@TheEdVerse if you would be so kind as to spare a moment of your time for a question. Do the different peoples in the Realms hand count differently? I find the various methods around the world fascinating, and was very curious about this.
— Tristan Mers (@TristanMers) October 18, 2021
1)
Yes, both by race/species and regionally. Dwarves and gnomes count along knuckles, left hand being “ones” and right hand “tens.” Halflings count around bases of fingers on inside palm, tapping the center of the palm with the thumb of the base hand for every ten. 2)
Elves count with raised forefingers and then make a cupping, sweeping motion of the left hand for every subtotal, adding the right hand in a crossing motion (cupping right palm to back of left hand) for a final total/result. I put some description of that into…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2021
3)
…the Knights novels and the Shadows of the Avatar trilogy, but checking them, I see that those passages got edited out.
Many human merchants have two ways of counting: cupped-palm-hidden for private transactions, and slow/broad/showy for public totalling.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2021
