Søren K. Wollenberg @Madhatterhim
Hey @TheEdVerse have been studying the Misty Forest lately, but information is typically scarce. I am aware of the Temple of Chauntea…and the locations mentioned in "Rise of Tiamat."
Any further features of interest you are capable of sharing?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

3)
Reugor’s Rock is a black standing stone, natural as opposed to erected by any sentient race, an erratic in geological parlance, that marks the entrance to the caverns where the orcs that raid wayfarers on the Trade Way dwell.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

4)
Pronounced “REW-gore,” it’s about two-thirds of the way ‘down’ the length of the forest from its northern end, not far inside the western edge of the woodland. 5)
The Tombholes are narrow cracks in the face of the escarpment that marks the southern edge of the Sword Hills, and extends east halfway through the northern end of the Misty Forest. The score or so of cracks, caused by winter…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

6)
…ice splitting and slowly widening the cracks over centuries, are barely wide enough for an armored human warrior to walk into, seldom run back more than six paces before they narrow too far to traverse, and are the sites of 7)
…hasty, ancient human burials: fallen adventurers were stuffed into them, fully dressed and with their belongings, which often included treasure—even magic items. Sages suspect the Chosen of Mystra resupply the Tombholes with…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

8)
…magic from time to time, because burials known to have been plundered have been discovered to hold magic by later searchers. The Tombholes are almost all claimed by small, furry forest beasts as lairs. 9)
The Dead Glade is a small clearing deep in the wild heart of the Misty Forest (few agree on just where) in which some sort of ancient, fell magic holds sway. It can readily be recognized by the long-dead, falling-apart…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

10)
…beholder that hangs in midair above it, reduced to an empty globe of sagging chitin plates and rotting fangs hanging askew; all of its eyestalks have entirely rotted away. It’s not undead, but may serve as shelter for undead. 11)
If some adventurers’ tales can be believed, that is. And the magic that holds the remains of the beholder fixed in place makes the flesh of living creatures creep and crawl, and affects them in odd ways that vary from one…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

12)
…being to another; some have gained darkvision, lasting years, or levitation or other abilities. Just what this magic is, and why it affects living creatures in different ways, are as of this writing unexplained mysteries.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2019

@TheEdVerse Knowing that tea in the Realms is basically anything from hot herbal drinks to actual tea from Kara-tur, I was curious if you had recommendations for us on Earth to use for a Realms themed dinner party?

— ElminstersBedpan (@EBedpan) December 7, 2019

1)
Most merchants and common folk drink what would be sold in our world as “green tea,” unless they’re drinking a tissane made locally or in that household from freely-available berries. 2)
So if I assume your dinner party emulates the Heartlands, or the Dales, or Waterdeep and environs, most likely would be green tea, followed by wild raspberry tea, blackberry tea, gooseberry tea, and then rosehip tea.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2019

3)
If I’m incorrect in that assumption, then the most likely/popular teas would shift to match local sources, with a steady rise in black tea as one moved east across Faerûn. With a few oddities: in Luiren and Veldorn, crickets are added to tea (imparts a nutty. 4)
…flavour), and in Chult, certain folk swear by dried snake hatchlings (though as Elminster told me darkly, "I stand not among them").
Nobility and wannabe nobility (nouveau riche wealthy) everywhere like to be exclusive, and drink 'special' teas (secret custom…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2019

5)
…blends, chocolate dissolved in tea, and so on, or even mixing tea with liqueurs. (Elminster frowns on THAT, too.)
Hope this is of help!#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2019

Oh, wow, thank you! I was planning on it being more Waterdhavian than dales, but I may just have to have more than one dinner at this rate. It's ALWAYS good to have a pretext for more dinner parties. Feeding each other is the glue that binds together civilization. :}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2019