What is the status of Cormyr in 5e?

[Zarithar]

I've had Erin Evan's book on my Kindle for a couple of years now... time to give it a read apparently as my current campaign is set in The Stonelands (northern Cormyr).

 

[thanson02]

I've had Erin Evan's book on my Kindle for a couple of years now... time to give it a read apparently as my current campaign is set in The Stonelands (northern Cormyr).

Well the war with the Netherese Empire ended with the Sundering so I would assume that there and postwar clean up. People are probably happy to have their lives go back to normal and not be paranoid about assassin's and spies around every corner. I don't know if they're helping Sembia out or not and the restoration efforts. I know that the people of Sembia are working hard to regain their sense of Independence, especially after their occupation.

 

[thanson02]

Well the war with the Netherese Empire ended with the Sundering so I would assume that there and postwar clean up. People are probably happy to have their lives go back to normal and not be paranoid about assassin's and spies around every corner. I don't know if they're helping Sembia out or not and the restoration efforts. I know that the people of Sembia are working hard to regain their sense of Independence, especially after their occupation.

Wow, my phone did something really goofy. Ignore this last post.

 

[gyor]

Its has simularities to 3e, but it is not the same.

Not only is there a new ruler, alot of the other major figures are dead or very different.

Cormyr just won a very brutal war with Shade, warlocks, dragonborn, drow, and Tieflings are more common.

There are a variety of other differences, a lot happened between 3e Cormyr and 5e Cormyr.

 

[Pauper]

I've had Erin Evan's book on my Kindle for a couple of years now... time to give it a read apparently as my current campaign is set in The Stonelands (northern Cormyr).

It's a solid read; I'd recommend it.

One point for Realms nerds -- I haven't seen anything reversing the destruction of Tilverton by the forces of Shade in 1372 DR. (This was actually a late 3E event, around the time of "War of the Spider Queen", not a 4E event, but given that so much of 4E material is focused around the Shade War in this area, it wouldn't surprise me if a few Realms grognards lump it in as such.)

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Pauper

 

[Istbor]

I think the "even better" part of that is questionable at best, but yes, 4e FR is what made FR a more dangerous place.

Anyway, from the wiki on Wheloon, in answer to your question a couple comments up:

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Post-Spellplague

Sometime after the Spellplague in 1385 DR, the Purple Dragons determined that a large number of Whelunians were secretly Shar-worshipers, and the current king of Cormyr feared Wheloon was a front for Netherese spies. The king decreed that it be transformed into a prison city, all those inside sealed in by brick and magic and prisoners for life. Suspected worshipers of Shar, Shadovar sympathizers and spies, and any others who offended the crown were put over the wall and left to survive on their own. By 1479 DR, Wheloon was a dark prison city, no longer a trade hub, and the streets were controlled by gangs of thugs."

It's probably the one thing in 4e FR that I just outright said, "No. that didn't happen."

Actually sounds pretty cool, and an interesting place to start or hold a campaign, to me.

 

[Ancalagon]

Cormyr just won a very brutal war with Shade, warlocks, dragonborn, drow, and Tieflings are more common.

I'm sorry, but the war was against whom, and which is most common? Feels like two sentences would be clearer.

 

[gyor]

I'm sorry, but the war was against whom, and which is most common? Feels like two sentences would be clearer.

The war was against Shade, aka the Netherese Empire.

And Waocks and Tieflings are more common now.

There are new races like Dragonborn, Shifters, and so on.

Shadar Kai are now elves now instead of an offshoot of humans.

Over a hundred years of history has happened since 3e.

A new Queen, new Nobles, the Brimstone Angels, and so on has happened, Swordmages (Eldrich Knights in 5e) are a thing.

New Gods have appeared and olds ones returned from the dead and almost all the Demigods went from being demoted to Exarchs in 4e to being promoted over demigods to to Lesser Gods.

New kinds of Warlocks and other strange magivs have appeared including a lot of at will magic, a form of magic that only existed in like the rare Binders and Warlocks in 3.5e.

An Eventual called the Great Rain occurred, nearly drowning the nations of the Sea of Fallen Stars, and caused a whole bunch of people to become Storm Sorcerers, and ended with a magically enhanced harvest.

Their is more land then there was in 3.5e, alot more, the Sundering made the Faerun bigger, things have gotten further apart.

Various demon lords have run amok, Dragons, and Giants have run amok.

Resurrection spells can't be relied upon anymore, at least not until after ToA thanks a Greyhawk Liche named Ackrak.

The greater geopolitical is radically different.

Heck even Abier Toril means something different now, they added an entire twin planet because Toril wasn't big enough and the two wolrlds have a habit of swapping locations like twin sisters swap clothes.

Cormyr is mirrored in the Feywild, Shadowfell, Border Ethereal, and various border Elemental Planes. The Elemental Chaos is a thing.

I could continue, this is why when WotC suggests using the 3.5e FRCG to new players of 5e I cringe, it's useful as a historical document at best, 5e plays to nostoligia, but it's still it's own beast as it's been shaped by every single edition and it has it's own stuff going on on top of that.

 

[gyor]

Actually sounds pretty cool, and an interesting place to start or hold a campaign, to me.

That practice ended during the Sundering, so it's over, but the memory remains.

 

[Eltab]

A thought, for those who like political intrigue campaigns:
4e "Imperial Cormyr" expanded to absorb nearby city-states. For 5e, Cormyr is supposed to have shrunk back to traditional boundaries.
The nearby city-states will be treated as "buffer zones" or client-states. Any trouble will have to go through them to get at Cormyr, and Cormyr will have no problem at all quietly sending official strike forces - or preferably adventurer bands - to deal with people / organizations / issues that are still small but too big to ignore.

The Royal official sponsoring the PCs might even claim to be "keeping alive the tradition of the Steel Regent, who went adventuring in her younger days before ascending to the throne."