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Your thoughts on Candle Keep being a entrance (exit too obviously...) to the upper, under & lower dark as well as a place to learn & be worthy concerning planar travel considering what can be found at the core of any star be it a planet, moon or star? ⛲
I like to imagine that in one long-forgotten spot in Candlekeep, amidst the vast shelves of lore and esoterica, lies a book bound with an unnatural shimmer. On its cover is a depiction of some ancient, immortal, inhuman being of vile magics, and within its pages lie the secrets of the universe unraveled as a series of conditionals, tables and algorithms. Its contents drive mortals mad, as they were never meant for mortal minds to comprehend. Its title: "The Dungeon Master's Guide."
Fun fact: Building a library right next to the sea is REALLY dumb. Especially without air conditioning. Moisture destroys books. And the shore is very moist.
I *think* this is a magical library in a magical world full of magical people able to magically affect the world. Somehow, I have the feeling they can deal with moisture.
There is actually explicitly an enchantment that covers the entire keep that keeps the air dry and salt free, along with the one that prevents fire from existing in the keep.
It has a mythal that keeps out moisture, pests, puts out fire, prevents mold (so strong that the people who live there have to go outside to eat cheese as it's a mold and the mythal destroies it). Also prevents teleporting in and scrying. That being said I'm pretty sure the mythal is gone as of the last Elminster novel.
In the campaign that I've been playing for two years now, Candlekeep is basically at the heart of the story! It basically started with us getting employed there
Heard this chant a lot in the first Baldur's Gate game: The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sewn from their passage. So sayeth the wise Alaundo
Chanter from the west so say the wise Alonso. Ya there are chanters from each side of the cardinal directions and in baldurs gate 1 you start off in candlekeep and can run into them all and they each have a specific kinda vague phrase that describes 1 of 4 of the major DnD events to come. Its on the wiki page but one talks about bhaal and basically bg2 and throne of bhaal the ending. I think the other is when dragons returned and another was the Time of Troubles. (BG1 takes place i think just like 90 years before the time of troubles when the gods walked the world as mortals.)
Yeah, the Baldurs Gate Game is how I 1st heard of it too. But even then, I kept thinking . . . you build one of the top 5 repositories of knowledge on an oceanside cliff???? What is you're wisdom score? Three?
The one about Bhaal is commonly heard. Here is another one: "In the Year of The Turret (1360 DR, eight years before the game) a great host will come from the east like a plague of locusts. So sayeth the wise Spain to." That prophecy references the Tuigan Horde invasion which was stopped by the king of Cormyr and his armies. That prophecy should be removed from their chant, but they still include it.
There was a short story in one of the Realms novels about an initiate that found a secret room with a book of stories about candlekeep. After reading the book he was found out that the library has a guardian spirit that protects the books and that guardian spirit has to be renewed every so often and he had been selected. It was a good story, I wish I could remember more details.
If I remember correctly the library of Alexandria was burned accidentally during a naval battle on the near by river. While many of the books were burnt there was a second library that continued the tradition until its decline.
"the lord of murder shell praise, but in his doom he shell spwan a group of mortal prestigious, chaos will be shew from there passage, so say the Great alondo"
Thank you so much for breaking down the FR lore into bite size pieces. Your videos do a great and entertaining job of both educating longtime FR readers (I've owned the campaign setting in one form or another since 1993) and helping out newbies. I'm showing this and your other videos to my 12 year old son and his friends to get them more invested in the D&D game I'm running.
Chanters are awesome there they each have an Easter egg/hint to the future to come. The chanter from the west so say the wise Alaundo. there are chanters from each side of the cardinal directions and in baldurs gate 1 you start off in candlekeep and can run into them all in the courtyard and they each have a specific mildly vague phrase that describes 1 of 4 of the major DnD events to come. Its on the wiki page but one talks about bhaal and basically bg2 and throne of bhaal the ending. I think the other is when dragons returned and another was the Time of Troubles. (BG1 takes place i think just like 90 years before the time of troubles when the gods walked the world as mortals.)
one of my most epic characters was rewarded for "betraying the party" by being given candlekeep. he was obsessed with knowledge and the preservation of that so justified it as keeping it safe from the war, and he did send a small army to help support the party later, wasn't evil, just had other priorities.
