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Originally posted by sleyvas

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Originally posted by questing gm

On intention of connecting Mystara and the Forgotten Realms

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1851778762469208079

Oct 31, 2024

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@McCarthy_JT

@TheEdVerse I was looking over a copy of the old Principalities of Glantri gazateer earlier this year, and a peculiar idea sort of took up residence in the corners of my mind. Without putting it all out there, is there any chance that there was ever an intention or an idea of connecting Mystara and the Forgotten Realms in any sense through the Principalities?

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@TheEdVerse

Yes. Unofficially, so DMs could run a high-level "across the worlds" campaign (like the later Planescape or the Spelljammer novels that involved travel from TSR world to TSR world), but the product lines remained distinct legally.

(Magic wielders controlling portals.)

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Given the original requesters hints, I'd bet it revolves around the athora of Thay (or something similar) and the radiance / aka Nucleus of the Spheres. Of course, there's also the similarity between the name of "Mystra" as the goddess of magic and the world name of "Mystara".

There's also the nucleus of the spheres paradox which in some small ways resembles the Abeir Toril split.

https://pandius.com/nspherpx.html

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