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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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 Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 08:05:16
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| Has it ever been explained why Ed uses a proxy, in The Hooded One, to field questions here? Is it just meant to help filter out the fluff and back-and-forth that goes on between us scribes, for simplification and time-saving purposes, or what? |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
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Sandro
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
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Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 08:34:10
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| As I understand it, it's because Ed's internet simply isn't up to the task of loading the forum. This could be old news, though -- I've been reading through the old So Saith Ed collections, so it could be from one of those. |
"Gods, little fishes, and spells to turn the one to the other," Mordenkainen sighed. "It's started already..." |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 11:13:45
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Yet another question... In the real world, if a year includes February 29th, it's a Leap Year. Is there any special designation for years that include Shieldmeet?
I think Ed's covered this one before. While I was collating some past replies over the weekend, I came across something like this.
I'll have to check.
I searched my own files and didn't find anything... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 11:16:27
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Originally posted by BEAST
Has it ever been explained why Ed uses a proxy, in The Hooded One, to field questions here? Is it just meant to help filter out the fluff and back-and-forth that goes on between us scribes, for simplification and time-saving purposes, or what?
As Sandro says, Ed's internet connection is rather sad. He's not in an area where high-speed is available (at least, not for a reasonable amount), and he's also got a lot of demands on his time. So our lovely Lady Hooded One wanders our halls, and passes questions and such to him.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 15:01:51
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I searched my own files and didn't find anything...
Yeah. I mistook it for a Shieldmeet-specific reply from Ed back in '05.
Carry on. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 15:04:01
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by BEAST
Has it ever been explained why Ed uses a proxy, in The Hooded One, to field questions here? Is it just meant to help filter out the fluff and back-and-forth that goes on between us scribes, for simplification and time-saving purposes, or what?
As Sandro says, Ed's internet connection is rather sad. He's not in an area where high-speed is available (at least, not for a reasonable amount), and he's also got a lot of demands on his time. So our lovely Lady Hooded One wanders our halls, and passes questions and such to him.
Yes, time is one of the major issues Ed faces when it comes to internet usage, as I recall. Plus, if he were to engage full-force on the web, he'd have little time to work on the Realmslore -- because there'd likely be near-infinite demands on his online time.
Ain't that right, milady Hooded One? |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 17:15:33
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That's right, Sage.
I represent Ed here at the Keep largely because I dragged him into responding at all. For the same reason he visits Facebook seldom: tech issues (Ed can only SEE Facebook at his day job high-speed work computers; he tells me that Flash issues simply crash his browsers at home when he tries to access it, on his connection - - he is using the most up-to-date Safari and Firefox and IE browsers that can run on his Net-connected computers...and what does load, loads v-e-r-y slowly; he simply can't watch any YouTube or any other streaming video) and time.
It's probably worth reminding all scribes, who may wonder why their queries haven't been answered yet, that Ed has a day job (with 65-mile roundtrip commute; nothing like the 220 miles he used to do, but still...). And lives in a rural area, in an aging house that requires lots of maintenance. He does a lot of the cooking and housework, all of the shopping and errands, is chair of his local library board (with all the volunteer work that entails), and writes at least two full-length novels and an average of a dozen short stories a year, plus two dozen web articles, writing or co-writing one or two full-length game products, and provide frequent design and/or editorial assistance "behind the scenes" (both paid and unpaid).
In short, he's busier than any two "Type-A" businessmen you may know, or about three of most of the rest of us. As well as being a generous and loyal guy who's "there" for his friends whenever he can manage to be, helping out seniors in his community and all the rest of it...
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createvmind
Senior Scribe
490 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2010 : 23:16:45
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jan 2010 : 02:25:36
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Yes, you have it folks. Ed is undoubtedly Lawful Good. Perhaps with a few paladin levels (at least enough pally levels so as to grant him divine grace and aura of courage...)
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Aysen
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 30 Jan 2010 : 06:30:32
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Greetings Ed, LHO, and fellow scribes!
I've another set of questions, this time from Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters. For those who have not read the book, SPOILERS!!
In Alustriel's chapter, regarding the dead-magic area in the Red Griffon Room, who did the actual enlarging of the "spell shadow"? Was it one of the mages of Labraster's cycle, another Red Wizard, or did Halaster specifically take charge of that, possibly with backing by Shar and her Shadow Weave?
