1)
“That’s nice. What shall we do?”
“Both of you come here and help me loot these bodies, quickly, then we’ll return to where Palonder was lying as a group, staying together.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 19, 2019

3)
2)
[this is done, so the King and Chantratha end up wearing rather rusty, stinking chain-and-random-plates armor]
“Now Chant, you walk here, in front of me, and Elvar, you walk THERE, behind me.”
“As walking sacrificial shields?”#epic fantasy “Of course. I have to get SOME use out of you.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 19, 2019

1)
“Er, yes. Certainly. Unknown sir or lady, we greet you! The weather promises continued improvement in this forest this fair morn, doth it not? And I have lately observed that the price of potatoes continues to improve, an…#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 10, 2019

2)
…unanticipated happening in this, the very hot heart of unfolding war.”
[a crossbow bolt bursts through the leaves and narrowly misses Palonder’s left ear, ere hurtling off into the distant forest]#epic fantasy 3)
“Obviously someone displeased by good weather or the rise in price of potatoes. Therefore an unreasonable person, or in short: a foe. Jump him or her, Palonder, ere they can reload and pincushion you. Or worse, me.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 10, 2019

1)
“Lord Wolf, we all serve the King, yet you are our battlefield leader, and since we fled—”
“Departed, PLEASE. On a strategic relocation.”
“—since we strategically located by departing, please, we have been on a war footing, …#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2019

2)
…in our realm which is at war all around us.”
“Well said, Palonder. Elvar, Chant, note the courtier-like recapitulation of the blindingly obvious to us all. Designed to reassure the listener that the courtier does, in fact, …#epic fantasy 3)
…know what he’s talking about. It’s usually a ruse, but encourages a civil reception.”
“You mean, as opposed to the hurling of rotten eggs, vegetables, and dead cats? Which I’m personally tempted to do in this case because…#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2019

4)
…you assumed, aloud, that a courtier would be a ‘he.’”
“Lady, you have misconstrued. I SAID ‘he’ because female courtiers, as a rule, DO know what they’re talking about. So it’s not a ruse in their case. For the realm to…#epic fantasy 5)
…function at all, we do require SOME competence among courtiers. And that’s where the women come in.”
“Ignored, belittled, overworked, and at less than half the pay.”
“But of course. We speak of reality, not bardic fantasy.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2019

The dead mage’s dungeon is locked by a deadly puzzle-girt gate
Adventurers stand and frown and try not to end up dead
For much mighty magic this wizard crafted and bred
Including spells that adventurers at this door messily disarticulate

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 11, 2019

1)
Last night I dreamed of dragons
There were dragons everywhere
Big ones perched on castles
And small ones in my hair

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 15, 2019

2)
And I must admit I fled, I fled
For grave want of avoiding being dead
But it seems one wyrm found a warm new lair
For come morn ’twas waiting for me, smiling fangily, in my bed

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 15, 2019

1)
“EXCUSE me! Mildly entertaining as this discussion is, I beg to point out that I just saw someone ahead of us who ducked down hastily. Right THERE. We could be walking into a trap.”
“Indubitably.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 8, 2019

2)
“Wolf, I don’t want credit for spotting a potential foe, nor yet to entertain you by idly discussing his existence. I DO want some tactics, some commands.”
“Ah. See, Palonder? …#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 8, 2019

3)
… People want to be told what to do. Except for all the times they don’t.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 8, 2019

Some go adventuring for piles of the gleaming gold
And if they find it, guffaw with an excess of glee
And some go adventuring to wreak revenge delicious and cold
But I do it for the immensely satisfying hilt-deep burying of the snickersnee

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2019

It is pleasant and dreamy, spectral, to float
Of life’s needs, pains, and concerns finally free
But I prefer to haunt a proper castle, with a good deep moat
With plenty of room to turn my victims into debris

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2019

Mine is the task to slay all adventurers who intrude
And add their prepared corpses to the giant’s dinner bowls
Sometimes he likes them raw, sometimes stewed
And for snacks, he shares with me their sundered souls

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 10, 2019

1)
“Right here, Wolf?”
“Right there.”
“And where will YOU depart the road to head to Palonder from?”
“Over here.”
“Ah. Time for royal prerogative: I’ll use your chosen path, and you can use this one.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 16, 2019

2)
“As you prefer, Elvar. Like all paths through life, they’re unsafe.”
“EQUALLY unsafe?”
“The gods hide that from us, I fear.”
“But your career has been devoted to altering the odds of one path versus another.”#epic fantasy 3)
“My dear Elvar, you’re not supposed to say so. Bad form! The polite fiction is that I’m serving the realm in the best way I can see, to better it for all of us.”
“Polite fiction…so those are just empty words?”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 16, 2019

4)
“No, they’re words I try to make carry some usefulness. Sometimes I manage to make them carry a lot. Sometimes.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 16, 2019