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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
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 Posted - 10 Apr 2025 : 14:20:09
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On Elsura Dauniir and Baelem the Bold surviving the Spellplague, and still travelling in the 1490s
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1910223538528616955
Apr 10, 2025
@Heimdayl
Did Elsura Dauniir and Baelem the Bold survive the Spellplague, and are they still travelling alone in the 1490s?
@TheEdVerse
They did, but there's a story there! Expect a Realms video in three or four months or so... |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1581 Posts |
Posted - 13 Apr 2025 : 05:40:02
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On Midnight's height
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1910762566776746018
Apr 12, 2025
@Elric428th
Hi Ed
We’re running a campaign that features Midnight, and there’s a bit of a debate about her height—any chance you could settle it for us?
@TheEdVerse
Midnight as a mortal stands 5ft 6 ½ (168.9 cm) tall (so, the same height as Angelina Jolie, for those who've met her). |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1581 Posts |
Posted - 13 Apr 2025 : 05:52:37
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On Torm and the Penance of Duty circa 1500DR
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1910764913791820012
Apr 12, 2025
@AndrewFarmer777
Hey @TheEdVerse With the revival of Tyr in the Second Sundering, Torm seems like he "disappeared." As an avid Champion of Torm lover, is Torm still around in FR, and do his followers still follow the Penance of century past?
@TheEdVerse
Torm is very much “still around” in the Realms circa 1500 DR, his church small but energetic and very much a “factor on the local scene” in most places on Faerûn. His devout followers still perform the Penance of Duty; doing so shapes and guides their lives. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1581 Posts |
Posted - 14 Apr 2025 : 06:25:49
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On Uttersea
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1911509029274198487
Apr 14, 2025
@Planescaper91
Hello from France,
I'm an old DM and a great fan of Forgotten Realms.
Currently I'm running a campaign near Tuern and particularly Uttersea. I wasn't able to find a map of that small town.
Do you have any advise for its design please.
@TheEdVerse
Sure!
Originally, the volcanic island was known as Uttersea, as to seafaring Northmen it marked the beginning of vast open seas, uncharted and “empty of all but storms.” The rich volcanic soil, coupled with the volcanic heat that still warms the half-collapsed caldera and the bay that now fills its missing southern arc, made it great for farming, so the Northmen seized it and settled. The land became known as Tuern after an early leader, and the settlement known as Uttersea. It was settled haphazardly, but frequent landslides forced a design on it that persists today: stone wharves jut out into the bay and are joined together along the shore into a hard “dock” with two large “beaching ramps” where ships large and small can be winched ashore; upland of both ramps are large shipbuilding sheds.
Above them, Uttersea climbs the slopes of the caldera, which are thickly planted with clinging vines and stunted shrubs and trees to anchor the “clinker” stone-rubble-dominated soil as much as possible.
Streets follow a switchback pattern: from the ends of the dock, packed-clinker roads curve along the caldera parallel to the dock, like rice-growing terraces on slopes in parts of the real-world Far East, with NO direct uphill/downhill routes, just the curves at both ends of the parallel runs.
The best houses are located as high as possible, off to the sides of the main “bands” of streets on their own side-lanes. |
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Zeromaru X
Great Reader
Colombia
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Posted - 20 Apr 2025 : 04:31:25
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Instead of seeking change, you prefer a void, merciless abyss of a world... |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1581 Posts |
Posted - 22 Apr 2025 : 10:51:29
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On Vecna and popsicles
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1914570691044651075
Apr 22, 2025
@GatoNegroArmy
Someone ask him if vecna likes popsicles.
@TheEdVerse
Yes! Vecna likes all manner of sweets (Elminster has seen him devour various flavors of ice cream, chocolate bars with cherry filling, and even candy floss!). Liches don't need to eat, so it must be pure pleasure chowing! |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1581 Posts |
Posted - 22 Apr 2025 : 11:00:23
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On why druids can't wear metal armor
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1914572066965147784
Apr 22, 2025
@JoshAirey88
@TheEdVerse We've been discussing in my group why druids cannot use metal armour. My thought is that metal is as natural as leather or cloth (if not more so), but my friend said something about "interference with the weave and the natural order."
Could you clarify this for us?
@TheEdVerse
Yes. The D&D in-house design thinking has always been that NATURAL iron or copper in the earth is no hindrance to druidic magic, but REFINED, concentrated metal items ("cold iron") is. When the Realms was made a D&D setting, that became canon for the Realms. |
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