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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 4612826" data-attributes="member: 4682">From an interview I read with her, she was asked about the deviation from setting canon. She replied that her connections at TSR gave her the barest, thinnest, of details on the setting beyond what was in the public sources at the time she was writing. So she made things up as she felt would suit her characters and story. By the time her books were published the setting shepherds at TSR had released products that would step on her books.PLUS, in the era of Dark Sun's run, the TSR novel lines were separate from the TSR RPG lines. Getting the two departments to communicate with each other was a colossal undertaking. The novels line had deadlines to reach and so they told their authors only so much because the RPG guys didn't want to have their metastory all splashed all over the world by poorly restrained authors.Having the novels line apart from the RPG line is also one of the reasons FR's authors so often seemed to come up with an apocalypse of the week as so many author's tried to make their story as epically important as everyone else's, then the RPG guys were left to pick up the pieces year after year.Lynn Abbey's Dark Sun books canon deviation was a result of this environment, not her disregard for canon. She wasn't kept in the loop, and TSR's RPG department had no incentive for them to overcome departmental inertia and bring her in to the loop.</blockquote>

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