Feels like a lot of this Amn video got sidetracked into Waukeen. Would be nice to hear more about the five houses, cowled wizards, etc. Fantastic video as always, just felt it went a bit off-topic.
The thing about countries outside of the Sword Coast and the Heartland is that they've gone neglected for decades now. The entire continent of Maztica, for example, has gone completely untalked about since it reappeared. We have basically no idea what the current conditions of Amn are like, how they dealt with the spellplauge, how they're dealing with things now. There's just been nothing.
Amn is my favorite country in the Realms. I have many I like, but Amn has a flavour to it that has intrigued me for a long time. I love building campaigns for my players or introducing Amnian NPCs into my games. Makes for extraordinary intrigue when I can add it!
My first legit game started out in Athkatla, where I played a young sorceress. Since I was barely familiar with the _actual_ lore at the time and only knew stuff from the Baldur's Gate games (which take some huuuuge artistic liberties), I based her backstory mostly in that. She was born on a small farmvillage not far from the capital, but the peasants there thought she where cursed, thanks to her sorcerer abilities (she also had a demonic bloodline, so that didn't help). So her father gave her to a temple in Athkatla, in the hopes that the villagers wouldn't reach her there. Instead the Cloaked Wizards (aka the Grey Wizards) picked her up and moved her to spellhold to use for their sick experiments. Once they grew tired of her there, one of the Cloaked ones took her in as his ward and "apprentice". Man, I miss playing ｅｄｇｙ™ characters >.> These days my characters tend to be the most down to earth in the whole party.
I was a dear fan of BG2 and spend about half a year in the Fanfic community "The Attic" (now known as Gamejag). That fanfic community was what made me start buying manuals, and the key reason (as mentioned in another comment I just made) was over the in-game maps being horrifically out of proportion. I'd like to imagine that in my headcanon version of Faerun, there is still a Delryn family who are a linage involved in the Order of the Radiant Heart. Another branch of the family used to run Spellhold, but it may have fallen afoul of Spellplague. Current story running around in my head has an Amnian paladin who is a Steel dragon in disguise. He's part of the Radiant Heart which has accepted Bahamut into it's patrons after the Tyr-Tymora-Helm mess forced Tyr to step down and Bahamut to take up his portfolio in the human pantheon.
One of my friends who DMs at our local game store in the unofficial organized play is running a planned series of homebrew modules over the next several weeks that follow the desperate advent of Balagos' resurrection in Amn. He's been running homebrew for months in different tiers about hobgoblin armies that swear to Tiamat and communities of lizardfolk being made more militant, yuan-ti who are advancing the agenda of the cult of Balagos in the Troll Mountains and Snakewood of Amn. Just thought I'd share the concept here because I'm rather enthusiastic about Fred's stuff. Thanks for a great history video!
I am grateful for your videos especially this one because I am starting my campaign in Murann. I don’t think they are going to stick around for long but some of them sound like they want to pick a fight with the country or some factions of it and we haven’t even started. I mainly want to know more about the spellcasters like the Cowled Wizards, the emerald canal and more about the churches within the town as well. I also would like to know about the shadow thrives which seem to be a big power with the country. If I can’t learn more I can always make things up but it would be nice to not have to.
This is all I could find on the Emerald Cabal “Standing beside the merchant houses in power were the Cowled Wizards, the Emerald Cabal, and the Shadow Thieves, each of whom possessed an enormous degree of unofficial power behind the scenes. The Cowled Wizards were themselves the only legal arcane institution in Amn, all others banned by decree of the Council, and were controlled by the powerful Selemchants, who they served most often as underhanded agents or mercenaries. Opposing the Cowled Wizards were the secretive Emerald Cabal, a league of illegal arcane spellcasters opposed to the entire Amnian system and who were unafraid to use violent means to achieve their ends.“
So after hearing you talk about Wakueen (sp?) I think it'd be really cool to see you do videos over each of the gods of the Faerun pantheon. Kinnda like how you did the planes. Allot of lore with each of the gods.
