@TheEdVerse for the sake of flavour & whimsy may we have a look into the Suzail Times Bestseller List of chapbooks 1e greybox times? I get a vibe from your and other novelists from back then that the top genre is bodice rippers. Any close competition?

— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️‍🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) February 8, 2019

E1) As of 1357-1360 DR, examples of #4 include: The Talvurs of Talvurgates (the true family history of the Talvur farming family of Dreamer’s Rock, some members of whom served long as Purple Dragons, others taking up adventuring…#Realmslore 2) …all over Faerûn, one prospecting in the Moonsea North until maimed by ogres, another becoming a successful pirate sailing the Sea of Fallen Stars, and one daughter marrying a guildmaster in Waterdeep and becoming the lover…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019

3) …of no less than three nobles at the same time) by Eldethelle Talvur; and By My Plume (the history of the Darendgannon courtier family, whose sigil is a single upright plume, and who have served in the Palace under sixteen… 4) …Kings of Cormyr, writing down fascinating minor details and gossip of Palace life and the personal characters, hobbies, dress, sayings, and private deeds of many Obarskyrs) by Chaethla Darendgannon, the eighty-six-year-old…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019

are the Forgotten Realms still forgotten? By most here in the real world, yes. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019

@TheEdVerse I'm designing a home game set on Cape Velen in Tethyr. What would be a good real-world inspiration for the environment and architecture? I was looking at Galicia, Spain.

— Just a Myth (@Eric_Menge) February 18, 2019

2)
Hi, Eric! Love the Moonshaes work!
Rural medieval Galicia (fieldstone buildings with tile or slate roofs) works, but not the grander city architecture of Tuy or Vigo, and certainly not the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela But all of these work for me:https://t.co/m9scLzJDS6
and:https://t.co/9vHkrkwkHw
and: …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019

3)https://t.co/WWDwWuEZQs
&:https://t.co/khSD5TlRkD#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019

4)
and:https://t.co/3D90Glscmu
…work for you?
I figure “grand” houses in Velen are akin to this:https://t.co/gE3i4az1GO
Lots of trees and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019

5)
…scrub woodland, hilly country, rock outcrops everywhere, and rural field boundaries would be a mix of drystone walls (rock taken from the fields in tillage) and bocage-style tall living hedges, with dirt-lane-side ditches.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019