Question @TheEdVerse , looks like Mulhorand is back after spellplague in 5e. Does that mean the country is no longer destroyed? Did the inhabitants come back to life? Did just the land became uncorrupted? Are the cities back restored and are just empty now? #frlore
— Artie Pavlov 🥀 (@Artie_Pavlov) February 17, 2020
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As related in the (4e) Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, Mulhorand (which had conquered Unther six years earlier) was destroyed in the Spellplague: the landscape torn and much altered, the cities ruined in the process, and many… 2)
…of the Mulhorandi killed or transported to Abeir. Hungry monsters roamed shattered Mulhorand, devouring humans, so the few survivors fled (mainly to Chessenta).
The Deep Imaskari wizard Ususi Manaallin promptly founded…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
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…High Imaskar in what had been Mulhorand, resettling it with the folk of Deep Imaskar.
But as the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide tells us, at the Second Sundering, when the gods of Faerûn selected Chosen to enact their wills 4)
…several mortal descendants of the Mulhorandi gods were possessed by their divine ancestors to wage war against the Imaskari. With the help of Nezram the World-Walker, they defeated the Imaskari and drove them east into the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
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…Plains of Purple Dust—and then began the long process of rebuilding Mulhorand.
So in the decade since the Imaskari were driven into the desert, the Mulhorandi have tilled the land and struggled to restore its irrigation, 6)
…replant its orchards, and rebuild its roads and bridges.
Very few new buildings have been erected, though many of the Imaskari villas have been repaired and new walls (mainly to keep in sheep and goats) built around them.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
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There’s almost no central government, with priests relaying guidance from the gods after praying for visions at altars, and hired adventurers and armed Mulhorandi keeping the peace in between working the land and fighting off)
…marauding monsters and Imaskari raids from the desert.
The cities still lie in ruins (some inhabited by a hardy few, though opportunistic monsters also dwell there) and tales of buried treasure under the fallen buildings are… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
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…many—but most folk are too busy staying alive to indulge. Treasure-seekers coming east from Chessenta are increasingly resented, unless they pay local inhabitants with oxen or edible beasts or tools and weapons and food 10)
In short, Mulhorand is a land ripe for adventuring.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
This is great, thank you. What about the gods and the avatars that ruled the country? Gone? Or back in 5e? The Mulhorandi pantheon of gods has returned, but are distant (that is, no avatars striding around, no direct rule, but answering priests with above-altar visions). Their pride seems have taken a collective beating.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020