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Talath the Thinker, a reclusive half-elf who dwelt on the lower southern slopes of the Star Mounts in the 1100s DR and gave sage advice freely to certain elven rangers and adventurers who paid him in exotic foods from afar for storing their...
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And their clergy would have views that their particular philosophical commitments might be the highest or most important goods.
I am fishing if there is some famous plato/Aristotle like figure that argues, especially with planes of good, that there is a higher creator of good
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..riches in the winding tunnels (said by some to have been bored from bedrock by a purple worm or similar gigantic subterranean worm) he lived in.
Talath was gaunt-tall, soft-spoken, and had “wild talents” over magic that enabled him to deflect magics directed...
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..at him that he didn’t want to experience. Talath was known to be living in these caverns by 1112 DR, and to still be there by 1309 DR, though by 1357 DR word had spread among elvenkind that he was nowhere to be found, and a deep dragon now made “his” caverns its home.
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Talath lived alone and never married, but is said among elves to have sired many children by almost a score of elven women who visited him (adventurers all). Among the senior clergy of Azuth, it’s considered “truth” that The Lord of Spells visited Talath often, ...
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..befriending him and enjoying both his simple, subtly-seasoned cooking and long conversations with him about arcane magic, the Weave, life in the Realms, and ethics.
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