Elaine Cunningham goodness...

[SirUrza]

So I was going through some old forum posts (a month old) on a Forgotten Realms website I visit (Candlekeep.Com) about twice a month (damned Spell Plague!) and I came across this little jewel...

Funny you should mention Pathfinder, though. I'm going to be doing some campaign-related serial fiction. It's just a small project--six episodes, novella length in total--but I'm really looking foward to it. There are elves in Golarion, and I get to write about them.

Now that's exciting particularly when one thinks about..

1) Even if it's not about dark elves, Second Darkness is.
2) We still don't know what happened to the surface elves at Celwynvian but will if what James said about in November still holds true.
3) I can't think of anyone more experienced with Elves!

So here's hoping for Elaine to be writing about the fall of Celwynvian. :)

[Mikaze]

I'm eager to see her get into the heads of Forlorn elves now.

[baron arem heshvaun]

Excellent web browsing work Sir Urza.

You've found kinks in their Armour of Teasing.

[KaeYoss]

As far as I know, they abandoned Celwü... Cellyw.... That city after they returned to Golarion and found their cellars infested with big, fat, obsidian, pointy-eared rats. (i.e. drow): They collapsed all the tunnels they could find and then abandoned ship. That's what the Gazetteer says.

Guess the drow are due to have a breakthrough in a couple of months.

Anyway, any Elaine Cunningham writing is welcome. Maybe they can tie her up or something once she's there and force her to write a novel trilogy or something :D

[Charles Evans 25]

baron arem heshvaun wrote:

Excellent web browsing work Sir Urza.

You've found kinks in their Armour of Teasing.

Sir Urza has indeed produced some interesting information, by impressive cross-referencing with Candlekeep.

I'm wondering if there might be other things brewing for the Golarion fiction line, but I am looking at sites other than Candlekeep and very much making wild guesses.

[Alediran]

I love Elaine Cunningham. I've read all her Forgotten Realms novels at least three times, only Ed Greenwood himself made FR novels I've re-read.

[KaeYoss]

I always thought that Ed's novels weren't the best FR novels - but his sourcebooks simply kicked ass.

Waterdeep (which the two wrote together) was really good, though.

[James Jacobs]

KaeYoss wrote:

As far as I know, they abandoned Celwü... Cellyw.... That city after they returned to Golarion and found their cellars infested with big, fat, obsidian, pointy-eared rats. (i.e. drow): They collapsed all the tunnels they could find and then abandoned ship. That's what the Gazetteer says.

Just so you know... there's a certain amount of "elven" spin on that. There's more going on in Celwynvian than what the Gazetteer says... we just didn't want to totally spoil Second Darkness' surprises in there.

[SirUrza]

KaeYoss wrote:

As far as I know, they abandoned Celwü... Cellyw.... That city after they returned to Golarion and found their cellars infested with big, fat, obsidian, pointy-eared rats. (i.e. drow): They collapsed all the tunnels they could find and then abandoned ship. That's what the Gazetteer says. Guess the drow are due to have a breakthrough in a couple of months.

See that's why Celwynvian is perfect. On her livejournal alluded she's it's Dark Fantasy. So it can either be a tale of the elves returning to Celwynvian and discovering the drow, or it can be a tale of the elves that stayed behind and descended into the depths to become to drow.

It's so deliciously perfect it's probably completely wrong if it's not dead on right. :)