Hi! Really busy with design work tonight, but let me say a few words about local elections for “village lord” (mayor) and harbormasters (in ports) in Amn and Tethyr. In the smaller places where they are elected, as opposed to appointed (in the larger places, it’s... #Realmslore
2) ...often a “reward posting” for investors handed out by local nobles or wealthy and powerful locals).
Voters in such elections are stakeholders: property owners in a settlement, or owners of docks and warehouses and shipyards in ports. They go before a local... #Realmslore
3) ...herald (with a local priest as a witness, if there’s a shrine, temple, or monastic community locally; if more than one deity is locally represented, each will have a representative) to vote verbally (out of earshot of others) for their chosen candidate (any... #Realmslore
4) ...local resident can stand), and for each vote, a pebble is put into a jar labeled for that candidate, and all jars are safeguarded by the herald and the clergy (often in a secure structure to minimize tampering). When the election time is deemed over (it may... #Realmslore
5) ...be as long as a tenday, but by local custom is usually three or four days, dawn to dusk), the pebbles are counted by the herald and all clergy in unison, and the high total wins. If there’s any dispute or anomaly (more pebbles than local voters, for... #Realmslore
6) ...example), a new election is held, but any incumbent running again does NOT stay in office until it’s done; rather, clergy step in to serve. #Realmslore
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1) Sure. This three-floors-plus attic timber-and-stucco old building with a new (three summers back) tile roof is a former pipeleaf shop with offices above and owner’s dwelling suite on the top floor. In 1494 DR the shop closed, and was converted into business...
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2) ...offices like the floor above.
The building changed owners, and the current owner (a gnome widower by the name of Hardyn Glorjarn, an investor and wagon fleet owner) lives on the top floor. Vressa got the “back” (larger) ground floor office, Velardar Vincent...
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3) ...Trench got the front one, and the four upstairs offices stayed in the same hands: Erro Alhandrar’s Nets (half-elf importer of knotted fishing nets from Sheirtalar and the Tashalar); Demra Samdro’s Best Beds (outcast female dwarf retired adventurer, using an...
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1. Andred Kuroone, a merchant based in Zazesspur, who sells “thael leaf” (the dried leaves of a plant sold to be added to either temple incense or pipeweed, to flavor the smoke inhaled with an almond-plus-herbs (think amaretto and...
2) ...roast nuts, but not sweet) among other herbs, spices, and dried foods (apricots, et al). 2. Lurandural Veltree, a (kneeling) half-elf representative of The Halanthor, a local merchants’ guild. He’s holding a forouge or “test pipe” for sampling the smoke of inhaled or...
3) ...suffused sales goods. Its odd shape is due to it being carved to resemble a stirge skull (a common style from the 1200s DR onwards). The slate on the ground is his, used for scribbling down trade deals on the spot. He’s here at the invitation of the priestess, and is...
1) In the 1490s DR, the Church of Umberlee remains chaotic in the sense that ranks, titles, and vestments vary from temple to temple across Toril.
However, the list of titles you cite is in rough rank order, so yes, a Wavemistress or a Wavelord would head a temple.
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2) Here's a rank order followed in many temples of Umberlee on the Sword Coast, lowest to highest: Untaken (novices, no rank)/Tide Rider (accepted into the clergy, lowest-ranked of priests; "Rider" in short)/Breaking Wave ("Wave")/Flood Tide ("Tide")/Dark Breaker...
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3) ... ("Breaker" in colloquial shortform)/Puissant Undertow ("Under" and also marking the highest church rank considered "underpriests," with all higher rank being "senior clergy")/Wave of Fury ("Varrwave")/Savage Seawind ("Wind")/Wavemistress and Wavelord (never...
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Good evening, @TheEdVerse! A question. Is it fair to say that the relationship between Halaster and Undermountain is analogous to that of a lich and their phylactery? If so: if one were to destroy Halaster, how might one destroy...
...Undermountain to stop him coming back? #RealmsLore
1) No. Destroying Undermountain won’t stop Halaster returning; he’s a Weave anchor and will return as a vestige no matter what happens to him, and Undermountain has so many other beings of power connected to it in various ways (including active, living dragons and...
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Are Orcs universally evil in the Realms? Or is there a fair amount of variation? I guess their environments and struggle for survival harden them but is there a singular mindset on killing, conquest? Are they able to worship the aspects...
...of the Orc Gods and not be evil?
Orcs have a world-view of ‘might makes right,’ and the weak can and should be weeded-out and exploited.
This doesn’t mean orcs can’t show mercy, kindness, or tenderness, and neither should they “burn it all down” without thought..
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2) ...for prey regenerating (don’t eat the last horse, or even the last pair of horses, lest they be unable to breed and so be there to harvest next year). Orcs regard non-orcs as less in standing than orcs, and also have societies that value aggression and...
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@TheEdVerse weird question, at work currently and random thought: are there syringes in the realms? I dont think i saw anything indicating there is? If so, what kinds?
1) Yes. Many races, back far enough that origins have been lost to history, have used, for bloodletting, sharp hollow tubes (including natural grasses like bamboo, cut at an angle) that are stabbed into a body to remove pus and gases and poisons, reduce swelling, ...
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2) ...and so on, and (again so long ago that we don’t know when) someone thought of putting stuff down the tube (and even pushing it with a dried reed or broomstraw) to “inject” substances. Poultices and compresses are still more popular than injections, but 'any'...
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