Can I ask a quick question, how do you keep all of this information? I know you used to have most of your realmslore in your shipping container outside your house (something like that), but how do you do it now. Just a bunch of organized word documents or something else? Organized? Hahahaha(ongoing maniacal laughter). Multiple hard drive deaths and moves and some malicious packings and reboxings shattered all organization long ago. Have THREE shipping containers now. Most of it lives in my head. Which contains several subdivisions of containers.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 2, 2022

@TheEdVerse I have that cool thayan supplement but havent found the full name for my own thayan defector character. He goes under "Ren" and I have no idea what could be full for ren

— Viktor Gray (@VikGray) March 16, 2022

1)
Well, he could bear the popular Thayan male given name “Parlrend” (see the lists on page 75) but his family always shortened it to “Ren” and he prefers that. 2)
Or he could be one of the handful of Thayans who have a first name more common in Cormyr or Sembia (like Darrend, Rendrard, or Rendarl) and have shortened it to sound more Thayan.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2022

3)
Or he could have one of the rarer Thayan names that lend themselves to a “Ren” contraction, like Kaurren, Orlrenq (pronounced “Orl-RENK”), Ruzrendar (“Rooz-REN-dar”), Skrendan, or Tulrenq (“TULL-renk”).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2022

It’s been a while! I’m back in my old favourite of That we thanks to your recent work, and have some questions for your sageliness. 1.) As frequent targets of That’s ambition, what kind of diplomatic ties exist between Aglarond and Rashemen? And more importantly, what are their biggest divisions? 2.) Does Thay experience any success in placing spies in the ruling orders of other regimes, or is their intelligence gathering mainly practiced from a distance with divination magic? 3.) Has a Zulkir ever abandoned their position of power to join

— Matthew Dawkins – RPG Developer (@DawkinsMP) March 20, 2022

he rulership (as an advisor, archmage, spy) of another nation, or is the nationalist sentiment too strong and reprisals too likely? And finally 4.) What was the relationship between Maligor and Druxus before the latter replaced the former? Their attitudes seem very different. Thank you as always for coming up with such fantastic lore, sometimes from the archives, sometimes on the fly. It's always inspiring!

— Matthew Dawkins – RPG Developer (@DawkinsMP) March 20, 2022

1.) Secret ones. ;} Although this is a stereotype that can break down when applied to individuals (especially the younger generations), the Rashemi largely want to be left alone, to NOT be part of the wider world. Aglarond wants to trade with everyone and have ties… 2)
…with everyone but for very good reasons can’t trust Thayan connections, trade ties, or seemingly private initiatives, and always prepares for betrayal.
2/
Thay has a horrible track record when it comes to embedded spies, and a lousy one when it comes to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 21, 2022

3)
…torturing information out of merchants and “just plain citizens” or hiring competent local spies. The trade enclaves were a way of putting “competent Red Wizards on the ground” in the heart of lands the Thayans wanted to know more about (constantly). These… 4)
…days, their intelligence gathering is of two sorts: long-range magical scrying (pretty good when they do it, but too few personnel/not enough time to be comprehensive) and using veteran far-traveled Thayan merchants (many of whom have their own agendas, as…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 21, 2022

5)
…they think Szass Tam is insane and too likely to upset current peace, which is good for trade).
3/
Yes, but not recently (aside from the “Separatists” we featured in the book).
4/
Maligor regarded Druxus as a weak incompetent who would never amount to… 6)
…anything. Useful as expendable fodder, at best. Druxus thought Maligor was an old-fashioned, narrow-minded sadist. I think they were both right in their views. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 21, 2022

Speaking of Giants, if I may: before Giantcraft and the novels trilogy about giants were published, where did you put your giants in the Realms and were they ans their lore a bit part of your campaigns?

— Marco Volo (@MarcoVolo9) January 16, 2022

1)
In my home Realms campaign, I put the giants on the surface of most mountain ranges. I saw them as a dwindling race due to orcs competing for the same areas, and so, either loners or in small family groups.
Troy Denning sat down with me and a Realms map in the… 2)
…TSR library (during one of my annual GenCon visits to Lake Geneva) to hash out possible sites for the giant communities before he went down to Mary Kirchoff to discuss that novels trilogy.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 16, 2022

hi! I was reading FOR13, Secrets of the Magister, and near the start it says that throughout the book there are sigils belonging to magisters. However, I could only find two illustrations that contain sigils. Were they cut in editing, or are they hidden somehow? A second question. The Mantle spell in the same book says it grants Telekinesis, Teleport without Error, and other powers as levels progress. How often could those powers be used?

Thanks!
2/2

— Italian Archmage Karsus (@ItalianKarsus) March 4, 2022

They were cut in editing. I'd have to go looking to find my sheets and sheets of them.
Mantle powers: vary with the caster, but a good rule of thumb: 4-6 total uses of powers daily (within 24 hours) , so if you telekinese 3 times, you only have 1 to 3 "slots" left.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 4, 2022

Hey there @TheEdVerse any notes on the origin of the Cassalanter family crest? It’s an odd one… #realmslore #waterdeep pic.twitter.com/svfmp5zBXJ

— RPG Match – connecting TTRPG players (@RpgMatch) January 29, 2022

1)
When ennobled in 1248 DR, House Cassalanter submitted a blazon to the Heralds that was accepted without changes: a pall (the Y) of green representing evergreen (constant) hope, separating three charges on the shield: lower… 2)
…right is a crenelated wall, representing strength, prosperity, and the establishment (“firm foundations”) and the existing family role in those by their moneylending (banking); a fishhawk (osprey) wing in flight on the lower…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2022

3)
…left, representing sea travel and getting riches from the sea (the merchant shipping much of the Deep’s early prosperity, and the family’s due to their investments, was based upon), and (uppermost charge) the head of a…4)
…cockatrice, which represents both the year in which the family was ennobled and the then-most-famous ancestor of the house, Klokhartiskarl “the Cockatrice” Cassalanter (not the founder, but the man who made the initial…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2022

5)
…family fortune and was famous/infamous as the foremost (and most ruthless) city moneylender of his day.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2022

My favorite house! Thanks for sharing Ed. This will for sure help when running the cassalanters in WDDHThe early Cassalanters (pre-ennoblement) were the sort of moneylenders who would advance funds to the shady, the desperate, outsiders, outcasts, and those of dubious prospects (those other moneylenders wouldn't touch). If you crossed them, they were ruthless.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2022

They openly hired bodyguards, but covertly hired lots of bullyblades as "enforcement gangs" to make sure no one cheated a Cassalanter twice.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2022

I have a Realms question for Good Sir?
So before I make and edit suggestions to the Wiki I wanted to check with your about an Elven Word. Several times in the novel Forsaken House, theurglass is mentioned, Is theurglass the elven name for the magical glass steel? Yes.
"Theur" in Elvish is hard/durable/unyielding.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2022

If you don’t mind the question, if the returned Mirt after Death Masks were to purchase a Lantanese nimblewright, what might he name it? Something after an old friend, something descriptive (“Cogs”, etc.), or something unique?

Thanks for any insights you might share! Depends on his mood: "Stooge" or "Piergeiron" or "Volo" or Stunt Double" (yes, he and Elminster talk, so he learns our-real-world lingo) or even "Quilberforce" or "Masked Lord" or "Xanathar" or "Durnan Number Fifty-six."
Mirt has a DIFFERENT sense of humor.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 13, 2022

Ah! I forgot "Fodder." ;}
(Which can of course be passed off as Father, as in: "Yondah is the castle of my fodder.") ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 13, 2022