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Great Sage, I beg a tale of you.
Namely, I know how Asper and Mirt met, but what does their love story look like? When did our beloved moneylender view her as a wife rather than ward? Details, please ❤️.— Nicole Martinsen (@MissMartinsen) January 9, 2020
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The really, really short version: Asper was a “quiet tomboy” of a youth, very active and very observant (watching Mirt and watching life in Waterdeep). She became adept at scrambling along rooftops, throwing knives and stones and other small objects (e.g. 2)
…windows, from the street below or another building or rooftop), and generally street-smart. In other words, she was very curious about the world around her and wanted to learn all about it (she often used her facility at leaping and climbing to attend noble…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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…revels as an unseen, uninvited guest, for example). She saw a LOT of human nature, from Waterdhavians high and low, and by adulthood reached the conclusion that she wanted a mate to live out her days in the Deep, and that the one she deemed most fitting, 4)
…was Mirt. So when he gently told her that it was time she started her own life, and he'd be happy to arrange an apprenticeship for her to some employer in the city, and sponsor her rent, she accepted but elicited the "my house will always be open to you"…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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…promise from him, and used it to visit him once a tenday for supper, whereat they discussed the latest city news, picking his brains re. guilds and nobles and costers, etc. Asper covertly kept watch on Mirt’s doings, and aided him from time to time when he got. 6)
…into scrapes (usually unbeknownst to him), which happened more and more often as his advancing age made him slower and less agile. During these years, Asper had several affairs with various partners, which only strengthened her resolve that Mirt was "the one"…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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…for her (life partner, not faithful lover), so when he got wounded and took to bed drunk, she stole in through his window and seduced him. Mirt at first thought this was very wrong (she’d been his ward! No, no, no!) but she was determined and as the bond of…#Realmslore 8)
…trust between them as well as love was very strong, she eventually convinced him. He insisted on a formal marriage, though, which she was happy to oblige, and then she moved in with him, but maintained her existing rented "digs" in the city and her various…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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…schemes, investments, and business relationships. They became a duo in adventures, commerce, and life, both having side-affairs and interests, and were happy together until Mirt got trapped in a blueflame item, the Spellplague hit, and the passing years took…#Realmslore 10)
…Asper to her grave while Mirt was trapped in stasis.
This has never been published in Realmslore because TSR was afraid it would be seen as a parent seducing their child (very creepy). It was a tale I wrote when I was seven, of a grown-up ward seducing her…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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…"foster father" as a 'love conquers all' thing. Asper: "I've seen other men, and they measure not up, despite his coarse manner."#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
A bit creepy though BUT, after all they both were all grown up. Knowing that they are not relatives and how some classic books (not only fantasy) work. Well, not a problem. Plus, knowing the background.
Why not eh. Trying to thinking back to when I wrote it, over fifty years ago when I was young, that I was trying to capture the power of love and trust, AND working out that the Realms was a different place than our modern real-world, with different morals and attitudes.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
I would LOVE to write such a book. :}
Truly.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020
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He did indeed rescue her from a sacked city when she was an infant, but turned her over to one of the city orphanages. However, when local causes created a glut of orphans a little less than a month later, Mirt “took her back” as the orphan he was adopting, as a…#Realmslore https://twitter.com/NessusResident/status/1215400903659991040 … 2)
…lord of the city (Mirt was one of the few "Masked Lords" of that time that 'everyone knew' was a Lord), rather than one of the many, many other orphans.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 9, 2020