The Sage of Candlekeep Forgotten Realms Lore

[@cheddar_boss]

Yes! Sage almost isn't what i would describe this guy as, he's not a font of knowledge, he is a river to his people. Thanks for the years of dedication. From all of us.

[@anathema1828]

Hear hear!

[@chriscalvin5083]

Great character background story AJ

[@AJPickett]

Not even ten pages! Thanks Chris

[@Comicnut64]

Hell yes! AJ lore literally let’s go saving to favorites and liking

[@shawnhowe7311]

Pick a RUNE AJ RUNE

[@MoonGoblin]

Leader of the Twisted Rune: "Who's this halfling that keeps finding artifacts before we do?" Henchman: "They call him the 'Roon, sire..." Leader: "WHAT?! The Rune? Preposterous! That's OUR thing! We must destroy him!!!"

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@wastedspam385]

This guy has Questgiver written all over him. Definetly going to give him a spot in my next campaign 😁 Thanks AJ, that was a great video! Been hoping to get some lore on the Lorekeeper for a while now

[@SemoventeDa-by5wv]

Thank you for your time throughout the years ❤

[@duanebradway1627]

Love this! Great job. This was some masterful lore weaving. Keep it up. This was great to listen to. 🎉

[@soultron4238]

Happy 1000th dear sage🎉 Greedily, I hope you are inspired for 1000 more. 🤞for the day we can get the leatherbound multivolume set.

[@justin.channels]

7:25 Kurt Russell will play the Sage in the upcoming film.

[@AJPickett]

Yep

[@Pyre]

It took me until the end of the video to realize it wasn't "Rune", but "Roon". I would say that you being able to spin out OC tales that are engaging, fun, and endearing is a surprise, but you *did* build the channel on them. To which rnd it makes sense Picaroon would oppose the forces of entropy so much.

[@codyking8199]

From zero to hero gotta love the lore for the sage we've all learned so much from

[@agesisafk131]

Thank you Pickett. Your insight is as a light in the void. Certainly more cannon and perspective for the worlds we weave.

[@mikeg5758]

Dude this is crazy. On one of your recent videos I was gonna ask if you had background lore for that 1st person character you use. Then I forgot by the end of the video 🤣. You must have read my mind. AJ has psyonic powers confirmed!

[@elwoodbrown7005]

I have been waiting for this lore dive since our favorite lorekeeper left the realms. Another great story.

[@Jeremycook_]

So could Roonn potentially share a tanker with Ao? That would be a conversation worth listening into.

[@jamesadamec7469]

Glad your character's journey continues. It would be nice if WOTC made it cannon.

[@vulpescorvum7602]

You have no idea how much I have waited this video , probably ever since I got Esper's book. I knew it was gonna be great, but you still managed to make a masterful narrative. While this answered many of questions about the sage , It also brought up many many others. If something ever manages to make you both Curious and excited , then you know it's an absolute work of art. I shall add this scroll to the rest of the collection Kudos to you , great sage !!!

[@AJPickett]

Thank you.

[@shakescan]

Hobbit Thief? Don't you mean "Burgler"? 😅❤

[@TheHornedKing]

The man. The legend. The Sage of Candlekeep!

[@ashb8036]

KZbin says I got to hit play 53 seconds after it was posted. I think it’s lying. But I wanted to apologize for being so late. 🇨🇦

[@lordnaarghul]

So are these Immortals more or less the same as the Immortals of Mystara? Or at least of the same substance and filling similar roles? I don’t know a great deal about Mystara beyond what bits I know about the Hollow World setting, and much of my knowledge of that comes from an old Sega Genesis video game where the Immortal Ka plays a significant role. Ka's sphere appears to be the cataloging and preservation of otherwise extinct civilizations, which is what makes Hollow World so goddamn fascinating, at least to me. For example, there's a very interestibg bit of overlap between Mystara's dark elves and the Azcans in where they worship the same deity and thus have nearly identical architecture, but they hate each other *bitterly*.

[@AJPickett]

The very same bunch, we all return to that planet for the Olympics to establish our ranks.

[@lordnaarghul]

​@AJPickett Must be interesting swapping stories and lore with a T-Rex. Maybe you could ask him to tell you the story of that time he had to personally smash a Far Realm monstrosity into paste because it's presence caused a newly preserved civilization to almost go insane. Though he might leave out that he was only informed this was happening because a small group of adventurers, kept sane by repeated trips outside of the valley, directly petitioned him to help. (I will repeat that I think we need more modern Mystara stuff. Hollow World my favorite place for a game setting, because it is that perfect blend of High Fantasy and Swords and Sorcery.)

[@joshuazane3210]

It definitely answers many questions, but it also kinda undermines his fear of death from starvation because dragon beetles were trying to eat his supplies. 😄

[@AJPickett]

No joke, I also have a serious dragon beetle problem on the island and the Fume Drakes are no help at all.

[@AlwaysDecent]

nice candlekeep video Aj picket

[@adamsuperdork]

Heck yeah!!

[@kishinasura1989]

Take notes boys we're making this cannon😅

[@thedragondaddydm6182]

Lore on the lore master , I like it

[@deepsea5266]

Basically, the Sage is Thoth 😮. Awesome 👌 As epic as I imagined 😎 It wouldn't surprise me if this character began as a player character.

[@DeanNatheos-eq3hl]

A ancient dwarven city under Calimporte excellent thanks 👍 I didn't know that and I am a complete Toril nerd.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊.

