Merry X @TheEdVerse! a question that you might've already answered: After Myth Drannor went kabloey in 5e, what happened to the mythal and Anorrweyn Evensong who became one with it 100 prior? Is it still there? or with Speculum destroyed its been dispelled too? #ForgottenRealms

— Artie Pavlov is vaccinating, and so should you! (@Artie_Pavlov) December 25, 2021

1)
The central business district of Myth Drannor was flattened by Thultanthor/Shade landing atop it and shattering, but the flying city’s footprint isn’t nearly as large as that of the heart of Myth Drannor, and the mythal and all entities tied to it survived, … 2)
…as did the outer ring of the city and the crypts and underways even right under the crash zone. Rebuilding since has reduced the devastation to a few central blocks (remember, Myth Drannor is a living city, trees and vines and mosses all taking a role). #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 25, 2021

Good to know! Hope poor elves get to rebuild! Also, are dungeons under MD’s center collapsed in the enclave’s fall? Or are they sturdy are still accessible in the 15th century? Asking for a friend who wants to go there. They didn't collapse, but some of the ways down into them in the city center are now blocked and filled with rubble/collapsed earth and stone. A few have been dug out, but most are currently accessed by farther out entrances/exits.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 25, 2021

I come yet again bearing qweshtuns about ears!!

I know there will be wide variations, but the rise of World of Warcraft gave us giant elf mule ears that seem to have become the standard. Give us the skinny on elf ears, Ed!!! What is the norm for most elves? In the Realms, elves vary in size and shape of body features just as widely as humans do.
Almost always, elf ears end in a point, and almost always, their eyes are larger (compared to the size of their faces) than those of humans, but beyond that…diversity. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 4, 2022

@TheEdVerse pic.twitter.com/JBvD03SIIL

Ok this one is throwing me for a loop, @TheEdVerse …Elbulder is said to be a regular town in most books but Prayers of the Faithful and Magister both say the city was a monster-infested ruin… R there 2 Elbulders? Was there a period of time when it was hidden from folk? Help?— Artie Pavlov is vaccinating, and so should you! (@Artie_Pavlov) December 29, 2021

1)
You have stumbled on an untold tale of the Realms. As in, a computer game license (back in the days of cartidges and consoles) that, AFAIK, never got made.
There are indeed two Elbulders.
The older one is the monster-haunted, abandoned ruin that was going to be… 2)
…the setting for the game (which was a mainly-above-ground dungeon; think of the up-and-down and around corners streets we see in the fighting in Dale, in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), that was never rebuilt after its abandonment because of the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021

3)
…wild magic and living spells still active in it (it got that way after both sides in a pitched battle to rule it used reckless magic, that collided and combined and got away from their control, utterly).
The newer one is “just next door.” What happened was: … 4)
…old Elbulder had a stream running through it that got put into pipes and used for drinking water, and then passed out of Ebulder and drained into the River Arran. Elbulder couldn’t expand upstream/east, along the banks of the Arran, because of a second…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021

5)
…stream, that rose as a spring to form a big marshy area.
When Old Elbulder was abandoned, a new and much smaller community (“new” Elbulder, or just “Elbulder”) was built east of this marsh, on the banks of the Arran, and the Old Road was re-routed to reach… 6)
…the Arran through it, at a spot that like old Elbulder took the road across the river via a wagon-ferry (big barge on cables), but unlike the old site, was situated at a spot where the river was narrower and shallower, so over time a ford could be built by…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021

7)
…dumping stones into the river in a raised but submerged roadbed.
Because this was going to be the basis for an outside-license game, and therefore hush-hush until the game's big release, this local Realmslore just never got mentioned in print. Until now.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021

@TheEdVerse halp! I cannot seem to find an explanation on the origins of the Candlekeep symbol.
Can you enlighten this aspiring Avowed? pic.twitter.com/OKcvhkPQJ5

— MymsWell (@MymsWell) December 8, 2021

1)
Sure! In real life, the origins are that I drew it on a piece of paper in my father’s den one day in the spring of 1971. (Yes, before D&D existed.)
In the Realms, the eye of Oghma stares at you over a shield (field) displaying… 2)
…a smaller eye of Deneir peering through (the rune known as Omma:) the diamond-shaped opening that denotes Inspiration and Insight (sentients imagining things, seeing the world in a new way in light of what they see, and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2021

3)
…writing it down to pass on to/inspire others).
Below it is the double-ended line of Binding, representing Ogham the Binder AND what he stands for: universal understanding by binding minds together with shared concepts. 4)
And beneath that is Authem, the rune for speculation, mystery and pondering mysteries, and the question for knowledge and the pursuance of creations.
Putting Omma and Authem together has always meant both prophecy and trying to…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2021

