My fool’s quest to reverse engineer your original Realms continues. In FR6, did these aspects come from you: Red Wizards using Eltab to win independence from Mulhorand, Eltabbar being a glyph that weakens when mapped, 1 zulkir for each magic school, gnoll enforcers? One zulkir for each magic school is mine. Eltab was a Gary creation, being shoehorned into the Realms. The other two aren't my "originals," either.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2019
They weren't. I think a few of mine, renamed, were included, but just a few. Thayd is mine. And yes, so far as I recall, Eltab was Gary's and was around ere TSR bought the Realms.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2019
Ah, it was my understanding that in your original Thay, the Red Wizards had “recently” wrested dominance from the merchant-kings of the old noble houses. But if Thayd is yours, that implies the Red Wizards founded Thay (assuming he’s the nation’s name-sake), as in TSR’s Realms. The Red Wizards had indeed recently wrested dominance from the old noble houses, when we first saw the Realms in the 1350s DR.
Thay's history is complicated: at the DM's Guild, see "Tyrants in Scarlet: the Founding History of the Zulkirs of Thay" (George Krashos & Ed Greenwood).— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 10, 2019