@TheEdVerse What can you tell us about "Mythal strike super weapons" such as are mentioned in the Sinister Citizens of Kormul article?

— Slade88green (@slade88green) August 8, 2021

1) They’re an idea being worked upon by the Marahuud, that An idea first devised by certain spellcasters in ancient Netheril and earlier: magical weapons that can hit foes with physical attacks that deliver a magical smiting… 2)
…powered by the magic of a particular mythal that the weapon is linked to. So a magic mace or sword delivers its usual attack, but the damage done is multiplied seven-fold or more thanks to the momentarily-channeled force of…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2021

3)
…the mythal energies, so long as the specific mythal they’re linked to is still functioning.
The Marahuud hasn’t yet succeeded in crafting such a weapon due to lack of an actual mythal strike super weapon, ancient or… 4)
…otherwise, to wield or analyze, and is having to create spells that attempt to call on mythals in particular ways, and so channel energies into the weapon without destroying the weapon or the mythal—augmentations that don’t…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2021

5)
…have perilous unintended effects. Certain long-ago Netherese artificers managed to create such weapons, but the records found this far describe the items rather than recounting how to wield them or their precise powers 6)
And also describe how unstable some of them were; in use, they exploded with enough violence to devastate a neighbourhood rather than just the wielder or intended target.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2021

Hey @TheEdVerse, I am impressed by how detailed Waterdeep's sewers are, but a friend of mine is running "Murder in Baldur's Gate" and we couldn't find much online about its sewers.
Is there anything you can share on its history and how it functions? I'm curious how they compare.

— Sundered|🐜|ENVTuber (@Sundered_Ant) July 24, 2021

1)
Here’s a starter:
Waterdeep’s sewers are tidal, and cleaned by the merfolk and some powerful Ahghairon-cast (and Watchdul Order-renewed) spells that involve mass teleports to the Rat Hills. 2)
It has big versions of the sort of boxes many of us now have in our basements, that prevent backups (the gate that is pushed up by sewage coming the wrong way, to close the opening).
The oldest parts are a large semicircular…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 25, 2021

3)
…channel that runs around (inland side) the spur of Mount Waterdeep that juts out into Castle Ward (and that Sea and North Wards drain into), and drains through Dock Ward, and two trunk sewers that drain South and Trades Ward… 4)
…through Dock Ward. The northern part of this had sufficient headroom for walkways along one or both sides of the wet channels, underground, but Dock Ward did not. However, as the long years have passed and the city had built…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 25, 2021

5)
…up and up on its own ruins and foundations, the level of the streets has risen, cellars have become undercellars and finally the Warrens, and indoor plumbing now has sufficient “drop” to flush properly (when ewers of water… 6)
…are poured down garderobes, or foot-treadles open pipes from roof rainwater cisterns to sluice downwards).
The authorities have long been aware of the perils of allowing a network of underground easy-passage routes, so spiked…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 25, 2021

7)
…screens divide the tunnels into segments, readily accessed from individual cellars (the owners of which receive tax breaks from the Palace for allowing access, and penlaties if they refuse it) but only laboriously traversed… 8)
…by some trying to stay underground (i.e. criminals and undesirables). This in turn makes small segments of it ideal for the Xanathar and others to set up meeting-places (NOT “hideouts” or “bases”) in.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 25, 2021

I hate to bug you about this Ed, since it has been three days since you posted this – but I don't understand what you meant by "spiked screens divide the tunnels into segments."
Could you elaborate on this? I've never seen this stated in any of the Waterdeep sourcebooks.