More generally, how does one grow a magic-dead area without utilizing the Shadow Weave? It seems like one of those activities Mystra and Azuth are particularly vigilant for and would take direct action against. I remember a tidbit of lore regarding Elminster enlarging a wild-magic area through repeated meteor swarm spells during the Time of Troubles, and instances of dead-magic areas being created when the Weave was strained past the breaking point, but never enlarging an existing one.
Thanks Ed and LHO! |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jan 2010 : 02:30:47
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Heh, PDK, I'm thinking Ed's more CHAOTIC Good. He likes rules and order, as a concept, but has often noted that even those paid and trained to uphold laws and rules often don't do so without breaking such laws and rules themselves...and he is suspicious of most of the systems of "order" (as in: those on top 'order' things so as to benefit themselves and keep themselves on top, not necessarily for any more virtuous motives).
Being part of an organization that's supposed to work for the good of us all, and woring in it with my brain functioning and my eyes open, I can't really argue with either of the above-stated Ed concerns, either. 
Right now, Ed is happily polishing off a short story (writing, of course, not reading). Then, he tells me, he has to make soup. 
love to all,
THO |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2010 : 18:34:47
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Heh, PDK, I'm thinking Ed's more CHAOTIC Good. He likes rules and order, as a concept, but has often noted that even those paid and trained to uphold laws and rules often don't do so without breaking such laws and rules themselves...and he is suspicious of most of the systems of "order" (as in: those on top 'order' things so as to benefit themselves and keep themselves on top, not necessarily for any more virtuous motives).
Being part of an organization that's supposed to work for the good of us all, and woring in it with my brain functioning and my eyes open, I can't really argue with either of the above-stated Ed concerns, either.
Right now, Ed is happily polishing off a short story (writing, of course, not reading). Then, he tells me, he has to make soup.
love to all,
THO
Is it just me or did THO make chaotic good sound synonomous with Canadian? (at least like everyone I have met!) |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2010 : 23:08:55
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Yes, he did, didn't he?
Heh. Reminds me of Garrison Keillor's, "Hi, I'm from Minnesota. The state full of people ALMOST good enough to be Canadian."
Ahem. Hello, all.
A very interesting and fun little feature has just debuted over on the WotC boards, spearheaded by intrepid editor (sorry, editrix) Susan Morris, wherein she gets many of the current Wizards authors (including Ed) to answer questions, on a weekly basis. This first one is on what they'd do the deal with the zombie apocalypse, when it arrives...
Amusing fun; check it out, as they say...
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createvmind
Senior Scribe
490 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 00:34:53
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 10:42:21
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
So our lovely Lady Hooded One wanders our halls, and passes questions and such to him.
And let's admit it, we wouldn't want to miss the Lady...
Hmm. Ed sounds more like Neutral Good. The best kind of good! The type we have lots of in the Netherlands (though we also have a lot of Lawful Evil, a.k.a. bureaucrats) ;)
And for the lazy people, here is what our FR authors would do during the Zombie Apocalypse:
http://community.wizards.com/wotc_vetanda/blog/2010/02/01/fr_authors_speak:_the_zombie_apocalypse
(and I also provided my own answer to that question)
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 16:00:17
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Hmmm... Lhaeo (Elminster's THO, so to speak, but less ehr... hot). Is he still alive?
I don't think he is (have so far used someone else), but I may be wrong.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 18:24:51
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Originally posted by createvmind
Can you give any info on Sulasspryn? Is it still a chasm in the year 1372-73?
Sulasspryn (at least it's ruins) are visited (shorty) in Rich Baker's Corsair, but that is in year 1479. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Menelvagor
Senior Scribe
Israel
352 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 18:32:01
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| Which Lhaeo, actually? The first one, who left to be King of Tethyr, or the second? |
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation in the dust, are crushed before the moth?" - Eliphaz the Temanite, Job IV, 17-19.
"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" - Ecclesiastes VI, 6.
"There are no stupid questions – just a bunch of inquisitive idiots."
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 19:18:50
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Hi again, all.
createvmind, Ed tells me:
In the 1370s, Sulasspryn is still a ruin, sporadically inhabited by salvagers and hunters "camping out" in the ruins. Not to mention monsters and brigands preying on them, and the occasional caravan or prospectors' packtrain sheltering from fierce storms.
So saith Ed.
love,
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 20:37:22
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by gomez
Hmmm... Lhaeo (Elminster's THO, so to speak, but less ehr... hot). Is he still alive?
