Does the Waterdeep City Watch have the equivalent of detectives in their ranks, @TheEdVerse? If so, what’s their place in the power structure/chain of command? Yes. The position of such Special Agents (currently 14 strong) in the chain of command has shifted. As they've so often had to investigate possible Watch corruption, they now report directly to the Open Lord first, and to the top two tiers of Watch command second.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 20, 2020

That latter part of their job probably doesn’t make them overly popular with their fellows. Indeed. "Accidents" befell several of them before the Watch learned how diligently Vajra investigates such mishaps. Now that Laeral's on the scene, and Mirt, no more such accidents happen.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 21, 2020

@TheEdVerse The font for dwarvish on PHB p. 123 seems to be one called Davek (online). In SGAG p. 105 a different font (Dethek) is used. Is one or the other canon? Are both? Also, is there a rune depicting giant (like there are runes for orc, human, elf).

— Michiel Brouwer-Cummins (@Bri_bra_brouwer) July 8, 2020

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Dethek is a runic script developed by dwarves (out-of-game: created by me in 1977, first seen by the wider world in my “Runestones” article in THE DRAGON) and used in the original Realms boxed set and many other places. Goblins even used it in elder days. 2)
So, yes, it's canon for the Realms.
Davek is the dwarven script of the Eberron setting, and over time, planar travellers have brought books and labelled items and knowledge of the script to the Realms, so that BOTH are now "canon" in the Realms, though your…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020

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…average human commoner in, say, the Heartlands or Sword Coast who is shown Davek writings will frown and say, “Looks Dwarvish.” Whereas many human commoners can read a few symbols of Dethek.
In Dethek, there is indeed a rune for giantkind: it looks like an… 4)
…inverted capital "T" with a crossbar only a quarter the length of the vertical stem. Just below the top end, that stem is crossed at a 20-degree angle by a diagonal cross-stroke the same length as the (bottom) crossbar, lower end to the left and higher end to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020

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…the right; it crosses the vertical stem at the midpoint of the cross-stroke.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020

Thanks for your (real rapid) answer. So the rune for giantkind would be something like this? Yes, but without that middle crossbar.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2020

just started Death Mask and, as often seen in your books, there is a mention of a play.
Have these really been written out in full and/or is there anything more specific about theatrical production in Faerun?
Thanks! That particular one hasn't, but I've written several Realms plays (bawdy comedies on the lines of Shakespeare's Much Ado or All's Well, or earlier plays like Ralph Rpister Doister). And even some scenes acted out at early GenCons. Very little in published Realmslore.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 19, 2020

@TheEdVerse Greetings illustrious sage most high! In my diligently mapping of the Moonsea region I’ve come across a couple woodlands that seemingly have no name. The forests lie adjacent to Maskyr’s Eye between the River Lis and the Earthspur Mountains. Any suggestions on naming?

— Brian R. James (@brianrjames) June 17, 2020

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To many folk of Faerûn distant from the Moonsea region, these are (collectively) “the Mulm Woods,” as they appear thus on early maps.
However, to anyone who lives in the Vast or around the Moonsea (in Mulmaster or Maskyr’s Eye…2)
…in particular), the woods east of the trade-road are the Reddryn Woods (Mount Reddryn is the most prominent peak of the Earthspurs, due east of this forest, and it’s named for Baerlus Reddryn, a brown-skinned, flame-red- …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2020

4)
…road, as far as the River Duthlis (called by some “the River Dalton;” it’s the river that drains the Flooded Forest into the Moonsea), are the Viperfang Forest (as there was a time, in the early 1300s DR, when they were…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2020

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…a-slither with many deadly, hungry vipers; lizardfolk hunting parties later nigh-exterminated these serpents, harvesting them as delicacies, but the name has remained). Some will tell you this forest is named for the… 6)
…famous/infamous (depending on one’s point of view) adventurer Jannith Viperfang, “the Lady Fang,” who dwelt in them and fared forth as a brigand and pirate in the 1320s DR, but the truth is she took her name from the trees, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2020

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…and not the other way around (to conceal her true name, as she was Jandra Bleth, of the Cormyrean noble family of the same name, and didn’t want her parents to know where she’d gone and what she was up to). 8)
[She was preying in part on Bleth shipments, and wanted to keep her options open to possibly return to Cormyr someday and claim her share of the family riches and lands. Unfortunately, death claimed her first.]#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2020