Thanks for the information about Amn. I actually have a Teifling Arcane Trickster Rogue in my campaign who is an exile from Amn, and was looking for some good source material for his backstory mission.
My Rogue/Warlock Yuan-ti Pureblood is from Amn! I'm not too knowledgable in d&d lore, but basically, I was imagining in my head that was a wealthy and backstabby Egyptian styled place for him to come from. And somehow, by cosmic coincidence, a place exactly like that already existed, haha
P.S., By reading other comments, it has come into my knowledge that it's possible that I imagined the Egyptian-styled aspect of Amn. Well, whatever🤷♂️. If I did imagine it, it's still Egyptian-like in my heart♥️
According to the lore in Baldur's Gate 2, the Council of Six were all anonymous, like the Masked Lords of Waterdeep (so that nobody knows who to bribe). You also never mentioned the Cowled Wizards, who regulate all magic within the area.
My friends and I are playing a homebrew campaign at Amn, first arround a little town which was the prologue where we could know each other as characters and then travelling to Athkaltla. As far is it known, mostly by my PC who is a cavalier with noble background of Cormyr, the background is based in some trouble with comerce, arround the year 1479, where the relations between these two is somehow lacking by both parties, and the uncle of my cavalier is one of the ambassadors and has been looking for clues, like WTF is happening here, also our party has been attacked by some bad guys who wants us to be steped out of his way for whatever reason. Long story short, once we arrived at the big city, a riot/civil war erupted, we had to run out the city, or at least try to, became separated, but we were saved by some OP wizard lady who was friends with the uncle and is one of the royal mages of Tethyr... who, due to the inestability on the region, became the temporal regent of the city until the situation gets better... Also out party is the most.... weird: A human noble cavalier, a Half-elven lady cook wizard, a Dragonborn warrior archer, an elf shadow monk who thinks is naruto, and a Kelemvor tiefling cleric...
I know you covered the Faewild, but im really interested in the High Forest! I know that mostly the wood elves live there, but im sure you can dig up some pretty neat stuff!
A fierce group of wood elves lives there, bend on killing off all human life to save Forgotten Realms There's also a group of hunting werewolves running wild, worshipping some weird, evil and bloodthirsty werewolf demi-god.
Regarding your closing question, it's funny: I watched this video specifically *because* I'm planning on playing an Amnian cleric of Waukeen! The info is therefore appreciated.
Here is a fun little coninsidence. I just made a Half-Elf Wizard who is a Far Traveler. My original idea was that he is originally from New York City, USA, Earth. He fell through a tiny ripple in space and landed in Waterdeep. However the idea of a city that hates Spellcasters is now on my radar and I will keep it in mind.
Athkatla continued to trade overseas after the Spellplague. At least, they traded with Tarmalune, one of the cosmopolitan cities of Laerakond (the continent Faerunians know as Returned Abeir).
I am planning a sandbox campaign and one of my villains is a githyanki tyrant with a small army. I'm thinking about having him take over athkatla and use that as a home base while his army married north. What neighboring countries would get involved?
im actually writing a story taking place in 1370 DR Amn (Murann) and i was really scared i was about to put my players through the spellplague lmao. but they have 15 years ;)
Question with Maztica being moved to Abyr and I know I might have gotten the spelling wrong. Where would Abyr be located in 5e? Also would Amn still have control of Maxtica since its transfer?
Abeir and Toril are sister worlds. Parts of Abeir went to Toril and vice versa during the spellplague. The Sundering has returned most places and I believe Maztica is back and you are able to visit it by sea travel or magic.
You should add more info on how these are based on actual historical people and places. I think it would provide a lot of relevant context. You also seem to really be into the deities and stuff. I would like more on the actual culture and geography of a region rather than always going back to celestial info. It's kind of like talking about Spain, but always going back into the mythology of the Catholic Church.
Strange in BGII the Church of Helm, Lathandar, and Talos were the most prominent ones in Athcatla, Wukeen was the least prominent and weakest, mainly due to the fact many of here followers believed her to be dead, and her portfolio only granting up to second level divine spells!
