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Yes.
I’ll repost here what I said on FB: “Certainly. The Realms (with Tempus in it) started in 1966; so far as I can recall, the first Mirt tale in which I mentioned Tempus was written in 1968. Thieves World first saw print in 1978, the Sacred Band envisaged… 2)
…as a series later. "Tempus" is Latin for time, and I named my wargod for time as a nod to the 'history is written on the battlefield' saying, and for this: my father was in signals (radar) and military intelligence with the Canadian forces, and did work on…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 28, 2020
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…missile guidance in the Cold War, in which accurate targeting in tests was written down as “YTIO” in case ‘the wrong eyes’ saw the writings; YTIO stands for “Your Time Is Up.” So I borrowed the word tempus for my wargod. Years later, I asked Bob Asprin where…
#Realmslore 4)
…he came up with the TW pantheon from, and he said Poul Anderson and Andy Offut cooked up the pantheon between them (or rather, one contributed a single page of ideas and the other "fixed" it by fleshing it out), and the gods' names were ALL in-jokes, allusions,#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 28, 2020
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…and literary references, some very obscure. My connection with Asprin came through Hugo-winner Mike Glicksohn, my wife’s nephew, who received an original “wanna contribute?” TW package, and much later showed it to me while we were drinking an evening away… 6)
…Roger Zelazny over a poker game (more talking storytelling than playing, and more devouring pears and Stilton than drinking).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 28, 2020