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Posted - 05 Nov 2023 : 14:05:37
Since starting up his own Discord server (https://discord.onl/greenwoods-grotto/), Ed Greenwood has been answering Realms-related questions in the #q4ed channel. Although it's free to join the Discord and view his answers, but I believe it requires a subscription to Ed's Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/EdGreenwood) to be given access to ask him questions there.
So since his answers are free to view by anyone on his Discord and for the benefit of those who are not on Discord, I'm starting and updating my compilation of his answers in this scroll. I'll leave it to the wisdom of moderating scribes if anything should be changed or removed.
I won't be able to put down everything (I already have 300+ answered questions to put down), so consider updates here will be intermittent, and will take a while before it catches up to the latest questions answered. (Or just join the Discord if you want the latest  )
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:35:50
On Ed's best known language from the Realms
kageura necromancer wizard [D&D] — 5/6/2025 2:27 AM
@Ed Greenwood besides common, what language from the realms do you know best? elvish, dwarven, orcish, draconic, undercommon, etc...
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 10:07 AM
Elvish. ;} |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:30:41
On Saphia as Tchazzar's daughter
Juniper Churlgo — 2/6/2025 5:07 AM
Hey Ed. There is a bit of lore that i found that you might be able to expand on and clarify. "Saphia was a historic figure and a daughter of a ruler of Cimbar, who was instrumental in making the city the capital of Chessenta. Saphia was the daughter of a ruler of Cimbar who became the target of the mythic hero Cevalias's affections. The hero fell in love with the woman, who quickly learned to manipulate her paramour. With her father's guidance, Saphia made Cevalias into the Champion of Cimbar and a fearsome tool of destruction that took the lives of over a thousand warriors of other Chessentan cities." - the question: does this mean she is Tchazzar's daughter? or some other city ruler? This lore blurb is undated and this is all there is.
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 10:04 AM
No, it means Saphia was Tchazzar in human guise. ;} (After Tchazzar secretly devoured the real Saphia.) |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:23:07
On Kezef and Fenrir
Spellslamzer [LIPA] — 31/5/2025 6:07 AM
@Ed Greenwood In Norse Mythology, Tyr lost his hand to the wolf Fenrir, while in Realms religion, he is depicted as having lost it to Kezef the Chaos Hound. So, for those on worlds who worship him as part of the norse pantheon, how would Fenrir fit into this? Would they simply tell the original story and if so, would that make it simply incorrect? Or are they somehow both true, with Kezef and Fenrir actually being the same entity? Or would there be some grey area in the theology? Also, would these norse worshippers know that Tyr is now blind, or would they still depict him as having working eyes?
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 10:00 AM
Even in real-world Norse mythology, there’s confusion about the celestial wolves: their true natures and names. Yes, most Norse worshippers would conflate Fenrir and Kezef—and venerate Tyr as a good of war who still has his eyes. Yet even here, there’s confusion. As someone who’s done a lot of research for my Fate Of The Norns game design work, I can confirm that in Old Norse tests, Tyr is either the son of the jötunn Hymir (in Hymiskvida) or the son of the god Odin (in Skaldskaparmal).
So in any given place and time, worshippers could believe or claim almost anything regarding Tyr and the beast that took his hand. |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:18:03
On the prophecy of Maglas and the Regalia of Karsus
kageura necromancer wizard [D&D] — 30/5/2025 7:13 AM
@Ed Greenwood in a post of your from a few years ago you responded to someones question regarding other prophecies of maglas from chronicle of years to come and one of the was "Black the crown, black the scepter, black the orb, and black the mask. Yet of these, one black is false, one is blind, one empty, and one the coldest kiss of all." i was reading in world books in dnd video games and found this "There is a Crown, an Orb, and a Sceptre, each night-alive and with its own power and purpose, and these I call the Regalia of Karsus." aside from the mask all of these corrospond to that prophecy you mentioned. is it coincidence or was the prophecy you posted related to the "regalia of karsus"?
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 9:48 AM
Trust not the speaker who called them the Regalia of Karsus. Their grouping as such is the work of sages looking back at them from a later time. (And for that matter, trust very little of what Gale Dekarios says about Mystra or Karsus or the Crown or other magic items or artifacts. The man seizes on small tidbits of information, builds them up into larger ones in his imagination—and then conveniently forgets the parts that he invented, taking it all as truth.) However, there are indeed “a Crown, an Orb, and a Sceptre, each night-alive and with its own power and purpose.” They just have very little to do with Karsus beyond his hunting them, and finding two of them and making use of them. Just as if your friend Manyspells the adventuring wizard found a wand of magic missiles in a dungeon, that doesn’t make it the Manyspells Wand of Magic Missiles unless he augments or alters it: it’s just a wand of magic missiles in the possession of Manyspells.
