@TheEdVerse How do Cormyr's nobles perceive Waterdhavian nobility, considering Waterdeep's nobles are only a few generations from common merchants. What does Waterdeep's nobility think of Cormyr's nobility?
— Dan_Lawyered (@LawyeredDan) August 30, 2021
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Well, to begin, both groups tell the same joke about each other: “You’re assuming they THINK.”
Second, please remember that what I say here is a stereotype/generalization that may fail when applied to specific individuals in… 2)
…both groups (because both groups have enough wealth to indulge eccentricities as opposed to just grubbing out a living, so individuals have a chance to “be themselves”/acquire odd and varied experience more than the general…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…populace, if they’re inclined to).
Third, there are noble families that bridge both groups, like the Roaringhorns (widespread families found in both Waterdeep and Cormyr), that mitigate against some of the wilder rumours/ … 4)
…misinformation about “the other camp.”
Fourth, it varies by generation. Younger generations tend to rebel against the views and attitudes of their parents, and if older generations hate or despise “those other nobles,” the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…younger may not just because of that, and because they dislike what they grew up with and are curious about what things are like elsewhere and may travel there or dream of traveling there and entertain fantasies about it…
#Realmslore 6)
…being “better” there, as opposed to just “different.” Also part of this generational spread of attitudes: to younger nobles in both places, the others have increasingly “always been there,” because the Spellplague and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…Sundering were such huge jolts that “what happened before” is increasingly ‘ancient history’ in the minds of most people, even most nobles of these two groups.
However, the TRADITIONAL ‘strongest’ (worst) attitudes, still to 8)
…be found amongst the least-traveled and so, most closed-minded (and usually also haughty and pompous) older nobles, are these:
Nobles of Cormyr think that nobles of Waterdeep are stupendously rich, are crooked, lying…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…double-dealers by nature and daily practice, and that they bought their titles and have no more refinement nor good breeding than what they can ape by watching noble characters in older, ‘standard’ plays and bardic 10)
…recitations.
Nobles of Waterdeep think that nobles of Cormyr are dimwitted, reckless, break-their-necks-often while riding their magnificent horses hayseeds who all have large country estates, and are really jumped-up farmers…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…who look down their noses at everyone else to try to conceal their inbred insanity and their lack of any education at all. (Though, grudgingly, some Waterdhavian nobles will grant that SOME Cormyrean nobles are 12)
…“real nobles,” the exceptions being everyone ennobled because they managed to bed some royal a century back, or save the neck of some other royal two centuries back.)
From these worst attitudes, views soften, particularly…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021
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…among the many nobles who have set up trade and moneylending and investment alliances with “those others” and benefitted thereby.
Which all goes to show that nobles are as human as the rest of us. 14)
(Or as the old jest adds, “When they try hard to be.”)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2021