User talk:Lhynard

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Down-to-earth divinity
Hello Lhynard! About the article from Dragon magazine 54, that would really be interesting to know if it should be taken as Canon (at least when it does not contradict anything else). Please keep me up-to-date when there's any answer! There were some more things based on it added to the wiki, I guess we might have to revisit them. I did not check earlier and have only now realized how much earlier than the Forgotten Realms products that Dragon article was. Anyway, specifically for Nobanion, there's this other source that seems to call him Aslan, Polyhedron 115. Or is there any indication that that sentence in the article is mistaken? Daranios (talk) 19:13, 11 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello Lhynard! Any news on that front, given the continued work on Sneel and the corresponding new post about him? Daranios (talk) 13:26, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay! Some of us decided that, since it predates the publishing of the Realms and since the purpose of the article is to describe how DMs might create their own pantheons (as opposed to presenting lore), it should not be treated as canon. However, Ed has since then confirmed that the rat god indeed is within the canon Realms. ~ Lhynard (talk) 00:14, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * No problem, thanks for informing me. Good to know. Any objections to adding Aslan as an alias for Nobanion based on Polyhedron 115? I don't have access to that myself, but no reason to doubt what's currently in the article. Daranios (talk) 18:11, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * As much as I must admit that I hate that it does, the fact is that #115 does indeed say that, so yeah, you can add it with its source. ~ Lhynard (talk) 18:33, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Dragonwrought Kobolds/Urds
Hello, I'm not sure if you saw the message on my Talk page replying to you. I haven't figured out how notifications work on these wikis yet, but I'll drop it here just in case:


 * "Thank you for reaching out & welcoming me. I don't edit wikis much & will try to remember your advice. I left a response on the Talk:Dragonwrought kobold. BlackRamSage (talk) 16:02, 16 June 2021 (UTC)"

In that response I mention editing the Urd Page's cover-image. Other pages have tabs for specific editions, so the current image can be the 2e representation. This was the only 5e image of an Urd I could find: https://i.ibb.co/JrmkkyM/Kobold-Urd.png - via VGtM. The GHotR also reuses an image from RotD with a caption identifying it as the blue Dragonwrought kobold "Kuraulyek, the First of the Urd": https://i.ibb.co/XLYfNqG/Dn-D-Dragonwrought-Kobold.jpg.

This last image is currently used for the Dragonwrought page, but with that caption should also be used for image-less Kuraulyek page in my opinion. BlackRamSage (talk) 07:10, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Noctumancer deleted.
Hi Lhynard, just saw that you deleted my article for plagerism. I quoted it right out of the manual and stated it was from Tome of Magic by WoTC in the article. Did I miss something here?


 * That's exactly what plagiarism is, copying stuff from a book. Additionally, this wiki is focused on lore, not crunch. --SilverTiger12 (talk) 05:05, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Shaliim Wyrmslayer
Shaliim Wyrmslayer is suppose to hire adventurers to find ancient lore on how the yuan-ti defeated the old great dragons. Where would I find the information relating to that? I have looked everywhere and I haven't found anything.


 * I have no idea. I have never even heard of Shaliim. sorry! ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:07, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Shaliim Wyrmslayer was mentioned in two 3e sourcebooks - Serpent Kingdoms and Shining South (sourcebook), but i doubt his adventures were ever in published materials. -Artyom.pavlov (talk) 23:12, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I wrote the Shaliim Wyrmslayer article, there's nothing more known about this storyline. As for yuan-ti versus dragons, hunt around the wiki in yuan-ti history, or else check out Serpent Kingdoms, or, of course, make something up for your game. :) BadCatMan (talk) 23:34, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Guulvorg
Dear Lhynard I searched the sources and I know for sure that Guulvorg is a creature that appeared in Monster Manual V 3.5 and Monster Manual I 4 e. What shoul be done to start a page for the creature I mmean just the basics because I'm not so good in editing.


 * This is the wrong wiki for that. If you want to create those articles, you should find another wiki to host them.


 * You did an okay job starting the articles otherwise. Though you would need to fill in some more text, especially adding a lead sentence describing what the creature is.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:17, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Dragonnel
So after asking about guulvorg and more annoyance to other editors it fits just Eberron and possibly Ravenloft. I found a new creature that I have an interest to make it's called dragonnel. I need to make sure that this creature has a connection with the Forgotten Realms. But as a matter of fact, how did you usually do it? I mean about making connections.