Hmm and what about Helm in Amn? He lost a lof of followers elsewhere, after he slew Mystra, but he retained a lot of followers there. Also BG2 plays in Amn...........and you should play it, seriously play it, especially with mods, it's one of these games that might age, but never get old.
My company start in 1518 y, about 30 years after official lore. Amn was unequal and corrupted, and tradelords long ago rediced ppwer of militias. And some of 5 were planning against others. So one of em sent wildshaped druid to spy. Druid took afvantage, killed 3 lords, 2 escaped. Then he started revolution, and militias, who hated corrupted government, especilly after ecent ogres raid, after years of civil war took amn. Druid proclaimed himself as emperor. Most of gods were no longer worshipped, trade decreased, but militsry power grew enough. Tethyr also was nearly civil war, which was provoked, and after amn took down it, soon after calimshan, murandin, where genocided all orges, and velen. Amd player come in place knowing, that amn had just liberated halruaa. And every other nation is scared, cause amn grew in 8 times in just 2 decades by conquering everyone. Also druid, now emperor, proclaimed himself as god. Amd he was .... novody will ever read this
There is no such thing as fair trade. Free yes, but fair is impossible. Both parties would need to have equal information about the product, and the seller typically has the edge, and usually by a large margin. The one of the few times a buyer has the information edge about a product is in pawn shops, where sellers typically have little to no idea how valuable is their product. This asymmetry in information is why people buy products 99% of the time that they would be disgusted to buy if they knew the while truth about what goes into creating their products from start to finish.
Actually the Sythillisian Empire- huge legion armed monstrous forces lead by Sythillis, the male ogre mage and his wife Cyrvisnea had managed to conquer the bottom half of Amn during the early 1370's with the assistance of Cyrist strategists. They were able to succeed because was Amn was majorly distracted by the defection of Rialtavin and Trailstone to Tethyr and spent most of their resources trying to assassinate key players in Riatavin and instigate political intimidation, so that they'd rejoin Amn. The two cities left Amn because they believed they were shafted from the Maztica trade deal (They got trade businesses in Maztica). The Ogres had taken over various forts on the lower side, and sacked Esmelteran, Imnescar and eventually took over Murann the port city . The Ogres were looking for an special armory but they couldn't find it. After several futile attempts by Amn, Selunite forces keen to get back Murann because their temple resides in Murann. Organised troops from all over Amn, adventurers, mercnearies, travellers and all allies they all can muster and eventually took back Imnescar in 1372. A year later they were able to take back Esmelteran due to a distraction from a Great Blue Wyrm attacking towers in Sharp Teeth mountains during rage of dragons (That is where the main monstrous enemy forces lived. Oh yeah the towers were also inhabited by the Cyrists.) Unfortunately they were never able to take back Murann. Even during the current setting the ogres still owned the port city. Though after some time after they retook Esmelterran the Amn and the Ogre empire called a truce to fight a massive stinger threat far below. So yeah i think at this point Amn just let the ogres take Murann.
Maztica need to be revamped. Mostly because it should become it's own Empire and not ruled by Amn. Maztica has so much potential but it lacks so many things of what it could be.
Feels like a lot of this Amn video got sidetracked into Waukeen. Would be nice to hear more about the five houses, cowled wizards, etc. Fantastic video as always, just felt it went a bit off-topic.
The thing about countries outside of the Sword Coast and the Heartland is that they've gone neglected for decades now. The entire continent of Maztica, for example, has gone completely untalked about since it reappeared. We have basically no idea what the current conditions of Amn are like, how they dealt with the spellplauge, how they're dealing with things now. There's just been nothing.
Amn is my favorite country in the Realms. I have many I like, but Amn has a flavour to it that has intrigued me for a long time. I love building campaigns for my players or introducing Amnian NPCs into my games. Makes for extraordinary intrigue when I can add it!
As much as I appreciate videos about the Forgotten Realms, this one was more about Waukeen and the lake monster than it was about Amn.
You must be getting close to you graduate degree in forgotten Realms by now.
