hello everybody Jordan here the pH is silent so I've been trying to make this
video for a while and I just keep running into problems so we're gonna
just shoot from the hip I am very interested in Dungeons and Dragons and
specifically I'm interested in the Forgotten Realms Wizards of the coast
has said that they're going to go forward with the Forgotten Realms that
is their campaign setting of choice so since the 90s the Forgotten Realms
and Dungeons & Dragons have kind of gone hand in hand people are writing novels
for them we're making DND video games set in the Forgotten Realms and so I
started thinking like what is the mythology of the Forgotten Realms where
did the realms come from is there history is there just like a general
mythology I mean we have these gods we have all this other stuff you buy any
D&D book and it's come packed with all kinds of information yet is there a
chronological order is there a way to put it all into perspective? Well
surprise there is but it is a rabbit hole of information diving around
Wikipedia sites trying to figure it all out. So for this video I thought I'd put
together a history of the Forgotten Realms and specifically for this video
we're going to start at the beginning which is the creation story. Now Ed
Greenwood has created the Forgotten Realms and it has become the number one
campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons you don't have to necessarily
play your Dungeons & Dragons game and the Forgotten Realms but that's what all
Dungeons & Dragons merchandise is going to be about all of the campaign's that
they put out is going to be set in the Forgotten Realms
so let's start at the very beginning where did the realms come from? Through
the Forgotten Realms wiki and lots of other various sources a lot of
three-point-five material books that i found and and flipped through the very
beginning of the Forgotten Realms is the one giant God above all gods and
his name is Lord Ao and he created the universe. Now the universe at this time
was a timeless thing of nothingness it was
like an empty gray and misty void and eventually this this and that's after he
created it eventually the shadowy essence coalesced to form these twin
deities and they were polar opposites of each other one dark and one light and
the the dark one is named Shar and the light one is named Seluen. Selune and
Shar the goddess of light and the goddess of darkness.
Now Selune and Shar although one is considered good and one is considered
evil they were the only the only gods in town at the moment so they were working
together and they work together to create the heavens so they created the
astral sea and then they also created all of the various planets that orbit
the non-existent Sun and upon creating the planet of Abeir-Toril they also
inadvertently created the goddess Chauntea. Now Chauntea is kind of like Gaea
the the nature the the mother earth the spirit of Abeir-Toril. Chauntea wanted
to seed Abeir-Toril with life like she wanted all of this life but at this
point Abeir-Toril was only lit by the radiance of the deity a Selune and then
it was darkened at night by the deity Shar so there wasn't any heat it was
like starlight during the day the proverbial day and then like pitch
blackness at night. Chauntea begged for warmth that she might nurture life and
living creatures upon Abeir-Toril and this caused the two deities to start
fighting with each other. Their divine conflict created the deities of war
disease murder and death. So them just fighting it out over creating
heat for Chauntea and their differing opinions about where this new world that
they've created is going spawned all of this like nastiness that has been in
part of the Forgotten Realms ever since then. Now defying her sister Selune
reached into the plane of fire and set the largest of the planets to burn and
created the Sun. Now this is where I'm confused because Lord Ao created the
universe but it must be the prime material plane
where Selune and Sharr were creating all of this stuff like that's that's where
they existed yet these other realms already were in existence or or when
lord Ao created the universe those were also created and so maybe you the the
YouTube video watcher can leave me a comment and say hey nerd you got it
wrong it's actually like this so Selune reached into the plane of fire and set
the largest planets burning which created the Sun now Shar attacked and
she tried to smother the flames but Selune tore the divine essence of magic
from her body and hurled it at her sister. Now the divine essence of magic
that saloon ripped out also tore through Shar's body and with it came the same
magical energy now this energy formed Mystryl the deity of magic and composed
now Mystral was composed of both light and dark but she favored Selune and so
she allied herself with Selune and all of a sudden Shar was outmatched and she
fled into the void vowing revenge against them both. Now Mystrl was the
being of pure magic and her birth also created the weave in the Forgotten
Realms magic and the weave are kind of synonymous and it's how how any creature
that is not a deity creates magic they they tap into the weave they they
manipulate it in a way that they're able to do some kind of cool magical effect
now with the warmth of the Sun life soo soon sprung up on Abeir-Toril in
abundance but it was contested by the primordial 's the primordials are
another thing where I was confused about there they kind of are they've always
existed or they existed in these various planes like the plane of fire or the
plane of Earth or the plane of air and now that we have this prime material
plane they're coming to it too they want to own it they want to like manage it
and basically you it's it's primordial versus God at this point and the
primordial came in and they rearranged parts of the world they found some
things that were too bright and some things that were too dark. And they took
these bright things and they made the Fey wild and
they took these dark things and they made the plane of shadow which later
became the shadowfell. Now because they were divvying up the world the gods were
really upset by this and this is when a huge war broke out between the gods and
the primordials and both sides wanted dominion over the my prime material
plane. In this conflict new gods to the Forgotten Realms were either summoned
from other dimensions or they were just created from the the conflict and it's
at this point that the dawn war begins and the dawn war is a large war between
the primordials and the gods with the fate of the prime material plain and
Abeir-Toril in jeopardy. And that's where we're going to end right now so we have
a picture of the world being born we have the universe being created we have
gods and stuff from various other places stay tuned for more videos
to come where we're going to dive into the Forgotten Realms and try to figure
this out together thank you so much for watching and I wish you a fantastic day.