"Everyone needs to make his own life for himself, though. Cyrrollalee knows, I loved my mother, but she never understood why I chose music over merchandising, so I hit the road. The people who love us the most have more trouble accepting that we're different from them than strangers do."
— Olive Ruskettle, famed halfling bard

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Mordenkainen's disjunction: As if being a sentient magic item wasn't bad enough.

• We got movie sign! The Dungeons & Dragons movie has started filming in Ireland and Iceland and has more actors, but no confirmed story or setting yet. Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, that place in Ghostwalk? Watch this space.
• Speaking of, Moviesign delved into the Fireplace Level on the trail of the Gost family of Waterdeep, but clashed with two vampires: the merfolk cleric Arrick Kaarvol and the medusa Medechai—do not ask how she gets blood from a stone. He probably should've stayed in the Blushing Mermaid.
• Meanwhile, Regis87 caught and wrangled two shocking creatures into the menageries: a disturbing abyssal wretch and the insidious sheep, as well as a mutant, the red sheep.
• Speaking of monsters, Vegepygmy documented two kinds of devils, a gulthir and a dogai; had some more to say about kuo-toa; and tried to learn Quevquel to talk with beholders, but only got wet.
• We welcomed a planes-walking Wandering Kobold, who evaded the tentacles of Adimarchus, the Demon Prince of Madness, and was led by a hound of law to the celestial forge city of Torzak-Belgirn.
• In addition, we welcomed (and were frankly overwhelmed by) WendolynCK, an orc scholar on a whirlwind tour of the Vilhon Reach. In particular, Wendolyn explored Turmish, stopped by Ulver's Lance, told the history of Turmish, and wrote of its Dempster and Florentine Turmish.
• We also welcome 2ShadowyT2, who wrote of Sunder Halyndliam of Liam's Hold; Haydoge, who heard the song of Elturel; and a BlindCartographer who got into a stitch 'n bitch with the Sewn Sisters.

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Cosmology is the study of the structure, organization, and composition of all the planes of existence, and the World Tree cosmology model was one interpretation of the multiverse, attempting to reduce the complexity and sheer volume of information into concepts that were understandable and even useful to the brave, the curious, and the ambitious. First outlined in the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, the World Tree cosmology model quickly overshadowed the previous Great Wheel model upon the discovery of an interplanar sentient tree-like being that acted as a conduit between a select group of planes. Dubbed the World Tree, it connected only to planes with the Good alignment trait and allowed passage only to those with a good and noble reason for their journey.

The concept of Inner and Outer Planes carried over from the Great Wheel model, with the Inner Planes (comprising the elemental planes plus the energy planes) remaining essentially unchanged, except they were accessed via the Astral Plane rather than the Ethereal. The Outer Planes increased in number from seventeen to twenty one and finally to twenty six, losing most of their interconnections. All Outer Plane travel was restricted to passing through the Prime Material Plane or along one of two cross-planar features: the aforementioned World Tree, or the River of Blood (formerly known as the river Styx).

Two other planes were discovered but were for all intents and purposes inaccessible to mortals: the Fugue Plane and Cynosure. Cynosure was a small demiplane that only the gods and their immortal servants could access. It was neutral ground for meetings and negotiations between the Powers. The Fugue Plane was the way station for the souls of the deceased while they awaited judgment and (hopefully) transportation to the realm of their patron deity.

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Candlekeep Mysteries is an adventure anthology for the 5^th-edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset released on March 16^th, 2021. It features a collection of many mystery-themed adventures based around Candlekeep, the great temple-library.

An anthology of seventeen mystery-themed adventures for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries — each one a doorway to adventure. Dare you cross that threshold?

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons crossover Magic: The Gathering set that occurs within the Forgotten Realms.

Dragon+ 37 was released on April 24^th, 2021. For the Realms, it has previews of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft and Warriors of Waterdeep and several maps for Candlekeep Mysteries, as well as some classic Ecology articles for mimics, gelatinous cubes, owlbears, and flumphs.