My first legit game started out in Athkatla, where I played a young sorceress. Since I was barely familiar with the _actual_ lore at the time and only knew stuff from the Baldur's Gate games (which take some huuuuge artistic liberties), I based her backstory mostly in that. She was born on a small farmvillage not far from the capital, but the peasants there thought she where cursed, thanks to her sorcerer abilities (she also had a demonic bloodline, so that didn't help). So her father gave her to a temple in Athkatla, in the hopes that the villagers wouldn't reach her there. Instead the Cloaked Wizards (aka the Grey Wizards) picked her up and moved her to spellhold to use for their sick experiments. Once they grew tired of her there, one of the Cloaked ones took her in as his ward and "apprentice".
Man, I miss playing ｅｄｇｙ™ characters >.>
These days my characters tend to be the most down to earth in the whole party.
OMG, imagine being there in that group of adventurers, rescuing a freaking GODESS :O
I love D&D more and more with every bit of story I hear :D
I expect those adventurers would be able to retire in extreme wealth & luxury.
Lol I ran that campaign its called “for duty and deity” and it was pretty much the lasy hurrah for my party
I love how the gold coins at 2:04 are Canadian coins with a yellow filter on them 😅
Yeah, I was like "wait a second I see a beaver that's a nickel, oh and there's a quarter and the Queen at different ages" lol
once again great work! keep it up. i am using Amn for a great campaign now and having someone to summarise it like this helps a lot 😊
+Arrelite that's great! Thanks for watching :)
I was a dear fan of BG2 and spend about half a year in the Fanfic community "The Attic" (now known as Gamejag). That fanfic community was what made me start buying manuals, and the key reason (as mentioned in another comment I just made) was over the in-game maps being horrifically out of proportion.
I'd like to imagine that in my headcanon version of Faerun, there is still a Delryn family who are a linage involved in the Order of the Radiant Heart. Another branch of the family used to run Spellhold, but it may have fallen afoul of Spellplague.
Current story running around in my head has an Amnian paladin who is a Steel dragon in disguise. He's part of the Radiant Heart which has accepted Bahamut into it's patrons after the Tyr-Tymora-Helm mess forced Tyr to step down and Bahamut to take up his portfolio in the human pantheon.
I would start a Divine Sorcerer in an Amn campaign, and use my charisma skills to pass myself off as a Cleric.
I say you should be awarded the domain of trickery regardless. Well done!
Just discovered your Channel and this was INCREDIBLY helpful! :) Thanks!
Great video. Amm is a great place for players who like intrigue and the Art of the deal.
you mean for sleight of hand checks
You continue to do great work with these. Thank you!
My game presently sets in Amn, in a small village called Tejarn, near the Lake Esmel! It is such a great region to build a campaign around!
One of my friends who DMs at our local game store in the unofficial organized play is running a planned series of homebrew modules over the next several weeks that follow the desperate advent of Balagos' resurrection in Amn. He's been running homebrew for months in different tiers about hobgoblin armies that swear to Tiamat and communities of lizardfolk being made more militant, yuan-ti who are advancing the agenda of the cult of Balagos in the Troll Mountains and Snakewood of Amn. Just thought I'd share the concept here because I'm rather enthusiastic about Fred's stuff. Thanks for a great history video!
Ayy just started DM'ing, and your videos are a great help to really understand the Forgotten Realms and spice my games up!
that's great!
For the glory of Amn!
Sounds like the perfect place for a swashbuckling campaign! Plot, plot, plot ...
I am grateful for your videos especially this one because I am starting my campaign in Murann. I don’t think they are going to stick around for long but some of them sound like they want to pick a fight with the country or some factions of it and we haven’t even started. I mainly want to know more about the spellcasters like the Cowled Wizards, the emerald canal and more about the churches within the town as well. I also would like to know about the shadow thrives which seem to be a big power with the country. If I can’t learn more I can always make things up but it would be nice to not have to.
