Hear ye, hear ye! Tales From the Tables is back with episode 52: Lady Mage of Waterdeep, part 2.
Apologies, not very meme-y this time, still submitting for the sake of completion and popular demand :)
Our intrepid adventurers befriend Laeral Silverhand, and get to know the fames Lady Mage of Waterdeep from a different, personal side. It’s very much a Laeral special, lovingly consulted with the man, the legend, Ed Greenwood. It saddens me that so many D&D players only know Laeral superficially, if at all.
“Ruler of Waterdeep” “Oh, she’s a powerful wizard and very old, isn’t she?” And that’s about the extend of most players’ knowledge… She’s a truly fascinating character who’s walked Faerun for over 7 centuries, with beautiful, oft heart-wrenching stories to tell. I do hope my little hints at but a handful of events from her past will encourage a few people to at least read up about her on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, or better yet, reach for the many amazing books by Ed Greenwood or Steven E. Schend.
Massively different lifespans really is a bitch. Especially when you start outliving generations upon generations of friends and relatives.
Once you’re a high enough level you can cast Plane Shift and visit. Arguably, you can just use Sending. It can contact other planes, but I’m not sure if their soul in the afterlife technically qualifies as the same creature.
It’s actually a significant issue in Waterdeep’s setting that she can’t just planeshift and visit Khelben, because of where his soul is.
(It’s not somewhere you can planeshift to…)