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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8128752" data-attributes="member: 5948">Time of troubles was definitely 1e to 2e.  The Spellplague was the major setting-breaking feature of the hundred years between 3e FR and 4e FR.  The Second Sundering rewound most of the least-well-received bits of the 4e post-Spellplague realms as part of the 5e transition.As far as the Realms go, there wasn't really a single big in-world event that covered the 2e to 3e transition.  "Die Vecna Die" didn't really register an impact on the FR line.  There were a few major in-world happenings that occurred roughly at the same time as the 3e realms appeared - the return of the Shades was the big one, and the death of Azoun, but these were predominately in-world events of the sort that happen in the Realms every second Tuesday, and there wasn't really any attempt to link them to the mechanical 2e->3e changes in the way that, for instance, the Time of Troubles killed off all the assassins in Faerun because assassin was no longer a PC class in 2e, or a huge nation of dragonborn got teleported into FR where Mulhorand used to be because 4e made dragonborn a core PC race.  Maaaaybe the one exception was the rise of the Shadow weave, which was something that WotC was pushing as a heavy setting element (with lots of mechanical support) early in 3e, but it didn't really seem to get much traction and it's largely an afterthought now.</blockquote>