Is every parcel claimed by someone, as it pretty much is here? Are there places you can go into the woods and just stake out a claim? Places where the Crown is involved in every claim? Places where you have to appease two different groups?
2/2— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) October 9, 2019
@TheEdVerse,
What I'm really wondering is…if you found a portal to some where in Faerun, how involved would it be to acquire the legal claim to it? Or where there is little law, enough recognition that people don't bother you about your new construction project.— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) October 9, 2019
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The answer is: it depends. On where, precisely, in the Realms you’re interested in settling. In cities, every patch of ground is owned, and there is planning control (if only to stop some greedy latecomer building on a street, and “cutting off” those already.. 2)
…sited along it). In tightly-governed Realms, there are deeds to land, and control of vacant lands (if "the Crown" is distant, there's a local lord/courtier/bureaucraft administering the royal interests, or local nobles who control lands and rent them out, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 10, 2019
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…sell them, or gift them). But in many, many wilderland areas of the Realms (most of the countryside of the Heartlands or the Sword Coast North, for example), you can just “squat” (settle, build a home, and live there) and no one will bother you. That’s pretty.4)
…much how Everlund was first settled. In many cases, all that happens is that, later on, someone comes along to collects taxes, annually. Not demand a deed, or sell you one, or tell you that you can't build another barn or outhouse; they just want the coin.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 10, 2019