Re: Why is it 'Grey' and 'Realm' space?

here´s the quote from ed, posted to REALMS-L in 2003:

"...the idea that there were many gates (...)linking our real-world Earth
and Faerûn. (...) These links are now largely "forgotten," and the world
they reach (the Realms) with them, but they are the reason for our real-
world tales of dragons, vampires, wizards hurling castle-shattering spells,
and so on."

here the full quote:

[quote]
I have never placed the Realms anywhere but in my own conception of a
multiverse of many alternate, parallel worlds ("prime material planes" in
D&D parlance). You as DM can have your favorite fictional fantasy worlds
(Vance's Dying Earth, Zelazny's Amber, Piper's Otherwhen, etc. etc. and
yes, Athas, Krynn, and Oerth, too, if you'd like) as some of the other
worlds, if and only if you want to (hey, how about one world that's 1st
Edition D&D, another that's second, a third that's 3E, and...well, no,
perhaps not :}). Note that this doesn't mean you can't use Realmspace's
crystal spheres and phlogiston-voyaging as well as plane-hopping.

To cut down on lawsuits from angry parents from heck, TSR downplayed this
concept because its implied real-world connection might lead someone to
injure themselves through their misbeliefs of the fictional magic of the
game and Realms fiction being real, but no reasonable revisionist of gaming
history can deny that the concept existed, because my very name "Forgotten
Realms" exists because of it: the idea that there were many gates
("portals" in 3E parlance, but check my gates article in issue 37 of The
Dragon, as it was called then, for the original view) linking our real-
world Earth and Faerûn (I purposely left the "rest of the globe" hazy, so
Jeff Grubb contributed Abeir-Toril as a world/planetary name). These links
are now largely "forgotten," and the world they reach (the Realms) with
them, but they are the reason for our real-world tales of dragons,
vampires, wizards hurling castle-shattering spells, and so on.
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Folk of Faerûn refer to 'the Realms', but not 'the Forgotten Realms'. The
term 'Toril' is rarely used save by academics.
[end of quote]


so the name "realmspace" refers to the many realms on toril, (if i didn´t
get it wrong). considered that toril is the planet with the most
inhabitants, that might be logical. on the other hand, there are lots of
spheres whose planet with the largest population is "splintered" in many
realms; and all of them have other names...

tauster


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:13:23 -0500, Novamaster <novamaster@??????.ca> wrote:
>The term "Forgotten Realms" HAS been used by residents. The mage and
>guide Volo used it once, in the comic "The Grand Tour", saying "This is
>the Realms, called Forgotten only by those who do not know it" Its
>possible that he used the term in one of his tour guides that made it
>off plant and it stuck....What can I say? I like Volo...