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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8588428" data-attributes="member: 10148">Right, and that's why long-running continuities are fond of doing retcons - rationalizing or outright invalidating specific parts of canon, while proceeding from the assumption that everything else is still "true."To be fair, by the official 5E canon guidelines, only the current printing of the core rulebooks is confirmed to be canon for 5E. Taken at their word, this means that every 5E book - from Hoard of the Dragon Queen through Call of the Netherdeep, and including MOTM - could be interpreted to take place in a different canon that only includes itself and the core rulebooks - unless they specifically say otherwise. Which would essentially be what you describe here.Of course, this gets weird when you realize the core rulebooks demonstrate a view of 5E's canon that's more inclusive of prior continuities than the current, official stance. For example, the 5E DMG's comment that Realms canon includes novels and video games. So only the core is definitely canon, but the core also says it's not the only source of canon, and strongly implies that the setting lore from older editions can be referenced as they were in the past. (Of course, I expect this to change in the 2024 revision.)</blockquote>