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Senbar Flay
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 13 Nov 2004 : 04:57:16
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well met all!
i have read abotu this creature in a few sourcebooks but it dosen.t describe exactly what it is does or is for. It is realy a mystery to me so please enlighten me.
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Wood Elf Ranger
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 13 Nov 2004 : 07:52:05
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Read the Avatar series of books. Dendar is in there quite a bit and there is a really good description of who she is and what she does, or what her fate is supposed to be. I think Prince of Lies from that series has the most in it about her but the whole series is good if you have not read it, you should  |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 13 Nov 2004 : 16:35:17
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| If you read the Powers & Pantheons writeup, there isn't much more to know. |
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DDH_101
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1272 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2004 : 00:13:14
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Dendar the Night Serpent:
Dendar the Night Serpent came into existence shortly after the first being slept and had a nightmare. She has an uncountable horde of horrible dreams and foul visions in her gullet that she has been devouring since the dawn of time. She relishes the taste of particularly choice nightmares and savors the dreams of kings and deities alike. More horrifying, if she did not feed her insatiable appetite, every being, mortal or deity, would remember every nightmare he or she has ever dreamed in excruciating detail. Supposedly, she will be the harbinger of the end of the world and even the gods themselves.
The Night Serpent's slit-pupiled eyes are the sickly yellow-black of rotten eggs. Her forked tongue flickers incessantly over her smooth lips. Her monstrous fangs are always coated with the viscous essence of lost dreams. She speaks with a sibilant, malignant voice that drips with ancient horrors. Midnight-black scales over her colossal hide and serve as the physical embodiment of the most terrifying nightmares she has swallowed.
Although she can slither across the Barrens of Doom and Despair or any of the lower planes at will, the Night Serpent is almost always found in her lair. Dendar lives in a vast cave near the oozing river that surrounds much of the Fugue Plane. The hiss of the Night Serpent's breathing echoes through the plane as she sleeps, contentedly gorged on the world's unremembered nightmares. Anyone who approaches her cave finds her awake and awaiting them with anticipatory delight as she savors and relives their worst unremembered nightmares. Her cavernous maw is large enough to swallow a giant, and her tongue can knock an armored man to the ground with a single flick. Beneath her tongue is a foul mire of greasy spittle and half-devoured bones -- the corporeal manifestations of her dream diet's remnants.
To the ancient Rus, Dendar was known as Nidhogg, the serpent who gnaws at the roots of the world tree that connects all things. In Calimport, she is known (incorrectly) as the Mother of the Night Parade. In the Jungles of Chult, Dendar is known as the Eater of the
World. Legends tell of how Ubtao, Creator of Chult, will battle the Night Serpent when she emerges through a gigantic iron door located beneath one of the Peaks of Flame and attempts to eat the sun. If Ubtao fails in his duty, the stories say Dendar will readily devour the sun and the doom of the world will finally arrive.
I got this info off Dracandos, who got it off The Sage. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 15 Nov 2004 : 14:16:50
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Originally posted by DDH_101
I got this info off Dracandos, who got it off The Sage.
... who got it from the D&D Novel Archives...   . Now, how's that for third-hand knowledge... 
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VEDSICA
Senior Scribe
USA
466 Posts |
Posted - 15 Nov 2004 : 17:19:45
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| I also believe that Dendar had a write up on WoTC website along with Kezef and The Elf Eater.You may want to look there as well. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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DDH_101
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1272 Posts |
Posted - 16 Nov 2004 : 02:38:53
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by VEDSICA
I also believe that Dendar had a write up on WoTC website along with Kezef and The Elf Eater.You may want to look there as well.
Yes, that was the article I was talking about .
(sigh) Everyone once in awhile WotC will surprise us with something amazingly good like this article. They haven't done that recently, have they?  |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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Posted - 16 Nov 2004 : 04:07:58
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Originally posted by VEDSICA
I also believe that Dendar had a write up on WoTC website along with Kezef and The Elf Eater.You may want to look there as well.
I believe those 3 will get a more complete write up in Champions of Ruin |
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Beowulf
Learned Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 19 Nov 2004 : 21:30:11
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Originally posted by DDH_101
To the ancient Rus, Dendar was known as Nidhogg, the serpent who gnaws at the roots of the world tree that connects all things.
But that we could keep the real world out of the Forgotten Realms!!! I've been told it's a bad thing  , but it seems some have insisted in crossing the two over since the get go! 
Rus = preChristian Scandinavian who formed up and followed their trade routes east into the area of modern Russia ... which takes it's name from this tribe.
Nidhhogg (two h's) = the wyrm/serpent/maggot/snake/dragon that lives in Niflehel (dark/misty Hell) and gnaws at the root of the world tree, poisoning it. He also gnaws on the souls of oathbreakers with the Fenris Wulf on Nastrond (Shore of Corpses). Nidh = dispicable terd, hogg = chewer.
One might also note that the hell hound, Kez-whatever, was entirely inspired by Fenris Wulf from Teutonic mythology.
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cpthero2
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Oct 2018 : 17:54:40
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Learned Scribe Flay,
Here is a good compiled list of information:
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Dendar
Best regards,
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Originally posted by Senbar Flay
well met all!
i have read abotu this creature in a few sourcebooks but it dosen.t describe exactly what it is does or is for. It is realy a mystery to me so please enlighten me.
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