At any rate, I think the fey fit in because of the fey crossroads that run through Toril and connect it to Faerie. In FR5 it was somewhat surmised that the dragons might have been tampered with by the reptilian creator race, so it gets muddled. I would also ditch dragons, because their histories are a bit of a mystery in Faerun, though at one time they ruled the continent. Later humans, dragons, and fey were added. The original creator races that were mentioned in FR5 were the reptilian, the avian, and the amphibious. Ao, I have surmised, was content to leave "evolution" to its course until intelligent creatures came about, at which point he would let his spiritual "daughters" start to influence them.īefore that could happen, the creator races came to Toril from other realities. Chauntea arose as the goddess that embodies Toril, Shar developed as darkness, and Selune as light, and Mystryl was the conflict between the two. Ao drew Toril out of chaos and set what we would call the physics of the plane in motion. Since then, Ao was introduced, and we got a bit more info on the gods and their origins, so I basically picture it like this. Originally I read it as the gods had created Toril, but before they could follow through with their original plans, the creator races showed up and stared doing experiments, introducing new races, etc. The way I have pictured it, pretty much from FR5 Savage Frontier when they first mentioned the Creator Races, is that they were interlopers to Toril. So mostly this long post is for the FOR fans/players to get their thoughts on the Creator Races and how everything ancient is becoming new again in the Realms. I could go into the history of the Primians but that’s not the purpose of this post and this post is too long anyway so I’ll just finish by saying in my home brew Forgotten Realms campaign (that I have been building/rebuilding from 2nd to 3rd Ed., tinkering on and off with since 2001), the core of the campaign is the premise that there is a hidden, unbroken bloodline of Primian-Humanity that has existed for over 40,000, dedicated to the worship of the Sun, Moon and Nature and as the fallout of the Time of Troubles continue (ancient secrets awakening) the Primian dynasties must also reveal themselves. I do not see the Fey as a progenitor race as they are not “natural” (Darwin’s theory) but are usually accepted in RPGs as living embodiments of either nature or life.every D&D world has a fey population to a certain extent, depending on it’s youth and level of civilization. I also maintain that what was to become humanity also had its own time in the Days of Thunder, a race I termed the Primians (human). The has planet existed for millions of years and numerous species have naturally (Darwin’s theory) evolved into sentience.the most successful species being the orders (as in scientific orders) of the Sarrukh (reptile), the Batrachi (amphibian), the Aearee (bird) species, some of the Progenitor Races. The Creator Races are the true, native sentient species evolved on the planet of Aber-Toril. Now, here is the way I see it, mostly using basic scientific theory and some general train of thought (Don’t you hate it when new canon infringes on your years-long home-brew? *l*) Humanity is also a “Creator Race” but was not much more than Neanderthals during that time and only in the present history (in the Realms) have humans reached world-spanning potential. In earlier Realms canon the Dragons were a Creator Race but that appears to have been changed. In the Days of Thunder there were a number of consecutive world-spanning empires of the “Creator Races” the first and greatest sentient races in the Realms (that created or de-evolved into many of the primitive humanoids and monsters in the modern age): The Sarrukh, The Batrachi, The Aearee, and The Fey. In the last couple of years, with the Lost Empires of Faerun sourcebook and the Serpents Kingdoms sourcebook there has been a whole lot of revelation about the first age in the Realms, the “Days of Thunder”, the “prehistoric” age of Toril over -20,000 years before the present year in the Realms. Hi, here is a Forgotten Realms question/post for those interested
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