Races of the Realms: Leonins - The Dungeoncast Ep.218

[@dascientist8443]

A great first episode on Theros! Since it'll probably come up again, the human cities are called "Poleis" (pronounced "Pohl-Eyes") with each individual city being a "Polis" (pronounced "Pohl-iss").

[@lordcinder6606]

I just want to say that I absolutely adore this podcast and SuperQuest saga also, thank you so much for being such awesome dudes and even helping me through rough times.

[@pricerowland]

Theros inspired me to make a homebrew ancient world setting too! Stuff like the collosus was just too cool to not build a story around. And the cave networks w/ textiles sound very similar to the old Fremen sietches of the Dune series.

[@fayew6240]

Have been wanting to play this race :) Thanks for An amazing video again!

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

An interesting choice, but one I won't be too catty about

[@DragonGunzDorian]

You sure you won't be catty about it swaggerduff? Are you telling the truth? You aren't lion are you?

[@angussisodia5022]

I thought it was manely good

[@kevinbrink423]

I'm feline fine with that decision.

[@ashenwuss1651]

Im so late because i got distracted. Ya gotta be kitten me

[@DragonGunzDorian]

@@ashenwuss1651 ashen wuss? More like ashen puss. Bet you were scared to show up this time. lol, good to see you here ashen, was wondering where you were.

[@darrinstanfill6846]

Can’t wait to see you guys cover theros and Ravnica! Crazy I was searching Leonin earlier today,trying to find an in depth video on them. The timing on this video couldn’t be better

[@cernunnos_lives]

Thundercats are .....Hooooooooes

[@Philographicks]

The Beholder building segment is brilliant! Well done! Looking forward to more.

[@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT]

One of my players has spoken to me about leonin and I kid you not I made my whole table and the shop laugh when I made this statement: "FINALLY i can play a darn lion or tiger because the leonin is just a tabaxi that finally learned to quit running and start using steroids to fight"

[@phantasmalemperor8887]

A fan of the stormlight archive. Nice!!!

[@viktor1312]

thanks for this video! very appreciated as i build my leonin character

[@Mordalon]

I'm much more of a Magic player than D&D, so I can't wait for yall to delve into these settings, and hopefully more Magic settings get released. Related to Nyx and it's ability to manifest belief, there was a plotline where a being named Ashiok, who specializes in creating nightmares, attempted to create a God of Nightmares by giving everyone in a particular city/polis the same nightmare.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Cacophony really pushed the belief theme to it's extreme/inevitable conclusion. It's a showcase example, to lead into the swap of Khrusor's (spear of Heliod) owner to Elspeth via belief of her wielding the real one. Then later, Calix's spark being necessary/ignited (per belief), for him to be able to follow Elspeth.

[@moonringXD]

Fantastic video! Also if you want to cover new monsters I'd recommend the Tomb Trappers and Magen from the icewind dale book. Also also shout out to demogorgon and his Ixitxachitls homies!

[@sandyd53]

I love the dungeon cast. My 4 Dnd games I run between work hours are always talking about them!!

[@derrickhaggard]

Leonins are cool.

[@Mordalon]

Also, while not having as much depth as the recent Theros book, they have released free supplements for other Magic settings under the name Plane Shift, the specific planes being Innistrad, Dominaria, Ixalan, Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and Zendikar. Magic recently released a new Zendikar set and later this year there will be a new Innistrad set.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Forgotten Realms set coming.

[@donalddjackson2633]

thanks for the video

[@dinofacedindividual9462]

I know you both don’t really watch Critical Role. But the Tal’Dorei and Wildemount source books would be great to hear you cover

[@DragonGunzDorian]

