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Gladwell

2010-12-30T17:43:43Z

Drakefyre: stubbed

It is not known where Gladwell comes from originally. He was an apprentice at [[Patrickâ€™s Tower]]. He came to [[Bargha]] about 853 [[IE]] fleeing some unknown town after four people were killed by one of his experiments.
Somehow, he was able to convince the Avernite government to put a [[Teleportation Pylon]] in Bargha. He used the pylon to convey news between Bargha and Avernum. He was also experimenting with slimes trying to train them to be used for fighting ones enemies. Ultimately, it did not work out.

==Frontier Experiments==

When the [[Northern Frontier]] was discovered in 864 IE, Gladwell built a huge fortified laboratory on one of the [[Northern Islands]].

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Horde Triad Slayers

2010-12-30T17:42:04Z

Drakefyre:

In 880 [[IE]], a group of young Avernite soldiers got called up from [[Castle|The Castle]]â€˜s [[Food Depot]] to do a series of missions for the [[Crown]]. Along the way, they attempted to solve the mystery of the [[Mushroom Blight]], but were unsuccessful. They also restored order to many parts of [[Avernum]] by ridding places of [[bandits]], [[goblins]], [[slimes]], [[undead]], etc. Their claim to fame is that they almost single-handedly killed the [[Slith Horde Triad]] (it was Solberg who killed [[Ess-Kalyn]] also known as [[Ess-Kalyn|Manburner]] but the Horde Triad Slayers helped in that respect also) in 882 IE. It is because of this, that this group has become known as the Horde Triad Slayers. Their place in history is shrouded in mystery because of their strange disappearance at the [[Great Portal]].

==Humble Beginnings==

In 879, four new Avernite soldiers were sent to help out at the Castleâ€™s Food Depot under the supervision of Sergeant Nichol. For one whole year, they moved supplies within the cellars of the depot. Then in 880 IE, legend tells us that one year to the day of their arrival, goblins snuck into the cellars and started stealing food. These four were tasked of ridding the cellar of the goblins. They fought the goblins and found their leader, [[Lord Trinket]], in a back room. Lord Trinket escaped but the other goblins were killed.
Sergeant Nichol told them to report the goblins to Lieutenant Katlyn. She gave them the mission to kill Lord Trinket. These four headed south to an abandoned mine where Lord Trinket was. There they met a young man recently from the surface named [[Vanderlin]]. He joined the four into the mine. They battled goblins and bats throughout the mine until they came to a room where Lord Trinket was prepared to make his last stand. (There was also a [[slith]] standing behind a closed gate.) Upon killing Lord Trinket, he yelled for help to someone named Khrez-Yss, but no one answered. Then the mysterious slith spoke to the soldiers. He said that he was not afraid of them and it would be only too easy to kill them now. Then he walked away.
They reported killing Lord Trinket to Lieutenant Katlyn. She thanked them for such a good job and told them to report to Commander Meryhew at the Castle.

==Early Castle Missions==

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Horde Triad Slayers

2010-12-30T17:41:47Z

Drakefyre: stubbed

In 880 [[IE]], a group of young Avernite soldiers got called up from [[Castle|The Castle]]â€˜s [[Food Depot]] to do a series of missions for the [[Crown]]. Along the way, they attempted to solve the mystery of the [[Mushroom Blight]], but were unsuccessful. They also restored order to many parts of [[Avernum]] by ridding places of [[bandits]], [[goblins]], [[slimes]], [[undead]], etc. Their claim to fame is that they almost single-handedly killed the [[Slith Horde Triad]] (it was Solberg who killed [[Ess-Kalyn]] also known as [[Ess-Kalyn|Manburner]] but the Horde Triad Slayers helped in that respect also) in 882 IE. It is because of this, that this group has become known as the Horde Triad Slayers. Their place in history is shrouded in mystery because of their strange disappearance at the [[Great Portal]].

==Humble Beginnings==

In 879, four new Avernite soldiers were sent to help out at the Castleâ€™s Food Depot under the supervision of Sergeant Nichol. For one whole year, they moved supplies within the cellars of the depot. Then in 880 IE, legend tells us that one year to the day of their arrival, goblins snuck into the cellars and started stealing food. These four were tasked of ridding the cellar of the goblins. They fought the goblins and found their leader, [[Lord Trinket]], in a back room. Lord Trinket escaped but the other goblins were killed.
Sergeant Nichol told them to report the goblins to Lieutenant Katlyn. She gave them the mission to kill Lord Trinket. These four headed south to an abandoned mine where Lord Trinket was. There they met a young man recently from the surface named [[Vanderlin]]. He joined the four into the mine. They battled goblins and bats throughout the mine until they came to a room where Lord Trinket was prepared to make his last stand. (There was also a [[slith]] standing behind a closed gate.) Upon killing Lord Trinket, he yelled for help to someone named Khrez-Yss, but no one answered. Then the mysterious slith spoke to the soldiers. He said that he was not afraid of them and it would be only too easy to kill them now. Then he walked away.
They reported killing Lord Trinket to Lieutenant Katlyn. She thanked them for such a good job and told them to report to Commander Meryhew at the Castle.

==Early Castle Missions==

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Extermination of Non-Humans

2007-06-16T04:39:57Z

Drakefyre: Undo revision 5554 by Wk5A9f (Talk)

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{{account|name=Extermination of Non-Humans|start=261 IE|end=384 IE|before=[[The Ascent of Ironclad II]]|after=[[Anama War]]|author=Eli Karad, junior chancellor for Ironclad VI, 401 IE}}

In 259 [[IE]], the total population of all humans on [[Pralgad]] was greater than 40 million and steadily increasing due to the advent of the new metropolis. However, beyond the vision of man lay the beasts of Pralgad, who numbered themselves more than 12 million. The new expansion of the [[Empire]] united directly clashed with the hermetic nature of Pralgad's non-humans. [[Ironclad II]] had contented himself with the reunification of the Empire and keeping the peace, but his son, [[Ironclad III]], foresaw the great potential of expansion, and thus he began the slow process of asserting human expansion on the far recesses of the continent.

==The Giants==

The first non-humans that were encountered were the warring tribes of the [[Giants]]. [[Hill Giants]] were terrible men, 13 feet high on average and weighing more than 35 stone. They carried huge clubs made of tree trunks and boulders pried from mountainsides in a pouch made of mountain lion skin. They inhabited the hills and mountains of northeastern Pralgad, and they were clan creatures. Among the clans were the leading [[Snakeye Clan]], [[Lionskin Clan]], and [[Rockback Clan]], all of whom were engaged in brutal and bloody civil wars. It was during the middle of one of these civil wars that Ironclad III and the [[Imperial Army]] decided to strike.

The Imperial Army moved from [[Blackstone]] out to the northern mountains late in the year 261 of the Imperial Era. Attempting to catch the Hill Giants in disarray, they launched a brave and foolhardy offensive against the Rockback Clan. The army was repelled as all of the nearby clans rushed to their aid, and the army began to know true meaning of pain as 10 stone boulders were tossed among them and towering shamen created walls of fire to block their retreat. They did eventually make it out, but at only 40% of their original strength, their spirit broken and their bones crushed.

Early the next year, the full might of the Imperial Army, augmented by many new battlemages, launched an attack against the giants that succeeded only because of its brashness and forcefulness. Imperial tactics proved to be more than adequate to stymie the giants, who were confused and frightened as they realized their impending doom. The Rockback and Lionskin Clans were eradicated, along with smaller clans around them. Still, the Snakeye Clan, one full of ingenious shamen, continued to mount resistance against the Imperial Army. In time, however, harrying army raids led by [[Ylai Ironclad]], a nephew of the Emperor, broke their resolve over the next ten years.

For the next five years, Colonel Ylai Ironclad continued his raids, which kept the giants penned up within the mountains, never able to threaten the citizens of the Empire. In 277 IE, he received a deluge of troops from command in Imperius, and he was able to break the deadlock completely in favor of the Empire. Breaking down stone walls and scattering wooden fences, the Empire swept into the last fortresses of the Snakeye Clan and eradicated all of the Hill Giants forever. The last months of the year were spent painstakingly searching through the mountains, looking for any giants that may have survived. Any that were found were put to the sword, and the final tallies put the giant casualties at more than seven million. ''[Ed Note: This is an exaggeration - recent counts have put the giant population at 2.75 million.]''

The mountains proved to be receptive to both terrace farming and the cultivation of crops that only survived in the harsh and rocky soil of this mountain region. Later mining expeditions found vast quantities of iron in deep strains that run to the center of the chain.

==The Nephilim==

The next Empirical foray into the realm of nonhuman extermination came with the feline [[Nephilim]] during the reign of [[Ironclad V]]. The previous emperor, [[Ironclad IV]], had deemed the success against the giants enough, and he facilitated the establishment of permanent trade routes with the [[Aizo|Aizoan continent]]. However, Ironclad V saw the merit in adapting the wetlands for settlement and farming of spices and fruits. But in the [[Swamps of Dralgath]] lay an enormous settlement of fierce Nephilim who were resisting any attempts at human settlement and slaughtering all settlers that were sent to the wetlands. And this meant that Ironclad V had to authorize the beginning of war with the Nephilim. And he did so with vigor, in year 322 of the Imperial Era.

Wary of just plunging into war with the Nephilim as his grandfather did with the giants, he began with the small raiding parties that Ylai Ironclad had popularized. Unfortunately, the Nephilim did not take well to having their homes burned and their crops torched. And unlike the giants, who tried to strike back against the raiding parties, the Nephilim assembled their own raiding parties and took them to nearby Cautheron and Dubridge ''[Ed Note: Now [[Cauthington]] and [[Sarkagrad]].]'' The towns were quite surprised by the voracity of the Nephilim attackers, and the guards were often too slow to chase away the Nephilim before they burned houses, ran off with women and children, or ran through crop fields.

It was then that brigades were dispatched to these two towns and all villages nearby, as [[General Hector Sol]], leader of the Imperial Army, rounded up enough troops to begin a large-scale assault on the Nephilim. Still, it was eight years since the beginning of raids on the Nephilim when the Empire fully realized the threat and assembled this army. To their credit, the Nephilim did not meet them on the field of battle. Instead, they hid in trees and shot arrows at the army, led them into quicksand, and surrounded them deep in the marshes. But it was here that the training and discipline of the Imperial Army came into play, and it overcame the natural savvy and drive of the Nephilim. Surrounded and demoralized in the swamps, Hector Sol rallied his troops and drove them to victory against the Nephilim, scattering them to the winds.

It was then, in 333 IE, that the fight against the Nephilim became intense. Many quickly jumped into sailors' organizations and left Pralgad for better pastures. Many more still hid in the swamps and mountains of eastern Pralgad. And more disappeared to the south, navigating the harsh [[Ndovlu Mountains]] to make their way to a place yet unknown. ''[Ed Note: These are likely the ancestors of the [[Ratbane Clan]] that populated Valorim in the 600's.]'' It was not until 343 IE that all of the Nephilim had either been hunted down or banished for Pralgad, and the agrarian experiments of Ironclad V could continue.

==The Troglodytes==

When [[Ironclad VI]], our glorious [[emperor]], first began to excavate the [[Jsoulza Mountains|Jsoulza mountain passes]] joining western and eastern [[Pralgad]], there were no pressing concerns. But after they kept unearthing artifacts - earthen bowls, clay pots, and more - [[Ironclad VI]] called a halt to the excavations. Whether they were evidence of the pre-[[Empire|Imperial]] human inhabitants of Pralgad or another [[humanoids|humanoid]] species was not yet certain. But [[Ironclad VI]] had a sage's insatiable thirst for knowledge along with the [[humans|human]] superiority mindset of his father and great-grandfather, which led to a long investigation by the [[Saxton School of Magic]]. Its old sages spent many weeks arguing the merits of both cases. In the end, Ironclad VI continued the excavation to find more information, and the diggers came across maps and scrolls in a foreign language that was definitely no human tongue.

When the map was interpreted, it led to the mines near [[Solaria]]. Miners were ordered to leave the mines, and soldiers and mages investigated the caverns beyond the rich veins of iron, silver, and gold. Nobody had ever gone that far deep in the caves - nobody had ever seen the need to, except for Ironclad VI the Wise. They found the passages littered with the same type of writing on the map and scrolls, and the passages led to a completely new area of land, which was inhabited by these hideous humanoids. Dubbed [[Troglodytes]], these men were twisted and scarred from birth, like a form of intensely mutated human. Short and squat, they were well-armed and not happy about the invasion. Armored troglodytes quickly seized the Solaran mines and began to create iron weapons and armor, effectively using the Empire's own resources against them.

These troglodytes were no fools, unlike the [[giants]]. In fact, they were more intelligent than the [[Nephilim]], and their [[mages]] had perfected vicious and devastating combat [[spell|spells]], that they used without prejudice against all humans that they saw. The army was quickly rushed to [[Easton]] and [[Solaria]], where they coordinated attacks on the troglodytes. However, all attacks at the beginning were unsuccessful and horribly bloody. Years of infighting ''[Ed Note: and fighting the giants - the reason there were so few giants for [[Ironclad III]] was because of the troglodytes' own extermination campaign]'' had honed their combat skills and their cunning. They took control of the nearby villages and took over the farming operations and began to expand their base of operations.

Commander [[Nepald Londar]] was not going to allow these troglodytes to take control of the Empire, however. A tactical genius, he began a long series of staged battles that weakened the troglodytes' tenuous hold on the land. But they were not going to go down without a fight. They struck fast and hard and with magic, and Londar had no answer for the spells. But one night in 384 IE, Londar's men constructed catapults and readied for a complete assault against the Solaran mines. Crashing down came the barricades and defenses that the troglodytes had erected, and infantry secured the inner passageways of the mines. Sealing off the troglodytes from their original base of operations took away their reinforcements and supplies, and they fell quickly. Two years later, the soldiers bloody from their defense of the mines, burst through into troglodyte territory and razed several villages to the ground. With more troops pouring through every day, Londar oversaw the systematic hunting down and eradication of the last of Pralgad's intelligent non-human species.

Today, the population of the Empire is estimated at 100 million, including the [[Aizo|Aizoan Dominion]], and we continue to push out. There cannot only be two continents on Ermarian, and no doubt future Emperors will lead us into the seas and beyond, to an unparalleled glory.

