@TheEdVerse Is there any interesting wildlife that makes its home in waterdeep? something a druid or ranger might like to befriend (animal messenger/beastmaster companion/speak with animals)
— Nat jane (@enjidee) November 17, 2018
1/6) Like any temperate Sword Coast ocean port, Waterdeep has its share of gulls and rockdoves (pigeons), but except in the outermost harbor, they’re surprisingly scarce, due to the following predators: rats (which infest…#Realmslore https://t.co/ZJh7TwmSx1
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
2/6) …Dock Ward, the harbor part of Castle Ward, and Field Ward, and in lesser numbers can be found all over the city); a handful of hardened tressym (the descendants of escaped nobles’ pets) that have “gone wild” to dwell on…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
3/6) …city rooftops, gargoyles, and chimney-angles; owls and fishhawks (osprey-like harriers that also eat rats, mice, and birds); voles; bats (Waterdeep has several small, omnivorous varieties); a handful of “tree cats”…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
4/6) …(squirrels), which have almost died out in the Deep; and perhaps of most interest to druids and rangers, the “veller” (formally velorn). This is an intelligent, alert, curious, adept-at-climbing, prehensile-tailed, …#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
5/6) …gray-furred four-legged raccoon-or-monkey-eco-niche-equivalent opportunistic omnivore (eating mainly human food scraps and waste, but also birds’ eggs) creature for which (with the addition of climbing even wet and/or…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
6/6) …vertical walls at 20 ft.) the Weasel stats in the MONSTER MANUAL can be used. It’s native to the Sword Coast North from Amn north to the Spine of the World, and east to Anauroch and Tunland. Hope this is of help!#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
What do vellers look like? Brown fur with darker (to black) back, build like a vervet monkey, looks like a raccoon but without the mask. Very smart (can learn at one go: e.g. see someone open a catch or work a lock, they can do it too, including see where the key went, to try to filch it later).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018
I’m reminded of the grumpy curtness with which Tolkien answered his professional mail…and the fond, giving, merry, exhaustive replies he’d write to fans who asked him about his world & its inhabitants.
The medium has changed…but the tradition of generous fantasists endures.🧙🏽♂️ Sharing the Realms seems to have become my life's work. I lterally do it every day. But love doing it. :}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2018