Greenwood was given a daunting task when asked to write The Ruins of Myth Drannor: he was allocated just three weeks and a total of 160 pages. She wonders, as do we, how the Dalelands have not been destroyed by this infernal incursion.
She describes it as a "ruined city where devils rule the daylight" and sees many of their kind "some black and glistening, some blood-red, barbed and scaled, and some mauve or yellow-green". In Ed Greenwood's initial Realms novel, Spellfire (1987), Shandril briefly visits Myth Drannor. Though many more media depictions of the ruins would follow, before the publication of Ruins of Myth Drannor there was only one of note. For example, he notes that a silent elven ghost followed that initial intrusion of Purple Dragons out of the ruins, and his players still don't know who it might be spying for … Meanwhile Zhentarim assaulted the magical gates of Myth Drannor, leading to the summoning of demons and devils.ĭecades later, Greenwood still has fun with the Ruins on a regular basis. A War Wizard slipped in a troop of Purple Dragons, spying on the ruins for Vangerdahast he was soon followed by Sembian-sponsored bands. They took on the name Knights of Myth Drannor to signify their new task of defending the Ruins from "rapacious plunderers from Zhentil Keep, Sembia, Hillsfar, and even Red Wizards and Cult of the Dragon agents, not to mention various mercenary adventurer bands" - most of whom were engaging in a "gold rush to gain elven magic and wealth". The Swords of Eveningstar decided to take over its guardianship, to protect the ruins from "the wrong sort of folk". It had long been guarded by elves, but The Retreat of 1344 DR left it vulnerable. Enter Myth Drannor, an ancient, ruined elf city. But they grew tired of rulership and granted the town to Mourngrym, a junior member. After their success there, they were given the lordship of Shadowdale. In Ed Greenwood's original Realms campaign, the Swords of Eveningstar adventuring company got their start in FRQ1: "Haunted Halls of Eveningstar" (1992). The Ruins of Myth Drannor (1993), by Ed Greenwood, is a campaign setting and adventure for the Forgotten Realms. If the bards and sages are right, power lies there for the claiming that could change the face of the Realms, rule kingdoms or lay waste to them. Now the elves are gone, and adventurers from a hundred lands and cities are rushing to Myth Drannor to seize what they can of the long lost glory. Centuries passed, but the tales let few forget the powerful magic, the great treasure-and the deadly horrors that lay waiting within its walls. Evil spawned and crawled there, and the elves kept watch around it, that evil might not spread. THERE CAME A DAY when it was overwhelmed by evil, thrown down, despoiled, and left a ruin in the heart of its encircling wood, as all things of beauty are. Once this proud city stood as the highest jewel in the glittering crown of civilization. Folk were richer then, in the City of Wonder. Magic was brighter then, in the City of Song. of a time when elves and dwarves, gnomes and halflings and men lived and loved together, striving to create beauty and right wrongs.
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