@TheEdVerse Are there any symbols particularly associated with bad luck in Faerun? (Like inverted horseshoes and walking under ladders in our world)

— James Powell (@feelieking) September 22, 2020

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Customs/deeds associated with bad luck, across races and cultures: stealing from a temple or altar (usually offerings, but also holy objects like chalices), or defiling or stealing any holy symbol; lying to a priest or paladin.
#Realmslore 2)
Also, betraying kin or deceiving a wizard.
Symbols associated with bad luck: a broken tool (not a weapon); “blood on the moon” (a red tint to the visible moon); mislaying something just before a departure, so it must be…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2020

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…abandoned or the hunt for it delays one’s going; the “blinded” glyph/trail mark (scratched or drawn as a warning to others) of a horizontal human like eye with a vertical stroke (or drawn point-down dagger) bisecting it; a… 4)
…shattered anvil, either as a depiction in a painting or story, or happening in real life; a lone withered flower; any depiction of blood dripping from an eye like tears.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2020

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There are many others, but these I’ve listed are believed in/recognized among all sentient creatures, everywhere on Toril.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2020

Thanks for this. I’m featuring Beshaba and Tymora as central in my current game (particularly Beshaba), so this is useful.

— ErikWaddell (@WaddellErik) September 23, 2020

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Ah! Then this additional lore is for you:
Beshaba has a symbol all her devout will know: a black lightning bolt that forks in the middle to form an inverted “Y” (like the peace symbol without the central, vertical bottom… 2)
…stroke or the circle). This means ‘misfortune upon this place/house (in the family/clan sense)/endeavour, FOR GOOD REASON/they’ve earned it/I want them to know ill luck.’#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 23, 2020

I am about to lead my party through the Evermoors in search of a newly formed Hag Coven (thank you @DeborahAnnWoll, Witch of Blackbriar is a perfect campaign beginning) and I’m wondering… wtf is up with that Sleeping Dragon artifact? 1/2 I love it and can’t wait for my party to come across it. Is there any more lore from ol’ Elminster regarding The Splendor? And when the dunks inevitably cast at the SD or hit it, do you have any advise on where to teleport to sorry fool?

— Andrew Tinsley (@OzurtheOzarian) August 13, 2020

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Elminster chuckled and said: “Though how to call upon it will have to be a matter of experimentation, as there’s nothing written down and I’ve never done so myself, the Srinshee told me that, properly activated, the Splendor… 2)
…can raise dead, or regenerate, or reincarnate, and can also mend/restore/renew minor enchantments on items (and physically mend the items themselves), all of these activations being subtly different from each other.”#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2020

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As for teleport destinations, my advice would be to NOT be so cruel as to split up the party in this manner, nor to send them to a locale that will doom them, or ruin the campaign. I have used it, as DM, to dump parties down… 4)
…in dungeons, so they have to find a way out, and usually fight to survive to find that exit. Three levels down in Undermountain, for example, or in a back corner of the Haunted Halls if they’re lower level or weakened, or…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2020

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…pick your own dungeon that the party would otherwise never willingly have entered, heh-heh. (I hasten to add that THAT was Elminster chuckling, not me. Oh, my, no.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2020

#AskElminster
Dear @TheEdVerse,

Ed, can you please ask Elminster if he is willing to share the name(s) of any shapechanger territories that overlap with Cormyr? If there are none currently, would he mind sharing old names of territories that have come and gone?#ThankYou

— Jeremy Writes About Cormyr (@sanishiver) January 13, 2020

There’s mention of a few in Dragon #278 – Lost Treasures of Cormyr, Part 2, all conquered by King Duar.

— George Krashos (@gkrashos) January 14, 2020

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Heh. The only relevant shapechanger territories El will admit to knowing about are two rival shallar (doppelganger) groups fighting for dominance in Sembia. They largely ignore the Dales, actively avoid Archendale where humans once 2)
…actively hunted them, but range into Hillsfar and eastern Cormyr (along the coast). Their claimed territories overlap, and have no territory names, but the shallar strongest in the west (and therefore Cormyr) are the Raedrau…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 13, 2020

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…(“RAY-draw”), and those most dominant in Hillsfar and eastern Sembia are the Imshiu (“Imm-shee-oo”). I gather those names are based on shallar family surnames.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 13, 2020