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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7159547" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Part of the mystique of Dark Sun is - nobody knows the true history of the world (and the handful of people who do, aren't telling their shameful secrets).  "History" on Athas is cyclical, not the linear we know from IRL and most other D&D settings.  Things happen in our world that show people trying to accomplish goals.  In contrast, on Athas, everything has been the same since forever and nobody should expect anything different ... until yesterday when a Gleam of Hope struck the world.  But that might just be a bump on the wheel of time, not a real tangent line.Plus, there have been plenty or Realms-Shaking Events already and a very vocal subset of fans (large? small? I don't know) have hated that fact.  I would not try to open that can of worms, or force it into FR.Also consider that in FR, forces of Evil are (mostly) contained and balanced by forces of Good.  On Athas, Evil has almost completely won - 99% of the way to obliterating even the memory that Good existed.  The Gleam of Light that just occurred made the world 100% more hopeful than it used to be, but that only means that Evil today is 98% of the way to permanent total victory.  The PCs get to try to make that 97%, or join (deliberately or as a puppet) the Evil forces trying to reclaim that lost ground.</blockquote>