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User talk:Arancaytar

2007-06-08T03:49:53Z

Drakefyre: /* From Drakey */

== From Drakey ==
=== Wanted Pages ===
Aran, I've started going through this list: [[Special:Wantedpages]] to find stubs to make, and then I'll go through the list of stubs and expand articles. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 22:42, 28 Aug 2005 (CEST)
=== Stubs ===
Stubs are definitely better than nothing - they let you get down the basics and simple definitions that help people using the Encyclopedia. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Blocking unregistered edits ===
Would it be possible to allow only registered users to make edits? I think that would be a good idea. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Fort Monastery ===
Yes, Monastery is new. It looks like it replaced Fort Ganrick (Monastery is west of Fort Draco). --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
==== Fort Ganrick ====
Well, it didn't replace Fort Ganrick, but Fort Ganrick no longer exists.
=== Pages In Progress ===
You don't need to stub pages marked "In Progress". I specifically didn't stub them because I was planning to finish them. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Moving from Geocities ===
Stuff for you to bring over:
*The Triad (which needs to be edited)
*Quickfire
*Spiders
*Layout for Herbarium Articles

And then we should be completely done with the old Encyclopedia content (minus wands)
==== The Triad ====
:The Triad article is full of wrong information and needs to be drastically edited as well, but it does have a lot of words :P
=== Kelandon's notes ===
I've spent quite a while going through [http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/history.html Kel's excellent notes] and making changes to the history of Exile and the founders. Everything should now be aligned with Av 1-3, but I'm holding off on ZKR until I can confirm some A4 stuff. The only contradiction is a history book saying [[Micah I|Micah]] ruled for 40 years before 817, and Erika saying in 833 that he ruled for 20-some years. What Erika said makes absolutely no sense with the other timelines considered, so I just ignored that. -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 20:09, 31 Aug 2005 (CEST)
==== Banishing of the Archmagi ====
:The banishing of the Archmagi is early, but it does make sense that it would be in the earlier years of Hawthorne II's reign than the later years. I always thought of Erika as the youngest and most powerful of the Five. I thought of her and Micah as the young leaders of the fledgeling nation. While it does put Micah very old for a non-mage, I've tried to explain it in his entry.
=== Maps ===
I don't have the first map, but I assume that you do. If you need it, I should be able to dig it up.
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_02.gif Map 2]
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_03.gif Map 3]
==== Vantanas ====
I found this lying around in my sitemouse directory: http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/Vantanas.gif

:It wouldn't hurt to upload this so we have another map of Vantanas. And a color one :P -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Rone ===
Some of the Rone/Micah information needs to be changed - Rone is not dead, it was a mistaken rumor. But it's confirmed that Rone is using magic to extend his life and probably did for Micah as well.-- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Icarus ===
Only did it because it seemed to be the same myth, and the Scimitar did mention it. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Board ===
If we're going to have it, people should probably check it ;) --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Featured Articles ===
Giants? Or Magic? We should get a picture of a giant, though. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 11:03, 8 September 2006 (CDT)
:From where? You're welcome to draw one if you want to... ;-) I'll read both articles today and see if anything could be improved before featuring. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 00:47, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

===New Template Heading Colors===
Why did you change all of the colors from nice ones to hideous ones? And I mean every single one is ugly now. Was there a problem with the old ones? --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 06:53, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
:There's a light on dark skin? I'm still on the old default, I guess. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 07:31, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::I went over and looked at the new one, but I'm sticking with MonoBook. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 08:51, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
:::I agree with Drakey. The new colors are not pretty and the default skin makes the site hard to read. --[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 09:39, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::::The dark background eliminates the glare on my screen, but I see your point. I've tested (on the City template) the possibility of using the skin-specific stylesheets to make the colors fit the skin that is being used, and it works. I'll do the same for the other templates this weekend, probably. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:24, 15 September 2006 (CDT)

=== What's New? ===
I might be more active here when I get back home ... it remains to be seen, but I'd like to know if anything interesting happened or a lot of new pages were added/expanded. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 20:49, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

== From Hhhhh ==

=== Introduction ===
I bought a CD containing 100 games that included the exile series, which was when I first played exile. However, every one of those 100 games were unregistered (should I laugh or cry?) and the other games were horrible. Anyways I have not registered in any exile/spiderweb boards so you do not know me. My life is not that interesting, so I will post no more. By the way how do you start a new page?
=== Stubs ===
I don't know how to mark articles as a stub, would someone please tell me how?

---[[User:Hhhhh|Hhhhh]]

== From Noname ==
=== Religion ===
Wait? only 16% of the empire's people follow a religion? That's what the percentages add up to- 16%. I thought that there would be more, so I changed the statistics to add up to 100% of the religious citizenry (not including secular citizens.) My question is, what about the other 84% of the empire? Are they all secular? ---[[User:Noname|Noname]]

== From Slartucker ==

=== Demons ===
Aran -- your change to [[demons]] doesn't make sense to me -- the sentence seems even more confusing now than before. However, I'm not sure if you misinterpreted my version (it WAS a bit confusing) or if you are actually suggesting something different, so I'll wait to hear from you before I change anything. I was trying to say that, despite the bans, most mages end up involved in demon stuff. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 04:49, 12 January 2006 (CST)

P.S. Are rakshasha (however the heck you spell that) demonic? I seem to recall them summoned demons complete with pentagram in the Tiger's Den in Ex2, so I'm doubtful. I'm also skeptical about efreeti, though I suppose that's a matter of interpretation.
==== Re: Rakshasi ====
Interesting, I'll have to look into the rakshasi. As for efreeti, I have always assumed that Jeff's efreeti were borrowings from Arabian lore, in which they are the second of five classes of jinn, a magical race that shares some characteristics with Avernum-style demons but are certainly different. At least I've never seen them referred to as demonic anywhere, canonical or not.
==== Re: Efreeti ====
:Efreet classification: well, they're sentient, and they're as much a race as demons are. I don't think either would be classified as humanoid, though they often have humanoid form. Does everything need a sub-classification beyond the bestiary category, though?
:Meanwhile, while researching dragon gender-bending (there's more than I realized) I have discovered yet more flaws in my First Expedition stuff. Sigh. As much as I like my narrative, I think I'm going to have to get rid of it and replace it with a bullet point list of places they visited and things they did. The evidence is just all over the place!
=== Illithids ===
Nice way to handle the illithid canonicity. I think I may do something similar for 'normal' versions of rakshasi and efreeti. Fun Fact: Jeff flipped the singular and plural forms of both of those races, from the originals. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 20:43, 19 January 2006 (CST)

=== FTP site ===
The site is now timing out whenever I try, not even getting to the point of rejecting my login. I used the one you listed. I've now tried 3 different clients; if the problem is on my end I have no idea what it is. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 11:00, 26 January 2006 (CST)

=== Re: Canon issues ===
Mmn. I completely understand the concern about which scenarios should be included. I'm just going to use my best judgment, and if you or Drakey (or anyone else) wants to correct me, you're always welcome to. (Three cheers for the elegant democracy of the wiki!) Alternately, if someone wants to outline -- perhaps as a generally useful OOC article -- exactly what sources are considered legitimate fanon by people who ''have'' "been in the community long enough to be considered experts on their subject," I think that would be a very useful thing. (The current [[fanon]] entry is devoid of actual information.) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 18:12, 28 January 2006 (CST)

:Heh. I actually paused for a moment after typing democracy, but decided it was close enough. --- Slarty

=== Templates ===
Aran: is there any way to get the city info template to be an inset (as info boxes are on wikipedia, and as the image thumbnails are here)?
::You're kidding, it was that simple? Hah. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 06:59, 2 February 2006 (CST)
:::: It can be a bit tricky to get the formatting you want, but with a few examples like the Emperor template, it's extremely easy. I see you've already made it :) [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:01, 2 February 2006 (CST)

=== Misc. ===
You know, you had me thinking you really were an Ilyaren. :P --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:20, 3 February 2006 (CST)

Technically, it was atrociously ''punctuated'' ;) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 13:18, 5 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure ===
If I understand correctly, right now anything that's an organization requires THREE clicks from the main page to access: one to person, then another to organizations, then another to the entry itself. Perhaps Organizations should just be another top-level category?

Actually, I think this makes sense. At the moment, it is really closer to "Nations" than it is to "Persons" since it includes stuff like the [[Scimitar]], but not groupings of multiple persons like the [[Triad]] or the [[Five]]. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:33, 6 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure II ===
Is there a reason you recat'ed Religion, but not Stories or Languages? I think it's fine, but I'm just curious, since you left Drakey's edits as they were for all three.

Also, somebody is gonna have to recategorize all the individual pages in those categories!
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:32, 25 March 2006 (CST)

=== Stubs ===
Undead is still missing Liches entirely, as well as guardians and black shades, which qualifies it as a page that definitely needs work. That one is at least listed on my user page, but in other cases they might not be. There are definitely some articles listed as stubs that don't need to be, but if an entire necessary chunk is missing, shouldn't it still be listed as a stub? --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

== From Jerry ==
=== User page format. ===

Nevermind, I figured it out. I was refering to the lines and headers.

=== Calling wrong stuff out. ===

If I think something is wrong, I'll post something in the talk section. If my 'little' change is going to make such a fuss, I'm not gonna let some of this other stuff get by. [[User:Jerry bush|Jerry]], who hates being made a fool of by others.

== From Aussieavernum ==

I am not sure if this is where I should post. You posted on my user page and in that post you asked if I am registered with the Spiderweb Software forums and I can't just say yes or no. I did register at the forums but my e-mail program doesn't work. When I purchased a new computer early in 2005, My e-mail program didn't work. A few weeks ago, my mother called a computer repair company and a man came over and fixed it for 88 australian dollars. The next day it stopped working so I couldn't get the e-mail with the password. [[User:Aussieavernum|Aussieavernum]]

=== RE: RE:Your Message ===

Thank you for the info about the siganture and e-mail. My mum Jose has created a hotmail account called aussieavernum@hotmail.com and I will soon register in the [http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi Spiderweb Forums] as aussieavernum.

[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 01:49, 28 April 2006 (CDT)

=== RE:Personal Information ===

Thank you for the security information.:D I have edited the page sp is not a security risk.
[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 05:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

== Sorry about the sign-in! ==

I appologize about not signing-in. I will try to do better. [[User:Jerry bush|Arch-Mage Solberg]] 11:51, 13 December 2006 (PST)

Yay...it worked.

== From Millytal ==

===Re: Welcome===

Yeah, it's Milla. I have a question, would you count wormgrass as a herb?--Milla 19:24, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

Captain Matos

2006-12-26T17:27:18Z

Drakefyre: Captain Matos moved to Matos: We don't use titles in entries.

#REDIRECT [[Matos]]

Matos

2006-12-26T17:27:18Z

Drakefyre: Captain Matos moved to Matos: We don't use titles in entries.

Captain [[Matos]] joined the Army in 842 [[IE]]. He advanced in the ranks and showed a knack for tactics. It was because of this that it was discussed that he take a commanding role in a fort or city. But because of his relative young age he was sent to Fort Monastery, Avernum's newest fort, in 849 [[IE]].

It was at Captain Matos' command that many new recruits were sent after they completed training. One such group, commonly known as the [[Shade-Killers]], arrived at the fort in 855 [[IE]], shortly before the troubles started. Captain Matos helped them gain some early experience with [[Goblins]] and [[Nephilim]].

He still commands Fort Monastery even though being offered a commanding role at [[Fort Draco]] after Commander [[Anford]]'s death.

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Matos

2006-12-26T17:26:43Z

Drakefyre: removed Person template (now they're all gone)

Talk:Unsettled Lands

2006-12-26T17:25:17Z

Drakefyre:

Skarragath wasn't in the Unsettled Lands. It was in the same cave as Erika's Tower.-[[User:Jerry bush|Arch-Mage Solberg]] 20:21, 24 December 2006 (PST)
::Good point. That brings up the interesting question of why the heck Erika, Patrick, and Rone took Grah-Hoth halfway across Exile to imprison him, rather than doing it closer to Akhronath. I suppose it's possible he fled and they chased him... who knows. -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 11:50, 25 December 2006 (PST)

:::Maybe they wanted to get him as far away from civilization, which at that time was only in the Eastern Gellery. The real question...why did Erika choose that cave to put her tower? [[User:Jerry bush|Arch-Mage Solberg]] 18:12, 25 December 2006 (PST)

::::Maybe Erika was keeping an eye on Grah-Hoth. His fortress in Exile I is all the way in the NW corner of Avernum. Skarragath is SW of Erika's tower and just north of the Unsettled Lands (but with no connection to them). It's not really far away, and Erika probably wanted to make sure nothing happened again. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

Talk:Timeline of Ermarian

2006-10-21T01:15:30Z

Drakefyre: Comments

== Eye on apocrypha ==
I've been digging through dumps looking at the timeline and have noticed some disturbing things. They mostly concern the [[Emperor]]-list and other artifacts of that era.

# First, is it ever stated in the games that there were THREE Hawthornes? I thought it was, but now that I look, I can't find it anywhere. If there were only two, the infamously hard-to-reconcile line from VoDT about Emperor Stewart's 80-year-old proclamation would be easy to reconcile. That would bring the school's closing dates in line with the other comments in that scenario, which range from "decades ago" to "about a century ago" but none of which approach the 125 years it currently claims.
# Extermination of non-humans. First, and most importantly, the games give the impression that this was a constant thing; maybe there were some specific campaigns, but the article and timeline should reflect this. Second, E3 and A3 state "the Empire wiped all the giants off the surface a century ago." I'm willing to give that some wiggle room, but 550 years is a bit much!
# Similarly, although the settlement of Valorim began at approximately the time the history section claims, it didn't extend to all of Valorim until circa 813 IE, so the dates listed for it are rather misleading.

If I've missed anything, or if there are any other objections, let me know. Otherwise, I'm editing the timeline to conform to game canon, and marking the articles in question as needing working. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 13:42, 20 October 2006 (PDT)
::#I thought so too, and it makes sense that way - 1 sent the first expedition, 2 exiled people, and 3 mass-exiled people.
::#The article refers to Pralgad, not all of the Empire. Aizo still had giants.
::#Yeah, this change is fine.
::--[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 18:15, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

Talk:Golems

2006-10-16T22:01:13Z

Drakefyre: guard golems, not war golems

Is there any evidence for the statement about golems never being used in war except by Rentar? Because it sounds extremely unlikely to me. For one thing, given how absurdly widespread golems were in Exile in E2, I find it hard to believe they weren't used in the war effort at all.
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 06:01, 15 October 2006 (PDT)
::I think that everyone else only kept them for defense (Motrax, etc.) because the programming of golems would be too unreliable. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:01, 16 October 2006 (PDT)

User talk:Dintiradan

2006-10-12T07:18:53Z

Drakefyre:

== Linking to sections ==
You can't, unfortunately. A link to [[Magic#Spells]] will take you to exactly the same place as [[Magic]]. This seems to be some kind of flaw in the wiki software.
-- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 21:00, 11 October 2006 (PDT)

Hmm... [[Magic#Spells]] appears to work correctly for me. -- [[User:Dikiyoba|Dikiyoba]] 23:05, 11 October 2006 (PDT)

So it does! Once upon a time it didn't work at all; I guess one of the updates fixed it. I tried the [[Magic#curses]] link, which didn't work -- but because it needs correct capitalization: [[Magic#Curses]]. Whoops! --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 23:47, 11 October 2006 (PDT)
:: It just doesn't work for redirects. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 00:18, 12 October 2006 (PDT)

Talk:Howar

2006-10-06T04:00:19Z

Drakefyre: But ...

This isn't ''really'' in the games. The only thing in the games is one of those stop-motion sequences -- a fairly dopey one -- in the intro to Avernum 2 or 3 that has Howar, along with Garzahd, sitting in the throne room as Hawthorne is assassinated. From [[game canon]]:

Garzahd: Howar?
Howar: Yes?
Garzahd: It is time to deal with Avernum.
Howar: Yes, Garzahd.

