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Or Gold Rush era Yukon for that matter...

My guess is that the name originally was a play on the word "gore" and any resemblance to any real word name is coincidental. At least I hope so.

Gorelik was the original gnoll deity before Yeenoghu got involved.

The good news is that since the last time Kara-Tur (or any areas on Toril outside of Faerûn proper for that matter) has been covered, there have been several planet-wide catastrophes which will allow for re-writes to weed out the more insensitive material.

Basically Mesopotamian cylinder seals. Maybe we'll get some love for Unther in this one (plus the upgrade for grippli!)

It's not FR-specific. 2e and 3e material set in the Shining South and neighboring lands had gnolls as regular humanoids who had worshipped Gorelik before Yeenoghu came along and persuaded most of them to follow him instead. Volo's leans heavily into FR lore only in the giants section.

It depends. Are they totally isolated islands, or islands with a single difficult to find and use Channel Tunnel to the next, or islands with multiple, easy-to-use bridges to other islands, or islands surrounded by shallow straits that you can, at your own risk, wade across to the others? Or...

We don't know how movement between realms will be handled. It may be difficult, it may be easy, it may be at Dark Lord (i.e. DM) fiat, or it might be able to be chosen between alternatives.

It's in the MME2 if I'm not mistaken (I'm on vacation away from my books right now so unable to confirm).

Perhaps they use the old name either (a) out of tradition (after all, the current zombies aren't going to give it a new name) and/or (b) there's a connection to the old realm that that hasn't been revealed yet and will make sense once we have the full text of the book.

When it comes to monster books, I'm always down for more, more, more. But my dream product is an art-filled, coffee-table sized expanded MM, with as many 5e monsters in it as possible and stuffed to the gills with art and informational sidebars for interesting IP monsters (which was found to an...

Splat books which cover narrow subject bases. Really, anything that is narrow subject-wise. Go broad. Books might not get as deep as some people like as a result, but it seems to be a format that is a winner for 5e products.

There's a special layer in the Nine Hells for people like that. Not even Asmodeus speaks of it.

That's actually a quite good name for a book using the 5e naming convention!

Conversely, Sweden weathered the abdication of Queen Christina to be personally fulfilled elsewhere just fine.... Also, Carlos II didn't die without an heir, he died with too many potential heirs, with no 100% clear line of succession, two of which would have severely unbalanced the...