Apologies if this is too much, but…how then do brain and soul relate to ghosts and phylacteries? Figure a resurrection heals a brain, but soul comes back and then…what does it mean for relationship of brain and soul?
I said “thank you for everything”, I said "thank you for everything", right…? 🙄
… does the brain's physical memory arrangement… modulate the medium of the soul the same way? Or is that the Astral analogue of the physical brain?
I thank you and then drop this on you. Sorry.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020

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A successful resurrection heals a brain and a body, and the soul and animating spirit return to the body, the spirit linking brain and soul together to the body…and “life as before” is back again. 2)
A phylactery is a physical item “standing in” for the body after death, so the animating spirit and brain remain with the (decaying) body (=undeath). The soul is in the phylactery, and the ‘dreaming’ (inactive) brain is in the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020

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…phylactery too, memories updated by the brain in the undead body via the Weave (upon contact, or when close by, or deliberately, or constantly; it varies with the undead creature, its whereabouts [in the Realms, or on 4)
…another plane], and the situation (intervening magic, any meddling by Mystra or her servitors or other deities, and so on].#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020

Dear @TheEdVerse , I know that most Sun Elves left Faerûn for Evermeet, and most elves who stayed are either Moon or Wood Elves, right? But can Sun Elves still be found in Faerûn? Do they have any cities or enclaves, like the Moon Elves' Evereska? Thanks!

— Ricardo Williams (@rwgs76) February 7, 2020

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…Forest, and in Silverymoon and Everlund, with a few families in Iriaebor, Berdusk, Elversult, and rurally, in easternmost Amn and Tethyr.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2020

Could you give some insight as to why the Gods wont talk about Auramycos and why it resists all divine divination? There is a belief (Elminster cautions that he can find NO evidence to support OR deny) that Araumycos is something gods can draw on to heal themselves (something in it contains "the stuff of godhood"). That could be why…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 27, 2020

!!! That….changes….EVERYTHING! That could explain Zuggotmoy wanting to bind with it! God level healing? Kingdom sized being to expand her influence? Maybe even use Auramycos to ascend to godhood?? Follow up question, the Lower Dark, remains largely unexplored. Why is that? There are things that live in the Lower Dark that even drow, illithids, and beholders prefer not to disturb.
Ever wonder why so few creatures in the Realms have many long tentacles, but so many tavern tales speak of them?#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 27, 2020

@TheEdVerse Hey Ed! first time asking a question. Have a player who wants to be a tiefling wizard whose backstory involves escaping slavery from a more powerful human wizard in a smaller town. What's a location in the North that this might have happened?

— Joshua Murray (@WordFlyer) January 11, 2020

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If we’re speaking of the Sword Coast North, smaller towns who have a powerful wizard who might enslave someone else and locally get away with it include: Auvandell, Berlingford (the enslaving wizard must have kept to 2)
…himself, to get away with it), Nesmé, Quaervarr, Rivermoot, and Bremen, Bryn Shander, Caer-Konig, Caer-Dineval, Easthaven, Good Mead, Lonelywood, and Termalaine in The Ten Towns (but again, in all cases, the enslaving…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 12, 2020

Great explanation! Which country produces better merchants, Ed? Amn or Sembia?

— Andrew (@wombat1974) February 10, 2020

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…Valley (innovation), but trying hard to become Wall Street (speculation, investments, money breeding money) as fast as possible. Amn is richer, and has been richer for longer, so one can argue that every merchant alive today has personally benefitted from the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 10, 2020

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…infrastructure built by previous generations, and had to do less to do well than Sembians. On the other hand, Sembia’s neighbors, such as the Dales and the Moonsea, would say Sembians have profited by being the physical “middlemen” for wealth that isn’t…#Realmslore 4)
…really theirs but has to flow through them to reach larger markets/the wider Realms, so they've exploited the labor of others and so ALSO had it easier.
See what I mean about it being hard to judge, and be fair, and how things can be seen so differently?#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 10, 2020

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That's realism for you. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 10, 2020

Now, I have a question for @TheEdVerse , if you may indulge me. Did Tiamat had another name in ancient times?

— Jon Gomez (@ZeromaruX) January 30, 2020

She had several. Among them: Raedurlaugrus, Alaugra, Miuirynmuir, and Galaglatha.#Realmslore https://t.co/y5HupvAI2M

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2020

Question in the meta: did all those names naturally come about from your work and/or the work of others, predetermined or not? Are some of them after-the-fact character merges, for example? (Contrarily, did any of those come to you "on the spot"?)

— ellis_thule (@EllisThule) February 1, 2020

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They all came to me on the spot, but not right now.
Tiamat, being both in the hierarchy of Hell AND a “special” dragon, is one of those interesting ‘intersection-of-things’ beings, and I’ve used her since writing up the Nine Hells in issues 75-76 of The Dragon 2)
…explore the intricacies of deities assuming various names and portfolios (without revealing to mortals who's behind those masks) to gain influence/power/mortal worshippers among different groups of sentients and in different places.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2020

Oh, this reminds me: How divided up is the divine portfolio of lycanthropy (or rather, variations within the category) among the gods in 1492 DR?

— Jon Forel (@Jon_4L) February 10, 2020

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No deity in the Realms has the portfolio of lycanthropy; most things in life are not represented by portfolios, which are mortal ways of looking at what elements of mortal life deities seek to dominate or be associated with 2)
Not only do deities oft disagree with how mortals see them and their interests, the gods endlessly vie for more worshippers, and over time shift in what their interests (portfolios) are. (From when I first introduced the term…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 11, 2020

4)
…definitive, as opposed to various priesthoods making various conflicting claims.) Eldath most fiercely stands against lycanthropy (see the Water of Eldath spell), and Selûne (as goddess of the moon) is most closely associated…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 11, 2020

4)
…definitive, as opposed to various priesthoods making various conflicting claims.) Eldath most fiercely stands against lycanthropy (see the Water of Eldath spell), and Selûne (as goddess of the moon) is most closely associated…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 11, 2020

@TheEdVerse Great Sage! Today I lay an oddly specific question at thine feet. Is there a particular spell, or series thereof, that might give a book infinite pages? I know the Nether Scrolls have a similar property; this is more for a diary.
Best regards and much thanks!

— Nicole Martinsen (@MissMartinsen) February 26, 2020

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Ah, ye seek Agannazar’s Amanuensis, a rare, old spell that adds a dozen pages (so, 24 blank sides of paper, parchment, or vellum, depending on what material the book it’s cast on has for its pages) in a trice, and poises a ink-dipped quill above them. Warning: 2)
…this spell consumes the quill, a stick of wood, and an entire animal hide, cleansed and cured, in the casting.
It doesn't grant infinite pages, but can be cast repeatedly on the same tome, to expand it as much as desired. Elminster cautions that if spells are..#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 26, 2020

3)
…written upon these enchanted pages, instability is introduced, and grows over time and with each addition of pages. 4)
Despite the spell's name, it does not write for the caster. The quill ceases to hover the moment it's touched by any living being. The spell does NOT provide ink replenishment.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 26, 2020

Does mage’s tome starts to weight more? Oh, yes. Normal weight increase for the pages added.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 27, 2020