1.) Hey @TheEdVerse, posing this big question in a reworded format so it's far more exact and less leading.
In "Down-to-earth Divinity" you presented an early framework of deities in the Realms. In the time since its publication, what details on beast cults are still canonical? pic.twitter.com/8rL6IowMjD
— Sundered|🐜|ENVTuber (@Sundered_Ant) July 16, 2021
Hey there @TheEdVerse, in relation to my previous question on beast cults, (https://twitter.com/Sundered_Ant/status/1415906421506514948), I recently noticed an old adventure in Waterdeep’s sewers featured a cult to “a rat god”.
Would this rat god be the deity you named “Sneel,” as shown in the previous tweet? Yes. The Waterdhavian rat god cult venerates Sneel. Still popular in Dock Ward (in secret), and favour-us-please offerings are even given in the Warrens.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 20, 2021
Would Sneel have anything to do with Skerrit, from “Monster Mythology” by Carl Sargent?
One inspired the other, perhaps? I don't know. This list of Realms deities (some are placeholders) is from an article of mine published in issue 54 of The Dragon (1981). Monster Mythology was published in 1992. But Carl's too dead to ask, I'm afraid.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 3, 2022
Thanks!
I just wondered if you’ve had talked with him about it, back then, but I guess it was not the case. We talked about the Elder Elemental God, but he wasn't sure of my NDAs so didn't say for what project (and being professional, I didn't ask).
We did talk extensively when he was doing From The Ashes; he liked my embedded Realms adventure hooks and wanted to do same for Greyhawk.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 3, 2022
It’s so very nice to get to know little bits about the interactions behind the creation process of the products we know for all those long years…
Thanks again!In one of my old campaigns I read the entry of the Elder Elemental God several times before going for Ghaunadaur. My pleasure. In the old days, before NDAs got written so broadly, creatives talked back and forth a lot when they were working in the same settings. By phone or postcard or letter (sometimes couriered) or even teleprinter, as email didn't exist (or was military-restricted).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 3, 2022