I have a quick question in relation to Waterdeep:

Where does the Dragon Tower, formerly inhabited
by Maaril the Dragon Mage, sit in Waterdeep?
As in, which Ward and what street? Sorry, was offline! The Dragon Tower stands in Sea Ward, interior of the city block bounded by The Street Of The Singing Dolphin, Shark Street, Grimwald's Way, and The Street of Whispers. Directly accessed N off Shark Street, just W of Singing Dolphin (W of NW corner S-D+Shark).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

Tall openwork wrought iron gates separate it from Shark Street and Hansar's Run (the tiny alleyway that runs N-S through the block from Grimwald's Way S and across Shark Street to traverse most of the next block S, too), but these ALWAYS stand open (rusted in place, years ago).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

Two buildings adjoin the Tower, one jutting S from Grimwald's Way and one fronting Grimwald's Way and also forming the E end of the block, along Singing Dolphin; they are both 4-storey-high blocks: 3 floors of rental rooms (we would say apartment suites) above street-level shops.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

If you own the 2nd Edition CITY OF SPLENDORS boxed set, the Tower is Sea Ward Map Location 30 ("dollar-sign-30").

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

The Sea of Swords is on the west coast of Faerûn along the Sword Coast. Assuming that world turns the same way that our does (e.g. the sun rises in the east) there is going to be something called a Western Boundary Current along the Sword Coast pic.twitter.com/MCg2NYvCym

— Dugongs and Sea Dragons (@DugongsD) September 22, 2018

Heh. Back in 1979, when writing up a Realms merchant trading game, I sent TSR the Sword Coast currents map. There is indeed "The Vrail" (Western Boundary Current), but it passes down the W side of the Moonshaes. There's a much smaller, local Coastal Gyre flowing N, tight along…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

…the coast, then curling NW around the Whalebones and back S between the Whalebones and Ruathym and the Sea of Moonshae, that brings warm air and water from The Shining Sea N to Waterdeep and especially the Tethyrian coast (which usually experiences very mild winter weather).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

That's one of the reasons Waterdeep gets coastal fog (colder winds blowing out of the NW, onshore, across this warmer water). Mount Waterdeep shields the city against a lot of weather nastiness; that's why the city developed where it did: superb deepwater natural harbor in the…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018

lee of a sheltering shieldwall of rock.
(I'd thought the coastal currents had passed into accepted, known Realmslore in the 1980s, but…obviously not. ;} )

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2018