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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
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 Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 00:45:33
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A quick question for Ed regarding a previously-asked question, and then I'll sit back and be quiet about it for another month or two:
How is progress on getting the Cormyr lineage published?
On a distantly-related note, was that expected announcement from "Wizards of the East" that THO alerted us to some time ago ever made?
That's all. Thank you both, Ed and THO, for your time and answers, which are greatly appreciated by all of us here, and thank you to the site maintainers and moderators for giving us a "here" to be in virtual space. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 02:03:21
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Hello again, all.
I bring a reply of sorts from Ed to Zandilar, about the in-Realms word for cocktails:
There are many local terms for mixed drinks, from "brightsongs" in Silverymoon, Neverwinter, and Waterdeep; to "manyslake" in Waterdeep, Scornubel, Iriaebor, Cormyr, and Sembia; to "ralivarthrem" in Amn and Tethyr; to "ravalankh" in Calimshan and the Tashalar; and "drarraval" in Turmish, the Vilhon and Chessenta.
Ed also sent me replies to Jakk's queries. Re. the Cormyr lineage: little progress at the moment. Re. the announcement: not made yet, more snags have arisen. Patience (hey, I KNOW it's hard. * I * want all of this stuff RIGHT NOW, too!). Yet, I say again, patience. Ed's happily immersed in cranking out a novel right now, anyway . . .
love to all,
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 04:29:41
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Heya,
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hello again, all.
I bring a reply of sorts from Ed to Zandilar, about the in-Realms word for cocktails:
There are many local terms for mixed drinks, from "brightsongs" in Silverymoon, Neverwinter, and Waterdeep; to "manyslake" in Waterdeep, Scornubel, Iriaebor, Cormyr, and Sembia; to "ralivarthrem" in Amn and Tethyr; to "ravalankh" in Calimshan and the Tashalar; and "drarraval" in Turmish, the Vilhon and Chessenta.
Cool! I never grow tired of Ed's ability to make up words. 
Thank you both for this and the answer on e-books. I found your insights very interesting indeed. I think I'll be sticking to "normal" print publishers for my first novel (if I ever manage to get it finished, 5 years and I've just tossed the last draft and started from scratch! I really don't know how Ed does it...) |
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Ashe Ravenheart
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 06:39:32
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I just thought of a question for the Ed or THO: (Note- I'm working my way backwards thru the previous years, so if this is asked-and-answered, I apologize)
Where did the Mulhorandi/Untheric folk come from? Was it, in fact Earth? I have always operated under the assumption (Just that, too... with no good reason for me to think this, except that it's a conclusion that I jumped to long ago) that they were from worlds in which the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian/Assyrian cultures were the dominant ones.
No real need for me to know this beyond the burning need to have as much of the Realms 'under glass' as possible.
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crazedventurers
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 10:51:56
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Well again all
I have been rereading my dragon magazines and just finished the Ecology of the Beholder (issue 76).
Ed can I ask how this fits with the home Realms campaign? What go me thinking was the section regarding the reproduction cycle of beholders flying off to lay eggs somewhere desolate. I have been speculating how in the Realms the Zhentarim manage their broody beholders! (if they manage them at all ).
Do they send guards to protect the eggs?
Do they collect the eggs before/after hatching to raise the next generation of loyal beholder slave, err allies?
Do the senior wizards/priests take eggs/young and experiment on them to create new breeds with new powers? (is this how the gauth, death kiss et al became 'born' in the Realms?)
Would be interested to know more thoughts and wild speculation on Zhents and broody beholders.
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Gods, all this writing and he's running a constant fantasy version of Coronation Street in his head, too. .
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 11:11:53
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As I recall, the Ecology of the Beholder was a hybrid article incorporating material from both Ed's and Roger Moore's noggins. I'd be interested to hear how Ed played beholders in the Realms and any Realms-specific beholder information as he was the first to give them any real substance in the D&D firmament IMO.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 17:28:39
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Originally posted by Knight of the Gate
I just thought of a question for the Ed or THO: (Note- I'm working my way backwards thru the previous years, so if this is asked-and-answered, I apologize)
Where did the Mulhorandi/Untheric folk come from? Was it, in fact Earth? I have always operated under the assumption (Just that, too... with no good reason for me to think this, except that it's a conclusion that I jumped to long ago) that they were from worlds in which the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian/Assyrian cultures were the dominant ones.
