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I was wandering this because Ioun is the goddess of magic in the world's oldest roleplaying game, and Nethys is the god of magic in Pathfinder. How would the name Ioun have gotten into this setting? Do clerics of Nethys chastise or do worse to people for using the name "Ioun Stone," citing heretical belief in a false god? Is this issue too insignificant so that the developers said to just go with it?
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Ioun stones were, according to the lore, around before Nethys.
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The name Ioun is not WotC (or TSR) IP, having been borrowed from Jack Vance's fiction.
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The name Ioun is not WotC (or TSR) IP, having been borrowed from Jack Vance's fiction.
Because it's not named after a deity in the world's oldest roleplaying game, I have been convinced that they should be called Ioun Stones and not Nethys Stones. I'm lucky I didn't bet my players on this, or I would be buying a lot of drinks for them.
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D&D also has a deity named Ioun, but they can't make it Product Identity because that name isn't original with TSR or WotC.
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This is curious and interesting. Ioun was a mage of Nehteril in the forgotten realm setting.
Congenio Ioun from Netheril was created for purpose of Netheril setting as a creator of ioun stones that way to explain why whole category of items is called that way in Forgotten Realms. It's the case of NPC following the name of the item, not the other way.
D&D also has a deity named Ioun, but they can't make it Product Identity because that name isn't original with TSR or WotC.
The same applies to Ioun - the deity was named after the item.
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They are sometimes called Azlanti stones, because their manufacture seems to have originated (and is most commonly associated with) the prehistoric human kingdom of Azlant.
We have not revealed why they are called "ioun" stones in an official source, and probably won't for a good long while.
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Um, George RR Martin was writing in the early 80's?
Because Githyanki stems from the original Fiend Folio, which came out in what, 1986?
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According to the Wiki page on them the name was borrowed from GRRM's story. But they are different in there ecologies. Githyanki
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The name comes from Martin's Dying of the Light. The name is the same, but the races were vastly different. Apparently Martin didn't find out until much later. Luckily, there were no repercussions (unlike the Deities & Demigods book, where it was reprinted without the material from Moorcock, Leiber, and the Cthulhu mythos.)
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Ah. Wasn't sure. I still have my original with all the copyright-offending goodness in it.
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Um, George RR Martin was writing in the early 80's?
Because Githyanki stems from the original Fiend Folio, which came out in what, 1986?
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Yup. Dying of the Light came out in 1977 when Martin was about 29. Obviously, his popularity didn't REALLY start to gain steam in popular culture until A Game of Thrones came out in 1996.
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People who have never heard of any of Martin's books other than Game of Thrones should look for such works as Tuf Voyaging, Sandkings, Fevre Dream, and the Wild Cards series.
Was Tuf Voyaging the one about the cat-loving guy in the massive bio-warfare spaceship?
Was Tuf Voyaging the one about the cat-loving guy in the massive bio-warfare spaceship?
That's the one!
I loved that book. :)
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Pfft! everyone knows that "ioun" means "magic" or "tiny orbiting planet" in Azlanti!
In Thassilion it means, "Only pansies use floaters."