[@AJPickett]

That whole region is ancient Shanatar

[@deforesttappan6478]

I used Candlekeep as an adventure setting three times!!! In a fan made story I made one of the cariter beings them some of there noleg!!!

[@richardgilson4704]

I just when I think I have the immortals from Mystara figured out. Ok how does the pantheon of Toril see immortals or is Ao actually an immortal of Thought and is specifically assigned to Toril?

[@AJPickett]

The pantheons have been on good behavior lately. I mean, it used to be a popular destination for gods, but, not anymore.

[@richardgilson4704]

@@AJPickett 🤣🤣

[@MrFantocan]

Nooow it all makes sense, the reason why you did not ask your bronze dragon uncle to turn you into a half dragon is because you are already an immortal, but I would prefer to be an immortal dragon.

[@fairykeibani9155]

I’m pretty sure his uncle was a brass dragon

[@AJPickett]

Turns out no, it was dragon blood in my human father's side, he had no unusual traits at all.

[@MrFantocan]

@@fairykeibani9155 yes in his brass dragon video i told him he totally should turn a brass half dragon, but since he is immortal that is just a poor people plan for him...

[@Veridiansolar]

I'm not sure who the Immortal of Thought that is for my corner of the multi-verse is, but can someone check in on them? They seem to be asleep at the wheel.

[@overlordofmidgard5876]

I need stats for the Combat Yo-yo

[@HenriFaust]

I think stats existed in 2nd edition. Cadderly Bonaduce was a yo-yo user and the protagonist of _The Cleric Quintet_ series. He was mentioned in the video.

[@RonaldLivingston-n2d]

Great narration you have a gift . Did you write ✍️ this ?

[@AJPickett]

Yes I did

[@RonaldLivingston-n2d]

@@AJPickett 👏

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

_Empire of the Dragon Hobbit_

[@chadstinson9886]

Hey that guy looks a lot like you!

[@AJPickett]

Funny that. He is way more in shape than me, that's for sure

[@chadstinson9886]

@AJPickett this getting old stuff is for the birds youth is truly wasted on the young 😆.

[@davidlewis8814]

AJ, are all these stories the results of actual played out adventures that got you to 20th level?

[@AJPickett]

Be much cooler if they were. Sadly no.

[@davidlewis8814]

@@AJPickett shenanigans! You are the coolest, and that you just came up with it all on your own, well, that just rules!

[@repillager]

Mystara~!

[@naganeen0]

A good tale.

[@docop8926]

im pumped

[@eddiebendigo7317]

I thought that the old ones didn't eant to return? I thought that's why they threw up the vortex barrier at the edge of all reality that not even the gods can break. I thought they put up the wall to keep nasty old reality far, far away from them.

[@AJPickett]

But what if?

[@MrJudeWanamaker]

Aj, you might enjoy the Author Iain M Banks. The Culture series. Specifically the Ship Minds. Brilliant writing world building, very funny too.

[@AJPickett]

Love those books!

[@elimartin4103]

Hey AJ been following for years love your content and I started making a ttrpg system a few years ago and was wondering if I could reference you in the monster ecologies I write and if so what would you like the moniker to be

[@elimartin4103]

Like referencing a sages writings on the subject type thing

[@AJPickett]

From the Rune journals 🙂

[@tatsusama3192]

Yeeees! Pickett lore🤩❤️‍🔥

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

Back when you made the video were you revealed that your your character was an immortal you revealed one piece of information almost as a throwaway line and you haven't brought it up in this video most likely to my thinking because you've changed your mind it touches on one of the most interesting aspects of favoring to me or it might just be a piece of fanfiction that you've been playing with in your videos as part of you know The Narrative of your story in either case I really cotton done to it it was the idea that now that the Dragon Rage mithal was no more the dragons were starting to once again organized to retake the world you also mentioned in your earlier videos about the 5V lore about the Giants after NM told them that they're on their own that they were deciding what to do I won't bore you with my FanFiction as I'm sure you have played hundreds and hundreds of games of D&D in your life but I will say this I have recently been working on learning to write with my non-dominant hand and only recently have I have the Epiphany that the best way to do this is not to try and keep a journal and talk about my day but to write about something I like I'm writing my own D&D story about a high elf Warlock his and his friends story is quite different then the story of your halfling I'm going for something a bit more brutal a bit nastier but I must say without your videos and without the story of your halfling I probably would have lost the plot to my story a long time ago thank you

[@AJPickett]

Inspiring DMs is great. Inspiring a new writer is awesome

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

@@AJPickett I write for both training and pleaser thank you for all you have done

[@Jeremycook_]

​​@@mrmackie-qp6lrif your writing style is like what you've displayed here I'd like to point out that while perhaps not "vital" punctuation, grammar and spelling are important.

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

@@Jeremycook_ you can grammar gestapo me all you want but 95% of the time these days I'm using speech to text also I'm very used to getting these comments when I'm leaving a negative comment usually doesn't happen so much when I'm leaving a positive comment but you do you

[@Jeremycook_]

@@mrmackie-qp6lr I was merely leaving some constructive criticism. Something I believe writers should encourage. If you don't like commas or the occasional period, if your style of writing is one giant run on sentence...you do you. Apologies if that came off as mean. Good luck on your writing venture

[@verpalorian310]

Audio sounds weird in the first few minutes.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, volume and treble are low, sorry

[@kenpachi4721]

First