1.) Been researching a piece of lost Waterdeep lore and would like your thoughts on it @TheEdVerse 🙂
So the TSR employee Karen Boomgaarden worked as an editor on the sourcebook “City System” (1988), as well as an editor & author on “Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalogue” (1992)…… 2.) City System's map of Waterdeep features a street named after her and is the only map of the city to do so. Aurora's features a detailed store in Waterdeep named after her.The location of the store has never been specified, nor detailed on a map, so could this street be it? pic.twitter.com/HduuiST5Vs
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It could indeed. See the big building fronting on the west side of The Boomgarden, its roofpeak walk centered between the two “Os” of “Boomgarden”? That’s the place. Sky-blue awning over the street door. 2)
Rooming-houses dominate The Boomgarden, with “sorting houses” (where goods brought from a warehouse are assembled into specific in-city customer orders and crated for delivery) dominating the SE block fronting on “the Garden.”#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2021
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The building on the NW corner of the moot of Fillet Lane and the Garden is Mhaalauvur’s, a “jug” shop where you can buy bulk (human-head-sized jugfulls) cooking oils, scented washing soap flakes, axle grease, “slicewash”…4)
…(liquid disinfectants), and “droot” (a root-beer-like non-alcoholic drink made from nut and root distillates, often added to bad beer or spirits to make them more palatable).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2021
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The building at the head of the cul-de-sac (NW of the “T” in “The”) is Amalae’s, where Amalae and her six housemates offer baths, hair-washings and -stylings, “touches” (manicures and pedicures), and cosmetic applications, in… 6)
…their separate rooms, to separate clients. Sometimes they share beds with a patron for a night, for a fee, or sleep in the attic if a client wants a “safe house” space to sleep in, for a night. (Wizards have been known to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2021
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…rent a room here for private spell-study.) Look for the soft blue light of its door-lamp.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 14, 2021