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27/01/2023

 * Current Clacks are current again! We've been busy, but we'll be a lot busier as we prepare for the Honor Among Thieves movie and all the new and revisited lore. We've uncovered a lot of clues already. Watch this space for the people, places, magic, and monsters moving from the page to the screen.
 * Meanwhile, 2023 is the Year of Manuscripts! We'll be undertaking the tedious task of indexing books, games, and other sources to build a more comprehensive wiki.
 * Our Wandering Kobold documented all kinds of druid circles, but it was the dragon-worshiping Circle of the Scale that led the kobold to find Tiamat's scale, unfortunately in the claws of its undead chief druid. Afterward, the kobold healed up at The Bitter Blade inn in Phlan.
 * With ample unasked-for advice from the talking sword Legendmaker, BadCatMan learned all about Oghma, Lord of Knowledge, and of the Church of Oghma, its doctrines and divisions. He couldn't leave (literally) without borrowing a book, choosing Words to all Wizards.
 * Stabbier has gone to Hell and back with Elminster, running afoul of the archfiend Malachlabra and more than one pit fiend, but was aided by the borrowed Andrathath's Mask.
 * Catching up, we welcome Zarkos Oak, who introduced the druid Haarn Brightcloak; Akiva42, who wrote of the moonstone mask and helm of darkness; Gragor Khogad, who found the stolen Idol of Silvanus; Gordakh, who mentioned the erinyes Ilzabeth; HellsCourtesy, who discovered Dead Man's Corner, a purveyor of zombies in Skulport; and Dinosaursarecool333, who let us know that the quarut and varakhut inevitables (and apparently dinosaurs too) are cool.
 * In our Legacy of the Green Regent play-by-post campaign, three of our brave heroes have been selected as Scions of the Green Regent, and Mielikki's chosen has been chosen at last—an orc as Green Regent? It's more likely than you think.
 * Plus, our very own hungry halfling wizard has a not-a-cooking-blog! Check out Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery to see some tasty classic Realms dishes and have more than a heroes' feast.

7/02/2023

 * Using FANDOM's interactive maps tool, we have created a comprehensive interactive map of the most famous city in the Realms: Waterdeep! We have over 1,000 locations are mapped so far. Explore them all at Map:Waterdeep.

10/02/2023

 * We've hit 48,000 articles, deletions notwithstanding, and the lucky milestone is stuffed giant squid from Artyom.pavlov. It's one of Volo's favorites, so check it out.

9/03/2023

 * Well met! For those new here, we cover the Forgotten Realms, the long-running fantasy world created by Ed Greenwood that's the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Honor Among Thieves. Stay a while and explore! And for our regulars, you would've noticed a new look about the place—thanks to FANDOM and Paramount, for the next few weeks, the Forgotten Realms Wiki is celebrating the movie, its characters, and the places we love so much.
 * In the coming weeks, we'll be adding and expanding articles on the movie and revealing some here. If you want to join in, just hit Edit (source editor recommended) and add the lore! To help us help you, check our policies and use the code and style of our other pages, write with an in-universe point-of-view and in past tense as you'd see in a novel, and provide references for everything. And make a FANDOM account so we can get to know you.
 * We welcome ChloeLorde, who, in service to the Mistress of the Night (one of them, anyway), is exploring Yhaunn and finding it anything but a sleepy city. She escaped a duel between the bravos Keph Thingoleir and Lyraene, then got into the murky mysteries of the temple of Shar and its head priest, Bolan, before finally being rescued by the lycanthropes of the New Moon Pact.
 * We also welcome ContactOfSolitude, who tried to join the Society of Stalwart Adventurers; Walkerius, who met the paraelemental princes Ehkahk and Bwimb II; DuskGlim, who met Ghille Cever, innkeeper of the White Hart Inn; CreedmasterY, who briefly ran afoul of the mind flayers' Awaiter Creed and Darkener Creed; and TylerChester, who fell into the clutches of the hag Granny Skabatha Nightshade. And we say well again to GreenDevilFace, who made a bad business deal at Thantilvur Investments, and Modgamers, who encountered Leomund, a mage from another world and the namesake of many spells.
 * Our Legacy of the Green Regent play-by-post campaign has kicked off a new adventure with another chapter, "Ghost Stories". Has anyone else got a spooky story to tell? And also check out Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery, for yummy dishes from the Realms.
 * Now, as the elves say, sweet water and light laughter until next we meet!