 * I often search the wiki to see if the word ever shows up in any articles. I know some folks search digital copies of books that they own. Remember, it would need to show up in a Realms book, not a core rulebook, unless that core rulebook specifically mentioned Faerûn. ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * In Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, it says that a dragonnel can be summoned by the "Find greater steed" spell from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, a spell from a book that is compatible with the Realms. Thus, a Faerunian paladin (or any other paladin in the realms) could realistically have a dragonnel in their world. --ThunderBrine 08:02, 17 January 2022 (UTC)


 * That doesn't mean anything; there are spells and abilities that can potentially summon creatures from all over the place, but if there was no actual appearance, it's not related. Same about a creature who could travel across the planes and potentially could've visited the Realms - unless they actually did so in a novel or an adventure - they remain unrelated. For example: if a paladin in Baldur's Gate 3 can summon a dragonnel, then it will become relevant to the wiki's coverage. -Artyom.pavlov (talk) 08:33, 17 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I would like to ask what is preventing us and what is needed for us to record the dragonnel's information? Is it one reason or many?
 * Does it just need to exist in a D&D book for us to record it freely?
 * Is it the types of books the dragonnel is in that prevent us from recording its information (by which I mean Core Rulebooks, Sourcebooks, Adventures, Starter Sets, Anthologies, Supplements, and Playtest)?
 * Is it the fickle nature of the wiki that prevents us from recording D&D's information to the fullest? --ThunderBrine 01:02, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Any subject covered by the Forgotten Realms wiki must have a direct link to the Forgotten Realms somehow. Appearing in a core rulebook or sourcebook is not sufficient. Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 06:51, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Einheriar
From Planscape campaign guide:

Petitioners are never player characters, but they often appear as 0- or 1st-level nonplayer characters.

They can't gain additional levels or abilities unless elevated to the station of proxy.

From Planescape Monstrous appendix I:

The lowest level Einheriar encountered is 4.

So Einheriar must be a form/type of proxy.

If you would like, I could put in these additional references.

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 * Thanks for the intro, and welcome to you. ~ Lhynard (talk) 18:55, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Bahgtru
Thanks for correcting the error on Bahgtru that I reported at User talk:SilverTiger12.

There is, however, an additional wrinkle thrown in by the American English cot-caught merger. For some people (myself included), [ɒɡ] is not "og as in dog", because that "og" would be [ɔɡ]. [ɒɡ] is a sound I don't think actually occurs in English at all (for a non-merged speaker like me) but I suspect that's actually the intended pronunciation of "Bahgtru", at least judging by its spelling. I wonder if a way to describe it more accurately (for wiki readers who don't understand the IPA) would be for the mouseovertext to say something like "o as in soccer" when they mouse over the [ɒ], rather than "og as in dog" when they mouse over anywhere on the [ɒɡ].

I think what it comes down to is that, if we decide the pronunciation of that first vowel in Bahgtru really is the same as the on in "dog", then all that needs to be done is that in Template:GetIPA this bit of IPA just needs to be changed from [ɒɡ] to [ɔɡ]. On the other hand, if we think it's actually ɒ (e.g. the "o" in "soccer" or the "ah" in "bah!"), then that might take more finagling, as we'd need to change the template to make the explanation more accurate (something along the lines of what I suggested above) and/or might need to change the non-IPA part of the article to say something other than "BOG" (but at that point it becomes hard to know how you'd represent this sound without IPA in a way that readers will understand what sound it's meant to be; what I tried before was "BAHG-troo", but that's barely any more comprehensible than just the actual name). 24.225.107.247 23:55, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Stormsoul genasi
Hi, Lhynard. Is there any reason you deleted the Stormsoul genasi article? I know they aren't part of the classic genasi, and that they aren't mentioned in 5e. But they are mentioned in 4e products, such as sourcebooks, novels and stuff. I think that the wiki should document the information about them, much like we have information about two types of dragonborn, even if the dragonborn of Bahamut haven't been mentioned since 3e. Anyways, I'll await for your answer. Zero X (talk) 17:00, 14 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, Zero,


 * Stormsoul genasi are absolutely a thing in the Realms, yes, but they are not a separate race, and details about them are already documented in the genasi article. After the Spellplague and before 5e, genasi could manifest however they wanted.


 * Unfortunately, the current genasi articles for the true genasi subraces are a mess, having incorrectly treated, for example, earth genasi and earthsoul genasi as the same thing. I am actually trying to clean that up a bit, and I am fixing all the categories right now.


 * Please feel free to expand the Genasi article with anything about the stormsoul manifestation that you feel might be lacking. I think, for example, that it might be helpful to have subsections for each of the manifestations.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 18:16, 14 June 2023 (UTC)