Forgotten Realms Lore - The Seven Sisters
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- Episode 16 - The Seven Sisters, the Chosen of Mystra! Mystra's ladies of power in the Forgotten Realms! Dungeons & Dragons Lore!
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Mystra was forced by Ao to have Chosen because she is much more powerful than the other gods, it acts as a control on her lest she conquer all. That's why she can't wrest back the power once it's given, it must be given back freely.
I read on the Wiki this is because Lord Æo didn't want Mystra to be more powerful than him. Is that true? Or is it just one of those things people post on the wiki even though there's no evidence to back it up?
Kyle which wiki? There’s no way Mystra could ever become as strong as Ao
@@antimatterstudios8395 It's in the forgotten realms wiki, but to your point it doesn't have a citation.
It says that half Mystra's power is in a Chosen and in Azuth, and that this was so that she won't rule all of Realmspace.
Kyle weird I’ll look that up today
A number of Realms deities have Chosen
Ed Greenwood must have been an amazing DM...
The world building would be great, but I think it would be quite weird overall. I mean it would probably boil down to Elminster saving everybody again and again while the players just stand around.
*Talks about Lady Alustriel and Dove FalconHand*
'Me' - LEGEND OF DRIZZT BOOKS INTENSIFIES
The story of Alassra is interesting, cause in Baldur's gate 3, Gale the mage has to consume artefacts to keep himself alive. I guess they got this idea from her story.
a 45 minute video just about Qilue and Eilistraee would be too short :)
_May you dance in moonlight and joyous song._
I've been debating the inclusion of specifically Forgotten Realms mythos in my games, but I think this video series has given me enough to use without doing a disservice to my players. Keep it up! And there will 100% be an NPC in my games named Jorphdan (the ph is silent)!
Hi I'm an Aboriginal woman from Perth Western Australia and my people are the Noongah people of Western Australia and my people the Aboriginal people of Australia have a Dreamtime story of the Pleiades which we also call The Seven Sisters....it's about a Aboriginal male & Seven Sisters... this Dreamtime story is quite common amongst many Aboriginal tribes across Australia
Another great video. Thanks. I've been watching quite a few of these lately. I ran a FR/ Waterdeep/ Undermountain campaign in the 80s/ 90s for almost a decade. Recently, I 'accidentally' found myself running an FR campaign again, and these videos have been very helpful in not only bringing me up to date, but also refreshing my memory on all this FR lore! Very handy!
Death to Halaster!!!! Death to Scaladar!!!! Death to Trobriand!!!! Death to the teleporting toilets of Undermountain!!!!
In novels, The Simbul is so ridiculously powerful she makes Blackstaff look like a novice.
Really interesting! Nice to see some background to Alustriel! She makes an appearance in R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt series. Very powerful and mysterious character. Great video as usual.
Thanks :D
So does Dove Falconhand in the Dark Elf Trilogy (Drizzt's prequels). Its brief though and not particularly noteworthy. It is mentioned that she is the sister of Alustriel though.
You always give me new ideas for my group and they loved playing through the fallen sky castle. Keep up the good work.
+River Allan awesome!
I've read many forgotten realms novels but not all of them . This forgotten realms Lore really fills in the back story of some characters and places for me .
great!
Thanks for the video. Just recently I realized that Alustriel was human (although it seems half-elf given her mother?). I dunno I got that vibe from her in the Search for Mithral Hall and got super confused when I saw human on the wiki. This clears some things up.
Beautiful follow-up after hitting "The Sundering" series recently. Aside for Drizzit that had been my first major foray into Forgotten Realms. Its where I run my adventures out of now, so thank you, this was a nice little lore-tour.
I'm here cuz one of my players made his character a son of Alustriel Silverhand because he heard she was cool and all. Now we have a potential mary-sue on our hands lol
I wonder how that ended...
How did that end?
Alustriel had several kids, not all of them are Mary Sues.
@@r.r815 It ended with him being an over-powered, self-indulged Cleric player who took every moment to ask for bigger and stronger equipment, and still complained that he was doing less damage than the Fighter!
Player was paranoid, quitting the group after claiming that I was stalking him for weeks. I don't know where he is now
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 so they changed their name from a silverhand to a silverspoon?🤣
Hey man, just wanted to say I love your channel and if you are ever searching for easy videos you should just pick a city and do a quick video on its history leading up to its current incarnation. As a newer player its difficult to imagine the even local histories of a huge city like Neverwinter fitting into the overall world. That would be really interesting and helpful.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks! happy you're enjoying the videos. Neverwinter is coming up in a few weeks. Stay tuned :D
Awesome!
