A note nailed at a single post in the bazaar ((@:Vandree))

[Aelwyn]

Faern of the 17th Qu'ellar - I got you a name

*a stylish mask signs the note*


((ooc: Qu'ellar Vandree))

[Gareut]

*Burned hand mark covers the note*

[Eviloth]

So there is Quel'lar Mori'hyanda, Quel'lar Sshamath, and Quel'lar Vandree?

[Aelwyn]

So there is Quel'lar Mori'hyanda, Quel'lar Sshamath, and Quel'lar Vandree?

ooc
Quel'lar Vandree (17th house of the city with the capital M ) has just a small trading post in our beloved city and tries to get a hold on things - literally

[Rhicora]

(( OOC

Qu'ellar Sshamath may or may not really exist. ))

[Eviloth]

Maybe I don't even exist?

[Eldebryn]

(( OOC

Qu'ellar Sshamath may or may not really exist. ))

<OOC>

So.... ah.. yeah... about that.. I guess my wizard just realised he went insane after hearing that and went yelling on the streets:
"They are real I tell you! They are real! House Ssamath exists!! I'm not crazy!"

On the bright side: Guess what kids, even more Lolth fanatics to treat everyone like a dog and harass the non-believers, we just won the lottery!


Seriously now, congratulations on starting your House, *secretly hopes in vain they are no as fanatic as the rest* I hope you have fun and great RP. I still have to say I didn't really get the whole 'exist/don't exist' thing about House Ssamath... Is there something I'm missing here?

</OOC>

[Rainbow Prism]

Talk about not existing organizations............Heh.

[Gareut]

If you cant see the sun... It doesnt existent?

[FallzQuick]

nope=), not in the UD anyways

[nlyh]

If you cant see the sun... It doesnt existent?

I was going to say something there but remembered the forum rules.

Anyway I still see certain characters around and about, so you never know...

[Vallyn]

(( OOC

Qu'ellar Sshamath may or may not really exist. ))

(( Oh, it exists, but just like any other noble House in Sshamath it is "irrelevant" as "a drow's House is no more meaningful than his tailor - perhaps noteworthy, but essentially unimportant." Furthermore, "Bards, sorcerers, and the practitioners of divine magic are second-class citizens in the City of Dark Weavings."

Here's the reference material source to cite these quotes. Feel free to buy it or download it to verify this.

Forgotten Realms - Underdark - Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Accessory
by: Bruce R. COrdell, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, Jeff Quick
Published by: Wizards of the Coast
First PRinting: October 2003 (This means it is a 3.5 book, as well.)
ISBN: 620-88581-001-EN

Page 176 of the above book covers Sshamath, City of Dark Weavings, and has the following to say:

The Art is king here, and the wizards feel justified in their exclusivity.

[...]

Sshamath lacks the noble Houses of most other drow cities, but the arcane colleges fill much the same role. Each college has assumed certain privileges and duties within the city, and this arrangement has produced a tangled web of responsibility that can be difficult to unravel. For example, the College of Abjuration is charged with the immediate defense of the city, so it maintains the city guard and provides soldiers to garrison Sshamath's gates. The College of Evocation is charged with scattering threats outside the city walls, so it maintains soldiers that patrol the surrounding tunnels. The College of Enchantment is in charge of slave markets and overseers, so it sponsors guard detachments who scour Sshamath inside and out for signs of unrest or escapes. [/b]

[...]

Bards, sorcerers, and the practitioners of divine magic are second-class citizens in the City od Dark Weavings. The dark elves of Sshamath view power that occurs naturally or because of service to another creature as inferior to power won through personal investment.

[...]

The traditional Lolth-worshiping drow of House Sshamath founded the city that bears their name in -4973 DR. For two thousand years, the city existed as a typical House-dominated example of drow society. Then a timely conjunction of events predicated a radical shift. First, the faerzress around the city disappeared, severely weakening Sshamaths defenses. Second a generation that included a great number of wizards and relatively few clerics grew into power. These two events led to a quick, bloody civil war that left all the matriarchs dead and the House wizards in control.

Over time, the wizards' influence on society ushered schools of magic into prominance and the House system into irrelevance. Sshamath's Houses still exist today, but a drow's House is no more meaningful than his tailor - perhaps noteworthy, but essentially unimportant."

With that in mind, I have no idea why the players on this server continue to act as if the noble Houses such as Mori'hyanda, Sshamath, Vandree, Noq'afin, or anything else mean anything at all. The canon lore, straight form sourcebooks, not even Salvatore novels, specifically states that noble Houses in Sshamath are irrelevant and bards, sorcerers, and practitioners of divine magic are second-class citizens. ))

[ManDudely]

// Because that goes against everything you play a Drow for in the first place? Focusing in Sshamath, the Drow aren't Drow as we know and love/hate them at all, just black skinned Elves.

[Aelwyn]

Guys - this has been discussed before, if you have an issue with this, please open a new topic regarding the questions how to perceive and play drow houses in the Sshamath setting in BG.