@TheEdVerse Hello Ed, I have a question about The Fellowship of the Purple Staff. An organization founded by a few clergymen of Chauntea, Helm and Selûne in 1368 DR & bolstered by faithful of Lathander and Sune.What has happening with them since 1372, what are their hamlets?

— Bruce Donohue (@BruceDonhue) April 15, 2020

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…members (and their families) who dwell in a handful of subsistence hamlets in an E-W line deep in the northern Gulthmere Forest, having lost all reach into more southerly stretches of forest (near the Orsraun Mountains).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

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The Fellowship now include Mielikki, Silvanus, and Corellon in their worship, and try to live in harmony with sylvan creatures and the life-cycles of the forest, using trails rather than clearing wagon-roads, and establishing 4)
…‘forest farms’ of vines and tree-clinging plants rather than clearing fields. They trade with Cedarsproke and Gurnth, but don’t live there, and those settlements aren’t Fellowship-run.
Important Fellowship members include the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

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…warband leaders Klarenna Arthtree (CG hf P14, Moonsash-Preceptress of Selûne), Raelmren Harthtanvil (NG hm P8, Prelate of Lathander), and Waeldren Stauntor (LN hm P9, Vigilant Shield of Lathander). The warbands are traveling6)
…fighting forces that rush to deal with threats to any Fellowship hamlet or members (and ar summoned by messenger or distinctive lown-note warhorns carried by Fellowship members); they’re similar to many woodland-dwelling…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

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…adventuring bands, and tend to be about eight stalwarts strong, with at least five being veterans.
Senior clergy of all faiths in the Fellowship vote on major policy decisions, with the warband leaders and the aged… 8)
…Havaunth Taervorren (LN hm P17, Patriarch of Helm), making daily operating decisions.
The Fellowship hamlets, west to east, are Corolanth, Baelen, Favvaranth, Ellord, Qrael’s Ford, Grammath, and Haelmorr.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

I am guessing that all the information on the organization, how to become a member is in Champions of Valor, are there any sources on how create a little hamlet that we plop in that setting? Yes, Champions of Valor contains all the official Realmslore on the Fellowship, and no, there are no sources on how to create a little Fellowship hamlet. Except me.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

Thanks so much, are there any write-ups any where on the Hamlets that you have mentioned aka Forgotten Realms Wiki and maybe maps?

— Bruce Donohue (@BruceDonhue) April 16, 2020

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…forest canopy instead of roads (no wagons, just barrows and mule-drag carts), and they have homes that are part caves, part artificial caves (build up a hill of loam and tree stumps, roof it with stones and growing plants so…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

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…roots will anchor it all), part tree-houses (think untidy childrens’ tree forts, reached by rope-ladders and climb-tree ladders, and joined by rope-and-board catwalks), and part tents, with outhouses that get moved when their…#Realmslore 4)
…dungpiles are rich and rotted-down enough to serve as gardens for edible forest plants, and so on. In other words, very little that would show up on a map beyond a general location for the hamlet.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

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BTW, a mule-drag cart is a narrow wheelbarrow with long projecting handles, turned backwards and with a mule harnessed between those handles, so the whole thing slopes down to a single wheel at the back.#Realmslore 6)
(If the wheel breaks, the mule “drags” the thing like a travois, hence the name ‘mule-drag’).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

I am guessing I was thinking of hamlet in our real world enviro. aka between 200-1000 population, blushing now Oh, they can be that large, but they're not cleared land, they're part of the forest, so hard to conventionally map and they don't WANT them mapped for a foe to use, so no maps exist. In the Realms "hamlet" and "thorp" and so on always have population definitions.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

Hello, Ed! Hypothetical question: if you wantrd to put an all-monstrous-races settlement on the sword coast, where would you put it? Murann, of course! In 1370 DR, an army of hill giants, ogres, goblins, kobolds and some Cyricists led by the ogre magi Sythillis and Cyrvisnea laid siege to the city, and took it the following summer.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2020

On the note of deicide – why did Cyrik not usurp Mystra’s portfolio when he murdered her? Hmm, multiple reasons, it was very chaotic period and he didn't get a chance to before being 'imprisoned'. Or the Weave was too shattered and there was nothing to claim, hence Lloth trying to make her version of the Weave. Or one of her backups kicked in leaving nothing to claim

— Tevapotrans (@Lord_Toast13) May 27, 2020

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Cyric was far too insane to concentrate enough to subsume and master the Weave. Which was in chaos, like tsunamis rushing back and forth through the world. He didn’t even know Mystra was thee Weave, and even sane and calm, he wouldn’t have known how to take hold 2)
…of it, much less master its workings and so be able to take Mystra's portfolio. Cyric is a perfect example of self-delusional narcissistic "I can do anything" without preparation or knowledge. Ao would have prevented him in any event, but I doubt Cyric could…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020

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…even have defeated Azuth, who was rushing to stabilize the Weave at that moment.
The Weave survived because of Mystra’s foresight in turning the “mortals you must cede fractions of your power to” (saith Ao) into Weave anchors.
Cyric managed to murder Mystra 4)
…large part because he caught her unawares (no sane deity would have done what he did; it's like you trying to seize a palace by toppling its roof supports so it collapses and is destroyed…with you in the middle of it). Any three Weave anchors (let's say: …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020

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…Elminster, Storm, and The Simbul) could have destroyed Cyric at that moment, if they’d caught HIM unawares. Instead, they were trying to stabilize the Weave, and paying the mental price for doing so.
If the china shop is Toril, and all of we mortals are the. 6)
…highly breakable china, Cyric is the rampaging bull gleefully destroying everything, and the Weave anchors who are the Chosen (as opposed to the unwitting ones, like Volo) are rushing around the china shop frantically catching falling plates and vases.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020

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History is FUN. Afterwards.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020

I’m running a DND game (always the DM *sigh*). I need ideas as to why my evil cult are stealing magical items from various cultures. I really don’t want to go down the summoning an elder God/demon route. Any suggestions please? The cult has found old grimoires that suggest the magic in the items they're procuring can be used in rituals that will make cult members young and vigorous again, and keep them that way as their lifespans are extended for centuries, perhaps indefinitely.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2020

What’s your feeling about those DM’s that charge players to play in their game? Would you? I've run many events at conventions where seats are auctioned for charity (not a penny to me). I've charged just once, to cover time as I was snowed under with deadlines; it didn't feel right. That doesn't mean it isn't work, and workers should be paid. Hobby for some, not all.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2020