Billie was a pet mammoth that belonged to a son of one of the well-off families of the Living City, Ravens Bluff, in the late 14th century DR.[1]
Description[]
Billie had a distinct orange birthmark on its abdomen. The mammoth loved receiving belly rubs and eating fruits and nuts. It was forbidden to feed Billie any apple cider.[1]
History[]
Billie's disappearance was announced in the Marpenoth issue of the Ravens Bluff Trumpeter in the Year of the Tankard, 1370 DR.[note 1] The owner's parents placed a classifieds ad in the broadsheet, stating that the mammoth had been recently seen near the tent city just outside the city gates of Ravens Bluff. They offered a grand reward to anyone who could return the stray creature to its owners.[1]
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Notes[]
- ↑ The events of the Living City Ravens Bluff campaign took place on a timeline that advanced together with the real world's time. Even though all Living City adventures and issues of Ravens Bluff Trumpeter were dated with real-world dates, there were events that received a DR year. The Living City timeline can be derived from Myrkyssa Jelan's historic events of the late 14th century DR. Myrkyssa Jelan attacked Ravens Bluff in 1370 DR, according to The City of Ravens Bluff and Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition; these events are chronicled in an in-and-out of universe issues of Ravens Bluff Trumpeter. This places the real world year 1997 as 1370 DR, and in 1998 (1371 DR), Myrkyssa was at last arrested and tried and said to have been executed, only to reappear in 1372 DR in The City of Ravens novel. As the real world's months and the Calendar of Harptos are virtually identical, we can also date all events of the Living City Ravens Bluff as close as an in-universe month.