Saying Hi + a question about Blackrazor's origin
Hey Glim,
sorry it took a bit for this to hit my radar. You've found pretty much all the canon references to Blackrazor, and proposed some interesting explanations for it's existence. In the final analysis it all comes down to what works for you as a DM. (With that sort of baseline your gamers will have one heck of a campaign in front of them.)
In my own campaign series it's a fragment of the prior multiverse.
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Thanks for your input sciborg2 and Loki.
Good to see I found most references, I feared I had overlooked something important.
I've gone with the previous multiverse story as well. Due to the bard in my game rolling extraordinary high on a lore check, I actually got to use it too, in a way
Lore and knowledge checks always figure prominently in my games. Without them you don't get past square one. I approve.
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Because I'm a terrible person, this is the first time I've seen this thread. Mostly I just look at the updated topics on the front page and I miss a lot.
This comes from the late-2nd edition adventure Return to White Plume Mountain by Bruce Cordell, which stated (page 3) "While future-communing with the last surviving entities of a dying multiverse, he [Keraptis] received the sword called Blackrazor."
Taking literally, it's possible the dying multiverse was "our own," the same multiverse that Planescape and Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms are set in. That is, perhaps Keraptis was communing with entities from the far future of his own cosmos, just before it was due to wink out for the last time.
Alternately, it's an alternate reality similar, but not identical, to the Planescape multiverse. There was an "Ecology of the Sharn" in Dragon #373 that presented a parallel multiverse like this, destroyed by Tharizdun.
I think Blackrazor was one of a group of godlike parasitical entities who destroyed the dying multiverse, infesting it like worms and draining it of all of its energy. I was inspired by that idea when I wrote an origin myth for cloakers and dimensional warpers in this thread.
great post, lots of great ideas, sadly I'm not familiar with Blackrazor. I like the idea of this sword existing before the current iteration of the Multiverse though.
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