Great Sage @TheEdVerse , the red cross symbol is almost globally recognised for aid or medical care. Is there such a symbol used within the Realms?

— Andrew Fairhurst (@AndrewF_Writer) February 21, 2022

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Many healing potions in the Realms display a circle device on the vial or the wax seal over the stopper. That unadorned, simple circle means healing, and is the closest thing to a “beneficial medical aid” rune or badge. 2)
Some healers and "physics" (sellers of medicines, ointments, bandages, and splints) display a banner or signboard with that circle surrounded by radiating rays (simple lines running outwards) to denote medicine.
(Clergy don't, as it's assumed.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 21, 2022

per the current ruling clerics of Ao do not receive divine power from him due to how detach he is from mortals. However warlocks, in this case Celestial Warlocks, tap into power beyond imagining. In FR, would it be possible that Ao would be a… …patron?
Ed:
It's possible (meaning he could become one), but thus far, Ao has shown no interest whatsoever in being a patron.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 16, 2021

does the Waterdhavian branch of the Phaulkon family still reside in their Villa, Phaulkonmere, in the South Ward? Most of them do. A few uncles and aunts and younger sons spend much of their time at the family's country estates (up the Amphail road) or in their own new mansions in Scornubel, Secomber, and Beregost.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 14, 2022

Good evening again, Saer @TheEdVerse, I come once more with humble Waterdhavian inquiries.

Did we ever discover the fate of the siblings Rayland and Talandra Roaringhorn in the IDW comic series? My Eldritch Knight Tovarisch in Descent into Avernus was from a lesser branch of the Roaringhorns in Amphail, so this something dear to my heart, as well as worldbuilding for the Lore & Order show.

— The Angry Philosopher on Drugs 💡 (@OfficialAPoD) January 6, 2022

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Discover it with me now. ;}
Rayland was as good at intrigues as his father and uncle, and more handsome and dashing than both put together. He had three lovers, and children with each, before marrying and having four children.
#Realmslore 2)
First, he shared a bed with Sharrandra Drethen, a wealthy young woman from Amn who was then in Scornubel; she bore a daughter, Saeril, a quiet genius, mimic, and superb actress who is VERY good at deceptions and intrigues, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

4)
…Lharauva Hethenwood, a ranger and Harper from Berdusk. She bore him a second daughter, Teiraskeira (“TEER-ask-keera”), who was a wild-spirited, fiery-tempered “tomboy” type from birth, and is an emerald-eyed and flame-haired… 5)
…adventurer faring far across the inner Heartlands, having left both her parents behind but not in anger.
Then Rayland settled in Silverymoon and consorted with the half-elf Imbeirimra (“Imm-beer-IMM-rah”) Shalantwynter, and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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…they had a daughter Eirel (“EAR-ell”) who is a serene painter, sculptor, seamstress (making much of her coin creating beautiful gowns that fetch high prices in Silverymoon) and harpist (harpist, not Harper). Rayland and… 7)
…Imbeirimra drifted apart, as he’d done with both of his previous lovers, but he seems to have the knack for parting on good terms with women, and without dispute or bitterness he left Imbeirimra amd Silverymoon and spent some…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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…time with the Roaringhorns in Cormyr, seeing the Dales (which he liked, as “beautiful backlands”) and Sembia (which he hated, as “crass and brash and haughty with nothing behind it but coin, or pretense of coin”) ere coming… 9)
…to an agreement with the Cormyrean Roaringhorns to set himself up as a wayhouse and trader for them in Secomber, “within hail of Waterdeep without being under the eye and shadow of his father,” as he put it. There he met an…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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…older, plainer woman, a limping retired adventurer with sharper wits than his own, and was smitten.
It took a year or two of wooing before commoner Semmera Lathdale agreed to wed him, but their union has been strong and… 11)
…happy: she rules the roost, he does as she directs and they wax richer thereby because she has thrice the head for business than most nobles, and they dwell in a grand house in Secomber and quietly own over thirty more…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

