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When did we get Undermountain? Besides, UM is part of the basic Realms.

Yeah, that's a big part of his dogma

Eilistraee is a purely Torilian goddess, as--unlike most other non human deities--she was created by Ed Greenwood specifically for his world. However, given that she is the daughter of Lolth and Corellon, and given that her brother, who was too created by Greenwood for the Realms, has been...

In that book there are a lot of side plots that lays the basis for future things to happen. Resurrection wasn't effectively removed tho, it's now only granted if the deity says so.

I legit don't get your point. Ofc WotC can do whatever they want, it's their IP. Ofc we can't "morally" complain, but fans of the setting can express negative opinions on WotC's work. That feedback is in fact what led them to undo the 4e FR for 5e (although they still used a huge deus ex...

Yeah. You know, it's kind to be expected that companies will do their best to squeeze every c they can out of their customers, but that's not what I was arguing. I was arguing that it wasn't always easy for newcomers to have canon to pick and choose from, because of that reason. But, as...

My objection is that I don't want to see WotC blow up a lot of stuff, even breaking canon to find a reason for that to happen to some of what was killed/destroyed. It has little to do with them publishing a story about something over a story about something else. When all of sudden worlds...

They surely made those changes because they thought that it would attract a lot more people, not to hurt the setting. But, at least in 4e, they couldn't not know that they were going to drive away a lot of former FR fans, because they were removing a lot of the most popular characters and...

Many times those changes broke canon and created inconsistencies, tho. They didn't want to respect the canon *of the setting* they wanted to force arbitrary game rules on a story. Besides, a "game setting" is actually a world made to tell stories, because that's what D&D is. Treating it as...

This is how we get incredibly far fetched (even for high fantasy) metaplots like that of the Realms, tho. Where nations and gods explode for whatever reasons, and then are reborn in an endless cycle, with various deus ex machinas, till we get "God fixed the world" like in 5e, because kewl...

In the story of the creation of Toril, the Weave was formed with Mystryl's birth, before all Torilian civilization. Before Mystryl, only gods could use magic (and there were only Selune, Shar, and Chauntea. And Ao, ofc). Yes, I'm not saying that there weren't explanations, just that they...

Thanks for clarifying. However, if the barrier became thin, that would have allowed things like travel between the two worlds for that time, not swapping entire, but carefully selected, continents. With 0 repercussions of swapping such huge masses of land. The Weave didn't break, actually...

There's a limit. Making drastic changes like that, then saying "it was magic" and providing no other explanation, just isn't good world-building as far as I'm concerned. For example, if two worlds are crossing each others (and I can't really picture this physically, even more without massive...

Even in the Realms, they didn't bother with a decent explanation in the context of the setting. They just said "Mystra dies, so random stuff happens that coincidentally lines up with stuff that we want to see happen to the world. Including planes rearranging (even when the Weave doesn't reach...

So much this. I don't care about breaking canon when I use a setting, but I expect authors to not warp it because they couldn't be bothered, because it was"more kewl" in their eyes, or for whatever reasons. After all, it is part of their job.

To be fair, gods being prone to come back troubles me far less than mortals coming back. Gods just have so many contingencies, they try to preserve many shards of their power and sentience to eventually ensure their return, they live in some form as long as they have followers, and so on. It's...

Qilue' (although with Eilistraee back, who knows...) and Alassra. But even someone like Dove, who was killed in The Herald, is still around as a Weave-ghost, who has all her memories and personality anyway, and can still help Laeral. Actually, Ed implied that all the "dead" sisters, including...

Acererak - 6 Vecna - 16 Vlaakith CLVIII - 6

Long story short: the Sundering happened, Ao brought back all the dead gods and separated Abeir and Toril, while most dead characters came back in some contrived way, undoing most of end-3e and 4e. http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering_(event)

This might be helpful: http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Spellplague By comparison, this is the greater part of what the Sundering brought: Sources: the Sword Coast guide, Ed's answers, various novels. The Sword Coast guide doesn't really explain how the changes happened. It just says...