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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Compton" data-source="post: 3805267" data-attributes="member: 24898">Comments made in developer updates indicate that Drow will be a race detailed in the PHB.  With that, though, will Elistraee become part of the main pantheon, or will she still be unique to FR?  As for the novels issue, I agree that people who don't follow all the novels tend to get lost when it comes to updates in game supplements, unless changes are detailed (the Silence of Lolth has gotten some good description in the Player's Guide and Grand History, but a lot of other things, I couldn't tell you where they came from).  You'd think, though, much as they did with Azoun's death, that if WotC was going to release a novel involving the death of one of the biggest characters in the Realms, they'd have made a little more hay about it.It was a lot easier in the past to follow the novels because there weren't that many authors to follow, and you usually knew what you liked.  Ed wrote about Elminster, the Seven Sisters, and the Dales; Elaine Cunningham did Danilo Thann, Elaith Craulnober, and Arilyn Moonblade; and R.A. did Drizzt and crew.  There were the Harper novels, the Moonshae novels, and the Alias novels, and if you liked them, great, but they didn't drastically affect the Relams (other than elevating Finder Wyvernspur to god-status).  I don't know when that changed- maybe around the time of the "Threat from the Sea" series- but at some point I stopped trying to read every Realms book I could get my hands on and instead focused on the few authors I liked.  Hence, I've missed a lot of details.  Oh well.</blockquote>

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