I have liked and commented! I continue to serve the dungeoncast with roaring fury and pride! Greetings again milords! So today we venture to a brand new realm to learn of strange new peoples and creatures? Ill have to be careful I don't get lost in the excitement of gaining new knowledge, lest I forget that I still have duties here to attend to. I love receiving boons of knowledge, but a paladin mustn't shirk his duties. The leonins seem to be an interesting people though not one im sure we would be able to coexist with. Possible, but not a certainty. They are good aligned, and lawful, but perhaps a bit to egotistical, maybe even some of them could be vainglorious? Well, I suppose it matters little. After all they live in an entirely separate plane of reality from us here in the lands of knowledge and laughter. I bid thee farewell until next week milords. sincerely, your paladin dorian, The leonin are pretty cool, I like them. Very detailed, and an njoyable concept for a race. Though I do find it surprising that their society is more matriarchal. Thematically speaking youd thing they'd lean more towards the exceptional beefy, strong, lion king with a luxurious mane. Thinking of a lion race reminds me of an odd idea I once had for a fantasy race. I wanted to make a lion race related to minotaurs. I imagined a big lion man with horns amd hooves. I never detailed that concept though, and it was one of my more half baked ideas. Im not sure that one was any good, or if I got to lost in my own musings and overactive imagination as I to often do and just made something lame. Anyway im going off on a side tangent, not important. The swiftclaws strangely enough remind me of clan brujah from vampire the masquerade. I dont know if anyone here is at all knowledgeable about the world of darkness setting, but there are a bunch of different clans, bloodlines of vampires that are all descended from cain (yes cain from the bible) who was the first vampire. Anyway while in the modern day the brujah are mostly the punk rebel archetypes who are hot blooded and are more than willing to fight for their rights, stick it to the man etc. hundreds of years ago clan brujah were made up of great warriors, and also wise amd intelligent scholars, creating a cool dichotomy there. Similar to how the swiftclaws are great hunters, but they also have free time to dedicate to their more educational pursuits. That is if im understanding it correctly. Oh I can't wait to see your guys finished custom beholder, thats gonna be dope as fuck. I hope somebody will make art work of it, because it sounds like its going to be crazy. When you guys were talking about the leonins roars, I already had an idea for some homebrew. Rather than a fear effect, what if you lean into the ferocity of a lions roar and givevits roar some kind of knock back effect? Like the roar has so much force and power behind it, it can knock you on your rear end. This idea is inspired by tigrex from monster. I dont know if either of you play the mh games, but tigrex is known for being hyper aggressive and having powerful roars, so powerful that unlike the roars of other monsters, tigrex's roar will actually damage those that are to close to it. In monster hunter world however the damaging roar was exclusive to its subspecies brute tigrex. Anyway im getting into another side tangent while I nerd out over something that possibly nobody cares about. Have a good day guys, always good to get another episode. 🙂

[@andrewdiaz3529]

The relationship between lions and lioness are absolutely fascinating and WAY more complex then most media shows. Lioness have been found to do most of the actual active hunting and been found to kill of certain males that were causing problems for the pride. Male lions meanwhile are still pretty formidable, nearly all spending about a year as a wandering exile before finding and entering or taking over a existing pride or I believe rarer forming a new one. There is a LOT of stuff going on in the animal kingdom man.

[@DragonGunzDorian]

@@andrewdiaz3529 ok I knew lionesses did the hunting (and that males watch the children) but I didn't know females will kill off males. Thank you for the info my dude.

[@andrewdiaz3529]

@@DragonGunzDorian yeah they aren't exactly any kind of matriarchy but they aren't absolutely ruled by the males either

[@DragonGunzDorian]

@@andrewdiaz3529 da king and queen rule together.

[@tishabyte]

I love the kitties.

[@darrinstanfill6846]

Love Theros. Haven’t gotten the book yet but definitely plan to. Ravnica first :p I have so many miniatures from both settings

[@derrickhaggard]

Same here most of my best cards back when I played MTG came from the realm/universe of Theros.

[@prophetisaiah08]

Theros is a wonderfully beautiful and deep setting. It's one of the best realized settings in Magic: the Gathering. And yes, Theros is EFFING GEORGEOUS! Oh, and the gods of Theros run from kinda benevolent if you don't piss them off to outright, full bastardry. The stories of Heliod (the Zeus analogue you mentioned) is not as much of a sexual predator, but he definitely is a murderous, self-righteous bastard that can ABSOLUTELY be used as a villain.

[@derrickhaggard]

Yeah hit the nail on the head with that description especially Heliod. Heliod is a self-righteous murderous scumbag.

[@prophetisaiah08]

@@derrickhaggard Interestingly, they took Zeus's lightning bolts and gave them to another god entirely; one that seems to be at least somewhat more benevolent - Keranos.

