Ed Greenwood, who is synonymous with the Forgotten Realms, leads
listeners through a story that combines the rollicking fantasy adventure
for which he is famous with a murder mystery-thriller.
That's what, four lords dead?
Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had
been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine seller
and collector Oszbur Malankar; the half-elf sorceress and artisan
Dathanscza Meiril; and the moneylender, landlord, and investor Ammasker
Gwelt.
All of Waterdeep now knew someone was killing the Lords of Waterdeep one
by one. Yet that was about where truth ended and speculation - however
plausible - began. The broadsheets were full of wild conjecture. Who was
behind this? The ousted Lord Neverember? The Zhentarim, the Cult of the
Dragon, or some other Outland Power? The Xanathar? Some cabal of guilds
or nobles planning a coup?
The rumors would rage on whether the Open Lord Laeral Silverhand did
something or not. That was the trouble with rumors: Once loosed, they
roamed free like snarling, untamed beasts, with no simple way of
stopping them. And all rumors aside, Waterdeep has become...
A city of murderers!
