@TheEdVerse Hello Ed, I have a question about The Fellowship of the Purple Staff. An organization founded by a few clergymen of Chauntea, Helm and Selûne in 1368 DR & bolstered by faithful of Lathander and Sune.What has happening with them since 1372, what are their hamlets?
— Bruce Donohue (@BruceDonhue) April 15, 2020
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…members (and their families) who dwell in a handful of subsistence hamlets in an E-W line deep in the northern Gulthmere Forest, having lost all reach into more southerly stretches of forest (near the Orsraun Mountains).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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The Fellowship now include Mielikki, Silvanus, and Corellon in their worship, and try to live in harmony with sylvan creatures and the life-cycles of the forest, using trails rather than clearing wagon-roads, and establishing 4)
…‘forest farms’ of vines and tree-clinging plants rather than clearing fields. They trade with Cedarsproke and Gurnth, but don’t live there, and those settlements aren’t Fellowship-run.
Important Fellowship members include the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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…warband leaders Klarenna Arthtree (CG hf P14, Moonsash-Preceptress of Selûne), Raelmren Harthtanvil (NG hm P8, Prelate of Lathander), and Waeldren Stauntor (LN hm P9, Vigilant Shield of Lathander). The warbands are traveling6)
…fighting forces that rush to deal with threats to any Fellowship hamlet or members (and ar summoned by messenger or distinctive lown-note warhorns carried by Fellowship members); they’re similar to many woodland-dwelling…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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…adventuring bands, and tend to be about eight stalwarts strong, with at least five being veterans.
Senior clergy of all faiths in the Fellowship vote on major policy decisions, with the warband leaders and the aged… 8)
…Havaunth Taervorren (LN hm P17, Patriarch of Helm), making daily operating decisions.
The Fellowship hamlets, west to east, are Corolanth, Baelen, Favvaranth, Ellord, Qrael’s Ford, Grammath, and Haelmorr.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
I am guessing that all the information on the organization, how to become a member is in Champions of Valor, are there any sources on how create a little hamlet that we plop in that setting? Yes, Champions of Valor contains all the official Realmslore on the Fellowship, and no, there are no sources on how to create a little Fellowship hamlet. Except me.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
Thanks so much, are there any write-ups any where on the Hamlets that you have mentioned aka Forgotten Realms Wiki and maybe maps?
— Bruce Donohue (@BruceDonhue) April 16, 2020
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…forest canopy instead of roads (no wagons, just barrows and mule-drag carts), and they have homes that are part caves, part artificial caves (build up a hill of loam and tree stumps, roof it with stones and growing plants so…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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…roots will anchor it all), part tree-houses (think untidy childrens’ tree forts, reached by rope-ladders and climb-tree ladders, and joined by rope-and-board catwalks), and part tents, with outhouses that get moved when their…#Realmslore 4)
…dungpiles are rich and rotted-down enough to serve as gardens for edible forest plants, and so on. In other words, very little that would show up on a map beyond a general location for the hamlet.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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BTW, a mule-drag cart is a narrow wheelbarrow with long projecting handles, turned backwards and with a mule harnessed between those handles, so the whole thing slopes down to a single wheel at the back.#Realmslore 6)
(If the wheel breaks, the mule “drags” the thing like a travois, hence the name ‘mule-drag’).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
I am guessing I was thinking of hamlet in our real world enviro. aka between 200-1000 population, blushing now Oh, they can be that large, but they're not cleared land, they're part of the forest, so hard to conventionally map and they don't WANT them mapped for a foe to use, so no maps exist. In the Realms "hamlet" and "thorp" and so on always have population definitions.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020