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Gateway to the Savage Frontier is a Dungeons and Dragons computer game developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc.. The title was the first game to take place in the Savage Frontier region and was the #1 selling MSDOS game in North America in August 1991. The improved Gold Box game engine was utilized, which was later used to create the first ever graphical MMO.

The players find themselves in the middle of the Zhentarim's plot to send monstrous armies across the Anauroch desert. In order to achieve this, the Zhentarim attempt to locate four ancient statuettes that repel monsters from all directions. However, the players have the opportunity to find the ring of reversal and put an end to the Zhentarim's plans.

Today in the Realms...

...it is 13 Mirtul, or the 13th of the Melting. Selûne is a waning crescent moon  . On this day:

• Worshipers of Garl Glittergold celebrate the Communion of Laughter with various activities
• Worshipers of Tyr perform the ritual of the Maiming at which a giant gauntleted hand appears above the congregation and then disappears in an illusion of flaming blood
• In 1374 DR, Lady Sarya, head of House Dlardrageth, summoned Malkizid, a fallen solar and exiled archdevil, to Myth Drannor.
• In 1479 DR, Tchazzar the dragon-king of Chessenta, having been rescued by the Brotherhood of the Griffon, returned to his kingdom.

Realmslore

• Giant wolf spiders were much like regular giant spiders except slightly smaller, nimbler, and more intelligent—qualities that made them excellent hunters in most types of terrain.
• The House of Good Spirits was the guildhall, brewery, inn, tavern, and wine store of Waterdeep's Vintners', Distillers', & Brewers' Guild, and one of the city's few sources of elverquisst.
• Phalantar's Philtres & Components was renowned for its broad selection of medicines, spell components, and herbs, as well as for its owner's no-questions-asked policy.
• Membership in Waterdeep's Most Careful Order of Skilled Smiths & Metalforgers did not come cheap: prospective members had to pay thirty dragons for the privilege of joining, plus twenty more in annual dues.
• The gnomish city of Forharn lay in the darkest depths of the volcano Kossuth's Ire in the White Peaks. Its citizens were mildly inconvenienced when the volcano erupted after a long period of dormancy.
• The isle of Sumbrar served as the headquarters for Evermeet's military and navy, and was defended by a fleet of Ruathimaer and no less than twelve ancient dragons.
• The tome Hippogriff Riders of the Hand told of the history and practices of the elven hippogriff riders that operated out of the Hand of the Seldarine in the Spine of the World.
• Mazfroth's Mighty Digressions was a collection of rambling essays hastily scribbled by Mazfroth Gethur on subjects as varied as the Weave, lycanthropy, and the demon lords of the Abyss.
• The tools of the common man was a set of farmers' tools blessed by Chauntea to aid the defenders of Cuardin on Gwynneth against an invading force of Northlanders.
• The Cormyrean warlord Gondegal was supported by several Arabellan notables, such as the saddler Arth Tembroar, the clothier Culdath, the herbalist Azunt Haelcloak, and the mercenary Baerendros.

And, from the archives:

• Tooman Thendrik led a Ghaunadaur cult to destabilize the Kiaransalee worshipers occupying the drow outpost of Szith Morcane.
• Q'Xorlarrin was a drow settlement in the dwarven ruins of Gauntlgrym, based around the Great Forge heated by a fire primordial.
• The Citadel of Black Ash, once a brown dragon's lair, was home to the last fanatical remnants of the church of Gilgeam.
• In the Year of the Melding, 557 DR, the forces of Phalorm defeated the hobgoblin army ravaging the dwarf duchy of Hunnabar.
• Priam Agrivar, a paladin of Tyr, was struck by the staff of withering and left a drunken beggar, until he recovered his courage.

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Alusair Obarskyr, the Steel Regent of Cormyr. (Archive)

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

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