Issue
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Title
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Description
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Dragon #172
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Amreth Guant, Master Merchant
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The east-west overland trade routes of the Heartlands spawn profitable, hard-bitten caravan companies and a certain breed of wily, worldly wise, independent traders.
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Dragon #174
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The Way of Lost Power
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For centuries, wizards across the Realms have heard scores of exaggerated, sometimes entirely fanciful, tales about various lost books of spells or rituals and processes that could swiftly make them mighty in magic.
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Dragon #175
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The Gentle Ghost of Silverymoon
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Wherever in the Realms you find battlefields, fortresses, or long-established settlements, you will also find hauntings. One such that has risen to popular notice only recently is a spectral, flying lady elf who has become known as "the Gentle Ghost of Silverymoon" for her kindly manner.
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Dragon #176
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Tarmel Drouth, Outcast Noble
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Tarmel Drouth was outcast from the Ilance family in Suzail, but he has not taken his banishment lightly and seeks revenge against those who have ostracized him.
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Dragon #177
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The House of Naerhand: Family Games of Power
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The Naerhand family is wealthier than the largest city guilds and weilds more power than many rulers.
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Dragon #178
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Deadeyes
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A monstrous beholder in Waterdeep.
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Dragon #179
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Ondal's Stand
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Wizards beyond counting died in the Spellplague. What makes Ondal memorable is not his wizardry. He is remembered for the wine he’d bottled but hadn’t yet sold when the Spellplague struck.
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Dragon #180
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The Hunter of False Nobles
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Heldran Rallyhorn is devoted to keeping the nobility of Faerûn ‘pure’, and his methods have made him both loved and feared.
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Dragon #181
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The Circle of Fangs
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The circle of fangs is an enigmatic magic device of unknown origin. Its purpose is clear, but who made it?
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Dragon #182
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The Dracohar
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"The Dread Hood" is a wily highwayman operating north of the Snakewood, so-called because of the voluminous, black hood which perpetually shields his features. What hides beneath that hood? Perhaps it’s best if you don’t know.
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Dragon #183
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Circle of Fangs, Part 2
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Mysterious, magic rings have been found in scattered locales. Sages understand what the rings do, but not why. All of them are mystically linked together and, it seems, bound to some other, unidentifiable entity.
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Dragon #184
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Rastigur Stornont
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Rastigur Stornont is a man of prodigious appetites and even more prodigious vices.
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Dragon #185
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Silent Sail
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Small, secretive local cabals of merchants are everywhere in the Realms, and seemingly always have been. One of the most successful, in a city infamous for its cabals, is "The Silent Sail" of Marsember.
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Dragon #186
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Gergul and Mithgryn, Body Snatchers Extraordinaire
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In recent months, necromancers, warlocks, alchemists, and others in the Heartlands who seek bodies and body parts have shared news of two human men who provide the needed ghastly remnants in return for coin. These men are said to be young, agile, armed, and alert for trouble and trade betrayals.
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Dragon #187
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Queen Filfaeril's Blades
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The beautiful, capable, strong-willed wife of King Azoun IV of Cormyr is now long dead, but she left behind a hidden, living legacy. A small, secretive band of loyal agents, her personal Blades, remain dedicated to furthering her aims for the Forest Kingdom. Still willing to slay and die in her memory, they seek to make “Fee’s Fire” burn in every Cormyrean’s heart and hearth.
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Dragon #188
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Whispered Words
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The sinister, menacingly capable Royal Intelligencer (head spy) of Impiltur went missing while on assignment in Sembia two summers ago, and he has not been heard from since. Because Sembia has a very effective counterespionage force, some think Sembian agents identified him and then murdered him.
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Dragon #189
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A Deadly Civic Honor
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Disquiet has recently spread throughout the city, however, as word has gotten out that some awards, decorations, and honors are haunted by unknown entities that compel the wearers to undertake dangerous, often illegal tasks—the sorts of daring deeds performed by adventurers.
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Dragon #190
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The Wild Lords
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Of old, the nobles of Waterdeep took haughty pride in their bloodlines and birthrights. Few could marry into the ranks of the nobles without being swallowed up in the manners and trappings of nobility, and nobles shunned those who refused to act “higherborn than the common unwashed,” as one broadsheet put it.
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Dragon #191
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Jalander's Dodge
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Until recently, Mathym Jalander was a merchant like many others—a harried trader, less energetic than he once was, trying to make a living in increasingly tough times by any means he could. Now he’s a hunted man, in hiding and desperate to change his name and face (the latter perhaps by use of the much-rumored “masks of living flesh,” if he can find one).
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Dragon #192
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Masks of Living Flesh
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This article provides an overview of the strange parasitic creature called a jaod.
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Dragon #193
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The Winking Eyes of Rhauron
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This article provides an overview of the mysterious magical gems known as the Winking Eyes of Rhauron.
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Dragon #194
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Thormil's Secret
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Not all that far east of Wheloon in Cormyr is a small, backroads farm, the holding of one Nars Thormil, that has started to attract some local attention for the steady stream of fat thimdrors it’s turning out, all of them bound for the best eateries in Saerloon.
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Dragon #195
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Spellslayer Wine
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This article provides an overview of the Spellslayer wine.
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Dragon #196
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Ghost Knight of Galardoun
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Throughout the Heartlands of Faerûn, word has spread of an eerie apparition that many folk have encountered in dark and lonely places.
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