Puppets were items in the Realms popular among bards and performers who placed them over their hands to create dramatic performances.[1]
Description[]
Puppets came in a variety of character shapes and sizes.[1]
Availability[]
Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue sold a wide variety of puppets, which they marketed as a tool for bards, at a price of 7 gold pieces a piece. The puppets that they sold resembled variously bards, crones, cutpurses, farmers, herdsmen, kings and queens, mages, maidens, merchants, mothers, noblemen, orcs, peasants, priests, princes and princesses, skeletons, slaves, and soldiers. They also sold dragon puppets, made of silk from Shou Lung, that required three hands to operate and cost 15 gp to order.[1]
Varieties[]
- Marionettes, a type of puppet that were controlled from above by maneuvering a set of strings.[1]
Notable Users[]
- Spunk, an adventuring mage in the 14th century DR who as a lark frequently pretended that his wizard hand puppet Grizzard was actually the one casting spells.[2]
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Appearances[]
Novels & Short Stories
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), p. 29. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ Ed Friedlander, Benjamin Pierce, Francois Poulin, Rick Reid and Rich Rydberg (November 1989). “New Rogues Gallery: Raven's Bluff Personalities”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #50 (TSR, Inc.), p. 16.