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questing gm
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 Posted - 23 Apr 2024 : 12:52:16
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On charges for "services" by worshippers of Sune
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1782580724920390098
Apr 23, 2024
@Ravenpenny
@TheEdVerse I have ab it of a weird question: But do worshippers of Sune ever charge for their uhhh "services"? Free love and all, but wouldn't this sort of "tithe" help keep the church going?
@TheEdVerse
Yes, but NEVER directly, and no tipping. The roundabout way it's done is to have "special" clean sheets and special undergarments worn, and then charge a side fee (a trifle inflated) for their "after cleaning." |
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questing gm
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Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 27 Apr 2024 : 04:17:11
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On education in mother-belly for half-elves
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1784011684094365703
Apr 27, 2024
@AstralMangudai
Hey, @TheEdVerse , according to Cormanthor: Empire of Elves, Elves take some kind of education in mother-belly. Question is how that works for half-elves? Like if had an Elf mother and human father or half-Elf mother? How that affects the child?
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@TheEdVerse
Elf and half-elf mothers do this alike, regardless of who their child's father is. What differs with every individual mother and unborn babe is how well the teaching goes, and the child-to-be learns; it varies a lot (partly by the life experience of the mother). |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 03 May 2024 : 06:47:57
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On what inspired Ed to make the Forgotten Realms
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1785359357057613910
May 1, 2024
@duckiiphotos
What inspired you to make the forgotten realms!
@TheEdVerse
I was five years old, and (bored) in kindergarten had a daydream about two ladies with silver hair. I wanted to know more about them, and their world around them. So I started writing stories. A decade before D&D. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 05 May 2024 : 09:25:15
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On "By my halidom!"
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1786538100316869078
May 4, 2024
@KyreneZA
@TheEdVerse, in Crown of Fire, Mirt exclaims: "By my halidom!" and even gets questioned about it by one of the Harper 'ladies'. Is it just an out of fashion nonsense saying folks use or something else?
@TheEdVerse
Heh. Mirt picked it up from Elminster, who got it while visiting our real world Earth and hanging out at a Ren Faire. When El said it, it sounded REALLY dirty to Mirt, so he took to using it with gusto.
We actually covered this in a panel at a Milwaukee-era GenCon. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 15 May 2024 : 10:35:02
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On befriending a mimic
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1790388308750598243 https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1790392066511454285
May 14, 2024
@CJMac100
Hail and well met Mr. Greenwood,
If you have the time to humor a strange question, I would be extremely grateful. Is it possible to befriend and/or train a mimic to act as a companion/pet?
@TheEdVerse
Oh, yes. Like humans, they vary widely in personality. Some are loyal and affectionate, many are as self-minded as the Luggage (Discworld), and a lot are "in between."
@CJMac100
Thank you so much for answering my question! It brightens my day immensely to gain wisdom from the master himself
@TheEdVerse
My pleasure! (Some are companions or pets, others decidedly not. There's even a spelljammer sailing Realmspace crewed entirely by "treasure chests," meaning mimics that ate the goblin crew, and now go hunting the gullible to get fresh meals.) |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 01 Jun 2024 : 02:16:28
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On Jergal still a god
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1796548782907379936
May 31, 2024
@magnet_hands
@TheEdVerse Is Jergal still a god? Is he a quasi-diety, or something else even? Are quasi-dieties considered gods?
Pendantry is fine; the specifics matter for my campaign! Thank you in advance
@TheEdVerse
Jergal remains a god. All gods are divine beings, but not all divine beings are gods. For instance, many deities have servitors (e.g. the Chosen of Mystra). Some are effectively immortal, unless destroyed; they are divine but not gods. "God" is just a mortal label. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 04 Jun 2024 : 07:33:37
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On the D&D cartoon set in the Forgotten Realms
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797486361592967510
Jun 3, 2024
@lordjonray
@TheEdVerse I was wondering if you could settle some speculation for me from fans of the D&D Cartoon from the 80s? There are some saying the show took place in Forgotten Realms back in 1983-1985. But most know it was called “The Realm” created just for the show.
@TheEdVerse
The D&D Cartoon was deliberately set in its own "world." Not the Forgotten Realms.
