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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist

USA
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 :  23:13:07  Show Profile Send sleyvas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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Originally posted by questing gm

On known humanoids turned into dragons

Yukonau — 5/7/2025 5:10 AM

Are these the only known people born as humanoids but later became Dragons?

Nalavarauthatoryl
  • Born As: Elf
  • Dragon form: Red Dragon
  • Method / Context: Dark magical ritual
Mornauguth
  • Born As: Human
  • Dragon form: Green Dragon
  • Method / Context: Cursed/trapped by worshipers of Shar
Serreg
  • Born As: Human
  • Dragon form: Black Dragon
  • Method / Context: Self-triggered true polymorph via artifact
Syluné Silverhand
  • Born As: Human
  • Dragon form: Silver Dragon
  • Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Vangerdahast Aeiulvana
  • Born As: Human
  • Dragon form: Silver Dragon
  • Method / Context: Mystra’s divine blessing
Deniak
  • Born As: Elf
  • Dragon form: Red Dragon
  • Method / Context: Dragon Cult of the Dragon ritual


Ed Greenwood — 5/7/2025 10:34 AM

No, there are many more. :}



When did Sylune become a silver dragon?? Last I recall she was a weaveghost.

Alavairthae, may your skill prevail

Phillip aka Sleyvas
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Kentinal
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Posted - 07 Jul 2025 :  23:31:17  Show Profile Send Kentinal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It appears that Savras showed her the way to Silver Dragon. It appears this happened when she held the Scepter of Savras. All of this appears to have happened before she settled in Shadowdale.

I do not know source material, I selected the above from fan site

"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
"Judgement" copyright 2003 by Elizabeth Moon

Edited by - Kentinal on 07 Jul 2025 23:32:14
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore

Malaysia
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Posted - 10 Jul 2025 :  10:53:35  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Mystra and Elminster's knowledge of the demiplanes of dread

Cdawg — 4/7/2025 1:58 AM

Hi Ed, just how much does Mystra know about the demiplanes of dread (Ravenloft) and how much has she shared with Elminster about those realms and the dark powers that created it and torment the denizens within.

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 6/7/2025 4:29 AM

Mystra knows all about them (better than many darklords), and has told Elminster a lot. However, the demiplanes always hold surprises. If you want to see Elminster getting surprised in Ravenloft alongside Merrix D'Cannith of Eberron (Keith Baker); Elise, the runaway bride of Victorina von Mordenheim (Elisa Teague); and Melf (of Melf's Acid Arrow fame, played by Luke Gygax), watch Season 2 of LEGACY OF WORLDS, airing right now!!!
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questing gm
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Posted - 12 Jul 2025 :  15:14:40  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Szass Tam making progress on his plans

Exnihilo — 8/7/2025 1:10 PM

Ser Ed: You've discussed before how Szass Tam's plans tend to fall apart due to overconfidence, his reliance on yes-liches, and publisher diktat that the baddies don't win. But since his takeover of Thay, has he actually succeeded and/or made significant progress in any plots?

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 10/7/2025 5:22 AM

Oh, yes. He’s made living slaves rare “prestige possessions,” replacing Thay’s army and labor force almost entirely with undead (saving the country a fortune on maintenance costs like feeding, watering, and giving sleep time). He conquered the city of Emmech and added it to Thayan territory and rule (it’s now “Undumor”), and he has weakened Aglarond but is finally learning not to fight on multiple fronts at once and thereby doom his military successes.
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questing gm
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Posted - 21 Jul 2025 :  06:24:31  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Sunset Island

Marco Volo — 11/7/2025 4:50 PM

Hi @Ed Greenwood ! I would love to hear what you can share with us about Sunset Island, close to the Moonshaes. It seems there is not so much lore about it out there.

Thanks!

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 14/7/2025 9:15 AM

Just covered this in a Lost Lore column. I'm about 7 columns ahead of my weekly postings (another one will drop tomorrow), so there may be a wait for some weeks before you see it...
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questing gm
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Posted - 21 Jul 2025 :  07:16:49  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On the election of the Waterbaron of Yartar

Arinthian — 14/7/2025 3:27 AM

@Ed Greenwood It is mentioned in multiple books that the Waterbaron of Yartar is "elected for life." Are they elected by the people? A court of some kind? Or something completely different?

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 16/7/2025 1:07 AM

They are elected by the people. Which in this case means taxpayers on the rolls of Yartar, voting in person before officials who know them as neighbors. If you don't pay taxes in Yartar, you don't vote. I should mention that there is a mechanism, administered by local priests at the temple of Tymora, for voting a Waterbaron out if they turn crazy or otherwise unfit to lead: voters can register votes against the Waterbaron continuing to rule. One-third of the tax rolls voting against triggers another formal election to remove and replace (alternative candidates can put themselves forward). The priests keep "who voted against" anonymous to anyone not of the temple clergy.
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questing gm
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Malaysia
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Posted - 22 Jul 2025 :  01:45:49  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Jergal planning against Shar

KryptonianEradicator — 14/7/2025 3:36 AM

Greeting, Sear @Ed Greenwood ! I was watching one of your videos the other day when something you said intrigued me. That, along with the Dead Three, Jergal is in some way planning against Shar. I don't suppose you could elaborate on that? Yea or nay, 'tis appreciated.

