D&D General Forgotten Realms Books Tables of Contents

The Table of Contents for both Heroes of Faerun and Adventures in Faerun.

Picked the books up this morning and love what I’ve seen so far. I’ll answer whatever questions I can here.

 

[Corinnguard]

Worse, they destroyed their homeland. Seeing, this was in the war against Unther (the most racist of the human kingdoms of the Realms, lorewise), you can imagine the implications... (ie. genocide and racial extermination)

Thank goodness, D&D exists in a multiverse. While WoTC decided to do this to this version of Tymanther, any DM can just ignore it in their version of the Forgotten Realms.

 

[John Lloyd1]

I definitely would have preferred 80 pages on other locations than Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate. Thay would have been great. Maybe some other area relatively untouched in the past 30 years.

There is an assumption here that someone already has those books. It seems a bit over the top to buy a complete hard cover adventure just for the gazetteer at the beginning. I would expect a setting book to cover the entire region including bits that setting already published before. Much the same way monster books include monsters previously published in adventures.

 

[Zeromaru X]

The Calishman Dragonborn were part of overthrowing the Genies and casting them into the wilderness, not serving them.

"Many dragonborn died for their kingdom and their sultana. In recognition of their loyalty and strength, Songal elevated some dragonborn to positions of power in Calimshan. Other dragonborn have since gravitated to genie strongholds, where they combine their innate powers with elemental magic."

Supposedly, this is in the book.

Seems, dragonborn abandoned their actual kingdom (Tymanther) to die in some foreign land for some maunthreki (human) ruler they didn't knew before, and now flock to genies' strongholds.

EDIT:

Wait... Female sultana with dragonborn guards.... WotC was copying Midgard's dragon empire, lol!

 

[Zeromaru X]

Thank goodness, D&D exists in a multiverse. While WoTC decided to do this to this version of Tymanther, any DM can just ignore it in their version of the Forgotten Realms.

Sadly, I can't. At least, not now. Perhaps in 10 years...

 

[Zeromaru X]

There's some comments here about lore being changed or even retconned. It's more accurate to say the timeline has advanced.

Here are approximate years for recent editions...

1E: 1357
2E: 1368
3E: 1380s
4E: 1480s
5E: 1490s

1501 is the year for this new FR campaign setting.

3e was 1372 the initial books, and 1374 the last book with a date (I think it was "Dragons of Faerûn"), with "The Grand History of the Realms" covering up to 1385 in history blurbs.

4e was 1479 and 1480 DR.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

I hope these books do well because I would like to see another Adventures book that covers places like the Moonsea.

 

[Yaarel]

"Many dragonborn died for their kingdom and their sultana. In recognition of their loyalty and strength, Songal elevated some dragonborn to positions of power in Calimshan. Other dragonborn have since gravitated to genie strongholds, where they combine their innate powers with elemental magic."

Supposedly, this is in the book.

Seems, dragonborn abandoned their actual kingdom (Tymanther) to die in some foreign land for some maunthreki (human) ruler they didn't knew before, and now flock to genies' strongholds.

EDIT:

Wait... Female sultana with dragonborn guards.... WotC was copying Midgard's dragon empire, lol!

Some Dragonborn are native to the dragons of planet Toril. But most are from Abeir when it appeared.

Could the Calimshan Dragonborn refer to a native culture, unrelated to Tymanther?

 

[Zeromaru X]

There is no single mention of dragonborn living in Calimshan in 4e. In fact, in some 4e adventure is said that the Calimshites hated dragonborn because they looked like dragons... But, maybe?

 

[Corinnguard]

Wait... Female sultana with dragonborn guards.... WotC was copying Midgard's dragon empire, lol!

I was wondering about your reference to a Sultana. Tymanther's government was led by a monarch/general known as the Vanquisher (a relative of Marvel's Punisher? ) The Mharoti Empire in Midgard was ruled by the Half-Dragon Sultana.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I hope these books do well because I would like to see another Adventures book that covers places like the Moonsea.

I was thinking the same thing. You could easily use the same format to focus on 5 - 6 other areas for several books. I'd love to see this for Cormyr, or Thay, or Mulhorand