The portal for Myth Dannor in Gate Keepers Grove

[vryxnr]

My lore may be rusty but isn't Saltmarsh in FR too??

Coz that's accessed from the Grove.

Nope, it is originally set in Greyhawk.

edit: Both The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh from 1981 and it's related adventures, and the new Ghost of Saltmarsh from 2019 are set in Greyhawk.

 

[FaceDancer]

There is a little Greyhawk hiding in DDO... TOEE, The Slave Lords, Queen of The Demon Web, White Plume Mountain, Keep on The Borderlands, and Vecna are all love letters to Greyhawk. I have no doubt that there is more I didn't point out (and hopefully more to come!)

 

[Eoin-1]

It is very possible there is? There is a portal.to Ravenloft in Eveningstar. I get that.

The point that you missed is the lore aspect. Myth Drannor is in the Forgotten Realms. It should be accessible from the Forgotten Realms. The Gatekeepers Grove doesn't need to be a factor. It lessens the experience.

For what it is worth, they added a teleport to the right of the Thunder Peaks entrance in Eveningstar. You can take a peak at it while Lamannia is still up. Also have an expansion pack item vendor there as well.

 

[Bjond]

One does not go to Ravenloft via Eveningstar, nor House Jorasco, yet there those portals are

Huh. I mostly only know D&D lore from DDO. So, as far as I can tell, Barovia is next door to Jorasco & Eveningstar.

Is it not supposed to be connected there or is there some hidden way to walk to Barovia in DDO?

 

[Phoenicis]

In the original lore, the demiplane of dread (Barovia's actual location) touches the prime material plane in places where great evil has existed for extended periods of time. It is a place created to sequester evils so powerful they could not be defeated by means available at the time so some entity (and on this my recollection of the lore fails) created a demiplane to trap these beings away.

In the original setup you could enter willingly, be tricked into entering or enter by mistake. But leaving, ah, now that was a problem since the whole place was a trap for powerful evil entities. There were also a number of environmental effects (limited access to divine spells, limited spell/psionic recovery due to the unsettling nature of the demiplane and a few others) that they skipped in the DDO implementation.

 

[GrayJedi AntiProPaladin]

And or.....
Wondering what if Excessive use of High Magics and Portals going "everywhere"(a whole lotta places/planes) as already well-established in Lore...would mean MD is poised to become like Gatekeeper's Grove 2.0....

(would be quite interesting if they did like a new starter hub/zone like they did for LOTRO's Before The Shadow...but might be too much dreaming...)