[@derrickhaggard]

@@prophetisaiah08 Yeah I noticed that Keranos the deity who essentially is a Storm Giant personality wise friendly unless pissed off got the Lightning Bolts while Heliod the deity based off Zeus who is a self-righteous scumbag didn't.

[@prophetisaiah08]

@@derrickhaggard There was a deliberate effort to make Heliod into a mono-W villain, something that they had done only rarely before that point. The dude is the absolute personification of Lawful Evil, which makes sense if he has the main personality traits and "king of the gods" position that Zeus has. But lightning bolts don't fit in white's part of the colour pie, they're distinctly red.

[@shrapnelsponge]

A leonin would make a really amazing Conquest Paladin with their roar.

[@notsae66]

Nyx sounds like the Warp but less corrosive; a land where dreams and thoughts and beliefs are made real and even gods are formed of this swirl of belief and emotion.

[@codyperry5427]

Yooo keep up the good quality content

[@nathanthaxton7492]

Nix=Freemont Street. I love it

[@emperorg9910]

Battle beast!!!!

[@pringlelingle6827]

A man of culture

[@joshuapolites374]

Holy shit when you said sick pots then that little silence I laughed so hard I almost pissed my pants 😂

[@jtfspeirs1]

These fools got blasted before this ep and I gotta tell ya, guys I am HERE for it 😂🌳🔥💨

[@logan9189]

That beholder with a mane would look like hulk Hogan

[@selthafour6948]

Oml i luv hero forge. Trying to find the perfect other race for my half-orc.

[@paulh3892]

I think the Leonin are just annoyed that Tritons are also confident and snobby... and BETTER! 🐠

[@derrickhaggard]

The whole not trusting, and being super arrogant thing is partially true basically according to the lore while yes most Leonin are distrustful of others races which was understandable given what they went through and yes they're just as arrogant as the Triton not all Leonin are super-arrogant xenophobes some Leonine heroes, and heroines while yes cocky aren't super-arrogant and they're not xenophobic but still cautious to the point where it's going to take a while to earn his/her trust but it's possible to gain his/her trust.

[@luluburch7500]

I still want that Lady Of Pain Episode

[@craigseverance6235]

Brimaz is a Leonin. He has multiple Magic The Gathering cards depicting him.

[@ymdrosampora7407]

In my homebrew world, Leonin are aplha tabaxi. A rare dormant genetic trait make any tabaxi able to birth a Leonin. The Leonin are raise to be leader of the clan. A leonin has a higher chance to get a Leonin as a offspring.

[@christophernunez6070]

Thunder cat hoooo

[@symbiotestrength7058]

If I roll up a Leonin I will name him Gucci. Gucci Mane.

[@The_Slane_Theocracy]

I was wondering what this rece was like

[@Adamt591]

I was actually expecting a short shoutout to the old Litorians from 3rd edition, since this is essentially a pull from them, other than mechanics.

[@fearlessbird9422]

I actually would like to implement leonin as a Race in my world. How would you do that outside of theros?

[@heragon58]

Have you heard of the story of Odysseus? I shipwrecked my Leonin on the gates of Baldur. A handywork of two bickering and jelous gods who wants him as their champion.

[@ARreckless14]

It’s heard up to 3 miles away....

[@Thedungeoncast]

According to this source its up to 5 miles away. www.clevelandzoosociety.org/z/2017/11/30/ask-the-expert-what-makes-a-lion-roar#:~:text=Male%20lions%20will%20use%20their,up%20to%205%20miles%20away.

[@Randomdudefromtheinternet]

5 months have passed since this video, and Hero Forge still doesn't have an actual lion (panthera genus) face

[@SpidermanandhisAmazingFriends]

Leonin v Gnoll warfare story based on the Lion King. That is all

[@CaitSith87]

Arent leonin like tipical white colour cards and thus in every mtg world?

[@Mordalon]

They aren't everyone, but they do appear in multiple settings, but despite having differences they largely fit together. Off the top of my head, they've appeared on Mirrodin, Theros, Alara, and Dominaria.

[@ageridthesilverdragon4440]

bridge 4 represent air sick lowlander if you had read stormlight why didn't you make an airsick lowlander joke when talking about the goliath. Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor is disapointed

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Dungeons and furries.

[@JokersVsZombies]

I want to love this race so much, but its abilities are meh