ALT Hand drawn map of the Underdark beneath the Dalelands
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Yes. The “real Santa” is a demigod safeguarding the Earth in his own way. Elminster and Santa spent an evening drinking and talking. With the result that from then on, Christmases for some folk on Earth included much better cheeses in their stockings.
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Jun 6
@TheEdVerse given according to you, Elminster has from time to time pretended to be santa when visiting earth around that time of year, has he ever run into the real santa?, since historically in dnd he does exist to the point he had a statblock by wizards of the coast in 3.5e
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There are a great many of them, which is one of the reasons he (and the other Chosen) are always so busy.
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...knows the locations and details of a lot of fell magic items and spellbooks, to serve as incentives.
Enjoy a darkly interesting life, henceforth.
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...what you hear (and say), and read your uppermost thoughts. And he can whisper suggestions of his own into your head. These have no power over you (i.e. they aren’t like a suggestion spell), but Vecna is very good at persuading, and...
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Oh, dear. The hand will slowly (over a matter of hours) turn on your wrist to line up with the rest of your body in the usual way. However, in so fusing your stump to the Hand, you have allowed Vecna into your mind in a limited way: he can see what you see, hear...
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Jun 2
@TheEdVerse what happens if you attune to the hand of vecna with the hand on backwards? Does it correct itself, does it stay backwards, a third thing?
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My research project for the day is to map out the Underdark of the Dalelands. Still a work in progress but I’m excited to see it come together. #realmslore #dnd #maps
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In the Year of the Raging Brook, −45 DR, the conquering forces of Mulhorand invaded Rashemen through the Gorge of Gauros, but were repelled by Rashemi berserkers, Witches, and summoned nature spirits
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Long beans were a variety of legume indigenous to Maztica and widely consumed there for food. Pickled and dried long beans imported from Maztica were available for purchase through Aurora's Emporium.
#DungeonsAndDragons #dnd #forgottenrealms #Realmslore
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Stevie Nicks...wait, no....Arden, the daughter of a human wizard and an elven ranger, was a psionicist who had a passionate love of all things living.
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ALT Artist: Clyde Caldwell Thomas M. Reid (1993). AD&D Trading Cards 1993 series, #378, "Arden". TSR, Inc..
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1498 DR Year of the Black Regalia #GHotR #realmslore #dnd
Sages contend that the floating Netherese enclave of Selûnarra, also known as Opus, was saved from destruction during the Fall of Netheril by the goddess Selûne herself. How then has this fabled city been recently unearthed from millennia of rock and sand? Stay tuned...
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Oh, yes. Gods often send commands or suggestions or explanations to mortals (not just clergy) through dream-visions, so most mortals regard their dreams (including nightmares) accordingly.
#realmslore
May 19
@TheEdVerse Is there a widely-held belief about the nature of dreams and nightmares in the Realms?
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As one goes deeper, the rock becomes increasingly softer, becoming a sludge like softening ice cream, until a vast molten core is reached at the center of it all.
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...that shifts constantly as it’s split by magma flows, as molten rock seethes and bubbles like so many competing cauldrons, their meltings and reconstitutions giving off noxious gases that tend to explode under the right conditions, causing “rockbursts.” ...
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As the tunnels gnawed from bedrock by rock-eating purple worm equivalents that inhabit the Great Below (the depths beneath the Lowerdark) are considered by sages to become part of the Underdark once they exist, the answer is:
Increasingly hot and soft bedrock...
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May 17
@TheEdVerse What is below Toril's Underdark?
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1428 DR Year of the Elfqueen's Joy #GHotR #realmslore #dnd
The Seven Burghers of Harrowdale have held power since the demise of Halvan the Dark and are generally popular with the Harran citizenry. As mandated by the New Velar Charter of 1428 DR, the Council must reserve at least three seats for members of elven ancestry.
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1385 DR Year of Blue Fire #GHotR #realmslore #dnd
Ah, yes the Spellplague. Cool idea. Poor execution.
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