You mean post-Spellplague?
Yes.... and I didnt know there were two? |
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Menelvagor
Senior Scribe
Israel
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Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 22:13:28
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| Yes. The first one was actually Prince Haedrak of Tethyr, who was hidden there to protect him from his enemies. Lhaeo is a anagram for his full name 'Haedrak Errilam Alemander Olosar Lhorik' (first letters of each name in no order). he was replaced by another one, so there would be no suspicions regarding his identity. I quote from 'Lands of Intrigue: Tethyr' (Haedrak - the first Lhaeo - is the Narrator): "Within the passing of five tendays, we found you a replacement scribe of the ability and temerity to suit your household. While it was an indignity, you chose to weave an illusion about the scribe, so 'Lhaeo' remains your scribe to this day." |
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation in the dust, are crushed before the moth?" - Eliphaz the Temanite, Job IV, 17-19.
"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" - Ecclesiastes VI, 6.
"There are no stupid questions – just a bunch of inquisitive idiots."
"Let's not call it 'hijacking'. Let's call it 'Thread Drift'." |
Edited by - Menelvagor on 02 Feb 2010 22:16:01 |
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createvmind
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 22:40:54
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Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 19:18:50
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Hi again, all.
createvmind, Ed tells me:
In the 1370s, Sulasspryn is still a ruin, sporadically inhabited by salvagers and hunters "camping out" in the ruins. Not to mention monsters and brigands preying on them, and the occasional caravan or prospectors' packtrain sheltering from fierce storms.
So saith Ed.
love,
THO
Thanks for fast reply, exactly where it is located (30 miles between here and there) and does one climb down into it or has it filled in over the years, has the upper dark been connected to it since its collapse? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2010 : 23:41:40
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Originally posted by gomez
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by gomez
Hmmm... Lhaeo (Elminster's THO, so to speak, but less ehr... hot). Is he still alive?
You mean post-Spellplague?
Yes.... and I didnt know there were two?
Ed has actually talked a little about the "current" Lhaeo in previous replies here at Candlekeep. Specifically, see the '04 files in the "So Saith Ed" archive.
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2010 : 07:07:58
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In the Menzoberranzan [Boxed Set] (M[BS]), the third book, "The House Do'Urden Retrospective" ("THDUR"), doesn't seem to say who wrote it. Any ideas who put that together?
I'm trying to give Bob his credit in my chronology where it's due, without stepping on other authors' toes in the process.
[EDIT:] Also, while I'm at it, what was the publishing month for the set? The copyright page only says "1992".
I was trying to place it in relation to Bob's novel The Legacy (TL; SEP-1992). Since the "THDUR" cites events and even quotes passages from TL as a then-recent interrelated book, clearly they would've had to have been published around the same time.
Amazon lists the M[BS] twice: once in <JAN-1992>, and once in <DEC-1992>. December would make more sense, given the connections with the novel TL.
EDIT: The Keep lists it as OCT-1992 <here>. That jibes even better with a SEP-1992 date for The Legacy. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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gomez
Learned Scribe
Netherlands
254 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2010 : 12:26:34
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Not much on Lhaeo really, something about a web article, did that ever get published?
A question of a different kind then.
I have need for an sagely expert on alchemy in Marsember.
I was considering Amthur Ondamus, importer of medicines, or one of his descendants.
Does anyone know where he is detailed? Race, etc?
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2010 : 14:59:21
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Originally posted by gomez
Not much on Lhaeo really, something about a web article, did that ever get published?
Aye. 'Twas to be a "Realmslore" article as I recall. But no, it never was officially included as part of that online article series at WotC. Which is unfortunate.
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Blueblade
Senior Scribe
USA
804 Posts |
Posted - 03 Feb 2010 : 15:35:48
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I'm obviously neither Ed nor THO, but I dimly remember from GenCon discussions that Ed did the master map for Menzo and all of the text EXCEPT the material in one of the booklets (done by RAS and a co-writer), which probably was the House Retro. Ed, I'm sure, will remember.
As for the "replacement Lhaeo," I remember a GenCon seminar in which it was said (by Ed, with TSR/WotC staffers sitting right beside him who nodded rather than contradicting him), that it was a young female mage, on the run from something and nedding to hide just as the "first Lhaeo" had needed to hide, who stepped into impersonating Lhaeo, magically altering her appearance to do so.
Ed? THO?
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