No real need for me to know this beyond the burning need to have as much of the Realms 'under glass' as possible.
Eric Boyd, and the post should still be on the message boards somewhere, basically inferred that they did come from Earth but it's never been flat out stated in sourcebooks. Maybe Sage kept the reply or I did in my gatherings of old posts that are stored on Keep's main site. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 18:09:56
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Originally posted by Zandilar
(for example, David Webber is exceedingly difficult to get, at least in Melbourne).
You're in the wrong Melbourne. The Melbourne* I'm in has plenty of David Weber books. 
*On the Space Coast of Florida -- if you look at the map, halfway down on the Atlantic side, it juts out just a little -- that's where I am.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 18:22:41
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I have reversed-played it, and gave the Imaskari a wee-bit of a Stargate spin, likening them to the Goa'uld.
That means the Pyramid-building culture originated on Toril (actually brought in from elsewhere by highly advanced Gnolls... but thats another story, and a Mystara/Blackmoor tie-in) with the Imaskari, who then spread it to other worlds throughout their colonies... like the one in ancient Mesopotamia. I also have them down as having a colony on Oerth (which gave rise to the Suel Imperium)... I do so love tieing my campaign worlds together.
Anyhow, I don't want to go off on a tangent, but my point was that just because the lore infers that said cultures came from Earth, doesn't mean that there wasn't a little cross-cultural polination going on, and that those people may have come from any number of worlds where the Imaskari established colonies (mostly for slave-taking purposes).
I have done the same for Eastern cultures as well (with Brian James' help) - the Shou did not come from Earth; a group that went through a diaspora became BOTH the Shou of Toril and the ancient Chinese of Earth (making them related, but more like 'distant cousins').
And one last thing - it has been mentioned several times by designers, and I believe at least once by Ed himself, that the 'Earth' of D&D is a seperate world from ours - the D&D mulitverse exists in an entireely seperarte universe, which has its own laws of physics and cosmic structure... and it has it's own Earth, who's Solar System exists with it's own Crystal sphere, quite unbeknowst to its inhabitants (refer to he World of Tiers series of novels for how such a thing is posible).
Edit: @Wooly - I believe he is located in The Merry 'ol Land of Oz. I believe you need a balloon or some Ruby Slippers to get to any place with a decent bookstore from there. |
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
313 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 22:33:31
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Heya,
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Zandilar
(for example, David Webber is exceedingly difficult to get, at least in Melbourne).
You're in the wrong Melbourne. The Melbourne* I'm in has plenty of David Weber books.
*On the Space Coast of Florida -- if you look at the map, halfway down on the Atlantic side, it juts out just a little -- that's where I am.
And the Melbourne FL/Melbourne Australia joke never gets old!
ROFL.
Yes, you are right there. I would probably have better luck in the other Melbourne! Though I'm kind of glad to live in temperate Melbourne as opposed subtropical Melbourne. No hurricanes (cyclones)! (But then again, we did just have the worst bushfires over here since Ash Wednesday, killing just over 200 people - so there's a minus for this Melbourne.) |
Zandilar
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 22:45:32
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hello again, all.
<snip>
Ed also sent me replies to Jakk's queries. Re. the Cormyr lineage: little progress at the moment. Re. the announcement: not made yet, more snags have arisen. Patience (hey, I KNOW it's hard. * I * want all of this stuff RIGHT NOW, too!). Yet, I say again, patience. Ed's happily immersed in cranking out a novel right now, anyway . . .
love to all,
THO
Thanks for the quick response! No surprises (for me, anyway) about the (lack of) progress on the lineage publication.  Can you tell us anything at all, however vague, about what's causing the delays in the announcement, whatever it concerns? I have no idea what this announcement is about, but ever since it was mentioned, I've been curiouser and curiouser... and of course, it keeps getting delayed...  |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 22:52:22
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
2. It’s spread all over the house. I have a study on the upper floor that was at one point crammed to the ceiling with just a tiny passageway through it (sculpted to fit my belly as I edged sideways along it) left “open.” I’ve gradually been emptying this into . . .
My main library in the “new basement,” where I work.
