Mike (or anyone very familiar with the Elric saga) --
(David suggested I cross-post this note here. My question is about a point mentioned in The Vanishing Tower, but I intent to use in in a role-playing adventure.)
In "The Vanishing Tower," an agent of Urish, the beggar king of Nadsokor, robs the Albino Prince of the Ring of Kings. When they go to recover it from that city, Elric tells Moonglum that he has been to Nadsokor previously. I believe Elric's exact word were: "to recover some property."
It it made clear at any point in the saga (or perhaps in the "Pawns of Chaos" compendium?) just what property Elric went to recover, or at what point in the saga he does this?
I have it in my head (perhaps erroneously) that he went to obtain a scroll or grimmoire that he thought might enable him to awaken Cymoril from the sorcerous sleep Yyrkoon put her in, but I can't seem find a reference to that after several days of searching the novels. Or perhaps Elric sought a Nanorian stone in Urish's hoard on his first visit?
When I run role-playing adventures set in the Young Kingdoms, I prefer to have the characters in the game engage in activities that run in parallel with events in the Elric story. The adventurers may get glimpses of events in the saga as the game proceeds, and if I create the adventure well, their actions help make events in the saga possible. The premise of the adventure I envision is that the player-characters are involved tangentially in the saga by being tricked (by Yyrkoon or his agents) into delivering a scroll or Nanorian stone to King Urish in Nadsokor, so that Elric has cause to visit that misbegotten city.
Thank you, in advance, for any input you might have on this.
-- Charlie
(David suggested I cross-post this note here. My question is about a point mentioned in The Vanishing Tower, but I intent to use in in a role-playing adventure.)
In "The Vanishing Tower," an agent of Urish, the beggar king of Nadsokor, robs the Albino Prince of the Ring of Kings. When they go to recover it from that city, Elric tells Moonglum that he has been to Nadsokor previously. I believe Elric's exact word were: "to recover some property."
It it made clear at any point in the saga (or perhaps in the "Pawns of Chaos" compendium?) just what property Elric went to recover, or at what point in the saga he does this?
I have it in my head (perhaps erroneously) that he went to obtain a scroll or grimmoire that he thought might enable him to awaken Cymoril from the sorcerous sleep Yyrkoon put her in, but I can't seem find a reference to that after several days of searching the novels. Or perhaps Elric sought a Nanorian stone in Urish's hoard on his first visit?
When I run role-playing adventures set in the Young Kingdoms, I prefer to have the characters in the game engage in activities that run in parallel with events in the Elric story. The adventurers may get glimpses of events in the saga as the game proceeds, and if I create the adventure well, their actions help make events in the saga possible. The premise of the adventure I envision is that the player-characters are involved tangentially in the saga by being tricked (by Yyrkoon or his agents) into delivering a scroll or Nanorian stone to King Urish in Nadsokor, so that Elric has cause to visit that misbegotten city.
Thank you, in advance, for any input you might have on this.
-- Charlie
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