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…directly into the embrace of ‘their’ deity.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 16, 2020
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Derlusk is a port city of winding old streets crammed with two- and three-storey old houses. Most, at street level, are bookshops, selling all manner of books, from collected sermons to lurid fiction chapbooks to old histories. Upper floors of these buildings are 2)
…offices for scribes (who write letters for fees, e.g. love letters, or copy texts for patrons who want a second copy, and who often write and publish poems and fiction in their spare time); letter-press publishers; living quarters; or private libraries (used…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 22, 2020
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…by sages who write detailed, in-depth answers to questions, for fees). So the city contains far more books than Candlekeep, but many of them are duplicate copies of various tomes, and a lot of them are trashy fiction. The sages and scholars are experts at…#Realmslore 4)
…retrieving information, and knowing a little about a lot of things, so they know HOW to retrieve it (like knowing the names of important merchant families of Iriaebor two centuries ago, so you know what to look up when trying to find out more about mercantile…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 22, 2020
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…feuds back then). So think of them as veteran real-world librarians, more than philosophers. Nor are they monks of Oghma and Deneir. Derlusk is the readers’ paradise, not dedicated to preserving knowledge, but dedicated to selling books, preserving and. 6)
…collecting books, and writing and printing new books. Nobles from all over Faerûn pay merchants to go there and find them "good reads," and so it's the place where merchants sell libraries or books they've salvaged in their trading. It would be a mistake to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 22, 2020
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…think of Derlusk as trying to compete with Candlekeep, or fostering philosophers or schools of thinking–but it IS a place that can supply Candlekeep or schools of thought with necessary tomes. Quite a few folk have managed to get into Candlekeep by 8)
…proffering rare, forgotten tomes they bought at Candlekeep (and luckily for them, the monks didn't yet have in Candlekeep's vast library).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 22, 2020
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Anyone thinking of starting a fire in Derlusk to watch the whole city burn might be dissuaded by various legends known in the Borders, the Vilhon, Tethyr, Ormpurr, and around the Lake of Steam, that doing so will bring terrible curses down on the arsonist.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 22, 2020