It is such a pleasure to finally be able to fill in some of the gaps in lore surrounding Queen Fee! I hope this answered some of your questions. Let me know if there are other, similarly mysterious characters you would like explored! Please consider supporting the Realms so I can continue sharing them with an ever-widening audience: patreon.com/EdGreenwood
I have a question concerning the weave of magic on Toril, I know it's damaged and weakened due to the sundering events and the spell plague, along with a few other events. I would really appreciate your input on how someone could go about fixing it. Weave Knights and High Mages have abilities that allow them to "fix" areas of wild magic and dead magic, but both utilitizes the weave to do so which would weaken the over all weave on Toril. I have theories about how someone could do it. I'd really like to hear what you have to say about because you are the man, the lore master of the forgotten realms, who else would know how to fix the weave. Thank you very much.
I actually just started a campaign set in Cormyr just after the death of Azoun. Using pathfinder 2e , I started with a basic module B11 Kings festival. I turned the festival in to a rememberance day of Azoun and those who fell in the recent war. Now we are starting B2 The Caves of Chaos. which I happily placed in the stonelands ! Swords high friends ...
I'd love to hear more about the Obarskyr family of the 1480s and 1490s DR. The history is fascinating for getting a sense of what the overall culture is like and why, but I'd love to know what things are like in the more immediate-term too.
@@SoakedNDnotSorry yeah absolutely! I've already read those and loved them! (Might even be time for a reread…) But I wouldn't mind seeing what fell out in the aftermath of Fire in the Blood. Or even just seeing more details about Raedra's succession from Ed Greenwood's perspective.
Absolutely love the content but it would mean the world if we got a video on lich's and all the secrets they hold on its path, all the different paths like the alhoons for example or archlich's.
Once again Ed, I think Mystra is playing with us. Not more than an hour after I remembered (oh crap I gotta pay the water bill today!) You mention paying the water bill! I swear it's weird!! 😮
I'm still awaiting the lore about Mythelars and how to build them. My curiosity is burning and yeagning for it. Yet this video is soothing my eaching temporearly..
Netherese Mythallars are made by storing raw weave into an appropriate crystalline vessel(usually quartz or beryl crystals). That's the easiest way to explain them, though it is far more complex, and basically nigh impossible at this point due to Mystra....But it's not completely impossible, it's all about understanding the weave and the appropriate formula, components, numbers, and sacrifice(not necessarily required but if the caster isn't strong enough then they're more than likely losing their soul as part of the ritual, binding it the Mythallar. Kinda like the elven Mythals made by highmages). If you're able to make one in the current era in the forgotten realms then you'll probably make a dead magic zone at worse, and at best a wild magic zone, but you'd have a Mythallar.
cormyr have a special place in my heart for in my first serious D&D campaign my lvl 15 fighter ended up marrying Alusair after a long series of shit happening. we started the game right at the invasion of arabel, our characters where prisioners of the montruous forces. was a great story.
I have been a fan of the realms since the late 80's and something I have always admired about it is the sheer number of strong female characters. So much of fantasy leaves female characters behind or only showcases one type of female character. The realms has the full spectrum of male and female characters. I enjoy that. Warriors, scholars, prostitutes(male and female), nobility(good ones and poor ones), fops, mages, priests/priestesses, on and one. So many characters of all genders races and creeds. Its a truly diverse and inclusive place.
Mr. Greenwood, is there a comprehensive as possible list of all the kings and queens of Cormyr? Who are the "Good" rulers and who are the "Bad" rulers? As I have looked upon real world history, even poor rulers can make long term positive effects on the world while greatly loved rulers can make choices that lead to ruin for a nation. For example "Bad King John" of England created the royal Navy of England and signed the Magna Carta. While King Richard The Lion Hearted bankrupted England from all the wars he got them involved in. Also, how many noble houses have been subverted by hostile forces and how many of them are known to the crown intelligence forces?
To be honest, I have only gotten interested in Cormyr because of Mark Hulmes' campaign Knights of Eveningstar. The idea of having a noble house trying to stablish themselves was what peaked my interest.
Hello! I'm so glad to see you on here! Now I'm sitting in my sofa in my dimly lit 70's decorated apartment and reading your Shadowdale adventure I got on Ebay. The realms will never be forgotten.
Baseless rumors (such as the thing with the goblins) might not hurt her reputation with her people, but it most certainly would have the potential to hurt her reputation with people who did not know her, like foreign dignitaries who come from neighboring kingdoms and nations farther away. That would make for a great story, showing the interactions of two or more kingdoms and nations with potentially vastly different cultures. I love the idea of players coming from a far off land and being able to experience a sense of culture shock.
Historically, the "Chamber pot Holder" as you call it. That person would have been in a very powerful position. Being able to have a private word with a monarch was no small thing in the real world.
You guys laugh about "the royal chamber potholder" but it a valuable and often fought over position. Nobles would try to get their sons or nephews posted to the position, because whomever was wiping the king's bottom had the king's ear in the most discrete of times and locations.
