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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6229283" data-attributes="member: 12388">Minor quibble here: it's not Ed that does this, it's The Hooded One. For those not in the know: several years ago a user started posting on the first iteration of the WotC forums under the handle "The Hooded One" (THO). This person attempted to clarify some of the misconceptions about the Realms and its creator that were being bandied about (imagine a forum space filled with half a hundred people that post like Herschel) and that were making it a major drag to talk about the setting.As one might imagine, these people were just as rude to her as they were to anyone else who had the bold temerity to disagree with them.Some, however, met her with open-minded skepticism and were interested in what she had to say. In time she moved over to the Candlekeep forums and eventually served as a go between for Ed and Candlekeep forum users who had questions about the Realms, about TSR and why things were done they way they were in the Realms, which these users posted to the <a href="http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17385" target="_blank">Questions for Ed Greenwood</a> thread in the Chamber of Sages section.THO, who it was revealed is a player in Ed's long-running home Realms campaign, would forward the questions to Ed and then post his replies to the forum space once he responded to her. She's been doing this for years <a href="http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/so_saith_ed.htm" target="_blank">and the "So saith Ed" archives at Candlekeep</a> are quite extensive, going back as far as 2004.With almost a decade of responses, we have good reason to believe she's real and that the information she's forwarded to users from Ed is real. Other users have made contact with Ed directly and confirmed it as well. If that were true, the entirety of my post would have consisted of personal attacks directed at you, because that's what fanboys and fangirls do. Instead, I served up (to everyone) a heaping platter of that most delicious of internet delicacies: the truth.It's nice when people respond to such offerings with open-minded skepticism or polite disagreement, like Majoru Oakheart did, but you couldn't even be bothered to do that, which is disappointing, albeit not terribly surprising.Ed's just a really nice guy and I happen to like nice people (especially on the internet) and I don't particularly care for it when people, for whatever reason, take it up a notch from opinion sharing to outright badmouthing of nice people. You can dislike the guy, just don't be a jerk about it.</blockquote>

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