D&D 5E Mike Mearls did an interview for Escapist Magazine and reveals PHB classes, races, and much more

interview transcript said:
MM: ...PHB covers a bunch of pantheons. "War" matches to X, Y.

RT: PHB is pan-campaign setting. Constant references to Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, etc. Embraces multiverse, all campaign settings, ours and yours.

Soooo...not really an issue after all.

I mean what issue? There was no issue. No issue at all.
 

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If I recall her entry from Demihuman Deities correctly, she used to be banished from Realmspace - for several centuries - in the past (I think due to the actions of the Untheric pantheon in general, and Gilgeam in particular), but her name was kept in the minds of the Untheric people by Gilgeam's clergy still blaming her as the source of the peoples' problems. Ironically, this eventually led to a cult in her name that managed to restore her connection to Realmspace shortly before the earliest campaign setting.

During the Time of Troubles, she was initially defeated by Gilgeam, and she was temporarily banished from the realms, but she attacked him on the Outer Planes - where he'd just dropped from being an intermediate power to a demipower due to Ao's new rule about how divine rank was calculated - and slew him. At that time, the events of H4 Throne of Bloodstone happened, and she was briefly reduced to being a demigod herself, meaning that she had to wait a year to send a new avatar to consolidate power on her behalf.

...none of which explains the retcon of "current" banishment.

So Wolfgang Baur was asked about the issue of Tiamat being 'imprisoned' in the 9 Hells in 'Tyranny of Dragons' when that would seem to be either a retcon or a continuity error.

Wolfgang Baur said:
"Ah, but the canon we were given by Wizards of the Coast was that she is imprisoned. It was the premise provided by Wizards, and Kobold Press really isn’t in a position to dictate canon to the Wizards team."
 

So Wolfgang Baur was asked about the issue of Tiamat being 'imprisoned' in the 9 Hells in 'Tyranny of Dragons' when that would seem to be either a retcon or a continuity error.

Well...that's unsatisfying, but unsurprising.

Still, thanks for posting that Shemmy.
 

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