Forgotten Realms - Aboleths, Kuo-Toa, Krakens, and Evil Aligned Entities of the Ocean

A history and comprehensive guide to the creatures primarily of evil alignment in the oceans of the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons and Baldur's Gate 3.
Key Terms:
Xxiphu
Koalinths
Abolethic Sovreignty
Blibdoolpoolp
Dagon
Iluun
Visil'Taphenos
Zanhoriloch
Malenti
Locathah
Morkoths
Sahuagin
Ixitxachitl
Seros Wars
Lakhovas
Sea of Fallen Stars
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Credits:
Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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Forest Walk by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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Enchanted by Keys of Moon | keysofmoon
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[@agesisafk131]

Absolutely great! Lorepedia has quickly become my go to source for Forgotten Realms lore. From research to storytelling to delivery. This channel has the real deep look into the lore.

[@Lorepaedia]

Wow, thanks so much for your kind words! Let me know if there is a topic I should cover.

[@agesisafk131]

Chimerran breeds across Faerun? Pretty broad subject…I have really enjoyed the deep look into the more populated cities.

[@dso4594]

Your content is amazing. Thank you!

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks so much!

[@cernunnos_lives]

My love and support for fans of the lore (& not the company that owns the rights).

[@Lorepaedia]

A corporation that literally kills gods. Perhaps the most powerful being in the metaverse. 😨

[@blakeparkhill5284]

The quality of this work is amazing. I'm afraid to ask how many hours went into it? The most remarkable thing to me was how smooth it ran together for the entire hour and a half.

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks so much! Every episode seems to be more elaborate and more work but generally speaking it takes me about 24 hours per episode. The excellent forgotten realms wiki has already compiled most of the research, otherwise that would probably add another 12 hours (in this case they were a bit light on Kraken stuff, so I did some outside research for that and a few other things). Making the images varies, but it takes a lot of fiddling to get some good visuals and then I usually upscale them. Editing is where I really cut corners, I should make the visual stuff match up better and learn how to do something more interesting than pan and zoom, but by the time I am at the editing stage I am exhausted and just want the video done lol.

[@popechucky]

THIS is what I’ve been searching for🥰

[@Lorepaedia]

Enjoy!

[@nimnim4699]

Thank you sir!!🎉

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks for your support!

[@davidjones2921]

Boost for the algorithm

[@Lorepaedia]

thanks!

[@danieltusa1095]

love your content,can you do a video on the seven sisters

[@Lorepaedia]

I'm still in hell because of you -_- Thanks for your support. Will do!

[@SerendipityChild]

Excellent

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks!

[@redtheyowiehunter5666]

Very nice to hear this knowledge and the background scenes are nice . Only the pic should be more of what your talking about . I still going watch and listen . I'm definitely looking forward for more lore

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks for your feedback. I should timestamp the audio as I record it and do a better job editing the videos to get the images closer to the audio. Hopefully I will improve in this area. ^^

[@Maarcosx]

doing a water based campaign. definitely gonna use some of these.

[@Lorepaedia]

Nice! I also did a video on the good guys if you're interested.

[@Maarcosx]

@@Lorepaedia thanks man. i’m gonna check it now.

[@emilyonearth5354]

I can't even imagine the amount of time this research takes. Do you actually read books in their entirety to get this information? ALSO, THE SONG

[@Lorepaedia]

The scripts usually take about 3-4 days. The vast bulk of the information comes from the amazing Forgotten Realms Wiki, I should really credit them in every video. Sometimes they are a bit light on information, as an example, for this one there isn't much on Krakens so I had to do dig up some older supplemental stuff. Thanks so much for your kind comments, let me know if you have a topic you want me to cover!

[@emilyonearth5354]

@@Lorepaedia ah I see! I asked because there was so much information from Brimstone Angels which is one of my favorite book series, but also includes 6 pretty long books haha

[@emilyonearth5354]

@@Lorepaedia actually, if you come across race or location specific curse words in your research, I'd appreciate you compiling them and posting them somewhere! I don't know why but I find this so charming, I loved hearing all the draconic curse words in brimstone angels haha but I can't seem to find good information on others

[@Lorepaedia]

@@emilyonearth5354 Interesting idea. Sometimes I come across the derogatory fantasy racism terms (for example the merfolk call the Shalarin "fin-heads," but I haven't encountered any Forgotten Realms specific curse words or insults, I will keep an eye out!

[@Ariel.constante212]

Aboleths are some of my favorite creatures in fiction. Nice video. Can you do a video about the far realm?

[@Lorepaedia]

Honestly the far realm doesn't have many descriptions at least specifically in forgotten realms lore, I provided what little information exists in my video on Xanathar. Thanks for your kind words!

[@Ariel.constante212]

@@Lorepaedia you're right, i wish we have more about that... On the other hand, this is part of what makes it so interesting. I'll check your video 😎

[@GMEunpluged]

Outside of the gates of firestorm peak there isn't enough hard lore even from 2e to 5e including all the spelljammer stuff and other references to far space as the entire concept is its a universe beyond our understanding and we don't even know how to actually access far space and the rare times you actually deal with an entity of far space and you can perceive it madness is usually on the cards for you or catatonic states for a few hours its like hp lovecraft mythos on crack

[@andrews6013]

Why does the armor have nipples?

[@Lorepaedia]

uhm... religious reasons... important religious reasons. 😅🙏

[@Thurmanation2011s]

Distraction

[@alganhar1]

What are air holes doing on the underside? They are obviously not for locomotion due to where they are placed, and air holes for breathing in marine animals are on the top surface. Shape of the fins is wrong for marine locomotion as well, its like the artist thought the forward swept wings of certain experimental aircraft looked cool so lets go with that, not realising the hydrodynamics suck. I can live with the obviously fantastical sea beings, but when artists try to look realistic yet manage to get pretty much everything wrong it bugs me.... And yes, I do over think things like that. Its hard for me not to, I am a Marine/Evolutionary Ecologist by trade. Those forward swept fins would create more drag than you can shake a stick at, the downward facing air holes means the animal has to flip up on its back to breathe (there is a REASON the nostrils of Cetaceans (whales) are on their backs). Don't even get me started on placement of the eyes in relation to the mouth as from this angle it looks like the eyes are on the top. Look at where a sharks eyes are for example. At least the pits around the mouth might make some sense as they could feasibly be similar to the ampullae of Lorenzini, the organs in sharks that sense the electromagnetic field of their prey. Hammerhead Sharks head are shaped like that because the hammer is where all those organs are (they are principally bottom feeders though will take pelagic prey if given the opportunity).

[@Lorepaedia]

This is all very good information, and I can't do anything except recommend people read this to learn about actual fish biology from someone who isn't fish-dumb like me. Thanks!

[@bombyouup62]

Alright the music is starting to get annoying.Everytime I hear about Aboleths it makes me want to play Dominions. Oh yeah one of my favorite sea creatures.

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks for the feedback, I will try to add more variety to the BGM, but it will be an uphill battle vs the YT content claim system. ^^

[@TheHighestNoon]

​@@Lorepaediagive Kevin Mcleod a try!

[@Lorepaedia]

@@TheHighestNoon Yes, the new BGM has like 5 Kevin Mcleod songs, the man is a god.