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Harper bards always sing true tales of kings, as far as truth is known. They do not, for any reward, sing falsely the grand deeds of an usurper, or falsely portray as bad the nature and deeds of his vanquished predecessor. Even if such would make good tales and songs, a Harper cleaves to the truth. The truth—a thing slightly different for everyone—must be the rock that the castle of knowledge and achievement is built upon.
— Storm Silverhand speaking of the Harpers to Shandril and Narm in the Year of the Prince, 1357 DR

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Adventurers' Tales

This time around, Juniper Churlgo piles the vegetables into the pot and stirs up a traditional Heartlands Broth. And adds tofu. You find more such venturesome cookery in our upcoming sourcebook of the same name, The Forgotten Realms Presents Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery.

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And, at last, we can finish the halfling salbread trilogy this tenday. The last use of this flavorful lemony bread from Luiren is a common staple of countless inns, taverns, caravanserais, kitchens, and even temple soup kitchens. The recipe for Heartlands Broth, as I call it, is a combination of elements you might be familiar with after reading this tome for the last two years. The soup is a vegetarian delight made with a variety of vegetables, herbs, and spices, all simmered together to produce a fresh-tasting warm broth of amber. Most kitchens serve just that, topped with slabs of stale bread for a couple of coppers, while others like to add freshly chopped vegetables into a strained broth and load it up with herbs, mushrooms, and other fixins. And perhaps the most recent addition to the common Heartlands Broth is a block or couple of spoonfuls of white curds they call tofu, brought over to the Sword Coast from the faraway nations of Kara-Tur. Luckily, this bean "cheese" travels well and far, especially if packed in liquid or marinades. This mushy tofu is a good source of nourishment for those opposed to or unable to consume meat; ask a saurial. Yet in Amn, similar broths are cooked with spices and used to simmer mussels in. Of course, you are free to use chicken stock or chicken broth to make this soup, and it will be just as delicious as what you can buy in the Elfsong or The Singing Lute. Also, note that this broth is a bit different from what you can get in the finest eateries of Suzail or Waterdeep. It is a more rustic type of broth that is cooked over the course of several hours, resulting in a cloudy liquid due to all the vegetables starting to fall apart in the liquid, while fancier broths are cooked quickly and strained to remain as clear as possible, or even clarified using moats of stringy vegetables and eggwhites.

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Current Clack

We also got lost in Halaster Blackcloak's dungeon. For some time.

• Oloré, fellow travelers and sages! Alas, it's been too long since we last shared news, and our clacks haven't been so current. But big things have been happening behind closed doors. You may have noticed our new Adventurers' Tales feature above, wherein we tell you about our creations, those of others in the RPG world that we like, and of course the works of Ed Greenwood, father of the Forgotten Realms. Yet we have more in store, and we can't wait to reveal them to you all. Until then, it's time to catch up and update.
• Running into a time dimensional, Lhynard was trapped within a temporal shell until he was rescued by a chronologian. Together, they fought off an ethereal filcher.
• Possessed Priest documented some figures of ancient Netheril: Shastin, a priestess of Mystryl; Radman, father of Karsus and namesake of his enclave; and Lady Aquesita, elder cousin of Karsus.
• Tyrusxl raided the green dragon Deathsleep's hoard and found an axe of the dwarvish lords and spider cloak and magical treasures going by names such as Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, bottomless potion of swagger, Knight Vision Goggles, and the One Ring (really). There was also a reverse centaur, of all things.
• We say "well met" to new editors: ThaleiaFantasy, who delved into Undermountain with Corin Silvertor and Beckla Shadesar; EconomicDruid, who was turned down by the Valor's Call adventuring party; SnackcakesMcGee, who reported on the intoxicating tekkil; and Tankerthanker, who visited Port Nyanzaru and met such people as Pock-Marked Po and Soggy Wren. We also welcome TheDesFeux, who has raided the menageries and captured black willows, buckawns, and giant dragonflies, among others.
• And we say "well again" to Reesorville, who worked with Fador on Innarlith's canal; HellsCourtesy, who read of Barze's journey in The Great Diaspora of Netheril; Tsammarco, who explored the Eilistraean drow city of Imberlur; and Regis87, who, uh, ate some sushi.
• From the Red Wizards of Thay, alavairthae—"may your skill prevail."

