@TheEdVerse Hi! I was wondering what is the current status of the goddess Shiallia? Is she still alive and well?

— Queen Gorgo (@Rantfiend_) September 5, 2021

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Shiallia is alive and well, and manifest in the vibrant health of The High Forest, which is lush and largely free of blight and disease, and growing at a great rate: woodcutters working on its verges say the forest regrows… 2)
…almost as fast as they can cut down trees. Floating, glowing golden acorns provide guidance to her clerics, druids, woodwives, and those she desires to recruit to their ranks or whom she wants to aid (these flying guides are…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2021

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…spectral, not physical; they can’t be captured). Shiallia never appears in person as herself these days, only as a voice in the trees or in dreams and a golden glow. Sometimes she does leave apple-sized golden acorns for… 4)
…mortals to find, in the heart of deep glades in The High Forest; if these are planted elsewhere, even in rocky, cold, or arid locales, they slowly sprout a forest amd by Shiallia’s magic reach down into the Underdark to tap…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2021

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…and pump up water and mineral nutrients to keep that woodland healthy and growing.
If a diseased, poisoned, or wounded mortal sleeps in a glade where any two of Mielikki, Shiallia, Eldath and Lurue have danced, that mortal… 6)
…will be purged of their disease or poison effects, and will regenerate all physical damage.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2021

Hi @TheEdVerse ! I red that the Stonelands is a very rocky land, with cracks, water and trees everywhere, but how do caravans or Purple Dragon's patrols can go throught it? How does Redspring inhabitants wander around their village? Thanks, it could help my current campaign 🙂

— Marco Volo (@MarcoVolo9) October 14, 2021

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The Stonelands is almost all exposed bedrock, with a very thin coating of topsoil, anchored by wind- and cold-stunted trees. Except in the bottoms of the ravines, where centuries of rotted-down trees and vegetation have accumulated into often-rich soil. 2)
The best way to picture it is: imagine a huge hill of mashed potatoes in front of you on a long platter. You take a fork and drag it right-to-left- and left-to-right through the mash, leaving horizontal deep furrows. Those are the ravines, with almost bare, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2021

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…sometimes knife-edged ridges between them, and lots of trees and water and tangled vines down at the bottom of them.
You’ve just made a model of the Stonelands.
So even pack mules have a hard time traversing it. Individual able-bodied folk with packs on their… 4)
…backs can CLAMBER through the Stonelands, but no one’s going to be marching or taking wagons through it. So no caravans go through it, except by the one wide-enough, flat-enough route (involving Yellow Snake Pass) that the Zhentarim took over and controlled; …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2021

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…everyone else (including the Zhents) go around.
Purple Dragon patrols don’t enter it; on rare occasions, an army will be sent into it, but no one patrols it.
There’s not enough arable land to grow enough food for large settlements, and no reason to settle… 6)
…there. It’s hunting and foraging country.
As for Redspring: will answer later, must rush off to work at the day job now!#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2021

how is the raven queen in the forgotten realms, is before Kelemvor right? She was doing fine, when last I saw her. ;}
She was active in the Realms long before Kelemvor was born as a mortal, let alone ascended.
Yet until the Spellplague, the Raven Queen acted subtly in the Realms, doing little more than harvesting memories that intrigue her.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 23, 2021

a random question for illustrious @TheEdVerse is there a reason why Phlan stuff is named in our earth’s Slavic? Is there an in-universe explanation? i thought only Rashmi got russian-ish names? #ForgottenRealm #dnd #dungeonsanddragons You'll have to ask the TSR folks who chose Phlan for a computer game license and named the river and various features, tossing aside my map and names in the process.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2021

As much as I adore Pool of Radiance, for being my introduction to the Forgotten Realms, I’m saddened to hear that TSR ran roughshod over the region. I’d love to see your original map of the Moonsea Ed! I think it's in the larger container. It's on my long, long list of "find soonest" items. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2021

Did the same happen with the utter east when tsr first put a game and novels there and then nothing for decades after? As much as I adore Pool of Radiance, for being my introduction to the Forgotten Realms, I’m saddened to hear that TSR ran roughshod over the region. I’d love to see your original map of the Moonsea Ed! I think it's in the larger container. It's on my long, long list of "find soonest" items. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2021

Yes.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2021

Ed, really enjoyed the Mages&Sages cast last night! ((Ed note: is now much longer ago)) I have a few follow-up Q’s on the Sleeping Kraken; was that ‘sleeping’ as in ‘slumbering’ or as ‘biding its time’? And on the wards used to bind it, were they set by Ahghairon? Halaster? Someone else? Thanks again!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

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Sleeping as in “sunk in magically-induced and -maintained slumber.” (Drowned Kraken lies dreaming… ;} ). The wards binding it were initially cast by Ahghairon, checked on and renewed by Khelben, and augmented and renewed by… 2)
…several Watchful Order magists since.
All of which doesn’t mean someone can’t meddle with them, or some mischance can’t sunder them. (When it comes to Sunderings in the Realms, it’s not a question of if, it’s when.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

@TheEdVerse Greetings! Under what circumstances would a Priest of Ilmatar fight evil with arms? Would defending the innocent and helpless be sufficient cause to in worse case scenario kill? What about roghting a great wrong or injustice?

— Elfsong Tavern Regular (@MythicalSong) August 30, 2021

Yes, and yes. Priests of Ilmater believe in enduring pain for themselves, in pursuit of their holy service, not in letting others be oppressed, attacked, or tortured, or wantonly slain.#Realmslore https://t.co/xz5AjEnHx3

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021

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There aren’t many folk further north than the Bedine in their longitude of the Realms. ;}
The various halva-equivalents are known and eaten, as “will keep” (except in the hottest weather) larder and trail foods, but are rarely…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

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…made in northerly locales, as the ingredients are scarce = expensive = most often used in other ways, but they ARE traded for. Halva-equivalents in the north are most often spread on fire-warmed buns, or (on the trail, in the… 3)
…Savage North) spread on bones warmed in the fire, then eaten off the bones).
And you're very welcome!#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021

Well Again
@TheEdverse
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While reading your “State Visits To Cormyr (Part 1)” I ran across the name Perrele Jalance, this name among a handful of noblewomen Queen Fee rattled off while nettling Azoun IV.

Are the Jalances, then, nobles of Cormyr? Oh, yes. The Jalance family is indeed noble. Ennobled by Duar, I believe, but I'm away from my notes right now, entertaining a lady sage (no, NOT "entertaining" THAT way!). And by lady sage, think fellow writer of the feminine persuasion, and think also a firm NDA.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 1, 2021