03-29-2013, 10:00 AM
Havard Wrote:The above seems to be based mainly on the Wolfgang Baur adventure.
Yep. It's the only Greyhawk-specific version to receive any detail, though others may argue that the version that Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz played through with Arneson as DM is the "real" one.
Quote:By the way, what is the Unquenchable Scepter?
-Havard
It's one of four artifacts created by the ancient Suloise that bind the powers of the Elemental Princes of Evil. The Unquenchable Scepter is presumably connected to Imix, the wicked Prince of Fire. It was given as a gift by the emperor of the Suloise to the people of the City of the Gods culture and was last seen in the dungeons of Blackmoor Castle.
Since it's Suloise in origin, and probably not in the hands of the Baklunish at any point, it's very unlikely to have been associated with the Rain of Colorless Fire. Neither cataclysm extended that far north.
The Scepter was briefly mentioned in Dragon #294 in "Artifacts of Oerth" by Allan "Grodog" Grohe, but it hasn't been given any real detail. That article concentrated on another of the four elemental artifacts, the Chalice Everlasting, and mentioned the other three only in passing.