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Waukeen was the goddess of commerce for much of the continent of Faerûn. She was known as the Merchant's Friend for her guiding hand in all forms of commerce (legal and otherwise); as Liberty's Maiden for her support of free and fair trade through honest bargaining based on supply and demand; and as the Golden Lady for her unabashed belief in the accumulation of wealth and, most importantly, the use of those riches to improve civilization for everyone. She was a relatively young deity, driven to accomplish her goals quickly and completely so she could move on to the next one. This impatient streak often led her to try alternate methods when "business as usual" resulted in an impasse, and manifested itself in her church which sometimes let the ends justify the means.

Her stubbornness likely led to her downfall during the Time of Troubles when she, like almost every other deity in the Faerûnian pantheon, was cast down to Toril and forced to inhabit the Prime Material Plane in avatar form. She joined up with Lliira and hatched a plan to get back to her realm in the Outlands, first by attempting to bribe Helm, who was guarding the Celestial Staircase, and then by striking a bargain with an archfiend of the Abyss, Lord Graz'zt. Unable to leave Toril in divine form, she temporarily bequeathed her divinity and portfolio to Lliira, only to be betrayed by Graz'zt and held prisoner for twelve years. During her long absence, not even Lliira knew her whereabouts and the church of Waukeen began to decline rapidly.

New & Upcoming Releases

"Dungeons & Dragons: The Queen's Cradle" is an episode of Secret Level, an animated anthology series with each episode based on the setting of a different video game or role-playing game. It was released on December 10, 2024, on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service. It revolves around a band of adventurers clashing with the Cult of the Dragon.

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On the hunt for a dragon cult, a band of adventurers rescues a boy who's haunted by a sinister force.

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Blood & Magic is a real-time strategy computer game released by Interplay Productions in 1996. Using the Dungeons & Dragons license, it is set in the newly invented Utter East region of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. It would inspire elements of the Double Diamond Triangle Saga and Faces of Deception novels in 1998.

Players take the roles of mages who command armies of basal golems, humanoids, and monsters summoned from bloodforges and transformed at sacred shrines using the atypical resource of mana. They wage battles against AI opponents or each other in the multiplayer mode. The single-player game features six campaigns, with the option to play opposing sides and randomized battles, across a total of fifteen maps. Stories range from sword-and-sorcery to romance to comedy to an epic campaign of conquest.

Today in the Realms...

...it is 22 Hammer, or the 22nd of Deepwinter. Selûne is in the first quarter . On this day:

• Worshipers of Tyr perform the ritual of the Blinding at which an illusion of a giant pair of eyes appears above the congregation and then sheds flaming tears until they drain away to nothing.

Realmslore

• The Simbul's tonguelash was a strange spell created by the Witch-Queen of Aglarond that conjured a spectral extension of the caster's own tongue. Prehensile and snake-like, it could hold and manipulate objects or other appendages, but the Simbul preferred to slap people in the eyes with hers.
• The Wheloon Natives were a faction of prisoners within the Wheloon Prison, comprising those who'd simply been living there before they were unfairly incarcerated. They organized around the Chauntean Harvest Hall and banded together for defense against the Sharrans and other criminals.
• Protection from dragon breath was a rare spell most often found written on scrolls that protected, of course, against dragon breath, no matter the kind of dragon or the kind of breath, whether fiery, cold, acidic, lightning, or merely bad.
• An altispinax was a species of carnivorous dinosaur found within the Chultan swamps. They were known for their sail backs, camouflage, sharp teeth, and ability to make sounds from deep bellowing roars to a trilling similar to birdsong.
• Ratlarbig was a clifftop fortress that overlooked Lennahc Hsilgne in the Whamite Isles. It took a tax of gold from all traders who sailed past and was involved in a series of wild conflicts between various nations and pirates of the isles. (The names are probably a coincidence, really.)
• Hellball was a spell of epic magic that invoked a sphere of acid, fire, electricity, and sonic energy that devastated great areas, and sometimes even their own casters. The few survivors called the results "hell on earth", hence the name.
• Stone cursed were humanoids that had been petrified and restored not with stone to flesh but through alchemical rituals that left them in an animated statue-like state with a dim echo of their former life and a drive to. urder the living, though sadly not the alchemist who did this to them.
• A giant whip spider was a species of giant spider that hunted with its powerful pincers rather than webs and venom, and named for its long whip-like feelers. A mated pair would trap maimed victims alive under rocks, lay their eggs in their bodies, and leave their offspring to eat their way out.

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A divine champion.

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• Spells—Selected spells with special relations to the Forgotten Realms.

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