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Hoo boy.
Well, several new wards of the city grew into being (including Field Ward, Downshadow, and Mistshore, which later got destroyed); there was a brief period wherein many impoverished noble houses sold their titles… 2)
…(see CITY OF THE DEAD by Rosemary Jones); the city got a new Blackstaff (Vajra, replacing Khelben); flying, magic-hurling skulls briefly terrorized citizens (see CIRCLE OF SKULLS by James P. Davis); the city got hit by the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 2, 2020
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…Spellplague like everywhere else, with many deaths and some building collapses; Dagult Neverember became its open Lord and later was pushed out and Laeral Silverhand was installed as Open Lord; then someone started murdering… 4)
…lots of Masked Lords (see my novel DEATH MASKS), and then the events of WATERDEEP: DRAGON HEIST and WATERDEEP: DUNGEON OF THE MASKED MAGE happened.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 2, 2020