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"I'm not an expert, I'm just digging through wikipedia, I'm just a nerd with too much time on his hands..." #1 trusted source, immediatley. :P

HAHAHAHAHA! He was so powerful that he removed the hyphen from their names! Great line!

Lord Ao is so powerful that he can remove the hyphen in its name lol

Aw yes the infamous horse shark.

the reason you are so confused is that you are try to piece together 3 different continuities from different eddtions. for instance,Ao Io and Asgorath are all three different names for the same god,and the origion of the dragons also differs slightly as well,the Asgorath version you mentioned is one of them,the other is that Io created the,starting with Bahamut Tiamat and Vorel,followed by the other Dragon Gods and then the mortal dragons. the story where Io dies by being split in half is taken from 4th eddition,and in that version not only didi the two half become bahamut and Tiamat,but what was left over became the blood islands,as well as the first Dragonborn. this is why the creation story seems so contradicting to you. its also worth noting,that the Primordials had a hand in the creation of the giants,and part of the Dawnwars Conflict involved a war between the Dragons and ther Giants

"I'm just a nerd with too much time on his hands." Seriously thank you, that line made my day, as I feel that often, or not often enough... :-) I'm sure that there are errors there, but I am also equally sure that you'll correct those errors as the series progresses. I just wish others did this to other WoTC settings (like Dragonlance, Greyhawk, etc)

This Forgotten Realms series is awesome! Thank you for doing it.

The confusion over the Sundering is because the idea of Abeir and Toril as separate worlds was only introduced in 4e. Like much of 4e this was not well received by established fans. The second Sundering is a partial ret-con. It allows DMs familiar with the original lore to largely gloss over the mistake that was 4e. It's confusing because it is the writers trying to remove most of 4e lore while maintaining continuity.

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this series. I've had experience it seems with every RPG except D&D and am just now trying to integrate into a new group. You have done a great service in making these videos!

The rise of the Aearee Empires came forth in the west, the Aearee-Krocaa, followers of the All-Father Krocaa, establish the grand aerie of Viakoo on Mount Havraquoar in -31000 DR. Viakoo served as the capital of their vast and great nation. This empire stretched from as far west as Maztica and as far south as the Lake of Steam. Mount Havroquoar stood far west of where the Sword Coast ends today. The great kokra aerie at Viakoo governed its lands fairly and forged lasting friendships with couatl, fey and other denizens of Anchorome. Like the other creator races, the aearee forged new life upon the realms, such as the aarakocra, kenku, and other birdlike humanoids. In the north, the Aearee-Syran established their capital at the aerie of Phwiukree, in the peaks of the Star Mounts and nested in the forests all around those mountains. They enjoyed the special favor of Korcaa's daughter, Syranita, who they praised as their patron. In the Southeast, the Aerree-Quor carved out the domain of Shara from the rookery located in the Osraun Mountains. A strong and majestic folk, their features were reminiscent of eagles and hawks. These aearees bore the features of crows and jays. The Aearee-Quor's patron was Quolinn, whose wits and cunning preserved their flocks through the worst times of the Batrachi domination and inspired in their hearts a fierce pride and determined self-reliance. Spreading out from the Shara rookery on the Orsraun Mountains, they grew into a loose affiliation of floating city-states that would eventually span the breadth of the continent. But it wasn't until -30700 DR that the Aearee truly came to prominence. One thousand Aearee-Krocaa lost their lives to a much smaller force of Lammasu. In attempt to rebel, the Aearee experimented on domesticated landwyrms and produced the first winged wyrms, which the aearee named wyverns. Thanks to its new wyvern armies, the Aearee empire expanded rapidly. For unknown reasons, the Kookrui-Shara fell into conflict with the gnolls of Urgnarash. Fighting at behest of the Demon Lord Yeenoghu, the gnolls summoned numerous marrashi to spread disease among the aearee. Crops were blighted, livestock fell, and the entire flock were striken by a horrid plague. In their desperation, many Aearee turned their backs of the All-Father Krocaa and sought worship of the demon lord Pazuzu for salvation. Despite this, the race was never able to recover from the Wasting Plague.

Might help you but there is a book called "lords of darkness" which talks about the creator races and that one of them had developed magic that the netherese would later take and modify. In it, one of the creator races was now a mummy and the scrolls had magic that included "Awaken Intelligence" and "Alter Beast". Think that helps figure out how at least some of the races were mutated (aka magic)

Ao gave a beer to the primordials? What a nice guy

Hi Jorphdan! I'm starting to play an AD&D 2e campaign as an abjurer who loves history and specializes in the Netherese era, and your work on the history of the setting is invaluable to me!!! Thank you, thank you very much!!! (of course, I subscribed to your channel faster than you can say Tharizdun!!)

Loving the series, keep up the good work!

Realms geek here. Been collecting and following since first published stuff. You're filling in some gaps in the dawn myths for me. Love the narration and humor in your pics!

