Same as ours. First asked by my players: 1978. By TSR: 1986. By gamers: many times, every year since. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 24, 2018
I searched and couldn’t find it documented anywhere. Neither could @skinnyghost or @Dave_The_Human. (At least up to WDH episode 5.
A pleasure! Think it's stated in the Realmspace Spelljamemr supplement, but it HAS been a while…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 25, 2018
I searched and couldn’t find it documented anywhere. Neither could @skinnyghost or @Dave_The_Human. (At least up to WDH episode 5. A pleasure! Think it's stated in the Realmspace Spelljamemr supplement, but it HAS been a while…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 25, 2018
According to Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 videogame the Forgotten Realms’ sun rises in the East and sets in the West, just like in our world.
The specific reference I am using is an Act 2 mini-puzzle in the Inquisitor’s Chamber, within the Githyanki Crèche in Rosymorn Monastery. Here a pair of statues of Lathander have to be rotated towards the direction of sunset and sunrise, respecitvely, and the solution corresponds to rising in the East, and setting in the West.