I would like a video on Elistraëae and Sharess 😁
Question is there a difference between "silver" fire and "spell" fire? If so will you elaborate about it at some point?
Silver Fire is a gift to the Chosen of Mystra. You can use it as a weapon, or protection it's kind of like pure Weave energy that can be manipulated in various ways.
Spell Fire is a magical power that allows users to absorb spells cast at them and convert it to raw magical energy. They sound somewhat similar but Silver Fire is silver in color when used and only available to the chosen of Mystra. I'm not sure how you obtain spellfire, it might be outlined in Ed Greenwood's novel "Spellfire" but I haven't read it.
They are different but similar. Read Spellfire, Crown of Fire, and the Forgotten Realms Atlas
I’ve only heard of the first two sisters, Alustriel and Dove because they were in the Icewind DaleTrilogy.
The Second sundering is basically a soft reset of faerun
You are not wrong
One pic you showed was Liriel Baenre not Quilue.
Ahhh Phylactery Lich, I love you.
Really loving this series and this weeks video is no different! Love it! Keep it up!!!
Hay Jorphdan! I just wanted to say keep up the great work and Im loving your videos, youre a natural at this, that or your hard work is seamless!
I did have one request, if you ever get around to it Id love to see a video on Sigil. I dont know a whole lot about it, and it may not specifically relate to FR lore, but ive seen it on some planar graphics in your videos and it peaked my interest.
Thanks for watching! Glad to see you're enjoying the videos. Yes Sigil is in the works. I plan on doing videos for the various planes of existence and Sigil will fit in there, somewhere. I don't have anything written yet but it is on my future video list. =)
Jorphdan awesome! Thanks for the response, i readily await new videos and will continue to share with all my Dnd friends.
+OmentheMarked 👍
haha dr hogback's laugh is so funny. one of the best in op
I believe all the sisters are found in the comic in the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist book.
I'm still hoping for a deep dive into each sister or more in depth video about all 7
Well done! Thanks for spending your time researching and sharing.
I remember researching about silver fire. I still wish their was a variant of sorcerer with silver fire.
You should homebrew it, that sounds awesome.
thanks for your work :)
Do a part 2 for the seven sisters
I love the Seven Sisters. So cool.
Sadly, the Simbul passed away, sacrificing herself to heal and restore Elminster to his old self.
What a waste.... she and qilue are my favorites. At least storms still alive.
What made the simbul really cool is that she is really the only known powerful sorc. The rest are all Wizards. In terms of all spellcasters that is.
@@user-jq9iz3do1o The lichdrow Dyrr is a sorcerer not wizard for what it is worth.
thanks. I'm one of seven sisters and dig finding and sharing with them any and all things related. fun. I dig imagining that we can have these powers. whoa fun day thanks. I'm number 3.
Twisted Rune and their leadership could be a good one, but might want to do Calimshan first.
My party has run into Elminster in text roleplay, but instead of typing, i'm looking for more videos on Elminster to catch them up on lore. Any video links? having a hard timing finding solid information on him.
Love your work, keep it coming please! Leaving a like and comment and sharing with friends every time I can :P
Thanks! It helps way more than you'd think! I super appreciate it :D
its fully deserved!
Could a high level cleric possibly restore the PH?
All you need is a low level chemist.
I like how you pronounce Eilistraee.
Sounds like you are giggling "tee-hee" =P
God damn, why haven't anyone made a movie about the seven sisters? If well made it would be a real best seller! Doesn't even matter if people know of dnd and FR, this is so intriguing on its own! I wonder if anyone at least wrote a fantasy book on the topic?
It does seem that they are also a reference to the Pleiades constellation.
The simbul is my favorite of the 7 sisters. Total bad ace! She's like a force of nature. She blows into the hells and just starts wrecking shop in the book elminster in hell
I need this video; again - except like 45-50 min long. :P
Storms the best!
What is I wish the video is longer and you went much more deeper into it
Maybe I can revisit it :)
@@Jorphdan I love you man you should really think about writing a book I would buy it
i didn't know Quilue died.
that was fun thanks again.
The only 2 missing sisters are now Qilué and the Simbul. Dove and Syluné, while part of the Weave, can still act and interact with their sisters, speak, and basically anything. Laeral, Alustriel and Storm are alive, so that leaves only Qilué and Alassra. I hope that they resurrect them, at least as voice in the Weave like Dove and Syluné are. I mean, they should already be that, but it'd be cool to see the Simbul acting again, or Qilué's soul returning to the Promenade as it is being retaken.
