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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4025009" data-attributes="member: 14159">The spellplague was a big metagame reason to smash the Realms and remold them to fit 4e because 4e is so different in magic systems and setting/character presumptions that it would not fit well with pre-spellplague Realms, thus things that were in 4e would not be destroyed, just like how places that were popular weren't destroyed because it would hurt sales.  Dragons are an iconic part of D&D, right down to the name of the game, so they aren't going to completely go away.  I'm pretty sure every official D&D setting has had Dragons at least to some degree (even Dark Sun, although Athasian Dragons were extremely rare and definitely not standard Monster Manual dragons)As for the whole "never used the weave" thing, not exactly.  All mortal beings used the Weave (or Shadow Weave) to access magic and without the Weave non-deities would have no ability to access any form of magic (like when Mystryl died stopping Karsus's Folly, shutting off the Weave for several minutes in the process and making the entire world a dead-magic zone), well, until the Spellplague retcon of what the Weave and Mystra's role was at least.</blockquote>