This 128page book contains statistics, tactics, and lore for new monsters of the nentir vale. His spear of the skylord destroyed the demon middendark and shattered. Herein you ll find adventure hooks, npcs, maps, and detailed information about specific locations within the vale. The only missing stuff is the mythology and the list of the gods and their enemies. The history of this campaign was lifted from the work done by folk for the points of light timeline wiki with alterations for this specific campaign. The nentir river is too big to freeze except for a few weeks in. Novels all the many novels set on the world of nerath. Id like to see the devs do a more extensive separation of nentir bane from realms bane in the deity lore, unless they want to merge the two. The civilized world has been reduced to a series of points of light in a great wilderness of danger and monsters. The nentir vale is a northern land, but it sees relatively little snowwinters are windy and bitterly cold. This is designed for at the table reference, creating one for each region.
Nentir vale book morrus unofficial tabletop rpg news. The vale is now mostly empty, with a handful of living villages and towns scattered over this wide area. The nentir vale is neighbored by the stonemarch to the west, the harken forest and the witchlight fens to the south, the dawnforge mountains to the east, and the winterbole forest to the north. Nentir vale is the sample community provided as a default setting in the 4th edition dungeon masters guide. Following in the footsteps of my list of every power in the nentir vale setting. Ive read the mark of nerath and the abyssal plague books set in the vale. On the other side, skamos redmoon, felsmon, and barrick also waited for the acolytes of kalarel to pass through the doors and spring the trap. The nentir vale aka points of light, aka 4e core setting is a setting which has just enough fluff to justify the existence of everything within 4e i. Timeline mysteries of the nentir vale obsidian portal. The book was illustrated by dave allsop, peter bergting, zoltan boros, eric deschamps, matt dixon, wayne england, adam gillespie. Nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms with images. The book wasnt digestsized like the essentials books. Nentir vale coming to 5e morrus unofficial tabletop rpg.
I think that nentir vale is likely to appear as an e book if they bring it into 5e, since it was relatively generic. The nentir river is too big to freeze except for a few weeks in the coldest part of the year. It also provides the celtic, greek, egyptian and norse pantheons of antiquity. The primordials were imprisoned, but the threat they present remains. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. All youll need to play a campaign in the nentir vale using this gazetteer is the dungeon masters guide, the players. The story of the creation of the nentir vale, demographics and currency, some missing factions, all the common and unique monsters of the vale, and the playable races as well. James did something miraculous in the grand history of the realms 2007. For his generosity of spirit, the locals give him bread, berries and bottle of three year old nentir wine. Throw in now hammerfast and the tiefling ruins location supplement. Jamie wyeth andrew wyeth dungeons and dragons nc wyeth wow art traditional paintings american artists book illustration. It fell into the earth and was buried, to be forgotten by time and history.
Abandoned farmsteads, ruined manors, and broken keeps litter the countryside. This was an enjoyable read, and a satisfying conclusion to the nentir vale s trial with the abyssal plague. Anyone running a nentir vale campaign with 5th edition. The nentir vale is already pretty well sketched out via the dmg, the other books, the modules, plus all the dragon magazine articles that have taken place in them. The title of threats to nentir vale clearly showed that it was an essentialsstyle monster book, but it also confused some people who didnt realize that monster vault and monster vault. At one point there was supposed to be a nentir vale gazetteer a pseudo campaign set for the nentir vale that i thought was. In fact, it wasnt hardcover either like the core books. James, matt james, and steve townshend, and was published by wizards of the coast in 2011. As the empire of nerath grew it became became the site of a key border keep on the empires northern border.
The book of nate denizens of the nentir vale obsidian. The one keep grew into several and several small towns and farming villiages grew up to support the army and to trade with the dwarves of the town of hammerfast. The title of threats to nentir vale clearly showed that it was an essentialsstyle monster book, but it also confused some people who didnt realize that monster vault 2010. The nentir vale fallcrest lies near the middle of the broad borderland region known as the nentir vale. The nentir vale was the new setting that was introduced as the.
They also provided me with lots of npcs and location details to add to my version of the nentir vale. Bandits, wild animals, and monsters roam freely throughout the vale. The snowfang is currently led by chief udoros, who holds the snowfang blade and is widely believed to be the western claw, a savior figure of shifter prophecy. The cover shows the black dragon shadowmire and his witchlight lizardfolk.
As part of the celebrations for vale s 70year anniversary, the book vale our history was released in november 2012. On the left side of the doors, the halfelves zalden silverflame and tira duskmeadow waited. I am happy to report that, despite my initial concerns, it is a great product. An ancient shifter tribe from the winterbole forest in the north of the nentir vale. At first, the idea was to produce a simple catalogue of photos, but the amount of material that was found exceeded expectations. Much more detail about the vale is included in monster vault. Pretty barebones, since the intent was to let gms flesh things out and make the campaign more their own. Human settlers from nerath move north into the nentir vale, establishing fastormel, harkenwold, and winterhaven. As an early book in the series, the purpose of this was to set the stageat least in the nentir vale for the story to come. The tribe is currently based in gardmore, where it makes up a majority of the population. Its the first truly unsolicited and fancreated project published by wizards of the coast, a. The twisting halls are fully detailed in the dungeon masters book of the.
No nentir vale campaign guide books for players or dungeon masters. Fantasy city map fantasy world dnd world map forgotten realms alternate history city landscape city maps. The mythic age from the moment of creation to the dawn war the dawn war from the discovery of the shard of evil to the age of mortals the dawn age from the aftermath of the dawn war to just before the rise of empires the imperial age from. The vale is a cold and sparsely populated land, mostly covered in grasslands and light woods. Contentsshow the nentir vale fallcrest lies near the middle of the broad borderland region known as the nentir vale. The nentir vale only a few short centuries ago was a sparsely settled wilderness. The nentir vale is a northern borderland region of the continent of nerath. Threats to the nentir vale was written by sterling hershey, brian r. Novels that are set in the nentir vale include the mark of nerath and abyssal plague series. Threats to the nentir vale 4e wizards of the coast. I read james wyatts short story that gives background on one of the villains prior to reading this, and was glad that i did, as it allowed me to understand the background behind what happened here better. Bandits, wild animals, and monsters roam freely throughout the vale, threatening anyone who fares more than.
The book eternalizes our history in 420 pages filled with interesting stories and historical data. I am aware that there is no real setting book for nentir vale, but all sorts. Obviously, i eventually changed my mind and picked up monster vault. While my nitpicks about the actual format of the book itself still remain, the content more than makes up for it, as do the stellar extras included in the package. Oct 1, 2017 nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms. Zalden finally makes his way back to the boathouse, having one the adoring respect of the townsfolk. Where can i find a complete timeline of the history of. The area hints at a long history sometimes even providing details, but. The wizard had placed magical coins a few feet in front of the doors to distract the acolytes.
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