1)
“Well, *I* don’t love it. It’s bad enough having Wolf flapping his tongue, all sneering and superior, without a rival snarker vying for all the best lines. Our ears’ll never get a rest!” 2)
“Elvar, just stop listening and let your mind wander. You know, like you do in all the Court policy debates.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 12, 2019
1)
The eerie, pulsing glow is a vivid sapphire blue in colour. Impressive. And now much closer. As our four heroes of Neverune near the corner that hides the source of the glow from them, the spectacular glow grows brighter. 2)
As eerie pulsing glows are wont to do.#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 6, 2019
2)
“Ahead, yes. Waiting, I’m not so sure. As in, there’s no sign of them beyond the slithermaws trail of gore. Which, by the way, has caused the giant gonth snail to head elsewhere. They don’t like slithermaws.”
“Do we know why?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 6, 2019
3)
“Slithermaws eat them, that’s why.”
“Ah. So, self-preservation.”
“Yes. Something all of we courtiers have mastered, you’ll be pleased to know.”
“Not if it trumps your loyalty to me.”
“Worry not. Although it does, our rashness 4)
…will often cause us to mistakenly lay down our lives, in the heat of the moment, you understand, to protect yours.”
“Yes, but SUCCESSFULLY?”
“Ah. There you may have placed a royal finger on a root problem.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 6, 2019
1)
“Sire, Lord, and Lady, there’s a glow up ahead. Distant, but pulsing. See? And as far as I can tell from the reflection on the floor, at each flash, the slithermaws trail goes past the source of that glow.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 4, 2019
2)
“Well spotted, Palonder. As your reward, you may continue to lead us on into unknown danger.”
“Remind me to refuse any rewards you may offer me, Wolf. I prefer KNOWN dangers, at the very least.”3)
“Ah, prudence. Wasted in a courtier of high rank—such as a certain Mistress of Disguises.”
“You’d prefer us to be reckless, headstrong fools?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 4, 2019
4)
“Well, I’ve grown USED to reckless, headstrong fools. Whose pratfalls at least provide endless entertainment.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 4, 2019
1)
“So what is this ‘Julthoon,’ Wolf?”
“A flying gem twice the size of your head, Elvar.”
“I can SEE that. Who is ‘Paerlus,’ and how is it that in his name you can command this…this thing?”
[THE TOAD IS CURIOUS. ALL HAIL THE TOAD.] 2)
“Mock me not! I am a KING!”
[AND I AM SEVERAL KINGS. AND AN EMPEROR, A TORTURER, AND A VENDOR OF SWEETS. BOW BEFORE ME, ONCE-KING.]
“I am STILL a King!”
[YES, BUT YOU’VE BEEN A KING ONLY ONCE. AND NOT MUCH OF ONE.]#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 11, 2019
3)
“Wolf, can you command this Julthoon?”
“Yes.”
“Well, command it to be civil to me!”
“It IS being civil. You should hear it when it’s not.”
“Well, why have it, then? What’s so useful about having a rude gem?” 4)
“It stores some spells, and can be commanded to remember things and spit them out again upon command. Think of it as a cook. Or a storage cupboard.”
“You grew up surrounded by magic with attitude, didn’t you?”
“DID he grow up?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 11, 2019
1)
Now a curse that’s laid is a doom that won’t fade, and the gods enforce its dark code
If in the days that pass, you rethink and cry alas, that does naught to lift the load— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 9, 2019
2)
Only a greater curse, laid by an archwizard or worse, can shatter an oath so dire
Unless a priest who knows the right atone, on an altar of bone, lights the right mystical pyre— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 9, 2019
Hi Ed! Ages ago, you wrote in Polyhedron that Turmish was perceived in the Realms as a land of “men with pointed beards and pointed helms”. Can you please elaborate what type of helmets are we talking about exactly? Thanks! Hi! Slavic-style helms, like these. :} pic.twitter.com/g8qJPVoNz6
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 11, 2019
1)
Chant hides a smile at the King’s dense query. Like the King and Palonder, she’s staring in wonder at the Julthoon: a floating, gently chiming, softly glowing ovoid gem—not faceted, but smooth, like a flattened egg hanging…#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 9, 2019
3)
[YES, YES, I’VE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. DARK DECEIVER.]
“Didn’t we have the flattery discussion?”
[WE DID, BUT I NEVER AGREE NOT TO ANNOY HUMANS. IT WINDS THEM UP SO. AND THEN THEY ENTERTAIN.]
“Hah! Wolf, have you met your match?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 9, 2019
4)
“Several times, but she’s far away now, and considerably more beautiful than the Julthoon.”
“Oh? Do tell!”
“And she happens to be ANOTHER state secret.” 5)
[YOUR MIND WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ALL YOUR SECRECY AND DECEIT, HUMAN.]
“No doubt, about forty years from now. There’s a lot I intend to do first.”
[AH. INTENTIONS. {amused snort}]#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 9, 2019