The name "the Realm" was likely borrowed from FR, which was well established in the pages of The Dragon (DRAGON Magazine); Realms articles started appearing therein in 1979. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 04 Jun 2024 : 07:39:04
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On weddings
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797489395857236181 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797696096699121704 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797696682110640153 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797699740131561711
Jun 3, 2024
@Skeptical_Lynx
a question for science: does anyone know how tieflings get married? or how people in D&D get married in general? do they give vows in front of their deity? are there any interesting rituals?
@TheEdVerse
I can't speak for D&D in general. In the Realms, ceremonies vary over time, place, budget, clan, and species, but primarily by the clergy the couples want to wed them (i.e. predominant faith, out of all the gods that everyone believes in). Over the years, I've detailed over a dozen wedding rituals. Tieflings in the Realms don't have "tiefling weddings" based on race, no. As in our real world, ceremonies can vary if you're noble, if you're wealthy, and if the clergy approve of you or not (i.e. how much control you can get over the ritual and surrounding celebrations). Some priests want a large donation, some (clergy of the Joybringer, for example) are happier with a huge feast with good musicians, dancing, and revelry...the same things that would offend other clergy.
@rikthekobold
all my weddings are at the Temple of Karsus
@TheEdVerse
Heh. Reminds me of Mirt's old jest: "All MY weddings are in the end bed, on the right."
@Skeptical_Lynx
thank you so much for giving an answer!
@TheEdVerse
My pleasure!
For most weddings, in the Realms these days, the couple crafts their own ceremony with the clergy (or paladin) they want to wed them.
For tieflings, I'd expect they'd entwine tails during their vows, if said tails are long enough.
@SCARYWIZARD89
Ed Greenwood, on Forgotten Realms weddings!
If my Adventurers League Conjurer ever gets married, I'd want to attend since she follows Azuth; my Illusionist's might be confusing, her veering towards Leira and all... #128569;#128575; "Are you two married, now, or not...? What's goin g on?"
@TheEdVerse
Those who venerate Leira strongly discover: for major life choices (getting married, sacrificing one’s own life, taking a life) Leira wants NO deception, but The Truth of Revelation (“Truth Revealed”): showing the world plainly and clearly where one stands. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 04 Jun 2024 : 07:51:43
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On word for the troglodyte language or culture
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797689272767750423 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797697799213232503
Jun 4, 2024
@PloddyHobby
Building a setting primer for a particular sword coast ting, largely as a fun worldbuilding exercise, n finding myself wishing there was a word for the troglodyte language or culture - idk if @TheEdVerse has one anywhere
@TheEdVerse
Troglodytes in the Realms use scent, gesture, and spoken language to communicate, but beyond lone marker glyphs, don’t write. The language they use is Draconic (with a simplified vocabulary), but troglodytes just call it “Glav” (which is “speech” in Draconic).
They call themselves Vechrand, a name derived from the Draconic versvech = strong and arand = core, heart of, and when speaking of something they own or have made or that is of their culture, will say “uvech” which means ours, us, of us
@PloddyHobby
would this mean that "Uvech Glav" or some variation would be a suitable way for one of the Vechrand to refer to their particular dialect / way of communicating?
@TheEdVerse
Sure. Just "Glav" with one another (fellow troglodytes) in daily usage. "Uvech Glav" only when they're trying to distinguish between Vechrand converse and, say, a dragon and a human wizard speaking Draconic. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 04 Jun 2024 : 07:55:42
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On Bane's first appearance
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1797690588705497483
Jun 4, 2024
@the40kmodeller
Another week, another Monday and another #RandomWhiteDwarfCover
Issue 60. December 1984
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@ChrisW_Theatre
Interesting that "The Fear of Leefield" features a worshipper of Bane (later to find fame in the Forgotten Realms)! Had to check when he first appeared, and it was 1981 in Dragon Magazine (created, of course, by @TheEdVerse)
@TheEdVerse
Bane first appeared in the Mirt the Moneylender short story "Even Her Fangs Had Talons" published in SWORDS OF THE NORTH Issue #2, September 1968. (Yes, before D&D was created.) |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
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Posted - 06 Jun 2024 : 09:03:46
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On "awesome facts" about Ilmater and Malar
Jun 6, 2024
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1798551883818377364 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1798547482986819854
@MattPegoraro
My greatest Man! I love Malar and FR bald Jesus aka Ilmater! Can you name some awesome facts about them as well?
