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Could the wayback machine help with this?

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Originally posted by Sarelle

Aah the great sage Google achieves what trawling through the Wizards of the Coast website could not. Yes, those are the archives I was looking for. Thanks very much Ayrik, and everyone else.

On a similar note, and I guess this is somewhat addressed to The Sage/Wooly Rupert, has Candlekeep ever made a full archive of all the tidbits of Realmslore that Ed Greenwood dispensed on the Candlekeep Forums? I used to keep a rather cumbersome saved Word document of lots of these, but it was another thing I lost years ago when the hard drive crashed.

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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

There is a link to those archives in the Sage's signature.

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Originally posted by George Krashos

The reference to "Orm" was as I recall a reference to the Year of the Ormserpent in the Roll of Years and just exactly what an ormserpent was. If you do a search for "Roll of Years" you'll no doubt find what you are looking for.

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by Asharak

Year of the Sad Orm, 243

I found this on Wiktionary :

Swedish
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1. (zoology) snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes

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Good info, but that makes things weirder -- we have a Year of the Ormserpent already on there, so that makes it the year of the Snakeserpent.

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Fair meeting once again, scribes! Thy Lady Hooded rides in with another reply from Ed, this time for the April 18th questions posed by Bakra, Lord of the Outlying Thread:


Hi, Bakra. Well, I can tell you that unless editing prunes these lore-mentions away, the forthcoming Serpent Kingdoms product will identify important events that befell during both the ‘Year of the Sighing Serpent’ (1289) and the ‘Year of the Ormserpent’ (1295), giving the usual cryptic hindsight reason behind the two year-names.
“Ormserpent” is a corruption of a “wormserpent,” and this is an old name for a naga. I can add something NOT mentioned in Serpent Kingdoms: that there once was a gigantic, unique reptile called THE Ormserpent (briefly worshipped in its own cult) that legend tells us was able to disgorge, after great agonies, “spawns” of 3-6 living creatures of all manner of other serpentine races (a maximum of 2 creatures out of such a spew being the same sort of creature), and that it would perish if it ever vomited forth another ormserpent. One tale also claims that a clan of very-long-lived, immune-to-all-poisons women of sinister intelligence and purpose, who can shapechange into various snake forms (from small to monstrous), are the “Daughters of the Ormserpent,” spewed out by it, one by one, on rare occasions.
This is old, old Realmslore from my personal scrolls, hitherto hidden even from the keenest scholars of Candlekeep, and it may or may not be more than mere legend.


Whew. Ask and ye shall receive, Bakra! WELL, now . . . Daughters of the Ormserpent, eh? I’ll have to investigate more fully, in our Realmsplay sessions, as to whether or not certain fell females might just be members of this clan. If, of course, it truly exists.
THO

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