Sage @sesaiaset · Jun 19
@TheEdVerse
Hi Ed! I was wondering what some dwarven words for family relationships were?
My cleric is in self-imposed exile but is probably going to encounter her brother soon due to some political shenanigans in the Dwarven Valley 1)
Okay, here we go...
Note: In the Realms today, many dwarves use the Common Tongue studded with words in Dwarvish. Terms such as aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, and nephew are in Dwarvish rendered thus: “aunt” is sister-of-father or father-sister (“kralvade-karra”), ...
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@TheEdVerse
Hi! l've been thinking about the Gift with your tweets this past week, and I got to wondering: is it even possible to have a reliable method to grant the Gift? If so, has anyone figured one out yet? If not, why? 1)
No. There is no reliable method of passing on the Gift. A tendency has been observed for parents who both have the Gift to have offspring who have a higher chance of being Gifted than the children of non-Gifted parents, with the children of unions between Gifted...
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@TheEdVerse any hint on how is Laeral Silverhand handling Waterdeep politics?
Like, has the Waterdevian "Hegemony" expanded into the Wild Frontier? Are the finances doing good? Amy relevant change? 1)
Laeral inherited a city whose finances were a shambles, thanks to her predecessor (Neverember) spending lavishly and looting treasury budgets for his own ends, as well as a city of increasing tensions due to his habit of setting Masked Lords against each other, ...
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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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https://twitter.com/aideddorg/status/1756733901353975956

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...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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Sure. You’re looking at (left to right):

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...

https://twitter.com/StonedNerd314/status/1743125613085426062

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...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...

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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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https://twitter.com/K_E_Dane/status/1678927201432113152

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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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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

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@TheEdVerse
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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PastorGall @PastorGall
@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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If you wanted to cut the supply line of healing potions in the Realms, you’d have to destroy almost every temple in the world, and thousands of “hedge wizards” and “local wise women,” too; they all produce healing potions. There’s no one central source to target.
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https://twitter.com/bbarlach/status/1632759815817637888

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There are many different “recipes” for making and enchanting healing potions, but they can’t include alcohol or any acid or solvent, and they all include protein. (I’ve detailed a few of these recipes, down the years.)
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There are vaults in the city of the dead for the ashes of the poor. Criminals are mortals under the gods like anyone else, and still get ash-burials. Sentient, speaking "monsters" who die peacefully in the city, ditto. Only monsters who are killed after slaying, ..
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https://twitter.com/HipstersDragons/status/1632468716653891585

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...maiming, or trying to eat someone else get treated like animal carcasses (which are taken to the Rat Hills by the nightsoil wagons).
There's also always been a tradition of the loved ones of anyone who didn't want to be "housed in the City of the Dead," or if..
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Wolf holds up a hand to forestall Palonder, who’s been edging sideways to get far enough away from Wolf that a single spell shouldn’t—in his fond hopes—be able to smite Wolf and himself at the same time.
#epicfantasy 2)
Wolf then looks at Chantratha, who gives him the arched eyebrow that informs him she’s ready for frenzied—and abrupt—battle. He gives her the crook of his lips that means ‘stand down.’
And smiles at Ranthort.
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@duckiiphotos @iDeeSalazar Kay, a second possibility occurred to me (besides Myth Drannor). If you want things lower-powered, and closer to help/settlement, just a bit south of Myth Drannor is Battledale; the road between Sembia and the city of Hillsfar runs through it. Battledale is mainly rural, with... @duckiiphotos @iDeeSalazar ...one settlement: Essembra.
West of Essembra, in the forest, are a whole bunch of abandoned mansions, overgrown and now home to outlaws/brigands and monsters. Known as the Ghost Holds, they are former Sembian (and other wealthy folks) "homes in the country." Only lightly...

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Sure!
So for warships, the fastest builders are:
Selvard Haeleophar, Master Shipbuilder, of Telflamm (a brilliant, mercurial dashing ladies-man whose feuds and tirades are legendary); he has built armor-plated coastal rakers with fitted rams, oars as well as...
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https://twitter.com/RpgMatch/status/1613429767226953732

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...sails, and raised ballistae decks, in twelve days, but twenty-one days is the norm for his six drydock shipyard.
He has a rival, Vellard Sisters Shipwright of Tsurlagol, who can keel only three vessels at a time, but can turn out “bare-timbers but navigable”...
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It depends on what you mean by “best.”

In the 1490s DR, the shipbuilders who can make the most luxurious large ships are Anabravvur’s of Selgaunt, in Sembia (third generation firm, current head: Alpharra Anabravvur (unwed thirty-six-year-old albino woman, smart...
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https://twitter.com/RpgMatch/status/1613405167667535873

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...as a whip, coldly clear-headed, and VERY rich and well-connected in Sembia). They’re expensive, and so busy that they can afford to take their time (if you complain as a client, they just shrug; they’ve so much business waiting that they don’t care if they...
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Yes, but not big “army”-sized ones. The dragon princes of Murghôm permit small (40 veteran and fully-equipped, full-pay members or less) mercenary companies (founded by former Murghômi army commanders as that kingdom’s former army shrank under pressure from, and...
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https://twitter.com/RpgMatch/status/1610079320403496960

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...the decrees of, the dragon princes) to exist, so long as they don’t band together for any purpose whatsoever within the land, or in any adjacent land (for example, Thay). The reason for this is that the ruling dragons don’t want a large army or armies to...
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Adventurer Rognvaldr Jonsson is making the rounds of the taverns, trying to raise skatt for a dragonslaying expedition. He’s carrying the scorched talon of a dragon he claims he wounded…
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…two months ago, somewhere in “remote Hibernia.” He hewed the talon from “the claw that was seeking to slay me,” and it’s an impressive thing: a curving nail as long as a tall man stands. Rognvaldr says the wyrm…
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“Don’t leave her in the street,” King Elvar advises. “People who leave trails of old ladies acquire certain reputations. Not something that matters to a king, but…”
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“Thank you, Your Majesty,” Chantratha replies, “but we do have a cunning plan.”
Wolf nods and opens the side door of Arvaeydur’s House of Nigh-Irresistible Pleasures once more.
To reveal, waiting inside, the many-tusked smile…
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Gaj is a major market town in the foothills of the western end of The Maerthwatch mountains, where copper and silver (and a little gold) from local mines are smelted. Dwarves work the (shallow) mines, gnomes turn the copper…
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https://twitter.com/Artie_Pavlov/status/1602779039588048904

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…into wire in Gaj’s foundries, and traders come from coastal Chondath and Chessenta to buy the items made in Gaj (both wire grips for tolls and weapons, and wire mounts for jewelry and handles, such as wooden handles for…
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Word is racing around the taverns of a very curious event that happened just before dusk last night. A roofer hastening to get down at the end of a long workday slipped and fell from a…
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…scaffold, plunging four floors to his—disappearance, into thin air, a scant instant before he would have splatteringly greeted the hard cobbles. He vanished in mid-despairing cry, suggesting that whatever magic…
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The Pirate King shows veteran experience by departing in a slow and leisurely manner, sidestepping to get out of view of the skorg or anyone else looking through the doorway before he begins to sprint.
Wolf calmly nods to…
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…Dardratha ere unhurriedly departing Arvaeydur’s House of Nigh-Irresistible Pleasures, and closing the door.
To find himself transfixed by the suspicious gaze of a woman who resembles nothing so much as a gruff, irate sheepdog.
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