Max Golutvo @Meonaar
Question about Heroes' Lorebook. There we can find lot of powerful mortals. I know that some of them are dead and some confirmed in 5e alive, but what about the rest? Did their status gave them some favor from gods and then prolonged life like Durnan have?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020
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A handful of mortals might have been so favored by a particular deity, who had the foresight/long-term planning to prepare them for some means of stasis that survived the magical ravages of the Spellplague, or done such work…#Realmslore 2)
…(e.g. achieving lichdom, otherwise entering into stasis such as by a Phezult’s Sleep of Ages spell on another plane or world than either Abeir or Toril) themselves, or (as happened to Mirt) got caught in the machinations of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020
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…someone else using magic (a blueflame storage item or artifact or other means), to survive the century or so that followed the onset of the Spellplague and return to the Realms, but it’s not because they were heroes. 4)
It’s because they were useful to a deity (i.e. a tool), cunning/forward-thinking, or lucky/unlucky enough to get caught in someone else’s plans/preparations/unintended magical side effects. Some century-survivors weren’t…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020
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…heroes or recorded in any lorebook. They were ‘just plain folks’ who found themselves in a much later, much changed world, having outlived the vast majority of their friends, neighbors, and kin.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020