@TheEdVerse
Hello Ed! Your fan from Latvia here.
I have a few questions about Forgotten Realms for my own story. I took a lot of inspiration from your books and your biography. Sorry for poor grammar.
I want my story to be maximally close to the canon of FR setting— Hiteru (@Geonatrik) April 20, 2019
but in the 5th edition they are just elementals who want to bring inferno to the word.
Which of them are the canonical one? Or do they both exist in the canon? And where do the phoenixes come from? Elysium? Plane of Fire?2) My story takes place in the 1235 Baldurs Gate and thus I found a few problematic points that I can’t figure out. I would be very happy if you can help me to clear them out.
1) Phoenix. There is two different descriptions in 3rd and 5th edition. The first one says they have some planewalk abilities and telepathy,— Hiteru (@Geonatrik) April 20, 2019
the Year of the Black Horde. I would be grateful to receive some specifications about the origin, count and the goal of this horde.
3) The main question of mine is about differences in 3rd and 5th edition canons. Does 5th edition adds to history of Forgotten Realms or does it rewrites it?— Hiteru (@Geonatrik) April 20, 2019
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Okay, here we go:
#1/Both sorts of phoenixes exist in canon, but the non-elemental sort are no longer seen in the Realms, for unknown-to-folk-of-Toril reasons. The elementals come, yes, from the Plane of Fire. 2)
#2/There’s an accurate summary of what history records about the huge orc horde known as the Black Horde here, online: https://t.co/FdIV6Ijo2X
Like most orc hordes, this one arose due to overpopulation (orcs…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2019
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…breed fast) in the mountain caverns of the Sword Coast North; when food grows scarce, the young are sent out to sweep south and raid or conquer, forming a horde and usually “getting as far as they can” before being killed off. #3/According to the original Realms agreement, updates were supposed to add to the history and not rewrite it, but how it’s turned out to work in the real world is that canon is whatever the most recently published source states, so…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2019
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…5th edition does rewrite earlier canon. Which has led to a lot of really fun lorework, notably by Eric L. Boyd and George Krashos, explaining away apparent inconsistencies with additional hitherto-hidden lore.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2019