D&D 5E Kobolds are also from the Feywild now?

[JEB]

Reading through the Dragon+ article on Monsters of the Multiverse:

These kobolds aren’t distinguished by their assumed personality or cultural traits, but rather by their magical origins. Their origin is the Feywild and they’re finding their way now in the multiverse.

 

[Charlaquin]

What happened to them being descended from dragons?

 

[JEB]

What happened to them being descended from dragons?

Maybe they're trying to imply kobolds are the Feywild's answer to dragons?

Honestly, though, this is so random that I wonder if Crawford misspoke. But I guess they had a chance to correct that before publication, and didn't...

 

[Deekin]

D&D 5.5e: Now Everything is now from the Feywild.

 

[TerraDave]

D&D 5e: Now Everything is now from the Feywild.

If everything is fey, is anything really fey?

 

[John R Davis]

Damn. Just checked my birth certificate, I think I may be from the feywild?

How about you?

 

[Vaalingrade]

Okay, now I unironically want it to turn out that the shadar-kai were the original humans.

 

[LordEntrails]

The first word of your quote is critical. "These kobolds" not just "kobolds" or "all koblds" but rather a new and special type of kobold that is from the Feywild. Of course, you don' give much context for your quote, s there could be more info than what you are sharing.

 

[JEB]

The first word of your quote is critical. "These kobolds" not just "kobolds" or "all koblds" but rather a new and special type of kobold that is from the Feywild. Of course, you don' give much context for your quote, s there could be more info than what you are sharing.

Well, here's the full section on kobolds:

Fans of Unearthed Arcana will also have seen the new suggested options for the kobold appear back in April 2021. Jeremy says feedback from that playtest was overwhelmingly positive, with players enjoying the different options they could apply to their individual kobolds.

“The player base really liked the direction that we took with the kobold. That was a nod on our part to the different stories that feed into the history of that race. Kobolds have sometimes been presented as cowering folk, while at other times they’ve been seen as ferocious mini dragons,” Jeremy says. “We wanted to allow players to find their way to the kobold they want to play. We’ve treated them the same way we treat humans in the game, in that there’s a vast variety of them. These kobolds aren’t distinguished by their assumed personality or cultural traits, but rather by their magical origins. Their origin is the Feywild and they’re finding their way now in the multiverse.”

Seems pretty clear they're talking about kobolds generally and not some specific subgroup.

 

[steeldragons]

What happened to them being descended from dragons?

Kobold propaganda. Always was.