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I think that she has become a voice in the Weave. Her soul/silver fire was absorbed by Mystra and became part of the Weave. The soul/consciousness of many poweful spellcasters remain in the Weave and with Mystra, according to ''Spellstorm'', so she should still be there. Either way, your point...

Ao was pissed that the tablets of fate had been stolen. He thought that too many gods cared too little about their followers and just put effort into increasing their power influence. As far as i can tell, he didn't want the gods to directly meddle more.

AFAIK a retcon overwrites some previously established knowledge, making it null or altering it. In-lore, the FR are what Elminster tells us about the world, the knowledge about them is not really reliable or complete. The introduction of Eilistraee is one of the things that were told later (and...

Well that was not really a retcon, since 1)drow culture hadn't be explored fully 2)Eilistraee was already part of the Realms as Ed created them, he just made her official later. Besides, Eilistraee and her followers have really nothing to do with Drizzt and are different kind of characters, with...

There's not a kingdom of loving drow in the Realms, but there's a culture of them: http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Eilistraee Actually, there was a kingdom of such drow, before the elves destroyed it in the ancient history of those two races. Yes, I have a source...

If you mean that Drizzt is one-of-a-kind because of his characteristic traits, then yes. However he was not meant to be one of a kind as a non-evil drow. The realmsian drow are not the same as standard drow: when creating the Realms, Ed Greenwood envisioned this race having variety in ideas and...

These are just a few examples. In the magazine it is said that the book will have many other options as well.

Wow, hats off to them.

Hmm, gods being prevented from rampaging on Toril seems a quite big reason and enough of a justification to me. Perhaps she's busy with her recently returned daughter and son? We'll see...

I think that Lolth is missing because she is a deity, and after the Sundering in FR gods are going to meddle way less than before and their portfolios and power are now set in stone (those would be Ao's new rules). So Idk... it doesn't seem likely to me.

Yes, Ed being confident is encouraging, but it feels really off to not have him involved with the inaugural 5e FR book, which is also supposed to work as a sort of CS.

They have no seminar this year?

Ed wasn't directly involved in the book. He said that he unofficially consulted for it. Anyway, what he says *is* official, even if delivered through a forum reply. His answers to the question that people ask over Candlekeep are official, for example. Nonetheless I agree with you that it would...

I really hope to see that much setting lore, as opposed to crunch, TBH.

It depends on what kind of deity the book is going to be focused on. I however think that the list will be comprehensive (the descriptions, on the other hand, will be limited to deities that have a large followers base on the Sword Coast), and it will be expanded, as novels and other lore have...

Yeah: the elven Sundering (http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering) and the recent Sundering ( http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering_(event) ). They were supposed to be linked, but WotC never explained exactly how.

I've been waiting for an update on the Realms since the end of the Sundering series. This won't cover it all, but it is something. I really want to see a Sword Dancer of Eilistraee option in the book: Eilistraee has been confirmed to be alive in the present era by Ed Greenwood, and I've always...

Cool :) WotC didn't mention Eilistraee and Vhaeraun yet in sourcebooks, but their return (implied in ''Spellstorm'' for Eilistraee, and confirmed here by Ed Greenwood) is huge for the drow, and should get at least some attention (perhaps they'll be briefly featured in ''Out of the Abyss''...

Shar has had a lot of prominence in the latest century and her plans had much more influence than Lolth's (even if both of them ultimately failed), but I see your point. Also, since you mention Drizzt as Lolth's nemesis, IMO it would be nice to drop a mention of Eilistraee&Vhaeraun, giving a...

No Shar, or Myrkul? I feel that they are more relevant than Auril and Lolth on a global scale (even if Lolth has probably been featured more than Myrkul in published material). Drizzt is far from being the only one who has given Lolth the middle finger: Eilistraee and Vhaeraun (Lolth's and...