If they have, the truths haven’t become public knowledge, so they are still NDA.
Let me hint about just one:
Sentient minds may die, enter undeath, live anew, and die again, and may shift radically in sanity, scope, and views, but are rarely utterly destroyed.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 26, 2020
@TheEdVerse Dear Ed, are there tacos in Faerun, or something like them at least? If so, where would someone find them and what culture would they be in? Asking for my taco loving players.
— Leslie Courtney (@LeslieCourtne14) November 13, 2020
“Taco” is not a name known on Toril, but fried hardcrust roundbreads (what some real-worlders might call pitas, but fried crispy-hard) that have been stuffed with a hot cooked mix of minced-meat, spices, … 2)
…vegetables (diced and fried onions and/or potatoes, and/or Brussels sprouts, and/or asparagus, and/or leeks, and/or artichoke hearts, and/or radishes, and/or mushrooms) and sauces ARE known and devoured eagerly in many…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
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…eateries, especially in the Vilhon, the lands south of there to the Shaar and beyond (so, places like Innarlith and south to include Luiren and Var the Golden), and are slowly spreading along the trade routes in all… 4)
…directions, to Chessenta and eastern Tethyr and Amn, to Calimshan and the Lake of Steam cities, and to Scornubel. You can even order them in some inns and taverns (yes, they’re becoming “the new thing” in tavern fare) in…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
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…Secomber.
The meat tends to be whatever’s plentiful and cheap locally, from lamb to rabbit and all manner of small scurrying things, from “tree-cats” [squirrels] to rats, and the flavor profile varies from merely savory to… 6)
…hot-spiced; most establishments will ask “hot” or “warming” (= fiery or mild) when you order.
So, a folded-over, exposed-spilling-edge taco is a rare thing indeed, and cheese-drenched tacos are a special variant version…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
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…anywhere they can be had, but the same sort of ingredients in essentially the same combination (so, a flat, closed taco, which varies from a “handpie” in that it was never full of gravy, and its outer pastry is thin and fried… 8)
…crispy-hard) can now be had in many places.
What it’s called varies from place to place; along the Sword Coast it tends to be called a “fryhard,” in the Vilhon, a “crunchtart,” in the South, a “hotbite,” and along the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
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…trade-routes, any of these three or even something else.
Elminster and the Seven all like “handfry pies” made with six or seven sorts of mushrooms, parsnips, leeks or spring onions (all diced), and strong cheeses (no meat). 10)
The shell of a Torilian taco, whatever it’s called, is often rather like cornbread in its composition. Or a crisp naan (and is sometimes made by “gluing” two round-tortilla-like discs together with cheese).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
My mouth watered a bit. I presume, Ed is a fine cook too!
Sadly, no. I'm a great kitchen assistant (food prep and dishes). I was raised by grandmas and maiden aunts who shooed menfolks out of the kitchen, then married a wonderful wife who did all the cooking. Now that she's 85 and bedridden, I am the "cook." Hahahaha (hideous laughter).— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
Yes, tacos are now Realms canon! Cardiologists take note! ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
Most folk address a cleric of uncertain (but likely low-ish) rank as "Devout" or "Avowed." For wizards, the default term is "Master of Art" or "Lord/Lady of Art" ("Master" is all-genders, but older folk might instead say "Lady Master of Art" and this wouldn't offend).#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 17, 2020
Many! Temples and guilds (for their members only, or those trying to pay their members) act as banks. So does the city (Piergeiron's Palace). And for those who want "off the books" transactions, there are many, many private moneylenders (such as the infamous Mirt).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 9, 2017
It's my pleasure to dish out Realmslore, to make everyone's games richer if possible, and less headachy for overworked DMs. Remember: it's canon until contradicted by newer official Realmslore (from Wizards), who always have new products up those stylish sleeves! :}#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 13, 2021
two questions about the Faithless: 1) It’s said that those who had no patron deity end up in it. But I thought many, perhaps most Faerûnians worship many gods more or less equally; who would be their “patron”? 1/2 2) I’ve seen (non-FR canon) a several claims that true Faerûnian atheists—those who deny the existence of any gods at all—would be a vanishingly small minority. A minority, certainly, but I’m curious just how rare this is. 5% of general population? 0.5%? What’s the ballpark? 2/2
— Jeremy Powell (@jmhpowell) October 26, 2020
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A very small handful of sentients in the Realms truly don’t believe deities exist (less than 0.5%); they would be the “Faithless.” Most DO “believe in” all the gods, even if they profess to repudiate them. Many ‘cleave to’ one deity above others, even if slightly. 2)
That 'ever so slightly favored' deity is their patron deity, if they don't openly profess and embrace a patron (as clerics and paladins do). The Wall of Faithless is more of a bugaboo tale told by priests and spread over tavern tables than it is a Great Big Doom.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 26, 2020
Great Grey Beard, if a business owner wished to create a permanent teleportation circle to transport goods into the Deep, would he seek permit, and who from if so? The wards would prevent such a thing from functioning properly.