The prophecy I quoted is something different entirely, so yes, it is just a coincidence. ;} |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:13:04
On the golden dragons of Jorunhast's undersea tower
Joe Chang — 28/5/2025 3:18 PM
To @Ed Greenwood, @Brian Cortijo and @Steven E Schend, in the novel Queen of the Depths we got a few glances of the former High Wizard of Cormyr, Jorunhast. His undersea tower in Myth Nantar was described as such: "slender and black, covered with luminous mosaics of purple and golden wyrms winging over a benighted sea". The purple dragon motifs seem like Jorunhast's statement of loyalty to Cormyr. Is there a meaning behind the golden dragons? Does it symbolize the Dahast lineage?
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 9:38 AM
The golden dragons were two things: a symbol of Jorunhast’s hopes for a new direction (and renewal) of the Obarskyr dynasty and the kingdom of Cormyr, AND practical architecture within his tower: each golden dragon in the mosaic was real gold, and into the gold was fused protective enchantments that reflected back certain sorts of spells (so the walls couldn’t be bludgeoned/shattered/blasted or melted). |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 16:05:02
On the emperor from The Council of Blades
ChiefAffirmationOfficer — 28/5/2025 4:17 AM
@Ed Greenwood PATREON QUESTION: Do you have anything you can say about this "unaging, unliving emperor" mentioned in The Council of Blades?
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Hacked from the heart of an unaging, unliving emperor in decades long gone by, the Sun Gem had come to symbolize the free spirit of the Blade Kingdoms.
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It was a diamond so large that it would scarcely fit inside a man’s clenched fist—a single flawless crystal of pure, unsullied hue.
(For quick reference, the novel takes place ~1217 DR and the mercenary companies which came to make up the Blade Kingdoms, abandoned their ties to Chondath in ~1017 DR.)
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 9:33 AM
Yes. That emperor was a golem-like automaton with a gem for a heart and a different gem (an emerald) for a brain, that was animated from afar by the (evil) elf mages who’d created it. They moved it and spoke through it. It was so lifelike in movements and shape, and their enchantments had preserved the giantkind body parts it was made from so well, that it seemed alive from a distance. The emperor was named Kaerane, and was an attempty by these elf mages to conquer and unify petty holdings in what would become the Blade Kingdoms, welding them into an ever-expanding empire—a plan shattered when their emperor-stooge was literally hacked apart. ( ...and yes, I'll say more in a video/Patreon post, eventually.) |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 14:48:58
On notable music genre and instrumental groups
stormer454 [HUNT] — 26/5/2025 10:19 PM
Dear Saer @Ed Greenwood i've recently gotten into music composition (and i while i know most fantasy is stuck in medeval stasis) it struck me to ask if there are notable genre of music -or progression of genre- in the realms and if there are any notable groups of instrument players (bardershop quartets? bardist? XD), although I suppose for some elven music you could just....ask the elf.
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 9:07 AM
I’ve covered music in the Realms extensively elsewhere and elsewhen. The short answer is that much of the Realms currently has medieval-to-Renaissance music styles, with minstrels and bards endlessly refining and varying “stock” tunes with new, current, catchy lyrics, and instrumentals progressing at court with new dance fads. Monks of various faiths use plainsong and chant that deliberately doesn’t vary or progress, because they’re preserving something holy to them.
Dwarves enjoy a lot of rhythmic chants with individual verses sung by one dwarf, and the assembly answering in refrain; humans have borrowed some of these as rowing songs. Elves tend to enjoy individual singers, accompanying themselves on harp or lute or yarting, or singing counterpoint to a musician blowing various reed instruments or pipes, whereas gnomes and halflings are all about dancing (think real-world “square dances” for tempo and sound, but not the actual caller procedure). Yet these are all generalizations, and break down when applied to individual cases.
Yes, polka escaped from our real world into Waterdeep, and the elves are heading for improvisational long-solo, “quiet” jazz (as opposed to big band or real swing), but the Realms doesn’t have supergroups or pop stars: you need widespread fast communication for that. |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 13:49:27
On components to brew an elixir of youth
Zonesylvania — 23/5/2025 10:05 AM
Dear saer @Ed Greenwood , what kind of magical or mundane components might be useful to brew an elixir of youth? thankee!
