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[Feanor]

Why IWD 2 refers to Iyachtu Xvim as a god since he does not become one until after Time of Troubles (in 1368, first a demi-power, then a lesser power) ? It's a flaw or is something I miss ?

[discharger12]

It was more then likely a slip.

The developers were only human.

What was the exact context?

Edited by discharger12, 10 January 2005 - 04:49 AM.

[NiGHTMARE]

Uh no, Iyachtu Xvim has been a god for centuries, if not millenia . He was somehow imprisoned below Zhential keep (not sure when), but freed during the Time of Troubles.

EDIT: oh and the Time of Troubles was 1357. 1368 is when BG1 took place .

Edited by NiGHTMARE, 10 January 2005 - 08:22 AM.

[Arachnos]

Uh no, Iyachtu Xvim has been a god for centuries, if not millenia .  He was somehow imprisoned below Zhential keep (not sure when), but freed during the Time of Troubles.

EDIT: oh and the Time of Troubles was 1357.  1368 is when BG1 took place .

If you do a google search for timeline of westgate you should be able to pick up a bit of Xvim's backstory..

[NiGHTMARE]

Slight correction: he was imprisoned during the Time of Troubles (1358, not 1357 ), and escaped when Zhentil Keep was destroyed in 1368.

I also found one source which says Xvim was born 600 years prior to Bane's death, but I'm not sure of this source's accuracy.

[Andyr]

Could you post some of these sources? I'd quite like to know more about Xvim.

Bane and Xvim both rock.

[Feanor]

Uh no, Iyachtu Xvim has been a god for centuries, if not millenia .  He was somehow imprisoned below Zhential keep (not sure when), but freed during the Time of Troubles.

EDIT: oh and the Time of Troubles was 1357.  1368 is when BG1 took place .

HEH ? But : "Year 1369 : Iyachtu Xvim rises as a demi-power and then a lesser power. Fzoul Chembryl founds Xvim's new church and leads it as High Tyrannar from an underground temple beneath Zhentil Keep. "

And : "Year 710 : A gate to the Abyss opens above the palace of Westgate, and a large host of tiefling warriors flee through it, hotly pursued by a small company of tanar'ri. Much of the royal palace is destroyed in the resulting conflagration, and King Thartryn Ilistar I perishes under mysterious circumstances during the blaze. Although eventually the fiends are banished back to the Abyss and the gate closed, the bulk of the tiefling army survives the battle, in far better shape than the city's own forces. Within a fortnight, the leader of the tieflings, Iyachtu Xvim, seizes the throne of Westgate and the surviving scions of the royal house of Ilistar are driven into exile. Once the throne is his, the Fiend King imposes his draconian rule over the entire city, a reign of tyranny in keeping with his claim to be the Son of Bane."

Those quotations are from the FR timeline. They seem to point out that, at the beginning, Xvim was not a god, only a very powerful creature. Could you confirm/infirm them, Nightmare ?

[Andyr]

I'll have a look in my FRCS later... Any idea if this stuff was covered by other sourcebooks or novels?

[Feanor]

Didn't Yaccy get chest-bursted to bring back Bane?

Yeah, that's right. In 1372.