@TheEdVerse are there some way do take some kind of photography in the realms? Like a gnomish invention, or a permanent illusion maybe even like the Moving pictures from the Harry Potter World.
— Júlio (@halfwhitebigode) February 20, 2020
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Quite a few practitioners in the Realms (such as senior War Wizards acting as spies) have seen the need for “capturing” images, both animated (short movies) and static images, and have developed their own variants of the2)
…Project Image spell and lesser cantrips and spells involving illusions, to be able to display the equivalent of a photograph or gif projected on a wall, table, floor, or even in midair, like a holograph. These spells tend to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 22, 2020
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…be carefully-guarded secrets, as those who wield them can make a good and fairly steady living casting them (income that would be endangered if they widely taught or sold scrolls of the spells). As a result, none of them is… 4)
…yet widely known (and on published spell lists).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 22, 2020