Is the citadel of the bloody hand / harpers hold mapped out? Does it show the entrance to castle Waterdeep?
— Jason D. Graham (@JasonDGraham_) November 10, 2018
1/4) Here's a quick tease: think of an old-fashioned D&D geomorph map (filling every bit of a graph grid with passages, rooms, closets, etc.). That's the trap-filled entrance to the citadel, which is inside Mount Waterdeep, and was designed as a stronghold whose defenders can… https://t.co/NIy7ap3xDs
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018
2/4) …retreat room-by-room, taking a maximum toll on intruders (so rooms and passages have firing-ports, portculli, angles to fire around, narrow spots easily barricaded, and spring-fire traps (multiple javelins, crossbow bolts). Very little storage beyond money vault and…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018
3/4) …armory and food-and-water caches, because the Bloody Hand used cellars and attics in Waterdeep for warehousing wares/contraband/etc. Carved out of the bedrock of Mount Waterdeep, with secret doors into the "military" tunnels linking the Castle with the griffon air…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018
4/4) …cavalry base (and "flight deck" caverns) high up on the mountain. As these tunnels were hewn through some rather rugged folded striations of rock, concealing the secret door seams wasn't too hard. (There, enough to start with. :}) #Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018
Many thanks ! Can you tease us how Harper’s Hold fit into this stronghold ? Is it complete part of it or “aside” as is Whisper’s Crypt to the Haunted Halls ? Thanks Ed Heh. It is "aside." Think: nine homes and warehouses all over Dock Ward connect to rooms with beds, clothing, stored food and water, privies, and lanterns with oil. That have concealed doors into looooong tunnels inside Mount Waterdeep, leading to the Hold. And the Hold has a…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018
… "Cellar Run" of tunnels and secret-door-connected cellars of buildings across Sea Ward to a secret outlet inside a certain building in North Ward, too. (Some Harpers are both energetic builders, and paranoid. ;} )
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2018