Other major book loci are the old basement (that is, the low-ceilinged basement of the original farmhouse, which is linked to the new basement), the dining room (shelves all around the walls and a stack of boxes to the ceiling around which unboxed books are mounded), front hall, bathroom, three bedrooms (bookshelves in all, books hidden in wooden sidetable cabinets in one), the spare room (shelves, piles, books inside a cabinet), gallery (bookshelves beneath the paintings and prints), living room, kitchen (the cookbooks, naturally), office (more cookbooks, the gardening books) . . .
Ah, gardening books. I'm starting to accumulate a lot of them...
I, for one, would love to know a little about what particular aspects of gardening Ed enjoys the most, and I'd love to hear about what plants Ed likes too. I'm a budding gardener myself (haha!) , and my own favorites are cacti, succulents, native plants of my region (northern New Jersey--if I recall correctly Ed lives in eastern Canada, which would mean we might share the same floristic region )...and I'm also going to try to grow some vegetables this year too. Also, Ed, do you garden with the intent of attracting/nurturing wildlife, such as birds, butterflies, and other animals?
Hooded One, feel free to answer this question too if you want. |
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Edited by - Rinonalyrna Fathomlin on 09 Mar 2009 22:55:02 |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2009 : 22:55:48
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Originally posted by Kuje
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Originally posted by Knight of the Gate
I just thought of a question for the Ed or THO: (Note- I'm working my way backwards thru the previous years, so if this is asked-and-answered, I apologize)
Where did the Mulhorandi/Untheric folk come from? Was it, in fact Earth? I have always operated under the assumption (Just that, too... with no good reason for me to think this, except that it's a conclusion that I jumped to long ago) that they were from worlds in which the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian/Assyrian cultures were the dominant ones.
No real need for me to know this beyond the burning need to have as much of the Realms 'under glass' as possible.
Eric Boyd, and the post should still be on the message boards somewhere, basically inferred that they did come from Earth but it's never been flat out stated in sourcebooks. Maybe Sage kept the reply or I did in my gatherings of old posts that are stored on Keep's main site.
Yeah, I've got the reply here somewhere.
I'll note further that Eric gave the strong impression they were kidnapped from Earth in Powers & Pantheons, but did not state so explicitly. Eric also hinted about this in Volo's Guide to All Things Magical [available as a free PDF download at WotC] in the write up of the artifact relating to Ptah. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 00:56:11
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Hello again, all. I bring this reply from Ed to Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's gardening questions:
Well, the bit of gardening I enjoy the most is walking through Capability Brown-style gardens I can never afford, around English country houses, where the entire LANDSCAPE has been sculpted and planted and dotted with follies and so on, marvelling at what can be done, given wealth and space and time and cheap labour I'll never, ever have.
I'm not a fan of overly-formal (Versailles-type clipped-hedge knot gardens and the like) gardens, but love semi-wild gardens . . . which is what Jen and I have, on five acres of mostly woodlot and fields let go to wildflowers (sumac and aspen keep encroaching, and I cut firewood and we harvest wild black raspberries and morels), but we tend to cut "rides" [green-grass paths] and let nature take care of the rest. Except tree-planting and wild shrub planting; we order and plant dozens of specimens every year.
Including roses and vines and our "beer plant" (hops), that grow up the posts of our carport every year and up along the railings of the bedroom-walkout deck atop it, to cloak the wood in a nice carpet of green growing leaves.
We also grow herbs (outdoor pots in summer, move them indoors in winter) and tomatoes and a few other sporadic food crops, and have a mature asparagus bed. In general, we plant a perennial bed, have a south-wall-of-the-house summer "garden" of potted plants arranged in tiers, and year round grow indoor window plants, including lots of cacti, succulents, and a giant jade plant. We also have the usual spider plant, mother-in-law's-tongue, and mares'-tail in hanging baskets, plus a dozen or so pots that move outdoors every spring. We feed birds and have butterfly bushes and plantings and feeders to encourage hummingbirds, wrens, bluebirds, and the like - - and get all sorts of birds, including (thanks to having semi-woodlands right next to the house) large woodpeckers, hawks, wild turkeys, and owls on occasion. I should mention that the house is surrounded by huge trees, mostly black spruce, but there's a gigantic white pine and three larger cedars that shelter the nests of dozens of nesting birds.