Love your content. I've always loved Forgotten Realms. I've been binging your videos as I'm currently running a 3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign for the wife. It's set in Cormyr/Dalelands, and she plays a 6th N.Good Tiefling Rogue. If you still make content, I think a series of videos on the different Dalelands would be kinda cool. Keep up the great work!

Thanks a lot for your effort an time on pulling this out, it is a grate lore about Forgetten Realm that I'm very lazy to read.

cool vids mate! was looking for a Faerun history! Ahh... how am I longing for "to much time on my hands" :) Keep it up!

Dude! You do great! Stop doubting yourself! I can't tell you how much your videos mean to me

love these videos! 😃 also the double "and we're back was cute."

this is cool thank you for doing this im greatly enjoying it

Love your style of video narration. You remind me of Matt Colville - you understand that the things you are talking about are totally cool/ almost completely ridiculous. I downloaded the FR timeline; I'm so much happier listening to you discuss it than I am reading that grand history.

These are very well done, I'm loving it! Where is that Days of Thunder map from?

Thanks for doing this! I jost got into FR and this has been great! ..Also, the commericials between your episodes have all been the same constipation medication which is also hilarious.

Thanks for the great info videos. Very good for new players. The Forgotten Realms planet is also supposedly much larger than Earth.

Thank you for wasting your time on this, it's a big help!

Ahh, so here's where the split happened. Also, no, the two worlds started to merge again and a section of Abeir replaced Maztica in the upheaval Spellplague caused. The Second Sundering was Ao splitting them again and fixing up the mess Faerun had descended into since the Time of Troubles.

There's a Lore You Should Know segment on the official D&D podcast that covers Yuan-ti origins. In short, there was a cult of humans who worshipped a snake god and he made them snake-men.

Keep it look forward to your videos

keep it up. you dig through wikipedia so we don't have to! from what I know, you are pretty correct. just to clarify the one point, there are two sunderings, the first one where Ao split Abeir-Toril and the one in 5e where everything got fixed? Not too clear on what happened with the second sundering - guess I'll have to watch for that video

Jorphdan, love your Forgotten Realms lore covering! Question: Is there any intel on what Abeir is like, and it's history and peoples, if any? Thanks!

Thank You Jorphdan!

Digging it!

"Days of Thunder"...totally underrated movie, BTW. Like the "Roadhouse" of NASCAR.

Hey love these videos. Just wondering, what is the outro song?

Ah yes. My favorite time in faerun. When Tom Cruz and Nichole Kidman won the Daytona 500.

5:01 he gave a beer to the primordials kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Lol spelljamming would blow your mind bro or the ultimate.uaaggh planescape as both can be used to connect all campaign worlds

I know the history of Dragons and such can be confusing, but think of it as the origins of Faerun don't necessarily mean the origins of EVERYTHING. It's just one plane of existence of the Prime Material Plane where other creatures, and primoridials, etc. can have origins on entire other planes across Realmspace. Look into Spelljammer and Planescape lore.

In my current campaign my character is from Kara-tur

Neverwinter Nights introduced me to the Sarrukh, they are the first of Bioware's "ancient evil race" trope, before Rakatas and Reapers.

They should get you to narrate a book of their on Audible. Love tge free style

Campaign idea- circumnavigation of Toril?

Al-Qadim (القديم) in Arabic mean '' The old thing" 5:59

The Averie Avariel and winged races's empire fell during the first Dragon Rage. (Pretty good trilogy)

You mean YAWN Ti lol I could not figure out WHAT u were talking about 😂😂😂

Nerd with too much time on their hands, number one trusted source.

Hi the 2nd sundering it was after the spell plague abeir-toril fused together, and the 2nd sundering happened the split between the two worlds again

Nice Apophis reference lol

No mention of Anchorome/Maztica? The True World!

02:07 What movie is that guy from?

Cheers to a nerd with too much time on his hands! Keep the videos coming!

I take this and add H.P.Lovecrafts elder things (who in his lore made humans and shuggoths as slave races... hint how that ended: they rebelled and it ended in the elder things being driven to a near extinction... then the humans ran away or found with shuggoths)

This was a good video. I'm just sad there wasn't a single joke referencing the Tom Cruise movie Days of Thunder the entire time. ;)

Hey just finding this but some of yourloreis a wee bit off. Your bit about the origin of bahamut and tiamat is from 4th editions. Pol setting. But they recently kinda added it to the Volo's guide, but it was a pol thing.

The yuan-ti were a group of humans that worshipped Dendar the night serpent and did dark rituals to "purify" them and make them more snake like

Dig the Stargate reference.

butcher them all you want my dude! love this content!

Hades: WHO PUT YOU DOWN THERE!? Titans: *ZEUS!!!*

1:52 🥺 ... *Yes.*

Your a nerd w to much time on your hands, im a nerd w to little. Your helping cut my learning vurve in dnd lore. Keep up the good work.

