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[Henadic Theologian]

Wrong. If you use something that isn’t yours it’s stealing, and if it’s been horribly misrepresented for over a hundred years, it’s not unreasonable to be upset.

But the bottom line is, it doesn’t matter if you are incapable of understanding why someone is upset, because that’s not your call to make. You can either apologise and try not to do it again, or you can be a total jerk.

If you can't be polite I see no reason to continue to discuss this with you.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The dragonborn in 3e were something else entirely, if memory serves. Bahamut created them via other humanoids (odd).

The dragonborn as we know them today came to Faerûn via the Spellplague or thereabouts in the 4e era. Still very recent in historical terms; they’d be easily identified as aliens. All elves, gnomes and dwarves either remember or know someone who remembers when they weren’t around.

The orcs are native, except for a subsect of them, who arrived nearly 20,000 years beforehand. No one remembers, and I’m not sure anyone knows except for, say, an aboleth. I’m also somewhat unclear about the need of this plot considering there are native orcs, but maybe some of the FR loremasters can clarify.

I don’t think dragonborn aliens is a particularly elegant solution, but Erin Evans gave them a lot of interesting cultural flavor in her novels.



On the topic of real-world deities; it’s very hard to avoid with FR. Tyr, Loviatar, Mielikki, Silvanus, etc. all bear their original names. Some just have their names swapped (e.g. Sune is Venus, written backwards without the V).

I agree that these were dead religions and pure mythology when first introduced to FR, and their recent revival is something Ed couldn’t have foreseen. Nonetheless, mythology is reinterpreted in fiction all the time, and I’ve never seen much discourse about it outside of TTRPG spaces.

It's not just hard, it's outright impossible, it's so utterly baked into setting and has been for decades.

Sune being Venus backwards without the V just blew my mind. Would have explain the rumours that Sune is just another name for Aphrodite/Venus.

WotC literally just released Kratos and Freya cards for MtG, so they can't be too worried about it.

Percy Jackson/Kane Chronicles MtG set or secret Lair is just a matter of time.