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Dev Blog: The Lore of Icewind Dale

dwightmcdwightmc Member Posts: 95
edited March 2014 in News & Announcements
Hey adventurers,

Learn more about the Lore of Icewind Dale from Scott Crawford, Content Designer for Neverwinter.

http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/neverwinter/detail/3036103-dev-blog_-the-lore-of-icewind-dale

Thanks,

Eric
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  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Since this module is a continuation of a pen and paper adventure, I'm curious we will see more things like this in the future?
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    mmm... love it. :)
  • realdadiorealdadio Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Looking forward to jumping in this
  • syka08syka08 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Well thats a nice, condensed back story to this new module. Cool!
    contents to be decided
  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 2,894 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    So let me translate this: a CW finds a couple of OP spells, the devs of Icewind Dale think it's funny and make a boss off his character. Then a rogue steps in, use a permastealth build to solo the boss, and misteriously vanishes through an invisible wall. Definitely sounds like Neverwinter. :p
  • masizin777masizin777 Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    dwightmc wrote: »
    Hey adventurers,

    Learn more about the Lore of Icewind Dale from Scott Crawford, Content Designer for Neverwinter.

    http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/neverwinter/detail/3036103-dev-blog_-the-lore-of-icewind-dale

    Thanks,



    Eric

    All hail Scott Crawford
  • strixsstrixs Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    masizin777 wrote: »
    All hail Scott Crawford

    I know people will be upset with me, i apologize. I just do not like when Mr. R.A. Salvatore's work is misrepresented. So let me clarify a few things.

    Firstly, has no one read the first three books from R.A. Salvatore? Akar Kessel was a stooge. He was just a pawn to be used. The Shard itself used him and the demon as well was just waiting to use him and let him die. If it were not for the shard stopping the demon he would have killed Akar Kessel and taken the shard.

    Seriously Akar was so lazy he would have been fine pillaging small caravans and enslaving womenfolk and that is it. It was the shard and demon that put it into his head to try and take over Ten Towns. They had to literally shove him into the direction and course of action.

    The shard gained strength from the sun btw and its power could only be stretched so far. When trying to make additional towers Akar fowled it up and broke the towers because of spreading the shards power so thin. And when the first tower fell and crumbled as a result no patch of darkness was left behind in its wake.

    After Drizzt dealt with the shard, there was no mention of a dark spot being left in its wake.
    And what does the author mean by Reghed Tribesman? the defined term for that word is people from Northern England and southern Scotland. Does the author mean barbaric tribesman? That would make sense.

    Why bring back a wizard who could not even get a single spell right?


    Again i am sorry if this offends but getting a story correct is just so important. Attempting to go after Akar Kessel who somehow escaped.... seriously he has had no power. Only the shard had the power.
  • strixsstrixs Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    In the novel The Crystal Shard, the next wielder of Crenshinibon was a fumbling wizard-in-training named Akar Kessel. He stumbled upon the artifact at the Spine of the World Mountains. Though he could barely cast cantrips himself but with the power of Crenshinibon, he was almost unstoppable. Kessel tried to use Crenshinibon's power to enslave the whole region and even summoned the demon Errtu to help him with that task. But this supposed ally finally brought about the demise of kar Kessel, having his own designs for the Crystal Shard. In the end, Kessel was killed by an avalanche caused by Crenshinibon's own heat in a battle with the famed drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden atop Kelvin's Cairn

    Source linked.
    http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Crenshinibon
  • subsidalsubsidal Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    strixs wrote: »
    Why bring back a wizard who could not even get a single spell right?

    Something I'm wondering.. So after fighting Malabog, Valindra we're supposed to fight a weakling wizard? Wtf man? Without the shard he's pretty much nothing. How unepic...
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