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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camelot" data-source="post: 5334505" data-attributes="member: 82617">The canon you'll find in all the printed 4e D&D books describes the "Points of Light" setting.  It's purposefully vague so that you can add in your own stories, but you can piece together a general timeline. As for the "many worlds paradox," as you call it, I would like to point you to the city of Sigil (described in the 4e books Manual of the Plane and The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea).  This colossal city has portals connecting to almost anywhere in the universe, and some that go to other universes.  So, while the githyanki may be a threat to everything in the Points of Light universe, they aren't a threat to the Dark Sun universe, but through Sigil, characters from one universe could get to the other. Some universes may have gods who are exactly the same.  Points of Light and Forgotten Realms both have Corellon, but it's not the same exact person doing things in two universes at once.  It's like a parallel dimension sort of thing.  There are two Corellons, each behaving in their respective universe.  Maybe one Corellon could travel through Sigil to the other universe and meet himself.  Maybe your characters could do that too. This way, you can create your own universe, your own campaign setting, with whatever canon you want, but still have it connected to the "canon" settings.</blockquote>