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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6167209" data-attributes="member: 7006">Out of my own curiosity I went back and watched the author panels from the 2012 GenCon on The Sundering event... what the first six novels were going to do, and how the event would play out in the FR timeline and in the D&amp;DNext game itself.&nbsp; If you haven't watched it, it'll answer a lot of questions.First... The Sundering isn't a true &quot;reboot&quot; or &quot;remake&quot;... because the setting is not going back in time.&nbsp; The timeline is advancing just as it always has.&nbsp; So it is still post-hundred-year-jump, post-Spellplague.Second... the story is playing directly off of a plotline established in the Times of Trouble novels-- Shadowdale, Tantras &amp; Waterdeep.&nbsp; Towards the end of that series, Ao the overgod destroyed the Tables of Fate... thus allowing the gods to go nuts on Toril (and apparently the primordials similarly to go nuts on Abeir).&nbsp; As James Wyatt and the other authors talk about it in the video... this &quot;Third Sundering&quot; (there have been three according to canon) is Lord Ao bringing to an end these 150 years (approx.) of rampart deity nuttiness (called The Era of Upheaval)... recreating the Tablets of Fate, and bringing all the gods (on Toril) and primordials (on Abeir) back under the strictures of their portfolios and shunting them back to their divine realms to stop them from screwing around on the planet so much anymore.&nbsp; And thus... the Forgotten Realms will now be more about the peoples of the Realms and much less about the gods flittering about.Now yes... you could say that parts of the Realms are like a &quot;reboot&quot; in that now that Ao is basically cleaning up the mess from the Era of Upheaval that began with the Avatar Crisis.&nbsp; So a lot of what occurred during these 150 years will be wiped up... the Spellplague fixed, dead gods brought back, current gods who had ascended being dropped back down, the parts of Abeir that showed up from the Spellplague merge getting sent back etc.&nbsp; But none of it is being erased from &quot;history&quot; as far as I can tell.&nbsp; Ao isn't going to wipe the memories of every single god and creature to make them forget what has happened these last 150 years.&nbsp; Historians will still know that the first Mystara died during the Avatar Crisis, Midnight ascended to become Mystara, Cyric then killed Midnight/Mystara to being the Spellplague... even though the original Mystara now returns to her place as the holder of the arcane magic portfolio post-Sundering.&quot;Soft reboot&quot; is perhaps what you can call it.&nbsp; But time in the Realms is moving forward, and we are now in a new era of mortals holding their own destiny, rather than just as playthings of the gods.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6167209, member: 7006"] Out of my own curiosity I went back and watched the author panels from the 2012 GenCon on The Sundering event... what the first six novels were going to do, and how the event would play out in the FR timeline and in the D&DNext game itself. If you haven't watched it, it'll answer a lot of questions. First... The Sundering isn't a true "reboot" or "remake"... because the setting [I]is not[/I] going back in time. The timeline is advancing just as it always has. So it is still post-hundred-year-jump, post-Spellplague. Second... the story is playing directly off of a plotline established in the Times of Trouble novels-- Shadowdale, Tantras & Waterdeep. Towards the end of that series, Ao the overgod destroyed the Tables of Fate... thus allowing the gods to go nuts on Toril (and apparently the primordials similarly to go nuts on Abeir). As James Wyatt and the other authors talk about it in the video... this "Third Sundering" (there have been three according to canon) is Lord Ao bringing to an end these 150 years (approx.) of rampart deity nuttiness (called The Era of Upheaval)... recreating the Tablets of Fate, and bringing all the gods (on Toril) and primordials (on Abeir) back under the strictures of their portfolios and shunting them back to their divine realms to stop them from screwing around on the planet so much anymore. And thus... the Forgotten Realms will now be more about the peoples of the Realms and much less about the gods flittering about. Now yes... you could say that parts of the Realms are like a "reboot" in that now that Ao is basically cleaning up the mess from the Era of Upheaval that began with the Avatar Crisis. So a lot of what occurred during these 150 years will be wiped up... the Spellplague fixed, dead gods brought back, current gods who had ascended being dropped back down, the parts of Abeir that showed up from the Spellplague merge getting sent back etc. But none of it is being erased from "history" as far as I can tell. Ao isn't going to wipe the memories of every single god and creature to make them forget what has happened these last 150 years. Historians will still know that the first Mystara died during the Avatar Crisis, Midnight ascended to become Mystara, Cyric then killed Midnight/Mystara to being the Spellplague... even though the original Mystara now returns to her place as the holder of the arcane magic portfolio post-Sundering. "Soft reboot" is perhaps what you can call it. But time in the Realms is moving forward, and we are now in a new era of mortals holding their own destiny, rather than just as playthings of the gods. [/QUOTE]

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