He has a priest graphic, but the priest graphic is used for plenty of people who aren't actually priests, and I can't think of a single example of a priest involved in Empire government in any serious capacity. Eh. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 20:37, 5 October 2006 (PDT)
::It's in Exile III too, and what people have priest graphics that aren't priests? Talking about Exile, not Avernum. He could have been Hawthorne's personal spiritual advisor, but whatever it was, he was important and a priest. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 21:00, 5 October 2006 (PDT)

Howar

2006-10-05T18:04:41Z

Drakefyre: this is in the games

''Note: This entry refers to high priest. For the alchemist, see [[Howar (Alchemist)]].''

[[Howar]] was the high [[priests|priest]] of the [[Empire]] during parts of the reigns of [[Hawthorne III]] and [[Prazac I]].

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Spider

2006-10-04T02:43:24Z

Drakefyre: fixed links for real

''Note: This article refers to the naming conventions of [[spiders#Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders|Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]]. For the entry on the generic arachnid, see [[spiders]].''

All [[spiders#Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders|Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]] refer to each other and themselves by the name "Spider". It is not quite clear how - if at all - they tell each other apart as individuals. It has been theorized that they have more complex, untranslatable names in their own language, but since no human has learned this language, it is impossibly to confirm.

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Spider

2006-10-04T02:41:46Z

Drakefyre: fixed links

''Note: This article refers to the naming conventions of [[Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]]. For the entry on the generic arachnid, see [[giant spiders]].''

All [[Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]] refer to each other and themselves by the name "Spider". It is not quite clear how - if at all - they tell each other apart as individuals. It has been theorized that they have more complex, untranslatable names in their own language, but since no human has learned this language, it is impossibly to confirm.

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Spider

2006-10-04T02:41:17Z

Drakefyre: added link to Spiders

''Note: This article refers to the naming conventions of [[Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]]. For the entry on the generic arachnid, see [[Spiders]].''

All [[Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]] refer to each other and themselves by the name "Spider". It is not quite clear how - if at all - they tell each other apart as individuals. It has been theorized that they have more complex, untranslatable names in their own language, but since no human has learned this language, it is impossibly to confirm.

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Hate language

2006-09-30T22:47:15Z

Drakefyre: combined vole and worm - never see worm outside of reference to Avernites

; cavenewt : derogatory term for [[Avernite]] [[adventurers]].
; kitty : derogatory term for [[nephilim]].
; troglo : commonly used, offensive term for [[troglodytes]].
; vole, worm : derogatory terms for Avernites, used by the [[Empire]]. Also used in the same capacity by some residents of the [[Abyss]], exiled from [[Avernum]].
;

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Talk:Rentar-Ihrno

2006-09-19T02:49:54Z

Drakefyre: she dies?

== Follow-up ==

At the danger of spoiling Avernum 4, this really needs to include what happened to her at the end of the Retribution, and how the Olgai reacted to her illegal transformation (ostracizing is mentioned as the usual penalty). [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:10, 18 September 2006 (CDT)

:Is that established, yet? There are several possible endings for Rentar in A4. How should we pick one? --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 11:08, 18 September 2006 (CDT)
::Are there several victorious endings too? I have to admit that I didn't play even the demo of A4 beyond about Formello... [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 14:30, 18 September 2006 (CDT)
:::Let's go with the "death" ending, as I presume A5 will use that. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 21:49, 18 September 2006 (CDT)

Talk:Royal Magician

2006-09-19T02:49:07Z

Drakefyre: Correlea

== Correlea ==

From Avernum 4, I presume? [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:06, 18 September 2006 (CDT)
::Yes --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 21:49, 18 September 2006 (CDT)

Fort Emerald

2006-09-16T13:17:04Z

Drakefyre: link

{{city|name=Fort Emerald|continent=[[Exile]]|region=[[Great Cave]]|nation=[[Kingdom of Avernum]]|title=Commander|leader=Captain Biden|industries=None}}
 
[[Fort Emerald]] is named for the strange and powerful [[Emerald]] around which it was wisely built. Founded during the [[First Slith War]], it blocked the most direct route between the castle of [[Sss-Thsss]] and the [[Castle]] of [[Avernum]]. It was subjected to constant bombardment by [[slithzerikai]] [[mages]], and survived only due to aggressive use of fireballs and [[magic barriers]] by [[Avernite]] mages who channeled the power of the Emerald. It reprised this role during the [[Empire-Avernum War]], when it was the primary defense against [[Fort Dolthar]].

==Commanders==
* Scarlet
* General Landren
* Captain Biden

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Rentar-Ihrno

2006-09-15T16:19:55Z

Drakefyre: added her transformation to crystal soul

Rentar-Ihrno is the most powerful [[Vahnatai]] [[mage]] with whom [[humans]] have come into contact. Rentar-Ihrno was instrumental in [[Avernum]]'s victory in the [[Empire-Avernum War]], but her hatred for the [[Empire]] did not end there. For the theft of the [[Crystal Souls]], she condemned the [[continents|continent]] of [[Valorim]] to die under a swarm of [[plagues|magical beasts]]. With unparalleled [[magic|magical]] knowledge and strength, it came as a surprise to many to hear that she was nearly bested by the human mage [[Erika Redmark]]. Some experts on magic conjecture that so much of her energy was poured into the factory that she was not at full strength, but others merely credit Redmark with being the most powerful mage of the time.

Rentar-Ihrno did not perish in her factory's collapse, however. With a final threat to the adventurers, she [[teleportation|teleported]] far underground and had not been heard from until 855 [[IE]], when she resurfaced as a Crystal Soul and the mastermind behind Vahnatai [[retribution]]. However, scorned by the [[Olgai Council]] after requesting to be made into a Crystal Soul, she dangerously (although successfully) made the transformation herself.

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Patrick Padraig

2006-09-15T15:59:28Z

Drakefyre: added Hathwisa and patrick's tower

Patrick Padraig was one of [[the Five]] and had his own tower of learning in the [[Great Cave]]. After his death, the tower was maintained by his apprentices. Patrick was an original member of the [[Triad]] and helped imprison [[Grah-Hoth]] in [[Skarragath]]. He is also credited with authoring most of the [[Tower of Magi]]'s books of [[magic|magical]] instruction. He, with his wife [[Hathwisa]], made [[Patrick's Tower]] a place of learning and research second only to the [[Tower of Magi]]. Patrick and Hathwisa both died shortly after the [[Empire-Avernum War]] ended, in 825 [[IE]].

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Royal Magician

2006-09-15T15:56:51Z

Drakefyre: added Correlea as Rone's apprentice

The most trusted advisor to the [[King of Avernum]], the [[Royal Magician]] has few official duties but plenty of responsibility. His chief obligation is regulation of all [[magic]] in [[Avernum]], which occasionally puts him at odds with the [[Triad]]. Unofficially, he is a sounding board for all of the King's ideas and also his most respected aide. To date, only [[Rone]] has held the position, but he is currently grooming the researcher [[Correlea]] to follow in his footsteps.

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First Slith War

2006-09-14T15:18:24Z

Drakefyre: grammar

The [[First Slith War]] lasted until 817 [[IE]] in [[Exile]]. The [[slithzerikai|slith]] leader, [[Sss-Thsss]], attacked the [[Kingdom of Avernum]], especially the areas around [[Almaria]], [[Fort Emerald]], and the [[Eastern Gallery]], until [[Hawthorne's Assassins]] slew him, ending the war.

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Akhronath

2006-09-14T14:42:47Z

Drakefyre: added link to Banishment of Grah-Hoth

[[Akhronath]] was the main fortress of the [[demons|demon]] lord [[Grah-Hoth]], in the days when he held dominion over all of [[Exile]]. In 779 [[IE]], a small army of [[Avernite]] [[mages]] defeated Grah-Hoth and blasted and sealed Akhronath. See the related article [[Banishment of Grah-Hoth]].

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Talk:The Five

2006-09-14T14:39:53Z

Drakefyre: Quote from Exile III

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall any of the games mentioning 'The Five' specifically. A list of names is always used, and even then not one person names all five people. [[User:Jerry bush|Jerry bush]] forgot to sign.

== Aimee vs. Linda ==
I think we had this discussion a long time ago... anyway, the fact is that there is ''contradicting evidence'' in the games as to who the fifth exilee was. The early games refer to Aimee among the five, while A4 (and maybe soem earlier Avernums? I don't remember) seems to have ''inconsistently'' retconned Linda into the early cave magic. However, some of those references -- praticularly the one to her as part of the Akhronath assault -- sound like goofs.

IMHO, there is a large mass of situational evidence on Aimee's side. Given Aimee's reclusiveness and her lack of eminently practical or powerful magic, it makes no sense that Erika AND Patrick AND Rone AND Solberg would be so close to her, and would talk about her as they do, without her having been part of the Five. There are also numerous statements like "then Linda came to the Tower"... if Linda had been one of the Five, those statements would make little sense, given that she would have been involved in the Tower's creation and would presumably have lived there since the beginning. And if Linda really was part of the assault on Akhronath, why is it that NOBODY -- not her, not Grah-Hoth, not Kelner, no one -- ever comments on that?

IMHO, it's safe to say that Aimee was in the Five and Linda was not. At any rate I think it's a mistake to state that Linda was a member; the evidence is too sketchy.
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 12:13, 12 September 2006 (CDT)
::This is comment I used (talking to Micah in Av1), along with the list of the Five in Exile III: "An army of warriors and mages, led by Rone, the Royal magician, Linda, Solberg, and most powerful of all, the incantatrix Erika. They, their apprentices, and our finest warriors did battle with the demons. We won, and imprisoned Grah-Hoth." --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 12:46, 12 September 2006 (CDT)
:::Just a question: If Jerry was right in saying the Five are never mentioned in that form in the game (no time to check the dumps), then how did we decide that there were five magi, rather than six (including both Linda and Aimee)? Disregard this if the game did say there were five wizards.

:::Does anyone else feel reminded of the "Five Wizards" question in Middle-earth? [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:26, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

::That quote is the one I was talking about. If you look up the same line in E1, Linda isn't mentioned. So at the very least it's an E/A conflict. When I finally get a computer again in about a week, I'll look up the other relevant lines. --[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 09:29, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
:::From Exile III, a book called The History of Exile: "Among these were several powerful mages, all of whom were at the losing end of a political struggle. These were Solberg and Patrick, Rone and Linda. And, most importantly, Erika. They imprisoned the demon Grah-Hoth who ruled the caverns, and formed a nation, which they called Exile as a constant reminder that this was not our true home." --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 09:39, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

Krizsan

2006-09-14T13:57:59Z

Drakefyre: formatting

Krizsan is a province capital of the [[Empire|Imperial]] [[Krizsan Province|province of the same name]], in the Southwest of [[Valorim]]. {{city|name=City of Krizsan|continent=[[Valorim]]|region=[[Krizsan Province]]|nation=The [[Empire]]|title=Mayor|leader=[[Arbuckle]]|industries=[[Trading]]}}

==Location==

The town of Krizsan is located on the south-eastern coast of the continent of Valorim â€“ on the frontier of Imperial Expansion and settlement. Though it is indeed situated in what could be called the backwaters of the Empire, it is in a key spot of the continent: Northwest of it lie the [[Pergha mountains]], filled to the brim with high-quality iron ore, copper and even a few silver ore veins. West of it is one of the great farm areas of Valorim; North of it the legendary [[Inn of Blades]] and the famed [[Fort Emergence]]; Krizsan is a popular tourist resort now that the land grows more and more civilized.

==Economy==
Its location on the coast makes Krizsan one of Valorimâ€™s major ports, as well as the starting point of many an adventurous expedition into the far-famed tropical continent of [[Vantanas]]. Though the port and the trading activities of Krizsan were nearly shut down during the time of the [[Plagues]] in 830 IE when all of Valorim was threatened by ferocious monsters of all kinds, the Krizsan Tradepost was reopened in 835 IE. Now, eight years later, the port city has nearly achieved its former glory, with tremendous trading cogs arriving from East Valorim and from [[Aizo]]. They come laden with wood, exotic Aizoan fruits and clothing (made from the hide of the Aizoan giant lizard that thrives in the southern hot climate), and leave laden with bountiful minerals and metals mined and smelted in [[Pergies]], the mining capital of Valorim that lies only a few miles Northwest of Krizsan.

==History==
[[Image:Krizsan.gif|right|thumb|A map of [[Krizsan Province]]]]
The town was named after General [[Gabor Krizsan]], [[Dervish]] Field Commander of the [[Imperial Army]], who was a key figure in the [[Nephilim]] Wars that cast a shadow over the [[Discovery and Conquest of Valorim|early settlement of Valorim]]. General Krizsan was of the Empireâ€™s most brilliant, celebrated and loyal strategists, and he won battles against many different foes. For his bravery, he was eventually rewarded by having the southwesternmost of the six provinces in Valorim, and its capital, named after him, the province which he helped conquer and defend. Unsurprisingly, for this he became a hero.

Before the time of the plagues, Krizsan was a sleepy town - the only perk in the daily routine being another shipment of clothes or food or another smuggler's shipment of illegal [[Skribbane]] herb (coming through from the infamous pirate nest of [[Valorim]], west of the city, the favorite port for most smuggling runs). However shortly after the end of the Empire-Avernum War and before the return of the Avernites to the surface, the province was devastated by one of the six monster [[plagues]] to afflict Valorim, the magical [[slimes]].

Because Krizsan province was the closest to the emergence point of the Avernites, it was the first land to be cleansed of the plagues by the famed Avernite explorers. The result of this was that Krizsan became the place of the start of a time of peace between Avernum and the Empire, further cemented by the other deeds of the Avernites. This place is also where the initial reconciliation of the nations of Avernum and the [[Pralgadian Empire]] were negotiated, between [[King Micah]] and Empress Prazac. [[Mayor Arbuckle]], who resigned from his post earlier this year in 843 IE, never grows tired of retelling the story of the legendary negotiation in his office that swept aside more than a hundred years of discord between the Empire and Avernum; tours of the office are being regularly held to the never-ceasing streams of tourists who flock in both from Avernum and northern Valorim.

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Ernest

2006-09-14T13:55:57Z

Drakefyre:

Of all the [[mages]] in [[Valorim]], [[Ernest]] was the most skilled in [[teleportation]]. In the course of his studies, he created magical [[portals]] to the six greatest cities in Valorim. His hut in [[Krizsan Province]] was used by the [[Surface Explorers]] to quickly and easily move around Valorim.

