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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9630754" data-attributes="member: 18">[URL unfurl="true"]https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Forgotten_Realms_Wiki:Canon[/URL][MEDIA=reddit]Forgotten_Realms/comments/10vyb1f[/MEDIA]And the man himself:[URL unfurl="true"]https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1260974930814029830[/URL](Sorry for the Twitter link, it is from the Before Times)[ATTACH=full]401800[/ATTACH]Wait here's a screenshot so nobody needs to click unless they want to verify.According to the Reddit thread, Ben Riggs' book Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons discusses it, but says it's not a formal requirement, but rather a courtesy (I haven't read this book myself but others here may have). Certainly is the generalized belief (c.f. the FR wiki, which didn't make that decision at random) and it's something Ed himself and others have referred to before.Of course this somewhat conflicts with Jeremy Crawford's assertion that only material published in 5E books is canon, but that itself is complicated by the fact that it's obviously not true in the sense that 5E's FR generally accounts for previous canon and only occasionally contradicts it. I think that's more about different uses of the word canon though.If nothing else, the FR wiki is usually regarded as fairly authoritative on FR stuff (and does edit to reflect changes, usually fairly rapidly), and it shares the "Ed's work is canon until contradicted"</blockquote>