Liking and commenting on all videos to help get you that karma!

Fair lord AO =D

Imagine if *our* world split in two, that would be so trippy.

lmfao i love this series "dragons need their own episode this is so confusing"

Are Asgaroth and io the same being, the one who got split in half and created tiamat and bahamut? And what's the difference between primodials and gods...I didn t get it.

2:08 Apophis from Stargate

I'm a nerd with not enough time on his hands. You are lucky, sir. 😊

I thought Faerun was the name of the continent? Like Kara Tur is also a contient.

Sarrukh wiped out by phaerimm in -33,800

Apparently it was a mixture of magic and breeding at the same time.

Not to critique, but according to IMBD, Days of Thunder occured in 1990.

Vibe check

Lol I thought faerûn was the planet this whole time as well xD

I wish they had developed Unther more fully... I love Sumerian-Mesopotamian mythology.

I like hearing you butcher fantasy names, it is informative.

Hey there. I like what you're doing with this channel alot, but all over this video you're not sure of alot of things. And this seems to mostly stem from the confusion between various editions of the Forgotten Realms. Given alot has been retconned over time, the inconsistencies and varied accounts seem to confuse you a little. Which is not surprising, but does look a bit odd when you're hosting a channel like this. The problem is this: Because you're confused, the unread viewer is confused (or misinformed). And the well-read viewer might just be annoyed (I know I was). But, I think you can easily overcome this problem by properly separating the stories based on edition and sharply drawing the comparisons between them. Because the format you give the video's is pretty nice and I can see people using these as reference materials or just for viewing. So! Verify and cite your sources, and I think this channel would grow quite a bit. Another suggestion I would give you is that you might like to ask some questions on the Candlekeep forum, before you make a video about something. Those guys tend read the novels, and could offer you specific information that isn't in the wiki or general information books. I know this all might take extra effort, so it's up to you in the end. Good luck!

Thunder Thunder Thunder!

this is why you give your kids their own room they'll tear it apart until you remove the hyphen

Good gravy...how much lore did Mettson and WOW in general just gleam right off of Forgotten Realms?

I love the addition to the other continents their cultures civilizations, beast races. D&D is what elder scrolls would be if Bethesda was good.

What was the name ofbthe race that created Kenku And Aracokra

It seems like the aearee were devastated by disease spread by Gnolls and their allies.

uhh there some familiarity between The Forgotten Realm and Warcraft's lore. I suppose it's the latter that took "inspiration".

Meztecha Was the setting for a Central America. Aztec, Mayan and Incan cultures.

Always though asgorath was a god slain by a primordial

In 3rd Edition it goes into what are called Epic Magic it's in the Epic players guide and it talks about what are known as Rune it's an ancient form of magic like this seeds I guess seeds another term for them one of them allows you to create life and if you've mastered a few of them you can shape that life to your whim it's not beyond the realm of possibility that if someone was able to master all of them they would have the power of God and they work in both psionic forms and in Arcane or Divine forms each seed or Rune is a little bit different depending on the type of power it calls from for example of psionic Rune or seed would have no effect for a wizard or cleric a sorcerer may get some use from them

The chromatic and metallic Dragons come from the platinum Dragon and the Dragon queen. But there are lots of other dragons that existed that are not the product to those 2

i am not interested in playing DnD because i dont have anybody to play it with and i think the rules are to confusing to understand, but i am interested in reading DnD novels so im gonna see these videos to know stuff about the world before i read about it

Just a nerd with too much time on his hands... Haha! 24/7 my brother. Smash it 1,2,3,5...

From what I understood, Asgoroth and Ao are the same entity, and it's not a primordial, it is the god that created the universe, it is a dragon god, it got split in two creating Tiamat and Bahamut, but kept living as a god, and the meteorites/dragon eggs he brought down creating dragons were from a trail of asteroids trailing the moon called the Tears of Selune. So this is not Tiamat and Bahamut who created the dragons, they only created Dragonkin creatures later on.

I lost my shit at Giants and Titans

Whoo nerds with too much time on their hands! That's me too.

Why are humans even considered a creator race?

Conan crossover get?

See the problem is you are looking at time as a straight line, and as any Time Lord can tell you, time is a twisty turny timey wimey thing!

Dragons came from outside the dome. See, like earth, Toril is flat and not a spinning ball. Toril simply experienced a change over event or what we call apocalypse. The ice falling down was the ice dome and dragons entered from outside along with mony other creatures. Just like on earth.

>has never really gotten into D&D before >puts D&D lore play list on like a podcast >Somehow put the playlist on shuffle After four hours of having no idea what in Bahamut's balls is going on I think I know why this timeline is incoherent to me.

Am I the only one that is not a big fan of the Forgotten Realms? Too many creatures, too much magic, and too much lore and history. I'm a little disappointed they don't cultivate Krynn anymore. Dragonlance focused on characters and their stories....