Check out the Forgotten Realms Wiki. They have loads of information!
forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Cowled_Wizards
This is all I could find on the Emerald Cabal “Standing beside the merchant houses in power were the Cowled Wizards, the Emerald Cabal, and the Shadow Thieves, each of whom possessed an enormous degree of unofficial power behind the scenes. The Cowled Wizards were themselves the only legal arcane institution in Amn, all others banned by decree of the Council, and were controlled by the powerful Selemchants, who they served most often as underhanded agents or mercenaries. Opposing the Cowled Wizards were the secretive Emerald Cabal, a league of illegal arcane spellcasters opposed to the entire Amnian system and who were unafraid to use violent means to achieve their ends.“
So after hearing you talk about Wakueen (sp?) I think it'd be really cool to see you do videos over each of the gods of the Faerun pantheon. Kinnda like how you did the planes. Allot of lore with each of the gods.
Yeah, that'd be cool. Alot of the gods have pretty interesting stories, especially mystra.
I also second this idea. Currently running a game that features Lliira as a patron, so it was great to get some more info on her in this video.
yes
waukeen... always want her blessing... just not her wisdom lol she's not the smartest deity
Accidentally typed amn and saw this now im interested in it thanks I love it
Apparently the famous Hollywood actor Waukeen Phoenix was named after the goddess.
As a Canadian, I appreciate that the picture of gold was just gold coloured Canadian coins. And yes, I spelled colour with a U.
Thanks for the information about Amn. I actually have a Teifling Arcane Trickster Rogue in my campaign who is an exile from Amn, and was looking for some good source material for his backstory mission.
Thank you Jorphdan!
My Rogue/Warlock Yuan-ti Pureblood is from Amn! I'm not too knowledgable in d&d lore, but basically, I was imagining in my head that was a wealthy and backstabby Egyptian styled place for him to come from. And somehow, by cosmic coincidence, a place exactly like that already existed, haha
P.S., By reading other comments, it has come into my knowledge that it's possible that I imagined the Egyptian-styled aspect of Amn. Well, whatever🤷♂️. If I did imagine it, it's still Egyptian-like in my heart♥️
According to the lore in Baldur's Gate 2, the Council of Six were all anonymous, like the Masked Lords of Waterdeep (so that nobody knows who to bribe). You also never mentioned the Cowled Wizards, who regulate all magic within the area.
My friends and I are playing a homebrew campaign at Amn, first arround a little town which was the prologue where we could know each other as characters and then travelling to Athkaltla. As far is it known, mostly by my PC who is a cavalier with noble background of Cormyr, the background is based in some trouble with comerce, arround the year 1479, where the relations between these two is somehow lacking by both parties, and the uncle of my cavalier is one of the ambassadors and has been looking for clues, like WTF is happening here, also our party has been attacked by some bad guys who wants us to be steped out of his way for whatever reason. Long story short, once we arrived at the big city, a riot/civil war erupted, we had to run out the city, or at least try to, became separated, but we were saved by some OP wizard lady who was friends with the uncle and is one of the royal mages of Tethyr... who, due to the inestability on the region, became the temporal regent of the city until the situation gets better...
Also out party is the most.... weird: A human noble cavalier, a Half-elven lady cook wizard, a Dragonborn warrior archer, an elf shadow monk who thinks is naruto, and a Kelemvor tiefling cleric...
Awesome vid! Very insightful.
I know you covered the Faewild, but im really interested in the High Forest! I know that mostly the wood elves live there, but im sure you can dig up some pretty neat stuff!
A fierce group of wood elves lives there, bend on killing off all human life to save Forgotten Realms
There's also a group of hunting werewolves running wild, worshipping some weird, evil and bloodthirsty werewolf demi-god.
2:00 "gold flows freely" shows picture of Canadian change that's coloured gold for some reason.
Canada is the change Amn needs. 😁
Blew me away with this one!
Running a campaign with Waukeen this helped a lot
2:34 The Golden Mirage awaits..
Regarding your closing question, it's funny: I watched this video specifically *because* I'm planning on playing an Amnian cleric of Waukeen! The info is therefore appreciated.
Awesome!
I fully homebrew Amn's lore to fit my schemes
I hope you get to Cormyr! It's my favorite place :D
Here is a fun little coninsidence.