Sure beats living in the city.
So saith Ed. My own gardening, thanks to my work, has been far more modest, but I do have a small patio "wild bower" garden, and a growing frame that I use year-round for vegetables and some "companion planted, keep off the unwanted insects and pests" flowers, too. Ed didn't mention that as the years pass, he does more and more of the gardening grunt-work, from running two composters to all the weeding and watering to mulching and feeding and raking and carting brush onto an ever-growing pile behind the barn.
Gads, we're so both charmingly domesticated.
love,
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 01:02:23
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Oh, and to add some Realms relevance to my posts this fair even: Jakk, the announcement has been delayed by ongoing legal negotiations. NOT lawsuits or anything of the sort, just getting all the details of an agreement firmed up.
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sfdragon
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 03:05:27
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Oh, and to add some Realms relevance to my posts this fair even: Jakk, the announcement has been delayed by ongoing legal negotiations. NOT lawsuits or anything of the sort, just getting all the details of an agreement firmed up.
love,
THO
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 04:51:43
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Hmmmmmmm...
And thats all I'm gonna say. |
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 05:00:04
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| A question for THO : did yours and Ed's Knights campaign ever use some of the early AD&D modules (Against the Giants, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, etc.) Thanks! |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 14:25:53
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No, Ed never used any of the published modules with us, though he was asked to playtest bits and pieces of some of their encounters, and did so when he could sneak them into our unfolding campaign so they "fit."
The early players DID ask him to run them through the Fell Pass, an early DRAGON-published, contest-winning adventure . . . with disastrous results, for them. :}
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 18:41:39
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Well met, all!
Ed, who have been some of the famous topers and drug addicts of Toril's history, and what stray bits of lore are associated with them? The Chinese poet Li Po, for example, was a famous drunkard, and drowned after leaning over the side of a boat to grasp the reflection of the Moon -- that has "mystery cult" written all over it! Have there been groups of famous artists (in the very broadest sense) who have relied upon communal drug-taking in order to produce their work, as did the French Decadents with their absinthe or jazz artists and their reefer? (Hey, I'm hep to the jive -- I know what it was that Minnie was mooching!)
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Knight of the Gate
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 19:12:20
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Thanks for the comprehensive answers on the Earth/Toril connections, folks: If The Bearded One or His Lady of the Hood wishes to expand upon this, I'm sure there would be no gnashing of teeth here at the keep, but I hold myself fully answered.
I dig your reverse engineering Markus: I may just appropriate that- if I ever need to answer a question in this vein. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 21:47:51
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Oh, and to add some Realms relevance to my posts this fair even: Jakk, the announcement has been delayed by ongoing legal negotiations. NOT lawsuits or anything of the sort, just getting all the details of an agreement firmed up.
love,
THO
I must echo Markustay's comment: Hmmm... And then I shall bite my tongue, for the questions begin to form at a fast and furious pace, and I know that I shall receive no answers.
One question that might be answerable does occur to me, however; do my two original questions in this discussion (the announcement/negotiations and the publication of the lineage) have anything to do with one another? A simple Yes, No, or NDA is sufficient; I know the rules of this particular game and how they work... liking them is another matter entirely. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 22:17:50
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| I'm going to guess No... final answer. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 00:02:02
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hello again, all. I bring this reply from Ed to Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's gardening questions:
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So saith Ed. My own gardening, thanks to my work, has been far more modest, but I do have a small patio "wild bower" garden, and a growing frame that I use year-round for vegetables and some "companion planted, keep off the unwanted insects and pests" flowers, too. Ed didn't mention that as the years pass, he does more and more of the gardening grunt-work, from running two composters to all the weeding and watering to mulching and feeding and raking and carting brush onto an ever-growing pile behind the barn.
Gads, we're so both charmingly domesticated.
love,
THO
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 01:09:08
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Our pleasure!
From visiting Ed's house, I can tell you that he left some book-adorned rooms out. There are even bookshelves on the various landings at the top and halfway up his stairs - - not to mention built-in bookshelves all around the bed in his sleeping hut, down "at the bottom of the garden" (actually one overgrown farm field east of the house, beside the woodlot). When we were younger, Ed and I talked about "dream" garden elements, and Ed's was his own small private lake/overgrown pond with an island at the center of it and a "folly" (built-as-a-ruin stone castle) on it.