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 8:55 AM
We know from the canon D&D Book of Artifacts tome (penned by Zeb Cook) that ginseng juice is a mundane component used in making some elixirs of youth.
We know from the writings of Halaster that the split, shattered chrysalis (hard casing) of certain butterflies is a mundane component in an entirely different procedure for concocting elixirs of youth.And we know from the Srinshee’s workbooks that she successfully used cells from certain comb jellies of our Earth, that had lost their adult characteristics and reformed into younger cells, in her elixirs of youth.
For more, you’ll have to wait for my video “So You Want To Live Forever,” and it’s months in the future. |
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Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 12:44:51
On Mystra usurping Ao
Overlordsandy — 16/5/2025 1:21 AM
Hi @Ed Greenwood What are your thoughts on Mystra usurping or replacing Ao as the Overgod before 1385dr? Would that have prevented the spellplague from happening?
Ed Greenwood [GOO] — 25/8/2025 8:48 AM
Had there been no Tablets of Fate and no Overgod, nothing would have prevented Mystra from becoming an Overgod in all but name, as she is the strongest deity (and can use herself—the Weave—to “slap” other deities with all the power flowing through her. So she could have prepared defenses in depth to prevent her own death (meaning: no Spellplague).
But these are all empty hypotheticals: Mystra has no way of “usurping or replacing” Ao, and no inclination to do so. It’s like asking me what the world would be like if gravity were repealed. |
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Posted - 20 Aug 2025 : 13:09:38
On what has Duskreene been guarding
Joe Chang — 12/8/2025 7:31 AM
Dear sirs @Ed Greenwood and @Brian Cortijo, in Ed's novel Crown of Fire, Shandril got to meet Lady Duskreene, the watch-ghost of Tethgard. What has Duskreene been guarding, exactly? Didn't the elves take all their powerful magic with them when they left the Hullack Forest?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 13/8/2025 4:11 AM
Like the baelnorn of Myth Drannor, Duskreene is guarding the graves of her honoured ancestors. Elves know all too well that the bones of elves who used magic much while alive are valued "ingredients" in all sorts of necromancies.
Joe Chang — 13/8/2025 7:40 AM
Her Netherese ancestors, or elvish ancestors by her relationship to King Iliphar?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 14/8/2025 9:48 AM
The elves who were her wise guides early in life. |
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Posted - 16 Aug 2025 : 08:45:12
On baby Axebeaks
Lord of Eat — 10/8/2025 10:38 PM
Saer @Ed Greenwood... are baby Axebeaks called Hatchets?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 11/8/2025 6:16 AM
Har har har. ;} (They are actually called "Skike" [Ss-SKY-kk"], singular and plural the same.) |
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Posted - 15 Aug 2025 : 09:18:21
On special link between Cormyr and Demiplane of Dread
Joe Chang — 8/8/2025 11:30 AM
Dear @Ed Greenwood and @Brian Cortijo, the Demiplane of Dread seems to intersect with Cormyr more frequently than any other region on Faerun, going by published lore and stories. Is there some kind of special link between these lands? And if so, can you offer a hint to what it might be?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 8/8/2025 2:31 PM
That "more frequency" is a misconception caused by a paucity of Realmslore coverage of other areas of Toril over the years. The only real link is that the mists that lead to Ravenloft visit the northeastern Stonelands fairly often. They also visit other locales in Faerûn fairly often, but published lore hasn't covered that. Here are a handful of those locales: the Realm of Wailing Fog, the easternmost Korinn Archipelago, the northweestern shores of the Lake of Mists, the isles southwest of Altumbel, the Adder Peaks, and the heart of the Bandit Wastes. |
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Posted - 09 Aug 2025 : 16:44:25
On Trelasarra Zuind
Ninjanurse29 — 6/8/2025 1:04 AM
I have returned to ask if you could spare some lore on my favorite Eilistraee worshipper, Trelasarra Zuind?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 6/8/2025 10:11 AM
I am preparing a lore video. You won't see it soon, but unless I die (see my answer below), you WILL see it.
Ninjanurse29 — 7/8/2025 4:35 AM
I have prayed to Chauntea and Lathander for your speedy recovery.
