1)
“Er, is that sword supposed to swing by itself?”
“Oh. Yes, it’s enchanted and haunted. So either its spell doesn’t like you, or one of the ghosts doesn’t. You might want to parry about now.”
[clang]
“Almost had me!”
“Indeed.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 2, 2018

3)
“So could we all. That’s called LIFE, friend. So savor the moment. And this next one. And that one, too. We only get so many of them.”
“Think you’re funny, do yuuuurrk!”
“There. Door’s safely bolted. Safe now.”
“Safe? Aren’t there other ways out of those rooms?”
“True. RELATIVELY safe, then.”
“Relatively? If it flies fast, I could be dead three breaths from now!”#epic fantasy See? Told you. Worry not, I’ll see you decently buried.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 2, 2018

1)
“I’m going to need some unusual ingredients,” said the necromantrix. “The skull of a laughing limbo dancer. The middle finger of a haughty courtier. The spleen of a sober jester. The teeth of a devourer of raw mice.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 3, 2018

2)
“Bah! ‘New Cuisine’!” the fighter growled. “Fistfuls of grass stewed with unidentified rotting dead things were good enough for MY ancestors! Next, you’ll be calling your recipes things like ‘Predecessors, Deconstructed’!”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 3, 2018

1)
Streetcryers all over the city today
All loudly the same dark news say
One more heroic adventurer is lost
But new next-door barbarian cheerful

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 3, 2018

2)
Says, “My career begins now, it dost!”
I wish he’d be slightly more fearful
But adventuring he goes, armored in bravado and folly, absurd
Telling me, “A dragon is just a big scaly bird!”

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 3, 2018

I hurled spells and curses and other nasty magic stuff
Until he cried, “I yield! Mercy! That’s quite enough!
Cling to life now, feebly, I only just!”
But one spell I had left, so that villain I cleft
I tell myself it was undoubtedly for the best

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 2, 2018

To the god of all wine that sets my gullet afire
I cast now my body as offering on thy pyre
Take it and end the pounding agony in my head
For my stomach you shred
Its returned contents I’ll soon dread
All in all, I’ll likely be better off dead

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2018

1)
“See the weird lights in that high turret window? We’ve been hired to find out what the chancellor’s doing up there, every night. The king suspects foul magic.”
“The chancellor is the king’s subject,” the thief pointed out. #epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2018

3)
2)
“Why doesn’t the king just ASK him? At swordpoint, with half a dozen loyal-to-the-crown wizards standing there with spells at the ready, and some archers with drawn bows, too.”
“Ah, you mean the subtle approach?”
“Exactly.”#epic fantasy “I don’t think it’s the royal style. Open threat of violence, blunt question, public embarrassment, making an enemy not just of the chancellor but of all his noble kin…no. Not when you have money enough to buy someone else…#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2018

4)
…to stick their neck out; someone expendable.”
“Us.”
“Precisely.”
“You make this job sound SO enticing.”
My diplomatic skills are legendary.”
“Good. It’s settled, then. We’ll go drinking, and YOU go and ask the chancellor.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2018

1)
“Six are the swords that can slay the Undying Worm,” the fighter grandly read out the inscription on the castle door.
“Six are the rings that can lead mortals to the swords, and let them grasp those hilts without dying. Six…#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2018

3)
It was heavy.
…are the riddles that must be ans”—oh, SCREW this! Not ANOTHER portentous ‘solve my stupid cryptic riddles’ thing! I became an adventurer to kill beasts and loot their treasure, not THINK!”
And the door opened. Slowly.#epic fantasy One of the guards inside, puffing under the door’s weight as he shoved, was rather breathlessly grunting something to another guard.
It sounded suspiciously like: “They’re adventurers, all right. Let them in.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2018

1)
In the adventuring life, the days come and the days go
As a-killing monsters you ride and you ride and you ride to and fro

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 6, 2018

2)
You dream of dying in battle, nightmares of monsters claw their ways out of your brain
And when you check your treasure chest, you find that (as usual) it’s empty again

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 6, 2018

A dragon’s presence is known to the country around
Its grim shadow hangs over the place
And it fears only a mage who knows the spell “dragon bound”
And dares to, in dragonflight range, show his, her, or its face

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2018

Once I loved a proud princess
The courting it was just sublime
I saw to her every sigh and distress
And happily dealt with her every last mess
And kept her hanging on my (ahem) all the time

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2018

When I caught him we fought to the death then and there
And when that villain began a self-justifying speech
I struck him a low blow
Just there
And so
Made him interrupt himself to screech
His head, on my wall, now makes a trophy rather fair

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2018