1)
“Er, Lord Wolf?”
“Yes, Palonder?”
“That suit of armor we just passed! It’s MOVING!”
“As in, stepping away from the wall and moving to follow us?”
“Yes!”
“Hmm, someone must have oiled it recently. It’s nigh silent.”
“Er, yes, but…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 13, 2019

2)
…truth to tell, Lord, I was more concerned with what hostile things it might do to us!”
“Does it have a sword?”
“No, but the fingers of its gauntlet just grew long talons like curved daggers!”#epicfantasy 3)
“That’s not nice of it. Hold it off for a moment, will you?”
“WHAT?”
“While I cast the spell that will teleport it from here to the other side of the butler’s pantry door. That ought to…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 13, 2019

4)
…keep it busy for a while; there are a LOT of tentacles for it to dice.”
“Yes, but hold it off HOW?”
“Use your wits. They’re blunt enough to serve as a club.”
“What?”#epicfantasy 5)
“Whenever it steps forward, club it back, with the net result of keeping it in one spot. Must I explain EVERYTHING?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 13, 2019

“Lord Wolf? More armor, ahead.”
{sigh} “I’m not made of magic, you know.”
“Yes, I intended merely to give you forewarning.”
“Why? Haven’t you figured out yet that folk always ignore warnings?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

You said to me on that fateful day
The time’s come; to flee is wiser than stay
Which is why the adventurers all went away
And normal people now hold sway
Mythical heroes
Left behind only zeroes
Whose mighty work all around us is on daily display

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

1)
“Er, Lord Wolf, that suit of armor ahead? It’s growing tentacles!”
“Armored tentacles?”
“Yes.”
“CESS. This will cost me magic I’m loathe to expend. I’m getting low again. We’re going to have to invade the Keep.”
“Er, WHAT?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

2)
“The two of us, Palonder. Before we open the butler’s pantry door and let the tentacles have the place.”
“Yes, but—but—resident garrison of invading army?”
“I had not forgotten. We’ll have to be ruthless.”
“Er, meaning?”#epicfantasy 3)
“Extermination rather than random murders, as we proceed. My fighting-scores-of-foes-at-once skills are fading as I grow old, Palonder. I’m going to have to be as heavyhanded, accident-prone, and casually vandalistic as most…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

4)
…trained soldiery, I’m afraid.”
“Oh, I’d thought you’d started doing all of those things already, Lord. You know, as practise.”
“Your insolence, Palonder, is blossoming nicely. You’ve been practising, too.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

1)
“So, Lord, is your secret something that might be useful in, ah, slaughtering people?”
“That’s indiscreetly asked, Palonder. Why do you want to know?”
“It just came into my head when I saw the two invaders ahead of us, Lord. … #epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 11, 2019

2)
… The ones with the spears pointed at me. They’re advancing, so I hope your magic is quick.”
“Palonder, Palonder, WHAT have I just told you about speaking too openly? I’ll HAVE to kill them now.”#epicfantasy 3)
“You were going to anyway, weren’t you?”
“Yes, but now it’s justified, and that’s a LOT less fun.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 11, 2019

1)
[Just before the onrushing spears ventilate Palonder’s gut, Wolf reaches out from under his arm, behind him, and works a spell that blasts the invaders to flying bones and glistening goo.]
“See? Fun.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 12, 2019

2)
“Do you try to derive fun from everything, Lord?”
“Of course. It helps keep me sane.”
“Oh. I can’t help but observe that what you call ‘fun,’ others might deem ‘sick.’ 3)
“I said ‘helps’ keep me sane, Palonder. I didn’t say it was working.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 12, 2019

The medusa comes, stare not into her face
Or a stony doom thou shalt be given
She dwells in this forlorn and lonely place
For from fairer locales she has been driven
Sleep not, or she’ll vanish you without trace

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 11, 2019

The dragon’s venom coils and boils within my veins
Inflaming me with hunger for power and ever more monetary gains
And the knowledge that warm maidens should be applied directly to draconic chilblains

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 12, 2019

First you craft your spell
And then you cast it small
Then see how the messily the results fall
For the scale of your disasters
Sometimes makes no difference at all

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2019

IT comes, and the ghosts have all fled
For IT is something even they dread
IT is made of uncounted mangled but restless dead
If you must IT fight, go for the head

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 9, 2019

O Queen of Dragons, thee I hunt
With all of my veteran, skulking skill
And if my deadly blade be blunt
I have other means to kill

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 9, 2019

1)
“Ah! Behold the back way to Turnstone Keep.”
“Now occupied by an invading army. So is this when you order Palonder to the fore?”
“Would I expend our most useful muscle on a suicide mission?”
“Frankly, YES. I KNOW you, Wolf.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2019

2)
“And yet I do the unanticipated, so perhaps you do not.”
“Well, be that as it may, I certainly do NOT know why we want to get into the Keep right now. With it full of the foe. Are there hidden weapons there?”
“Yes.”
“Aha!”#epicfantasy 3)
“But we’re not after them right now.”
“Oh. So, does it hold hidden magic?”
“Yes.”
“Aha!”
“But we’re not after that, either.”
“So, what ARE we after, then?”
“The wine cellar. Oh, and decent food to go with the superb vintages.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2019

4)
“Ah. Every army marches on its stomach, eh?”
“Dashed uncomfortable, that. A good flagon or two of superb would NOT go amiss.”
“Indeed. It’s what we dispense in lieu of proper pay, in peacetime.”
“Oh, rest assured: we’d noticed.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2019