@TheEdVerse Hi, I've been looking for information about Hawkhill and the Baron's Blades band stationed there. Do the barony and band persist into the post-Second Sundering era? And who were the band's members? (I've only found out about Lashantar from her Thaldigar's Tower sheet)
— Belial Lyka (@TimeBust) May 4, 2020
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Hawkhill is a remote barony in the northernmost foothills at the northeastern end of the Cloud Peaks that form the northern border of Amn. It consists mainly of dirt lanes and sheep farms: rolling pastures fenced with 2)
…gathered-together boulders-and-rubble fieldstone walls.
The Baron of Hawkhill, a retired adventurer (a blustering, monocle-sporting, moustachioed fighter who discovered his Gift late in life, and is now dabbling in the Art, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 4, 2020
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…though he’s but a novice wizard; a widower, he dwells in a small keep, and has a tall, muscular paladin of a daughter) hired an adventuring band to be his personal bodyguard and enforcers: the dozen-strong Baron’s Blades 4)
These are 2e D&D characters I used in playtests for TSR from 1993 to 1997 (and in many GenCon charity events and other convention Realmsplay sessions, down the years), and consist of:
…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 4, 2020
Bralagar CN hm P7 of Tempus
Lashantar CG hf P7 of Tymora
Tashram CG hm P7 of Tymora
Elthreene CG hf W8
Maskar CG hm W8
Zhond NG hm W4
Brella Ilfrost NG hf F8
Chandlara Flamestar CG hf F9
Thorm Dunsheld NG hm F9 6)
…
Delthrar Dawnstorm NG hm R9
Ildrem Thaln CN hm T9
and
Symbril Cragar CN hf T10
(For more recent adopters of D&D, a “Rogue” was once a “Thief” and that’s what the Ts are.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 4, 2020
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And they (and the Baron, his daughter, and all the folk of his keep) survived the Spellplague and the Sundering, and are still alive today, thanks to a Phezult's Sleep of Ages trap accidentally triggered by the Blades ("treasure" they brought back to the keep).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 4, 2020
Actually, is this placement right? Dragon 268’s The New Adventures of Volo article puts Hawkhill in the foothills of the Troll Mountains, further to the east, which seems easier to reconcile with the consistent description of the barony being in “northeasternmost Amn” Hawkhill is indeed in the foothills of the Troll Mountains, but if you're Amnian, there's no such thing: the Troll Mountains don't exist, it's all "the Cloud Peaks." And being as the Baron is very much of Amn…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 5, 2020