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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9793806" data-attributes="member: 65487">"Were" canon is more accurate to say. Around 2018, they came with this <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210729175033/https://dnd.wizards.com/dndstudioblog/dnd-canon" target="_blank">gem</a>, in which they basically said "every expression of D&D has their own canon" (I still remember the uproar it caused), freeing the writers to write what they want without worrying about following a continuity.So, yes, while the novels may be canon, they are only canon for themselves, since 2018. They are not necessarily canon for the sourcebooks. Erin Evans' novels aren't the only ones these book ignored, they also ignored RAS' novels, too (for instance, Yarin Frostmantle is still alive and ruling Damara, despite being killed by Jarlaxe in one of the Drizzt's novels). If they ignore their best-selling author, I really doubt any other author is being given special preference. Of course, you can still use the lore from the novels if you want, the Pinkertons aren't going to appear in our houses (for now, at least), but that doesn't mean we have to assume the writing team at WotC is doing the same. They may or they may not. And the evidence so far is that indeed they are not.Yet, they contradict the SCAG with these books. Not only with Tymanther, but with a lot of regions. Calimshan, for instance. They expect the SCAG and the wiki serve as background, but their new lore is a new thing.</blockquote>

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