Pathfinder Regional Deepdive: Absalom P3 - The Starstone Isles

[@rune5916]

A worthy final to the miniseries on the center of the civilized world of Golarion. I'm looking forward to the videos on Kyonin and the Five Kings Mountains. Have a Great day. 👍

[@TheMythkeeper]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@jeremiehache8351]

This one of the best subseries ever ... I'll be listening to it while making my DM screen

[@TheMythkeeper]

Thanks! Appreciate this 🙂

[@jeremiehache8351]

I was also wondering... Will you do a super-episode with all three video about Absolom together ? Editing them together

[@TheMythkeeper]

@@jeremiehache8351 Haha! Maybe :-)

[@CooperativeWaffles]

​@@jeremiehache8351 · How about a playlist including everything Absalom & Kortos Isle?

[@ShawRedemption]

My group is switching to Pathfinder Savage World for our next campaign and I just wanted to express my thanks for all your content. You’ve been my main source for Lore information about the world of Golarion. Thanks again!!!

[@TheMythkeeper]

Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@onogal775]

I didn't manage to watch the last one to it's fullest extent and the next one already dropped, man you're fast. Thanks a lot! Gonna binge the whole 3 parter tomorrow.

[@TheMythkeeper]

Yeah I crank them out, I know ;-)

[@johannesblood9304]

wow so the Isle of Kortos is a perfect little sandbox; great for new GMs and new players. even those with a lot of experience would do well here as its so concise thematically.

[@TheMythkeeper]

Yeah, in MMO terms its the low-level zone 😅

[@GabrielSoares-qp1he]

I've made a custom tiny village near the Immenwood for an introductory small adventure (classic you start in a tavern/on the way to one type scenario) for some friends who were interested in playing an rpg, they asked for D&D but i've managed to "trick" them into playing pathfinder, and this video helped immensely in coming up with the next steps, thank you so much for it !

[@TheMythkeeper]

Awesome glad to hear this

[@ОбычныйЗритель-п6ч]

We finished our long Absalom Jorney. But what's next? Final parts of Garund or Avistan? Or maybe Tian Xia?

[@TheMythkeeper]

There are some fun people and places I still haven't visited yet, and yes, I am definitely overdue for some Tian Xia content as well.

[@herkles5416]

another good video. side note: IIRC James Jacobs himself said that the minotaurs and Baphomet no longer have anything really to do with each other as Baphomet's ties with minatours has to do with DnD and due to the whole OGL debacle they are divorcing the two.

[@TheMythkeeper]

Yeah, I like this better

[@CooperativeWaffles]

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[@TheMythkeeper]

Oh man... just generating more work for me, I see 😅😅😅

[@CooperativeWaffles]

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[@CooperativeWaffles]

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[@joshuachapman247]

Thank you. Another great episode. Is there any lore history vids on Tar-Baphon?

[@TheMythkeeper]

Not yet (Gravelands / Lastwall still coming) but he gets heavy mentions in the Ustalav and Belkzen region videos.

[@joshuachapman247]

@@TheMythkeeper Roger, thanks!

[@RyanVonAegir]

I love that the area where the Whispering Tyrant was stopped is the namesake of the Tyrants Grasp AP. As someone dming a group for it I find it funny.

[@TheMythkeeper]

You're going to have so much fun running TG. Very excited for you!

[@israelmorales4249]

This trvel was awesome! you can make an entire campaing from 1 to 20th lvl without leaving Absalom. Thx for the video! Continue with your fine work!

[@TheMythkeeper]

Thank you!

[@dragonmaster1102]

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[@TheMythkeeper]

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[@JamesAdams-nd1td]

So, now there are male harpies? Whatever. Absolam is big enough to have years' worth of adventures. I gotta admire how much love and thought and creativity the Paizo people put into their setting.

[@CooperativeWaffles]

I am still operating under the female-only Harpi. On Kortos Isles they have a preference for Halflings. This has led to a high amount of orphaned halfling males left near the hamlets and small villages around the foothills. Many of these grow up drawn to working in the wild areas of Kortos. As young men any groups they are in are not bothered by any harpi and often are aided by a harpie without realizing it. These Halflings are considered lucky due to this and their greatest eyesight and hearing.

[@TheMythkeeper]

@@JamesAdams-nd1td yeah, I discovered this making this video too!

[@JamesAdams-nd1td]

Huh, that’s pretty cool.

[@TheMythkeeper]

@@JamesAdams-nd1td I also discovered this is a 1E change, not a 2E change, as later 1E content starts introducing male harpies as well. The Sandpoint Light of the Lost Coast (2018) book refers to male harpies as well, so I guess the old Monsters of Myth supplement got retconned at some point.

[@JamesAdams-nd1td]

@@TheMythkeeper I guess they wanted to make it different from DnD. Either that, or the designers decided do something less edgy for the sake of being edgy.

[@RicardoPM777]

👏👏👏👏

[@bjornthered1705]

Love your videos, and was wondering have you done a video on those little spider humanoids creatures I'm new to pathfinder and saw art of them and wanna now more on them?

[@TheMythkeeper]

Anadi! Yes, they are in my Even More Pathfinder Ancestries! video

[@stephenlucas8836]

32:35 do find it funny Howl of Wild and Monster Core retcon that normal Minotaur tribes are not like this but don’t talk enough about Kortos to explain the new Paradigm. Like the idea Minotaurs are not normally warmongers but for some reason the first Absolon siege was perpetrated by one plus another and also Harpies got roped in. It dose make learning the backstory of the siege more interesting then traditional man-eating Minotaur.

[@TheMythkeeper]

Believe it or not I talk about this more in an upcoming video about Iblydos, where I share some insights about Voradni Voon's motivations. It works for the old lore and the new I think.

[@michaeldaly6134]

Sipho had been known as the Dread Privateer Roberts, taking over from another former privateer named Ryan...

[@TheMythkeeper]

Hehe!

[@johnnelson4411]

Would it be possible for you to cover the Pathfinder society adventures in detail, albeit with clear spoiler warnings of some sort?

[@TheMythkeeper]

Potentially in future. If your hungry for spoiler-filled adventure recaps though, be sure to check out my Pathfinder 616: War for the Crown series

[@trajanfidelis]

Is the trial of the Starstone still possible or is it no longer accessable?

[@TheMythkeeper]

Its still accessible. If you have a high level PC that wants to become a god, you can talk to your GM about doing the test. That being said the track record for successfully completing the test are very low. They take 1000s of aspirants each year, and they all die. The only known successes are Iomedae, who was a rare and highly determined paladin who must have been really powerful in life (she did beat the Whispering Tyrant after all), a sneaky thief who no one knows how he did it, and a person who was drunk at the time and does not himself remember how he succeeded. So... basically it seems like its a complete crapshoot. I feel like an ambitious person may find alternate more reliable (and safer) paths to power. In the world of Pathfinder, there are plenty.

[@CooperativeWaffles]

There have been mentions that any Adventure Path including the Test of the Starstone will be for the creation of a Patheon. So, it will involve all the characters reaching the Kortos and taking the Test of the Starstone together.