@TheEdVerse In 2E sources, we learned about the wards of Silverymoon. Nowhere was it implied that Silverymoon had a mythal. Then, in Lost Empires of Faerûn, we find out Silverymoon's had a mythal for 500 years. So… Mythal or no? How would you reconcile this conflicting lore?
— Greysil (@Greysil_Tassyr) January 29, 2020
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There’s no conflict to reconcile. The general public knew that Silverymoon had wards, and some of what they did (the properties that daily affected them). The wards are either part of, or added to, an underlying mythal (depending on the ward) that’s been hinted 2)
…at in published Realmslore (Moonbridge and other elements) several times. It's simply a case of some folk thinking it wiser, in the hostile North, to keep SOME secrets. Elder TSR staffers who saw my turnovers have known about this mythal all along.
Although we..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020
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…all hunger to know everything, secrets have an allure; they maintain awe and wonder. There's a lot about the Realms that's still secret. TSR has been sitting on a file of "not yet revealed secrets of the Realms" they asked me to write, for YEARS.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020
Indeed. And from the very first, I've used unreliable narrators (Elminster, and [cough] Volo) as my sources when writing about the Realms, so who knows how much misinformation, deliberate or inadvertent, I've been fed? (Giving all DMs maximum elbow room for changes.)#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2020