1)
Palonder’s reply is interrupted by a horrid grating groan, as another huge part of the Keep walls collapse to the ground.
Chantratha swears softly under her breath.
“A simple ‘thank you’ would suffice,” Wolf tells her.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

2)
Chantratha shakes her head and points at what provoked her oath.
A long, dark green-mottled-with-black-spots tentacle is snaking out of the shattered Keep, across the grass towards them.#epicfantasy3)
… Wolf sighs, turns away, and beckons to everyone to follow him. A soldier weaves and staggers to his feet to try to obey.
“NOT you,” Wolf informs him, and nods to Palonder. Who delivers another felling blow.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

4)
Wolf starts off across the countryside, only to turn and sigh. “Palonder, WHAT did I just tell you about looting bodies? See, even the King isn’t above rifling purses and belt pouches!”#epicfantasy 5)
“I have to be. With you draining it, the Royal Treasury is ever-hungry.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

1)
“Thank you, Wolf, but I’ll decline. My mastery is of disguises, not exploring dark dungeons that could be full of all manner of deathtraps, foes, and other perils. Falling from a height onto hard stone, for instance.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

2)
“Prudence, Chantratha? After all these years? How ill-timed.”
“For you. For me, or rather my neck, it’s very good timing.”
“Very well. Palonder, lead the way. Chantratha will back you up.”
“I will?”
“Yes, followed by the King, … 3)
…then me.”
“Valiantly bringing up the rear.”
“Rearguard is a dangerous role, Chant. Trust me.”
“And just why would I ever be so foolish as to do that? After all these years?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

Gone are the adventurers who fared so well
Leaving behind just this one broken, tortured sot
In the halls of the gods they now do dwell
While embroidering bards do sing, that their fame dieth not

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

How deep the royal castle privy pits descend
How fetid their fouled depths do be
How fitting a home for jeered-at, downfallen me
How sweet my revenge shall in time be
When I this foul (pardon) injustice I shall mend

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 2, 2019

To that gaunt knight who lacks for naught
And whose castle is crammed with all the treasures of time
I a villainous band of plundering adventurers brought
For his deathtraps welcome new victims anytime

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 2, 2019

And now the horses thunder hard across the field
And now the trumpeters blow martial tune
And now amid unhorsings is shattered many a shield
And now the dead lie still, awaiting the pitiless moon

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

See, now, in the depths of my seeing-glass
They ride grim and silent in a shadowed land
And through its many-tombed heart of malice pass
Yet never escape the reach of my sorcerous hand

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

A rising count of lands have lost their lord
With jaws and talons I have them slain
Then breathed fire, to leave but ashes and a sword
For them to cherish in fear and grief and pain

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2019

And the dragon flew on, leaving in its wake dying fires
And fallen towers, wherein just one magic gauntlet glowed
As the baleful dead stirred in the graveyard gyres
Whispering dragon-doom to the wind that blew down the road

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 6, 2019

With firm claws the smiling monster quietly closed the gates of polished brass
For it was closing time; there’d be another day sufficient foolish humans to amass

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

For it was long ago, and under stranger suns
That I last saw so much unguarded gold
Is it curséd? Pray cast the proper orisons
And let all traps be revealed, and dangers told

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

Why am I mad?
I’ll tell, for the tale’s not sad
Sometimes, in the far distant deeps
Of the darkest tangles of this vast old wood
I see the Lady’s glowing eidolon as she creeps
To the Horned Hunter, and draws back his hood

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2019

1)
“Can I have a breath or two of silence, everyone? I have to try to remember something from long ago.”
“Something illicit? Or merely foolish?”
“Haw-haw. Something useful to us just now. It’s somewhere around HERE, before we get…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

2)
…into the armor, so to speak…AHA!”
[Wolf does something to a particular flagstone, and the floor opens] “Behold our way on. The other route is trap after trap. This will take us down to…#epicfantasy3)
…the magic I seek–and if they haven’t found it, some casks of rather fine cordial.”
“NOW you’re talking, Wolf!”
“No, now you’re LISTENING. Because I’m finally saying something of interest to you. It’s the only cessing way to…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

4)
…get kings to pay attention.”
“Just kings?”
“Well, most people, to be honest.”
“Oooh! Does it pain you to be honest?”
“Always. Thanks to humans failing to not be human.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

Sated dragons wheel almost lazily above the town
Their fire hath burnt all, smoke roar up and ashes billow down

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2019

But who are these knights in bright array?
Have they come hence so I may play?
Are they all staunch dragonslayers bold?
Soon they’ll be but bloody cantels, cold

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2019

Under yon soaring mountain lies
A waiting sea of dwarf-guarded gold
Bearded sentinels who shall soon watch with dead eyes
For dragon-warnings they heeded not when told

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2019

1)
“Er, Lord Wolf?”
“Yes, Palonder?”
“Is now a good time for us to flee headlong?”
“I fear it’s rather too late for that, but by all means get in some practise. I’ll just lead the way. You mind the King.”
“Forgetting me again?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 11, 2019

2)
“Oh, no, Chantratha. You’re on rearguard duty. Being as Darlaerla likes you.”
“I’m not so sure of that.”
“Well, you’re the only one of us she carried on a torrid three-year love affair with.”#epicfantasy 3)
“Gods! I’m KING! Why does NO ONE tell me anything?”
“Well, that would be BECAUSE you’re King, Elvar. No one likes to upset kings, and they tend to get upset when they know what’s going on.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 11, 2019