2)
“While you watch? Wizard-slaying fill your work quota for the day?”
“Chant, someone has to plunder the wizard’s body AND secure our garden escape route. The two most dangerous jobs, so of course I’ll undertake them.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020

2)
“While you watch? Wizard-slaying fill your work quota for the day?”
“Chant, someone has to plunder the wizard’s body AND secure our garden escape route. The two most dangerous jobs, so of course I’ll undertake them. 3)
“The jobs that will enrich you and let you give the rest of us the slip, you mean.”
“What a nasty, suspicious, untrusting mind you have, Chant.”
“COURTIER, remember?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020

“Not so doomed,” Wolf replies, as Ralandor assumes a grand spellcasting stance, promptly slips in the gore of his stunt double, curses, turns to flee and slips again—and then crash-hurtles his way back out into the garden…#epicfantasy 2)
…in a wild flailing of slippage, waving arms, and a bouncing of the many marbles Wolf has just flung under Ralandor’s boots. The tiny spheres bounce and ricochet everywhere, and as the wizard whirls on his knees on the…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 3, 2020

3)
…garden grass outside, a curious trapped expression flashes across his face, he clutches at his throat as his open, spell-incantation-spitting mouth freezes, and…turns red and then black, toppling sideways.
And silence falls.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 3, 2020

1)
“Lady, you court TREASON.”
“Well, we all need our diversions.”
“And might I point out that the invaders seem to be providing a fresh one, right now? I hear noises in the guardroom we just vacated that suggest several someones…#epicfantasy 2)
…have invaded it, from the garden without.”
“Without what?”
“I HAD hoped it was not yet time to descend to that level of repartee. My hopes, it seems, were in vain.”
“In my experience, hopes usually are.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 10, 2020

1)
“You’re not making me feel any more benevolent towards you, Wolf.”
“I have my regrettable failings. At least one of them has been rectified by Ralandor’s own spell-preparations. So my failure to behead him, and burn the head, …#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 9, 2020

2)
…has been covered.”
“How cheering. I feel quite buoyed.”
“See how easy that was, Elvar?”
“I was indulging in SARCASM, you fool.” 3)
“And lo, I have heard Wolf called a fool, and the caller survived. His being a king must have something to do with that.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 9, 2020

4)
“But of course. Our purpose as courtiers is to support the King, on his throne above us. Wherefore his existence gives us purpose, and meaning, and importance.”
“Aye, but THIS King?”
“A-HEM! Anyone ELSE looking for a beheading? 5)
“No. I was just trying out my tongue at this royal indulgence in sarcasm, ‘you fool.’ It seemed like such inane fun, you see.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 9, 2020

Here come the dwarves
Descending on my cellar en masse
Make for the wharves!
Their drunken singing shatters glass

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 6, 2020

The dragon is come, and your time of hope is through
She’ll scorch out your keep
From dungeons to ramparts steep
Then proceed to the toasty fun of casually barbequing you

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 7, 2020

That stain is where the king did fall
Note the mark upon the wall
That’s where he flung the queen
In a doomed attempt to wean
The dragon away from gobbling her all

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

1)
“Distract him, Palonder.”
“The King? How?”
“Give him a toy, or a willing wench, or do a card trick. It usually doesn’t take much.”
“WOLF! D’you WANT to be beheaded?”
“The prospect seems increasingly tempting, I’ll admit.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

2)
“Look, stop being arch and clever for a moment, and answer me this: why don’t we just wait until dark? When those crossbowmen out there won’t be able to see us? Well? No applause for the brilliant royal plan? 3)
“There are these things called torches, Elvar. Not to mention fire-arrows, or in this case flaming quarrels. Then they can still see to skewer us.”
“Gods SPIT. Well, then, you’re my senior courtier! YOU come up with a plan!”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

4)
“That’s what I’m busily engaged in doing right now, Elvar. Though I lack one essential.”
“Oh? What’s that?”
“Your royal silence. Royal blithering has ruined many a clever plan.”
“You irk me.”
“Only as often as necessary, Sire.” 5)
“You irk me CONSTANTLY, Wolf.”
“That’s because it’s constantly necessary to do so, Your Majesty. For your own good.”
“WHAT?”
“And until you understand why, ‘your own good’ will continue to suffice as an exc—reason.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

The saga long ago foretold
When bloody hands crown and throne do hold
They’ll turn to murdering for ever more gold
Satisfaction shall never cross their threshold

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 2, 2020

Here are we, another magical moment, such is the stuff
From which I’ve woven dreams rich, but woven quite enough
Once there were dreams we could believe in
Now it’s all nightmares and shouting, such a din
Shall I give in?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2020

Help I’m dead, heart still, flesh flowing down my bones
Here in the moonlight as the cold wind moans
When did I die? Why can’t I remember? Something makes me tremble
I rush through the night, hunger rising in me, the living to disassemble

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2020

I hear that in this kingdom, your spirits need lifting, a tidge
So behold your salvation! Horatio, meet bridge!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 3, 2020

It never entered my head
One so lush might be undead
So when she invited me up to her room
I was surprised to find it to be her personal (and dusty) tomb

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 4, 2020

I am a barbarian of simple, carefree joys
I love agonized screams and all associated dying noise

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 5, 2020