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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7666229" data-attributes="member: 5143">They started referring to themselves by their old names during the same novels they came back to life.  They only mention their old names to each other in one small scene and Regis tells everyone that he likes his new name and wants to stick with it.  But, the rest feel like their old names are their real names and switch to them almost immediately when they move away from their new home towns where no one will recognize them.As for the FR, the problem is that the post-Sundering realms are actually somewhere between the 4e and 3e campaign settings.  For instance, we know from the Sundering adventures, the novels and LMoP, HotDQ and PotA, that:-A bunch of gods have returned.  Even ones that were dead before 3e started.-Neverwinter was still destroyed in the eruption of Mount Hotenow that existed in the 4e NWCS, Lord Neverember is still in charge of the city as per that book.  Though we don't know how much of the city has been rebuilt, how much of an issue the Far Realm incursion still is, whether the Ashmodai still have a large presence there, and so on.  Lost Mines starts in Neverwinter and you meet your contact there but the adventure doesn't say anything about the city at all other than it is a city and things can be bought there normally.  We know that the Sundering has "completely cured the Spellplague" but we don't know if that means that all the spellplagued creatures went completely back to normal or not.-We know the Sundering returned all the lands of Toril back to Toril...so presumably the map looks like the one in the 3e campaign setting again.  However, Genasi have had their own country for nearly 100 years now.  They've definitely spread out to other countries, however and their country vanishing leaves them without a homeland but they should be accepted as a normal part of the population by now.  Regis in the novels remarks that his new mother was half genasi making him a quarter genasi and therefore he can hold his breath a long time.  Likewise for Dragonborn.  However, what we don't know is if the countries that have spent 100 years in Abeir have been changed at all by that process.-When the Weave returned everyone just pulled out old spellbooks and started casting spells the same way they did before the Spellplague.  It works exactly the same as it did in 3e.Using the best information we have now, it seems like the best option for running 4e is to use the 4e description of every country that isn't from Abeir.  Then to replace the description of every other country with their 3e FRCS descriptions.  Though, it would be nice to have an official post of information somewhere that at least had a summary of the Sundering changes so that we could make it work even without a CS.</blockquote>

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