How long have you been doing Realmslore answers? All my life. Here on Twitter? Since 2014. :}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019

Looks like someone hoping to bring her back to life could be a plot hook besides Szass Tam. I’ve had some conflicting info on Szass Tam’s end, though I am aware that there’s something known as the Dread Ring: was he finally sent to an afterlife? Heh. You’ve much reading ahead, including a trilogy of novels by Richard Lee Byers: Unclean, Undead, and Unholy. The short answer: Szass Tam is still Regent of Thay as of 1479 DR, having destroyed many zulkirs.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 8, 2019

Dangerous question time.
In the 3e sourcebook “Silver Marches”, the tearout map for Silverymoon has 826 structures, not including those of the wall, but including that one island.
The populaton, on pg 54, is listed at 37,073. That’s about 45 people per structure.
1/2 Some of those structures are only about 12 feet square. The grand houses appear to only be around 500 square feet, ~18×28.
The whole city is about 1750 feet long.
I know, in earlier times, people made do with smaller homes, but this seems quite small.
Am I missing something?
2/2

— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) November 2, 2019

To add to that. Blocking out the map in 250 foot square blocks, I come up with an area of about 41 acres, which puts it at about 1/10th the population density of Kowloon Walled City, which benefited from what we'd call mid-rises today.
I'm seeing about 12 floors for Kowloon.
3/2

— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) November 2, 2019

1)
Yes, in this case, you are missing something.
Have you ever seen Portmeirion (the coastal village in North Wales)? [It’s the setting for THE PRISONER classic tv series.] see: “https://portmeirion.wales/ ” Notice how some dwellings are literally built on top of each 2)
…other, with all of them dug into a beautiful, treed landscape? I drew quite a few "street views" of Silverymoon that unfortunately never saw print, but there is a single pic of it in the 3e baseline FRCS "big beige book" that hints at this multilevel, "dug in"..#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 2, 2019

3)
…architecture. Much of the city is like a layer cake of building levels, built up from the river (especially on the north or “main central business district” side). Moreover, both the Palace and the city walls contain large amounts of living quarters, the 4)
…former for courtiers and envoys, and the latter for city street workers, guards/constabulary, and guests (the retinue of envoys). Silverymoon does have (slender) apartment blocks; see my lore for mentions of them (the "spires and balconies" of the city).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 2, 2019

5)
Most of those 12-foot-square buildings are akin to glassed-in gazebos, and are the skylights/air intakes and exhalers of much larger structures buried beneath them. Like the EL district of Chicago or certain “down below” dwellings in London (UK), there are 6)
…underground streets in Silverymoon, though most of them are more like a series of walking courtyards with dwelling doorways opening off them than they resemble modern North American city "streets for cars."#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 2, 2019

A question about Faerûnian afterlife: Kelevor judges souls; does anyone argue upon their behalf or is it a process he does alone? They can argue for themselves, one soul can argue for another, and Kelemvor's priests, paladins, and divine servitors are actually tasked by him to argue on behalf (playing "devil's advocate") as he feels it improves his judgments. Very rarely, other deities may, too.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 12, 2019

Sure; fire away!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2019

So my partner and I were wondering if there was any information we could get about the mysterious deity that Lord Ao refers to as “master? We’re also kind of just being major fans right now and wanted to know if you still play D&D? Yes, I still play D&D!
As for the mysterious "master," that being is a mystery to me, too; it was a TSR addition to the Realms, just like Ao. The most popular theory is that Ao reports to you, the Dungeon Master, so you the DM are the "master." But that's speculation.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2019

In the traditional Forgotten Realms calendar, if there is one these days (Harptos calendar?), what is the current YEAR, give or take? I don't expect an exact date, but ballpark… I don't want to be off by millennia, you know. #DnD

— David Flor (@BrainClouds) November 30, 2019

Depending on just where things stand in your Realms campaign, the current year may vary, but published FR adventures and novels have brought us to the 1490s DR.#Realmslore https://t.co/JNRavZWTJW

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019

Gods help me my current pet project has me trying to piece together the history of Waterdeep post-Spellplague, including the fate of the myriad noble houses. RIP my whole entire sanity. @TheEdVerse I don't suppose you can kick a brother a list of the Open Lords post-Piergeiron?

— Joseph Carriker (@oakthorne) December 1, 2019

45)
…a wily schemer by the name of Hulkane Spaudelar. Nasal-voiced, long-nosed, and prissy, Spaudelar was widely mocked for his pet phrases and habit of waving his hands wildly in distaste, but although he had to best foes 46)
…and win arguments, he never did it for personal gain, living simply and avoiding all opportunities to gain influence or benefit. Various criminal elements of the city misread him as being ripe for subversion, and when he…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

47)
…exposed some of their attempts to meet with him and cozen him, they assassinated him to cut short the damage he could do—so he was gone by mid-1473 DR.
This time, it was the turn of the guilds to try to control who sat in the… 48)
…Open Lord’s chair, decrying the past results of the Masked Lords voting one of their own into it or the nobles installing a candidate of their liking. Of course, the guilds couldn’t agree on a candidate, and in the end put…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

49)
…forward six rivals. The Masked Lords liked none of them and instead plucked another independent commoner from the streets, Elchantra Gauntan, a singer, dancer, and sometime model whose good looks and good fortunes were in 50)
…her past. Wry, street-wise, and good-natured, she ruled well but her health declined under the pressure, and she froze to death one bitterly cold winter night in 1477 DR after falling asleep in her coach on the way back to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

51)
…the Palace, when equally weary staff overlooked her when seeing to the horses, and left her in it overnight.
What followed was known as “the Chaos,” a succession of a dozen Open Lords (a few guild candidates, but most of them… 52)
…from the ranks of the Masked Lords) being voted in and proclaimed, then assassinated after days or months, in which the city was in uproar and lawlessness rose in the streets and alleys.
Into this tumult stepped the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

53)
…charismatic and scheming Dagult Neverember, who held the Open Lordship for a decade, from 1479 DR until he was ousted in 1489 DR.
Laeral Silverhand was proclaimed Open Lord in 1489, and is still Open Lord (the current year 54)
…in the Realms depends on just where things stand in your Realms campaign, but published FR adventures and novels have brought us past 1492 DR).#Realmslore

You are the Literal Best. Hope your sanity has survived, Lord Carriker!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

Awww…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019

hey got a Forgotten realms question. Demigods are listed as true deities but they are also listed in Quasi-deities as the offspring of a god and a mortal. Are their two kinds of demigod in the realms or are they the same? They are the same. (Or so we mortals think. Demigods vary a lot in powers and nature, and a lot about most of them remains mysterious/conjecture.) Even priests and sages argue about the nature of divinity, hence "true deities" AND "quasi-deities" at the same time.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 9, 2019