@TheEdVerse when you initially created faerun, did you begin with a section of the world that your PCs played in, or did you have the entire continent mapped out?
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I created Faerûn 10 years before D&D existed, building along the Sword Coast from Mirabar S to Waterdeep as I followed the travels of Mirt the Moneylender in my earliest short stories. Though my very first tale told me Zirta stood inland. So, yes, it grew. #Realmslore
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Wow! Thanks for the response and thank you for the insight!
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My pleasure. Waterdeep was already mapped and detailed when the 1st Realms D&D campaign started there. For my 2nd campaign, I jumped to Eveningstar in Cormyr (the Haunted Halls), and the PCs soon traveled to Shadowdale. From those two foci, the detailing went in all directions.
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Sir any chance those stories see the light of day(or already have)?
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Most of them were published in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the Realms became a D&D setting, the first story was republished: "One Comes, Unheralded, to Zirta" (GenCon handout, then in The Best of the Realms II: The Stories of Ed Greenwood mass market paperback). #Realmslore

Jul 4, 2023 · 6:59 PM UTC
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