What happened to Izmir?

[hopeless]

What happened to Izmir?

In the first dungeons and dragons movie, Izmir was a massive metropolis that resembled Sharn from Eberron to a small degree (in that Sharn would make Izmir look "small").

Then when they made the sequel movie set a century later Izmir had now shrunk to the size of maybe a small city... so what happened?

Is there another Izmer a metropolis abandoned for some reason, just waiting to be explored, or has the Blackmoor setting released something to clear this up?

 

[Nifft]

Today it is merely "old history... by the sea".

Cheers, -- N

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think they were just distancing themselves from the original movie somewhat, which is a shame, since the now-vanished D&D movie setting articles at the WotC site were pretty nice. I imagine the never-released setting book has had its electrons shredded as well.

 

[teitan]

What happened to Izmir?

In the first dungeons and dragons movie, Izmir was a massive metropolis that resembled Sharn from Eberron to a small degree (in that Sharn would make Izmir look "small").

Then when they made the sequel movie set a century later Izmir had now shrunk to the size of maybe a small city... so what happened?

Is there another Izmer a metropolis abandoned for some reason, just waiting to be explored, or has the Blackmoor setting released something to clear this up?

What does Blackmoor have to do with it?

 

[Henry]

The movie was made by two different directors and writers, hence the disconnect. I don't think anyone released any explanation, but there are as half-dozen possible explanations one could make up to explain it (you just did the most obvious one above!)

 

[WayneLigon]

Probably no reason beyond 'we need a way to tie this totally re-done movie to the first one for some obscure continuity (or contractual) reason, so we'll just use a few names and a character from it'.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Maybe they wanted to pretend that the first movie never happened? I know most of the D&D community would gladly do this

 

[Cthulhudrew]

I think they were just distancing themselves from the original movie somewhat, which is a shame, since the now-vanished D&D movie setting articles at the WotC site were pretty nice. I imagine the never-released setting book has had its electrons shredded as well.

They're still there, you just have to dig around a bit:

Journey Through Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie

Society of Sumdall

Some random Movie links

I know there was a thread either here at ENWorld or else on the Mystara board at WotC that posted some more links to those articles as well.

 

[Mark CMG]

What happened to Izmir?

Izmer, iz lezz.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They're still there, you just have to dig around a bit:

Journey Through Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie

Society of Sumdall

Some random Movie links

I know there was a thread either here at ENWorld or else on the Mystara board at WotC that posted some more links to those articles as well.

You rock, thanks.

I wish they'd just go ahead and release the setting book as a free PDF on their site, if they're never going to sell it.