So the biggest thing I don’t get is how the gate keepers know if a book is in the library or not. I doubt that every gate keeper knows all of the tens of thousands of books in this library.
I would assume that the library has some sort of catalogue listing what books they already have. The monk would just need to find where the book would be on the list - and if it's not on the list, you can come in.
you can also see the monks in baldurs gate 1 where they repeatedly chant while you are within earshot ...and occasionally pronounce the prophets name correctly!
Recently I revealed my character regularly goes out and records flora and fauna of the world and brings sells their journals filled with that knowledge to the library as well as artifacts and other objects such as tablets to be kept there. Not directly part of the library but something of a contractor. Their sponsor is the one who gave them the bracers of archery that allows them to use a longbow and also why they have a bag of holding. My character is a scout rogue and just recently got out of a dungeon crawl among the ruins of a dwarven city that fell to fiends so long ago. They are returning to candlekeep the deliver some tablets and other items as well as their journal detailing the recent summoning of the fiend Baphomet and the activities of his cult there. The wizard from the party is going that same way for magic reasons and to research their own origins (the feywild). Our clerics are parting to deal with gathering various other clerics and paladins to deal with the remains of the cult.
I remember when Cyric was slapping Malik around outside Candlekeep after the battle where Cyric's armies turned on one another... I mean of course they did... LoL.
Yeah, same question. In Baldur’s Gate, Gorion’s Ward lives in Candlekeep, however when he returned he was asked to give a tome to enter. I dunno seems unfair.
Yep, that's why many visitors live there for months or even years looking for all the lore they need, just so they don't have to search for another book to donate in case they'll need to come back.
Descent into avernus gives the players a bag of beans before they are sent to candlekeep.... name a single group that does not start randomly planting seeds...
Pretty disappointed this video didn't begin with, "Nestled atop the cliffs that rise from the Sword Coast, the citadel of Candlekeep houses the finest and most comprehensive collection of writings on the face of Faerûn."
OH SNAP! This is it! This is just what I need for my Forgotten Realms character (Chaos Elemental Sorcerer mutant human named Aran, or at least his mother’s roots); while Aran’s father’s roots are intertwined with Abier, Amn, Maztica, and Bazim-Gorag, Aran’s mother’s roots are tied to Candlekeep, Waterdeep, and an “underground” group of scientists whose experiments result in mutants, and she was one of those mutants (one that gives her three eyes, perfect memory, and a rage-like state that allows her to use telekinesis) who escaped (one in Waterdeep), was taken in by one of the monks that guard Candlekeep (where she became a cleric), and returned to Waterdeep (after having a vision in her dream about facing her “past”), and (for those who’ve heard before) the rest is history -Double D
@@Jorphdan your vids have helped me and my brother fill out some info we didnt know about forgotten realms for our campaigns which is saying something considering Bauldur's Gate 1 was one of my first pc games then reading all the books i could followed
as an idiot i find grand libraries and academies magical places beyond comprehension and seriously turn me on. Isn't there some kind of divine library the gods have? one of the knowledge divines must have some kind of super library! mystra perhaps?
Also, things you missed: No less than three residents of Candlekeep are song dragons, a Silver Dragon couplet from Silverymoon maintain a portal to Candlekeep and take copies of records and work/spellbooks they confiscate there as part of their duties. Also, a hidden feature of some of Elminster's pipes is that they allow instantaneous transportation to either Candlekeep or the Harper's Holdfast, bypassing the wards preventing such magics. Just so you know.