22/03/2023

 * Well met! For those new here, we cover the Forgotten Realms, the long-running fantasy world created by Ed Greenwood that's the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Honor Among Thieves. Stay a while and explore! And for our regulars, you would've noticed a new look about the place—thanks to FANDOM and Paramount, for the next few weeks, the Forgotten Realms Wiki is celebrating the movie, its characters, and the places we love so much.
 * In the coming weeks, we'll be adding and expanding articles on the movie and revealing some here. If you want to join in, just hit Edit (source editor recommended) and add the lore! To help us help you, check our policies and use the code and style of our other pages, write with an in-universe point-of-view and in past tense as you'd see in a novel, and provide references for everything. And make a FANDOM account so we can get to know you!
 * With an aberrant slant, SilverTiger12 has wrangled into the menageries the dusk unicorn, the horrifying stonesinger, and the colorful but deadly prismatic roper, and written more about the bizarre nothics and avolakias and the mighty amphibious froghemoth.
 * Whilst documenting the civil war in Tethyr, Lhynard explored the ruins of Castle Tethyr and found a haunt, uh, haunting its halls. After escaping that spirit of a slain corlann, and then the unfortunately named bandit Fleebo, Lhynard rested up at the Winsome Repose inn.
 * SunderedShor climbed Ascal's Horn and left with a little frostbite. Fortunately, the beauticians at The Blue Baldric in Waterdeep took care of that, and he enjoyed a meal of onions.
 * We say well met to BlissfulSavant, who's currently in Cormyr, first infiltrating Stormhaven House, a secret training facility for the War Wizards; then making contact with rogue lady-in-waiting Sulue Thundersword, and finally evading capture by the Knights Royal and the highknights. Welcome to the life of a wiki editor!
 * We go ghost hunting in "Ghost Stories", the next chapter in our Legacy of the Green Regent play-by-post campaign. And our own halfling wizard-in-the-kitchen Juniper has cooked up a storm, creating Endevver Buns inspired by Honor Among Thieves!
 * Follow us on Twitter and Mastodon for thrice-daily doses of lore.
 * Now, alavairthae, as the Red Wizards say farewell—may your skill prevail.

30/03/2023

 * Oloré! For those new here, we cover the Forgotten Realms, the long-running fantasy world created by Ed Greenwood that's the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Honor Among Thieves. Thanks to FANDOM and Paramount, for the next few weeks, we're celebrating the movie, its characters, and the places we love so much. Check out our Realmslore Easter egg hunt and interactive map of the movie's journey. Stay a while and explore—but beware the spoilers.
 * We're busily adding and expanding articles on the movie. If you want to join in, just hit Edit (source editor recommended) and add the lore! To help us help you, check our policies and use the code and style of our other pages, write with an in-universe point-of-view and in past tense as you'd see in a novel, and provide references for everything. And make a FANDOM account so we can get to know you!
 * Setting off on the quest is an adventuring party comprising Artyom.pavlov, Arodp88, BadCatMan, and Ruf67. In Thay, they infiltrated the dread Citadel and watched in horror as Szass Tam, Zulkir of Necromancy, unleashed the beckoning death on his people, then beat a hasty retreat from the undead horde that emerged. Nope.
 * After searching in vain for Korinn's Keep—its location unknown, just the way the Harpers like it—they went to Womford and stayed at the Friendly Bat inn. But they found things not so friendly as they were robbed by the Pale Claw bandits. Old Timbrell wrongly claimed the bandits commanded a wyvern, sending them on a wild wyvern hunt.
 * For a rest, they went to Triboar and took in a magic show at the Triboar playhouse, but suffered picked pockets and lost a deathly token. They did get a new darksteel greataxe forged by Ghelryn Foehammer, however.
 * Armed up, they ventured down into the Underdark, and found themselves down among the deep gnomes, outside the ruined city of Dolblunde. Encouraged by Trick and Trap, they ventured within, but found patrolling intellect devourers serving the elder brain Zuphelithid, and silently slipped away again. Once again: nope.
 * Endevver Bun 5.png other tales, we go ghost hunting in "Ghost Stories", the next chapter in our Legacy of the Green Regent play-by-post campaign. And our own halfling wizard-in-the-kitchen Juniper has cooked up a storm, creating Endevver Buns inspired by Honor Among Thieves: The Road to Neverwinter!
 * Follow us on Twitter and Mastodon for thrice-daily doses of lore.
 * Until swords part, friends.

