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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8759927" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I had a pretty easy time writing up a Realms that moved forward from 4e, but then again I’m the sort who likes the “no deep dives” take on worldbuilding wizards is using in 5e. YMMV.In my future FR, Netheril hasn’t fallen but the Shadovar have, and are now a hidden cult lurking throughout Faerun seeking to end the world they could not rule. Netheril was taken over by different factions and forged a sort of federation of kingdoms with each Netherese city state, some of the Dales, and different tribal groups of Bedine and other groups assimilated by the Shadovar. I simply retconned the whole idea of the Bedine just going “we are Netherese now, our old culture is just gone. Moving on.” To instead be that they were told to assimilate by the Shadovar and had little choice, and now some have returned to the steppe that was once a magical desert to live as close to how thier ancestors did as they can manage, allowing me to rebuild that culture with less racism. Meanwhile, other Bedine have adapted to more urban or agricultural life and embraced magic. It annoys many of them that their style of coffee, brewed super-fine ground in an ibrik in heated sand, is often called Netherese Kaffe outside of the region, but the trade in exporting it is very lucrative. In a call back to old Netheril, I have the Netherese Federation specializing in a kinda new kinda old way of making magic items. Basically a person might have several “magic items” that are actually just focuses for the power-stone or mithaline that is a proper magic item. The lesser items don’t function without the mithaline, and the mithaline is powered passively by the wearer. The city of Shade was not yeeted into Myth Drannor, and both cities still survive. Relationships between the Federation, the former Netherese vassal state of Sembia, and the states who held Netheril at bay for over a century, are still tense, but the death of the entire Telemont family line (as far as anyone knows), and the entirely new government of Netheril in the present day, has softened the situation from a war footing to cautious diplomacy and trade. Just as an example.</blockquote>

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