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Halloween is coming. Time to get your skeleton.
- We've passed an impressive 40,000 articles, with Artyom.pavlov's Lady Zuggi's Primer of Basic Heraldry, including appendices on Charges, Countercharges, and Trends of Modern Times being lucky 40,000th and a mouthful besides. The FRW also had its 16th anniversary back on October 1st and about 2 million visitors of one kind or another in the last month. So, we say to everyone who reads or uses the FRW: you're welcome!
- 2021 is our Year of Maps—we all need somewhere to go—and we recently passed a milestone, with 1,000 new locations added to the wiki. How many more can we add before year's end?
- In Legacy of the Green Regent: Waylaid Before Twilight, our heroes have come together to fight off goblin bandits and now have a rescue mission ahead of them. Can they find the kidnapped halflings before whatever dark fate befalls them? Can they keep up pretending to be professional adventurers?
- Our own master of the dark, Artyom.pavlov, tells tales of terror from the Bone Brothers Bakadi, The Lord of the 133rd Layer, and The Witch's Brew Cookbook. But the worst comes from The Treatise of Suffering, with the grisly story of Xatuum and the cultists at the Stronghold, who murdered many folk of Liam's Hold with both flame and the Bhaal's Bloodletter blade for the Lord of Murder.
- Meanwhile, SunderedShor learned of necrology, the study of the undead. He then broke out the bestiaries and documented duergahydras, gargoyle golems, smoke para-elementals, and swamp striders. Arming himself against such strange creatures, SunderedShor headed down Waterdeep's Street of the Tusks to Riautar's Weaponry and saw its petrified harpy statue.
- Getting us the gossip on the Waterdhavian noble houses, Moviesign met the Kormallis, Piiradost, and Sultlue families, and Freywild spent time with the Ilzimmers, Hothemers, Helmfasts, and more. Why does Waterdeep have so many nobles anyway?
- We welcome Kalisto86it, who burnt a few fingers stealing Kossuth's Blood, and welcome back Crorsina, who just escaped from the haunted Harrow Hill mansion.
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Before the Spellplague, Delzimmer sat on trade routes that connected Dambrath, Luiren, Estagund, the Great Rift, the Shaar, Lapaliiya, the Vilhon Reach, and the Old Empires of Unther and Mulhorand. To the north and east of Delzimmer were the nearby foothills of the Toadsquat Mountains. North and west were the Eastern Shaar, the Riftwood, and the Trader's Way to Eartheart and beyond. To the southwest were miles of open country before reaching the Forest of Amtar. Due south was the road to Cathyr in Dambrath, and to the southeast was the road that split the Lluirwood from the Southern Lluirwood leading to Beluir in Luiren.
After the Spellplague, the Great Sea swallowed much of Luiren, the Lluirwood, and the lower Toadsquat Mountains, bringing the shores of the new Gulf of Luiren nigh to Delzimmer, and in a short time, the city became a shipping port.
Delzimmer had no nobles, but was ruled by the four most powerful merchant families, the Belarks, the Harlhauns, the Jathlets, and the Olaundrans. These oligarchs ruled by fiat, not because anyone had given them authority, but because they each had their own small army and no one could gainsay their actions. The regional term for this sort of petty ruler was "satrap".
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This latest issue focuses on a Dungeons & Dragons holiday gift guide, and contains an interview with the author of Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed. Maps and art from Candlekeep Mysteries and Fizban's Treasury of Dragons are provided.
Knowing she'll never be accepted, Zelli's parents disguise her as a minotaur in hopes she’ll blend with the academy’s monstrous surroundings. Zelli does her work, keeps to herself, and becomes "invisible" to everyone.
While in History of Horrible Humans class, Zelli learns of the great human adventurer, Allidora Steelstrike, who oddly resembles her. Could Zelli also be a Steelstrike? Seeking answers to her true lineage, Zelli embarks on a dangerous adventure.
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The game begins with the player controlling two heroes in a small village, which comes under attack by evil drow. They follow them into the Underdark to the mighty drow city of Menzoberranzan. Along the way, they encounter companions of varying races, and fight off foes from gnolls to yochlols and assemble the powerful Helm of Spiders. Notably, it is the first video game to star Drizzt Do'Urden.
Today in the Realms...
...it is 26 Uktar, or the 26th of the Rotting. Selûne is a waxing gibbous moon 
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Realmslore
- The grig groef Feythrin gave grief to the goblinoid gangsters of the ghastly Hekkut, but also fancied frustrating the "big folk" adventurers who had come to fend them off.
- Ethel was a pleasant old woman who lived in a quaint teahouse in the Heartlands. She dabbled in alchemy and spent much of her time helping those in need.
- The Hand That Sings was a living spell that haunted Waterdeep's Brindul Alley, annoying pedestrians by singing eerie love songs, stealing their things, and occasionally trying to strangle them.
- The Nentyar hunter Fallon betrayed the Nentyarch, kidnapping Araluen—an aspect of Lurue—on behalf the Rotting Man who twisted her into becoming the "step-daughter of Talona".
- House Toporello was a mercenary company turned noble family in the city-state of Sumbria in the Blade Kingdoms. They were staunch supporters of the ruling Mannicci family.
- The ruling rings of Yrix Alquinnar, crafted by a Netherese elementalist, were each attuned to a specific element: air, earth, fire, and water; combining multiple rings also combined their powers.
- The spell icy claw conjured forth a large dragon claw made from ice, which would then fly toward a target at great speed, potentially crushing it.
- The people of the Moonshae town of O'Malley celebrated their victories over firbolg raiders by placing their decapitated heads on spikes and dancing around them.
- Dragonsight allowed a dragon to become aware of all its incarnations across the Material Plane—fragments of an ideal self that existed in the First World before it was sundered.
- Swamp landwyrms were massive, wingless landwyrms that were superbly adapted to life in marshes and wetlands. They feared nothing in their home environment, not even black dragons.
- Cockroaches were typically harmless unless one ran afoul of an entire swarm of them. The mere stench of a cockroach swarm could be overwhelming to especially delicate adventurers.
- Groundlings were horrible hybrids between dwarves and giant badgers created by evil Zhentarim wizards to serve as assassins for the Black Network.
And, from the archives:
- The Great Sea, one of the largest seas on Toril, linked Faerûn, Zakhara, and Laerakond. It was warm and beset by frequent storms.
- The Alagondars, descendants of Lord Nasher Alagondar, ruled Neverwinter and kept it stable until the Mount Hotenow eruption.
- Shaar stew was a cheap but hearty dish sold in Khôltar, comprising a spiced, mysterious meat served in a loaf, bowl, or helmet.
- Gershom was a ranger who, while trekking the wilderness, fell into an apparently bottomless pit and came out in another world.
- Dungar was a farming town in Lapaliiya, known for its olives and wine. Its ruling family claimed descent from the bandit lord Felingar.
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A shadow thief of Amn takes a victim.
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