03-23-2013, 08:26 PM
ripvanwormer Wrote:....
I'll note that the Wizard's Pit in Blackmoor's Catacombs is marked with the letter D. If "D8" isn't simply the eighth dungeon level, perhaps the Pygmalion is in Room 8 in the Wizard's Pit. Perhaps she was created by the wizard who was once imprisoned there 500 years ago (Dave Arneson's Blackmoor places the Wizard's Pit beneath the University, and dates him as at least 500 years older. Maybe there were two wizards, imprisoned there 500 years apart).
Interesting ideas. So if I follow you, you are suggesting that the letter B is actually a typo for the number 8; and the note then indicates the pygmalion was on level 8 of the dungeon? I don't think the fact that the note about the wizard is marked with letter D is of any significance, but the typo idea has some merit.
ripvanwormer Wrote:....500 years ago was also the time of the Temple of Id's destruction, so perhaps the same wizard was connected with that. It'd be interesting if the Baron's own attendant wizard, the creator of the famed Pygmalion, was arrested and imprisoned after it was discovered that he was in league with/the mastermind of the Temple of Id....
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I associate the murder of the Bloody Duke with the subsequent destruction of the temple. Since there are connections between Blackmoor Dungeon, which was built by the Duke, and the temple, it seems likely that there was a general purge of things associated with the duke after he was killed. The wizard could well have been an ally of his, who met his doom with the downfall of the duke.