quick question, in Ed Greenwood presents Elminsters Forgotten Realms you mention that the word for nobles in the Realms is highborn. Do people just use highborn, or do some people also say noble?
Thanks! “Nobles” is also in widespread usage, but as a group name. When speaking of an individual, one would say, “Oh, he’s/she’s highborn,” but when speaking of a group, one might say, “The western nobles don’t like it, but the city nobles do.”#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 4, 2021
Well hell, now I wonder about the interest of Western Nobles. The western nobles were and are generally against the appearance of trade enclaves of Thay up and down the Sword Coast and in the western Heartlands, because it now meant any rich lowborn dolt with a grudge could buy magic to do something about that grudge. To nobles.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 4, 2021