Qilué always got the short end of the stick in anything she did or was involved in. She always fought for good, but in the end lost family and everything. I wish she is at least returned to Eilistraee (now that the Dark Maiden has returned too), so Qilué will be able to meet her goddess and her family again.
@@transient_moonlight I would take the Lady Penitent series with a major grain of salt. Those books basically slandered Eilistraee and made her look as a goddess who was almost as bitchy as her mother Lolth. I'm also disappointed Salvatore never mentioned Eilistraee or her followers taking an interest in Drizzt. Oh well.
@@jamesbellefeuille2926 it was retconned, so yeah, it's worthless. Salvatore recently mentioned Eilistraee, in his latest book.
@@transient_moonlight RAS finally getting around to Eilistraee. Good.
Question, how did Iliryztara Veladorn, gey away without being turned into a Drider? Is there a story about that? Thanks for the great Lore
Eilistraee pronounced her own name "AISLE-iss-try-ee"
Eilistraee still pronounces her own name like that. She's been back for a very long time now, if that's what you meant.
Tommaso Sammarco where did you here that
Nice one
Whatever happened to Dornal Silverhand? Did he ever see his daughters again?
Only three left alive
Pretty sure the power was spell fire, not silver fire...
Could you do a video breaking down the elemental planes?
I hope this is what you're looking for! :)
th-cam.com/video/8WydH5TtCfY/w-d-xo.html
Jorphdan Oh Nice! Thanks!! I am making a campaign based off of Graz'zt and his attempt to usurp the throne and use the river Styx to dominate the abyss and raise the combined hells and abyss onto the material plane. Thanks again!
Could you do a video on the star mounts or high forest
I'll put it on my potential video list :)
Soooo, Mystra is a warlock... ;)
Love these lore videos thx. And I still say hey a new jorPHdan video lol sorry..
Glad you like them!
I see that final fantasy tactics scean although final fantasy does have a lot of references to dnd
Yeah it just seemed to fit :) Great game though, just last night I started it up again out of nostalgia.
Why do you say that Laurel keeps a low profile when in 1487 DR she returned to Waterdeep, rallied the Masked Lords, and became declared the Open Lord of Waterdeep. Not exactly circumspect.
She definitely seems to be making a bigger name for herself. I pulled this line directly from "The Seven Sisters"
page 27 "While she (Laeral) keeps a lower profile than her sister Alustriel,..."
brainpower45 Laeral always played second fiddle to her hubby, Khelben. After Khelben died she started to step more into the limelight.
Wemic as a player character
What about the spellfire girl?
Can you make the next block clickable before the graphic shows, it feels like you should be able to click it.
Sorry about that, TH-cam limits me to 20 seconds at the end of a video to display a clip. So short answer no, but in later videos I shortened the end screen time so hopefully it won't bother you much longer. :)
Cool, thank you.
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Are the Magisters and Mystra’s chosen one and the same?
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I always thought it was pronounced more like sim-bool.
So how many of the 7 are still alive?
Interesting
What pic is that at 3:19
Is there a Silverymoon vid?
Not yet! It's on my list of topics though!
@@Jorphdan cool. I played grey hawk originally and now DM a group consisting of stand up comedians. The setting is Forgotten Realms and your videos are a valuable resource.
Is there a 7 sons equivalent in dnd ? 😂
In a chronicle in forgotten realms, the master wanted to put one of mystra's daughters in the story and he finds a way too absurd. My character (a magician) found a silver mirror from the stomach of the deceased master (curator of the ashaba tower library). And soon and mirror began to speak, was a woman and said to call Storm Silverhand.
Szass came looking for the mirror, stopped the time of the tavern where we were, but stupid did not find the artifact that was in my bag.
It was the worst RPG chronicle I've ever played.
It’s incredible how I pronounce nearly every single dirty and character differently than you
Spell Fyre.. yummy stuff. .. the witch-queen of Aglarond is simply The Most Powerful Mage in Faerun... Mage level 30... even more powerful than El.. her only love... ♥
ok that's weird. my mom almost died having number 7 sister. she hemorraged and almost bled to death. we had to find a wet nurse.
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all those drow taints removed D:
I feel like you make the pronunciation of the names more difficult for yourself.
Elue is pronounced eh-loo-eh. Qilue is pronounced kwill-oo-eh. Laeral is pronounced lay-rall.
3:00 "Illias-trae-hee"? It's pronounced "AISLE-iss-try-ee"
I get strong RWBY vibes...
Nah, not really, apart from bestowing gifts which is pretty common across alot of fantasy IPs. Big fan of both regardless
Why dont anyone make a d&d mmorpg?
There's D&D Online, or the Neverwinter MMO.