What are the various sources -- most especially Adventures -- that take place in (or even mention) The Mordant Spire?
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The 1E AP Ruins of Azlant mentions the Mordant Spire occasionally, mostly to let you know the mordant spire elves wouldn't like what you're doing, but doesn't happen there at all. Despite this, City in the Deep, the 4th book of it, has a few pages gazeteer on it.
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I read "City in the Deep" from the Azlant AP and also the Wiki; I was hoping there was a PFS Scenario taking place in Mordant Spire. There's the Moreland Scenario where the PCs solve a murder mystery on a ship at sea and the victim is a Mordant Spire Elf. But there's no info there really about the island and her history. I figured maybe there was another Scenario I don't know of.
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Hey: Is there any anecdotal reference to why Jacobs & Mona, etc. named it the "Mordant" Spire instead of "Mordent"?
Having looked up the words and added to my vocabulary, well, without a good reason not to, I'm changing it to "Mordent Spire." I think Acavna and Amaznen would like that musical nomenclature.
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Hey: Is there any anecdotal reference to why Jacobs & Mona, etc. named it the "Mordant" Spire instead of "Mordent"?
Having looked up the words and added to my vocabulary, well, without a good reason not to, I'm changing it to "Mordent Spire." I think Acavna and Amaznen would like that musical nomenclature.
The name didn't come from me. I don't remember who it DID come from, but my guess would be James Sutter or Wes Schneider, both of whom no longer work at Paizo, and both of whom I hung out with to watch "Late Night with the Devil" yesterday, so the question comes just a bit too late for me to casually ask them too.
A lot of times though we just make up words and draw upon our experience with the language to make new words that have mouth feel that evokes a specific theme. I suspect Mordant is one of those.
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Without really thinking about it, I kind of always assumed the Mordant spire was named for the way it sticks up out of the water like a giant, twisted tooth--mordant meaning 'sharp' or 'biting' (which can be seen metaphorically in most other definitions, whether biting sarcasm or the sharp, biting effect of the musical mordent).
I don't know if this has anything to do with the actual name, it's just an assumption I never noticed I was making until reading this here.
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Without really thinking about it, I kind of always assumed the Mordant spire was named for the way it sticks up out of the water like a giant, twisted tooth--mordant meaning 'sharp' or 'biting' (which can be seen metaphorically in most other definitions, whether biting sarcasm or the sharp, biting effect of the musical mordent).
I don't know if this has anything to do with the actual name, it's just an assumption I never noticed I was making until reading this here.
That makes a lot of sense, and makes me think it was James Sutter who named it, since it sorta feels like a Sutter word.
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I thought maybe it was a nod in some way to Mordant's Need.
Not as far as I know. I had to google that to find out what it was referencing but that doesn't mean someone else wasn't inspired by it... but they never mentioned it to me if they were.