Replying to @TheEdVerse
@TheEdVerse How is Volo still alive? He's human, supposedly, but his writing career has spanned over 100 years (1356 DR - 1480s DR)?

Nov 6, 2017 · 6:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...easily return after the Spellplague. Sometimes, keeping Volo ignorant of things is best for the Realms. ;}
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I didn't expect the Archmage himself to answer my question. Thank you so much! This clears up quite a few questions I had!
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...into another form as yet another punishment from a spellcaster he'd offended, not that he was being kept alive to allow Mystra to more...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...other Chosen are under instructions to see to his survival when they can.) Volo doesn't know about this. He believes he was thrust...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...why he's been so improbably lucky at staying alive for so many years, despite being a cocky, smart-mouthed idiot. (In fact, El and the...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
Surprising as it may seem, Volo is one such mortal (NOT a Chosen, but someone who has some of Mystra's divine essence within him). That's...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...she IS the Weave) by investing some of her divine essence in many mortals, notably her Chosen (El, Storm & the other Seven Sisters, etc.)
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
...answer: as she's done before (Time of Troubles), Mystra safeguards Toril from the chaos of an utterly destroyed Weave (and herself, as...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
Mirt is another. He was trapped in a blueflame item (covered in the Sage of Shadowdale column). However, here's the super-secret short...
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Replying to @FrumiousFrig
He was trapped in magical stasis (in another form) for nigh a century. (Covered in a lore column that may be somewhere on the Wizards site.)
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