@TheEdVerse
And now, lore of Ilmater:
* Most Ilmatari clergy who advance in the regard of the deity accept pain and suffering to aid others rather than self-inflicting. Self-inflicting is usually done only as self-punishment for transgressions from tasks set for Ilmatari by superiors. In the original Realms campaign, the only Ilmatari cleric who sought out harm for himself was driven to do so by dream-visions he believed were sent by the god as guidance. Most Ilmatari think self-harm is “cheap show” rather than real devotion.
* The Book of Torment isn’t the same as the Tome of Torment (which is a hair shirt I detailed in the Prayers From The Faithful 2e Realms sourcebook). The Book of Torment began as an in-house (not for public eyes) Church of Ilmater account of the times that Ilmater directly responded to prayers, entreaties, and queries from his clergy. Copies were made and distributed to every temple. And then, over time, spells and rituals and church rulings were added, new editions of the book produced, and old copies “retired” to altar flames. Each new edition has multiple copies written out by hand, so they can be distributed to every temple (not all the shrines, just full temples).
* Priests of Ilmater can and do fight on behalf of others, but when their own faith is attacked, are essentially pacifists; they’re “turn the other cheek, take the punishment” sorts (with a few paladin exceptions).
* Ilmater will occasionally send altar-visions or dream-visions to his faithful (clergy and lay worshippers, adventurers in particular) that to achieve a specific result, battle, aggression, and even deception on their part are approved by him—but only for this particular purpose. As a result, no others can “depend” on Ilmatari “always” surrendering or standing aside or submitting.
@TheEdVerse
Here’s a quick list of interesting Malar lore:
* Worgs worship Malar, as “The Great One,” who rewards them when they pass by accepting them into the Great Hunt that never ends; bloodlust time, when they can savage former masters along with all other juicy prey.
* The more “elemental/natural” the essential nature of a deity (Malar, also Auril, Chauntea, Eldath, Silvanus, and Talos), the more they feel the need to connect directly with the land.
* Followers of Malar openly seek to destroy the church and works of Helm.
* Malar personally hunts and seeks to slay and devour other deities (of a power level he thinks he can overcome), quasi-deities, and the divine servitors of other deities. He lurks and watches such targets for weaknesses, and so, knows more about their doings and habits than many. His goal? To replace deities, receiving their worship (and granting spells to their clergies in their name, so not even their churches will realize what he’s done). It remains to be seen how far Ao will let him go, down this murderous path.
- Edited on 10/6/24 to add dates. Thanks for the heads-up AJA! |
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Posted - 10 Jun 2024 : 01:21:54
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On mimic reproduction
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1799954135204458737
Jun 10, 2024
@sapiensnaraito
@TheEdVerse How do mimics reproduce?
@TheEdVerse
I'm tempted to reply "Very carefully."
However, there is a canon answer for this: when a mimic eats enough to grow too big for its personal body chemistry, it splits into two smaller mimics. |
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AJA
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Posted - 10 Jun 2024 : 01:45:08
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questing gm, thank you for continuing on with your efforts here. I continue to get a great kick out of coming in here every week or so and finding bundles of Edlore, just waiting to be read!
– One minor housekeeping note, there was no dates given in your post for the pair of On "awesome facts" about Ilmater and Malar tweets (both Jun 05, 2024)
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
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Posted - 11 Jun 2024 : 08:47:34
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On Clarorna Amaerityl
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1800250384235311537
Jun 11, 2024
@Artie_Pavlov
She looks like she means business. Who is she? @TheEdVerse #Realmslore https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/File:Synaptic_static.jpg
@TheEdVerse
That’s Clarorna Amaerityl, wizardess of Athkatla, often hired by House Selemchant when they ran into mercantile resistance that might involve violence. Known to be researching longevity alternatives to lichdom, as her years weigh on her (she’s over ninety, though she looks about 48 winters old) and her body starts to ache, pain, and become increasingly frail. Her everpresent pain has noticeably shortened her temper.
A brilliant woman who is kind to simple and common folk, but expects the wealthy and powerful to behave responsibly. Has been known to speak very bluntly to the Council of Five when she thinks their policies are cruel or shortsighted.
