Mimph

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At a Glance

A city of the Vilhon Reach, across the Arran River from Arrabar and across the Nagaflow from Nimpeth.

Notable Citizens

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Dazratha Alaemalarr

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At a Glance

“Sage of Mimph.”

Author of Lady in Chains, or I Say What I See.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 96

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Daster Mremman

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At a Glance

Once the Lord of Sammaresh.

Author of My Years on the Mantimera Throne.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 96

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Immilmar

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At a Glance

The “capital” of Rashemen. The Iron Lord dwells here, and there’s a temple to Bhalla.

Notable Residents

Source

  • Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting [11836] page 205

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Rindala Shardroon

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At a Glance

“Sage of Immilmar.”

Author of The Book of Stars and Shadows.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 96

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Zanshareen Sabiyryn

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At a Glance

Author of A Sage’s Travel Guide to The North.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 96

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Words I Learned From D&D

Bear in mind that my first encounter with D&D was at age 6 or 7. I was already a reader, and D&D strongly encouraged me to read more, by providing interesting and/or challenging words to add to my vocabulary.

It’s not that I didn’t see these words anywhere else, or that I wouldn’t have learned them elsewhere, or even that D&D was my first exposure to these words. It’s that these words are found in D&D books and therefore playing D&D does illuminate these ideas. More pointedly, in my own experience, I saw these words multiple times and that meant I actually learned them, as opposed to skimming over each one in a book once and never seeing it again.

It’s great to figure out the meaning of a word from context in a story, but it’s even better to look it up and see all the possible meanings and usages. Your experience may vary, but I learned these words several years before they were taught in school… if they were taught at all.

This list is nowhere near complete… it’s just starting.

A

abjuration, adaptation, adventurer, alacrity, alchemist/alchemy, ampersand, amphibian, amphigory, antipathy, aphrodisiac, arbalest, artifact, artillery, artisan, assassin, astral, avatar, avian

B

bane, banshee, barbarian, beneficent, besiege, bestow, bookworm, bruin, buoyancy, burnished

C

cabal, caltrop, carrion, castellan, causality, cavalier, celerity, celestial, character, comeliness, compendium, conclave, conjuration, contingency, convocation, corbel, corridor, courtier, crossbow

D

decanter, defiler, deity, demi-, dexterity/dextrous, dimension/dimensional, dissension, divination, domination, dragon, druid, dungeon, dweomer, dwindling

E

ebon, efficacious, effulgent, elemental, embattled, enclave, encompassing, epuration, erstwhile, evoke/evocation, exacted/exacting, expeditious

F

falchion, feat, fencer/fencing, fetter, fledgeling, fortification, frugality, fugue, furtive

G

gage, gauntlet, geography, geyser, gibbet, glaive, glyph, gnome, graven, grounding, guardian, guisarme

H

halberd, hallucinatory, harrowing, hearth, hetaera, hierophant

I

idol, illusion/illusory, implosion, impudent, interdiction, invisibility, invoke/invocation

J

javelin

K

keening, kukri

L

licentious, lycanthrope/lycanthropy

M

malison, meld, mellifluous, meta-, metamorphose/metamorphosis, morale, mystic, mythology

N

necromancy, nimbus, numinous

O

oath, opportunist, orison

P

paladin, penultimate, pernicious, perpetual, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, pinnacle, polyglot, polymorph, portmanteau, primal, probability, proficiency, propitious, pugilist, pugnacious, puissance, putrefy/putrefaction

Q

quest

R

radiant, rally, ranger, ranseur, rapier, rapport, relic, rend, resound, reverent, riven, role, rube, rune

S

sanctuary, sanctum, scarab, scrimshaw, sculpture, sentinel, sequester, siege, sigil, simulacrum, solipsism, spawn, spell, sprite, summon

T

talisman, telekinesis, telepathy, terrain, thaumaturgy, threnody, tine, transmogrification, transmute

U

usurp, utterance

V

vermin, vigilance, viscid, voulge

W

ward, wrack

There was more to it, of course, than just building vocabulary. I read about mythology; by the time it was mentioned in school I knew as much about it as the teacher did. So it wasn’t just vocabulary I acquired… it was knowledge.

Arkanuirr Tchellem

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At a Glance

Sultan of Tulmon — time frame unknown.

Quoted in Sayings of the Sultan: Court Records, Book 36.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 95

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Oren Bel Danarr

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At a Glance

“Sage of Triel.”

Author of Musings on the Realms.

Source

  • Quotations of the Realms, by Ed Greenwood — Dragon Magazine #272 page 95

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Dathlyr Greybold

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At a Glance

Dathlyr Greybold is a dwarven adventurer of Elturel, and author of My Adventures in the Realms, Volume I.


Sources

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