, I hope you’re having a wonderful day. I have a question I wonder if you could answer. Does Elminster, Laeral, Mirt, Volo or Durnan have any secret tattoos or remarkable scars that one could possibly use to identify them? Thank you…1)
Elminster is weathered and wrinkled all over, and has lines of scarring up the outside of both of his pectorals that climb over his shoulders, where long ago his arms were torn off (at different times), but he’s such a wreck…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021
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…that they don’t “stand out.” Someone has to look closely at him in good light to notice the lines in the midst of everything else.
None of the five have any large and distinctive tattoos (Mirt has some, on insides of elbows, … 3)
…armpits, and below the bulge of his belly, that store magic, but they were made to blend in to his skin, not stand out, so they usually have to be pointed out to someone, but be noticed at all). Laeral and Volo are remarkably…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021
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…unscarred and unweathered, due to repeated skillful magical healing, but the hips, chest, back, and biceps of Durnan are crisscrossed with old sword-wound scars that are clearly visible ridges (puckers) but which aren’t a… 5)
…different hue than the surrounding skin. There are a lot of them (sixteen or more), and they don’t form any distinctive pattern. Many of them DO cross over each other.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021