Obviously some type of race I never heard of in greyhawk. Can someone fill me in and/or tell me where this term is from?
Also, apparently the old edition stats/article about Elaine Mystica appeared in a Dragon issue ages ago. Anyone got any info to help me create her? I got nothing other than wizard about 18th level.....help.
Check that out. I don't have the issue on hand, but that is the only resource for Lerara information that I know of.
Just goes to show how useful a consolidated Greyhawk hardcover would be to us fans. Can you spell "Pipe-dream"?
Thank you for your replies.
Would make for an interesting new race, if it was statted up for dnd 3.5. I might have a look at that. It seems they are an old Suel "tribe" that got stuck in the long underground passage of the Slerotin. Thus they are a kind of Albino underground human race, leaning towards evil.
Based on the info in Dragon 241 they might look something like this:
As human but:
+2 str, -2 con
darkvision 60 feet
remove 1st level bonus feat
favoured class: barbarian or fighter
favouring neutral, or neutral evil
Anyway, thanks for the info.
Originally posted by grodog
The 83 Glassography and the Dragon 241 article are the only two extant canon sources for the Lerara, FYI, unless some of the LG triads have touched upon them.
I'm suprised Grodog, you missed where Elaine Mystica originally appeared. She was one of the cards in the 1993 TSR collector cards set.
Halber
Dragon 241 is hands down the best source of information on them, the 83 boxed set really only gives some sketchy details on using them in the Lost Passage of Slerotin mini-adventure.
Checking out the Yeomanry Living Greyhawk Triad discussion group archive (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yeomanry) will also turn up some ideas, mostly homebrew, about the Lerara. Search messages 1-500 for some ideas from noted Suel Fanboys (TM) Rich Trickey (that's me folks) and Randy Richards (author of the Suel Imperium, Age of Glory adventure module, which is available for download on Canonfire! and contains some information on the Lerara and the pre-cataclysms empire. http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=5&min=10&orderby=titleA&show=10 ).
Also see these articles on Canonfire! for some more tidbits on the Lerara:
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=315
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=244
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=236
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=177
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=103
http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102
Pretty cool stuff
(It was Slerotin)
Originally posted by Halberkill
I'm suprised Grodog, you missed where Elaine Mystica originally appeared. She was one of the cards in the 1993 TSR collector cards set.
Halber---
I rely a lot on Zavaoa's index, which is of course a limitation if he hasn't indexed a certain item (like Ivid or the collector cards [which I also don't own]).
Are the cards worthwhile for a GH fan? I see them on eBay from time-to-time, but never bothered to check them out (figuring they were not too dissimilar to the old Monster Cards, which never impressed me a lot).
Originally posted by grodog
Are the cards worthwhile for a GH fan? I see them on eBay from time-to-time, but never bothered to check them out (figuring they were not too dissimilar to the old Monster Cards, which never impressed me a lot).
Well, Certain cards are. Like the ones that have the circle of 8 around the time of the Greyhawk Wars are good. Though I would say there are 20 must have cards, 30 additional cards that are interesting but not neccessary (npcs that had not appeared anywhere before, and except for Elaine Mystica, have not appeared anywhere since), and then the other 450 have nothing to do with Greyhawk directly but do occasionally feature Greyhawk artifacts as being generic AD&D.
The cards had pictures on the front, and then half game data and half story text on the back.
My suggestion would be to either get the complete set on ebay for cheap if available, or ask a freind to scan and send you the pertinent cards. Though you have to be careful, because the Greyhawk cards only appeared in the one set, 1994 *i think*.
Edit: I confirmed that they are in the 1992 card set.
Halber
It was the mage Sloterin, I think, who opened the tunnels under the Crystalmist when Zellafin lead his rebellious houses out of the Suel Empire. He closed both ends of the tunnels trapping many of the Zolites underneath the mountains. Some of them sutvived, obviously, and over several thousands of years (I think Sloterin effected the tunnels about 3500 years before the Common Year)
Slerotin created the tunnel after the rain of colorless fire, in about -400 cy to lead the 13 remaining suel "tribes" out of the sea of dust.
Sources:
World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting: Glossography (the 83 boxed set)
Dragon Magazine #241: Legacies of the Suel Imperium
Slerotin led the surviving tribes through the crystalmists within days, not years after the cataclysm. Survival would have been impossible for any length of time in the basin once the raining ash finally covered everything.
-PSE
Based on the info in Dragon 241 they might look something like this:
As human but:
+2 str, -2 con
darkvision 60 feet
remove 1st level bonus feat
favoured class: barbarian or fighter
favouring neutral, or neutral evil
Anyway, thanks for the info.
Hi all,
This is an old post but I'm searching for info about the Lerara, specially any for 3.5e. The thing is my party just crossed the Slerotin tunnel into the Sea of Dust searching for one character's sister who is a Dustdigger. Anyway, I'd like them to have an encounter with the Lerara on their way back...
I mostly agree with the suggestion made by Morphious but I'd say that they have darkvision 120' or at least 90' and be of LN (LE) alignement.
Has anybody made a template for them? If not maybe I'll come up with something and post it...
Saludos,
Gabriel
Haven't played that one though so I can't tell you much about it.
Many have already pointed out Dragon #241 but issue #139 had the (1e) stats of Elaine Mystica.
I don't think stats for the Lerara would be difficult to implement. Just take a basic (Suel) human being. Add darkvision & light sensitivity for living in the dark for hundreds of years and you're done.
Living Greyhawk has published a module on the Lerara: COR3-16 Lerara
I burned COR3-16. It has some content about the culture of the Lerara in the tunnel. For example, it asserts that the Lerara ride giant millipedes and wear armor fashioned from the carapaces of the same creatures. Worship of The Mother is not absolute, as there is a secular government. But, she figures prominently in their lives and has been the force that has prevented the drow, duergar and other underworld socieites from destroying the forgotten Suel. The high priest of The Mother in the adventure was a mix of druid and bane of infidels prestige class. It did not seem to work well underground, but The Mother does not have clerics.
They used fire, but sparingly. Metal objects (weapons, armor, equipment, etc) are very rare.
I still have COR3-16. I'll have to break it out and flip through it again.
I thought about using the underfolk as Lerara, too. I would not allow them to have darkvision. I might not allow the natural armor bonus, either. As a side note, the Lerara in COR3-16 are normal humans.
No darkvision? Really? I guess torches and phosphorescent fungi work well enough, but darkvision/light sensitivity seem like natural choices for the Lerara, IMHO.