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Ed Greenwood (born July 21, 1959) is a Canadian fantasy writer and the creator of the Forgotten Realms game world. He began writing articles about the Forgotten Realms for Dragon magazine beginning in 1979, and subsequently sold the rights to the setting to TSR, the creators of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, in 1986.
Ed Greenwood is a prolific author, world-builder, and creator of the Forgotten Realms. He has written several dozen short stories, [3] well over a dozen novels, and contributed to over a score of sourcebooks set in the immensely-popular Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.
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He is also known as the Sage of Shadowdale, and is depicted as a powerful wizard featured in several novels by Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood. Certain aspects of his appearance and demeanor seem to echo Gandalf, Merlin, or Odin. Elminster was one of the first characters that Greenwood created for the Forgotten Realms.
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Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms. He first began in 1967 at eight years old, writing fiction set in his imagined world. He created the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting for his own D&D games in 1975, and its popularity with other gamers through Dragon Magazine led to TSR’s purchase of the setting in 1986.
The Elminster Series is a series of fantasy novels by Ed Greenwood. They are set in the Forgotten Realms setting created by Greenwood for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The series focuses on the titular character Elminster who is a key figure in several of Greenwood's other novels set in the Forgotten Realms.
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