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 7/8/2025 4:49 AM
Thank you! Am getting better already. Well, "better-ish." |
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 : 08:58:51
On Sehanine Moonbow might return the feelings of a mortal in love with her
Jonboy [FDM] — 25/7/2025 12:41 PM
That pesky comic artist again with a... hopefully simple question for you, @Ed Greenwood , on behalf of my dear wife, if you don't mind #128578;
In a nutshell, is it at all possible Sehanine Moonbow might, in any capacity, return the feelings of a mortal in love with her?
In a bit more detail, the mortal in question is a faithful Grave domain cleric of hers, a Moon Elf who's been deeply infatuated by his goddess. In the past, Sehanine had already shown him favor by helping him endure excruciating torture. By now, after decades of faithful and dedicated service, his original raw, emotional passion for Sehanine had matured into a deep, professional respect, he still harbors unrequited feelings for her. We are now level 18 and nearing the conclusion of this beautiful campaign of many years, my wife's been wondering if there's any hope for her precious Elf, and if so, what form might his goddess' returned affection take, should he ever win it?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 26/7/2025 8:01 AM
Certainly it’s possible. All of the elven deities love mortal elves, and use love as a way of bonding with their worshippers; such “use” being uncynical because it’s an innate part of their nature. Someone infatuated by a deity isn’t a fool or tool to be exploited by the deity, but rather is a “special” worshipper; the deity can and will have a romantic attachment to the mortal. The consummation of which would almost certainly be, in this particular case, an offer to “be one with the goddess,” which is an elevation not to godhood, but to divine service as a servitor “forever,” that begins with Sehanine drawing the mortal into a mind and body meld where the mortal loses their old body (losing any wounds, aches, and pains) and experiences a floating, flying rapture of seeing some of the thoughts and feelings of the deity. So they then KNOW how the goddess feels about them, and know what she stands for, and wants them to do for her. They will be able to communicate mind-to-mind at will from then on, and will be offered “rest” (oblivion) if they’re weary of life, or service to the goddess if they’re not. Meaning they become a divine servitor with some special powers (flying, teleportation, the ability to heal by touch, the ability to glow or become invisible at will, and so on) who receives a mortal body from the goddess whenever they’re sent on a mission into Toril. (So essentially, the character is retired as a PC, and becomes an NPC, but can serve as a guide/warning/sage for descendants and later PCs.)
That’s how Mystra gained all of her Chosen, for example, with the exception of the Seven Sisters; she found the supply of suitable Chosen too few at a time in the past, and so subsumed mortal women and chose mortal lovers and “made” the Seven by literally birthing them, but altering and augmenting them in the womb to become the beings she wanted. |
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 : 08:47:16
On lore about the Ruldegosts outside of the printed source material
Revi — 23/5/2025 2:16 AM
Hello @Ed Greenwood I have a campaign set in 1356 (My preferred timeframe of the realms) and my players are super invested—One of my players in particular is playing the daughter of Kara Ruldegost and she has become immensely attached to the family. I was wondering if you had any cool tidbits of lore about the Ruldegosts outside of the printed source material. Thanks for your consideration! (And this wonderful world)
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:29 AM
In 1356, the dignified, rather stiff, neatly-moustached widower Lord Dethnar Lyondar Hethan Ruldegost is the patriarch of the Ruldegosts, and Kara (Kara Erevelle Nuaena Ruldegost, in full) is a “wild young filly” (in the words of some of her disapproving aunts) sleeping with whomever she pleases to. Her son Detan isn’t yet born, but she’s had four miscarriages and two daughters by then, all from different fathers, none of whom she publicly acknowledged, let alone courted or wed.
Lord Bly is falling into bad company but none of the Ruldegosts realize it, because they think he’s just developing from rakehood and roistering into making friends and contacts among respectable merchants at last—whereas what’s really happening is that he’s being slyly recruited by the Knights of the Shield.
The Ruldegosts are happily flourishing, with their Waterdhavian “villa” compound’s former guesthouse having been torn down and replaced with a modest “fairytale castle” of conical-roofed slender towers surrounding a six-floor mansion with extensive storage cellars, now home to servants, extensive guest apartments, meeting rooms, and “studies” of three or four connecting rooms for each of the twenty-four living Ruldegosts who have achieved “standing” (we would say”majority,” meaning they’re full citizens of at least thirteen years of age whom Waterdeep can tax).