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 16/7/2025 1:15 AM

Jergal, like most deities, is disgusted by a fellow deity who wants to destroy both the world and the lives of worshippers (peeing in the shared swimming pool, as it were). He thinks Shar is less than sane and unfit for divinity. So he works against her, but would find an endless direct war with her very tiresome, so he uses the Dead Three (who he views as easy-to-manipulate fools) as his proxies, to fight Shar for him while he aids them covertly, acting aloof. In his view, it gives the Three something worthwhile to do.
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questing gm
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 :  07:23:43  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On varieties of honey in major cities

Zonesylvania — 15/5/2025 3:46 AM

dear saer @Ed Greenwood , are there any well known varieties of honey in present year DR that might be exported to a big city like Suzail, Waterdeep, or Neverwinter? thankee!

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:26 AM

Almost all honey is made locally by farmers and ranchers, and sold to neighbors or in local markets, rather than commercially. Honey varies from batch to batch depending on what the bees have been eating, not just by locale, so there are infinite varieties. In the Vilhon Reach, cloves and sometimes cinammon have traditionally been added to honey, but there are otherwise no defined differences or varieties beyond “light” and “dark” (literally, by hue).

Of the three cities you mention, Suzail and Waterdeep are always well supplied by honey from their surrounding farmlands. Neverwinter has plentiful spring, summer and fall honey, but supplies fade and prices rise in winter. There are fewer beekeepers that far north and in that particular area (more woods, more “strongist” [=brassica] crops) so there’s less supply. In spring, farmers make good coin selling cellar-stored honey, in summer slightly lower prices, and the fall honey is “the new crop.”
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questing gm
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 :  07:30:15  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Cormyrean noble house that are respectable but might be secretly a Cult of the Dragon cell

kageura necromancer wizard [D&D] — 18/5/2025 9:32 PM

@Ed Greenwood Hi Ed! I’m working on a custom campaign set in Cormyr, and I have a character who is secretly the leader of a Cult of the Dragon cell, but publicly a respected member of Cormyr’s elite. Could you suggest a Cormyrean noble house they might belong to that would best fit this dual identity? please and thankyou

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:27 AM

Several of the current sons of the Rallyhorn family (Bleys, Galadorn, and Tethrin), or three of their uncles (Alandor, Havilar, or Rorys), might be ideal. If you’d prefer a female, Jalatha Silversword or Valantha Marliir. The Goldswords can provide you with a male and a female: Corlath and Adeiress.
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questing gm
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 :  08:47:16  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On lore about the Ruldegosts outside of the printed source material

Revi — 23/5/2025 2:16 AM

Hello @Ed Greenwood I have a campaign set in 1356 (My preferred timeframe of the realms) and my players are super invested—One of my players in particular is playing the daughter of Kara Ruldegost and she has become immensely attached to the family. I was wondering if you had any cool tidbits of lore about the Ruldegosts outside of the printed source material. Thanks for your consideration! (And this wonderful world)

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 25/7/2025 2:29 AM

In 1356, the dignified, rather stiff, neatly-moustached widower Lord Dethnar Lyondar Hethan Ruldegost is the patriarch of the Ruldegosts, and Kara (Kara Erevelle Nuaena Ruldegost, in full) is a “wild young filly” (in the words of some of her disapproving aunts) sleeping with whomever she pleases to. Her son Detan isn’t yet born, but she’s had four miscarriages and two daughters by then, all from different fathers, none of whom she publicly acknowledged, let alone courted or wed.

Lord Bly is falling into bad company but none of the Ruldegosts realize it, because they think he’s just developing from rakehood and roistering into making friends and contacts among respectable merchants at last—whereas what’s really happening is that he’s being slyly recruited by the Knights of the Shield.

The Ruldegosts are happily flourishing, with their Waterdhavian “villa” compound’s former guesthouse having been torn down and replaced with a modest “fairytale castle” of conical-roofed slender towers surrounding a six-floor mansion with extensive storage cellars, now home to servants, extensive guest apartments, meeting rooms, and “studies” of three or four connecting rooms for each of the twenty-four living Ruldegosts who have achieved “standing” (we would say”majority,” meaning they’re full citizens of at least thirteen years of age whom Waterdeep can tax).

Most of the senior Ruldegosts spend their days drinking, dining, and pursuing sedentary hobbies (board gaming, collecting, and lore gathering) while living off their personal investments.