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User talk:Arancaytar

2006-09-14T13:51:53Z

Drakefyre: /* New Template Heading Colors */

== From Drakey ==
=== Wanted Pages ===
Aran, I've started going through this list: [[Special:Wantedpages]] to find stubs to make, and then I'll go through the list of stubs and expand articles. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 22:42, 28 Aug 2005 (CEST)
=== Stubs ===
Stubs are definitely better than nothing - they let you get down the basics and simple definitions that help people using the Encyclopedia. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Blocking unregistered edits ===
Would it be possible to allow only registered users to make edits? I think that would be a good idea. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Fort Monastery ===
Yes, Monastery is new. It looks like it replaced Fort Ganrick (Monastery is west of Fort Draco). --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
==== Fort Ganrick ====
Well, it didn't replace Fort Ganrick, but Fort Ganrick no longer exists.
=== Pages In Progress ===
You don't need to stub pages marked "In Progress". I specifically didn't stub them because I was planning to finish them. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Moving from Geocities ===
Stuff for you to bring over:
*The Triad (which needs to be edited)
*Quickfire
*Spiders
*Layout for Herbarium Articles

And then we should be completely done with the old Encyclopedia content (minus wands)
==== The Triad ====
:The Triad article is full of wrong information and needs to be drastically edited as well, but it does have a lot of words :P
=== Kelandon's notes ===
I've spent quite a while going through [http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/history.html Kel's excellent notes] and making changes to the history of Exile and the founders. Everything should now be aligned with Av 1-3, but I'm holding off on ZKR until I can confirm some A4 stuff. The only contradiction is a history book saying [[Micah I|Micah]] ruled for 40 years before 817, and Erika saying in 833 that he ruled for 20-some years. What Erika said makes absolutely no sense with the other timelines considered, so I just ignored that. -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 20:09, 31 Aug 2005 (CEST)
==== Banishing of the Archmagi ====
:The banishing of the Archmagi is early, but it does make sense that it would be in the earlier years of Hawthorne II's reign than the later years. I always thought of Erika as the youngest and most powerful of the Five. I thought of her and Micah as the young leaders of the fledgeling nation. While it does put Micah very old for a non-mage, I've tried to explain it in his entry.
=== Maps ===
I don't have the first map, but I assume that you do. If you need it, I should be able to dig it up.
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_02.gif Map 2]
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_03.gif Map 3]
==== Vantanas ====
I found this lying around in my sitemouse directory: http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/Vantanas.gif

:It wouldn't hurt to upload this so we have another map of Vantanas. And a color one :P -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Rone ===
Some of the Rone/Micah information needs to be changed - Rone is not dead, it was a mistaken rumor. But it's confirmed that Rone is using magic to extend his life and probably did for Micah as well.-- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Icarus ===
Only did it because it seemed to be the same myth, and the Scimitar did mention it. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Board ===
If we're going to have it, people should probably check it ;) --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Featured Articles ===
Giants? Or Magic? We should get a picture of a giant, though. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 11:03, 8 September 2006 (CDT)
:From where? You're welcome to draw one if you want to... ;-) I'll read both articles today and see if anything could be improved before featuring. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 00:47, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

===New Template Heading Colors===
Why did you change all of the colors from nice ones to hideous ones? And I mean every single one is ugly now. Was there a problem with the old ones? --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 06:53, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
:There's a light on dark skin? I'm still on the old default, I guess. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 07:31, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::I went over and looked at the new one, but I'm sticking with MonoBook. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 08:51, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

== From Hhhhh ==

=== Introduction ===
I bought a CD containing 100 games that included the exile series, which was when I first played exile. However, every one of those 100 games were unregistered (should I laugh or cry?) and the other games were horrible. Anyways I have not registered in any exile/spiderweb boards so you do not know me. My life is not that interesting, so I will post no more. By the way how do you start a new page?
=== Stubs ===
I don't know how to mark articles as a stub, would someone please tell me how?

---[[User:Hhhhh|Hhhhh]]

== From Noname ==
=== Religion ===
Wait? only 16% of the empire's people follow a religion? That's what the percentages add up to- 16%. I thought that there would be more, so I changed the statistics to add up to 100% of the religious citizenry (not including secular citizens.) My question is, what about the other 84% of the empire? Are they all secular? ---[[User:Noname|Noname]]

== From Slartucker ==

=== Demons ===
Aran -- your change to [[demons]] doesn't make sense to me -- the sentence seems even more confusing now than before. However, I'm not sure if you misinterpreted my version (it WAS a bit confusing) or if you are actually suggesting something different, so I'll wait to hear from you before I change anything. I was trying to say that, despite the bans, most mages end up involved in demon stuff. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 04:49, 12 January 2006 (CST)

P.S. Are rakshasha (however the heck you spell that) demonic? I seem to recall them summoned demons complete with pentagram in the Tiger's Den in Ex2, so I'm doubtful. I'm also skeptical about efreeti, though I suppose that's a matter of interpretation.
==== Re: Rakshasi ====
Interesting, I'll have to look into the rakshasi. As for efreeti, I have always assumed that Jeff's efreeti were borrowings from Arabian lore, in which they are the second of five classes of jinn, a magical race that shares some characteristics with Avernum-style demons but are certainly different. At least I've never seen them referred to as demonic anywhere, canonical or not.
==== Re: Efreeti ====
:Efreet classification: well, they're sentient, and they're as much a race as demons are. I don't think either would be classified as humanoid, though they often have humanoid form. Does everything need a sub-classification beyond the bestiary category, though?
:Meanwhile, while researching dragon gender-bending (there's more than I realized) I have discovered yet more flaws in my First Expedition stuff. Sigh. As much as I like my narrative, I think I'm going to have to get rid of it and replace it with a bullet point list of places they visited and things they did. The evidence is just all over the place!
=== Illithids ===
Nice way to handle the illithid canonicity. I think I may do something similar for 'normal' versions of rakshasi and efreeti. Fun Fact: Jeff flipped the singular and plural forms of both of those races, from the originals. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 20:43, 19 January 2006 (CST)

=== FTP site ===
The site is now timing out whenever I try, not even getting to the point of rejecting my login. I used the one you listed. I've now tried 3 different clients; if the problem is on my end I have no idea what it is. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 11:00, 26 January 2006 (CST)

=== Re: Canon issues ===
Mmn. I completely understand the concern about which scenarios should be included. I'm just going to use my best judgment, and if you or Drakey (or anyone else) wants to correct me, you're always welcome to. (Three cheers for the elegant democracy of the wiki!) Alternately, if someone wants to outline -- perhaps as a generally useful OOC article -- exactly what sources are considered legitimate fanon by people who ''have'' "been in the community long enough to be considered experts on their subject," I think that would be a very useful thing. (The current [[fanon]] entry is devoid of actual information.) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 18:12, 28 January 2006 (CST)

:Heh. I actually paused for a moment after typing democracy, but decided it was close enough. --- Slarty

=== Templates ===
Aran: is there any way to get the city info template to be an inset (as info boxes are on wikipedia, and as the image thumbnails are here)?
::You're kidding, it was that simple? Hah. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 06:59, 2 February 2006 (CST)
:::: It can be a bit tricky to get the formatting you want, but with a few examples like the Emperor template, it's extremely easy. I see you've already made it :) [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:01, 2 February 2006 (CST)

=== Misc. ===
You know, you had me thinking you really were an Ilyaren. :P --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:20, 3 February 2006 (CST)

Technically, it was atrociously ''punctuated'' ;) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 13:18, 5 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure ===
If I understand correctly, right now anything that's an organization requires THREE clicks from the main page to access: one to person, then another to organizations, then another to the entry itself. Perhaps Organizations should just be another top-level category?

Actually, I think this makes sense. At the moment, it is really closer to "Nations" than it is to "Persons" since it includes stuff like the [[Scimitar]], but not groupings of multiple persons like the [[Triad]] or the [[Five]]. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:33, 6 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure II ===
Is there a reason you recat'ed Religion, but not Stories or Languages? I think it's fine, but I'm just curious, since you left Drakey's edits as they were for all three.

Also, somebody is gonna have to recategorize all the individual pages in those categories!
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:32, 25 March 2006 (CST)

=== Stubs ===
Undead is still missing Liches entirely, as well as guardians and black shades, which qualifies it as a page that definitely needs work. That one is at least listed on my user page, but in other cases they might not be. There are definitely some articles listed as stubs that don't need to be, but if an entire necessary chunk is missing, shouldn't it still be listed as a stub? --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

== From Jerry ==
=== User page format. ===

Nevermind, I figured it out. I was refering to the lines and headers.

=== Calling wrong stuff out. ===

If I think something is wrong, I'll post something in the talk section. If my 'little' change is going to make such a fuss, I'm not gonna let some of this other stuff get by. [[User:Jerry bush|Jerry]], who hates being made a fool of by others.

== From Aussieavernum ==

I am not sure if this is where I should post. You posted on my user page and in that post you asked if I am registered with the Spiderweb Software forums and I can't just say yes or no. I did register at the forums but my e-mail program doesn't work. When I purchased a new computer early in 2005, My e-mail program didn't work. A few weeks ago, my mother called a computer repair company and a man came over and fixed it for 88 australian dollars. The next day it stopped working so I couldn't get the e-mail with the password. [[User:Aussieavernum|Aussieavernum]]

=== RE: RE:Your Message ===

Thank you for the info about the siganture and e-mail. My mum Jose has created a hotmail account called aussieavernum@hotmail.com and I will soon register in the [http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi Spiderweb Forums] as aussieavernum.

[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 01:49, 28 April 2006 (CDT)

=== RE:Personal Information ===

Thank you for the security information.:D I have edited the page sp is not a security risk.
[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 05:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

Talk:IE

2006-09-14T12:36:00Z

Drakefyre: IE redirect

== Redirect ==

Why does IE redirect to [[Timeline of Ermarian]], not [[Imperial Era]]? IE stands for the latter, so the either Imperial Era should be merged into Timeline of Ermarian, or this article should redirect to Imperial Era instead. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:07, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::I guess it's because we usually link to IE in reference to important events which can be seen relative to other events in the timeline. Or something. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 07:36, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

User talk:Arancaytar

2006-09-14T12:31:47Z

Drakefyre: /* New Template Heading Colors */

== From Drakey ==
=== Wanted Pages ===
Aran, I've started going through this list: [[Special:Wantedpages]] to find stubs to make, and then I'll go through the list of stubs and expand articles. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 22:42, 28 Aug 2005 (CEST)
=== Stubs ===
Stubs are definitely better than nothing - they let you get down the basics and simple definitions that help people using the Encyclopedia. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Blocking unregistered edits ===
Would it be possible to allow only registered users to make edits? I think that would be a good idea. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Fort Monastery ===
Yes, Monastery is new. It looks like it replaced Fort Ganrick (Monastery is west of Fort Draco). --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
==== Fort Ganrick ====
Well, it didn't replace Fort Ganrick, but Fort Ganrick no longer exists.
=== Pages In Progress ===
You don't need to stub pages marked "In Progress". I specifically didn't stub them because I was planning to finish them. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Moving from Geocities ===
Stuff for you to bring over:
*The Triad (which needs to be edited)
*Quickfire
*Spiders
*Layout for Herbarium Articles

And then we should be completely done with the old Encyclopedia content (minus wands)
==== The Triad ====
:The Triad article is full of wrong information and needs to be drastically edited as well, but it does have a lot of words :P
=== Kelandon's notes ===
I've spent quite a while going through [http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/history.html Kel's excellent notes] and making changes to the history of Exile and the founders. Everything should now be aligned with Av 1-3, but I'm holding off on ZKR until I can confirm some A4 stuff. The only contradiction is a history book saying [[Micah I|Micah]] ruled for 40 years before 817, and Erika saying in 833 that he ruled for 20-some years. What Erika said makes absolutely no sense with the other timelines considered, so I just ignored that. -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 20:09, 31 Aug 2005 (CEST)
==== Banishing of the Archmagi ====
:The banishing of the Archmagi is early, but it does make sense that it would be in the earlier years of Hawthorne II's reign than the later years. I always thought of Erika as the youngest and most powerful of the Five. I thought of her and Micah as the young leaders of the fledgeling nation. While it does put Micah very old for a non-mage, I've tried to explain it in his entry.
=== Maps ===
I don't have the first map, but I assume that you do. If you need it, I should be able to dig it up.
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_02.gif Map 2]
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_03.gif Map 3]
==== Vantanas ====
I found this lying around in my sitemouse directory: http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/Vantanas.gif

:It wouldn't hurt to upload this so we have another map of Vantanas. And a color one :P -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Rone ===
Some of the Rone/Micah information needs to be changed - Rone is not dead, it was a mistaken rumor. But it's confirmed that Rone is using magic to extend his life and probably did for Micah as well.-- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Icarus ===
Only did it because it seemed to be the same myth, and the Scimitar did mention it. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Board ===
If we're going to have it, people should probably check it ;) --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Featured Articles ===
Giants? Or Magic? We should get a picture of a giant, though. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 11:03, 8 September 2006 (CDT)
:From where? You're welcome to draw one if you want to... ;-) I'll read both articles today and see if anything could be improved before featuring. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 00:47, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

===New Template Heading Colors===
Why did you change all of the colors from nice ones to hideous ones? And I mean every single one is ugly now. Was there a problem with the old ones? --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 06:53, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::There's a light on dark skin? I'm still on the old default, I guess. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 07:31, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

== From Hhhhh ==

=== Introduction ===
I bought a CD containing 100 games that included the exile series, which was when I first played exile. However, every one of those 100 games were unregistered (should I laugh or cry?) and the other games were horrible. Anyways I have not registered in any exile/spiderweb boards so you do not know me. My life is not that interesting, so I will post no more. By the way how do you start a new page?
=== Stubs ===
I don't know how to mark articles as a stub, would someone please tell me how?

