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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8558715" data-attributes="member: 2209">Here is where I asked where you got these numbers. Someone else pointed out Shining South in 3e for Halruaa numbers, but I was looking and have not found anything in Thay specifically or FR in general or D&D in general (which is the thread topic).Your response was:Fine so I grabbed the first published module PDF I could look up. H1 was an official module with a settlement.So not "every published module." Fine.Red Hand of Doom is not in an official setting but it is a 3.5 official D&D published module.Fine so another shift. Not 3e modules but just FR ones. Which led to Wheloon in Cormyr Tearing of the Weave.So the wiki looks like it tries to log everyone who has ever been an inhabitant of Wheloon. This is as one might expect, but FR covers a lot of time with different changes over time.Going deeper, the 16th level cleric <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Roond_Asmyrk" target="_blank">Roond Asmyrk</a> is listed as having been a tavern owner there in two 2e products. The implication of him not being listed in the important Wheloon NPCs in the later 3.5 product is that he is not there later in the advanced 3.5 timeline. In any case he is not in the published module. He could be alive 100 years later in the 5e setting, but as a human and with the intervening spellplague I would not assume so.Populations and prevalence of casters and their power level varies over time and area in the Forgotten Realms and from product to product.For instance also from your list of Wheloon NPCs, <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Albhaera_Haerldoun" target="_blank">Albhaera Haerldoun</a> is listed in some products as a fighter, and in some products as a wizard.Notes There is another discrepancy in that Waterdeep describes and stats Albhaera as a fighter, while <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Cormyr:_The_Tearing_of_the_Weave" target="_blank">Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave</a> stats her as a wizard, perhaps in error.</blockquote>

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