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ikki 01-19-05, 01:16 PM	Check your Serpent kingdoms. The oldest empire still going strong, (therefore most powerful?), is the Fey empire. Could it be that much is but a convenient illusion of sorts, to keep the fey hidden and their ultimate power conceled? For surely it appears to the common man that the worst fey could do is some joke.. But who can be that carefree in such a dangerous world? In reality, only the truly untouchable.. the undefeatable. The Fey. Rhey are in charge of everything, from keeping demons from overruning the world to a number of other nasty things. Undefeatable fey armies that can actually compare with the armies in the bloodwar, spells that alter the world to their desires and cities.. whole empires.. kept completely invisible to the lesser species. A bit like some startrek first commandment, lets not interfere in the primitives development. Here you run around with swords.. fey got photon torpedoes :eek: Yes, submit, we are completely insignificant to the almighty fey. But atleast they seem to like us.. for we are still alive. Lets just hope we dont upset them somehow ;)
Gray Richardson 01-19-05, 07:03 PM	I believe the "Faer" in Faerun is pronounced similar to the Faer in Faerie, as it was named by a group of Moon and Sun elves that imigrated to Faerun from the plane of Faerie sometime during the Time of the Dragons about 25,000 years ago. They seem to have named Faerun after their homeland Faerie, but what it means exactly I do not know. Faerun could mean "Little Faerie" or "New Faerie" or "Like unto Faerie" The Forgotten Realms FAQ over at Candlekeep (http://www.candlekeep.com/fr_faq.htm#_Toc16090532) has this to say:3.22. Where do the names "Toril" and "Faerun" come from? There are conflicting opinions: Pat Werda dug up: In Evermeet: IoE, it is revealed that Faerun is an elven word meaning "the one land" which is what the elves saw it as before the High Magic that created Evermeet cracked the end of the continent off and hauled it out to see, forming the Moonshaes et al as it went. Pierre Godbout clarifies: It doesn't mean anything really. It was called Faerūn by prince Durothil, the first gold elf to have ever set foot on Toril. He led his people out of Faerie, his home world, and upon feeling that the Weave was strong in this new world, he named it Faerūn, which is similar to Faerie in pronunciation but it didn't mean anything else in their language. You could interpret it as something that sounded like their home world, but that could remind them gently that they were somewhere new and that they now had to move on. This is all found in Evermeet, Island of Elves. Jason Hatter adds: IIRC, the grey box (or it might be the 2nd Ed box) states that abeir-toril is thought to be dwarven in etymology. Abeir-toril is an translates loosely as meaning 'Cradle of Life'". Faer is (again, iirc) a dwarven word indicating magic.
Karsus the Mad 01-20-05, 02:20 PM	I always thought that the little ^ above the U in Faerun made it sound like "fey-roon"...but now noticing the Fae in Faerun and Fae in Faerie, and given it's elven background....."Fair-roon" maybe? well, good ol' Ed created it, so he decides how it's pronounced:D