Hi Mr. @TheEdVerse Im a new italian player and im playing a druid who was born in the Gulthmere forest, there are any books where i can learn more about druids or about the sea of fallen stars?
Thank you

— Antonio Porco (@Antonio4Porco) February 20, 2020

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The Sea of Fallen Stars is most extensively covered in the 2e (so, far out of date with current Realmslore, but still the best references) sourcebooks The Sea of Fallen Stars (which has an underwater focus) and Pirates of the 2)
…Fallen Stars. Druids are dealt with most extensively in the Player’s Handbooks (of the various D&D editions, and the 3e sourcebook Faiths and Pantheons is the most recent in-depth coverage of the deities druids would…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 22, 2020

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…serve, such as Silvanus, Mielikki, and Eldath. The Gulthmere Forest is most extensively covered in the 2e source The Vilhon Reach, and in the 3rd edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and is also mentioned in the 4)
…3rd edition sourcebook Champions of Valor.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 22, 2020

@TheEdVerse The town of Freedale, a few miles southeast from Shadowdale down the river Ashaba, doesn't seem to come up outside of the dubiously canon "Introduction to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons". If it does exist, do you have any supplemental notes on its history, role, etc.?

— Belial Lyka (@TimeBust) January 25, 2020

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Freedale was a short-lived, temporary town that sprang up at a former woodcutters’ clearance (they were after a stand of very good trees, and moved on when they’d harvested them all) as a base for a sustained effort to found 2)
…a new dale (or expand Shadowdale but have this southern arm of the cleared area have its own lord and government). It gained its name, wharves, and peak population circa 1359 DR, but dwindled and faded swiftly beginning in…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 25, 2020

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…1374 DR when Myth Drannor rose again (and the local strength of the elves with it, said elves frowning on a large, wholesale clearance of forest by mainly Sembian humans wanting to found more farms).
So the name and site still exist…# 4)
…in the late 1400s DR, but the forest is fast reclaiming the cleared areas, and only a few steadings (log cabins) are still in use, occupied by human families “farming” the forest lightly (harvesting mushrooms, edible mosses, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 25, 2020

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…and herbs for sale to peddlers and to caravans stopping at the Old Skull Inn in Shadowdale, etc.) rather than growing cash crops. It’s more of a named site in the forest now than a settlement, and lacks a lord, a watch, and 6)
…anyone at all left alive in the Realms today who’d still consider it a town. At least one dock is still usable.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 25, 2020

Mr Greenwood how would you describe a treant to a group of new #dnd players? I’m writing an adventure now but am lost for words. Thank you! A big old tree that looks like the other trees in the forest, but walks and talks. Its roots work like feet and ground-clutching tentacles, its branches move to gesture and grasp like arms, and its leaves rustle as it moves. When it stops, it's motionless; just another tree.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 26, 2020

as a neophyte what is the premise of The Forgotten Realms and how does it differ from the other DnD setting like Greyhawke? The Realms is a world of a thousand thousand stories. It's a setting of more depth and detail than any other, because from the outset I've tried to make it seem real by imagining the lives and goals of all creatures in it. Intrigues, scheming, creating…and love.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020

Whereas Greyhawk began with sandtable miniatures battles, and at its core is, and always has been, war. As they said in the Sixties, when I was growing up: make love, not war. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020

Finished Death Masks and have few questions
1) could you expand on Mystra’s ban on mind affecting magic? Is it something you envision persisting or just during the “transition period” after her rebirth? Lot of spells like Detect Thoughts are covered, right? The ban was just after she was reborn and was settling back into stability (i.e. the Weave becoming more stable). All mind-affecting magics your PCs can normally access should later be operable, unless your DM deems otherwise.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 25, 2020

@TheEdVerse I was wondering are there any great krakens or leviathans in Forgotten Realms? I am trying to think of a patron for a warlock in the Sea of Fallen Stars if thats at all possible. The character was left for dead and thought it would be fitting. He is also a triton.

— 🇳🇴 Pastor Plague 🇺🇸 (@PastorPlague) January 13, 2020

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In the 1490s DR and for about sixty years prior, a great kraken of the Sea of Fallen Stars would be Uirtu (pronounced “OO-er-two”), most often found to the west and south, and a great leviathan in the same ocean would…
#Realmslore 2)
…be Seeirleeshee, who keeps to the north and east (yes, they avoid each other).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 14, 2020

Thank you so much Great Sage, anything special you would be willing to tell about Seeirleeshee? I love the lore of the realms and a leviathan is just awesome in my mind 🙂 This leviathan is intensely interested in the politics and doings of all coastal-land-dwelling "dryland" races, especially their magic, for as yet unknown reasons.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 14, 2020

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Gilgeam ruled Unther in person, and was slain by Tiamat in 1358 DR. After his death, many vied for rule of Unther, and neighboring Mulhorand invaded the realm and conquered most of it (the Northern Wizards, …#Realmslore https://t.co/ZRW7LiYJI2

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2020

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…protectors of Messemprar, managed to hold back the invaders from northern Unther, and ruled it).
After the Second Sundering, a second incarnation of Gilgeam was seen again in Unther, and since his return in 1486 DR…#Realmslore3)
…has been fighting to regain his realm from Tymanther.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2020

I’m curious as to why, if Unther returned once more, he is not listed among any player options for deities. And if Unther were to be a Cleric’s patron deity, what Divine Domain(s) would you recommend for 5e? Unther is a realm, not a deity.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 16, 2020

Is okay. Folk in the Realms have sages AND priests to keep them straight on lore. And still wade in lies, exaggerations, and speculation passed off as fact.
Hmmm. Just like the real world.. Okay, odd question: experimental mishaps of the Netherese Empire besides Karsus' Folly and (in some ways) the city of Shade? Preferably the humorous kind.

— Jon Forel (@Jon_4L) March 16, 2020

Will the infusion of newly-arrived eladrins provide a basis from which faerunian elves may alter their philosophy on life and relations with non-elves?
Will they possibly help bring about a new Golden Age for the Tel’Quessir? You ask me to see into the future? Not even the gods can do that, and I’m no god. Elminster read your question and replied, “Possibly. And…possibly.”#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 10, 2020