I just made a Half-Elf Wizard who is a Far Traveler.
My original idea was that he is originally from New York City, USA, Earth. He fell through a tiny ripple in space and landed in Waterdeep.
However the idea of a city that hates Spellcasters is now on my radar and I will keep it in mind.
Excellent presentation. Do you think you would be doing a video or two on the city of Westgate, and the Dragon Coast area? Anyways great vid.
Potential topics! I'll add it to my list :)
Awesome! Thanks for considering them. Cheers!
When the people got swapped for the dragon born, during the SpellPlague (I assume) to Abeir, what happened to them when they got there?
Oh, just a couple dozen Pycosaur, huh? That's good, I was afraid it was an aboleth.
Can you do a lore segment of Maztica that goes byond the 3 books up to the current state (all that's know at least)
Athkatla continued to trade overseas after the Spellplague. At least, they traded with Tarmalune, one of the cosmopolitan cities of Laerakond (the continent Faerunians know as Returned Abeir).
Amnian Soldier: For the glory of Amn!
More dinosaur's in Tomb of Anhilation and one of the DMs Guild Adept publications.
So... what exactly happened to the Sixth noble house?
Not sure, I couldn't find that information. Perhaps I'll dig around some more today.
murder?
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Council_of_Six_(Amn)#Council_Schism
If that helps...?
I am planning a sandbox campaign and one of my villains is a githyanki tyrant with a small army. I'm thinking about having him take over athkatla and use that as a home base while his army married north. What neighboring countries would get involved?
im actually writing a story taking place in 1370 DR Amn (Murann) and i was really scared i was about to put my players through the spellplague lmao. but they have 15 years ;)
A video on Elturel and the Hellriders would be cool to see c:
what kind of culture has Amn more eastern or spanish when compaired to the real world?
Spanish
@@ThatGuy007Ukr really? I thought it was more Egyptian-like
Might Ebberon be covered one day? Hard to find lore on it and its artificers
Lots of people asking for Ebberon. I'm not opposed to it, just not at the moment. Still feel I have more Forgotten Realms to cover first.
You are never going to finish with the Forgotten realms, which might be a good thing lol
You're not wrong :)
Question with Maztica being moved to Abyr and I know I might have gotten the spelling wrong. Where would Abyr be located in 5e? Also would Amn still have control of Maxtica since its transfer?
Abeir and Toril are sister worlds. Parts of Abeir went to Toril and vice versa during the spellplague. The Sundering has returned most places and I believe Maztica is back and you are able to visit it by sea travel or magic.
Fantastic that’s what I thought. Thank you very much.
I know there is a devil with a layer of the abyss but didnt think it was this one
I have a question! Why does Yeenoghu have a Harper brooch in 5e art?
You should add more info on how these are based on actual historical people and places. I think it would provide a lot of relevant context.
You also seem to really be into the deities and stuff. I would like more on the actual culture and geography of a region rather than always going back to celestial info. It's kind of like talking about Spain, but always going back into the mythology of the Catholic Church.
Strange in BGII the Church of Helm, Lathandar, and Talos were the most prominent ones in Athcatla, Wukeen was the least prominent and weakest, mainly due to the fact many of here followers believed her to be dead, and her portfolio only granting up to second level divine spells!
“FOR THE GLORY OF *AMN*!!!”
Hmm and what about Helm in Amn?
He lost a lof of followers elsewhere, after he slew Mystra, but he retained a lot of followers there.
Also BG2 plays in Amn...........and you should play it, seriously play it, especially with mods, it's one of these games that might age, but never get old.
and could you post the sorce of the time of maztica in abir (i need to know more) all that happend there and prove it was there mroe then implications
Amn kind of sounds like a fantasy version of the Venetian republic.
Watching this for research for First Blush
I am planning to start a campaign at amn. Any good books i can read about it?