— Sundered|🐜|ENVTuber (@Sundered_Ant) July 27, 2021

1)
To prevent REALLY bad clogs, many sewer systems have screens across channels to “catch” large debris, that workers come along and clean (taking the debris up and out access shafts). Spikes jutting out from screens catch more debris, and dissuade miscreants from… 2)
…easily getting right up to screens to work on them with acid, or files, or anything else short of spells. If the screens are sited fairly often, they have the effect of dividing the sewers into segments (not for liquid and sewage that flow through the screens…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 28, 2021

3)
…, but from the POV of beings trying to travel through the sewers, who keep running into barriers. City crews work on a segment; criminals find the screens to be frustrating barriers to using the sewers as a covert highway.
And there's a lot of unpublished lore. #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 28, 2021

I was wondering, is there any “western film” region within the Forgotten Realms? I was looking for it for a brief campaign. What I'm looking for is a desert region with abandoned mines (crewed by kobolds or goblins, why not) and some frontier town ruled by sheriff like in Sergio Leone's movies.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

1)
The hamlet of Khundul in Raurin, SW of Solon in the desert of Raurin (not far from the Raurinshield Mountains, so not all that far into the desert) should do. It’s located amid parched rolling foothills, with water still to be… 2)
…had in an aquifer, if you dig down forty feet or so. Which, as local legend correctly states, is fed by an underground lake under the Raurinshield Mountains.
That water is why the shallow-dug abandoned copper and iron mines…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

3)
…all around Khundul, especially abundant to the north, have a resident monster population; mainly jellies, oozes, and sand spiders—and roving goblin hunting bands can eke out a poor living.
The goblins, known as the Raadvurr… 4)
…after the title of their chieftan (an office, so many goblins have been Raadvurr, the current one being a fat goblin as big as a very large adult human, named Kahvuld) sometimes mount night raids on Khundul, which is one of…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

5)
…the few oases in Raurin, and for that reason used to be a stop on the caraven route west out of Solon when gem-caravans still made such journeys (across Raurin and through Midwinter Pass).
Khundul itself is a cluster of about… 6)
…seventy dugout homes and warehouses, about twenty still inhabited and a little more than twenty now abandoned and filled with blown-in sand. There are many local tales of buried and forgotten storage jars in the abandoned…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

7)
…homes that are full of gem cargoes, other goods, and even burials of dead caravan escort riders. According to some of the darker tales, some of these latter are “stalkers” (3e: ju-ju zombies) who now steal out of their jars… 8)
…by night to hunt goblins, but leave the Khundese alone except for anyone who disturbs “their” jar.
After a century of subsistence living, Khundul recently experienced an upsurge in trade: hunters and foragers from the town…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

9)
…discovered gems scattered around ash-buried Solon, presumably hurled into the air during the volcanic eruptions that ravaged it. Khundese traders soon found that the stone giants of Fuirjar were willing to trade slabs of… 10)
…polished marble in return for these.
Which meant that the greatest feature of Khundul could be exploited again, as the town finally had something to export that was worth the risk: an ancient magical gate (portal) in one of…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

11)
…the largest, oldest cavern-warehouses connects with a similar dugout warehouse in the hills just northwest of Zindalankh in Semphar, so marble could be sold to builders there.
Which in turn meant that as Zindalankh prospered, 12)
…so did Khundul, and its small population of hand-to-mouth inhabitants soon grew very busy sledging marble across Raurin, prospecting for gems, and trading in Zindalankh. Several tough-minded individuals among them rose to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

13)
…prominence in the town, one of them bestowing upon himself the title of Zaor (equivalent to mayor, but it really means sheriff, as he ran and commanded a local law-and-order band of warriors) before being murdered by a rival. 14)
There were several Zaors in swift succession by such rough means, and the current Zaor is a Zindalar (man of Zindalankh), Ulthort Eroun, who is an aging, weathered, cynical corrupt man not entirely devoid of mercy or worldly…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

15)
…wisdom, and came to Khundul with his adventuring band, an all-female, ruthless half-dozen Zindalar who grew up poor but determined, in the alleys of that city. The band, known as the Eirbuyad (a local name for the shrike 16)
…bird), is now Khundul’s hard-bitten town watch, responsibly for keeping order, fighting goblins and other “invaders,” and collecting the Zaor’s taxes, which are a copper coin for all major transactions, building permits, … #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