Most of the prime-of-life Ruldegosts are running mercenary and bounty-hunting bands (with varying degrees of success; a lot of their commissions are to kidnap merchants “for a few days” to benefit a rival, or to “crash and ruin” a shop sale or a revel; the City Watch has their eye on several of these bands, particularly Belnar’s Blackhawks run by Belnar Ruldegost, after they “accidentally wounded” too many prominent Waterdhavians), or actively engaged in manygoods trading via the Thousandheads Trading Coster.

Deldaglin Ruldegost was recently sorely wounded in a duel with Mraevan Ruldegost, and in retaliation the Ruldegosts set fire to the Moonstar Maiden pleasure yacht at her moorings in Waterdeep’s Outer Harbor; she burned to the waterline and sank. Waterdeep is awaiting retaliation on the part of the Moonstars, but nothing has been witnessed thus far.

The “black sheep” of the Ruldegosts is currently Alsaerak Ruldegost, youngest brother of Lord Dethnar, who has become something of a hermit, living in an isolated shack on “Manytrees,” the Ruldegost’s country estates (up the Long Road beyond Amphail, lying to the west of the roadway). Alsaerak is said to have human, kenku, githyanki, and yuan-ti visitors (afoot, cloaked and cowled, and late at night) and to be breeding monsters or at least involved in keeping caged monsters temporarily for mysterious business partners. The Ruldegosts don’t want to know what’s going on.

And finally, Brymorton Ruldegost, the tireless roving trader and explorer of the family, recently made a public splash in Athkatla when he and a beautiful lady who may or may not have been a doppelganger or something else using shapeshifting magic made love on a balcony at a revel, and it collapsed and dumped them onto a thankfully-uncrowded dance floor below, in front of hundreds of interested eyes. Some of whom belonged to people who reported that Brymorton has some interesting scars.

And it's likely a good time for me to announce: I'll be offline and silent filming this Saturday and Sunday, then departing for GenCon on the Monday July 28th, not to return to being online until at least Tuesday August 5th. So if I'm silent, that's why; don't stop sending the Realmslore queries! Likewise, I will likely post a Lost Lore on my Patreon late Sunday night or dark and early Monday morning (28th), then be late with the next week's offering because of GenCon (August 6th?). I'll make up for it by putting up this year's GenCon lore handout as a public post (again, after GenCon). And alert eyes on other channels of this Discord have probably seen hints of an exciting new Realms-related project I'm enjoying doing right now. No matter how much Szass Tam objects...
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questing gm
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Posted - 30 Jul 2025 :  08:58:51  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Sehanine Moonbow might return the feelings of a mortal in love with her

Jonboy [FDM] — 25/7/2025 12:41 PM

That pesky comic artist again with a... hopefully simple question for you, @Ed Greenwood , on behalf of my dear wife, if you don't mind #128578;

In a nutshell, is it at all possible Sehanine Moonbow might, in any capacity, return the feelings of a mortal in love with her?

In a bit more detail, the mortal in question is a faithful Grave domain cleric of hers, a Moon Elf who's been deeply infatuated by his goddess. In the past, Sehanine had already shown him favor by helping him endure excruciating torture. By now, after decades of faithful and dedicated service, his original raw, emotional passion for Sehanine had matured into a deep, professional respect, he still harbors unrequited feelings for her. We are now level 18 and nearing the conclusion of this beautiful campaign of many years, my wife's been wondering if there's any hope for her precious Elf, and if so, what form might his goddess' returned affection take, should he ever win it?

Ed Greenwood [MUSE] — 26/7/2025 8:01 AM

Certainly it’s possible. All of the elven deities love mortal elves, and use love as a way of bonding with their worshippers; such “use” being uncynical because it’s an innate part of their nature. Someone infatuated by a deity isn’t a fool or tool to be exploited by the deity, but rather is a “special” worshipper; the deity can and will have a romantic attachment to the mortal. The consummation of which would almost certainly be, in this particular case, an offer to “be one with the goddess,” which is an elevation not to godhood, but to divine service as a servitor “forever,” that begins with Sehanine drawing the mortal into a mind and body meld where the mortal loses their old body (losing any wounds, aches, and pains) and experiences a floating, flying rapture of seeing some of the thoughts and feelings of the deity. So they then KNOW how the goddess feels about them, and know what she stands for, and wants them to do for her. They will be able to communicate mind-to-mind at will from then on, and will be offered “rest” (oblivion) if they’re weary of life, or service to the goddess if they’re not. Meaning they become a divine servitor with some special powers (flying, teleportation, the ability to heal by touch, the ability to glow or become invisible at will, and so on) who receives a mortal body from the goddess whenever they’re sent on a mission into Toril. (So essentially, the character is retired as a PC, and becomes an NPC, but can serve as a guide/warning/sage for descendants and later PCs.)

That’s how Mystra gained all of her Chosen, for example, with the exception of the Seven Sisters; she found the supply of suitable Chosen too few at a time in the past, and so subsumed mortal women and chose mortal lovers and “made” the Seven by literally birthing them, but altering and augmenting them in the womb to become the beings she wanted.
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