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The real Gnoll Fortress

AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
edited December 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
The Gnoll Fortress it's real? xD

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A curiosity... from Anasazi People, read here (or serch on google): http://www.crystalinks.com/anasazi.html
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  • JamesJames Member Posts: 110
    Did one of the original developers have a holiday there at some point?
  • TalvraeTalvrae Member Posts: 315
    guess ssomeone did some research that's nice
  • MilochMiloch Member Posts: 863
    Mesa Verde... I always thought it looked more like Krak des Chevaliers though.
  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    That is amazing. I''d be surprised if that wasn't the inspiration for it.
  • bigdogchrisbigdogchris Member Posts: 1,336
    Quite often, video game artist will visit sites around the world and take photographs to bring home for inspiration.
  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    @mch202 I was going to put it ;)
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    Now I wonder if Friendly Arm Inn and Durlag's Tower are also based on real-life locations.....
  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    mch202 said:

    Now I wonder if Friendly Arm Inn and Durlag's Tower are also based on real-life locations.....

    Friendly Arm Inn will be more hard to find xD

  • reedmilfamreedmilfam Member Posts: 2,808
    That is so unbelievably cool. Who let all those Gnolls in there, though?
  • ShinShin Member Posts: 2,344
    Hah, good find.
  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    Sylvus_Moonbow said:

    I'd really have liked to explore the inside of the Gnoll Fortress myself in Baldur's Gate.

    Me too :)
    A dungeon under the fortress would be nice!
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    Akerhon said:

    Sylvus_Moonbow said:

    I'd really have liked to explore the inside of the Gnoll Fortress myself in Baldur's Gate.

    Me too :)
    A dungeon under the fortress would be nice!
    This is an old request of mine, in this thread:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/888/gnoll-stronghold/p1

    Trent replied:
    TrentOster said:

    This is a great idea for a future adventure area. We have no current plans to play here, but it is something we could do down the road.

    -Trent

    :)
  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    ok, now i'm going to read ^^
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    Akerhon said:

    mch202 said:

    Now I wonder if Friendly Arm Inn and Durlag's Tower are also based on real-life locations.....

    Friendly Arm Inn will be more hard to find xD

    yeah.. its a medieval style, and in Europe there is a castle or a keep every 100 meters... :-p

  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    mch202 said:

    Akerhon said:

    mch202 said:

    Now I wonder if Friendly Arm Inn and Durlag's Tower are also based on real-life locations.....

    Friendly Arm Inn will be more hard to find xD

    yeah.. its a medieval style, and in Europe there is a castle or a keep every 100 meters... :-p

    asd... if you settle for a similar and not the same identical, ok :P
  • AlkaluropsAlkalurops Member Posts: 269
    Friendly Arm Inn reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Castle
  • CandramelekhCandramelekh Member Posts: 109
    The truth is out there
  • JaxsbudgieJaxsbudgie Member Posts: 600
    edited September 2012
    mch202 said:

    Now I wonder if Friendly Arm Inn and Durlag's Tower are also based on real-life locations.....

    Durlag's Tower is actually modelled on my family home, it's ... difficult.

    Edit: on a serious note, these ruins always reminded me a little of Gullykin, the small round houses there are partially built into the ground similar to the make shift dungeons in the Gnoll Stronghold.

  • AliteriAliteri Member Posts: 308
    Rexfaroensis said:

    As lovely as this post (and the Gnoll Fortress) is, it always felt like such an anti-climax. There you are, in a fortress filled with gnolls; enormous potential for a good quest. But apart from saving Dynaheir, nothing happens! It's just a fortress filled with gnolls!

    If the gnolls posed more of a threat, it would be ok with me.
  • JaxsbudgieJaxsbudgie Member Posts: 600
    mch202 said:


    Since Rochester and Newcastle are in England, I guess that the Friendly Arm Inn inspiration is English-Oriented

    Isn't most of the Sword Coast medieval England inspired?

  • CheOffshoreCheOffshore Member Posts: 27
    Candramelekh said:

    The truth is out there

    I really hope you saw that the picture was of the Anasazi archtecture and instantly remembered there was an X Files episode called "Anasazi" as well as the constant references to New Mexico Indians and their architecture in the series when you really made that reference ;)

    Or is that just me and this is a weird coincidence? XD
  • AliteriAliteri Member Posts: 308
    @CheOffshore

    Coincidence?

    The Truth is out there.
  • HaHaCharadeHaHaCharade Member Posts: 1,644
    The Gnoll Fortress always freaked me out. LOL. Here I am like 17 playing this game when it first came out and I'm like scared as I run through the Gnoll fortress. WTF is the matter with me.
  • DjimmyDjimmy Member Posts: 749
    I have a friend who is an archeologist(and a true paladin in the fantasy world). Maybe some day I will ask him to take me to this "Gnoll Fortress". :)
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    edited November 2012
    Jaxsbudgie said:

    mch202 said:


    Since Rochester and Newcastle are in England, I guess that the Friendly Arm Inn inspiration is English-Oriented

    Isn't most of the Sword Coast medieval England inspired?

    I dont know what the lore say, but I think that the models in this game are random.. else they wouldn't end up with an Native Americans castle..

    also the candlekeep castle, with its round spires and point blue roofs reminds me austrian-german castles...




    or...




    DISNEY CASTLE!!! O_O

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