Land of the Red Wizards, Does Thay Have Untold Secrets?

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I don't know about overused. I feel like the Zhents are underused. Also, I'd like more content about "good" guys like Cormyr doing shady stuff for their national interests. Khelbun was a well written example of a good guy who did shady things to look out for Waterdeep.

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Precisely; it SHOULD feel incongruous. Trust them not!!!

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If you'd like to learn more about Thay, or just want to read an epic story set in Thay, I highly recommend "The Haunted Lands" trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. I liked it so much I read it twice.

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That's great to hear! We're trying to give deep enough lore for longtime fans of the Realms to learn something, but also keep it approachable for new players and readers like yourself. Thanks for watching, and we're happy to have you as a new citizen of the Realms! 🐉

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Elminster alive:) so happy to found out that my favorite storyteller has You tube.....Realms and Ed (my personal sage) have been part of my ( alter) life for 30 years.. Realms and Thay especially.. sooo glad to found you...its like founding old artifact you played with as child...one thats embeded in heart ...will subscribe for sure. Was DM for my party playing Spellbound adventure with eltab and Szass tam...One of them enlarged himself ..other opened a portal to positive material plane...and litteraly kicked Szass tam in portal...:) ..so may memories came back....thanks!

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My introduction to Thay was in the Richard Lee Byers Haunted Lands trilogy - the only Realms books that I've read. I don't know how true to your vision that series was but it captivated my very soul! I've never seen such evil and depravity so perfectly described. The process of creating undead was so harrowing and informed part of my own fantasy lore in my own world. Thay is such a fascinating place! So for the part you played in inventing Thay and Szass Tam and the Red Wizards in the first place, thank you!

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Thanks for the episode. I'm running a game centered around the eastern borderlands of the Sword Coast a trading outpost taking on refugees from any number of catastrophic events (Tyranny of Dragons, Stormkings Thunder, etc.) and are involved with politics of Cormyrian black sheep necromancer noble, Red Wizard traders, magic school, red wizard rebel summoners, and the Red wizards that hunt them. We are having lots of fun with your materials. Thank you for creating and sharing them.

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I might be misremembering but in "Dreams of the Red Wizards" Szass Tam was described as looking like a living man and that no one knew he was a lich, to the extent that he used flowers and ointments to hide the smell of his rotten flesh. Because this aspect has since been forgotten, I wondered whether the original Szass Tam that Ed mentions was skeletal or as described in his debut.

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Well, if there's one thing I know how to do, it's talk. ;} So, expect more stories. Shutting me up will be the problem.

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Thay has always been a favorite mid to high level villains. I would love to see the Yaunti get a turn as a major villain in books and modules.

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ok... Now Thay, look interesting! Thx ! I'll add this book to my wishlist !!

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I hope you enjoy it! It was a pleasure to develop, and we wanted to give people a more in-depth look at Thay than ever before.

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As red wizard, I always enjoy hearing stories about us as in this discussion. It's mostly true but never totally accurate on our motivations.

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Ahh! A Red Wizard. Hopefully you won't turn me over to Szass Tam.

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I've always been really intrigued by Thay since I first played Icewind Dale 1 on PC but have not found much lore or novels to read with much information. Awesome video!

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"The Haunted Lands" trilogy by Richard Lee Byers is a fantastic read if you're interested in Thay. I can't recommend it enough.

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Excellent video! Btw, I really enjoyed the Richard Lee Byers books(Unclean, Undead, Unholy)on Thay. I look forward to more videos from this account on additional lore on the realms!

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Richard Lee Byers is one of the best writers to ever set foot on Faerûn. And indeed, the haunted lands trilogy is amazing and gives nice insights on Thay! I didn't even cared for the region, until I devoured the books. =)

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Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it! There will certainly be many more videos to come. Exciting!

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Thay is my favorite realm. I always thought about Circle Magic amd the precise mechanics and process when fueling it. It inspired me to think about the actual origin of magic. I am currently building a world around it.

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I still work on the Realms every day of my life. And post lore on my Patreon and answer Realmslore queries at Greenwood's Grotto on Discord, as well as on Twitter and the Candlekeep forums. And I'm working on updating more epic stuff from the past!

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Thank you sir. One question if you have the time would you be able to do a stat block for the old mage for 5e. Would love to use him in a campaign where he finally finds his true replacement and in the end passes on the silver flame to someone so he can become one with the weave and forevermore with his love Mystra

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Thank you for living in them and making them your own.

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Finally someone covering Red wizards of thay better. You have my subscription. Thank you good sir

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No, thank you! I'm glad you are able to find value in this.

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Thank you for all the forgotten realms lore you have produced.. big fan of your work, again THANK YOU!!

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Thank you for being a fan!

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I’m glad to be able to say this and maybe be heard. Thank you Ed. Your books helped me survive my childhood and I’m very appreciative of the stories you told. Elminster captured my imagination and his trials and adventures made mine easier to handle.

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We hope to have many more hours to come!

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I'm glad you're excited! Much more soon to come ;}

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I was not expecting this. Loved it. I hope this channel grows fast!

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So far, it is exceeding all expectations.

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Ed I am so glad you are out here making Realms stories, you have been a real inspiration to me over the years looking forward to watching more videos from you

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And I will bring those videos! The moment we can get them edited, they will appear.