Or at least that's what everyone in Waterdeep's been told for centuries, likely to prevent them trying.
So if the business owner thought it would work, he or she would likely try it in deep secrecy!#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2020
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Thalavar
Patriarch: Murardrake Thalavar, a sidewhiskered, fierce-browed martinet of a man, legendary for his hot temper (his anger, however spectacular, tends to be short-lived, and once gone, leaves him genial for hours). He likes to appear stern and formidable, 2)
…so his chairs are all large and grand, like thrones, and he wears various shoulder-padded mock uniform tunics trimmed with gold braid and mock decorations (metal pins), augmented by brightsilver-finish swords in matching brightsilver scabbards. He never dances..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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…or does anything else in public he deems ‘undignified.’ In private, he relaxes, taking long soaking baths, reading all sorts of books, and padding around in a shabby old robe and slippers.
Matriarch: Constalle (“Kon-STALL”) Thalavar, a tall, buxom honey blonde 4)
…with a husky voice, whose manner is motherly rather than sexy, and who treats her servants as beloved ‘grown children’ family. Born a commoner in Sembia, she has an eye for trends, and invests deftly in paintings, new fashions she can import, and fine-bloodline#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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…horses she can breed, and over two decades has parlayed the spending money her husband gave her when they were newly married into a fortune to rival what’s in the existing family coffers. Kind and polite, she is far shrewder than she looks and acts—making.. 6)
…people underestimate her has always been a favorite tactic.
Heir: Markeskur Thalavar looks like a younger, clean-shaven version of his father, but detests his father’s stern act, and sees his bouts of rage as a serious weakness. Markeskur is the epitome of the..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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..drawlingly ‘cool,’ urbane young noble, too loungingly bored with the world to ever get very angry or very frightened; everything seems to mildly amuse him, or yawningly bore him. This is, of course, an act; inwardly, he’s very insecure, doesn’t know how he… 8)
…should act (he’s constantly posing, and rearranging his hands, because he doesn’t know what to do with them), and is watching everyone else he meets, paying special attention to powerful individuals he admires, to see what they say and do. He will copy…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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..catch-phrases, mannerisms, and fashion decisions he likes, adopting them as his own, as he consciously builds himself into a better and better noble. (Or, as his uncle Beldravagon prefers to put it, “Into more and more of a nose-in-the-air, self-important twit.”) 10)
Notable Rakes/Adventurers: Beldravagon (“Bell-DRAV-ah-gone”) Thalavar, a younger brother of Murardrake (two brothers between them in age, Beldred and Torstant, are both dead, the first while adventuring and the second in a duel), is a successful, handsome…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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…adventurer who’s made and lost several fortunes venturing about the Sea of Fallen Stars, and taken scores of lovers. Although he’s been known to tell tall tales about his feats of monster-slaying and dungeon delving, he has survived some perilous expeditions, 12)
…coolly faced both hostile wizards and all manner of horrible monsters, and survived in part because of his quick wits and agility, and in larger part because of sheer luck. He’s known to be deadly with hurled swords and daggers, and to be skilled at attacking..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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…with thrown weapons while falling or swinging on lines past a target.
House Thalavar had a reputation of being crusty, oldcoin nobles who never let commoners forget they’re common, but these days, folk of Westgate see that clinging only to the patriarch, … 14)
…with the other family members bending into being more relaxed and approachable. Their fortunes built on sponsoring mercenary companies and caravan costers, the Thalavars have left both of those endeavors behind in favor of renting out space in large…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
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…warehouses they own, while their daily coin is made in building roads and bridges, or rebuilding them better.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 1, 2020
Is there an Elvish word for “immortality”? Yes. In the Realms, in Elvish, “mifir” means “undying/persists/is always (thus far)” and speaks of living things only, and NOT undeath. (“mormhaor” is corrupted death or undeath)#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 23, 2020
what is a direct translation of “Mormhaor’Sykerylor” In "straight" Elvish, it means "undead" + ????, but in the Drow dialect, it directly translates as “Undead, Looks-like-she-ogre”
(So I hope it was said or bestowed affectionately!)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 24, 2020