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Your thoughts on Candle Keep being a entrance (exit too obviously...) to the upper, under & lower dark as well as a place to learn & be worthy concerning planar travel considering what can be found at the core of any star be it a planet, moon or star? ⛲
I like to imagine that in one long-forgotten spot in Candlekeep, amidst the vast shelves of lore and esoterica, lies a book bound with an unnatural shimmer. On its cover is a depiction of some ancient, immortal, inhuman being of vile magics, and within its pages lie the secrets of the universe unraveled as a series of conditionals, tables and algorithms. Its contents drive mortals mad, as they were never meant for mortal minds to comprehend. Its title: "The Dungeon Master's Guide."
This comment is too underated
“The tapestry forever frayed” i wonder if thats just about the weave being destroyed
"No, we don't need another copy of '50 Shades of Grey.' Begone!"
haha!
That sounds like a book that they'd kill you on the spot for (that, and Twilight).
My boy Jorphdan, predicting the next book setting 8 months early. May he sit astride Nostrodomus as a true Prophet!
ahh Baulders Gate 1. How i miss thee.
The Alaundo pronunciation kills me. If you play some Baldur's gate, it's mentioned several times, minus the "hun" in the middle. A Lawn do
This is weirdly timely considering Elminsters Candlekeep doc just got released on DMs guild
I know! I was going to do a review of that too. Nerd Immersion beat me to it!
Jorphdan I’d be happy with your review! The more opinions the better!
Jorphdan - that just means you're intuitive, and in tune with the DnD wavelength/vibe.
Fun fact: Building a library right next to the sea is REALLY dumb. Especially without air conditioning. Moisture destroys books. And the shore is very moist.
I *think* this is a magical library in a magical world full of magical people able to magically affect the world. Somehow, I have the feeling they can deal with moisture.
moiseman I love this comment
There is actually a subtle mythal that desalinates the air and repels water!
There is actually explicitly an enchantment that covers the entire keep that keeps the air dry and salt free, along with the one that prevents fire from existing in the keep.
It has a mythal that keeps out moisture, pests, puts out fire, prevents mold (so strong that the people who live there have to go outside to eat cheese as it's a mold and the mythal destroies it). Also prevents teleporting in and scrying.
That being said I'm pretty sure the mythal is gone as of the last Elminster novel.
In the campaign that I've been playing for two years now, Candlekeep is basically at the heart of the story! It basically started with us getting employed there
Now I got that chant stuck in my head... "... so sayeth the wise Alaundo."
And now I also have "heya, it's me, Imoen" on a loop.
Yay Forgotten Realms!
Heard this chant a lot in the first Baldur's Gate game:
The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sewn from their passage. So sayeth the wise Alaundo
Bhaal?
Chanter from the west so say the wise Alonso. Ya there are chanters from each side of the cardinal directions and in baldurs gate 1 you start off in candlekeep and can run into them all and they each have a specific kinda vague phrase that describes 1 of 4 of the major DnD events to come. Its on the wiki page but one talks about bhaal and basically bg2 and throne of bhaal the ending. I think the other is when dragons returned and another was the Time of Troubles. (BG1 takes place i think just like 90 years before the time of troubles when the gods walked the world as mortals.)
Yeah, the Baldurs Gate Game is how I 1st heard of it too.
But even then, I kept thinking . . . you build one of the top 5 repositories of knowledge on an oceanside cliff???? What is you're wisdom score? Three?
The one about Bhaal is commonly heard. Here is another one: "In the Year of The Turret (1360 DR, eight years before the game) a great host will come from the east like a plague of locusts. So sayeth the wise Spain to." That prophecy references the Tuigan Horde invasion which was stopped by the king of Cormyr and his armies. That prophecy should be removed from their chant, but they still include it.
''These walls contain the world's knowledge!''
There was a short story in one of the Realms novels about an initiate that found a secret room with a book of stories about candlekeep. After reading the book he was found out that the library has a guardian spirit that protects the books and that guardian spirit has to be renewed every so often and he had been selected. It was a good story, I wish I could remember more details.