---[[User:Hhhhh|Hhhhh]]

== From Noname ==
=== Religion ===
Wait? only 16% of the empire's people follow a religion? That's what the percentages add up to- 16%. I thought that there would be more, so I changed the statistics to add up to 100% of the religious citizenry (not including secular citizens.) My question is, what about the other 84% of the empire? Are they all secular? ---[[User:Noname|Noname]]

== From Slartucker ==

=== Demons ===
Aran -- your change to [[demons]] doesn't make sense to me -- the sentence seems even more confusing now than before. However, I'm not sure if you misinterpreted my version (it WAS a bit confusing) or if you are actually suggesting something different, so I'll wait to hear from you before I change anything. I was trying to say that, despite the bans, most mages end up involved in demon stuff. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 04:49, 12 January 2006 (CST)

P.S. Are rakshasha (however the heck you spell that) demonic? I seem to recall them summoned demons complete with pentagram in the Tiger's Den in Ex2, so I'm doubtful. I'm also skeptical about efreeti, though I suppose that's a matter of interpretation.
==== Re: Rakshasi ====
Interesting, I'll have to look into the rakshasi. As for efreeti, I have always assumed that Jeff's efreeti were borrowings from Arabian lore, in which they are the second of five classes of jinn, a magical race that shares some characteristics with Avernum-style demons but are certainly different. At least I've never seen them referred to as demonic anywhere, canonical or not.
==== Re: Efreeti ====
:Efreet classification: well, they're sentient, and they're as much a race as demons are. I don't think either would be classified as humanoid, though they often have humanoid form. Does everything need a sub-classification beyond the bestiary category, though?
:Meanwhile, while researching dragon gender-bending (there's more than I realized) I have discovered yet more flaws in my First Expedition stuff. Sigh. As much as I like my narrative, I think I'm going to have to get rid of it and replace it with a bullet point list of places they visited and things they did. The evidence is just all over the place!
=== Illithids ===
Nice way to handle the illithid canonicity. I think I may do something similar for 'normal' versions of rakshasi and efreeti. Fun Fact: Jeff flipped the singular and plural forms of both of those races, from the originals. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 20:43, 19 January 2006 (CST)

=== FTP site ===
The site is now timing out whenever I try, not even getting to the point of rejecting my login. I used the one you listed. I've now tried 3 different clients; if the problem is on my end I have no idea what it is. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 11:00, 26 January 2006 (CST)

=== Re: Canon issues ===
Mmn. I completely understand the concern about which scenarios should be included. I'm just going to use my best judgment, and if you or Drakey (or anyone else) wants to correct me, you're always welcome to. (Three cheers for the elegant democracy of the wiki!) Alternately, if someone wants to outline -- perhaps as a generally useful OOC article -- exactly what sources are considered legitimate fanon by people who ''have'' "been in the community long enough to be considered experts on their subject," I think that would be a very useful thing. (The current [[fanon]] entry is devoid of actual information.) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 18:12, 28 January 2006 (CST)

:Heh. I actually paused for a moment after typing democracy, but decided it was close enough. --- Slarty

=== Templates ===
Aran: is there any way to get the city info template to be an inset (as info boxes are on wikipedia, and as the image thumbnails are here)?
::You're kidding, it was that simple? Hah. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 06:59, 2 February 2006 (CST)
:::: It can be a bit tricky to get the formatting you want, but with a few examples like the Emperor template, it's extremely easy. I see you've already made it :) [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:01, 2 February 2006 (CST)

=== Misc. ===
You know, you had me thinking you really were an Ilyaren. :P --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:20, 3 February 2006 (CST)

Technically, it was atrociously ''punctuated'' ;) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 13:18, 5 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure ===
If I understand correctly, right now anything that's an organization requires THREE clicks from the main page to access: one to person, then another to organizations, then another to the entry itself. Perhaps Organizations should just be another top-level category?

Actually, I think this makes sense. At the moment, it is really closer to "Nations" than it is to "Persons" since it includes stuff like the [[Scimitar]], but not groupings of multiple persons like the [[Triad]] or the [[Five]]. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:33, 6 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure II ===
Is there a reason you recat'ed Religion, but not Stories or Languages? I think it's fine, but I'm just curious, since you left Drakey's edits as they were for all three.

Also, somebody is gonna have to recategorize all the individual pages in those categories!
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:32, 25 March 2006 (CST)

=== Stubs ===
Undead is still missing Liches entirely, as well as guardians and black shades, which qualifies it as a page that definitely needs work. That one is at least listed on my user page, but in other cases they might not be. There are definitely some articles listed as stubs that don't need to be, but if an entire necessary chunk is missing, shouldn't it still be listed as a stub? --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

== From Jerry ==
=== User page format. ===

Nevermind, I figured it out. I was refering to the lines and headers.

=== Calling wrong stuff out. ===

If I think something is wrong, I'll post something in the talk section. If my 'little' change is going to make such a fuss, I'm not gonna let some of this other stuff get by. [[User:Jerry bush|Jerry]], who hates being made a fool of by others.

== From Aussieavernum ==

I am not sure if this is where I should post. You posted on my user page and in that post you asked if I am registered with the Spiderweb Software forums and I can't just say yes or no. I did register at the forums but my e-mail program doesn't work. When I purchased a new computer early in 2005, My e-mail program didn't work. A few weeks ago, my mother called a computer repair company and a man came over and fixed it for 88 australian dollars. The next day it stopped working so I couldn't get the e-mail with the password. [[User:Aussieavernum|Aussieavernum]]

=== RE: RE:Your Message ===

Thank you for the info about the siganture and e-mail. My mum Jose has created a hotmail account called aussieavernum@hotmail.com and I will soon register in the [http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi Spiderweb Forums] as aussieavernum.

[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 01:49, 28 April 2006 (CDT)

=== RE:Personal Information ===

Thank you for the security information.:D I have edited the page sp is not a security risk.
[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 05:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

User talk:Arancaytar

2006-09-14T11:53:23Z

Drakefyre: Template Colors?

== From Drakey ==
=== Wanted Pages ===
Aran, I've started going through this list: [[Special:Wantedpages]] to find stubs to make, and then I'll go through the list of stubs and expand articles. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 22:42, 28 Aug 2005 (CEST)
=== Stubs ===
Stubs are definitely better than nothing - they let you get down the basics and simple definitions that help people using the Encyclopedia. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Blocking unregistered edits ===
Would it be possible to allow only registered users to make edits? I think that would be a good idea. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Fort Monastery ===
Yes, Monastery is new. It looks like it replaced Fort Ganrick (Monastery is west of Fort Draco). --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
==== Fort Ganrick ====
Well, it didn't replace Fort Ganrick, but Fort Ganrick no longer exists.
=== Pages In Progress ===
You don't need to stub pages marked "In Progress". I specifically didn't stub them because I was planning to finish them. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]
=== Moving from Geocities ===
Stuff for you to bring over:
*The Triad (which needs to be edited)
*Quickfire
*Spiders
*Layout for Herbarium Articles

And then we should be completely done with the old Encyclopedia content (minus wands)
==== The Triad ====
:The Triad article is full of wrong information and needs to be drastically edited as well, but it does have a lot of words :P
=== Kelandon's notes ===
I've spent quite a while going through [http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/history.html Kel's excellent notes] and making changes to the history of Exile and the founders. Everything should now be aligned with Av 1-3, but I'm holding off on ZKR until I can confirm some A4 stuff. The only contradiction is a history book saying [[Micah I|Micah]] ruled for 40 years before 817, and Erika saying in 833 that he ruled for 20-some years. What Erika said makes absolutely no sense with the other timelines considered, so I just ignored that. -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 20:09, 31 Aug 2005 (CEST)
==== Banishing of the Archmagi ====
:The banishing of the Archmagi is early, but it does make sense that it would be in the earlier years of Hawthorne II's reign than the later years. I always thought of Erika as the youngest and most powerful of the Five. I thought of her and Micah as the young leaders of the fledgeling nation. While it does put Micah very old for a non-mage, I've tried to explain it in his entry.
=== Maps ===
I don't have the first map, but I assume that you do. If you need it, I should be able to dig it up.
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_02.gif Map 2]
[http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/pralgrad_03.gif Map 3]
==== Vantanas ====
I found this lying around in my sitemouse directory: http://www.sitemouse.com/users/drakefyre/Vantanas.gif

:It wouldn't hurt to upload this so we have another map of Vantanas. And a color one :P -- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Rone ===
Some of the Rone/Micah information needs to be changed - Rone is not dead, it was a mistaken rumor. But it's confirmed that Rone is using magic to extend his life and probably did for Micah as well.-- [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 15:08, 2 Sep 2005 (CEST)

=== Icarus ===
Only did it because it seemed to be the same myth, and the Scimitar did mention it. [[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Board ===
If we're going to have it, people should probably check it ;) --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

=== Featured Articles ===
Giants? Or Magic? We should get a picture of a giant, though. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 11:03, 8 September 2006 (CDT)
:From where? You're welcome to draw one if you want to... ;-) I'll read both articles today and see if anything could be improved before featuring. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 00:47, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

===New Template Heading Colors===
Why did you change all of the colors from nice ones to hideous ones? And I mean every single one is ugly now. Was there a problem with the old ones? --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 06:53, 14 September 2006 (CDT)

== From Hhhhh ==

=== Introduction ===
I bought a CD containing 100 games that included the exile series, which was when I first played exile. However, every one of those 100 games were unregistered (should I laugh or cry?) and the other games were horrible. Anyways I have not registered in any exile/spiderweb boards so you do not know me. My life is not that interesting, so I will post no more. By the way how do you start a new page?
=== Stubs ===
I don't know how to mark articles as a stub, would someone please tell me how?

---[[User:Hhhhh|Hhhhh]]

== From Noname ==
=== Religion ===
Wait? only 16% of the empire's people follow a religion? That's what the percentages add up to- 16%. I thought that there would be more, so I changed the statistics to add up to 100% of the religious citizenry (not including secular citizens.) My question is, what about the other 84% of the empire? Are they all secular? ---[[User:Noname|Noname]]

== From Slartucker ==

=== Demons ===
Aran -- your change to [[demons]] doesn't make sense to me -- the sentence seems even more confusing now than before. However, I'm not sure if you misinterpreted my version (it WAS a bit confusing) or if you are actually suggesting something different, so I'll wait to hear from you before I change anything. I was trying to say that, despite the bans, most mages end up involved in demon stuff. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 04:49, 12 January 2006 (CST)

P.S. Are rakshasha (however the heck you spell that) demonic? I seem to recall them summoned demons complete with pentagram in the Tiger's Den in Ex2, so I'm doubtful. I'm also skeptical about efreeti, though I suppose that's a matter of interpretation.
==== Re: Rakshasi ====
Interesting, I'll have to look into the rakshasi. As for efreeti, I have always assumed that Jeff's efreeti were borrowings from Arabian lore, in which they are the second of five classes of jinn, a magical race that shares some characteristics with Avernum-style demons but are certainly different. At least I've never seen them referred to as demonic anywhere, canonical or not.
==== Re: Efreeti ====
:Efreet classification: well, they're sentient, and they're as much a race as demons are. I don't think either would be classified as humanoid, though they often have humanoid form. Does everything need a sub-classification beyond the bestiary category, though?
:Meanwhile, while researching dragon gender-bending (there's more than I realized) I have discovered yet more flaws in my First Expedition stuff. Sigh. As much as I like my narrative, I think I'm going to have to get rid of it and replace it with a bullet point list of places they visited and things they did. The evidence is just all over the place!
=== Illithids ===
Nice way to handle the illithid canonicity. I think I may do something similar for 'normal' versions of rakshasi and efreeti. Fun Fact: Jeff flipped the singular and plural forms of both of those races, from the originals. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 20:43, 19 January 2006 (CST)

=== FTP site ===
The site is now timing out whenever I try, not even getting to the point of rejecting my login. I used the one you listed. I've now tried 3 different clients; if the problem is on my end I have no idea what it is. ---[[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 11:00, 26 January 2006 (CST)

=== Re: Canon issues ===
Mmn. I completely understand the concern about which scenarios should be included. I'm just going to use my best judgment, and if you or Drakey (or anyone else) wants to correct me, you're always welcome to. (Three cheers for the elegant democracy of the wiki!) Alternately, if someone wants to outline -- perhaps as a generally useful OOC article -- exactly what sources are considered legitimate fanon by people who ''have'' "been in the community long enough to be considered experts on their subject," I think that would be a very useful thing. (The current [[fanon]] entry is devoid of actual information.) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 18:12, 28 January 2006 (CST)

:Heh. I actually paused for a moment after typing democracy, but decided it was close enough. --- Slarty

=== Templates ===
Aran: is there any way to get the city info template to be an inset (as info boxes are on wikipedia, and as the image thumbnails are here)?
::You're kidding, it was that simple? Hah. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 06:59, 2 February 2006 (CST)
:::: It can be a bit tricky to get the formatting you want, but with a few examples like the Emperor template, it's extremely easy. I see you've already made it :) [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:01, 2 February 2006 (CST)

=== Misc. ===
You know, you had me thinking you really were an Ilyaren. :P --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:20, 3 February 2006 (CST)

Technically, it was atrociously ''punctuated'' ;) --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 13:18, 5 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure ===
If I understand correctly, right now anything that's an organization requires THREE clicks from the main page to access: one to person, then another to organizations, then another to the entry itself. Perhaps Organizations should just be another top-level category?

Actually, I think this makes sense. At the moment, it is really closer to "Nations" than it is to "Persons" since it includes stuff like the [[Scimitar]], but not groupings of multiple persons like the [[Triad]] or the [[Five]]. --- [[User:Slartucker|Slartucker]] 10:33, 6 February 2006 (CST)

=== Structure II ===
Is there a reason you recat'ed Religion, but not Stories or Languages? I think it's fine, but I'm just curious, since you left Drakey's edits as they were for all three.

Also, somebody is gonna have to recategorize all the individual pages in those categories!
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:32, 25 March 2006 (CST)

=== Stubs ===
Undead is still missing Liches entirely, as well as guardians and black shades, which qualifies it as a page that definitely needs work. That one is at least listed on my user page, but in other cases they might not be. There are definitely some articles listed as stubs that don't need to be, but if an entire necessary chunk is missing, shouldn't it still be listed as a stub? --- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

== From Jerry ==
=== User page format. ===

Nevermind, I figured it out. I was refering to the lines and headers.

=== Calling wrong stuff out. ===

If I think something is wrong, I'll post something in the talk section. If my 'little' change is going to make such a fuss, I'm not gonna let some of this other stuff get by. [[User:Jerry bush|Jerry]], who hates being made a fool of by others.

== From Aussieavernum ==

I am not sure if this is where I should post. You posted on my user page and in that post you asked if I am registered with the Spiderweb Software forums and I can't just say yes or no. I did register at the forums but my e-mail program doesn't work. When I purchased a new computer early in 2005, My e-mail program didn't work. A few weeks ago, my mother called a computer repair company and a man came over and fixed it for 88 australian dollars. The next day it stopped working so I couldn't get the e-mail with the password. [[User:Aussieavernum|Aussieavernum]]

=== RE: RE:Your Message ===

Thank you for the info about the siganture and e-mail. My mum Jose has created a hotmail account called aussieavernum@hotmail.com and I will soon register in the [http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi Spiderweb Forums] as aussieavernum.

[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 01:49, 28 April 2006 (CDT)

=== RE:Personal Information ===

Thank you for the security information.:D I have edited the page sp is not a security risk.
[[User:Aussieavernum|Joshie]] 05:33, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

Talk:Silver circlet

2006-09-14T11:50:30Z

Drakefyre: artefact/artifact

== Artefact ==

[http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-art1.htm Artefact is British English]. We don't have a convention on this kind of thing currently, but it should be handled in consistence with colour. [[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:53, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
:Addendum: Reading that article in more detail, the issue appears muddier than I thought it was. But still, artefact is more common in British English while artifact is common in American English.[[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 04:57, 14 September 2006 (CDT)
::Since the games refer to them every time as artifacts, I would imagine the encyclopedia should too. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]]

Silver circlet

2006-09-13T22:38:33Z

Drakefyre: What is the obsession with "artefacts"? Also categorized

The Silver Circlet is one of the artifacts brought into Avernum by the [[First Expedition]]. It was later acquired by Mayor [[Meena]] of [[Spire]] in the [[Abyss]]. Adventurers later stole it from her on behalf of the [[dragon]] [[Sulfras]]. Its current whereabouts are unknown: [[Sulfras]] could have taken it with her to the [[surface]], or had it taken from her during her imprisonment during the [[Empire-Avernum War]].

Nothing is known of the Circlet's powers.

[[Category:Items]]

Category talk:Dungeons

2006-09-13T22:37:12Z

Drakefyre: Cities?

== Dungeons ⊂ Cities? ==

Slarty brings up a good point: At what time did we decided to place Dungeon articles under Cities, without making Dungeons a sub category of Cities?

