I have a question, can a champion of Eilistraee still hold her standing if she is being used a a favoured pawn of Lolth and kinda digs the benefits It depends on how Eilistraee views her conduct, and the usefulness to Eilistraee's aims of what she does and how she's used.
Likely yes, at least at first, because that's the Dark Dancer's way: avoid fierce confrontation in favour of twisting things to benefits.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 13, 2021
Might also just ask @TheEdVerse where we might find a pineapple in the Realms Top pineapple producing regions in western Faerûn in the 1490s: Lapaliiya and the western Tashalar, northeastern Dambrath, northern Estagund, northslope foothills of the Toadsquat Mountains (edge of the Eastern Shaar), plus wild throughout Veldorn and NE of Veldorn.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 18, 2021
I hope you and the family are well. Realms Lore question for you and Elminster if I may.
Sardior is described as a the Unique Ruby Gem Dragon (very cool). Does that mean there are no Ruby Dragonborn (if any Gem Dragonborn in the Realms)? Cheers None. Sardior keeps to himself. As far as the world knows.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 2, 2021
@TheEdVerse I see two references to characters in Waterdeep one a painter (Bard?) named Glorindel and another name Glorfindel are thes the same character and which is the correct name?
— Dark Elf Designs (@DarkElfDesigns) September 27, 2021
1)
In an article in DRAGON 179, Nigel Findley introduced the wizard-bard Glorindel of Waterdeep, maker of magical paintings.
I’ve no idea how he came up with the name, and Nigel is too dead to ask, but apparently the Tolkien…
#Realmslore 2)
…estate’s lawyers were VERY quick, at the time, to make sure it wasn’t derived from the Middle-Earth elf prince Glorfindel.
For the same reason, there’s no one named “Glorfindel” in official published Realmslore. As a DM, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 27, 2021
3)
…anyone can make use of planar gates and the multiverse concept to have almost any fictional character show up in the Realms—at their gaming table.
The closest I’ve come to “Glorfindel” in Waterdeep is the halfling cook… 4)
…Glorarra Summermantle at Castle Waterdeep, and Glormae Indranth of the Watchful Order of Magists & Protectors, a fair-haired, rail-thin mage who goes on many Watch patrols because she gets to see stores and streets in the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 27, 2021
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…city she’d otherwise never visit.
Oh, and there’s a merchant named Iylas Phindrel (human, from Scornubel), who deals in blown glass window panes and glass door handles, in Trades Ward.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 27, 2021
Is their a particular confluence of buildings, streets, and people that might ‘call out’ to a Deathbringer of Bhaal newly arrived in Suzail? Someplace that just feels right for dealing death in the name of the Lord of Murder?
Thank you Ed!The main thoroughfare, the Promenade, for maximum public show (and swift Watch response!).
If they want squalor, as west and close to the waterfront (where warehouses end and dwellings start) as one can get (the docks being too busy and the east being military).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2021
Thanks very much Ed! This is going to be fun. Have fun dealing murder and mayhem!!!
(No officer, calm down. This is a GAME we're talking about. A roleplaying game. You'd probably know it best as "life.")— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2021
@TheEdVerse What were the most far-flung Netherese enclaves when Karsus's Folly occurred? Are there any unexplored ones in strange places today?
— Frank McCormick (@FrankMcCormick) February 13, 2021
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“Most far-flung” depends on your reference point; if that’s the Sword Coast, then the best-candidate Netherese enclaves (that still exist, crashed, ruined, abandoned, overgrown, and monster-infested today) would likely be the… 2)
…flying cities of Arongahurr, above the NE-most Shadowmount Peaks (on the frigid shores of Yal Tengri); Telarrzhard (in the peaks NE of Nix, nigh The Yehimal); and Urvraunt (in the NE-most Mountains of Amara).
(And yes, all unexplored.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 13, 2021
They had all sorts of automatons and coerced monsters and tamed beasts and animated weapons; everyone did their own thing.
So adventurers today can find darned near ANYTHING.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2021
Just about anything that likes the climate they're located in. Most are in remote wilderlands, and they make great lairs. The problem if you're "small fry" but not really small, is that if something like a dragon moves in, it gets inhospitable for everyone else, fast.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2021
Just about anything that likes the climate they're located in. Most are in remote wilderlands, and they make great lairs. The problem if you're "small fry" but not really small, is that if something like a dragon moves in, it gets inhospitable for everyone else, fast.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2021
If there is one D&D Forgotten Realms villain most capable of “winning” (think Thanos in MCU), which D&D villain would that be? There's so much Realmslore still unrevealed that would draw far different answers than I'm seeing here, and expect to see.*
If we're not leaving out deities, the answer is clearly Jergal, because he's already won (according to his lights), though few have noticed.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2021
*=for instance, some villains have very good PR; most of the Realms doesn’t think of them as villains at all.
Until, heh-heh, it’s too late. Amazing insights as always Ed! Thanks for humoring my question! I must ponder on your answer now… 🤔— Anthony Joyce (@Thrawn589) May 1, 2021
The better villains do the magicians' "Astonishing, what I did in my left hand, yes? Well, you should have been watching my RIGHT hand, fool."
The better villains never taunt or point out; they just do with their left foot what you should REALLY have been watching.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2021
Be careful what you ask, bwoohahahaha, and so on and so forth… ;}
Y’see, some personalities need the big splash, the world trembling and knowing what’s happened…and others prefer succeeding so subtly they’ve hoodwinked most mortals.
Or as Elminster put it: “Some…..ache to be the center of attention in a room, and others see that ache and think: ye IDIOT."#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2021
I have to go with Vecna.
His introduction into 5e in Rime of the Frostmaiden makes me think he will be the first big bad of the Forgotten Realms Extended Universe. Vecna? Really? When I have both of his hands, AND both of his eyes, here in the end parlor? ;}
And someone's peddling fake ones to the world, and Vecna isn't seeing a thin copper from any of them? ;}— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2021
He's mellowed.
My hand-feeding him chocolates probably has much to do with that.
A blind lich with no hands misses out on a lot.
He LOVES the talking books I bring home from my library job. (Especially period romances [!], which quite prevents me from being terrified of him.)— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 1, 2021
Hi Ed. Another of my, hopefully not too painful, random Realms questions: what is the name that the elves have for Evermeet? To the elves, Evermeet is Rauvsyeverbraege (literally “deep-green-home-haven”), pronounced “RAW-vvv-see-evur-BRAY-juhh” (from rauv=deep+sy=green+ever=home+braege=haven).
“Evermeet” or ‘home-gathering’ is a translation into Common.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 25, 2021
Behold: linguistically, the Realms never sleeps.
Because those who love it never do.#Realmslore https://t.co/54Qv9OJCpd— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 25, 2021
