Parmandur
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Well, that artists teases we're based solely off of art pieces that were ordered. If one book has Volo's level of monsters, that hard to miss just on the art orders. As to the Realms book, you could tell that from the art orders for Sun Elves, Shield Dwarves, Turami Humans and such for the NPCs.If we were just going by names, I'd say "Marathon" would be the Modron March, but as dice are being released alongside "Broadway", that's a decent guess.
One further thing though that I just though of - the artist on Reddit said that of the two books they knew about, one was full of monsters and the other was based in the Forgotten Realms. Now, I may be parsing things a bit, that seems to indicate that the one full of monsters is not based in the Realms, which leads me to think either: (a) a Volo's type book focusing on creatures of the planes, or (b) a "settings" book, with sections on various settings containing a bestiary of setting-specific creatures. Given that we've had a lot of hints at upcoming planar stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if what we're getting is the former. If so, we'll likely get a book that details the various ecologies of devils, demons, celestials, modrons, and so on, a section for PC rules (planar races, perhaps some planar backgrounds), and finally a bestiary section with various extraplanar monsters which haven't been updated to 5e yet - various remaining demons and devils, hierarch modrons, all the yugoloths that were left out of the MM, demodands/gehreleths, and all the various missing celestials (archons, guardinals, and eladrin), as well as miscellaneous still-un-updated planar creatures (xag-ya and xeg-yi perhaps?). Maybe even a section on the fey as well...
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