This book is a great idea. As a Forgotten Realms loyalist, I'd love to get my hands on it.

Before I add it to my shopping cart, however, a few questions:

• How many pages is it?
• Is it written in timeline format like they did in the FRCS or is each year detailed in a paragraph or so?
• What percentage of the book is taken up by the Salvatore short story?

This book is a great idea. As a Forgotten Realms loyalist, I'd love to get my hands on it.

Before I add it to my shopping cart, however, a few questions:

• How many pages is it?
• Is it written in timeline format like they did in the FRCS or is each year detailed in a paragraph or so?
• What percentage of the book is taken up by the Salvatore short story?

Thanks!

• 96
• Each year gets a paragraph or so, with more details for more recent years
• Apparently not much since I failed my spot check to see it.

Some of the spoilers are:

I get the sinking feeling it's the last Realms book I'll ever buy.

This book is a great idea. As a Forgotten Realms loyalist, I'd love to get my hands on it.

Before I add it to my shopping cart, however, a few questions:

• How many pages is it?
• Is it written in timeline format like they did in the FRCS or is each year detailed in a paragraph or so?
• What percentage of the book is taken up by the Salvatore short story?

Thanks!

www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20070911a

Hear from the creator of the Realms himself, Ed Greenwood

http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9905

and

SirUzra wrote

Shar and Cyric kill Mystra. As a result the weave goes crazy, Dweomerheart is destroyed. Azuth and Velsharoon go MIA in the Astral Plane as a result, leave no one to restore magic.
Helm and Tyr fight over Tymora. Tyr kills Helm. It's beleived Cyric manipulated it. The House of the Triad is broken and Ilmater removes his domain from it to join Sune in Brightwater.

Tyr, Lanthander, and Sune move against Cyric, imprisioning for a 1,000 years.

Lolth & Eilistraee seem to kill all the Drow gods in their little chest game.

The Orcs establish a permanant Kingdom in the North.

Myth Drannor's mythal is restored. Srinshee returns of Myth Drannor and give Ilsevele Miritar the Rule's Blade to become coronal. Queen Amlaruil returns to Myth Drannor, planting the Treee of Souls there.

Cormyr goes to war with Shade after Alusair executes a spy. Avoun V comes of age and becomes the King. He's having problems with his nobles.

Moradin leads an attack on Hammergrim and destroys it.

Halaster is dead.
Blackstaff is dead.
Selune has been laid to rest, she's really dead now, no longer a ghost.
Elminster is in hiding.

Basically it's all on the last 2 pages of Grand History of the Realms. The last entry is about Mystra dying and Spell Plague, her domain, Cyric, and Azuth and Velsharoon.

The books ends with...

"Sages in centuries to come mark the Weave's destruction in the Year of Blue Fire as the end of the old world, and the terrible beginning of the new."

For a campaign that's NOT going to be a point of light setting, it sure does.

So we don't know the fate of the Chosen of Mystra or the Sever Sisters, we don't really know what happen to the surface Drow, and we don't know how magic is restored to the Realms. Leading speculation; a new Mystra or Ao promotes Elminster, removing him from the land but not from Forgotten Realms.

Thanks for the summary. Do not take this as sarcasm. Now I don't have to buy it. (Actually, I probably wasn't going to anyhow. I figure the FRCS 4e will bring me up to speed.)

the only thing I didn't like about the book was the reused pics they had.

I saw a picture of a warforged!! in there, and a picture from the dungeon#123 epic-level adventure Quicksilver Hourglass.