What is the Sundering?

[YRUSirius]

If you got any news from the "What is the Sundering?" Gencon seminar, please share it here.

What will this Realms Shaking Event entail? What will happen? Reboot? Retcon? Seperation of Toril and Abeir? Seperation of Pre-Spellplague and Post-Spellplague realms?

Any news? Please post it here. I'm interested.

-YRUSirius

 

[jsaving]

Drizzt awakens to discover that the "Sundering" of Realms continuity has ended and the last 140-odd years were simply a bad dream?

 

[Remathilis]

Drizzt awakens to discover that the "Sundering" of Realms continuity has ended and the last 140-odd years were simply a bad dream?

And Elminster is in the shower?

 

[delericho]

During the switch to 4e, didn't they justify a whole lot of the changes as it being Abeir re-merging with Toril? In which case, if they're wanting to reverse a lot of those changes to make things 'right', that could suggest that the Sundering is, broadly speaking, just a matter of the two splitting again.

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

My guess is that something terrible and world destroying will occur as a result of the merging of Abeir and Toril. Great wars and disasters will occur, the two worlds will be separated again, and we'll discover that the future is also the past and the Forgotten Realms is a circular history. Thus, the Sundering is the last Realms Shattering Event because it's also the first one.

 

[fba827]

perhaps it involves a hatch, some numbers, a smoke monster, and a cork? while drizzt and elminster play a game of white and black stones... no wait, that would just be ridiculous...

 

[D'karr]

The Sundering is a disaster of "biblical" proportions.

Real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

FR is Manhattan, Ed Greenwood is the STA-PUFF Marshmallow man, Mearls is Zuul, Piratecat is Ray Stantz, and James Wyatt is... Louis Tully.

 

[Ahwe Yahzhe]

And Elminster is in the shower?

Actually, the correct Who-Shot-JR reference would be, "And Mystra is in the shower. With Elminster."

 

[jsaving]

My guess is that something terrible and world destroying will occur as a result of the merging of Abeir and Toril. Great wars and disasters will occur, the two worlds will be separated again, and we'll discover that the future is also the past and the Forgotten Realms is a circular history.

Sundering implies a splitting-apart, and all joking aside, what could be a more natural meaning for "The Sundering" than a splitting-apart of Abeir and Toril? And with the merge bearing primary responsibility (at least in-game) for a host of flavor changes that divided Realms fans, perhaps an end to the merge would allow WotC to bring back some of the old flavor without decreeing that the last 100+ years of Realms continuity never happened.

 

[Riley]

Sundering implies a splitting-apart, and all joking aside, what could be a more natural meaning for "The Sundering" than a splitting-apart of Abeir and Toril?

The 'Sundering' logo (displayed at 43:00 in the video of the Keynote address - I took a snapshot of it, but apparently I can't embed it here) certainly seems to imply pulling two worlds apart.