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Author:  Dark Immolation [ Tue, May 05 2009, 1:51 AM ]
Post subject:  Faerzress Lore
Can anyone give me more information on this other than what's on FRwiki?

How can it be used, utilized, harnessed, where does it stand in relation to the Weave, etc?

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Faerzress
Author:  TormakSaber [ Tue, May 05 2009, 3:55 AM ]
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Faerzress does not exist and was retconned out of existence in the transition from 2e to 3e.

Also FR wiki is trash since it's all been updated to 4e lore. Do not use it.
Author:  Galenson [ Tue, May 05 2009, 8:33 AM ]
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What's the excuse now that plants can grow in the underdark if this miracle magic Fallsomethingorother doesn't exist?

My head hurts from all this magic whatsiemagiggys.
Author:  TormakSaber [ Tue, May 05 2009, 9:00 AM ]
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Well, fungus grows in caves, no?
Author:  Yurell [ Tue, May 05 2009, 9:07 AM ]
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What Tormak said and magic.
All we know is that enough obviously does otherwise there wouldn't be massive cites in the Underdark.
Author:  IronAngel [ Tue, May 05 2009, 14:29 PM ]
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Faerzress sure is a part of pre-4e Realms. Its effects are discussed in Underdark, pages 48-49. There's very little lore on it there, though. (Big surprise, since it's 3.5..) You'd probably have better luck looking into 2e books and novels. The exact effects of the radiation, and what it has to do with Drow magic, has been contradicted a few times though. I think. I blame most of the Drow confusions on Salvatore, who doesn't know crap about the world he's been writing about for over 20 years.

I don't know where to look. It's not mentioned in 2e Drow of the Underdark. I didn't find anything in Magic of Faerûn either, but I didn't look very carefully.

Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark states the following:

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The Weave has undoubtedly played a crucial role in the Deepearth, for vast cavern networks suddenly appear from time to time, leaving pockets of Underdark radiation, known to the drow as faerzress, in their wake. And races flourish.


The book also discusses the radiation's effects on magic (teleportation, divination, the usual) and states that faerzress-imbued rocks emit light much like the aforementioned lichen and fungi. (Which might not have anything to do with magic.) Then, the following is stated:

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Drow wizards and priests are known throughout the
Underdark and surface world for mass-producing unusual
weapons and clothing with quasi-magical properties. Such
properties are partially the result of exposure to faerzress, a
powerful and strange radiation found only in the Underdark.
Drow societies live and die by the proximity of
faerzress to their cities.


Some locations of strong or particularly weak radiation are mentioned throughout the book (remember Zip's lair from the Shadows and Starlights trilogy?), after which Sshamath's history is told:

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The defining event in Sshamath’s history was the collapse
of its most precious resource: the Underdark radiation
known as faerzress. Localized appearances and
disappearances of faerzress are not unheard of. These
unexplained fluctuations typically mean the collapse of
nearby drow city-states or the establishment of new ones,
as the dark elves migrate to new sources of the radiation.
By -2872 DR, five years after the problem was initially
detected, Sshamath’s defenders were bereft of drow magic.
The city was on the brink of anarchy.



So we know it comes in pockets, it affects magic for good and ill, it's important to drow and other Underdarkers, and it has some effects on natural environment. Where it came from, how it feels like, how it's harnessed, how it affects spellcasting, what kind of mutations it's likely to cause; all this we don't know.
Author:  TormakSaber [ Tue, May 05 2009, 18:02 PM ]
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There's very little lore on it there, though. (Big surprise, since it's 3.5..)


More like, "Big surprise, because it was almost universally retconned past 2e...."

And seriously, do you want to trust Drizz't Do'Urden's Guide to the UD? :D
Author:  IronAngel [ Tue, May 05 2009, 18:16 PM ]
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What do you mean it was almost retconned, though? There's been one 3.5 source book on the Underdark, and it's featured there. I don't really know where else it should have been mentioned but wasn't.

It was never elaborated on, that's true. Like most things after 2e, really. 3/3.5 sourcebooks have mostly just included paraphrased 2e content and rule conversions. It's quite telling of Underdark to list the effects of Faerzress on certain spells, but make no mention of how it came to be or how it's used by the denizens of the Underdark.

And that is why 2e is infinitely superior to the video game generation's 3e!

Besides.. Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark is the second best Underdark product ever published! The fact it's got the emo ranger on the cover is just a bonus. :D
Author:  Yurell [ Tue, May 05 2009, 22:44 PM ]
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I liked that book tbh.
Thankfully it has absolutely nothing to do with Drizzt.
Author:  BlackDahlya [ Wed, May 06 2009, 1:03 AM ]
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Forgotten Realms, Underdark Book, says something about it at page 48.

I am too lazy to transcript it now, though. ^^;
Author:  Galenson [ Wed, May 06 2009, 8:16 AM ]
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So... Faelzermagic thingy is kind of like gravity in which we know it's there, plays a crucial role in everything in the Underdark but is unnoticeable thus unimportant for RP?

(Trying to find a middle ground between Tormak and Iron here)
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