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I'd call that clever, not cheesy. It's really no different than the Teutonic Order going from a rag-tag group of knights guarding German pilgrims in the Crusader States to becoming the conquering vanguard of Teutonic nationalism in the Baltic. They maintained the same name, but what it meant...

It's been over 100 years and two planet-wide catastrophes since Cormyr has been detailed in anything more than a very cursory manner. Things change. Things with the same name change. Even knightly orders change. The Order of the Garter today looks and functions nothing like the Order of the...

This has gotten buried among all the posts, but to clarify on Calimshan: "Calimshan was reworked with the help of Professor Shahreena Shahrani, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Culture at Ohio State University, to make a thoughtful new Middle Eastern version of the location. It is described as...

I totally forgot about that section in SCAG. So it would indicate that Shou Lung, Kozakura, and Wa are still extant; intriguingly, T'u Lung isn't mentioned. That might just be a rule of three thing, but still, it's a notable omission. That section on "what is over the western seas" just screams...

Oh, that vertical lettering is just the chef's kiss.