So, a legit set of questions then. Was the Mulan addition (kidnapped/enslaved from a mythic Earth's ancient Egypt and Sumeria) an original component, and were the Creator Races and Days of Thunder original components?
— PanzerLion 🇨🇦 (@POCGamer) June 29, 2019
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As depicted, none of them were original.
However, in my original Realms, elves and dwarves were losing the dominance fight with humans and orcs because the latter two races could outbreed and swamp them, there WERE creator races but the Realmsfolk of today were……very fuzzy on just who (as was I, though I knew one of them was large sentient reptilian), and I did have the "dragons, giants, and elves have all dominated the Realms before humans" element, and I did have migrations of races from other worlds, and figured…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 29, 2019
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…some migrants would be enslaved. I did NOT have anything close to ancient Egypt or any other Earth culture, but TSR had the existing Desert of Desolation modules to link into the Realms, so hello pyramids.
That was the pattern. This Ed idea/element can, with a …little twisting and surgery, be repurposed to do what we need to do/add/spotlight in the developing D&D game. Which is just fine: that's what a base setting has to do, and what they'd bought FR for.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 29, 2019
I ask because in the strange and convoluted timeline of FR, they just seem odd. The former because it's just such a strange event and doesn't sync well, and the latter because it seems to have been added later.
— PanzerLion 🇨🇦 (@POCGamer) June 29, 2019
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They seem odd to me, too. However, think of the Days of Thunder as an in-house design decision: to keep this setting from being static, we DO have to introduce change (that will have long-term consequences as opposed to just immediate). The old dilemma Stan Lee……and I talked over a time or two: "Peter Parker Never Graduates" because we don't want to change the appeal of this character that's working, BUT.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 29, 2019