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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8593443" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Actually, Wyatt's work in Fizban's has some very theologically and philosophically sophisticated work with the &quot;First World&quot; myth. For example, he explains how four sample worlds may relate to the &quot;First World&quot; in different ways (Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Eberron). For the Forgotten Realms,&nbsp; he writes (p. 6):&quot;The most comprehensive histories suggest Toril (the world of the Forgotten Realms setting) has not always known dragons, at least not in their current forms. Many scholars theorize that Toril's dragons evolved from some reptilian ancestor. And though it's possible to reqd these theories as contradicting the story of &quot;Elegy of the First Wold,&quot; it's also possible to imagine that the newly formed Toril, fragmented from the First World, retained a hazy memory of the full ideal of dragon kind, which then took thousands of years to manifest. Certainly, the dragons of Toril cleave closely to the draconic archetypes described in the Monster Manual, and although Bahumut and Tiamay have sometimes been known by other names on that world (such as Xymor and Tchazzar), they have always had a part to play in the world's divine drama.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 8593443, member: 6780330"] Actually, Wyatt's work in Fizban's has some very theologically and philosophically sophisticated work with the "First World" myth. For example, he explains how four sample worlds may relate to the "First World" in different ways (Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Eberron). For the Forgotten Realms, he writes (p. 6): "The most comprehensive histories suggest Toril (the world of the Forgotten Realms setting) has not always known dragons, at least not in their current forms. Many scholars theorize that Toril's dragons evolved from some reptilian ancestor. And though it's possible to reqd these theories as contradicting the story of "Elegy of the First Wold," it's also possible to imagine that the newly formed Toril, fragmented from the First World, retained a hazy memory of the full ideal of dragon kind, which then took thousands of years to manifest. Certainly, the dragons of Toril cleave closely to the draconic archetypes described in the Monster Manual, and although Bahumut and Tiamay have sometimes been known by other names on that world (such as Xymor and Tchazzar), they have always had a part to play in the world's divine drama." [/QUOTE]

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