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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6354022" data-attributes="member: 19857">Haven't read the novels yet (went off game fiction for a while and have been slowly coming back to it), but the transition from 3rd to 4th involved a massive cataclysm called the Spellplague where the Weave was corrupted/altered/messed up somehow when Mystra was assassinated by Cyric.  For some reason that I think the Sundering novels explain (maybe?) this caused the continent (world?) of Abeir that had been separated from Abeir-Toril in the distant past to come back to the west of Faerun (big old continent ruled by dragons - I think it might also be where Dragonborn were from but I'm unsure on that one).  It also caused pockets of the world of Aebir to replace areas of Faerun and caused a massive cataclysm that did a whole bunch of stuff to the geography of the continent and screwed up the politics so that Faerun would be (more of) a points of light setting.  And they advanced the timeline by a century.  I'm not a huge Realms junkie, but that's my overall picture of what happened (Realms junkies - please correct where this is off base, 'cause I'd like to know too).My understanding of the Sundering is that it's a big ole reset button on the 4e changes in the sense that Abeir goes back where it was before.  Beyond that I would also like to hear from someone who's read the books (and how much of a Realms fan you have to be to make them worth reading).</blockquote>