I try to keep up with Ed, the insanely imaginative and wonderful creator of the Forgotten Realms. If not contradicted by Wizards of the Coast, or whoever may own the rights to the Realms, Ed's word is lore. So it's nice that in the drought of fiction from WotC, Ed has been releasing some short stories on Patreon. These also have YouTube equivalents that are narrated by Ed himself. While I don't really care for the appearance of the producer in these videos, I do appreciate him getting Ed out there to a broader and easily accesible audience. And that is what we have today.
I previously reviewed Ed's Patreon "Golden Simril Gifts" he wrote with another. This time around is a story partially inspired by Fritz Leiber's "The Sadness of the Executioner," the aptly named "The Madness of the Executioner." The stories aren't really similar besides the title, though I myself have a story that was greatly inspired in form from Leiber's story. Ed Greenwood was apparently friends with Leiber (he told me in the comments for this video), so this seems a fitting Realms tribute.
The story itself is rather short and so therefore simple. It revolves really only around four characters and a business ran by alhoons in their meddling with illithid tadpoles (and mayhaps eating them). It has a cameo from a longtime Realms favorite too, Manshoon.
I can highly recommend it as a bit of a vignette. Ed is such a lovely person and his narrations are phenomenal. I wish I had such charisma and charm. Give it a listen, it's an Exceptional, chilling and weird story.
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