17)
…and wagon-parking in the town (comes with latrine and water-pump access).
Life in Khundul remains hard for its hundred-some townsfolk, but getting better, and the Zaor is popular for this reason: he spends most of the taxes… 18)
…he takes on buying smoked, salted and pickled foods in Zindalankh and importing this to Khundul, selling it at a copper above his cost—so everyone eats better in Khundul, these days, and even have full larders. Locals and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

19)
…visitors are exploring the old mines, in hopes of finding fresh veins, but thus far have found more Underdark connections—and more prowling, hungry monsters—than mineral riches. Local legends say there are wizards’ tombs… 20)
…in the hills around Khundul, and if one of these is found and breached, riches and old fell magic—and dread monsters and worse curses—could well be unleashed.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

So question for you my dude: If you could have any of the Forgotten Realms novels/stories written turned into an Anime…which would you want to see done? Not just your own contributions to the setting but across the whole franchise of novels and stories? The Brimstone Angels saga by Erin Evans, and the Shadowbane series by Erik Scott de Bie.
For starters. :}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 19, 2021

Hi Ed. I was just struck by something. Calimport wouldn’t be called that by its citizens. “Port” is a word in Common (English). So is the name Calim(Alzhedo word for “port”) or something else entirely? Heh. The thing is, the Alzhedo word for "port" is "ulport" (and the "u" vanishes when it's combined into a name, so, "Calimport"). Of old, ulport was "ulporth."
The Common Tongue borrowed the word from Alzhedo.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 2, 2021

@TheEdVerse
Hello Ed. Would it be ok for a Druid or Ranger to follow Amaunator in the sword coast? The sun aspect seems as though it might be of interest to them, but the lawful nature may also conflict. Thank you.

— Daniel Caine (@cainer1967) September 24, 2021

1)
Yes, to both.
Remember, all sane intelligent beings in the Realms believe in, and to some extent worship (even if it’s just “please don’t harm me” prayers) all of them.
So deities are used to mortal worshippers of different alignments, and vice versa. It’s more… 2)
…working together/common aims than it is alignments, when it comes to all mortal/deity relationships.
The sun is vital to life and growth. I can see both a druid and a ranger "gardening" nature to let sunlight (for growth and renewal) into dense woods.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 24, 2021

I know the tweet is a bit old, but where can I find more information about this Vorhardruil ? If there is. Right here. ;} Nothing's been published elsewhere, he's from my home Realms campaign lore. He lives in the overgrown ruined city in the heart of the Wealdath, when he's not traveling the Realms destroying "troublesome" undead (many of his targets are in large cities).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2021

@TheEdVerse Ed would you be able to offer any hint about the namesake for Yeven’s Shrine or Yevenwood or the Pool of Yeven?

— Longwinded One (@longwindedone1) October 18, 2021

1)
They are all named for the long-ago archmage Yeven, who dwelt on the banks of the pool, and later in a “pocket plane” tower IN the Pool (it was visible only in moonlight, as a ghostly solitary cylindrical turreted tower). 2)
Yeven was an energetic experimenter with spells and creator of magical things, including many gates to other planes and skyships. When he died, his many links to his own wards around his home tethered his sentience and soul…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2021

3)
…to the Pool and its banks and the land immediately around them, where he remains, and can be called upon as a wizshade of sorts (ghostly apparition able to cast spells, that will reform some days after being “destroyed,” … 4)
…every time) by those who know how. Mystra and Azuth agreed to let him exist in this manner, in return for his sharing some spells and magical lore with any who ask—so he still experiments, and tarries. Anchored in this…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2021

5)
…location by the Weave, he’s a special sort of weaveghost, and the human equivalent of a ‘place spirit.’ Those who’ve met what he’s become say he’s a rather waspish “absent-minded old sage” sort. Plain black robes, fair hair, … 6)
…clean-shaven, handsome, seldom left the Pool, cared nothing for politics and events in the wider world, just loved magic and working with it.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2021