My company start in 1518 y, about 30 years after official lore. Amn was unequal and corrupted, and tradelords long ago rediced ppwer of militias. And some of 5 were planning against others. So one of em sent wildshaped druid to spy. Druid took afvantage, killed 3 lords, 2 escaped. Then he started revolution, and militias, who hated corrupted government, especilly after ecent ogres raid, after years of civil war took amn. Druid proclaimed himself as emperor. Most of gods were no longer worshipped, trade decreased, but militsry power grew enough. Tethyr also was nearly civil war, which was provoked, and after amn took down it, soon after calimshan, murandin, where genocided all orges, and velen. Amd player come in place knowing, that amn had just liberated halruaa. And every other nation is scared, cause amn grew in 8 times in just 2 decades by conquering everyone. Also druid, now emperor, proclaimed himself as god. Amd he was .... novody will ever read this
Lol you really ought to play BG2 man !
Hang out for your videos each week
Do Tharizdun next!
Forgot to say PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably not soon, but AJ Pickett just did a video on Tharizudn though! Check it out!
ruclips.net/video/J1l4nyOrTMA/видео.html
Would most of this info hold truento thenyear 1355 dr
Yes keep going i am happy but could you do videos on touchstone explained ìn on of the 3 edition
Jaoquin Pheonix? ;-)
If he is a devil why would he be located in the abyss and not the nine hells?
He became super corrupted by the Abyss after leading an invasion force into it. Then he decided to stay and rule over the layers he conquered.
ahh thanks for info got confused with that other devil who was cast out
still more of a Shaundakul fan then waukeen. shaundakul will come help me wheni need it, she wont
Pythosaur?
Have you ever considered doing videos on the Sitholesian (spelling?) and Stinger wars or the Amnish colonization of Maztica?
There is no such thing as fair trade. Free yes, but fair is impossible. Both parties would need to have equal information about the product, and the seller typically has the edge, and usually by a large margin.
The one of the few times a buyer has the information edge about a product is in pawn shops, where sellers typically have little to no idea how valuable is their product.
This asymmetry in information is why people buy products 99% of the time that they would be disgusted to buy if they knew the while truth about what goes into creating their products from start to finish.
Ahhh Baldur's gate 2
Question, hasn't anyone tried doing an invasion to a super wealthy city
Actually the Sythillisian Empire- huge legion armed monstrous forces lead by Sythillis,
the male ogre mage and his wife Cyrvisnea had managed to conquer the bottom half of Amn during the early 1370's with the assistance of Cyrist strategists. They were able to succeed because was Amn was majorly distracted by the defection of Rialtavin and Trailstone to Tethyr and spent most of their resources trying to assassinate key players in Riatavin and instigate political intimidation, so that they'd rejoin Amn. The two cities left Amn because they believed they were shafted from the Maztica trade deal (They got trade businesses in Maztica).
The Ogres had taken over various forts on the lower side, and sacked Esmelteran, Imnescar and eventually took over Murann the port city . The Ogres were looking for an special armory but they couldn't find it.
After several futile attempts by Amn, Selunite forces keen to get back Murann because their temple resides in Murann. Organised troops from all over Amn, adventurers, mercnearies, travellers and all allies they all can muster and eventually took back Imnescar in 1372. A year later they were able to take back Esmelteran due to a distraction from a Great Blue Wyrm attacking towers in Sharp Teeth mountains during rage of dragons (That is where the main monstrous enemy forces lived. Oh yeah the towers were also inhabited by the Cyrists.)
Unfortunately they were never able to take back Murann. Even during the current setting the ogres still owned the port city. Though after some time after they retook Esmelterran the Amn and the Ogre empire called a truce to fight a massive stinger threat far below. So yeah i think at this point Amn just let the ogres take Murann.
"Athkalta"
Nathaniel Track
Maztica need to be revamped. Mostly because it should become it's own Empire and not ruled by Amn. Maztica has so much potential but it lacks so many things of what it could be.
I liken Amn to mediaeval Moorish Spain.
Would i start a game in amn? - well i just started playing baldurs gate 2 shadows of amn again... 'Nuff said, i guess...
Hellz Yeah! :)
First!
I've been anticipating this video btw. Thanks :)
For the glory of Amn!