We have to either categorize [[:Category:Dungeons|Dungeons]] under Cities, or remove the Cities category from the dungeon entries - this way, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

[[User:Arancaytar|Arancaytar]] | [[User talk:Arancaytar|Send Reply!]] --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 15:08, 13 September 2006 (CDT)
::I thought Dungeons was a subcat of Cities - that's the only reason I cat'ed the dungeons as cities. We should just take out the Cities cat from all (most?) dungeons. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 17:37, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

Giants

2006-09-13T17:05:03Z

Drakefyre: spelling

Giants are a staggeringly tall and extremely primitive [[humanoid]] race. Once populating all of [[Aizo]] and parts of [[Pralgad]], the giants were driven from their homes and put to the sword by the [[Empire]]. Renowned for their stupidity and brute strength, giants are remarkably similar to [[humans]], moreso than any other sentient race.

==Appearance==
Giants are more than twice as tall as humans, and eight times as heavy. They often carry large wooden or stone clubs and wear tattered patches of clothing made from animal skins. From a distance, they are indistinguishable from a primitive human. Their only difference is their immense size and strength.
==Skills==
Giants are known to be exceedingly unintelligent and do not have a very large skill set as a race. They are decent farmers, and capable smiths, but none of their work can match that of humans, or even [[troglodytes]]. Giants have some marginally skilled [[mages]] and shamans that command great social standing. These shamans are the most intelligent giants, although that's not saying much. Giants possess some degree of literacy, and they are capable of writing crude signs and messages to humans.
===Technology===
Giant weapons are crude clubs and maces, fashioned out of wood, stone, or iron. They also make use of boulders, which they carry on their back and throw (or hit with their clubs) at enemies. Giants are not very skilled masons, but they are able to create rudimentary structures sufficient for living. The most technically apt giants become smiths and forge weapons or other necessary equipment.
==Culture==
Giants have a rigid tribal structure emphasizing leadership of the strongest and the most magically powerful. Strong chiefs and shamans dictate everyday living of the tribes. Giants live in a community of tribes and clans, sometimes peaceful, and sometimes warring.
===Tribal Structure===
There are several positions the average giant can aspire to. First is the warrior, who defends their territory from humans and other giants, and goes out to fight enemies. Above them are the smiths, and the forgers, who create the weapons that the warriors use. Still above them are the chiefs, one per tribe, who is the strongest or most cunning warrior. Giants with magical ability become shamans, who rule alongside the chieftan, usually manipulating him. Giant women occasionally do the farming or the gathering necessary for the tribe, but their greatest function is giving birth to and raising giant babies.
===Religion===
Giant religion is largely unknown to humans and unstudied by them. Shamans pray to various gods and idols, with varying results. Often the name of a clan will indicate its religion, and giant temples are evil places, usually offering sacrifices to [[demons]] or other beasts of the netherworld. However, because of their lack of intelligence, they are not often taken over by demons, who see the giants as too difficult and frustrating to work with.
===Behavior===
Giants are brutal and often get restless if there has not been fighting recently. As a result, fighting amongst clans and even civil wars within clans are common. Giants loathe [[troglodytes]], their natural enemy, and [[humans]] are not far behind in terms of their hatred. Giants often force [[ogres]], [[goblins]], and [[ursagi]] to work for them as slaves and fight alongside them. While they are not smarter than any of these races, they are much stronger.
==Varieties==
There are two varieties of giant, distinguished largely by their habitat. Hill Giants are from the [[surface]], and Cave Giants from [[Exile]].
===Hill Giants===
Hill Giants were thought to have been eradicated hundreds of years ago, but after resurfacing during the [[Plagues]], they have not gone away. Now occupying mountain hideouts on [[Valorim]], [[Vantanas]], and [[Aizo]], the [[Empire]] does not bother them unless they leave the mountains.
===Cave Giants===
Cave Giants are somewhat common to [[Avernites]], as they inhabit a large area west of [[Northeastern Exile]] known as [[Giant Lands]]. There is a tenuous understanding between the Avernites and the giants that neither will enter the other's territory, on penalty of death.
==History==
See the related article, [[Extermination of Non-Humans]], in our [[History of Ermarian]] series.

[[Category:Bestiary]]
[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:Plagues]]

Erika Redmark

2006-09-13T16:23:38Z

Drakefyre: coherency, link, most powerful mage ever

Erika was the most powerful [[mages|mage]] of [[the Five]] and their political leader. She led their struggles on the surface and underground. Before she was [[Exiled]], [[Garzahd]] and his students placed a powerful curse on her. The curse was said to kill her if the sun ever touched her again, dooming her to life in the caves. But this did not faze her, and she did all she could to help the citizens of Exile, including teleporting a group of adventurers to [[Hawthorne III]]'s throne room to assassinate him.

When a small group of Avernites from [[Unspecified Services]] returned to the surface and found [[Valorim]] awash with monster [[plagues]], she helped the adventurers destroy the [[Vahnatai]] operation when she dueled [[Rentar-Ihrno]]. Unfortunately, Rentar exploited her curse and just as she was about to be defeated, she blasted a hole into the ceiling and a sunbeam touched Erika's skin, killing her instantly. She is considered a hero to all of the Avernites, and will be remembered forever with admiration.

In 839, after the [[reconciliation]] of the [[Empire]] and [[Avernum]], [[Redmark College]] was founded and named in her honor near the [[City of Dawn]] in Southeastern [[Valorim]].

==Magical Ability==
To this day, no one is certain how powerful Erika really was. While her power clearly had its limits, she conveniently worked around them. Erika is known to have bent a number of [[demons]] to her will (although the Empire was able to do this easily, Erika did it alone) and was able to create [[doomguard]]s, a craft that is thought lost even to most imperial wizards. During her battle with [[Rentar-Ihrno]], Erika's summoned minions outnumbered the Vahnatai's, and the Avernite agents present noted that while the duel left Rentar-Ihrno looking exhausted, Erika was barely fazed. It appears likely that Erika surpassed her rival in sheer power, and could not have been beaten if it were not for the curse.

Many scholars, particularly those from Avernum, name Erika as the most powerful mage to ever set foot on [[Ermarian]].

== Deeds in the Service of Avernum ==
* Teleported magical tomes from the surface, providing the basis for all Avernite magic
* Taught magic to generations of Avernite mages
* Teleported plants from the surface and modified them to subsist on volcanic heat energy
* Created [[cavewood]] trees, capable of growing in stone
* Created nourishing, fast-growing [[mushrooms]]
* Helped build the [[Tower of Magi]]
* Imprisoned [[Grah-Hoth]] (with [[Rone]] and [[Patrick]])
* Created the wards at [[Skarragath]]
* Worked with the [[Scimitar]] to uncover the [[last remaining exit]] to the surface
* Masterminded and facilitated the assassination of [[Hawthorne III]]
* Assissted the [[Empire War Heroes]] in the recovery of [[Vyvnas-Bok]] and the assassination of [[Garzahd]]
* Dueled [[Rentar-Ihrno]], sacrificing her life to allow the [[Surface Explorers]] to destroy the machinery responsible for the Valorim [[plagues]]

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[[Category:Magic]]
[[Category:Mages]]
[[Category:Alchemists]]
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Teleportation

2006-09-13T14:36:26Z

Drakefyre: /* Spells */ Added info

Teleportation is a very broad field of magic that deals with the power to travel instantaneously between different places. All kinds of teleportation require a great amount of [[magic|magical]] lore and power. Teleportation magic, while producing similar effects, varies greatly in nature and origin, and can be used in the most various ways.

==Portals==

Portals are possibly the most widely used contraptions for teleportation. A ''portal'', in magical terms, is described as a fixed device (or simply a place) that sends anyone who activates it to a certain destination. A portal can be activated by a mechanism or spell, or it can be permanently active. Some portals can change their destination, although this commonly requires a lot of skill and care. The convenience of most portals is their ease of use and maintainance. Once it has been built, it requires enormous amounts of energy, but can fare quite well on its own. Its user requires no more skill or knowledge to pass through it than for passing through a simple doorway.

===Linked Portals===

Most portals are "linked". Two portals stand in different places, and anyone entering one portal will emerge from the other. This is very convenient for two-way journeys, but it also is a far more stable contraption than a one-way portal and requires less energy per use.

The portal to [[Avernum]] was such a linked portal for the latter reason; the one-way nature was achieved by a simple barrier. The [[mass teleporter]] built by the Empire was also linked, in order to achieve its unprecedented capability.

===One-Way Portals===

A one-way portal sends its user to a place where ''no'' other portal is installed. Although the effect is similar, this is far more complex magic and requires a lot more power. A one-way portal is necessary of course for destinations that have never been traveled to before (although a spell is used more frequently in this case), but it is also useful if the connection is not supposed to be detected on the other side, or the user is not supposed to return.

===Variable Portals===

[[Mahdavi]] of the [[Tower of Magi]] built a portal that was capable of sending its user anywhere in [[Exile]], given a set of coded coordinates. The [[Cult of the Sacred Item]] possessed a similar portal, although it was far less stable, more dangerous, and more difficult to configure - the cult itself suffered various fatalities through its use. The [[Empire]] has also been reported to utilize unstable cousins of the portal.

These portals are far more flexible, especially for swift attacks. Archmage [[Erika Redmark]] constructed such a portal to send a group of assassins to the [[surface]] to slay [[Hawthorne III]].

Variable portals are by definition one-way, although some linked portals are able to "switch" between several destinations (where other portals stand) in a way similar to a variable portal.

====Coordinates====

This portal originally used a coordinate system for destination positioning. The coordinates were three syllable phrases that were spoken loudly before entering the portal, which allows it to "lock" onto a destination. For example, ''Ell Pit Esk'' would calibrate the portal to a spot in the [[Black Waters]]. These coordinates were calculated by mages skilled in teleportation, and often recorded on obelisks scattered throughout [[Avernum]].

===Natural Portals===

Some places can form natural portals due to heavy magical residue or a natural source of magical energy. These portals are usually very unstable and risky to use.

===Portal Analysis===

A very complex field of teleportation magic is the analysis of a portal's behavior in order to gain various information. [[Seles]], probably the [[Tower of Magi]]'s most talented portal mage, had developed this skill to such an extent that she was able to detect any ''other'' source of teleportation magic in the vicinity of a certain portal. The residue of the teleportation affected nearby attuned objects, such that by observing a portal she was able to recognize the origin and destination of such a transport.

It was this skill that allowed a group of [[Unspecified Services]] agents to tail members of the [[Cult of the Sacred Item]] to their lair and reclaim from them the stolen [[Orb of Thralni]].

Through the analysis of a portal, it is easy for a trained mage to identify where it leads. It is also possible to detect the presence of a one-way portal's destination, from the heavy traces of residue it leaves behind there. Only very skilled mages are able to deduce the location of the starting point, however. The same applies to Variable Portals, but they must have been frequently used to travel to the given destination to leave a distinct mark at that place.

===Technology of Portals===

[[Humans]] have advanced far on the lore of creating portals, but it is believed this science originated with the [[Vahnatai]]. Even human-made portals are formed with the use of structured [[crystals]], a magic known to be a specialty of the [[Vahnatai]], suggesting that the lore may at one point have been learnt from them.

==Amulets==

The Amulet of Returning was given to the adventurers, who saved the Empire, by destroying the Vahnatai Plagues. Anaximander gave them the amulet to return more quickly and report their actions against the monsters. It can be used only in a specific range around Fort Emergence. When they were near Gale or more to the northern edge of Valorim, they were not able to return through the amulet.

==Spells==
While most portal magic is highly specialized and requires years of study to master, some quick teleportation spells exist. There are three types of simple (relatively speaking) teleportation spells.
===Returning===
A powerful mage can place an anchor on a place and cast a spell that will return him/her and anyone or anything they are in contact with to the place of the anchor. This is the same magical concept that powered the [[Amulet of Returning]] that [[Anaximander]] gave the [[Surface Explorers]]. The stronger the mage is, the further away from the anchor the spell will work.
===Retrieving===
With the aid of a [[scrying|clairvoyant]] or scrying pool, a mage can choose a target, be it people or objects, and cast a teleportation spell to bring them to the mage. The stronger the mage, the larger the objects can be, and they can be brought over larger distances. Still, this technique requires at least one very strong mage or wizard. Notable examples of this include [[Seles]] and [[Prazac]]'s wizards rescuing the Surface Explorers from the [[Tower of Magi disaster]] and [[Rentar-Ihrno]]'s fortress, respectively.
===Transporting===
Similar to retrieving, mages can either place an anchor in a room or place and send things from where they are to the anchor, or they can use a clairvoyant or scrying pool to find a place to send items or (rarely) people to the scryed location. Only the most powerful mages can transport people - most prefer to actually create portals as a safer alternative. The strongest mages can retrieve and transport people in a single act - rescuing them from danger and sending them somewhere else instantaneously.

==Augmenters==

Teleportation, be it by portal, by amulet or by spell, typically requires vast sources of power and great skill. In portals and amulets, the users themselves contribute little, but the caster of a teleportation spell has to be very powerful.

Some items are designed specifically to aid this process in the form of a [[Magical Catalyst]] either by lending additional power or by further focussing the power that is provided by other sources.

Portals require such augmenters practically by definition, which is why they are not called augmenters in this context. However, the power source of a portal - functioning like an augmenter - is exactly what allows it to be used by unskilled persons without any magical power. Small, short-distance portals need only a few small crystals that are usually set into the portal frame. Larger portals, however, are almost always seen in the vicinity of a few huge magically constructed crystal pillars. These pillars act as a power source, drawing arcane energy from the surrounding air and focusing it to power the portal.

In amulets, the power source is commonly included with the item itself - however, some amulets lack an augmenter, and are instead powered by a limited amount of energy imbued in it by its maker. These amulets can be used only very few times before they need to be recharged by an enchanter.

Carried by a spellcaster, the augmenter typically takes the form of a crystal or an amulet - in fact, such an augmentation amulet looks very similar to an amulet that actually contains a teleport spell. When a mage uses an amulet to teleport, it is not necessarily obvious whether the amulet works autonomously or simply augments the mage's spell.

[[Emerald]] is the preferred material for the construction of augmenters, although [[Amber]] is qualified as well and comparatively inexpensive.

[[Category:Magic]]

Talk:Magic barriers

2006-09-12T18:58:52Z

Drakefyre: copied from magic barrier talk

I feel like, back in Exile, powerful monsters could break Force Barriers as well -- I think I tried to use them as some weird containment strategy, and it failed. But I might have been using Fire.

OTOH, the most powerful monsters in Exile all had magical ability anyway (dragons, haakai, whatnot) so it could be explained that way.
--[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 09:10, 12 September 2006 (CDT)
::They definitely could break force barriers that the party made, but not the ones around say Fort Emerald. But with me I remember it most clearly as wolves in the Cult of the Sacred Item. --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 10:34, 12 September 2006 (CDT)

Magic barrier

2006-09-12T18:10:52Z

Drakefyre: changed to redirect

#REDIRECT [[Magic barriers]]

Magic barriers

2006-09-12T18:10:37Z

Drakefyre: Moved text from Magic barrier

A [[magic]] barrier is a magical field which can prevent certain creatures or all creatures from passing through it. This barrier may do so by scouring whatever attempts to pass through it or by physically impeding whatever tries to move through it. Magical barriers are commonly used by [[mages]] to protect their work or contain their experiments. The spells to create and dispell these barriers are closely regulated (especially by the [[Empire]]) because they can be misused easily. Barriers may also be assigned special and secret motions which can temporarily dispell a barrier, if a mage needs to move through one constantly. Interestingly, barriers are one magical construct that is much more difficult to dispel than it is to create.

