PastorGall @PastorGall@TheEdVerse
any interesting #realmslore about darts, shurikens, any throwable types of weapons? I dont see much about them.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 7, 2020

1)
Throwing knives (carried in concealment, but handy-sheathed up wrists and down boots and backs of necks, mounted on chokers) are very much a thing in the Realms, but TSR de-emphasized them in print to avoid real-life… 2)
…tragedies (kid gamers getting hurt). Shuriken (in the Realms, “stars of death” [originally “deathstars,” but since Lucas later but so famously used the term, we can’t call them that any longer] are weapons in Semphar and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 7, 2020

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…Ulgarth and points east of both places, and are slowly spreading via pirates and sailors to ports everywhere in Faerûn. Darts, including flaming darts and enchanted darts, are also Realms staples from the beginning, but the… 4)
…magic ones, as they were activated by drawing blood upon striking a target, were omitted from the published Realms, as “blood magic” and so, verboten. Their effects ranged from explosions to dissolving into acid gouts to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 7, 2020

4)
…magic ones, as they were activated by drawing blood upon striking a target, were omitted from the published Realms, as “blood magic” and so, verboten. Their effects ranged from explosions to dissolving into acid gouts to… 5)
…delivering tiny ochre jellies and flesh-eating worms and venomous snakes to targets.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 7, 2020

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What are Murghom's military forces like? Being ruled by Dragons, I would expect quite a force to be reckoned with.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020

1)
Most of the dragon princes have thirty-some-strong “rides” of horse archers (they carry light javelins, that they throw while galloping, not using them as lances); fast, mobile, and used to fighting from the saddle or afoot. Personal weapons: handaxe or… 2)
…shortsword, shields worn across backs much of the time, leather armor, daggers at belt and down boot.
Plate armor is rarely seen in this land, except when worn by gate-guards and mansion doorguards.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020

@TheEdVerse moon elves, with their very pale skin and some having such pale hair too … I’m kinda wondering how common & how received are “alt” looks? Hair colours, especially odd or multi sort, piercings, tattoos … etc.
What would they use for the dyes too if you don’t mind?

— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️‍🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) October 11, 2020

1)
Moon elves tend to be very expressive, and that includes unusual hairdos and dying. Tattoos not common, but henna and other body painting (tattoos that fade and wear off and can be redrawn or replaced with different) popular. Forest berry, leaf, and bark dyes… 2)
…(see Amarune's Almanac 1: Forests of the Realms) such as blueleaf, flamebriar, and rowan are used, mixed with various saps and oils as carrier agents, for hair, nails, and body paint as well as textiles. Piercings are very rare among elves when metal is…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 11, 2020

3)
…involved (when it is, it's usually electrum, or alloys of silver that won't readily tarnish); more often, elven piercings involve a bone from a revered ancestor or lost loved one.
Eyeshadow, and symbols painted around an eye, are favorite moon elf adornments.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 11, 2020

How does this differ from sun elves, Ed?

— Leslie Courtney (@LeslieCourtne14) October 11, 2020

1)
The vast majority of sun elves go for gilded or bronzed (tans or cosmetic) bodily beauty and perfection, not alt or “goth” looks. They want to impress with how beautiful their bodies (and expensive, often-revealing garments)… 2)
…are, not how startling/”different” they can look. (So think of all the real-world TV elegant, Euro-style expensive fragrance commercials, and the A-list actress and celebs who appear in them, and that’s more what sun elves…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2020

3)
…strive for.) Sun elves tend to have more overt vanity.
Both my moon and sun elf descriptions on this topic are of course stereotypes, and may break down entirely when applied to any individual elf, adventurers in particular.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2020

If one were to opt to utterly ignore the Second Sundering in their home #ForgottenRealms #dnd5e game, what impact might that have on the latest power structures (nations, factions, guilds, etc?) You have to decide at least 3 things:
1. Is the Spellplague "over" and what's the resulting state of spellcasting and active magic in your Realms right now?
2. What gods and their faiths are "gone" or back, dwindling or flourishing?
3. Current Realmsdate?#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020

All excellent questions and food for thought. Thank you! Ponder, then reach out here and we can talk. The Piazza is right; if the Second Sundering didn't happen, the "macro" Realms is essentially as in 3e, but there are many local details updated for 5e that would apply (and more questions: did "Tyranny of Dragons" happen?)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020

I hadn’t even considered the micro/local impact. I was just thinking about the changes wrought by geography and nations transitioning from Abeir to Toril or the reverse. I like the Spellplague, and some of the events AROUND the Second Sundering…but maybe not the world-swaps? Hmm, actually now that I wrote that all out, maybe it's more that I liked the Far Realm / Wild Magic aspects of the Spellplague, but didn't so much like the world-swaps effects which were more tied to the Spellplague than the Second Sundering, yes?
Too many 'S' apocalypses! 🙂

— Jim Flory (@Inveterate_DM) October 25, 2020

So keep the wild magic, marauding Far Realm monsters, and invisible, wandering Far Realm/FR rifts, and have (post-2nd Sundering), all the lands back where they started from (no swaps). Most of 5e, at the micro/local level, is 3e updated by 150 years.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020

If the Mulhorand culture is of egyptian descent. That mean that in country’s like Thay they make pyramids to their leaders? And that tombs or pyramids could helped some of it owners to achieve undeath?

— Adriano (@bigobionic) November 13, 2020

1)
Although other designers introduced Earth-origin Egyptian and Sumerian elements into the Realms, and adventures that featured pyramids were retrofitted into the Realms, I didn’t put any direct real-world analogues into the Realms. There are no pyramids in Thay. 2)
If you want to add some, or a belief system involving mummification and the provision of tomb supplies for the afterlife et al, to your version of the Realms, do so by all means. But none of that is explicitly there in current Realms culture, due to the god-kings.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020