Most of the senior Ruldegosts spend their days drinking, dining, and pursuing sedentary hobbies (board gaming, collecting, and lore gathering) while living off their personal investments.
Most of the prime-of-life Ruldegosts are running mercenary and bounty-hunting bands (with varying degrees of success; a lot of their commissions are to kidnap merchants “for a few days” to benefit a rival, or to “crash and ruin” a shop sale or a revel; the City Watch has their eye on several of these bands, particularly Belnar’s Blackhawks run by Belnar Ruldegost, after they “accidentally wounded” too many prominent Waterdhavians), or actively engaged in manygoods trading via the Thousandheads Trading Coster.
Deldaglin Ruldegost was recently sorely wounded in a duel with Mraevan Ruldegost, and in retaliation the Ruldegosts set fire to the Moonstar Maiden pleasure yacht at her moorings in Waterdeep’s Outer Harbor; she burned to the waterline and sank. Waterdeep is awaiting retaliation on the part of the Moonstars, but nothing has been witnessed thus far.
The “black sheep” of the Ruldegosts is currently Alsaerak Ruldegost, youngest brother of Lord Dethnar, who has become something of a hermit, living in an isolated shack on “Manytrees,” the Ruldegost’s country estates (up the Long Road beyond Amphail, lying to the west of the roadway). Alsaerak is said to have human, kenku, githyanki, and yuan-ti visitors (afoot, cloaked and cowled, and late at night) and to be breeding monsters or at least involved in keeping caged monsters temporarily for mysterious business partners. The Ruldegosts don’t want to know what’s going on.
And finally, Brymorton Ruldegost, the tireless roving trader and explorer of the family, recently made a public splash in Athkatla when he and a beautiful lady who may or may not have been a doppelganger or something else using shapeshifting magic made love on a balcony at a revel, and it collapsed and dumped them onto a thankfully-uncrowded dance floor below, in front of hundreds of interested eyes. Some of whom belonged to people who reported that Brymorton has some interesting scars.
And it's likely a good time for me to announce: I'll be offline and silent filming this Saturday and Sunday, then departing for GenCon on the Monday July 28th, not to return to being online until at least Tuesday August 5th. So if I'm silent, that's why; don't stop sending the Realmslore queries! Likewise, I will likely post a Lost Lore on my Patreon late Sunday night or dark and early Monday morning (28th), then be late with the next week's offering because of GenCon (August 6th?). I'll make up for it by putting up this year's GenCon lore handout as a public post (again, after GenCon). And alert eyes on other channels of this Discord have probably seen hints of an exciting new Realms-related project I'm enjoying doing right now. No matter how much Szass Tam objects... |
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 : 07:30:15
On Cormyrean noble house that are respectable but might be secretly a Cult of the Dragon cell
kageura necromancer wizard [D&D] — 18/5/2025 9:32 PM
@Ed Greenwood Hi Ed! I’m working on a custom campaign set in Cormyr, and I have a character who is secretly the leader of a Cult of the Dragon cell, but publicly a respected member of Cormyr’s elite. Could you suggest a Cormyrean noble house they might belong to that would best fit this dual identity? please and thankyou
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:27 AM
Several of the current sons of the Rallyhorn family (Bleys, Galadorn, and Tethrin), or three of their uncles (Alandor, Havilar, or Rorys), might be ideal. If you’d prefer a female, Jalatha Silversword or Valantha Marliir. The Goldswords can provide you with a male and a female: Corlath and Adeiress. |
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 : 07:23:43
On varieties of honey in major cities
Zonesylvania — 15/5/2025 3:46 AM
dear saer @Ed Greenwood , are there any well known varieties of honey in present year DR that might be exported to a big city like Suzail, Waterdeep, or Neverwinter? thankee!
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:26 AM
Almost all honey is made locally by farmers and ranchers, and sold to neighbors or in local markets, rather than commercially. Honey varies from batch to batch depending on what the bees have been eating, not just by locale, so there are infinite varieties. In the Vilhon Reach, cloves and sometimes cinammon have traditionally been added to honey, but there are otherwise no defined differences or varieties beyond “light” and “dark” (literally, by hue).
