#AskElminster
Dear @TheEdVerse,Ed, can you please ask Elminster if he is willing to share the name(s) of any shapechanger territories that overlap with Cormyr? If there are none currently, would he mind sharing old names of territories that have come and gone?#ThankYou
— Jeremy Writes About Cormyr (@sanishiver) January 13, 2020
There’s mention of a few in Dragon #278 – Lost Treasures of Cormyr, Part 2, all conquered by King Duar.
— George Krashos (@gkrashos) January 14, 2020
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Heh. The only relevant shapechanger territories El will admit to knowing about are two rival shallar (doppelganger) groups fighting for dominance in Sembia. They largely ignore the Dales, actively avoid Archendale where humans once 2)
…actively hunted them, but range into Hillsfar and eastern Cormyr (along the coast). Their claimed territories overlap, and have no territory names, but the shallar strongest in the west (and therefore Cormyr) are the Raedrau…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 13, 2020
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…(“RAY-draw”), and those most dominant in Hillsfar and eastern Sembia are the Imshiu (“Imm-shee-oo”). I gather those names are based on shallar family surnames.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 13, 2020