However, he can't dig one out where he is now because the soil is too sandy, and besides, springs rise on both sides of his property and run down its edges as full-fledged streams. He has a cottage up in Muskoka to satisfy the "boating on the wild lake" urges, when he gets them.
Steven Schend is the only other scribe of Candlekeep to have visited both Ed's home and cottage, I believe. On one of those visits, I'm told, they cooked up many entries for the Roll of Years.
And to Jakk: Markustay's guess is right: "No."
I only wish I could say more . . . but then, this works just fine as a tease, doesn't it?
love,
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 02:56:12
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Steven Schend is the only other scribe of Candlekeep to have visited both Ed's home and cottage, I believe. On one of those visits, I'm told, they cooked up many entries for the Roll of Years.
My lady, could Ed perhaps provide a few of those entries that maybe weren't included on the official "Roll of Years?" |
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Jakk
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 03:43:32
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
<chop>
And to Jakk: Markustay's guess is right: "No."
I only wish I could say more . . . but then, this works just fine as a tease, doesn't it?
love,
THO
Actually, that answer pacifies my curiosity more than piques it... but thank you and Ed all the same for the prompt reply. I've learned to ask non-research-related questions if I want to get answers soon. After learning of the true magnitude of Ed's library and the state of his notes, this does not come as a shock to me. The curiosity remains, however... "pacified" does not mean "extinguished", so I hope that these processes resolve themselves as speedily as possible... he says with a firm understanding (pun intended) of the role of lawyers: they are the glacial creep in the headwaters of the rushing river that is our society. I quite like that metaphor; if anyone wants it, they are welcome to it.
On the subject of the Roll of Years, after reading the Sage's question: Does every year have a contained event (no matter how insignificant) that its name refers to? If so, I'm rather curious about the Year of Azuth's Woe (1440, I believe), given that Azuth is now (canonically, at least) god-dust... and I've also noticed that the Year of the Ageless One is not on the Roll of Years that I have (in Word format, downloaded from wizards.com pre-Spellplague); did the Spellplague mess with the written Roll of Years as well? I'm extending the Roll backward to -1000 and forward to 2000, with 2000 DR being the Year of the Black Star; if anything has already been done toward this that you can share, I'd love to see it. (he says, expecting the usual three little letters that seem to answer any question of burning interest to him) |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 04:51:03
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Heya,
I was just flicking through the Waterdeep novel earlier today (this is another book I've never been able to read from cover to cover), and came across a passage with Elaith contemplating a half-silver dragon "buddy" that has gone missing... One paragraph (the first two sentences in particular) kind of stood out, leaving me scratching my head and saying "huh?"
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Some Craulnobers had been dragon-riders. Matings of dragon and their rider bought instant shame, and any offspring were outcast.
This sounds very un-realmslike, especially given the general sexual permissiveness of the Realms. Why the shame? (Is the shame only restricted to matings that result in procreation?) It's not like Elves or Dragons are non-sentient, and it's not even like they'd be mating elven with dragonform dragon (because that could not possibly work, not without pain or the risk of death). I would have thought this kind of love might well have been celebrated as a coming together of equals/partners. Or am I completely off beam here?
(I also get the feeling this might have been something Elaine wrote, am I correct?) |
Zandilar
~amor vincit omnia~
~audaces fortuna iuvat~
As the spell ends, you look up into the sky to see the sun blazing overhead like noon in a desert. Then something else in the sky catches your attention. Turning your gaze, you see a tawny furred kitten bounding across the sky towards the new sun. Her eyes glint a mischevious green as she pounces on it as if it were nothing but a colossal ball of golden yarn. With quick strokes of her paws, it is batted across the sky, back and forth. Then with a wink the kitten and the sun disappear, leaving the citizens of Elversult gazing up with amazed expressions that quickly turn into chortles and mirth.
The Sunlord left Elversult the same day in humilitation, and was never heard from again. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 05:59:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Jakk
and I've also noticed that the Year of the Ageless One is not on the Roll of Years that I have (in Word format, downloaded from wizards.com pre-Spellplague);
Are you looking at the correct year (1479)? Because it's listed that way on my list, and on the list downloaded from the Wizards site. |
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