@TheEdVerse Hey Ed. Quick question: What makes Bane/Clergy of Bane this much powerful? Any ideas to make a Banite more interesting than a devouted follower of a multiversal Tyrant/Conqueror? I portray Banites as blindly believers of Bane, who deserves to rule over the multiverse

— Gokmen von Habsburg (@gokmenoncu) August 9, 2020

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Sure. Bane is Lord of Tyranny, remember, so many Banite clergy work towards firm law and order (and surveillance state) around them. As this makes them as well as their deity fear and hated (also Bane’s goals), they scheme a lot. A LOT. Often hiring adventurers.. 2)
…as agents/scapegoats. So many Banite clergy are shadowy crime kingpins (prime movers for a lot of plots and conspiracies), particularly in urban settings. They blackmail or otherwise control many rulers, and they are endlessly interesting (dangerous).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2020

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The only "blind" belief they have is that pursuing such goals/serving Bane/behaving this way is worthy/proper/is the right thing to do.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2020

So we can assume Church of Bane as a “downward spiral” You ask to become something important (a governor perhaps?) from them, they do this with bribery, threaten, assasination etc and then you become their puppet and serve them for later, when they ask it. For the few who work willingly with them, yes. Far more fall under their influence without ever fully realizing how it happened. Open tyranny is for when you're strong and have conquered a locale or business or family. Until then, Banites can be sly and even subtle.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2020

I have a question. In Tolkien’s Middle Earth we have Durin, who was not a God, but a revered ancestor. Do the Dwarves from Forgotten Realms have that kind of figure? Or does Moradin fills that role as well as the God role? In the Realms, clan founders stand in that role. But are largely clan secrets (dwarves speak not of them to non-clan members), so recorded Realmslore knows little about them. Many clans were founded by matriarch warriors.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 27, 2020

@TheEdVerse Mr.Greenwood,I have some questions about FR of 5th https://t.co/NEccDGmwdc the module SKT,the All-Father Annam broke the Ordning,which caused a terrible mess on FR.Why AO didn't intervene Annam?

— 水銀の蛇 (@Mercurius_c) April 17, 2020

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The short answer is that no mortal can know why Ao did or didn’t act, in any situation.
However, I can make a more educated guess than most observers of the Realms, and it is this: Ao guides deities, and punishes deities 2)
…based on whether or not they follow his decrees/guidance, and it would seem since the Second Sundering faded, gods have been forbidden to intervene DIRECTLY in the lives of mortals (that is, by avatars interacting directly…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020

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…with mortals, except in private), and encouraged to instead act THROUGH mortals (usually via dream-visions and personal speech with their clergy and others). Kiaransalee sent her avatar to fight mortal (and likely wholly or 4)
…partly non-drow) adventurers face-to-face. In contrast, Annam All-Father, a deity of the giants, shattered the Ordning, a caste system he and his fellow gods of the giants had imposed on all giants long ago. In other words, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020

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…Annam acted within his purview: he had imposed the system, and it lay within his power and portfolio to modify or end it. Whereas Kiaransalee transgressed against Ao’s dictates to ‘stand back more from mortals, directly… 6)
…meddling less in their daily lives.’ Ao cares most about the specifics of divine behaviour, not as much about the effects on mortals of that behaviour.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020

Volo's Guide To The Sword Coast is set about a century after those 3rd edition books, which both precede the Spellplague. Bridgefort didn't exist (was built after) both the FRCS and SK.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2020

I think you got confused with the 5e book Sword Coast Adventurers Guide, Volo’s Guide to the Sword Coast is a 2e book, and set in the mid 1360’s ish. I just found it strange that that was the only mention of it that I could find. Everything we know about the Realms is via unreliable narrators. Volo in particular. ;}
I made him so to give DMs leeway to change anything they want to, but also, TSR gave me impossibly large areas to cover per wordcount in each Volo's guide. So a LOT is left out.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2020

This holds true for nigh every 3e era Realms product, and beyond. Hence the blizzard of web enhancements on the Wizards website, when e-publishing finally became possible; we finally weren't limited by what could fit in a physical book. Note the "mouse type" in 2e products.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2020

@TheEdVerse So i know the sarrukh have a stat block but why not the Batrachi or Aearee? If they were to have stats or if I were to custom build them what abilities and powers would they have?

— RidianGray (@RidianG) March 31, 2020

@TheEdVerse So i know the sarrukh have a stat block but why not the Batrachi or Aearee? If they were to have stats or if I were to custom build them what abilities and powers would they have?

— RidianGray (@RidianG) March 31, 2020

I'd use the 3.5e green slaad as a base, myself.
But then, I do many foolish and questionable things. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 31, 2020

So remove summon slaad, add keen sight and kou-toa immunities change type to monstrous humanoid with aquatic and shapechanger subs and give amphibious is what im thinking so far maybe upgrade the energy resists to 10-20? Yes, to all of those. To a human, a Batrachi should seem formidable, not an equal.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 31, 2020

Likely no stat block because they’re extinct in the Realms. If you really want to end the world as we know it…Batrachi: cross a slaad with a kuo-toa, and add doppelganger shapeshifting. Aearee: a wyvern but with a human… 2)
…human lower body and arms, covered with scales, but the wings have feathers, also a line of feathers down the outsides of the arms. In both cases, the result should be as smart as the smartest humans, and have the hit points…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 31, 2020

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…and CR of the strongest critter in the mix plus half of the weakest. And when you’ve created the reptilian Creator Race and the reptilian avian one, RUN! RUNNNN!#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 31, 2020

@TheEdVerse hello. i've been reading some old lore books and i cannot find the specialization of Ioulaum. I know an arcanist has to have a specialization and cannot be a generalist but i cannot find his. what is his specialization ?

— robi rob (@aerothgow) May 31, 2020

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You can’t find it because Ioulaum broke the societal rules of Netheril: he studied and mastered all forms of magic. Initially, his major was inventive, and his minor was variation. Once he stood among the most powerful… 2)
…arcanists, he secretly, and then openly, started studying mentalism.
As the Oracle of Ellyn'taal, Ioulaum gained full mastery-knowledge of many powerful spells by taking them from…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 31, 2020

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…petitioner’s minds. And today, he is an Elder Brain, working all of his spells through his mentalism.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 31, 2020