@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

But, does this mean someone who does NOT worship shar, can draw on the shadow weave. And is the shadow weave weak in every regards? Also, why would AO care about the weave?

And speaking of which. If Io gave up his body, mind, and soul….

— T.O.R_Alexander (@TORAlexander1) January 29, 2020

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And unless they become that close to Shar, they usually won’t know HOW to access the Shadow Weave. Like Weave-based spells, you must craft the spell properly (incantation, somatic and material component, and your own…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020

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…mindset/concentration as caster, during perfect performance of the casting) in order for it to work at all. If you don’t know how to do it “just right,” no access, and (if you’re lucky!) no magic. 4)
As for Io and Sardior: You’re applying LOGIC to matters of faith? Really? Bravo, but so many folk in the Realms don’t, and so worship as they do.
And dragons think not as humans do…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020

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… (like elves, they take “the long view,” and more most other sentients, they consider themselves truly special and greater than other races). So what they revere differs from what we put our faith in.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020