1)
“For whosoever pulls yon sword from the stone shall henceforth be rightful King of all—”
“Wait a bit, now, wait a bit! Why can’t it be a lass, who can reign as rightful QUEEN? Where’d that wording come from?”
“The gods.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 20, 2018
3)
“Oh? What’d they look like?”
“What?”?
“If the gods told you the screed about the sword, you must’ve met them, yes?”
“No! I’ve never seen a god. Knowingly, at least.”
“Well, then, I ask again: where did the wording come from?”#epic fantasy “I…it…the high priest told me.”
“A man, right?”
“Yes.”
“A man is not a god.”
“Er, yes.”
“So where’d HE get the wording from?”
“From the gods, presumably.”
“PRESUMABLY. Let’s go ask him.”
“Why?”
“Well, priests sell holy water, yes?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 20, 2018
5)
“Yes.”
“Well, that makes him a merchant, and if he’s anything like the merchants I deal with every day, you can’t trust ONE WORD out of their mouths. I’d like to hear the exact wording he had from the gods.”#epic fantasy “And if he can’t remember it?”
“Then it’s no better than anything you, I, or the nearest drunken bard can make up. Which I suspect is how we get a lot of the weird prophecies I hear. Hell of a way to guide societies.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 20, 2018