Of the three cities you mention, Suzail and Waterdeep are always well supplied by honey from their surrounding farmlands. Neverwinter has plentiful spring, summer and fall honey, but supplies fade and prices rise in winter. There are fewer beekeepers that far north and in that particular area (more woods, more “strongist” [=brassica] crops) so there’s less supply. In spring, farmers make good coin selling cellar-stored honey, in summer slightly lower prices, and the fall honey is “the new crop.” |
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Posted - 22 Jul 2025 : 01:45:49
On Jergal planning against Shar
KryptonianEradicator — 14/7/2025 3:36 AM
Greeting, Sear @Ed Greenwood ! I was watching one of your videos the other day when something you said intrigued me. That, along with the Dead Three, Jergal is in some way planning against Shar. I don't suppose you could elaborate on that? Yea or nay, 'tis appreciated.
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 16/7/2025 1:15 AM
Jergal, like most deities, is disgusted by a fellow deity who wants to destroy both the world and the lives of worshippers (peeing in the shared swimming pool, as it were). He thinks Shar is less than sane and unfit for divinity. So he works against her, but would find an endless direct war with her very tiresome, so he uses the Dead Three (who he views as easy-to-manipulate fools) as his proxies, to fight Shar for him while he aids them covertly, acting aloof. In his view, it gives the Three something worthwhile to do. |
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Posted - 21 Jul 2025 : 07:16:49
On the election of the Waterbaron of Yartar
Arinthian — 14/7/2025 3:27 AM
@Ed Greenwood It is mentioned in multiple books that the Waterbaron of Yartar is "elected for life." Are they elected by the people? A court of some kind? Or something completely different?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 16/7/2025 1:07 AM
They are elected by the people. Which in this case means taxpayers on the rolls of Yartar, voting in person before officials who know them as neighbors. If you don't pay taxes in Yartar, you don't vote. I should mention that there is a mechanism, administered by local priests at the temple of Tymora, for voting a Waterbaron out if they turn crazy or otherwise unfit to lead: voters can register votes against the Waterbaron continuing to rule. One-third of the tax rolls voting against triggers another formal election to remove and replace (alternative candidates can put themselves forward). The priests keep "who voted against" anonymous to anyone not of the temple clergy. |
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Posted - 21 Jul 2025 : 06:24:31
On Sunset Island
Marco Volo — 11/7/2025 4:50 PM
Hi @Ed Greenwood ! I would love to hear what you can share with us about Sunset Island, close to the Moonshaes. It seems there is not so much lore about it out there.
Thanks!
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 14/7/2025 9:15 AM
Just covered this in a Lost Lore column. I'm about 7 columns ahead of my weekly postings (another one will drop tomorrow), so there may be a wait for some weeks before you see it... |
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Posted - 12 Jul 2025 : 15:14:40
On Szass Tam making progress on his plans
Exnihilo — 8/7/2025 1:10 PM
Ser Ed: You've discussed before how Szass Tam's plans tend to fall apart due to overconfidence, his reliance on yes-liches, and publisher diktat that the baddies don't win. But since his takeover of Thay, has he actually succeeded and/or made significant progress in any plots?
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 10/7/2025 5:22 AM
Oh, yes. He’s made living slaves rare “prestige possessions,” replacing Thay’s army and labor force almost entirely with undead (saving the country a fortune on maintenance costs like feeding, watering, and giving sleep time). He conquered the city of Emmech and added it to Thayan territory and rule (it’s now “Undumor”), and he has weakened Aglarond but is finally learning not to fight on multiple fronts at once and thereby doom his military successes. |
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Posted - 10 Jul 2025 : 10:53:35
On Mystra and Elminster's knowledge of the demiplanes of dread
Cdawg — 4/7/2025 1:58 AM
Hi Ed, just how much does Mystra know about the demiplanes of dread (Ravenloft) and how much has she shared with Elminster about those realms and the dark powers that created it and torment the denizens within.
Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 6/7/2025 4:29 AM
Mystra knows all about them (better than many darklords), and has told Elminster a lot. However, the demiplanes always hold surprises. If you want to see Elminster getting surprised in Ravenloft alongside Merrix D'Cannith of Eberron (Keith Baker); Elise, the runaway bride of Victorina von Mordenheim (Elisa Teague); and Melf (of Melf's Acid Arrow fame, played by Luke Gygax), watch Season 2 of LEGACY OF WORLDS, airing right now!!! |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 23:31:17
It appears that Savras showed her the way to Silver Dragon. It appears this happened when she held the Scepter of Savras. All of this appears to have happened before she settled in Shadowdale.
I do not know source material, I selected the above from fan site |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 23:13:07
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Originally posted by questing gm
On known humanoids turned into dragons
Yukonau — 5/7/2025 5:10 AM
Are these the only known people born as humanoids but later became Dragons?
