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3/1/2021 – 10/1/2021

 * Zombie lords were neither especially regal zombies nor the unliving remains of nobles, but rather particularly intelligent and powerful undead created from a raise dead spell gone wrong.
 * Captain Zemmer, a mercenary in the service of Lord Neverember, was the daughter of a Thayan necromancer and had a zombified family dog growing up.
 * An ephemeral hangman was a malevolent aberration formed from pure shadow, a sort of Shadowfell equivalent of a roper except stealthier and arguably nastier.
 * Black Dugal's Music Shoppe in Ravens Bluff was the city's one-stop shop for all manner of musical instruments, all expertly crafted by the proprietor, "Black" Dugal Buchannan.
 * The noble Lanngolyn family of Waterdeep controlled the city's textile industry and once had one of their number kidnapped by the doppelganger syndicate known as the Unseen.
 * Saddles enabled the denizens of Toril to mount all manner of steeds both exotic and mundane, providing a marginally more comfortable experience than riding bareback.

10/1/2021 – 17/1/2021

 * The Ruldegost family of Waterdhavian nobility seemed like a respectable House that made their coin through trade and banking, but the family matriarch's brother was secretly a member of the sinister Knights of the Shield.
 * The Grove of Meditation in the kingdom of Synnoria on the Moonshae Isles was blessed by the Earthmother to provide meditating elven mages the insight needed to advance their powers.
 * The horned devil Rotbite possessed the stone golem Awtawmatawn no fewer than two times, terrorizing the inhabitants of Volkumburgh Vale on both occasions before ultimately being foiled by falling down a hole.
 * The Lake of Steam separated the Shining South from the rest of Faerûn. The Border Kingdoms, the Shaar, and several free cities such as Mintar, Yeshpek, and Ankhapur all lay along its coast.
 * Luthbaern was a town of corpulent cheese-makers, which is just about the nicest thing anyone could say about Luthbaern; its citizens were pompous and arrogant, and the town itself was gray and cramped.
 * The humble torch kept darkvision-impaired adventurers across Toril safe as they plundered dungeons and crypts. Remember: always light a torch before opening a sarcophagus. No exceptions.
 * The Tower of Solace was a grand building in Neverwinter's Protector's Enclave district where the evil wizard Rhazzad experimented on the plaguechanged victims of the Spellplague under the guise of charity.
 * Clangeddin's Hearth, a dwarven group touting themselves as the survivors of Clan Melairkyn, briefly retook the Temple of Clangeddin in Undermountain before they were slaughtered by the lich Morik Stormhand.
 * The deep waters of Waterdeep's Deepwater Harbor were kept exceptionally clean by the continuous efforts of the Guild of Watermen and local merfolk from the villages of Tharqualnaar and T'Quession.
 * A powerful and ambitious wu jen was once cursed by the Eight Million Gods of Kara-Tur to become a vile tigbanua buso, wandering the island of Wa and turning innocents into savage tagamaling busos.