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Session prepping a crashed Beholder ship, I happened to watch both versions of "The Producers", back to back. I have equal love for both "The Illithiad" as well as "I, Tyrant", and the name of the "Director" beholders inspired me. I had this insane idea to make a stage "Director" for a play. The play? "Springtime for Szass Tam in Thay". The beholder's theater troop ship had crashed in a nearby frozen lake and "lensmen" beholderkin as stage handlers as well as extras and chorus line members were hurriedly unloading the ship before it sank completely. The party ran into this scene as they came down the road, and the beholder -- whose main eye performed "Hold Person" instead of Anti-Magic -- froze them in their tracks and picked the party's favorite wizard to be his main star, Szass Tam. I really need to clean up that encounter and throw it up on DMs guild. It should be shared.

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Subscribed instantly. I’ll listen to as many of these you make!

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Legendary Wizard, Mr. Greenwood that is.

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Thank you for sharing the realms with us Sir Ed. Would love a video about the Father of Netheril and his transformation into the Oracle of Ellyn’taal.

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I have added it to the list!

[@dragonknightsofantar1737]

Haunted Lands is a great trilogy to read if you want to get a good idea of how Zulkiers Szass, the griffon riders and Undead play their part in Thay.

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Thank you for doing this, much appreciated from a fairly recent fan of D&D

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Ed, your D&D lore is my headcannon; except for the slaad.

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Love it. Thank you Ed!

[@zer0homer]

Fascinating. I've been mulling over a concept of a couple of characters: Mulani Thayan sorceress that had a Gift, but was deemed nigh unteachable (like, getting stuck on levels 1-2 with basiic spells) and if she could be returned to her noble house before coming of age, forced to take warlock pact, and cheat herself into hierarchy only to flee the county in the wake of events in 1470-1480s (Rise of Tiamat, say, her family allied wiith Resurrectionists but she hadn't been trained properly yet).

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I'm so glad you have a dedicated youtube channel! I also been enjoying the discord server quite a bit. As a fellow Canadian, I'm always rooting for ya!!!!

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We Canadians need to stick together. It helps us to stay warm!

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Glad to see you finding the time to get on here and get your wonderful setting out here on KZbin. I would absolutely love to hear about the twisted rune.

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I'll dig through the ol' storage containers and see what I can come up with!

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Wait what! How am I not already subscribed to this channel….? So glad to get more FR lore from the original Sage of Shadowdale himself.

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It's brand new!

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Just found this video. Instant subscribe!

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Thank you very much and have a good day. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊.

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Ecology of the Red Wizards? Oh how I miss Dragon mag! Thanks for all the wonderful articles sir!

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You are most welcome.

[@molochi]

New channel? Hey Ed! Long time reader of your stuff, since Dragon Magazine's Ecology of the x. Good to see you again, hope this becomes a regular thing.

[@Sarah-ok6xq]

I happened to find the D&D novels to not be my style, and I tended to make few purchases beyond core products. I informed my decisions about Thay from Robert Michaels "Iron Law of Oligarchy (which was further informed by Carl Schmit) where power flows top to bottom, as opposed to the anarchic principle of organization that 9/10 of people are familiar with. It's interesting to hear Ed's thinking on the matter. Fun stuff, thanks!

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I played a red wizard (initiat) who had a "slave". He actually treated his slave rather well because "first, he has been loyal to my family for years, and loyalty is a currency hard found. Second, a wounded and weakened slave is useless slave." Fun stuff.

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I can't express how happy I am to see this channel. I'd love to ask about some things, but now that I've shared the channel to my friends I'm worried my players will see my nickname and find out that I'm digging for some ancient lore about certain... "elves" (very strong finger quote), their name beginning with "L", not really out of this reality ;) I've based a warlock patron on such entity. He has unfortunately made himself noticed (through actions of his proteges) to Dark Powers and is currently struggling with "inconvenience" of being part of a Dread Domain. The amount of lore digging I did since the campaign started is beyond anything I've done in a long time, and yet I believe I'm missing so much about.. the "L". Blessings from Poland, also... #summonsubscribers

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1:44 THAT'S why WotC hasn't really touched this part of the Faerun! I believe the term they use for actual adversity for PCs to overcome and/or fight against is "complicated". I always hated people crapping on D&D, and the hobby, but now that it's got all this attention I wish it was still crapped on, we had quality for our PCs to be angry about and actually knew what the heck was going on in a lot of places in the worlds!

[@shawnratashak1296]

So do these merchants work for Thay Co.

[@dragonpynk5091]

Really great Video. Loved the deeper look into Thay. Going to have to look into getting this book. =O)

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Love it. Thanks!!!!

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Mr. Greenwood is a good presenter. Please make more content. Maybe something on the " barbaric" peoples?

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What a silky voice, so nice.

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Your first video and almost 1000 subscribers. That's an auspicious start. You have an excellent voice for listening to, so please continue. Thank you in advance.

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Very nice to see you again Old Sage. This was the first of your YT content I have seen and about one of my favorite rivals 5 stars as all of your FR has been.

[@theophrastusbombastus1359]

I've been trying to use the Netherese stuff in my games as ancient sites and artefacts that nobody knows about anymore (like Aeleid ruins, Dweomer levers, obelisks, Moon Spawn, etc.) If you could offer any official insight into their history and culture I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated by the masses

[@LseerLables]

Hey Ed, thanks so much for this lore! I’m currently running a high level 5e game (players just hit level 17!) and the current arc (going all the way to level 20) is leading an uprising against Szass Tam by working with the Thayan Ressurection and the church of Kossuth. After storming the doomvault and dealing with the zulkir’s phylacteries they just managed to assassinate each zulkir on the same night (with a *lot* of help) and I found myself needing to figure out how the thayan people would react to these revelations and stuff like this is super helpful. Looking forward to more content from you as my campaign spans most of Toril!