Hi @TheEdVerse I've got another obscure Waterdeep question for you: where does ice come from and how common is it?
It's referenced as being used at Seaswealth Hall to pack fish, so they can be distributed around the city for sale. Thanks! #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #waterdeep
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In winter, anyone can “harvest wild ice” near Waterdeep, from ponds and marshes and the banks of rivers and streams.
The rest of the year: several nobles with holdings along the banks of the River Dessarin have long-standing agreements with the Watchful Order of… 2)
…Magists and Protectors: they provide shifts of Order members with luxurious abodes, meals, and servants, in return for cold spells being cast on water diverted from the river into small holding-channels and basins. The nobles get free ice for their own…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 28, 2021
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…icehouses and cellars, and a payment from the Order that more than covers the costs of the food and servants (and wine); the Order has agreements with various guilds to provide them with bulk ice; the guilds come and break or saw the ice from the channels and… 4)
…basins, and rush it to Waterdeep in straw-insulated, covered wagons.
The clerics of Goldenfields (and clergy in many other temples across Faerûn) make their own ice with cold spells, for sale and barter locally. Some Goldenfields ice makes its way to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 28, 2021
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…Waterdeep, packed around perishable cargoes.
Almost no ice is produced by this method in the city, however, as salt water makes poor ice, and sewer-water even less desirable ice.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 28, 2021