@TheEdVerse Would you mind pointing out the Yawning Portal for us? pic.twitter.com/i8VDFkdb1r
— Dorlann (@D_Greystoke) April 8, 2020
I don’t mind at all, but it’s not on the map portion you sent me. ;}
See Castle Waterdeep, at the bottom left? You need to be farther south, off this map. The Yawning Portal stands on the N side of Rainrun Street, a block W of Snail Street. (On the bit of the map you did send, the more northerly end of Snail Street is running N-S just west of the word "Trades" (of the Trades Ward label); it's the dogleg street running off the map).— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020
Snail Street runs on S where the High Road hits Waterdeep Way and turns E.
Along Snail Street: first, Scroll Street branches off E, then Crossbow Lane branches off W, then Soothsayer's Way crosses Snail Street; Rainrun Street branches off W just S of that.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020
Why do I have the feeling you didn’t refer to any maps or notes in answering this? Like you’ve had to explain this to numerous people, including telling them to turn right at a certain sign.
Y’know, as if you were there. Indeed. I can walk around Waterdeep in my mind. I can do that for most places in the Realms. The secret to making it seem real is to treat it as real.
After all, if we can believe in mercy, fairness, freedom, and democracy, details of an imaginary world are fairly small potatoes.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 9, 2020
Aha, will this do? pic.twitter.com/ykFp78sFNp
— Dorlann (@D_Greystoke) April 8, 2020
2)
…that Soothsayer’s Way crosses. On the SW corner of Snail Street and Soothsayer’s Way is a small block of buildings, that on your map, oriented as you sent it to me, looks like an inverted, squared “U.”
Due W of it is a larger (E-W larger) block of buildings 3)
…that looks like a flipped-backwards "C" and the middle of the bottom (S) arm of that C is made up of the Yawning Portal, which is a larg-ish building.
Found it?#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020