@TheEdVerse Heyo, I'm planning on doing a FR 5e DnD campaign and focusing it in The Shining Lands/Golden Ocean, but in -23,040 DR. Is there any major things of note to know about that area/The Eastern Shaar for such a DR date?
— Rsmv (@rsmv2you) December 29, 2021
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Sure. Far more precipitation in the local weather at that time, so abundant scrub forests and swamps as well as grasslands. Many small roaming loxo, centaur, and wemic tribes (roaming to follow and feed on the HUGE wild herds… 2)
…of various cloven-hoofed edible critters). Small “vestpocket” countries (like the many small Border Kingdoms of today) galore, most being conglomerations of mixed beasts that humans would deem “monsters” (later, these…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021
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…coalesced into Veldorn, and today are the Beastlands, but at the time, rakshasa were just beginning to show up and become rulers here, often called “satraps”). The adventurers and explorers in the area are halflings, faring… 4)
…forth from Luiren. Gold dwarves inhabit the Great Rift. Beholders and illithids are only legends in these lands, as they’re almost never seen on the surface, thanks to the dragons who lair to the east persistently and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021
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…ruthlessly hunting them down. Dambrath doesn’t exist yet, but many of what would become its ports do, as tiny “monster-inhabited” fishing villages. Elves are rare. Wild horses are experiencing a population explosion.
There are… 6)
…several small leucrotta kingdoms, which would later annihilate each other in bitter feuds. And certain powerful human archwizards are seeking isolated valleys in which to build towers to live and experiment with magic in.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 29, 2021