Talk:Thkaerth

Merge
I'm pretty sure "thkaerth" is a regional name name for surface rothé. See here from this Candlekeep forum post By Eric L. Boyd citing Ed. We can probably merge this information into that article. Ruf (talk) 18:04, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This is possibly correct, but I don't think it's possible to tell without seeing the context of the email. This term has not been used in any Realms or D&D material except from the novels by Troy Denning. This is the primary source, and doesn't require any clarification from an author. Ed's repsonse doesn't make any sense to me. He says the usage may have been passed from barbarians to elves when the animals were slaughtered and smoked, and then sold. However, the elves of Evereska are clearly quite familiar with the actual animals themselves (note that the elves talk about this explicitly). Troy says "a thkaerth is a very large, very woolly herd beast used by elves for both meat and wool". That's in clear contradiction to Ed's response, if the elves only used the products themselves. I'm leaving this article as it is for now, until we get actual, non-contradictory evidence. ~ Possessed Priest (talk) 18:11, 23 December 2021 (UTC)