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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7052216" data-attributes="member: 6704184">The world got rekt by a magical storm called the Spellplague, as a result of Mystra dying on her home plane, with no one to take her place and no backup plan, which caused magic to explode. Anyway, 100 years passed, the Realms recovered, things were different (mostly better IMO, but others vehemently disagree), Netheril came back and established a new seat of power, and entered a sort of Cold War with Cormyr and her allies, and a ton of other stuff. IMO, the 4e Realms is vastly better setting, but enough people lost their minds over the changes that for 5e, they brought in the "Sundering", rekt the Realms again, but this time every dumb change just "happened" to revert things back to the status quo before 4e. For example, 4e had "earth motes", which were floating islands in the sky, and they all fell down or disappeared in the sunderererering. Another example: Netheril's floating cities got blown up, one conveniently crashing into Myth Drannor so that it could go back to being dangerous ruins, the desert magically went back to desert, and the Netherese scattered and just basically overnight stopped being a political entity of any kind.Oh! and most of the Dragonborn and Genasi that were more populated in 4e disappeared. (there isn't even an emoji for this.) And the Dragonborn that are left? Well, Unther came back (yeah, it was gone) and is now zealously dedicated to eradicating the Dragonborn of Tymanther, which is a nation that used to exist where Unther used to be, who believed that their coming to Toril had destroyed Unther, and thus named their new nation in honor of Unther, and their old homeland of Tymanchebar. A sliver of Tymanther is still around, so...thanks devs for that, I guess? (nope.) Only, this sliver is in constant threat of invasion from Unther, because the Unther..ians? want to wipe them out and take back what is "theirs". But at least Helm and Mask are back, amirite? OK seriously, I am glad they're back. In my home Realms game they are now reluctant allies, because they came back in a series of events that didn't erase years of canon while insisting that it isn't a retcon, and the circumstances of those events pitted them and their followers against common enemies, on Abier, on Toril, and in the Mirror Planes. Also, they both gained Draconic/dragonborn aspects in the process, and Abierians may have started worshipping them, which may or may not threaten the return of the  to that world.</blockquote>

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