5)
…discern the meanings of prophecies, and libraries and the drive to record and preserve the thoughts and deeds of others, to pass on.
So, before Candlekeep was founded, Omma could be found drawn above Authem on compilations of… 6)
…Alaundo’s prophecies, and chapbooks written by sages about interpretations of those prophecies. The founders of Candlekeep added the eyes and the line of Binding.
The mantle, blank motto scroll, and ornate shield header are…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2021

7)
…heraldic embellishments, not seen on every depiction of the sigil of Candlekeep.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 8, 2021

Hi, Ed! A bit of a blunt question, perhaps, but I often see Mirt mentioned on your Twitter, and he was central in Death Masks, but you seem to talk little of Durnan these days. Is he simply a character you’re less invested in or does it have something to do with WotC? Mirt was my first POV Realms character in my oldest Realms stories (before D&D existed). Mirt and Durnan’s adventures featured in a lot of those tales, but I rarely switched to Durnan’s POV, as he’s quieter and more sensible. (That’s all, nothing to do with Wizards.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 29, 2021

Ah, darn… there goes my theory that he sold his soul to be on the cover of Tales From the Yawning Portal… 😉 Thank you for the answer, though! Heh. Durnan is too kind and considerate to sell anyone’s soul. I described his younger self to TSR designers as “The thinking man’s Conan.”
Mirt, on the other hand, can get you souls wholesale. Sometimes souls he doesn’t own, whose owners don’t realize they’re being sold. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 30, 2021

does Bovril exist in Faerun? Not the trademarked stuff, but a salty horse- or mule-meat paste used in soups, stews, and spread inside torn-open holes in hot buns has been sold in the Heartlands and Sword Coast for centuries. Increasingly supplanted with oxen meat, and used for making "beef tea."#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 20, 2021

Dear Dungeon Master, I once again draw on your legendary knowledge. Can you shed a light on knowledge regarding the fearsome Dracolichs? Forgetting them can be dangerous and extremely convenient to these creatures’ plans. Thank you again master As the guy who created dracoliches, I can shed lights. ;} What did you want to know?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021

wait…you created dracoliches or you CREATED the concept of Dragonliches?

— Oregon Rolled A 20 (@OregonRolledA20) December 23, 2021

Indeed. Both. ;} Im very curious what prompted the creation

— Quinton Walker (@walkequi) December 23, 2021

1)
In one of my Realms short stories in the time before D&D (1972, I think) I had a talking, flying skeletal dragon that could hurl spells.
Later (circa issue 80 of DRAGON) I sat at dinner with Jeff Grubb and several other TSR staffers, talking about making dragons… 2)
…cool lasting adversaries for PC parties who were powerful enough to kill dragons with (relative) ease (in, you know, a game called Dungeons & DRAGONS), and I remembered my dragon from my old story (note: there had been undead dragon skeletons and even…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021

3)
…zombie dragons in GenCon adventures before that, and I’d even had undead dragon skeletons in Undermountain back in 1977 and 1978) and decided to make a powerful spellhurling undead dragon “monster”…and an in-Realms source for them (the Cult of the Dragon). I've had fun with liches over the years. I was asked to create a non-evil lich for Spelljammer (Archliches, in LOST SHIPS), but creating alhoon/illithiliches (mind flayer liches) was my own gleeful little evil deed. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 23, 2021

It is my general perception that the Waterdeep plateau is holed as a swiss cheese with dungeons and the only thing keeping it structurally safe is the mythal.

Without it, prepare for landslides, earthquakes, sinkholes, realestate sliding into the seas and general mayhem. Indeed! There are massive physical dwarf-built pillars and braces, and powerful elven magics that do the most to hold the whole area up from sinkhole collapse and inundation by the sea, but the mythal is both anchored in the elven magics, and bolsters them.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 10, 2021

2)
There are so many layers of magic, and so many interwoven Weave-anchors, that no one living remembers them all (Weavemasters can see them), and no one can cast enough spells, quickly enough and in the right locations, to collapse the wards and mythal and…3)
…supporting magics. The last to try were the Twisted Rune, and they were then surprised to discover their efforts alerted Azuth and Mystra and several of her servitors, all more magically powerful (and loaded with battle-magics) than the Rune members.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 10, 2021

4)
Hence the caution and operating behind the scenes that most of the Twisted Rune members have practised ever since. ;}#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 10, 2021