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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4170332" data-attributes="member: 19083">med Stud,I agree, I HATE the novels and 2nd boxed set etc.Totally trashed a superb setting.It's like in a couple of years, half the major NPcs of the Realms get permanently ganked, gah.Refuse tO have anything to do with that, or the stupid "Official" history...blue age, halfling spaceships...oh nuts! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I juSt say it was due to the mind flayers, who wanted to put out the Sun, and thus spread psionics, so they could harvest psi power from ignorant noob races (like humans <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />). Psionics lead to the development of defiling, which triggered massive wars as the defilers wiped out the "good guys" as they are more powerful...but they destoryed the land....and then, the mind flayers tried to put the Sun out.They screwed up, Sun went Nova, and the gods barely managed to stop it, catastrophy destroyed the "athasian Astral Plane" and the gods, thus messing up planar connections etc etc. World got wrecked too, massive earthquakes destoryed much of the Underdark (and the mind flayers got ganked by that and feedback...though, who knows...they may have survived)So-Uts are left over bio-weapons from the wars, designed as scorched earth wepaons, destorying metal and buildings.Sorceror Kings are surviving defiler tyrants, who've literally become demi-god like beings and are *way* beyond the power of any PC to kill.Surviving creatures are grealty more dangerous, due to Darwinian evolution gone mad, aided by radiation (both solar and literal, some very dirty nukes were left off, by foolish psion/defilers, as they had learned of many obscure sciences due to their enhanced brains and planar learning, great fun having characters find a glass-covered crater, muhaha!), the very nature of reality being twisted by excess powers, and the mad experimentations of war mad wizards etc...Works for me! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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