@TheEdVerse Looking up lore for Firenewts and a few of us have started disagreeing. Are they what lizardfolk came from, or were lizardfolk created by sarrukh? @vorpaldicepress, if I'm wrong I owe you an apology for being stubborn and maybe a coke.
— Bryan Holmes 💙❤️🖤 (@FallenWyvern) September 4, 2019
1)
See the Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn (published in 2001): firenewts evolved from lizardfolk.
As for where lizardfolk came from, see Races of Faerûn (2003). They have an ancient culture but no written history, and 2)
…believe they’ve dwelt in the swamps “since the beginning” and that all civilized races have evolved from weaklings among lizardfolk who could not endure the harsh swamp life and so left the swamps (and so, remain “weaklings”…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2019
3)
…and lesser than lizardfolk).
Most sages, including Elminster and the elf historians of Myth Drannor at its height, believe lizardfolk were an early offshoot of the sarrukh, and were flourishing in the swamps before elves, 4)
…dwarves, giants, and halflings first came to Toril.
Hope this is of help. As sages are all too fond of saying, “Much truth is lost in the mists of time.”#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 4, 2019
