1)
“Well, is the way ahead likely to be as populated with enemy soldiers as the way we’ve just traversed?”
“Not unless they’re far more numerous than I believe them to be. I think we’re broken through their presence, hereabouts.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 11, 2019

2)
“And if you’re wrong?”
“Then we’ll be dead, as usually happens when powerful courtiers are wrong. Then all your cares will be ended, and you can even greet the gods satisfied that you can tell my shade: I told you so.” 3)
“Why do I find that scant consolation?”
“And if this goal of yours—ours—is guarded by the foe? What then?”
“We eliminate them.”
“We and WHAT team of clever murderers?”
“Who needs a team of clever murderers? We’ve got Wolf.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 11, 2019

By writhing tentacles and many an undulating polyp
By tumescent barbed mating probe’s hot moist grip
And your panting, mewing little cries
And the lust-craze blazing in your eyes
I can see you’re on the make
Next time, monster, I’ll bring cake

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2019

And so in two bites the eager princess came to naught
For ’twas by a hungry and not lusty dragon she got caught

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2019

He cast a spell of which most wizards can only dream
And so exploded—but died (albeit for but an instant) The Mage Supreme

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 15, 2019

1)
“’Ware, all! Something moved, in the passage ahead!”
“Thank you, Palonder. That’d be my distraction, right on cue. Dangling bones, isn’t it?”
“Er, yes, Lord. Three human skeletons. Hanging on…wires.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 16, 2019

2)
“Yes. It’s an alarm trap. Just avoid touching them.”
“By, ah, crawling on my belly to get under them, and past?”
“Yes.”
“That feels…vulnerable.”
“Welcome to everyday life when you’re paying attention, Palonder.”#epicfantasy 3)
“THANK you, Lord Wolf. Your caustic irony is so familiar, it’s reassuring.”
“Well, if it’s reassurance you’re seeking, I can stand guard while you’re crawling.”
“And how will that reassure me, exactly?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 16, 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

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2019

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

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2019

Squamous oozes swarm my portals
Horrors indescribable by mere mortals
Bred by gleeping things old and hoary
All because I cast a ritual gory
I thought ’twas but a recipe! Moral of the story…
No, no time! I’m being absorbed by fungi ambulatory!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2019

Long ago the prince rode away
And where his grave is, I cannot say
But when he left, hope here could not stay

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 22, 2019

Throw the skulls into the heart of the fire, and so set free the curse
There’s blood galore in that pyre; they died to shed it, but their revenge shall be worse

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 24, 2019

I hear the beat of mighty wings
Run and grab your swords and things!
For ere the last light of this day is spent
We’ll all be dead—or in dragon blood will have paid the rent

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 24, 2019

“Well, but of COURSE. Wolf, may I remind you that I am the Mistress of Disguises? Senior courtier of Neverune? Not some random passing idiot?” 2)
“Oh, I’m well aware of that. We haven’t been naming random passing idiots to senior Castle posts since Elvar’s grandsire’s time.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2019

1)
“HALT! Who goes there?”
“We do!”
“And who is ‘we’? I distinctly heard someone being addressed as ‘Sire.’”
“That would be me.”
“Oh? Come out where I can get a good sho—LOOK at you.”
“No. You come to me.”
“I’ll give the orders here.”#epic 2)
“The King of Neverune takes no orders! He gives them. As royal commands or decrees. Of which the latest is: you come to me. And leave your weapons behind.”
“Pffft! What d’you take me for, an idiot?”
“We’ve just been having a…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 19, 2019

4)
… For a King, you’re a master of diplomacy.”
“Er, you think so?”
“Certainly. No mispronunciations, hesitations, or bewildering choices of phrase. No shrieking tantrums or sobbing flights of insanity. Complete sentences, even. …#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 19, 2019

5)
… Masterful. For a King.”
“Ah. Meaning I should leave parleys to those professional honeytongues, my courtiers.”
“Well, there ARE occasions when provoking a foe into precipitous attack is NOT the goal. Rare, I’ll admit, but…”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 19, 2019