That makes, I believe, full sixteen knights
We’ve lost to this rapacious dragon’s jaws
Yon wyrm is no respecter of inalienable rights
Or norms, or courtesy, or stern stone laws!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2021

The ghosts, they come!
Coldly guttering all the candles
Sometimes they whisper, sometimes they hum
The screams? Oh, that’s us, when they catch us by our handles

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 15, 2021

Down cunning passages and trap-filled corridors
The wary adventurers come
Lo! Cunning spike the foremost gores!
How many will die horribly this time? Well, not all, but some

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2021

@TheEdVerse Greetings master of the forgotten knowledge, can you shed some light on an interesting information about Arveiaturace that does not appear in your Dragon Magazine article # 231?

— DM´s Party (@dms_party) April 23, 2021

1)
Certainly. Arveiaturace is aware of the increasing fragility of Icepeak, her lair, and has been both scouting coastal mainland sites where she could relocate to (notably the Velen peninsula of Tethyr, The Small Teeth, … 2)
…The Cloud Peaks, and certain isles in The Nelanther), but also digging down through the soft rock of the Icepeak into the Realms Below (the Underdark), seeking to create a tunnel to somewhere above sea level—though this seems…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021

3)
…a lot of work to her, and she only works at this digging during particularly harsh winter weather. She’s also acquired (likely from Laeral herself) some means of farspeaking the Lady Mage of Waterdeep, and has taken to using… 4)
…it when her loneliness grows too great; she would certainly consult Laeral for advice on dealing with unfamiliar magic, or adventurers, or wizards.
Laeral’s recent non-public advice to the Watchful Order (which of course has…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021

5)
leaked out, as not all Order magists are anywhere near as wise and self-disciplined as Laeral) to avoid the Icepeak suggests that some of Meltharond Thone’s magic survives, and Laeral believes some Order magists may be bold… 6)
…(or, if you prefer, rash) enough to try to mount an expedition to try to seize it.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021

Hi Ed @TheEdVerse – Azuth's Seven Mysteries uttered in Silverfall – just a curse or something more? If something more can you elaborate? TIA

— maransreth (Duane Nutley) (@DuaneNutley) May 22, 2021

2)
…spells by the crafting of prayers that “work” to trigger the magical effects (Weave energy releases) by calling on the deity (which is what all divine magics do). The arcane versions of the spells are to be offered to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 23, 2021

3)
…wizards (and other spellcasters) who worship Azuth and aid Azuth’s clergy.
The Seven Mysteries are secrets, but it’s leaked out that the “first” (lowest, and most easily learned) Mystery is how clerics can craft arcane spells, 4)
…whether they personally possess the Gift (ability to wield the Art/arcane magic) or not (i.e. how they can call on Azuth to empower them as if they had the Gift, and how to control their Gift if they do have it).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 23, 2021

5)
The “second” (next learned) of the Mysteries is that prayers can be crafted that successfully turn an arcane spell into a divine one, and the general guidelines for how to do this.
It’s rumored that among the other five… 6)
…mysteries are advanced contingencies or defensive fields (like mantles cast by wizards) that can be “set” by a cleric of Azuth so as to automatically wink into existence, and defend that cleric, if the magic they are intended…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 23, 2021

7)
…to thwart or lessen comes into contact with the protected cleric (so, they awaken by themselves, regardless of how busy the cleric is or even if the cleric is conscious or not).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 23, 2021

@TheEdVerse What is Elminster up to now a days?

— Kairon the Tiefling (@srkrxs) February 1, 2021

2)
…making it available to all creatures with the Gift, everywhere across Toril, and to work against those who try to restrict the use of magic or use it to oppress others. So, leaving a scroll or a spellbook in a tomb or ruin…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2021

4)
So, magic as a helpful aid more than a world-shaking or foe-searing weapon. A balance between magic and brute force in politics and rulership across the realms, magic as a deterrent to making war, and so on.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2021

To quote Merlin:
"For it is the doom of men that they forget."

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2021

Not sure if i have to ask you but is Voaraghamanthar supposed to be an Adult Black Dragon or an Ancient Black Dragon? i am asking this because they have been refered to as both as an Ancient in Storm King’s Thunder and as an Adult in Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Ancient.
The rule is: newer source overrides/corrects/updates the older source.
Obviously, between the two books, someone was brave/foolish enough to get close enough to "Old Voar" to ascertain age a little better. And survive.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 15, 2021

any thought or talk of having Drizzt meet Elminster? Again?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2021

El and Drizzt prefer to meet when there are no Volos near to tell the world, so they can relax and sit and talk.
So we may not know or see what passes between them. At least until years afterwards.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2021

Blustering kings and sneering dukes alike
Find themselves cast down, thwarted, and disgraced
Their staring heads now grace many a spike
Displaying one last sad lack of taste

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2021

But the princess knows how a blood-soaked conqueror to greet
She pads to him naked, on soft, lithe feet
Bearing him the head of her father, the king
And a glass of the king’s best firewine, neat

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2021

Where’s the foe, with their brazen conquering trumpets?
They should be here by now, I trow
They must have got lost, somehow
Perhaps amid the beckoning strumpets

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 20, 2021

Hello @TheEdVerse sir, I was going to DM a hang cage tree prisoner scenario on the island of Vosos or Thonn's Fist.
Any words of wisdom about the island sir?

— Legacy Gaming Company (@company_legacy) June 5, 2021

Sure. Sparsely inhabited in recent years.
A rocky (exposed bedrock) interior in which many freshwater springs rise, and flow to the sea (so plentiful drinking water on the island, and thick forests along the ravines the springs…)
…rush down).
Eels (large and good eating, if you cook off the slime) are plentiful in the brackish mouths of these streams, where they meet the sea.
The kobolds seem to have hastily abandoned Thonn’s Fist, for some unknown…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 5, 2021

…reason (but a sprawled, face-down human skeleton in a rocky dell near the center of the isle, that’s surrounded by the ashes of a cloak, robes, boots, a staff, and a pointed hat, might have something to do with it—or not).
#Realmslore)
The extensive caverns used by the kobolds are choked with the fungi they grew for food, which is following the light to spill forth and colonize more and more of the sunlit surface of the island.
Thonn’s Fist has one good…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 5, 2021

…natural harbour, very small but sheltered: a narrow channel hooks around a stone headland, sheltered by a parallel rock spit, and ends in a pebble beach with a natural rock ledge beside it that forms a very good dock. There…
…are no buildings on the island, no permanent inhabitants, and a recent infestation of edible crabs that are growing large indeed (tureen-sized!) by feeding on the fungi ashore as well as the algae, marine plants, and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 5, 2021

7)
…saltwater worms in the shallows. Fisherfolk of Altumbel say the island is haunted, and tell tales of bursts of light seen from afar on it by night, and even eerie ululating calls.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 5, 2021