Great video. Glad to see the return to the classic format.
If I remember correctly the library of Alexandria was burned accidentally during a naval battle on the near by river. While many of the books were burnt there was a second library that continued the tradition until its decline.
A-Lawn-Doe Alaundo
I came straight to the comments to check if ive been saying Ah-lawn-doe wrong lolol.
Ah-loo-win-doe lol
A-laun-do. Three syllables. That's the way his name was pronounced in the Baldur's Gate game and that is an official AD&D product.
I could see a few phsionics in the background pulling the strings of the library, focusing on unlocking or preserving some sort of Vulcan mind trick
"the lord of murder shell praise, but in his doom he shell spwan a group of mortal prestigious, chaos will be shew from there passage, so say the Great alondo"
Thank you so much for breaking down the FR lore into bite size pieces. Your videos do a great and entertaining job of both educating longtime FR readers (I've owned the campaign setting in one form or another since 1993) and helping out newbies. I'm showing this and your other videos to my 12 year old son and his friends to get them more invested in the D&D game I'm running.
That's awesome! The next generation of forgotten realms gamers!
Chanters are awesome there they each have an Easter egg/hint to the future to come. The chanter from the west so say the wise Alaundo. there are chanters from each side of the cardinal directions and in baldurs gate 1 you start off in candlekeep and can run into them all in the courtyard and they each have a specific mildly vague phrase that describes 1 of 4 of the major DnD events to come. Its on the wiki page but one talks about bhaal and basically bg2 and throne of bhaal the ending. I think the other is when dragons returned and another was the Time of Troubles. (BG1 takes place i think just like 90 years before the time of troubles when the gods walked the world as mortals.)
Saw that you made a lore vid... got a HUGE dopamine spike. Love your high quality, high entertaining vids. P.S please do a video on Halruaa!!!!!!
Great Lore wish the novels we're back. Especially a trilogy on Alaundo
Now that we're getting candlekeep mysteries this is perfect
one of my most epic characters was rewarded for "betraying the party" by being given candlekeep. he was obsessed with knowledge and the preservation of that so justified it as keeping it safe from the war, and he did send a small army to help support the party later, wasn't evil, just had other priorities.
wow, the first time I've heard of Candlekeep, this is really interesting!
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Love Candlekeep.
Awesome work! Thanks.
So the biggest thing I don’t get is how the gate keepers know if a book is in the library or not. I doubt that every gate keeper knows all of the tens of thousands of books in this library.
I would assume that the library has some sort of catalogue listing what books they already have. The monk would just need to find where the book would be on the list - and if it's not on the list, you can come in.
Dewey Decimal System
you can also see the monks in baldurs gate 1 where they repeatedly chant while you are within earshot ...and occasionally pronounce the prophets name correctly!
I’ve been thinking my players need to take a trip to Candlekeep.
Recently I revealed my character regularly goes out and records flora and fauna of the world and brings sells their journals filled with that knowledge to the library as well as artifacts and other objects such as tablets to be kept there. Not directly part of the library but something of a contractor. Their sponsor is the one who gave them the bracers of archery that allows them to use a longbow and also why they have a bag of holding. My character is a scout rogue and just recently got out of a dungeon crawl among the ruins of a dwarven city that fell to fiends so long ago. They are returning to candlekeep the deliver some tablets and other items as well as their journal detailing the recent summoning of the fiend Baphomet and the activities of his cult there. The wizard from the party is going that same way for magic reasons and to research their own origins (the feywild). Our clerics are parting to deal with gathering various other clerics and paladins to deal with the remains of the cult.
My fantasy world has a version of this place called “Eithirial-Suriel: The Tower of Knowledge” love great libraries.
Ah Candlekeep the Forgotten Realms 24/7 Surveillance Center
A-lawn-do...