==Fire==
A fire barrier is a weak field which can easily be pushed through. However, walking through a field of magical power is bound to leave all but the best mages lightly charred. Fire barriers have little to do with actual fire, despite their name; their source of power is purely magical.

The weakest of fire barriers are commonly used by mages to cleanse their bodies of invisible creatures which may be clinging to them. Weaker fire barriers are found in areas where may, for exmple, be developing new types of [[Cavewood|plants]] or [[Mushrooms|fungi]]. They can quietly disintegrate spores or small [[cockroaches|insects]] without any trouble to a mage, who would otherwise have to spend precious time hunting down and destroying contaminants to their experiments.

Fire barriers are also used by mages to contain [[quickfire]], as quickfire operates on the same principles as the fire barrier and so can be contained by one. However, they are not indestructible. Groups of animals have been known to break down fire barriers completely, making them unreliable for defense or hostile containment.

==Force==
A force barrier is the ultimate protection against anything but other mages. A force barrier cannot simply be knocked down or burned, as a wall might be. They are impossible to walk through as well. However, a mage can use the proper [[spell]] to decompose a force barrier.

Force barriers repel physical objects, unlike fire barriers. For this reason they cannot be walked through or be shaped in any non-magical way. Force barriers can be used to patch damaged walls when no other materials are available. Force barriers are also impervious to quickfire and all types of magic except their dispelling spells. However, while they are impassable, animals have been known to break them down by eroding their links to the earth or walls. Once they are not anchored any longer, they are rendered useless and degrade. For this reason, barriers are normally found anchored to smooth surfaces, such as basalt walls, or under the supervision of a mage, such as at [[Fort Emerald]].

==Other==
Magic barriers were also used by the [[Olgai tribe]] to partition [[Avernum]] during the [[Empire-Avernum War]].

[[Category:Magic]]

Royal Magician

2006-09-12T18:05:33Z

Drakefyre: spelling

The most trusted advisor to the [[King of Avernum]], the [[Royal Magician]] has few official duties but plenty of responsibility. His chief obligation is regulation of all [[magic]] in [[Avernum]], which occasionally puts him at odds with the [[Triad]]. Unofficially, he is a sounding board for all of the King's ideas and also his most respected aide. To date, only [[Rone]] has held the position, and so far he has trained no apprentice to follow in his footsteps.

[[Category:Persons]]
[[Category:Avernum]]

Talk:The Five

2006-09-12T17:46:37Z

Drakefyre:

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall any of the games mentioning 'The Five' specifically. A list of names is always used, and even then not one person names all five people.

== Aimee vs. Linda ==
I think we had this discussion a long time ago... anyway, the fact is that there is ''contradicting evidence'' in the games as to who the fifth exilee was. The early games refer to Aimee among the five, while A4 (and maybe soem earlier Avernums? I don't remember) seems to have ''inconsistently'' retconned Linda into the early cave magic. However, some of those references -- praticularly the one to her as part of the Akhronath assault -- sound like goofs.

IMHO, there is a large mass of situational evidence on Aimee's side. Given Aimee's reclusiveness and her lack of eminently practical or powerful magic, it makes no sense that Erika AND Patrick AND Rone AND Solberg would be so close to her, and would talk about her as they do, without her having been part of the Five. There are also numerous statements like "then Linda came to the Tower"... if Linda had been one of the Five, those statements would make little sense, given that she would have been involved in the Tower's creation and would presumably have lived there since the beginning. And if Linda really was part of the assault on Akhronath, why is it that NOBODY -- not her, not Grah-Hoth, not Kelner, no one -- ever comments on that?

IMHO, it's safe to say that Aimee was in the Five and Linda was not. At any rate I think it's a mistake to state that Linda was a member; the evidence is too sketchy.
--- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 12:13, 12 September 2006 (CDT)
::This is comment I used (talking to Micah in Av1), along with the list of the Five in Exile III: "An army of warriors and mages, led by Rone, the Royal magician, Linda, Solberg, and most powerful of all, the incantatrix Erika. They, their apprentices, and our finest warriors did battle with the demons. We won, and imprisoned Grah-Hoth." --[[User:Drakefyre|Drakey]] 12:46, 12 September 2006 (CDT)

Preface

2006-09-12T17:40:11Z

Drakefyre: took out the I

:''In 843 IE, the first version of the Encyclopedia Ermariana was published with the following preface written by one of its founders:''

It is, as of the fourth of [[Suncome]] this year, ten years after the [[reconciliation]] of the [[Kingdom of Avernum]] and the [[Empire]] of the [[Surface]] â€“ under King [[Micah]] and Empress [[Prazac I]]. Most of our nation have chosen to return to the surface and dwell here, although a great number preferred to stay in the caves; indeed, some citizens of the Empire have by now travelled down themselves, some to live with former family that got separated under the reign of [[Hawthorne II]] and [[Hawthorne III]], and some merely for the adventure: The surface has long been purged of most sentient species not human, and many beasts besides, though the [[Nephilim]] are returning, and several [[Slithzerikai]] tribes are also emigrating to the surface.

Yet, there is quite a large number of former [[Kingdom of Avernum|Avernites]] living in the Southeastern province of [[Valorim]], and its capital, named [[City of Dawn|Dawn]] by the first settlers in memory of the sunlight they lacked for so long, has grown into a large, prosperous city in these ten years. The Avernites have dwelt in the caves for well over a generation, and as the two cultures, the surface-dwellers and those born in [[exile]], clash, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the intimate knowledge of both the caves and the surface is limited to very few.

It is with this concern in mind that my learned colleagues and I, founders of the [[Redmark College]] â€“ named for the late [[Erika Redmark|incantatrix]] who perished in batte against the [[Vahnatai]] â€“ in the City of Dawn, have decided to initiate an ambitious project: We shall, in cooperation with the [[Tower of Magi]], the [[University of Valorim]] in [[Lorelei]], the [[Library of Valorim]] in [[Sharimik]], and with the support of countless travelling sages, begin to compile a compendium, an encyclopedia as it were, containing information on the history, geography, flora, fauna and the [[magic]] of all of [[Ermarian]], both the surface and the caves. Under the supervision of the three directors of the Redmark College, the mage [[Iola Kizante]], the historian [[Dorn Kaytar]] and the far-travelled explorer [[Daryl Mycroft]] â€“ one of the renowned heroes of Avernum â€“ shall be formed a work that will one day be a guide for the citizens of Avernum and the Empire, a tome containing all the basic lore of this world, of the Arcane, the Humanities and the Natural Sciences: The [[Encyclopaedia Ermariana]].

----

Dorn Kaytar, Co-founder of Redmark College.
Written on the 26th of [[Remembrance]], 843 [[Imperial Era]], in the City of Dawn, Valorim.

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Exile vs Avernum

2006-09-12T17:39:40Z

Drakefyre: took out the I

{{ooc}}

==Naming the Caves==

While the [[game canon]] contains some pretty glaring contradictions, especially in changes made between the Exile and the Avernum series, the most obvious discrepancy is precisely that: The name. The caves are called respectively "Exile" and "Avernum".

Because this is an awful contradiction at an awfully prominent place, the Encyclopedia has arbitrarily resolved this issue. Because of that, the terminology that now applies is this:

#[[Exile]] is the name that the [[Empire]] first gave to the caves when it began to exile people below. Since then, it has stayed as the geographical name of this ''region'', much like the name [[Valorim]] for the fourth continent.
#[[Avernum]] is the name that the Exiles gave to their newly founded Kingdom, whose first King was [[Micah]]. Since then, it has been the name of the ''nation'' occupying the caverns, whose long form is the [[Kingdom of Avernum]].

In a hypothetical situation, were the [[Vahnatai]] to attack and conquer the caves, forcing all surviving humans to flee above ground, the Kingdom of Avernum would cease to exist. By [[humans]], however, the land occupied by the Vahnatai would continue to be referred to as "Exile".

==Other discrepancies==

Further conflicts between the two game series should be noted with the template <nowiki>{{exile_avernum}}</nowiki>, resulting in this box:

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The issue should then be resolved as soon as possible.

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Prazac I

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{{emperor|crowned=817 IE|resigned=[[Present Day]]|name=Empress Prazac I|predecessor=[[Hawthorne III]]|successor=Currently Reigning}}

Prazac I was crowned the first Empress in 817 [[IE]], after her father [[Hawthorne III]] was slain by [[Avernum|Avernite]] [[Hawthorne's Assassins|assassins]].

==Biography==

=== Birth ===

Prazac was born in 799 [IE] to Emperor [[Hawthorne III]], in the city of [[Imperius]], [[Pralgad]]. The name of her mother has been censored out of most history books (see [[Game canon#The Life of Empress Prazac|canon]]) - Hawthorne's only wife had died many years before.

=== Childhood ===

Prazac led a fairly sheltered childhood due to her father's power. During her teenage years, her father put her in charge first of several towns in [[Valorim]], then - for a few years - the whole of [[Karnold Province]] (then a tiny, quiet region) to train her leadership ability. Although her reign over the province was brief and uneventful, it nonetheless bonded her with the barely settled continent that was to suffer so harshly under the [[plagues]] decades later. Furthermore, her rule - barely overseen by the distant capital - established her reputation as a people's leader, a stark contrast to the tyrannical rule of her father. It is said by the people in that region that, aside from governing, Prazac traveled through the land and even did menial tasks to help the populace.

She spent most of her days in the Imperial Castle in [[Pralgad]]. As customary for Imperial heirs, she was privately tutored by the loremasters in [[Hawthorne III|Hawthorne]]'s court - her teacher in [[magic]] was [[Garzahd]] himself. Some theories now speculate that it was in that time that Garzahd established his influence on the future heir.

=== Ascension to the Throne ===

When Hawthorne was assassinated, Prazac was crowned sovereign of the [[Empire]] - the first Empress it had seen since its founding, incidentally. Contrary to popular theory, she immediately held all the political power that came with this office, in potential. However, she kept the council that had advised her father, and greatly relied on their advice. The council, in turn, was summarily owned by the archwizard Garzahd, through a mixture bribery, blackmail and mind control. It was little wonder therefore that, in spite of Prazac's eminent ability to rule, it was Garzahd, not her, who held the greatest sway in the Empire.

In this fashion, Garzahd kept a stranglehold on the Imperial throne (that, according to one claim, was aided by a mind-control spell he held over the young Empress) for five years after Hawthorne's death. This lasted until the [[Empire-Avernum War]].

Garzahd was the one who declared retaliatory war on [[Avernum]]. This was the first act that should - according to Prazac in later years - have been vehemently opposed by the Empress, but met only with mild protests. Popular support for [[Garzahd]]'s faction among the [[Imperial Army]] stifled any opposition, but the over-confident archwizard made one miscalculation. His purpose for declaring war was mainly to galvanize the people and gain their support through a surge of national unity, and to gain the greatest benefit in popularity, he arranged for himself to be put in charge of the punitive mission.

This was his end: A group of Avernites invaded his subterranean fortress and slew him, ridding Prazac and her council of his influence. Only weeks later, as Prazac regained her control over the Empire, the Imperial troops withdrew from Avernum. She gained the support of her people and the respect of the Avernites on that day, but she alienated her generals and most importantly the Imperial [[dervishes]] for decades to come.

=== The Plagues and the Reconciliation ===

With the invasion of Avernum at an end, the Empire was able to concentrate on more peaceful projects such as the settlement of Valorim. In the years following Prazac's withdrawal from the caves, the provinces of the new continent gained an unprecedented economical boost that matched that of the first days of settlement.

It was only five years later, however, that the [[plagues]] first made themselves known on the continent. Magical beasts - of kinds long believed to be extinct, and others never seen before - began to roam the lands. This increase in hostile monsters first merely made merchant traffic more risky, as it had been only decades earlier before the Empire had secured the land. When the monsters spread further and grew more ferocious, they also harmed the agricultural industry, destroying crops and making the wide fertile plains unsafe for farmers. These reports were initially met with little reaction from the Empire, since Valorim had always had a reputation as a wild country. The increasingly unstable economy was seen with considerable concern, however.

When in [[Icefall]] of 831 IE the fearsome six-legged [[alien beasts]] attacked and leveled the [[Keep of Tinraya]] and most of the surrounding lands of [[Footracer Province]], Empress Prazac reacted by placing the entire continent of Valorim under quarantine, barring anyone from passing through [[Blackcrag Fortress]] (the only passage through the [[Ndovlu mountains]]) and forbidding ships to leave or enter the ports of Valorim.

Following the discovery that a group of [[Avernite]] agents (see [[Surface Explorers]]) had left the caverns, Prazac made another controversial decision and swiftly called for a diplomatic meeting with the adventurers. Over the protests of her advisors (and the open hostilities of a treasonous band of dervishes) she tasked the adventurers to rid Valorim of the plagues, rewarding Avernum with a sizable piece of unsettled land north of [[Karnold Province]]. This contract (signed in 833 IE between Empress Prazac and [[King Micah]] of Avernum) marked the [[Reconciliation]] of Avernum to the Empire.

The Five

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The five most powerful magi to be exiled during [[Hawthorne II]]'s reign. They are [[Erika Redmark]], [[Patrick]], [[Rone]], and [[Solberg]]. [[Aimee]] and [[Linda]] are considered by different persons to occupy the fifth spot among the Five. Aimee was exiled at the same time as the first four members, but did not have the same impact on the founding of [[Avernum]]. Regarding Linda, it is unclear when exactly she was exiled and to what degree she collaborated with the Five before ascending to the [[Triad]].

The Five were exiled during a power struggle among the mages during [[Hawthorne II]]'s time as [[Emperor]]. They struggled against [[Garzahd]] and a group of his students for control of the [[Magic in the Empire|Empire's magical policy]]. They lost, and Garzahd became Hawthorne II's closest advisor. He urged the Emperor to Exile these dangerous mages, which he did. Before they were [[Exiled]], Garzahd placed a powerful curse on their leader, [[Erika Redmark]] (see [[Banishing of the Archmagi]]).

The Five made it their goal to make [[Exile]] a habitable place and are credited with the invention of [[mushrooms]] that could grow in limited light, [[cavewood]] trees, and other important advances that enabled the exiles to survive where the [[First Expedition]] could not. The Five also established the [[Tower of Magi]] and served as some of the first members of the [[Triad]]. The Five led the fight to imprison [[Grah-Hoth]] in [[Skarragath]], beat back [[Sss-Thoss]] and his demon-worshipping [[sliths]], and helped [[Micah]] become [[King of Avernum|King]].

At [[Present Day]], only [[Solberg]] and [[Rone]] are still known to be alive. [[Aimee]]'s whereabouts are unknown.

