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Ed Greenwood
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Creator of the Forgotten Realms® and a myriad of other worlds, universes, and shared settings. Avid tea-drinker and swashbuckler. He/him, accepting of all.
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Feb 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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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 ...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...
#realmslore
Jan 6 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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...
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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...
Jul 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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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 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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Jan 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1)
 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...
#Realmslore 2)
 ...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”...
#Realmslore
Jan 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 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...
#Realmslore 2)
 ...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...
#Realmslore
Dec 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1)
 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…
#AthCliath #FateOfTheNorns 2)
 …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…
#AthCliath #FateOfTheNorns
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 “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…”
#epicfantasy 2)
 “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…
#epicfantasy
Dec 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 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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 …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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Nov 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 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…
#AthCliath #FateOfTheNorns 2)
 …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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Nov 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 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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Nov 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Barekr Hroaldsson, a maker of statues newly arrived in the city from Gotaland, says six larger-than-man-sized statues were stolen from his workshop last night. Talk in the taverns is…
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 …leaning towards evil effigy-enchanters taking them to turn them into guardian effigies for sale to wealthy and fearful citizens, to safeguard their valuables and grand houses. Some say that King’s soldiers were…
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Nov 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 “Ah. So you’re on a hunt. Floggings must wait?”
“For now, I fear so. Though I know now who to seek: Dardratha The Whipstrangler, Skorg to the Discerning.”
#epicfantasy 2)
 “Indeed! The ONLY place in Thurnia where one expert wields three whips at once! I can devastate you with both arms and tail!”
“I look forward to it. Once our hunt is done. Palonder, if you’ll lead the way?”
#epicfantasy
Nov 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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...
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 ...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...
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Mar 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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Hey there @TheEdVerse is there a canon place or service to grow hair back in Waterdeep? Sort of a reverse barber or apothecary? Asking for a friend…
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 Certainly. First, Cyber Trout hath the right of it: Phalantar's Philtres & Components does sell elixirs to drink to boost hair growth in a hurry, and unguents to spread on bald or sparse patches to make reluctant or…
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Jan 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 The Port District of Arrabar is honeycombed with canals, leading to a large “turning basin” just south of the Warehouse District. So many buildings can be said to be “waterfront” that someone looking at the admittedly stylized…
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 …published maps of Arrabar will think are several streets inland. You can visit the Crying Claw by boat, tie up there, and depart the same way. Garbage/trash is taken away by “narrowboat” barges, out to sea and down the coast…
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Jan 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
1)
 Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
“Old Cunning” Flann was a wizened Hibernian merchant of unknown but great age and legendary wiles, notorious for his swindles and financial successes. Ere the Norse came to Ath Cliath, …
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 …Flann had risen to become the largest landlord in the city, though he was still usually to be found in his “boneyard” or walled compound of high-heaped old junk salvaged for resale, as filthy as ever.
#AthCliath #FateOfTheNorns
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 The King does miss it, but he’s busy sighing, shaking his head, and asking, “Who shut all of you in the crypt? As opposed to any of my hundreds of closets and antechambers and robing rooms and—and—”
#epicfantasy 2)
 “—other handy chambers,” Wolf steps in smoothly to finish the royal sentence, “that lie waiting, scattered across this vast and overblown labyrinth of a Palace?”
“Halark of the Howling Abyss,” the Dark Sister replies coldly.
#epicfantasy
Jan 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1)
 The Dark Sister smirks. “I’ll say this for you, Wolf: you lie, swindle, cheat, and murder with a certain style.”
“Deeply Oily, I call it,” Chantratha murmurs. As some charred clothing falls away, laying bare one shoulder.
#epicfantasy 2)
 “Time to go shopping,” the ghost suggests, pointing at Chant.
“Believe me, when I find a suitable selection of clothing…”
“Like this?” the ghost suggests, her shadowy self swirling into a plunge-front high-collared gown.
#epicfantasy
Jan 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 Halthandrus Saerrentaun, an aging, rotund man-mountain gourmand, glutton, and jovial friend-to-many (who behind his affable manner is a coldly ruthless friend of none) is the patriarch of the Saerrentaun family, whom he…
#Realmslore 2)
 …dragged up from somewhat-prosperous-but-ambitious to the heights of wealth and power by acquiring city properties and businesses in return for paying off the debts of those who sold out to him. He maintains bitter rivalries…
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Jan 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 Hi!
Due to the longtime dominance of elves in Loudwater, the now-city (though in population it’s shrunk back to town size) looks like a garden, with winding paths and streets, many trees and garden beds, and manicured lawns and…
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 …bowers (as beautiful and garden-like as the best parts of Everlund and Silverymoon).
From the earliest times of local settlement, elves beautified the few local natural caves (mainly narrow crevices in Standing Stone Hill)…
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Jan 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1)
 Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
A man was killed at the bridge construction site today when a crane, suddenly relieved of its load of building-timbers, briefly became a “teeter-hurler” and catapulted him from his crane…
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 …unloader’s perch atop the crane across the rooftops of the city. He crashed onto the roof of a building and was “smashed like a hurled egg” against it. Much to the astonished displeasure of the occupant of…
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