Love the mtg art used
I remember when Cyric was slapping Malik around outside Candlekeep after the battle where Cyric's armies turned on one another... I mean of course they did... LoL.
My only question.. is the “donation” required Every Time?
Yeah, same question. In Baldur’s Gate, Gorion’s Ward lives in Candlekeep, however when he returned he was asked to give a tome to enter. I dunno seems unfair.
Yep, that's why many visitors live there for months or even years looking for all the lore they need, just so they don't have to search for another book to donate in case they'll need to come back.
@@liondrago visitors are only allowed 1-10 days stay
time stamp 6:02
"when shadow designed apond the land, our Devin lord shell wake among us as equal, so say the wise alondo"
I missed your videos man,thx.
Descent into avernus gives the players a bag of beans before they are sent to candlekeep.... name a single group that does not start randomly planting seeds...
Candlekeep the library-fortress, also known as Candlekeep the capitalism-fortress
Pretty disappointed this video didn't begin with, "Nestled atop the cliffs that rise from the Sword Coast, the citadel of Candlekeep houses the finest and most comprehensive collection of writings on the face of Faerûn."
ah love this place
Great Video, thanks bud!
Glad you liked it!
OH SNAP! This is it! This is just what I need for my Forgotten Realms character (Chaos Elemental Sorcerer mutant human named Aran, or at least his mother’s roots); while Aran’s father’s roots are intertwined with Abier, Amn, Maztica, and Bazim-Gorag, Aran’s mother’s roots are tied to Candlekeep, Waterdeep, and an “underground” group of scientists whose experiments result in mutants, and she was one of those mutants (one that gives her three eyes, perfect memory, and a rage-like state that allows her to use telekinesis) who escaped (one in Waterdeep), was taken in by one of the monks that guard Candlekeep (where she became a cleric), and returned to Waterdeep (after having a vision in her dream about facing her “past”), and (for those who’ve heard before) the rest is history
-Double D
This was good.
Ah-lawn-doe
The "win" is silent.
So sayeth the Wise Allu-win-du
Nice video ! Where does the image at 1:30 come from ?
Where can I find the resource for the Aluando's prophecy for the end of Faerun?
your vids rock dude. thanks for all the research.
Thanks man! Game on :D
@@Jorphdan your vids have helped me and my brother fill out some info we didnt know about forgotten realms for our campaigns which is saying something considering Bauldur's Gate 1 was one of my first pc games then reading all the books i could followed
Can you do a video on the gold dragon under the keep please?
great idea! I'll add it to my topics list!
Can you do Border Kingdoms with the new book on DMsguild with official lore?
...so sayith the wise Alaun-do...
I thought it was pronounced "A-lawn-doe"
Not gonna believe a sudden wikipedia edit over the verified academic findings of my colleagues.
Yeah Jorphdan jeez. Less of the made up history and more...*ahem*...made up history
Its pronounced Ah-londo, not A-lo-en-do! You can hear it here: th-cam.com/video/8KMHg6dpPPw/w-d-xo.html
as an idiot i find grand libraries and academies magical places beyond comprehension and seriously turn me on. Isn't there some kind of divine library the gods have? one of the knowledge divines must have some kind of super library! mystra perhaps?
FIRST! :D
It's pronounced, "Al-ondo". Not "Al-Uw-Uund-oh".
Also, things you missed: No less than three residents of Candlekeep are song dragons, a Silver Dragon couplet from Silverymoon maintain a portal to Candlekeep and take copies of records and work/spellbooks they confiscate there as part of their duties. Also, a hidden feature of some of Elminster's pipes is that they allow instantaneous transportation to either Candlekeep or the Harper's Holdfast, bypassing the wards preventing such magics. Just so you know.
Second one sounds infinitely better.
This is not module related right just want more not wanting to ruin the game for myself
Nope nothing to do with Candlekeep Mysteries.
"al la oon doe?" I'm going to check on that pronunciation right after I wash and fold my "la oon dree" 👕🧦🧺 LOL