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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2993968" data-attributes="member: 35678">Okay, well Faerun-lore states in the FRCS: "Among humans the first monastic orders native to Faerun appear to have arisen in Amn and Calimsham simutaneously with some orders immigrating from other worlds and the eastern lands of Kara-Tur."Calishites are descendants from the continent named Zakhara, the Land of Fate. They are essentually arabs, to make a real-world analogy. Makes more sense for monks to come from there.Amn is composed of approximately 30% Calishite heritage, and 65% Tethyrian and 4% Chondathan. The Tethyrian ethnic group, from RoF: "The Sword Coast has long been home to native human tribes who intermingled with wave upon wave of immigrants, whether they arrived as conquerers or refugees. In recent centuries, these disparete groups have graually coalesced into a relatively new ethnic group known as Tethyrians, occupying a vast territory strectching from Calimshan to Silverymoon and form the Sea of Swords to the Sea of Fallen Stars. Going onward... "Tethyrian culture is a melting pot of Calishite, Chondathan, Illuskan, and Low Netherese." So, given that, Amn, composed of Tethyrians, Calishites and Chondathans, a long time ago had many Calishites and, to a lesser degree, Chondathans living there. Since Tethyr is a newer ethnic group and "planet-hopping" was at it's hayday a long time ago in the realms (in deed, the Calim empire was formed in -7800 DR, over 8000 years from the year today in the realms by two djinn who brought thousands of slves from Zakhara), we can assert that the first monastic orders formed long before the Tethyrian ethnic group was even formed, thus having MANY more pure-blooded Calishites living in what is now Amn. What this means is that was happened in Calimshan happened in Amn, which means that Monasteries were formed from groups who came from far-away lands.This is not to mention the "immigrants from other worlds" (namely, earth, it seems and likely Shaolin Monks, since they appear to have so many similarities) and Kara-Tur which is the Utter East, the Orient, the Asia of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.So, as you can well see, monks are from Faraway Lands, at least in FR.</blockquote>

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