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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7519184" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>If you are talking just standard dictionary definition, sure, what you say is "canon" might very well be right. But when we're talking about "canon" here in the Forgotten Realms sense (as well as the Star Trek sense, and the Star Wars sense)... I think it's more readily implied that it is a totality of fictional history created by a multitude of authors, wherein the expectation is that <em>everything</em> that gets written all fits together as one giant contiguous piece of narrative and that doesn't intentionally contradict itself.</p><p></p><p>You can say Eberron has a "canon", yes... but nothing that is written or created for Eberron outside what appears in the original timeline in the original campaign setting is considered "real" or "true". None of the Eberron novels that were written are considered "true" from a historical point of view in Eberron. As a result, WotC has never been asked by players to create a "new" campaign setting book that updates "Eberron history" with those novels taken into account. Or the narratives from the Eberron video games taken into account. None of that stuff is "Eberron canon", because the desire is to give a set jumping off point for every DM to weave their OWN Eberron "canon" story from the moment of 998 YK.</p><p></p><p>Whereas the Forgotten Realms does (or at least did) consider ALL of the stuff made as "real". Heck, go onto the FR wikia and you can find pages upon pages of historical documentation written out from most years in Faerunian history that is drawn from campaign settings, modules, fiction, video games, and everything else FR related. So when we talk "canon" in threads like this... especially when it relates to whether or not WotC has an obligation to "update" their campaign settings to add new history to the account... this is what most of us are meaning. The "canon" of The Complete Works of the Forgotten Realms (Abridged).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7519184, member: 7006"] If you are talking just standard dictionary definition, sure, what you say is "canon" might very well be right. But when we're talking about "canon" here in the Forgotten Realms sense (as well as the Star Trek sense, and the Star Wars sense)... I think it's more readily implied that it is a totality of fictional history created by a multitude of authors, wherein the expectation is that [I]everything[/I] that gets written all fits together as one giant contiguous piece of narrative and that doesn't intentionally contradict itself. You can say Eberron has a "canon", yes... but nothing that is written or created for Eberron outside what appears in the original timeline in the original campaign setting is considered "real" or "true". None of the Eberron novels that were written are considered "true" from a historical point of view in Eberron. As a result, WotC has never been asked by players to create a "new" campaign setting book that updates "Eberron history" with those novels taken into account. Or the narratives from the Eberron video games taken into account. None of that stuff is "Eberron canon", because the desire is to give a set jumping off point for every DM to weave their OWN Eberron "canon" story from the moment of 998 YK. Whereas the Forgotten Realms does (or at least did) consider ALL of the stuff made as "real". Heck, go onto the FR wikia and you can find pages upon pages of historical documentation written out from most years in Faerunian history that is drawn from campaign settings, modules, fiction, video games, and everything else FR related. So when we talk "canon" in threads like this... especially when it relates to whether or not WotC has an obligation to "update" their campaign settings to add new history to the account... this is what most of us are meaning. The "canon" of The Complete Works of the Forgotten Realms (Abridged). [/QUOTE]
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