A formidable foe in a fight, thanks to her chain contingency spells, that unleash four to six “hanging” spells in succession, once triggered, that usually whisk her away from a fray to healing elsewhere, and unleash various “parting shot” magics.
A friend to Laeral, but cool to Alustriel. Regards Elminster as a useful “loose cannon,” and has been known to jest with him. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 11 Jun 2024 : 08:52:49
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On beholders dealing with logs and specks in their eyes
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1800255466838134872
Jun 11, 2024
@thechairmanxyz
Do beholders know how to deal with the logs in their eyes yay the specks in others. Now there's a condundrim
@TheEdVerse
Beholder spittle, swiped out of their maw with one eyestalk and swabbed in any other eye, cleans it without irritating it. Don’t try this your own spittle! |
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questing gm
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Posted - 14 Jun 2024 : 18:01:52
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On the canal near Innarlith connecting the Nagaflow to the Lake of Steam
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1801471480498098275
Jun 14, 2024
@HeroOfTheForge
@TheEdVerse Was the canal near Innarlith connecting the Nagaflow to the Lake of Steam finished & is it still extant? It is only on maps in the Watercourse trilogy(?). IF this exists, what prevents a city on it from becoming a MAJOR trade hub rivaling any Sword Coast port? Thx!
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@TheEdVerse
The canal was finished. However, it started to silt up due to the velocity with which the Nagaflow emptied through it almost immediately, and the canal quickly became impassible to deep-draft ships: only small boats, coracles, and rafts could pass through it reliably. On several occasions, larger ships “ran aground” in it and became obstacles that had to be set afire (to burn to the waterline), and then the hulls dragged out with the assistance of water elementals and the like. Eventually barge travel began along it, but was immediately plagued by fighting between mercenary forces hired by various Calishite straps, the Zhentarim, and various merchant costers who set up bases in Innarlith and in encampments and nearby keeps. Barges were sunk, burned, boarded and taken, retaken, and then ships were hired to blockade the Lake of Steam end of the canal, then deliberately sunk to block the Lake of Steam end of the canal (as the silt brought from the Nagaflow piled up around these hulks)…all in the name of controlling canal traffic to enrich this or that interest.
In the end, the canal never became a fast, profitable trade route for anyone, because the fighting was still going on when the canal was utterly destroyed in the Second Sundering (in 1482 DR), blocked by a mountain range from Abeir that changed the course of the Nagaflow 107 years after the canal was completed. When the Sundering was done (Abeir and Toril had “passed through” each other and moved on—for now), the canal was little more than tortured ground, full of mountainous heaps of loose rock, and no water. With various Red Wizards sent to spy on, and prevent, any Zhentarim (or anyone else’s) attempts to dig a new canal.
So, entrenched interests successfully prevented this new competition for trade flows between the Sword Coast and the Sea of Fallen Stars. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 18 Jun 2024 : 01:38:44
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On House Halaut coat of arms
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1802831256574677356
Jun 18, 2024
@Brad7658
@TheEdVerse Hey Ed, starting your Novel Spellstorm because of an interest in Cormyr nobility for a character idea I had and just wondering, did you ever visualize what House Halaut coat of arms was sorta leaning on this house for a character and would love to stay in lore.
@TheEdVerse
Sure! In modern heraldic cant, House Halaunt’s blazon is thus:
Arms: Pean on a Bend Sable fimbriated Or between two Eagles displayed Argent beaked legged and crowned Or three Estoiles Argent.
Crest: Rising from a Mural Crown Or a Sun irradiated proper.
Supporters: On the dexter a Pegasus Argent crined unguled and winged Or and on the sinister a Lion guardant winged at the shoulders Or the whole upon a Grassy Mound proper
In everyday speech, this is:
A face-on shield of slate gray with a gold-edged diagonal gray stripe crossing it from upper left to bottom right, with three silver six-wavy-pointed stars spaced evenly along the stripe. Above and below the stripe are mirrored fields of gray with many small identical gold charges that all look like a point-up equilateral triangle of gold balls with a straight-down three-pointed tail decending from the triangles, spaced in a pattern all over them, and centered in the lower left and the upper right fields are two silver eagles, wings raised and splayed out, gold legs also splayed out, beaks to the left (so, heads side-on), and these eagles are wearing little gold three-squared-off-pointed crowns. Floating just above the shield is a side-on golden crown that has four squared-off points (spikes); these points are the crenelations of a castle wall (battlements), because the crown itself is made up of visible gold blocks (you can see the joints between them, so it looks like a brick wall humped in the center like a footbridge over a river that curves up and down in an arc).
