Soaring in this video, which replaced the Edificant Library, but then it was wrecked by the Ghost King in the earliest events of the Spellplague. So really, unless there's a surviving temple to Thoth somewhere in Mulhorand, Candlekeep is practically peerless in the (known) Prime Material Plane.
@@cleothemuse As long as you're talking about the surface world, yes. Gravenhollow would be its only peer as far as I know.
@@cleothemuse so after the cleric quintet? Guess I need to catch up.
DRAESRUM sounds a bit like „Dreh es rum“ in German 🤔 „turn it around“. That actually makes sense in a way. Undead is life turned on it’s head😅
Halruua must have some libraries but I imagine they're smaller and more specialized.
If I am allowed to be self indulgent, my most powerful character ever was my level 17 Evoker from Halruua. Nathicana Zorathyr "The Evocatrix" who could lay waste to armies if necessary, but as a lawful good devotee of Mystra, cast as few spells as possible during an adventure.
Because tampering with the weave is a privilege and also dangerous
I love how Gandalfs Brother is interested in fantasy instead of hobbits.
Loved this video and Ed's Secrets of locations. Thanks for sharing all these Secrets with us mere mortals. =o)
One of the questions i got for you ED, has to do with...how D&D is portrait as a story line and history versus how it actually is in games. For example ... how can sarevok disguise himself and go in candlekeep in the game with tons of dopplegangers... how was he not clensed of concealing spells...how can such an evil being surrounded by evil beings in the places that holds so much knowledge on all these things? Secondly, was it always meant that the novels and story telling of the realms be more fantastic and layback then what would actually happen in the real world of the game or world?
The reason I ask this, is because I don't find that it makes a lot of sense how dungeons master portrait let say Vecna....as a level 20-30 lich that does 1 thing at a time and gets defeated by a party that is joking around a table and goofing off. I find most DM's or even in novels, to over simplify these extremely intelligent beings that if any adventurer would approach would be obliterated in 5 seconds or sent into this pocket dimension. Perhaps held in status or trigger traps that would unleash hell...or just have vecna use simulacrum and teleport elsewhere.
I find that most DM's or even some story tellers just want to create these grand story and narratives so that the realms evolves....but to be honest, why would beings like ZASTAM or Vecna...beings of extremely old age and high intelligence want to risk it all. They didn't live for hundreds of years by confronting everyone or just casting 1 spell at a time versus a 5 or 6 man party. In my mind its totally unconceavable to have anyone challenge Vecna...he should have 50 contingency spells and spell triggers...etc...
What about the Spirit Soaring library. ? Where did it rank before the spellplague ?
How about a true in depth of water deep/under mountain
So much has been said there though. Honestly I haven't even gotten through all the old books on the place and the 5e book does a good job of referencing and building on those things as well. Lots of media for undermountain and waterdeep, but you are correct that what IS written leaves much more unsaid.
One of my dreams is to do comprehensive Volo's Guides to all of the Wards!
@@edgreenwoodofficial I’ve once read a short post of yours on Twitter I believe in which you briefly described the city guard commanders for each ward. They were brief condensed descriptions but I found them so insightful and so powerful on a narrative level that just opened a world to me. That’s the Realms magic, that’s your wise craftsmanship magic. I’d love to see a sequitur on that.
No offense but as far as I am concerned, 3rd edition is where I draw the line. After that wizards of the coast broke the game.
Is do you require a to enter Candle Keep required every entry?
No. Once you've "paid" with a new tome, you can enter at a later time freely. The Avowed know who's "paid."
Question: i dont get if a dragon with taste for having this as its lair and deny anyone else access - what in place would be able to stop that from happening?
also its your game, canon is what you do
Sounds great... as long as I don't have to fight a giant owl! 🦉 😂
Will we get any new dnd 5e update on region of faerun that is not sword Coast?
Like far east, shining south, utter east, hordeland and beautiful east (Ra-Khati, samphar, murghum, Khazari) and so on that we can buy in future... Any new source material that is not sword Coast would be wonderful.
I'd love an entire adventure set in Thay. Maybe with Szass Tam as the BBEG?
@@theophrastusbombastus1359 far east is very interesting place (they, rashmen, algerond, thesk and the horde) adventure there must be deadly
An aspect of Oghma?
if you don't know Candlekeep you don't know Neverwinter Nights
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meh, they should leave the greyhawkians in Greyhawk.. thought Vecna was a deity anyway....
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So,how to get too lambo?...
Bad things will happen to Ed because he doesn't own the rights to Greyhawk.
You don't need to shorten pauses in editing on my account.
You have so many jump cuts
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i would love to see a Ravenqueen, Shar or Shadowfell video
I'll be sure it gets added to the list!