Palantirs

Background

Palantirs were used to communicate across both Space and Time

There were lots of Palantirs (we don't know how many) and they have an alignment (Law vs Chaos/Good vs Evil) as well as being linked to gates/planes. The Palantirs were created by Lastar to control the Pentagram Gates (as distinct from the natural portals) and lock them to their host location. Some of the Palantirs were formed using material from the natural portal to which they were matched. Every Palantir thus has a natural planar alignment but this is not immediately obvious.

It seems reasonable to assume that the Palantirs will return to their originally aligned location following Ragnarok.

Removing the Palantirs from their intended location was the original cause of the gates being 'unlocked'.

Planar Alignment

Lastar set up his pentagrams after the swap between fire and water the Drow had brought about; the original palantirs should match the original pentagrams:

Air - Emras; Zem (living in Minas Emras) receives the blue Ring of Air.

Earth - Aarda; Hamar (living in Minas Aarda) receives the green Ring of Earth.

Fire - Tiris; Dor (living in Minas Tiris) receives the indigo Ring of Water.

Water - Morgul; Ishtur (living in Minas Morgul) receives the red Ring of Fire.

Astral - Maedus

Ethereal - Olga - now with La'as Xan?

Negative - Zundar

Positive - Blaven's Pool

Sutur - Control/Prime

Pre-Ragnarok ownership of Palantirs:

1a - Astral (Maedus) - Orcus (taken from Fremar the Norseman when Gos fell?)

1b - Astral (Efferendil) - Baldir (temporarily for safe-guarding)

1? - a Palantir was created each time a natural gate was discovered and there are multiple gates to the Astral...

2 - Inwe

3 - Earth (Aarda) - Demogorgon

4 - Gwendolyn had one when she fled Sutur - where is it now (need to ask her!)?

5 - Perion?

6 - Yishmay

7 - Ichsoos

8 - Lan Zi Bao (Morgul en route to Maedus - reclaimed it from Lord Marin) - NE - Fire

9 - Lan Zi Bao (was Balfor's? Found by us in Olga) - Ethereal - LN

10 - Lan Zi Bao Water - LE

Fremar (Norseman) had a palantir (from Maedus - now with Orcus?) and used it to speak with Perion.

Perion's palantir was delivered to Gos by Bavarik himself in the 2nd Age - see above re Fremar. Not clear where Bavarik got it from (it could be the original Sutur palantir?)

Rantor/Tuar Chan had one but we took it

Yishmay has one (that we gave her)