11/06/2023

 * Well met! To the new adventurers among you, we explore the Forgotten Realms, the long-running fantasy world created by Ed Greenwood and others and the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Honor Among Thieves. If you want to help out, just click Edit (source editor advised) and add the lore! Check our policies, use the code and style of our other pages, write with an in-universe past-tense point-of-view, and don't forget the references! Ask around if you need help and make a FANDOM account to keep track of things.
 * The D&D movie has been released at last and to high praise—but didn't we tell you it'd be great? After years of research and reporting and after several weeks of frantic writing and rewatches, we were ready and we loved it. We're proud to have been a resource in the writing, production, and acting and are happy to see Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms brought to the big screen so nicely, and we look forward to a sequel with his name on it.
 * Now, we've got some catching up to do… First up, Regis87 discovered some magic items of the Harpers, with the protective Jhannyl's wristlet, the handy Gaudle's rod of rings, the sticky Pheljara's wand, and the, uh, stabby wand of weapons.
 * Vegepygmy got down in the muck of Minauros, third of the Nine Hells and dominion of Mammon, the most avaricious archdevil. The Vegepygmy escaped the chain devils of Jangling Hiter, but then got that sinking feeling in Minauros City.
 * From the bards in Waterdeep's Fetlock Court, Ir'revrykal documented a couple of characters, very different but still villainous: Avos the Fisher, a thug and gang leader of the streets of Selgaunt, and Iriolarthas, a Netherese lich who lost his city, his body, and his mind.
 * Artemaz has been raiding Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue, filling the archives with everything from astrolabes to hacksaws to fowler's cages to makeup to glass tubing to candlesticks to puppets to… What will we do with all this junk?
 * We also welcome many new sages! Epikowl found the Outlands gate-town of Sylvania while XReader310 visited the City of Glass in the Elemental Plane of Water. Goatzilladude met the mage Rautheene from Oerth, Polygoncount met Melisana while on a treasure hunt in the Korinn Archipelago, and Tyrusxl met the paladin of another world Asheera (who looked awfully familiar). JGrenemyer hobnobbed with the Caladanters and other Cormyrean nobles, Kiljaedenas made a Pact of the Blade with a shadowy something of the Shadowfell, and LylaNikker had a run-in with the githyanki blackguard Zetch'r'r in Tu'narath.
 * Pork Roast of Bargewright 5.png Legacy of the Green Regent: "Ghost Stories", in Loudwater's Tragedy's Grotto, our hunt for a ghost has become a fight with groundlings. Better watch where we put our feet.
 * Meanwhile, our own Juniper the Confusing has cooked a tasty-looking Bargewright Inn's Roasted Pork Loin in Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery.
 * And SilverTiger12 compiled A Review of Dracoform Taxonomy, a complete (if non-canon) family tree of dragon-kind.
 * As the sailors of the South say, amarast!

27/06/2023

 * The Forgotten Realms Wiki has passed 50,000 articles! The lucky 50,000 was the rissik from Regis87, who was stockpiling them for this very purpose! Well done to all our dedicated editors over the last 17 years and more for making this one of the best wikis around, and certainly the best D&D wiki ever! Take a gander at the data and celebrate with us at Forum:50,000 articles! Here's to the next 50,000!

