.@TheEdVerse Regarding the Company of the Windgorgon, which perished in Undermountain in the 1350s… what is a windgorgon, in the Realms?

— Xaeyruudh (@xaeyruudh) August 3, 2019

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A windgorgon is a very rare (because it was so aggressive that most were swiftly slain after coming into contact with humans), larger cousin of the gorgon that has a acid-cloud breath weapon that jets with force enough to be about equal to a Thunderwave spell.#Realsmlore https://twitter.com/xaeyruudh/status/1157506520063467520 …2)
(So it doesn't petrify foes.) Windgorgons are as smart as humans, capable of speech (and mimicry), cunning in battle and defense (setting traps around their wilderland lairs), and are mostly seen in heraldry (rampant and breathing), these days, not in the flesh.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

Thank you! It’s similar to the Monster Manual gorgon in appearance? And in climate/habitat? Yes to appearance, but wider climate tolerance than the gorgon, so found in all but arctic mountains, hills and wilderland terrain everywhere (i.e. where humans are sparse).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

You say it’s aggressive but also that it is as intelligent as humans. It wouldn’t be wrong to have one that is sort of like xanathar would it? I was just thinking how cool it would be to have one as a crime Lord. Oh, sure. The survivors have learned from what happened to their fellows. Yes, one could be a crime lord. :}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2019

if you wouldn’t mind is there any way you’d know what kind of fish they’d sell at the fish markets in waterdeep? EVERYTHING, from the most numerous [silverfin (freshwater and saltwater-caught)] to rarities like giant deepwater squid. Over the years, I've covered the dozen or so most popular unique-to-the-Realms fish to be had along the Sword Coast, mostly in Volo's Guides.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

In winter, eels, silverfin, and yenth (palm-sized bronze fish like smallmouth bass; VERY tasty) and oysters are about all that's easily taken without merfolk assistance. In summer, silverfin is still the most numerous, but harrake, longfin, brownback, and redfin are close behind.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

Do you still run your own campaign set within the Forgotten Realms setting? If so, are there any characters or monsters, friends or foes, that only exist (so far) in your personal game and Not within the official products and books? Would you keep it that way, or not? Heh. I do, there are, and it's been that way since the Realms started seeing print (1979 in The Dragon, and 1987 as a product line). Nigh all of them eventually creep into the published Realms; my campaign has always been a 'test bed' for things.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2019

What would you say is the major inspiration that made you create forgotten worlds? I was a five-year-old wanting to entertain myself. I began by writing "sequels" to books I loved whose authors were dead (so there wouldn't be any more REAL sequels). I decided to set the fantasy stories all in the same world so characters could cross paths. Ten years before D&D.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 12, 2019

Hello. I was reading some old books Volo’s guide to the North and Lords of Darkness about the Arcane Brotherhood and I see a member of theirs being named but with 0 information about him. I’m talking about Queltar Thaeloon. Who is he? Is he the wizard of green flame? Queltar Thaeloon isn't the wizard of green flame, but is a fat, sly (Varys in GoT, but always smiling) city-dwelling investor, speculator, and "fixer" who makes sure the Brotherhood always has plenty of safe houses, warehouses, coin, and folk who unwittingly owe them.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 26, 2019

.@JeremyECrawford @ChrisPerkinsDnD
I made those cards to use in my #dnd5e games when I need lair actions on the fly (also made actions for humanoid gangs since I had leftover space). WDYT? pic.twitter.com/3xWIBZJNc3

— Papaz (@GiovanninoDPA) August 20, 2019

@TheEdVerse I’ve asked after Cormyrian dining habits & novel after novel paints Waterhavian favourites.
What of heartland drink, Ser Greenwood?
I imagine Cormyr & Dales overlap strongly here but what *are* their favourite beverages? Intoxicating, mostly seems wine in books?
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— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️‍🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) July 14, 2019

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Hi! In rural Cormyr and the Dales, as most places in the temperate forested-and-agricultural Heartlands, nigh everyone makes “small beer” at home for daily use, and makes wine from local “free” (grown on your land or readily…#Realmslore https://t.co/eyieaZYp4X

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…pluckable on common land) ingredients (such as “kruth wine,” which we in our modern world would call “dandelion wine”). Crude “over-the-flames” distillation is common (habitually done by about one in eight people) for making…medicines/liniments and stronger drink (often mixed with wine or beer or crushed berries as a fortifier rather than drunk “straight” as itself).
Most homemade wines in Cormyr and the Dales are made from wild berries… #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…(blackberries, raspberries, “wild grape” and the like) or other wild fruit (crabapple wine is a favourite in the Dales and eastern Cormyr). Farmers tend to make melon wine, plum wine, or apple wine (and hard cider), and the5)
…colloquial collective term for all homemade wines in this part of Faerun is “wildapple wine.” Many of the wines of this region are a light translucent green in hue due to the most popular wine “recipes” combining grapes that…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…have skins that impart green hues during maceration, and leaves of various herbs, vines, weeds and other wild plants that do the same thing.
Aside from these green hues, there’s nothing really “different” or characteristic7)
…about drinkables of this region compared to other temperate Heartland areas; everything varies locally depending on what’s most cheaply or freely (“wild”) available as ingredients (sugars from beets [molasses] or birch wood…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…or honey or maple syrup or various plant nectars). For some reason, mead is less popular with younger folk, and more popular with older generations.
However, daily drinks in the homes of common folk are almost all broth9)
…(the warm broth for breakfast is a do-heavy-manual-labour fortifier for all temperate-zone farmers, not just in the Dales) in mornings or chilly evenings, teas and tissanes (herbal or fruit teas) any time of day (and the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…most common/popular beverage, overall), with the various coffee and cocoa variants and equivalents being “acquired tastes” drunk on special occasions or by the slightly more wealthy or by those who’ve traveled far (aside11)
…from water, the ingredients are more expensive because not local).
Suzail doesn’t have a unique local drinkables scene/preferences; it’s a wealthy, busy, cosmopolitan trading port between Sembia and the Dragonreach, and the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…Sword Coast, so fads, fashions, and influences swiftly travel back and forth. Residents of Suzail do drink more imported wine because they can readily get it, and because the nobles of Cormyr, all having “city houses” in13)
…Suzail even if their main residences are elsewhere, set the tone by what they order in bulk for their cellars and tables. Cormyrean fads and new fashions in matters drinkable and otherwise most often begin in Suzail and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

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…spread throughout Suzail because merchants are always trying to introduce new things for the Suzailan nobles and wealthy wannabe-nobles to buy—and they are trendsetters for the rest of Cormyr, just as Cormyr and15)
…Sembia set trends for the Dales. This has been the overall situation from the mid 1100s DR up to 1500 DR, so applies to your campaign. The recent trend: sherries and almond-flavoured liqueurs from Chessenta and the Vilhon.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 15, 2019

My pleasure! Enjoy.
Hugs,
Ed

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 16, 2019

The level of detail you have in your world building is truly awesome. Heh. First my players asked questions, then the world did, and with every answer it grows richer and feels more real, and I LOVE that.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 17, 2019