I treat Cormyr like my own setting called Rinth (for PG settings) and Rynth (for Rated R setting with heavy Gore). I stick to the original lore until its changed by the players manually.
I am chewing thru these slowly Ed. You don't scarf down rare delicacies like it's fast food. I need to rhuminate on all these Realms revelations... Easier if communication were in the flesh instead of uni-directionally/para-socially.
Shocked my players once when the went into the Orge city that controlled an area of the north and they had a very structured trade hub and enforced laws, all be it very vicious and cruel laws. All I changed was the Ogre kings alignment to Lawful Evil then built the town based on that.
It is such a pleasure to finally be able to fill in some of the gaps in lore surrounding Queen Fee! I hope this answered some of your questions. Let me know if there are other, similarly mysterious characters you would like explored!
Please consider supporting the Realms so I can continue sharing them with an ever-widening audience: patreon.com/EdGreenwood
Retire already
I have a question concerning the weave of magic on Toril, I know it's damaged and weakened due to the sundering events and the spell plague, along with a few other events. I would really appreciate your input on how someone could go about fixing it. Weave Knights and High Mages have abilities that allow them to "fix" areas of wild magic and dead magic, but both utilitizes the weave to do so which would weaken the over all weave on Toril. I have theories about how someone could do it. I'd really like to hear what you have to say about because you are the man, the lore master of the forgotten realms, who else would know how to fix the weave.
Thank you very much.
I loved that I've been pronouncing svirfneblin properly since the beginning but I was mispronouncing duergar. lol
I would like to know more about what is going on with Elminster Daughter
"I am not please" .... sounds like a mimic of "we are not amused" something Queen Victoria (England) was claimed to say.
Mel Brooks: It’s good to be the king.
King Azoun IV: Hold my ale.
LOL!!!
Well, well, as an old gamer it´s great to see content from around 1370´s since the realms weren´t affected by 4th ed yet. Nice!
Ed feels like that really cool grandpa you go see once a year
I actually just started a campaign set in Cormyr just after the death of Azoun. Using pathfinder 2e , I started with a basic module B11 Kings festival. I turned the festival in to a rememberance day of Azoun and those who fell in the recent war. Now we are starting B2 The Caves of Chaos. which I happily placed in the stonelands ! Swords high friends ...
I don't understand why there haven't been more games and supplements around Cormyr and the Moonshae Isles - these are my two favorite locales!
Me, too. Eric Menge did a great adventure arc for Baldman Games, who are doing the Moonshaes for the Adventurers League.
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Hi Ed! The Moonshae Trilogy were the first FR books I read as a teenager!
I'd love to hear more about the Obarskyr family of the 1480s and 1490s DR. The history is fascinating for getting a sense of what the overall culture is like and why, but I'd love to know what things are like in the more immediate-term too.
Some of this is covered in the Brimstone Angels series by Erin M Evans, if you're up for some novels.
May the Gods save the Queen!
Really good series.
@@SoakedNDnotSorry yeah absolutely! I've already read those and loved them! (Might even be time for a reread…) But I wouldn't mind seeing what fell out in the aftermath of Fire in the Blood. Or even just seeing more details about Raedra's succession from Ed Greenwood's perspective.
@@JimCullen well there are 2 more books after Fire in the Blood in the series 😁
Absolutely love the content but it would mean the world if we got a video on lich's and all the secrets they hold on its path, all the different paths like the alhoons for example or archlich's.
I have some lich ideas up my sleeve, but not ALL the different paths. Gotta save some mystery for the DM.
i always imagine Queen fee saying "We, are not, amused." to a particularly annoying fool
Once again Ed, I think Mystra is playing with us. Not more than an hour after I remembered (oh crap I gotta pay the water bill today!) You mention paying the water bill! I swear it's weird!! 😮
She does, you know!
I'm still awaiting the lore about Mythelars and how to build them. My curiosity is burning and yeagning for it.
Yet this video is soothing my eaching temporearly..
Netherese Mythallars are made by storing raw weave into an appropriate crystalline vessel(usually quartz or beryl crystals). That's the easiest way to explain them, though it is far more complex, and basically nigh impossible at this point due to Mystra....But it's not completely impossible, it's all about understanding the weave and the appropriate formula, components, numbers, and sacrifice(not necessarily required but if the caster isn't strong enough then they're more than likely losing their soul as part of the ritual, binding it the Mythallar. Kinda like the elven Mythals made by highmages).
If you're able to make one in the current era in the forgotten realms then you'll probably make a dead magic zone at worse, and at best a wild magic zone, but you'd have a Mythallar.
cormyr have a special place in my heart for in my first serious D&D campaign my lvl 15 fighter ended up marrying Alusair after a long series of shit happening. we started the game right at the invasion of arabel, our characters where prisioners of the montruous forces. was a great story.
More Cormyr lore sweet
Currently rereading your Elminster series. Thank you for your wonderful story telling.
You're very welcome; wish I'd been given the chance to write many more!
If my memory serves me right Queen Fee is Elminster's Daughter.
