When did the seven sisters first appear in Realms canon?
From Ed Greenwood himself: The Seven Sisters were around in the Realms from the very beginning (1967), though at first I knew only that there were a large number of silver-haired, tall, powerful, beautiful she-siblings…the number didn’t climb to seven until around 1978, and I deliberately left the seventh slot ‘vacant,’ as a ‘loose end’ for either TSR or individual DMs to fill in (by the way, folks: to DMs contemplating campaigns designed for longevity, continually building in ‘loose ends’ is a crucial design element; TSR has been building mine and their own added ones into complete products for some years, and such good scribes as Eric, George, Grant, and the Bryans have been give headaches aplenty in reconciling them). In this case, I had it in the back of my head that the last and youngest would be something of a ‘black sheep’ (I was thinking ‘tomboy’) and so wrote that “the seventh was a dark disaster.” Steven pounced on that, and the name and race of Qilue are his creation (leav