12)
…thanks to shrewd purchases by Semmera, some of them “safehouses” and others always rented out. Over a decade, Rayland and Semmera have had two daughters followed by two sons; from eldest to youngest, these are: Phandele, … 13)
…Tammur, Ornatar, and Revrel. The last three are too young to be married (by Heartlands customs), but all of Rayland’s other children are quite old enough to both have offspring and to be wed.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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Which brings us to Talandra, last seen in the Border Kingdoms. She has not wed, but has taken
many lovers, most human (at least one elf and two half-elves) and mainly male (one of the half-elves and several humans have been… 15)
…female). Like Rayland, she has a knack for parting on good terms with lovers, though she has a far hotter temper than he does—and she’s shown no signs of getting pregnant no matter what she does.
Interestingly, Talandra…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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…encountered (in Derlusk) a quiet, studious woman who claimed to be Taevra Roaringhorn, a younger sister she never knew about. Taevra is a scribe and bookbinder and sage-in-training, and looks so like a slenderer version of… 17)
…Talandra that she believes they’re blood-kin, though she has no idea how their parents kept her existence secret—or even if she’s a half-sister, perhaps the result of her father taking a secret lover…and Taevra hasn’t said.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

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Many noble families in the Realms have this sort of web of scattered legitimate and bastard kin spread across Faerûn and beyond. I have pages of informal notes, prepared back when “the Young Dragons” were writing their… 19)
…first books in the Realms, and there were plans for series involving nobles; I was going to gift them each a family to play with, and watch the fun. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2022

if I’m reading things right, there are two major currents along the Sword Coast – a warm current from the south, and a cold current from the NW, and they meet near Waterdeep which is why its always foggy there and why it’s easy to sail there? Is that right?Yes, that's right. :}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2022

Wonderful! In What season is the fog most prevalent? :)It varies with the overall weather, but usually in the middle of winter and middle of summer (so, Midwinter and Midsummer) the winds are lowest, so the fog is thickest; the closer one gets to the midst of spring or fall, the stronger the winds, so less fog persists.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2022

And Midwinter is usually worse than Midsummer, as sun burns off fog and is stronger/hotter in summer at that latitude than in winter. Thank you, Ed!

— Ben Rowe (@CineastBenRowe) February 7, 2022

Mr. Greenwood, would tectonic plates and activity work the same on Toril as on earth? If so where are the plates and boundaries and what plate is sliding under what plate? My group wants to hunt crystals and gems in an accurate manner. Or does sundering make it moot?Hi! A proper answer (plate boundaries) must wait until I can check some very old NDAs, but short is: tectonics works the same, Toril is SLIGHTLY larger than Earth so gravity is a TAD stronger, and the Second Sundering "twisted and stretched" so some stresses vented.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 18, 2022

Somewhere in a landfill (likely) is a treatise sent to TSR in 1987 by a senior government (USA) geologist trying to pin down the "real" geology of the Realms.
I corrected him, he exploded because I "wasn't a professional"…and then had to make nice (my science was up to date).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 19, 2022

@TheEdVerse Are the Illithid's origins from the Forgotten Realms? Curious about this passage I read and if its something you can expound on?

Seems like a huge opportunity for a future realm-shattering event!

From Volo's Guide to Monsters: pic.twitter.com/tAj5YiZxS8

— Scree (@TheScree) January 17, 2022

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That passage reads like a wild tavern tale (or illithid propaganda) to me.
If the illithids had truly mastered time travel, they’d have conquered everyone long ago, and we’d all be tended herds of future meals for them, allowed to have interesting lives to give… 2)
…them quality memories to savor, but prevented from having wars and so depleting their food stock.
The gith really did defeat the mind flayers, because the illithids had become so lazy and decadent and reliant on their slaves that they left everything to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 17, 2022

3)
…these thralls and grew careless and overconfident. The “absence of ruins” suggests that whoever made this statement was unaware that the illithids had vast empires that included outposts on many worlds (the Realms among them), traveling from one to another… 4)
…mainly via gates/portals but also by spelljamming and other means of planar travel, and that any ruins—and surviving empires, for that matter—are just elsewhere, not in the Realms or other outposts, and that any structures the illithids had thralls build for…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 17, 2022

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…them in the Realms have long ago been taken over (or dismantled for their stone) by others. In the Realms, large communities of mind flayers are almost exclusively in the Underdark—and there’s a LOT of competition for useful caverns and passages down there… 6)
…(aboleths, drow, duergar, dwarves, svirfneblin, myconids and on and on).
Me, I try to avoid realm-shattering events. They're hard on we who live there. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 17, 2022

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Lolth is fond of spidervenom wine (dark green, very rare, peppery-cinammon-y in taste) and of moondrop cheese (a little like gouda in consistency and looks, but the light green hue of honeydew melon, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021

2)
…and rather like Stilton in taste). For more substantial feasts, if she can get it, aboleth tail.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021