Svirfneblin is more fun to say with a thick Swedish accent.
Love to hear about any noble house' who's machinations ended up labeling them traitors to the crown.
are you the new royal mage?
There are always plots and traitors, we must ferret them out for the good of the crown. God's save the Queen!
@@wesmaass4669 down with All Royals. Let each man rule himself.
Wait... Dragon Queen? Tiamat has a few words for this one.
And that’s how I decided where to send my party next. Overdue for a trip to the land of purple dragons
Perfect timing since Cormyr is gonna figure into my new campaign.
Come to FanX in Salt Lake City Utah, please! =)
I agree
Indeed!
One story I would be interested in hearing. Was what transpired between Meira the Dark and Azoun the IV
On the list!
I have been a fan of the realms since the late 80's and something I have always admired about it is the sheer number of strong female characters. So much of fantasy leaves female characters behind or only showcases one type of female character. The realms has the full spectrum of male and female characters. I enjoy that. Warriors, scholars, prostitutes(male and female), nobility(good ones and poor ones), fops, mages, priests/priestesses, on and one. So many characters of all genders races and creeds. Its a truly diverse and inclusive place.
Little insights into my favorite realm in the realms is always nice. Long live the queen!
Oh boy I'm gonna be at gencon, hope to see you there
Mr. Greenwood, is there a comprehensive as possible list of all the kings and queens of Cormyr? Who are the "Good" rulers and who are the "Bad" rulers? As I have looked upon real world history, even poor rulers can make long term positive effects on the world while greatly loved rulers can make choices that lead to ruin for a nation. For example "Bad King John" of England created the royal Navy of England and signed the Magna Carta. While King Richard The Lion Hearted bankrupted England from all the wars he got them involved in.
Also, how many noble houses have been subverted by hostile forces and how many of them are known to the crown intelligence forces?
Cormyr is pretty awesome.
To be honest, I have only gotten interested in Cormyr because of Mark Hulmes' campaign Knights of Eveningstar. The idea of having a noble house trying to stablish themselves was what peaked my interest.
23:30 i love hearing Ed talk about the zentrification of the cormyran countryside.
I never get tired of Ed telling stories, no matter what is about. Keep the stories coming, i will keep listening
Cheers for Queen Fee!
Hello! I'm so glad to see you on here! Now I'm sitting in my sofa in my dimly lit 70's decorated apartment and reading your Shadowdale adventure I got on Ebay. The realms will never be forgotten.
This stuff is just pure gold.
Baseless rumors (such as the thing with the goblins) might not hurt her reputation with her people, but it most certainly would have the potential to hurt her reputation with people who did not know her, like foreign dignitaries who come from neighboring kingdoms and nations farther away.
That would make for a great story, showing the interactions of two or more kingdoms and nations with potentially vastly different cultures. I love the idea of players coming from a far off land and being able to experience a sense of culture shock.
Running a Cormyrian campaign starting tomorrow and I'm a little sad that Queen Fee will have been dead for a hundred years already.
Instead of scorn, say disdain without malice.
Such great lore, thank you very much. =^_^=
I love you man… ❤Ed Greenwood
Can we get a video on Anchorome? I have a campaign in the region
It's on the list!!
The Queen is awesome!!
Would Love to hear about Cormyr of 1499 currently.
Ah ...so it's "dare-ah-gar" and not "dwhere-gar"? Great to know ... Thanks again, Ser Ed.
Great video! it seems to me that this "Guinevere" needs a "Lancelot"
Great stuff, Ed! Thanks!
Historically, the "Chamber pot Holder" as you call it. That person would have been in a very powerful position. Being able to have a private word with a monarch was no small thing in the real world.
Ed doesn't need the second guy in his videos.
alusair's simp army
Comment because i feel magically compelled to comment
We better take care of Ed or WoTC is going to secretly replace him with an AI bot on TH-cam.
You guys laugh about "the royal chamber potholder" but it a valuable and often fought over position. Nobles would try to get their sons or nephews posted to the position, because whomever was wiping the king's bottom had the king's ear in the most discrete of times and locations.
svirfneblin = Smurf Goblin (It works at our table).
Did Azoun IV have any bastards ?
Many. I believe we've mentioned over forty in published Realmslore.
Ed is so based!
I treat Cormyr like my own setting called Rinth (for PG settings) and Rynth (for Rated R setting with heavy Gore). I stick to the original lore until its changed by the players manually.
My home town is being Manshooned.
💙
I am chewing thru these slowly Ed.
You don't scarf down rare delicacies like it's fast food.
I need to rhuminate on all these Realms revelations...
Easier if communication were in the flesh instead of uni-directionally/para-socially.
Sounds like a lovely woman
... with Coca-Cola's shelf stable milk ...
"Promosm" 😕
I’m a bigger fan of Sembia.
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First!
Second! lol
Shocked my players once when the went into the Orge city that controlled an area of the north and they had a very structured trade hub and enforced laws, all be it very vicious and cruel laws. All I changed was the Ogre kings alignment to Lawful Evil then built the town based on that.