Nalavarauthatoryl- Born As: Elf
- Dragon form: Red Dragon
- Method / Context: Dark magical ritual
Mornauguth- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Green Dragon
- Method / Context: Cursed/trapped by worshipers of Shar
Serreg- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Black Dragon
- Method / Context: Self-triggered true polymorph via artifact
Syluné Silverhand - Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Silver Dragon
- Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Vangerdahast Aeiulvana- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Silver Dragon
- Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Deniak- Born As: Elf
- Dragon form: Red Dragon
- Method / Context: Dragon Cult of the Dragon ritual
Ed Greenwood — 5/7/2025 10:34 AM
No, there are many more. :}
When did Sylune become a silver dragon?? Last I recall she was a weaveghost. |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 07:39:48
On known humanoids turned into dragons
Yukonau — 5/7/2025 5:10 AM
Are these the only known people born as humanoids but later became Dragons?
Nalavarauthatoryl- Born As: Elf
- Dragon form: Red Dragon
- Method / Context: Dark magical ritual
Mornauguth- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Green Dragon
- Method / Context: Cursed/trapped by worshipers of Shar
Serreg- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Black Dragon
- Method / Context: Self-triggered true polymorph via artifact
Syluné Silverhand - Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Silver Dragon
- Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Vangerdahast Aeiulvana- Born As: Human
- Dragon form: Silver Dragon
- Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Deniak- Born As: Elf
- Dragon form: Red Dragon
- Method / Context: Dragon Cult of the Dragon ritual
Ed Greenwood — 5/7/2025 10:34 AM
No, there are many more. :} |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 07:16:18
On more Dalelands videos
Felipe_Treistman — 4/7/2025 11:12 PM
@Ed Greenwood I loved the videos you prepared for Shadowdale and Daggerdale. Any plans for more Dalelands videos ? I was very curious about Mistledale in particular #128578;
Ed Greenwood — 5/7/2025 10:34 AM
Yes. There's a long list of vid topics, though. Mistledale is on it. |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 07:03:54
On canonicity of "All Things Through the Bright Flames"
Juniper Churlgo — 3/7/2025 1:40 AM
Ed, is "All Things Through the Bright Flames" a canon short story?
Ed Greenwood — 3/7/2025 10:20 AM
Of course. :} |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 06:58:18
On Volo's Wyrm guide of West/East and South
Lucio — 3/7/2025 1:13 AM
@Ed Greenwood Is there any hope for a Volo's Wyrm guide of West/East and South as future patreon posts?
Ed Greenwood — 3/7/2025 1:14 AM
Oh, yes!!! That's on my (VERY long) to-do list! |
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 : 04:41:51
On Korvans in Spellfire and the Watercourse Trilogy
Joe Chang — 1/7/2025 10:30 AM
Good sirs @Ed Greenwood and @Brian Cortijo : Is there any relation between the villainous cook Korvan of the Spellfire books and the duplicitous Willem Korvan of the Watercourse Trilogy? Both are from Cormyr (Korvan from Suzail and Willem from Marsember). In the first book of the Watercourse, set on and after 1358, Willem said he and his mother were the last of his family. This would fit with Korvan's demise in 1357.
Ed Greenwood — 2/7/2025 7:53 AM
Well spotted. Yes, the two are kin. Or rather, WERE kin. ;} |
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Posted - 26 Jun 2025 : 01:39:02
On topographic maps by Ed
GAMEtatron — 24/6/2025 9:44 AM
@Ed Greenwood Hi Ed! I’m intending to make a physical overland map of Luruar. There is some info about heights etc. in various sources. For example, “The Forgotten Realms Atlas” by Karen Wynn Fonstad gives an impression of what is there, but little real height data.
Have you ever mapped regions in the Realms as topographic maps with proper height data that we can somehow access, or other expanded info of that sort that you can give access to, or put up for sale?
Ed Greenwood — 24/6/2025 10:30 AM
Some of my early "small locale" maps of the Realms were topographic maps, like those people in my home province of Ontario, Canada have always been able to purchase from the government (and third-party retailers) for hiking and camping purposes), but TSR didn't want them. I drew one for a mountain pass for the SILVER MARCHES supplement, but again, it wasn't used. And now, I have less than no time to draw new ones, or hunt down my old ones from fifty-some years ago, I'm afraid. |
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