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Kingdom of Avernum

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Avernum was the name given to the small community created by the first people to be [[Exiled]] by the [[Empire]]. Since then, the community has grown to stretch across [[Exile]] and has become the '''Kingdom of Avernum'''.

==Factbook==

===Background===

Originally a penal colony, the first settlers of the [[caves]] were [[Exiled]] by [[Hawthorne II]] in 767. The crimes committed by the exiles were those of not fitting in, or speaking out against the Crown. The Kingdom of Avernum was founded in 777 [[IE]], under the first King - [[Micah]].

===Geography===

====Location====

The caves of [[Exile]], extending to [[Upper Exile]].

====Map====

[[Maps:Avernum]]

====Area====

Approximately 300,000 square [[measures|miles]].

====Land Boundaries====

The entire levels of [[Exile]] and [[Upper Exile]], excluding the lands west of [[Northeastern Exile]] ([[Giant Lands]]) and west of the [[Abyss]] belong to the Kingdom of Avernum.

====Coast Line====

N/A

====Climate====

Cool and extremely humid, with sickly bluish light emitted from trees and [[glowing moss|moss].

====Terrain====

Some [[cavewood]] forests, stalactite and stalagmite formations, several large lakes, and large natural caverns ([[Eastern Gallery]] and [[Great Cave]]).

====Elevation Extremes====

*Lowest Point: [[Waterfall Warrens]]
*Highest Point: [[Fort Emergence]]

====Natural Resources====

*[[Cavewood]]
*[[Mushrooms]]
*Lizard meat
*[[Crystals]]
*Iron
*Tin
*Gold
*Copper
*Leather

====Land Use====

Many caves are mined for valuable metals and [[crystals]], and there are large expanses of terrain used as [[mushrooms|mushroom]] farms.

====Natural Hazards====

Living in the caves for an extended period of time when not used to it is known to lead to a malady involving incontinence, nausea, light-headedness, and headaches. Upon returning to the [[surface]], it goes away in less than two weeks. Also, there are still many untamed areas of the caves, where monsters such as [[goblins]], [[Nephilim]], [[chitrachs]], [[cave slimes]], [[Lizards|giant lizards]], [[magical worms]], and more lurk.

===Population===

====Current Population====

450,000 (estimate)

====Age Structure====

*0-7 (14%)
*8-15 (16%)
*16-24 (22%)
*25-40 (25%)
*41-55 (15%)
*55+ (8%)

====Population Growth Rate====

Approximately 5% annually.

====Nationality====

*Noun: Avernite
*Adjective: Avernite

====Ethnic Groups====

*[[Human]]: 86%
*[[Humanoid|Non-human]]:
:*[[Nephilim]]: 7%
:*[[Slithzerikai]]: 5%
:*Other: 2%

====Religions====

*[[Church of Prevailing Righteousness]]
*<s>[[Temple of the Good Spirit]]</s> (renamed)
*[[Church of the Bright Star]]
*Other minor religions

====Languages====

[[Imperial Standard]]

====Literacy====

64% over the age of 15 can read and write.

===Government===

====Country Name====

Conventional Long Form: The Kingdom of Avernum

====Government Type====

Constitutional Monarchy

====Government Structure====

Originally, there were three major branches of government: the '''military''', controlled by the [[king of Avernum|king]], the '''magi''', controlled by the [[Triad]], and the '''city governments''', represented by the [[council of Avernum|Council]]. The Council consisted of the mayors of the six largest cities in Avernum â€” [[Silvar]], [[Formello]], [[Cotra]], [[Almaria]], [[Blosk]], and [[Dharmon]].

This system reflected the struggle for the colonization of [[Exile]], when [[Micah]] led the warriors and [[the Five]] led the mages. Each of these branches was theoretically subordinate to the crown. In reality, the Council was stubborn and controlling, and the magi were too powerful to question.

When the [[Empire-Avernum War]] began, power rapidly centralized under King Micah. The military swelled as a result of the war; also, after [[Linda]]'s summoning of [[Adze]] and [[Erika]]'s assassination of [[Hawthorne III]], trust in the mages had eroded.

When the much-maligned [[Chevyn]] took the throne, the Council overrode his powers and took control of Avernum. Upon [[Starrus]]'s ascent to the throne, Starrus and his advisor, [[Houghton]], abolished the Council and the Triad. Recently, public opinion has leaned towards reinstating the Council.

====Administrative Divisions====

*[[Northeastern Exile]]
*[[Eastern Gallery]]
*[[Honeycomb]]
*[[Great Cave]]
*[[Upper Avernum]]
*[[The Abyss]]
*[[Provincial Avernum]]

====Leader====

[[King of Avernum|King]] [[Starrus]]

====Capital====

The [[Castle]], in the [[Great Cave]]

====Flag====

A golden, eight-spoked sun on a field of blue.

==History==

===Discovery===

[[Hawthorne I]] was [[Emperor]] when the land of Exile was discovered. His court mages discovered the system of caves beneath the surface, and he sent down an exploratory expedition, aptly named the [[First Expedition]]. The expedition was led by the warrior [[Karzoth]], and was slaughtered "to a man and a woman." Hawthorne concluded that the caverns were not useful, and they were ignored until 767 [[IE]], when [[Hawthorne II]] began to send people â€” first criminals, later all sorts of people â€” there as punishment.

===The First Exiles===

The first people to be [[Exiled]] were helpless in the dark, unforgiving caverns. It was not until a young warrior named [[Micah]] united them and forced them to work together that they began to live and survive. They only had the resources to defend one settlement, the predecessor to [[Fort Avernum]], but did so feraciously. Still, it was only a matter of time before they were overwhelmed by the enemies lurking in the caves.

===Banishing of the Archmagi===

After [[Hawthorne I]]'s death, his son, [[Hawthorne II]], came to power. He began to send down to Exile violent and dangerous criminals of the foulest sort, instead of executing them. Then, in 776 IE, there was a power struggle among the [[mages]], and the faction of the unscrupulous mage [[Garzahd]] emerged victorious, appointing him advisor to Hawthorne II. Hawthorne II banished the losing mages to Exile, including [[Erika Redmark|Erika]], [[Rone]], [[Solberg]], [[Aimee]], [[Linda]], and [[Patrick]].

===A Society Forms===

Joining with Micah, they established the [[Kingdom of Avernum]] in 777 IE and began to fight the [[demons]] and [[Slithzerikai]] that threatened them. They created [[cavewood]] trees, created hardy and edible [[mushrooms]], built more cities, learned to fight, and they took over the caves. Erika used her considerable magical skills to [[teleportation|teleport]] her spellbooks down to the caves and began teaching students with Patrick. In 779 IE, the archmagi and their apprentices were able to stage an assault on the demon lord [[Grah-Hoth]] in his fortress of [[Akhronath]]. They captured him in a bottle and imprisoned him in [[Skarragath]], with the lich-ified [[Prince Hrothar]], who had fallen in the battle, to watch over and guard him.

===Avernum Asserts Itself===

When [[Hawthorne II]] died and [[Hawthorne III]] came to power, Garzahd remained his advisor. Hawthorne III saw the portal to Exile as the answers to all of society's troubles. All the misfits, antisocials, petty lawbreakers, and more were sent down to Exile. And this proved to be his undoing.

In 817 IE, Avernum's agents infiltrated the [[Empire]], assisted by [[Erika Redmark|Erika]], and assassinated Hawthorne III in his own throne room. In 823, the Kingdom, with the help of the [[Vahnatai]], defeated the punitive expedition the [[Empire]] launched in response. In 833, contact with the Empire was re-established and [[reconciliation|peace terms]] were signed.

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Timeline of Ermarian

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This article provides a general timeline of historical events in [[Ermarian]]. This timeline refers mainly to events relevant to [[humans]] and human nations.

For information on the measurement of time in Ermarian, see [[Pralgadian Calendar]], [[Before Pralgad]], and [[Imperial Era]].

==Before Pralgad==
*250 BP — [[Zion I]] becomes [[Emperor]] of the [[Aizoan Empire]]
*~100 BP — [[Aizoan Empire]] collapses

==House Sol==
*0 IE — [[Empire]] declared on [[Pralgad]] by [[Sol I]]
*48 IE — [[Sol II]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*102 IE — [[Sol III]] becomes [[Emperor]]

==House Ironclad==
*132 — [[Ironclad I]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*201 — [[Viceroy I]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*204 — [[Viceroy I]] assassinated
*206 — Imperial Council disbanded; [[Empire]] provinces ruled by royal houses
*209 — [[Dorian Kylen]] declares himself Emperor and seizes [[Imperius]]
*211 - 229 — [[The Ascent of Ironclad II|Pralgadian War of Succession]]
*229 — [[Ironclad II]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*259 — [[Ironclad III]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*261 - 277 — [[Empire]] leads [[Extermination of Non-Humans|extermination campaign]] against [[giants]]
*281 — [[Ironclad IV]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*309 — [[Ironclad V]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*322 - 342 — [[Empire]] leads [[Extermination of Non-Humans|extermination campaign]] against [[nephilim]]
*357 — [[Ironclad VI]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*~376 - 386 — [[Empire]] leads [[Extermination of Non-Humans|extermination campaign]] against [[troglodytes]]
*379 — [[Anama]] Church founded
*~390 — [[Imperial Navy]] created
*405 — [[Ironclad VII]] becomes [[Emperor]] and issues decree against the [[Anama]]
*406 — [[Ironclad VII]] rounds up and jails [[Anama]]
*406 - 437 — [[Anama War]]
*437 — [[Vantanas]] discovered by [[Imperial Navy]]
*441 - 535 — [[Discovery and Conquest of Vantanas|Vantanas explored and conquered]]
*450 — [[Ironclad VIII]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*467 — [[Ironclad IX]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*499 — [[Ironclad X]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*530 — [[Ironclad XI]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*535 — [[Ironclad XII]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*587 — [[Ironclad XIII]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*~600 — [[Valorim]] discovered by [[Empire]]

==House Strongarm==
*608 - 647 — [[Discovery and Conquest of Valorim|Valorim conquered and settled]] and [[Ratbane Clan]] destroyed.
*615 — [[Strongarm I]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*~617 — [[Darkling]] [[sliths]] banished from the [[slithzerikai homeland]]; [[Bahssikava]] settled
*640 — [[Morrow's Isle]] settled
*658 — [[Strongarm II]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*672 — [[Stewart I]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*681 — [[Empire]] capital moved from [[Imperius]] to [[Solaria]]
*~721 — [[Skylark School of Magery]] closed, leaving poisons behind

==House Hawthorne==
*722 — [[Hawthorne I]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*~727 — First [[Sss-Thsss]] killed by Calindor
*~740 — [[Empire]] establishes feudal state on [[Morrow's Isle]]
*~747 — The disastrous [[First Expedition]] to [[Exile]]
*~755 — [[Chimney]] settled by [[Harfloot]]
*763 — [[Hawthorne II]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*767 — [[Exile]] used as prison by [[Empire]]
*776 — [[The Five]] are [[exiled]]; [[Tower of Magi]] built with first [[Triad]] of [[Erika]], [[Patrick]], and [[Solberg]]
*777 —
**[[Kingdom of Avernum]] founded by [[Micah]]
**[[Sss-Thoss]] makes pact with [[Grah-Hoth]]. [[Bahssikava]] destroyed by a cavequake; [[Nolagh-Kahv]] enslaves [[imps]] and dead Bahssikavans there; [[Lost Bahssikava]] founded; [[Vasskolis]] refounded.
*779 — [[The Five]] lead [[Avernum]] in an attack on [[Akhronath]] and seal [[Grah-Hoth]] in [[Skarragath]]
*777 - 817 — [[First Slith War]]
*783 — [[Anama]] Church refounded by [[Ahonar]]
*791 — [[Hawthorne III]] becomes [[Emperor]]
*~800 — [[Linda]] and [[X]] replace [[Erika]] and [[Patrick]] on the [[Triad]]
*816 — [[Anastasia]]'s [[nephilim]] steal the [[gold necklace]] from [[Formello]]
*817 —
**[[Linda]] summons [[Adze]].
**Second [[Sss-Thsss]] slain and [[Grah-Hoth]] defeated by [[Hawthorne's Assassins]]. [[Lost Bahssikava]]'s failed expedition to the [[slithzerikai homeland]].
**[[Hawthorne III]] assassinated by [[Erika Redmark]] and [[Hawthorne's Assassins]]. [[Prazac I]] becomes [[Empress]]; [[Garzahd]] acts as regent.
*818 — [[Mahdavi]] replaces [[Linda]] on the [[Triad]]
*821 — Exploratory [[Empire]] forces steal [[Crystal Souls]] and destroy [[Lost Bahssikava]]
*822 - 824 — [[Empire-Avernum War]]
*822 — [[Vahnatai]] [[Resting]] ends; [[Empire]] conquers [[Abyss]]
*823 — Barriers afflict [[Exile]]; [[Cotra]] and [[mass teleporter]] destroyed; [[Crystal Souls]] rescued; [[Garzahd]] assassinated by [[Empire War Heroes]]
*824 — [[Vahnatai]] reinforce [[Avernum]]; [[Empire]] withdraws

==The current era==
*~825 — [[Athron]]'s brood hatches
*826 - 827 — [[Chimney]] civil war
*827 — [[Galthrax]] begins attacks on [[Vasskolis]]
*831 — [[Upper Avernum]] settled by [[Avernites]]
*832 —
**[[Plagues]] of [[Valorim]] set loose by [[Rentar-Ihrno]]
**First party of Surface Explorers recruited by [[Unspecified Services]]
*833 —
**[[Tower of Magi disaster]].
**[[Surface Explorers]] destroy [[Plagues]] of [[Rentar-Ihrno]], who kills [[Erika Redmark]]; [[Reconciliation]] between the [[Empire]] and [[Avernum]]
*834 — [[Kelner]] and [[Seletine]] replace [[Mahdavi]] and [[Solberg]] on the [[Triad]]
*835 — Lord [[Volpe]] takes over [[Morrow's Isle]]
*836 — [[Yvoss-Tai]] uprising; [[Groul]]'s coup in [[Chimney]] fails. [[King Micah]] dies and the [[Council of Avernum]] assumes control.
*837 — [[Temple of the Goddess]] built; [[Gnass]] attacks [[Lost Bahssikava]]; [[Legare]] leads [[sliths]] to [[Bahssikava]] and [[Vasskolis]]; [[Nolgah-Kahv]] and [[Galthrax]] defeated
*~838 - 848 — [[Second Slith War]]
*~838 - present — [[Hill Runners]] revolt; civil war on [[Morrow's Isle]]
*839 — [[Redmark College]] founded
*842 — [[Skylark Vale]] poisons purged by [[adventurers]].
*843 — [[Encyclopedia Ermariana]] first published
*844 — Lord [[Volpe]] assassinated on [[Morrow's Isle]].
*846 — [[Starrus]] becomes [[King of Avernum]]
*855 — [[Rentar-Ihrno]] enacts [[retribution]] against [[Avernum]] and is defeated by [[adventurers]]
*860 — [[Present Day]]

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