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It's been about a decade in-universe since we've had any updates, which seems to be that Unther conquered the the rest of Tymanther other than one city, and many dragonborn went to Calimshan as mercenaries.

I was thinking the same thing. You could easily use the same format to focus on 5 - 6 other areas for several books. I'd love to see this for Cormyr, or Thay, or Mulhorand

It was a schism.

It also helps that there's not really more on them than their names. No alignments, nothing but examples of Mulhorandi deities, and that they are relatively benevolent. They just kind of leave it at that - saying that they are there, but virtually nothing else. Compared to that tyrant Gilgeam...

It's a unique dracolich form.

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.