13/08/2023

 * Oloré! If you're a new adventurer here, then welcome to the Forgotten Realms, the half-century-old fantasy world created by Ed Greenwood and countless others that's the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate III.
 * Speaking of, Baldur's Gate III is out, and it's good! We'll be hard at work playing and writing, so be wary of our spoiler notices. If you want to explore with us, then just click Edit (source editor advised) and add the lore! Also see our policies, follow the style of our other pages, remember to provide references, and write with an in-universe past-tense point-of-view. We're happy to help, so ask around and create a FANDOM account to help you keep track of your work and customize. Then you'll be well on your way to being a sage and scribe with the best of us.
 * SunderedShor was enjoying a jousting tourney when the event was crashed by uninvited and unusual undead—a corpse of despair, a lasher zombie, and a famine hound. Fortunately, with symbol of turning and staff of light, the newly minted knight took a tilt at them. (We think he got a Pale Sinister.)
 * On the trail of drow, the Possessed Priest read the works of Erlathan Greycloak and Shahaerynus, author of The High History of the Drow, and spoke with Marckarius Millithor over tofu. From them, he learned of the obscure settlements of Uluitur, ancient Spider-home, and the tongue-tying Clorlyth'na'tsheen.
 * Artemaz got lost in an alchemist's laboratory, collecting jars, papyrus pads, a quern (used for grinding), a sparker (for starting fires), and a retort (and not the sharply worded variety), and just generally going at it hammer and tongs.
 * We welcome GEONEgaming, who braved the haunted ruins of Talmost Keep, and MetroScreamingMayor8841, who related the tale of the Netherese bandit lord Olostin, the Baron of Dread. We also welcome back Darkwynters, who had a run-in with the ogre Ghereg in Icewind Dale.
 * Baldurian seafood stew 6.png a bigger bite of Baldur's Gate? Then try Baldurian Seafood Stew, courtesy of Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery, the real guide to Realms cookery.
 * In other adventures, in Legacy of the Green Regent: "Ghost Stories", we're getting down and dirty with groundlings. Have you heard of them? They're kind of underground.
 * Until swords part, friends.

1/10/2023

 * The Forgotten Realms Wiki is 18 years old today! That's right—we're officially an adult! Since 2005, we've seen the lows and highs; three editions of D&D; sourcebooks, novels, games, movies, and more and we've become one of the longest-running, most-popular, and best-quality D&D resources on the web. To all of the fans, players, dungeon masters, writers, designers, and others, we've been glad to share our love of this world with you.
 * And to all you new adventurers, well met and welcome to the Forgotten Realms, the much-loved fantasy world penned by Ed Greenwood and many more and the setting for Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate III. If you want to write with us, just click Edit (source editor advised) and add the lore! See our policies, follow the style of our other pages, write with an in-universe past-tense point-of-view, and always give references. Create a FANDOM account to customize your wiki, and if you need any help, ask any of us! On with the clacks!
 * While hunting for a Hand of Fire, ItalianKarsus hastily joined a caravan to escape the crime lord Belgon Bradaskor of Scornubel. But en route, he was pickpocketed by Krostal of the Dragon Cult and scried on by both Korthauvar Hammantle of the Zhentarim and Hulrivior of the Red Wizards. It's hard to find privacy in a world of wizardry.
 * To expand the bestiaries, SilverTiger12 clocked the awesome time dragon, but lost a few tendays in the process. Fortunately, a friendly fey brigganock helped them catch up. After that, the Silver Tiger encountered the silver dog, a rare and mysterious hound.
 * ChloeLorde explored Amn, first taking the waters at Coryllvol and then crossing the Dauntir to see the Five Silvers and Seventeen Sentries standing stones and later the mysterious Growling Hill, in the lands of the old realm of Minsorran. Climbing into the Cloud Peaks, Chloe visited Citadel Amnur. On the way, she documented many of the noble and royal familes of old Amn, such as the Krimmevols.
 * We say "Well met!" to Weisguar, who met the dragonborn throat-singer Quil Grootslang, the duergar stonemason Gergerann of Clan Flameshade, the statuesque drow mage Dhourn Ba'Tol, as well as the corpse of one Helena Anchev. Speak with dead means it's never too late for an interview.
 * We also welcome Brainwars, who met the allegedly loyal Lord Erzoured Obarskyr; EngineerDali, who shared a bottle of Mermaid Whiskey with Astarion; EnragedEggplant, who escaped a hungry Abyssal giant; Laestr, whose creeping about disturbed a bellflower; Quarklol, who met a fortunate son, Temberle Bonaduce; Tomlesss; who found a lost owlbear cub and didn't get savaged; and Ultimateokami, who found a Book of Challenges.
 * Harelveauplum sauce 6.png time in Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery, our own halfling wizard-in-the-kitchen has headed home to Luiren and cooked up some tasty ribs with harelveauplum sauce for your culinary interest.
 * FRW editor Ruf is auctioning off his copy of Baldur's Gate III: Collector's Edition, with all proceeds going to Alzheimer's LA. Make your bid now! (Bananas not included.)
 * Now, as the drow say, aluve.