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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toe Knee Nose" data-source="post: 9868841" data-attributes="member: 7050577">I get what you're saying, but, it's still kinda/sorta.  All the changes done in 4e were more or less retconned out of existence, so, those changes really don't count unless you happened to be following the Realms at the time.  Additionally, 10 (ish) years isn't really an advance on the calendar to speak of.  Like really, who cares?  And, finally, since the only events that were actually detailed about the setting all occurred in the Sword Coast, the rest of the setting has been frozen in time.  We simply have no idea what's happened anywhere else.  Plus, there's the point that none of the events of the Adventure Paths actually impact the setting in any meaningful way.  Every single AP ends with a return to status quo.  Tiamat did not enter the Realms.  The Ordining is fixed.  So on and so forth.  There is no meaningful change in the setting.  We have brief snapshots of what individual places might look like at a given point in time, but, there is no actual change in anything.  Elturel gets sucked into outer planes, but, by the end of the AP, it's right back where it started.  I'm not really sure that you can say that the timeline has advanced when everything is frozen in time.</blockquote>