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The map covers basically the 1e/2e era maps - basically all of Faerûn outside the very southernmost coastal areas like Halruaa and Liuren (which get arrows and mentions, though).

A new orc king is re-building Many Arrows.

There is a new Kkngdom of Many Arrows being assembled in the mountains of the North.

They did not, I repeat NOT, shy away from using real-life Egyptian deity names in the Mulhorand section. The current deities of Mulhorand remain Horus-Re and the like.

Djerad Thymar is still there as an independent dragonborn city-state/fortress. Unther has conquered the rest, but it's not entirely gone.

The Schley map of the setting is gorgeous.

Phaerimm are nice to see, but swanmay was a bit unexpected. Haven't seen them in an edition or two!

It will be nice when the FR books are released tomorrow and we'll have some different conversations available...

I had a friend who was a friend of Elmore's, and even met him on a couple of occasions in the late '80s/early '90s (It was always "Larry Elmore is here, keep quiet about it so he doesn't get mobbed!" as this is when his art was at the peak of its popularity). And yep, he does have that hippie...

I guess the Vast is now an honorary part of the Dalelands now. Otherwise, why waste almost a whole page on it, instead of showing, say, Cormyr or Sembia?

The original Pool of Radiance was in Phlan, which is just across the narrow Moonsea from the Dalelands. The Pool has been known to move, though...

That's a very good point!

They are making it something unique to differentiate it from more standard fantasy Arabia Zakhara, should they wish to cover that area in the future. Honestly, I'm pretty intrigued.

The Viking-inspired Norlanders have been there since the start (which was literally the start of the setting, as Darkwalker on Moonshae was one of the first D&D products for the setting)

I do have to wonder if we'll see some stuff on Lantan; at least more than the sentence or two it received previously.

I know there's at least minimal info on Chult, Halruaa, and the Great Rift in the Grey Box. My copy is too buried currently to look it up , but I think Luiren, Dambrath, and Durpar also get short entries.

It's actually useful to now have an overarching name for the "Forgotten Lands", as they were kind of a hodge-podge of smaller regions; in that earlier list, they're partially the Cold Lands and Unapproachable East. I'm still surprised a bit that Chult didn't make the cut, as it's a rather...

Which I also posses and used extensively when I was writing my more expansive monster entries. The F&A write-ups were much more extensive, and there are some differences between FR monstrous deities and the generic ones.

3e FRCS Grand History of the Realms (I wish they would have an extended version that would cover the last century or so!) The three Faiths and Avatars books, which are simply amazing if you want to know anything about just about any religion in the setting. I really wish they had done a fourth...

The list of deities on the DM Screen are specifically "Faerunian", so there might be supplemental list in the Old Empires section. Don't all the Mulan gods have secondary "non-Earth" names available for use as well? Granted, I don't think using the actual Sumerian/Babylonian deities would rock...