1)
“Well, be that as it may, I wish you hadn’t done for Marlyra; I LIKED her.”
“You were meant to. SHE could act. But our kingdom can only afford so many venomous she-vipers at a time; we were overstocked.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 8, 2019

2)
“You’re saying she was worse than the Duchess of Ral?”
“By far. Marlyre beheaded a prince I was fond of. He was of a rival realm and as raving mad as they come, but he was good entertainment.”
“Wolf, you’re a RAT!” 3)
“My, my, everyone’s a critic. And only a rat? I was aiming MUCH lower than that.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 8, 2019

1)
{Wolf casts something else—and his rushing wind is suddenly alive with sparks. That cling to the struggling soldiers, then flare up into deadly flames. The men shriek and claw the air vainly as they stagger and burn and die. 2)
“What was THAT, Wolf?”
“Trade secret, Elvar. I might need to use it on a king someday.”
“I BEG your pardon? How DARE—”
“Someday SOON.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 11, 2019

1)
“EEEEK! Palonder, what are you DOING? UNHAND me!”
“Sorry, Lady. I’m just embracing you and then rolling us both under the line of hanging skeletons. That snail is getting far too close.”#epicfantasy 2)
“THANK you, Palonder! At least SOMEONE here is heeding my calls for haste! Now, Elvar, just get under the skeletons, there’s a good king!”
“You expect me to CRAWL along the FLOOR like some worm or other?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 29, 2019

3)
“Think of it as out-wriggling the maggots that will otherwise riddle your rotting corpse, and it should come more easily to you, O King of Neverune.”#epicfantasy 4)
“You’re a right dung-hole, you know that, Wolf?”
“And you’re a king, if we’re now tossing casual insults.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 29, 2019

Here lies all that’s left of Radrovar The Lingerie Alterer
And his lace-trimmed Wagon
He had eyes only for his models trying on the stock
And not the sky full of swooping dragon

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 28, 2019

I hear eerie moans beyond the gate
And see ectoplasm glowing and swirly
Do you think it’s the remains of someone late
Or what’s left of someone who just rotted early?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 29, 2019

The king who tries to rule with some scruples
Will see follies aplenty be-devil his pupils

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 30, 2019

1)
“Sire, Lord, and Lady, I believe the slithermaws has won. But is so sorely wounded that it’s dragging itself away.”
“How many MORE marauding monsters could be on the loose down here, Wolf?” 2)
“If the occupying invaders have been careless or malicious in undoing cages, Elvar, a score or so.”
“Then can we get OUT of here?”
“When I’ve recovered the state secret I’m after, YES, Sire. In all due haste.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2019

3)
“Well, I hope this state secret is a LOYAL team of capable assassins. I’d feel much safer with the likes of them between me and monsters like yonder pair of horrors.” 4)
“Why, Sire, at the risk of repeating a query recently raised: who needs a team of clever murderers? We’ve got Wolf.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2019

1)
“There’s something moving BEHIND the skeletons!”
“What sort of something, Palonder?”
“An unfamiliar sort, Lord. But it’s big, and has jaws and tentacles.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2019

2)
“Oh. In that case, whack the skeletons, then hurry back here.”
“Set off the alarm, you mean?”
“Yes. We’ll see how well that slithermaws holds up against the spider.”
“You have a SLITHERMAWS running around loose down here?”#epicfantasy 3)
“Our, ah, guests must have freed it, Chantratha. When last I saw it, it was in quite a secure cage.”
“Isn’t having that formidable a man-eating monster inside a stronghold rather a vulnerability?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2019

4)
“I find it keeps our soldiers on their toes.”
“While they still have toes, you mean?”
“Something’s coming up behind the slithermaws. Fast.”
“Ah. The spider. This should be good.”#epicfantasy 5)
“Your entertainment’s a little on the gory side for me, Wolf.”
“Veteran courtier, remember?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 18, 2019

1)
“An ‘alarm trap,’ Wolf? Setting off an alarm where, that alerts whom?”
“A gong that sounds in two guardrooms. And releases a monster.”
“Releases…what SORT of monster, exactly?”#epicfantasy 2)
“Releases it from stasis, actually. A gulg-maw spider. Large, adult, and in heat.”
“Starving, too?”
“Of course. I want it to attack to devour, not flirt.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2019

3)
“Ah. Good to know you see a difference.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2019

1)
“Gods and cess! You consider that footman who killed himself falling down stairs while watering flowerpots less than an idiot? Or the guards who overbalanced the ladders during the North Tower repainting? Or2)
“Calm yourself, Elvar. I’m well aware of your opinion that you’re surrounded by a Castle staff almost entirely made up of galloping idiots.
A quite correct and justified opinion, to be sure.
I meant that the highest-ranking…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2019

3)
…courtiers have progressed in skills and discernment over the last reign, and this one. We now deliberately pick specific idiots, selecting for the incompetencies we require.”
“Oh. That’s all right, then. 4)
“We STRIVE to be of service, Sire.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2019