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Velium Mastodon Fur Cloak
So… Should this exist in our time line?
TL;DR Velium Mastodon Cloak is an anachronism. Probably. Argumentatively, this whole thing falls flat, as absence of evidence is not evidence, and I’m electing to argue the negative. So before anything else, I’d like to concede that this is purely on an appeal to logic, rather than a structured proof of anything. Methodology: I’ve looked through a bunch of websites, and wayback versions of the websites. Theres no end to this, but some of the beginning looks like this: Working backward: The oldest post on Allakhazams for Velium Mastodon Fur Cloak is March 22 2003 The oldest post on Allakhazams for Velium Mastodon Fur is December 02 2002 For the Allakhazams page on A glacier Mastodon , pre December 01 chatter is about if the mastodons drop meat, rangers killing them, being KoS to Claws of Veeshan. The first comment about the cloak and/or fur is in March 2003 For the Allakhazams page on Tantor theres 4 pages of extremely cringeworthy comments, and the first mention of the fur/cloak is April 2003 In keeping with the timeline, the Crown of Deceit page on Allakhazams blows up with chatter in December 2002 as you would expect, with mass amounts of people doing the quest. Many of the discussions on other cloaks in this era cross reference each other. All comments taken from before December 2001. Wayback Allakhazams Velium Studded Cloak Compares to Spider Fur Cloak, Dire Wolf Hide Cloak, Hooded Black Cloak The Allakhazams Velium Hound Fur Cloak compares it to the Hooded Black Cloak, Spider Fur Cloak, Cloak of Shadows and Imbued Field Plate Cloak, Lodi Shield as well as the cloak series from the Western Waste dragons don’t seem to contain comparisons to this cloak either (being lazy, no links on this one). If we hop over to Wayback on Eqtraders to a section called “Velious Fine Furs Recipes” They mention Othmir Fur, Holgresh Fur, and Velium Hound Fur. No Mastodon/Mastadon Furs. If you google “Velium Mastodon” or “Velium Mastadon” without synatx, for queries up until January 1st 2002 the only return for either is The Fusibility Quest which uses both of those words, altho apart, in the same page. Looking ahead, Eqtraders does list the Velium Mastodon Fur Cloak in this same section, in December 2002. Conclussion: Regular nerds didn’t post about this, Min/max nerds didn’t post about this, and tradeskill nerds did not post about this. Even the ever classic “My brothers 37 shadowknight got this in PoFear off Stormfeather” type Allakhazams comments do not exist for this item. No one had a website with even a whiff of this item until ~December ‘02. If it's desired, I can try and provide more evidence, but I'm struggling to find references to this item that are in-era, in the places that seem the most obvious to me. I feel like the cloak, as well as the furs, probably did not exist prior to the Crown of Deceit quest in the Planes of Power era. | ||
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Save the Mastodons! Fur poachers are threatening the Timeline!
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Bump! The Mastodons did nothing wrong!
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