Newest issue of the Waterdeep Sentinel from my home #dnd campaigns featuring investigation into the accusations against Open Lord Silverhand. I wonder what @TheEdVerse would think about the Xanathat using alternative facts against the Open Lord? pic.twitter.com/5mJPyCj3nP
— Eric Jordan (@ericremyjordan) December 7, 2019
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LOVE those broadsheets!
Everyone in the Deep (nobles, guilds, Masked Lords, crime bosses of all species) have long used alternative facts against each other, so it’s spot-on. (Laeral will just ignore until forced to do otherwise, thanks to who she is) 2)
She will, however, privately point out the suspicious nature of the published accusations. Certain bribed journalists will likely receive menacing private visits from agents sent by various Masked Lords…with priests of Tyr and Watchful Order spellcasters using…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 7, 2019
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…magic on the journalists during said visits, to try to find out what’s really going on. Once they find out, agents of the Xanathar may meet sticky ends in a quick collective purge (as a warning), as stories from OTHER bribed journalists appear about various.. 4)
…nobles, trusted guild members/craftworkers, popular tavern dancers and minstrels, etc. being rescued by drow in the city from various threats. Just how things are daily done in the Deep.
BTW, the danger of using alternative facts is that it makes many…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 7, 2019
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…convervative nobles (and some conservative guildmasters) seethe, and they are extremely unlikely to ever work with or support the purveyors of untruth. They consider this tactic "too dirty for civilized society" (a threat to law and order in itself).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 7, 2019