Drizzt & Companions of the Hall

[Diana]

With all the mods, tweaks and fixpacks we install, it is hard to determine where to put this.

 

Alright - RA Salvatore's Bruenor Battlehammer wields an axe. But in the SOA encounter with the group they are searching for Bruenor's missing 'hammer'. One of the mods, and I can't remember which, does a word change for 'Night Knives' to 'Night Masks' to fit in with the canon. I think it would be appropriate to change Bruenor's 'hammer' to 'axe'. The only one of the Companions of the Hall who wields a war hammer is Wulfgar, and he doesn't lose AegisFang in the game.

[Drew]

You'd need to re-tool the whole dialogue for this. Breunor still has his axe.

[Diana]

You'd need to re-tool the whole dialogue for this.  Breunor still has his axe.

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But he talks about a 'pink hammer', and according to canon Bruenor favors the axe.

 

Someone fixed something similar in one of the mods - whether it was a fixpack or tweak managed to do the same for the reference to "Night Knives" and changed it to "Night Masks" to fit into the RA Salvatore canon. What I was suggesting was a one word change in that particular dialog section which only happens once in game when CHARNAME and party first encounter Drizzt, Bruenor, Wulfgar, Catti-Brie and Regis after they finish their encounter with Elhan and before they encounter Bodhi for the final battle.

[Drew]

What I'm getting at is that Breunor is still carrying and wielding his axe when you meet Drizzt and Co. He's looking for one of his "backup" weapons or something.

[Diana]

Point taken - never noticed that before.

[Andyr]

As an aside--The Night Knives also exist in PnP as a Sembian guild, although they were only mentioned in a few novels (and were pretty destroyed in them). Plus I think BGII might predate the novels slightly... but yeah, Night Masks is a much more reasonable replacement.

[Diana]

The Night Knives also exist in PnP as a Sembian guild

Not being familar with PnP, but always on the lookout for new fantasy stories to read in the FW canon, can you recommend an author or title on this guild?

 

Way off-topic - very disappointed in the new RA Salvatore 'SellSword" series w/Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri.

[Kish]

Plus I think BGII might predate the novels slightly...

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No chance of that. Cadderly, from the Cleric Quintet, is in BG1.

[Diana]

Cadderly, from the Cleric Quintet, is in BG1

Now THIS is interesting. I don't think I've ever come across him in the unmodded BG1 or TuTu version. I've read the Cleric Quintet and don't recall him being in any Temple of Oghma, Deneir or Ilmater

[SimDing0]

It's pretty hard to avoid him. He approaches you when you re-enter Candlekeep.

[Diana]

He approaches you when you re-enter Candlekeep.

Then I don't know why I missed him. Alright, finishing up a beta test for an SOA mod and am going to go back to BG1 Tutu in a week or so and I'll keep an eye out. After reading the Cleric Quintet it will be interesting to see what Bioware did with him.

[Andyr]

Plus I think BGII might predate the novels slightly...

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No chance of that. Cadderly, from the Cleric Quintet, is in BG1.

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I meant the Erevis Cale/Sembia series, which deals with the Night Knives, as opposed to FR novels as a whole.

 

Unless the Night Knives are in the Cleric Quintet too?

[Necaradan666]

Nope, but there are Night Masks in The Cleric Quintet;)

[Andyr]

Well, yeah. I said I didn't know if BG2 predated the novels Night Knives feature in or not (as opposed to Night Masks, who are pretty well-established in sourcebooks and novels).

[NiGHTMARE]

I'm not sure which Sembia novels the Night Knives appear in, but the first Sembia novel was published a few months before BG2. It's possible someone at Bioware read the book and decided to throw the name in.