The setting also helps solve what Whitby dubs “the wizard problem,” a situation not unlike the Jedi problem in Star Wars video games. It further proves how malicious and evil Vecna is, as if people needed more evidence.” “Vecna’s managed to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes, and without the connection to the gods, faith is dwindling. “It’s kind of solving the problem of all these good-aligned deities who probably would have a problem with Faerûn being controlled by Vecna or Tiamat,” Whitby said. Vecna has managed to cut off other gods from Faerûn, plunging the world further into darkness and despair. Volo helps lighten the mood of the otherwise bleak book, which is filled with fallen cities ruled by devils, the undead, and humans merciless enough to pledge their loyalty to dark powers. “I like writing in his voice because he’s so self-assured that nothing could go wrong, but something has gone wrong because he’s now dead. “One of the first projects I ever did was Volo’s Guide to Getting Murdered, which is a murder mystery in which Volo is the one who gets murdered,” Whitby said. Now a ghost, he provides color commentary throughout the Doomed Forgotten Realms: Sword Coast Gazetteer. One of the victims of the death curse is Volothamp “Volo” Geddarm, the pretentious wizard who authored Volo’s Guide to Monsters. It imagines the god known as the Whispered One as a secret extra boss in 2017’s Tomb of Annihilation, summoned to the realms through the machinations of the lich Acererak and the necromantic artifact the Soulmonger, which drained the life of everyone who’d ever been raised from the dead. Sword Coast Gazetteer is a companion to the Quill & Cauldron adventure Doomed Forgotten Realms: Rise of Vecna, which Whitby worked on alongside lead designer Scott McClintock. There’s not really any other evil character in the Realms who can quite reach that same pinnacle.” “I had the idea of all these events throughout all the hardcover books slowly going wrong, but it’s not until the final shoe drops that everyone can see that there has been someone pulling the strings from the background this entire time,” Whitby said. But the greatest threat comes from Vecna, the evil god of secrets, who Doomed Forgotten Realms designer Matthew Whitby made the true mastermind behind the world’s downfall. At the same time, the land has been ravaged by the powerful evil elementals released in Princes of the Apocalypse, while demon lords occupy the subterranean realm of the Underdark after emerging from portals opened in Out of the Abyss. In Doomed Forgotten Realms: Sword Coast Gazetteer the city of Baldur’s Gate has been plunged into the Nine Hells thanks to the events of Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus. The result? The darkest of all possible D&D timelines. Then they went even further, imagining failure for every other major adventure Wizards has released since. Doomed Forgotten Realms: Sword Coast Gazetteer, a new setting book from Quill & Cauldron, imagines what D&D’s primary campaign location would look like if players of that adventure failed. Wizards of the Coast launched the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons in 2014 with the adventure Tyranny of Dragons, where players must stop a cult from summoning the evil dragon goddess Tiamat into the Forgotten Realms.
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