What happened to Izmir?

hopeless · Feb 9, 2007

What happened to Izmir?

In the first dungeons and dragons movie, Izmir was a massive metropolis that resembled Sharn from Eberron to a small degree (in that Sharn would make Izmir look "small").

Then when they made the sequel movie set a century later Izmir had now shrunk to the size of maybe a small city... so what happened?

Is there another Izmer a metropolis abandoned for some reason, just waiting to be explored, or has the Blackmoor setting released something to clear this up?

Nifft · Feb 9, 2007

Today it is merely "old history... by the sea".

Cheers, -- N

Whizbang Dustyboots · Feb 9, 2007

I think they were just distancing themselves from the original movie somewhat, which is a shame, since the now-vanished D&D movie setting articles at the WotC site were pretty nice. I imagine the never-released setting book has had its electrons shredded as well.

teitan · Feb 9, 2007

hopeless said:
What happened to Izmir?

In the first dungeons and dragons movie, Izmir was a massive metropolis that resembled Sharn from Eberron to a small degree (in that Sharn would make Izmir look "small").

Then when they made the sequel movie set a century later Izmir had now shrunk to the size of maybe a small city... so what happened?

Is there another Izmer a metropolis abandoned for some reason, just waiting to be explored, or has the Blackmoor setting released something to clear this up?

What does Blackmoor have to do with it?

Henry · Feb 9, 2007

The movie was made by two different directors and writers, hence the disconnect. I don't think anyone released any explanation, but there are as half-dozen possible explanations one could make up to explain it (you just did the most obvious one above!)

WayneLigon · Feb 9, 2007

Probably no reason beyond 'we need a way to tie this totally re-done movie to the first one for some obscure continuity (or contractual) reason, so we'll just use a few names and a character from it'.

Kae'Yoss · Feb 9, 2007

Maybe they wanted to pretend that the first movie never happened? I know most of the D&D community would gladly do this

Cthulhudrew · Feb 9, 2007

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I think they were just distancing themselves from the original movie somewhat, which is a shame, since the now-vanished D&D movie setting articles at the WotC site were pretty nice. I imagine the never-released setting book has had its electrons shredded as well.

They're still there, you just have to dig around a bit:

Journey Through Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie

Society of Sumdall

Some random Movie links

I know there was a thread either here at ENWorld or else on the Mystara board at WotC that posted some more links to those articles as well.

Mark CMG · Feb 9, 2007

hopeless said:
What happened to Izmir?

Izmer, iz lezz.

Whizbang Dustyboots · Feb 9, 2007

Cthulhudrew said:
They're still there, you just have to dig around a bit:

Journey Through Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie

Society of Sumdall

Some random Movie links

I know there was a thread either here at ENWorld or else on the Mystara board at WotC that posted some more links to those articles as well.