Forgotten Realms LORE! Earth and Toril are LINKED... (Lore video)

[@HarbsNarbs]

I pronounced Imaskari like Imaskri... Apologies!

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Please be careful - they might find a portal to Earth & avenge that insulting pronunciation of their name. :P

[@kingmasterlord]

so since canonically Earth is basically one big antimagic field, we could all be naturally gifted in magic but never know it. imagine a race of archmages but everyone's MP is stuck at 0, to mix metaphors a bit.

[@Nyrufa]

In other words, it is canonically possible to get Isekaied into the Forgotten Realms!

[@TheoZaHero]

Or, from what I’ve seen, to Dragonlance, or Greyhawk, or...

[@sven3428]

The mention of Earth as a location visited by many of the characters of D&D is something that has always fascinated me. Thanks for the video! P.S: There is mention by Tasha (Iggwilv) in the newest sourcebook "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything" of a distinctly Earth cuisine (a particular kind of Sushi, If I recall correctly); implying that she, among others has also visited our world at some point. This is also hinted at in an interview with one of the Writer's who states it is more than likely Baba Yaga (whom Tasha was raised by) had access to portals to Earth, and that Tasha may actually BE an Earthling. WoTC may be pushing to make the Planescape ideology/setting more prominent within the modern version of the Franchise.

[@HarbsNarbs]

Thanks for the info on Tasha! I missed that bit in the Cauldron of Everything :)

[@sven3428]

@@HarbsNarbs I was looking for the page reference earlier and couldn't find it. It's on page 72. I love the delving into lore and tie-ins to Baldur's Gate 3 you have been highlighting recently. Thanks for your work!

[@havokmusicinc]

Good ole Spelljammer. There are so many nods to it in 5e that I wish we would get a modern supplement for it, but I don't think they'd do the weirdness of Spelljammer justice.

[@HarbsNarbs]

I'd love a modern adaptation of it... that or Dark Sun

[@cadman02]

Good news

[@ademile_0973]

So the DnD multiverse has a universe in the material plane that is our universe. But because is so big we cannot reach the end of it and so we cannot escape our universe, but the people that use magic can move because they used it to travel by the portals and reach other worlds. Yes, now it's very very rare XD

[@zachbahamutson5477]

That's not even the main problem Thomas just getting to the crystal sphere that contains our universe it's difficult in and of itself because of how the currents of the Ethereal sea quite literally push everything away from it.

[@KingOfMadCows]

It's always fun when the real world exists in a fantasy universe. Our world also exists in the Witcher, Pathfinder, Castlevania, both the DC and Marvel multiuniverses.

[@AdaramKalantas]

Nice job Harbs! This was especially cool with the tie in to Ed Greenwood's office and "german beer"!!

[@midas6753]

This is the content I'm here for!

[@HarbsNarbs]

Glad to have you around, Mid as!

[@jameschristophercirujano6650]

I'm actually proud that me binging on the wiki know that it has to do with the Imaskar slaves from Egypt and Mesopotamia when I saw the thumbnail.

[@TheMomus]

Pretty sure Hoar survived into 5e (at least he was an exarch of Bane in 4e and I don't recall reading anything of him dying) and Gilgeam survived past the Orcgate Wars but was killed by Tiamat during the Time of Troubles.

[@moonringXD]

Enjoy your break! And excellent video as always!

[@ravenRedwake]

Why isn’t Toril more developed? The tech level (besides magic and all) seems to be Middle Ages European, if not late Middle Ages. But there’s vast swaths of wilderness between what seems like middling settlements nevermind cities.

[@TechnicalTactician]

Because everyone dumps intelligence

[@kingmasterlord]

corruption, deliberate malice, outside influence, same as here.

[@elmeromogollon]

So I can play call of cthulhu using 5e, I just transport the players to earth xD

[@ben5056]

Lol at the origin of “les renards de Toril”

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Oh.... So when we say "Reynard the Fox", we are talking like clueless berks! :D

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Ah... so the rumours about the D&D cartoon are true! It WAS based on a true story! :D

[@Drummermean2]

I was waiting for the part on foxes. For what it's worth, Ed isn't right here. Foxes have appeared in sources since way before the 1st century DR, such as in Netheril.

[@HarbsNarbs]

I guess that's what happens when you lose control of your own world

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Maybe they entered Toril from Earth before then. ;)

[@Drummermean2]

@@SimonAshworthWood That is absolutely possible, but the statement Ed made was that a halfling trader brought them to Toril from Earth in the 1st century DR.

[@yiasemi]

Foxy video! Have a nice week.

[@HarbsNarbs]

Cheers, Yiasemi :)