@TheEdVerse
If you were given a chance to do the Wizards 3 Articles again with the stipulation of the 3rd wizard must be from Ravenloft or planescape who would you pick?

— DiploRaptor (@RaptorDiplo) April 30, 2022

1)
From Planescape: Akeldra, who wields half a dozen scepters and wands with her long, precisely-controlled hair as well as casting spells (she’s an enforcer for the Lady of Pain, and sometimes Speaker [envoy] for her). [[A character I created for a Planescape GenCon adventure.]] 2)
From Ravenloft: Tuzlarantra the Headless, an archmage whose head flies about talking and spellcasting; she long ago perfected spells that arc between, or issue forth from, both her hands and her head (when apart). She collects spells (has a huge library), and tweaks them.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 30, 2022

Is she a Dark Lord? She is, but of a tiny domain, because ruling and dominating matters far less to her than it once did. She wanders the mists, and slays Dark Lords who are hostile to her.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2022

Good Morning Mr. Greenwood! If an intrepid adventurer were to peruse Gaurdront’s Guide to Monstrous Beasts and Volo’s Guide to Monsters, what would be the major differences in information and style they would notice? Volo's writing style.
In his tome Volo imparted useful in-depth cultural information about the aims, worldviews, and cultures of the creatures he wrote about. Gaurdront's is closer to the Monster Manual: briefer "what you see in the field" coverage of a larger roster.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 13, 2022

is that true that loviatar clerics enjoys capturing ilmater’s followers to “practice” their church doctrines? The essential element for holiness to Loviatar in putting restraints on someone or inflicting pain on them is that they be willing to receive it. "The yielding is the reverence."
However, Ilmatari are dedicating their suffering to Ilmater, not Loviatar; that irks Her.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 1, 2022

Wow, thats a very interesting point of view. For loviatar faith it is a complete heresy what imaltari practice their doctrine. I like that! I designed the deities of the Realms so there'd be countless little conflicts between not just them, but their dedicated mortal worshippers: from those friction points spin out endless adventures. :}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 1, 2022

In the most literal sense: what’s the biggest phylactery in the Realms? I'm not certain which is the biggest, but the largest I know of is an airship of enchanted alloys fused together into an elegant sealed vessel hundreds of feet long. It floats hidden in a cavern that it almost fills. Where? Ah, that would be TELLING.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 11, 2022

is there any Egypt inspired civilizations in The Forgotten Realms? Not in my original, but in the published Realms, the already-published Desert of Desolation adventures incorporated pyramids in a desert setting; from them other designers extrapolated ancient-Egyptian-like cultures at the southeastern end of the Sea of Fallen Stars.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 22, 2021

Master of Realmslore @TheEdVerse, I have a small question on smokepowder. I’ve read all your twitter posts on its in & out-of-universe origins, but one thing’s been bugging me.

How come the Shou discovered it long before gunpowder went inert? Was it their spelljamming activity? It was more the activity of spelljammers who came to them, to extraxt or trade for resources (and brought smokepowder with them, and didn't safeguard it/keep it hidden from those they were trading with).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 17, 2022

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Hey there @TheEdVerse is there a canon place or service to grow hair back in Waterdeep? Sort of a reverse barber or apothecary? Asking for a friend…#waterdeep #realmslore #dungeonsanddragons

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

1)
Certainly. First, Cyber Trout hath the right of it: Phalantar’s Philtres & Components does sell elixirs to drink to boost hair growth in a hurry, and unguents to spread on bald or sparse patches to make reluctant or… 2)
…non-existent hair grow.
And the temple of Sune has long sold castings of spells for the same purpose, and to style and tint hair, too.
As do the Waterdhavian priests of Sharess, Malar, and Loviatar (being bound to a rack with…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

2)
…non-existent hair grow.
And the temple of Sune has long sold castings of spells for the same purpose, and to style and tint hair, too.
As do the Waterdhavian priests of Sharess, Malar, and Loviatar (being bound to a rack with… 3)
…one’s own long hair is part of some popular flogging rituals of devotion to the goddess).
In addition to these, there are any number of herbalists who sell hair-growing drinks of varying efficacy from do-nothing frauds to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

4)
…very powerful, use sparingly or you’ll be cutting hair ALMOST as fast as it grows!
And there are also two friendly competitors who cast effective, precisely-controlled spells to make hair grow: the kindly, aging lady wizard… 5)
…Rauvra Galathand (who works from the unnamed, unsignboarded third-floor upper room she rents and lives in, westfront Whaelgond Way, three doors south of Saerdoun Street, North Ward, above offices that in turn are above…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

6)
…Dardrondra’s Ewers, Bowls, and Crockery shop) and the young sorceress Evdranna Tathwinter, who casts certain spells for hire but never leaves her fourth-floor office [which is also where she lives], or removes her mask, … 7)
…since a certain magical trap melted the left side of her face into grotesquerie (Evdranna’s Assistances, northfront Sorn Street, five doors west of Wall Way, Trades Ward).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

Thank you! Any idea what the cost range would be some of these cures? Spells: 250 gp for maintaining hair, renewing scorched hair, etc. up to 1200 gp for spells to grow hair on a long-bald pate.
Elixirs about 100 gp less over the same range but topping out at 800 gp.
Salves/ointments/unguents 50-150gp (for tiny jar: 3-4 doses).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2022

Uggg why is getting my hair back so expensive I’m brok Wigs are cheaper, and glue and your own hair cheaper still.
I'm not joking: many Waterdhavians resort to either…or in some desperate cases, both.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 7, 2022

I’m playing a Bard for the first time in over thirty years, and have elected to play the Yarting. My GM is supportive, but perplexed by the name. Can you shed any light on where it came from? I made it up. ;}
I thought to myself, if they had an acoustic guitar in the Realms, what might it be called?
Let's call it something that might echo the word 'guitar' AND sound SOMETHING like what a plucked string might be described as sounding like.
"Yarting"…yeah.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 3, 2022