D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

[Parmandur]

But that is an adventure hook.

The Dragonborn sovereignty still survives in Djerad Thymar.

Oh, yeah, it is a great hook for a game.

 

[Yaarel]

Nope. They were enslaved by genies and genasi. Not dragons. They were not happy with dragonborn because mulans are the most racist people of the FR.

Heh, I guess in 2024, the Mulan are reputed to be the most "speciesist".

I wonder if the 2024 Forgotten Realms have walked back the various racist themes?

It also implies that reallife Egyptians (≈ Mulan) are racists.

 

[Alzrius]

If Nobanion is still around, then as per Dragon #54, he's Aslan from C. S. Lewis' Narnia books, who (spoiler alert) is actually Jesus by another name.

 

[Parmandur]

Heh, I guess in 2024, the Mulan are reputed to be the most "speciesist".

I wonder if the 2024 Forgotten Realms have walked back the various racist themes?

It also implies that reallife Egyptians (≈ Mulan) are racists.

The Mulan are more than just the Mulhorandi, it's also the Untherite, Thayans, Chessenthans, Rashemi (like Minsc) and others.

 

[Yaarel]

The Mulan are more than just the Mulhorandi, it's also the Untherite, Thayans, Chessenthans, Rashemi (like Minsc) and others.

So are all of these groups originally from planet Earth?

What is the connection between Mulan, Mulhoran, and Earthling (Terran)?

 

[Parmandur]

So are all of these groups originally from planet Earth?

What is the connection between Mulan, Mulhoran, and Earthling (Terran)?

Yes, the people from the Southwest corner of the Inner Sea were mainly imported from the ANE by evil wizards.

 

[Yaarel]

Yes, the people from the Southwest corner of the Inner Sea were mainly imported from the ANE by evil wizards.

Oh. I didnt realize ALL of them.

So all of these groups derive from Sumer and Egypt? Or were other reallife ethnicities brought in as well?

 

[Parmandur]

Oh. I didnt realize ALL of them.

I mean, I don't know the exact population demographics (douvt they have ever bothered with that lwvel of detail, but enough that the languages and gods are imports (the gods manifested and led theor people in a revolution to overthrow the evil wizards).

 

[Selas]

So, Stargate was real in FR?

 

[Alzrius]

I suppose it's germane to link to this article from the Forgotten Realms wiki:

Earth

Earth was a largely non-fantastical world cut off from most of the multiverse.[2] Some sources claimed that this planet existed within an alternate Prime Material plane,[4][5] but in actuality it existed within a crystal sphere on the same Prime Material plane as Toril,[2][5][note 1] though its...

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