Rising up out of the crown (so that its bottom rays are “behind” the crown’s inner two crenelations/points) is a sun: a gold disc with five straight rays or points (up, left, right, and two diagonal lower ones), with a second layer of wavy golden rays behind it, so that there’s a wavy ray between each straight point.
A silver pegasus is standing on its hind legs, on a ground made up of little green (grassy) humps, holding up the viewer’s left side of the shield. It is looking straight at the other supporter (so, head side-on to the viewer) and has uplifted golden wings (big feathers) and golden hooves. On the right side of the shield, also standing on its hind legs on the grassy ground, is a red-clawed golden lion, also with uplifted big-feathered golden wings, but it’s snarling right at the viewer (head turned to face the viewer).
Underneath is a gold-hued scroll (its back surface is shown at either end, where it’s curved in a frozen “flapping-tail” position, and is revealed to be scarlet) bearing a motto (not officially part of the blazon, but still regulated by the High Heralds), which reads in the Common Tongue: “Stand True"
And there you have it: the blazon/arms of House Halaunt. |
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questing gm
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Posted - 22 Jun 2024 : 07:03:50
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On first video of Sembia
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1804209289491345543
Jun 22, 2024
@TheEdVerse
This is the first of several videos I have recorded on Sembia, the "land of fat rich merchants."
After a long and difficult Netherese occupation, the attitudes of Sembia's nobility have changed! #dnd #forgottenrealms #realmslore
#9654;#65039; https://youtu.be/HM0fVidJjXo |
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questing gm
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Posted - 28 Jun 2024 : 01:17:19
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On doppelgangers in the Realms
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1806420061030060373
Jun 28, 2024
@TheEdVerse
Doppelgangers, doppelgangers everywhere! ;}
Join me as I take a look at these shapeshifting imposters (known to themselves as Shallar) and expose the truth about just how many of them are lurking in the Realms! #realmslore #forgottenrealms #dnd
#9654;#65039; https://youtu.be/1iI9CfkjKhk
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questing gm
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Posted - 30 Jun 2024 : 02:24:43
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On some dwarven words for family relationships
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1806533788966502485
Jun 28, 2024
@sesaiaset
@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 #129763;
@TheEdVerse
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”), and a cousin is son-of-aunt or aunt-son (“kralvade-karra-aurvel”) or daughter-of-uncle or uncle-daughter (“kralvade-kral-auva”).
aurvel: son
auva: daughter
ilith: deal, agreement, trust of one’s word or honor
karra: my heir or I am the heir of (female)
karravade: mother of (speaker or another)
kral: my heir or I am the heir of (male)
kralvade: father of (speaker or another)
krauth: immediate kin, daily living-with family (bloodkin as opposed to friends and companions)
larrul: to weep
luthkarra: sister by birth/blood
luthlarkarra: sister by marriage
luthkral: brother by birth/blood
luthlarkral: brother by marriage
mur: to disagree
murmel: to argue, debate
murmelings: arguments, criticism, words of dissention
runedar: home, familiar place, haven
sakrauth: trusted kin
samman: trusted friend, shield-brother (battle companion)
taerin: love (true love, ‘deep’ love)
tah: converse, discourse, discussion
tahul: to speak, to discuss
thalorn: kindness, caring, good deed
tulvade: an elder or senior (dwarf of a community, clan or family)
uldoum: favored dwarven settlement, meaning favored by the speaker, which is a formal way of saying “I am of that settlement”
vakrauth: distant bloodkin (lineage, not just of the same clan)
@KyreneZA
Hi Ed,
Would "uncle" and "aunt" also be rendered from the mother's side or is the heirship ("karra"/"kral") always spoken of as inheriting from a male?
@TheEdVerse
Rendered from both sides (I just happened to give male side in that example).
Twitter is a real pain for long lore missives (hence my Greenwood's Grotto Discord server and my Patreon). |
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