1)
“So what now, Lord?”
“Well, Palonder, you can begin by escorting the King back the way we’ve come.”
“What? Retreat? With the garden door OPEN?”
“Yon garden remains a death trap, Elvar.”
“But…but…”
“And me, Wolf?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

2)
“Chant, your penance is to harvest all the remaining rings from what’s left of Ralandor’s fingers. DON’T let them touch each other, and don’t say a WORD while you’re doing so.”#epicfantasy 3)
“And if I call on their powers and blast you to ash or fly away from here? What then?”
“Then the gods will have delivered me from this torment at last, and it’ll be YOUR turn in the barrel getting constantly hit by cudgels.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020

They buried his corpse in the last fading sunset
Too dead now for half-hearted regret

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 19, 2020

2)
The thickness of the arch on one side grates open under his hand to reveal a narrow dark space within it. He waves Palonder through.
Palonder hastens forward, towing the King by the hand as if the ruler of Neverune was 3)
…an errant child. And recoils.
“Faughh! Spiderwebs! All over my FACE!”
Chantratha gives Wolf a look. “That’s why you wanted him to go first, isn’t it?”
“Yes, but we can talk about that LATER. The charge is trampling all the…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020

4)
…dead wizards back there right now—and may I remind you ‘back there’ is only ONE ROOM BEHIND US.”
Palonder’s reply is muffled, but bitter. “Tell them to go find their own spiderwebs.” 5)
“Was that an attempt at wit, Palonder?”
“In my present company, Lord? What would the point be in that?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020

1)
“Did they go this way, d’ye think?”
The voices echo from the distance, but are accompanied by the tramp of many heavy, hobnailed boots. And then the glimmer of torchlight.
“Dung,” Chant curses softly.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 31, 2020

2)
As the King belches loudly—and slides off a stool onto the floor, face first.
“Palonder, carry him,” Wolf orders. “We must…strategically relocate.”
“We’ve been doing a lot of that, lately,” Chant sighs.#epicfantasy 3)
“Play to your strengths. This way.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 31, 2020

She is the only one; I was asked to create her for the original (2e) DROW OF THE UNDERDARK, specifically to establish a 'good drow deity.' So, yes, there's a history of surface-dwelling 'good drow' in the Realms.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2020

1)
“If we could leap across the howling chasm of your clever insolence for a moment, Lady, perhaps you could see your way clear to holding THIS.”
“I can’t SEE anything.”
“But you CAN feel what I just put into your hand.”
“Yes.”#epicfantasy 2)
“Good. Progress. Now hold it tightly, and at the same time crouch down and put all the rings you took from the dead wizard down on the floor. ALL of them, including the two you didn’t think I noticed you slipping into a… #epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 22, 2020

3)
…rather private hiding place upon your person.”
{sigh} “I didn’t think you’d miss seeing that, Wolf. You’ve been, ah, resting your eyeballs upon my person every chance you get.”
“My, what juicy court etiquette, to be sure.”#epicfantasy 4)
“Sire, the Court’s not a few grand chambers of state anywhere. The Court is the immediate vicinity of the King, wherever he may be.”
“Well, this particular part of the Court is choking for air with all of you standing on him!”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 22, 2020

1)
“Just a moment longer, Palonder. I need Chant to get rid of all those rings.”
“Why?”
“So she won’t explode messily when I activate what she’s now holding.”
“WHAAAT?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2020

2)
“Howling chasm leapt. THAT’S better. Rings all gone, Chant?”
“Yes, damn you!”
“Even better.”
Wolf mutters something under his breath—and light blossoms from the coin Chant is holding. A soft, magical glow.
“And as someone has…#epicfantasy 3)
…said before, let there be light. Now stop staring at the coin, everyone, and look all around us. See? Good. We go THAT way.”
“Down that privy-chute?”
“Don’t you prefer a little dung to painful death?”
“Some days, I’m not sure.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2020

We ride wherever we’re going
We take whatever we need
Adventuring while my blood’s still flowing
We make the other guys bleed
Lady Luck be my trusty steed
Thundering toward my grave at speed

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 10, 2020

Palms sweaty, knees weak, arms heavy
Hope and resolve still steady, though we’re doomed, I know already
As I stride through severed tentacles, grim and ready
To lop off heads, but I keep on forgetting
Things can be solved without bloodletting

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 11, 2020