Talk:Tharizdun

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This page needs a little revision to be brought up to date. Some of the suppositions (such as Tharizdun's domain) are fan conjecture. The most concrete information on Tharizdun comes from the following source: http://ulmo.mux.net/greyhawk/tharizdun.html

Those 22 questions, answered by Tharizdun's creator Gary Gygax himself in correspondance covers much of the information here, as well as debunks the claims that Tharizdun was imprisoned in the Demiplane of Imprisonment. --63.22.171.173 (talk) 11:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

First of all that page is rather old in its answers, and doesn't seem to stretch beyond looking at very early sources, not inclusive of the most currently published ones such as RttToEE, etc. Secondly, while Gygax might not have wanted Tharizdun in the Demiplane of Imprisonment, being a shared world, subsequent authors can build up earlier ideas and things evolve. The 2e 'Guide to the Ethereal' and the late 3.5 Dragon article that covered the Demiplane of Imprisonment might contradict Gygax's feelings, but they're published sources. Gygax feeling one way or the other, and any claims of those "claims" being debunked doesn't change that later authors developed the material in their own unique ways independant of Gygax (Gygax's post TSR novels present a vision of Tharizdun -and a vision of the planes in general- that is rather different from what developed in post Gygax 1e, and progressing through 2e and 3.x) The non-published opinions on that website and stuff in those novels might be interesting, but probably not relevant to Tharizdun as he was developed in mainline D&D sources. Shemeska (talk) 07:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)