Talk:Peryton

More sources for perytons are listed at Wikipedia.

FWIW, all the old Monstrous Manual entries can be found floating around the web, like here or here.

There's quite a lot in the Elminster's Ecologies series; Ilmater wasn't the only god who cursed them. I'll add some more lore, like the origin myth, when I get a chance. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:15, August 10, 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I had used the Wikipedia article to find some of the sources and had listed them under additional reading, but I did not know I could find the entries on the web, so thanks for the links.


 * Is the origin myth presented as fact or conjecture? It seems odd to me that Ilmater would have been so dumb. ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:32, August 10, 2015 (UTC)


 * It's presented as unsourced legend, and the narrator herself points out the irony. Imaskar itself was long gone before some of these gods were on the scene, so it's historically dubious too. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:57, August 11, 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I've added the Elminster's Ecologies lore, including the full creation, plus some other tidbits. I quoted the curses in full, just to make the matter clear. Decide for yourself. :) With all the disagreement on various points – whether they need human hearts to reproduce or if it be any heart; whether they eat elf hearts of not; when and how their shadows change – the article gets very vague and prevaricates. I don't know if you can straighten that out a bit, make it more direct. The Elminster's Ecologies lore at least all comes from NPCs, and disagreements can be put down to unreliable/mistaken (though very knowledgeable) narrators. The Monster Manuals might be taken as more reliable, as they generally have an out-of-universe, neutral POV.

This could be a good candidate for a feature article. :) — BadCatMan (talk) 10:10, August 18, 2015 (UTC)