D&D General Species of Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

[Henadic Theologian]

So far I noticed that Changelings origin changed from Doppelganger descends to the Feywild which is a retcon for both Eberron especially, but FR as well.

 

[GarrettKP]

So far I noticed that Changelings origin changed from Doppelganger descends to the Feywild which is a retcon for both Eberron especially, but FR as well.

This was retconned years ago, as it’s how the Changeling was presented in Monsters of the Multiverse.

 

[Gradine]

Kind of hard to call anything a retcon when it comes to Eberron because so much of what we know about the setting is often filtered through education guesses and unreliable narration. Like the "Changelings descend from Doppelgangers" thing I'm pretty sure was always just "we all kind of think this is true, and it makes sense, so let's go with that". Same with the link between Shifters and Lycanthropes. It's all supposition and rumor.

Honestly I take much bigger issue about there being a "Feywild" at all but if we're going to pretend that some people just call Thelanis that I guess that ship has already sailed.

 

[eclair~]

This was retconned years ago, as it’s how the Changeling was presented in Monsters of the Multiverse.

Monsters of the Multiverse presented a "general" idea of the species included, that did not necessarily apply to settings with pre-existing lore to them like Eberron.

It's just making everything as independent of the setting as possible so they can sell options to players to use in whatever other setting they want.

 

[Scribe]

This was retconned years ago, as it’s how the Changeling was presented in Monsters of the Multiverse.

MoM itself being a general downgrade in regards to specificity and detail.