Truthfully just wanted to see what you were going say. I replied a while back on one of your canon posts that the newest FR campaign guide wasn't on the list. 4e players handbook & campaign guide and never got a reply. Looked up official canon for FR and there is none.
If I remember correctly heard the only thing that mattered was how each story lined up.
So ya, you can make up whatever you want as canon.
I thought so. I can't believe I missed your reply somehow.
The truth is, to this day, Wizards of the Coast is still piecing together how every story told in FR in the form of novels, comic books and video games fit together. What they originally considered canon is not always accurate and can be tweaked. There is this one guy on YouTube who goes by the username Harbs Narbs, who posts interesting fun facts about the lore surrounding Baldur's Gate 3, and recently he did a lore video about Volothamp Geddarm, how he is in Baldur's Gate 3 even though he is human and 100+ years passed between Baldur's Gate 2 and 3. In his video he revealed that in Baldur's Gate 1, when you meet Volo in Nashkel and check his inventory, he has an aquamarine gem as his only quick item, and aquamarine gems can only be found in the northern parts of Faerun, hinting that his optional appearance in Baldur's Gate 1 is some months after he wrote "Volo's Guide to the North", a source book with lore details on Faerun a year before the story of Baldur's Gate 1. Harbs Narbs tweeted this discovery to Ed Greenwood and he liked what Harbs discovered a lot because it provided a canonical link between a game and a source book.
Let's just say Wizards of the Coast and D&D fans like us make new discoveries in the Forgotten Realms every day through every Forgotten Realms novel, comic book and game released, and what was originally canon can, and quite frequently, be retconned.
Take the main character of the Baldur's Gate novels for another example. I forgot to say in one of my recent posts in this thread that another reason why I strongly believe the Baldur's Gate game protagonist and Abdel to be different Bhaalspawn characters is not just because of how the Baldur's Gate game series canonically plays out with "Siege of Dragonspear" added into the mix, but also because of their radically different backstories.
Abdel was born sometime between 1341 and 1343 DR, and he was not rescued by Gorion. In the official novelization of Baldur's Gate 1, in the part when Abdel learns he is one of the children of Bhaal through Gorion's letter like in the game, Gorion claimed in his letter that a paladin rescued Abdel and brought him to Candlekeep where Gorion agreed to raise him. The tabletop adventure game "Murder in Baldur's Gate", which takes place a decade before "Descent Into Avernus" and "Baldur's Gate 3", has information that expands on Abdel's backstory a bit and reveals that the paladin that rescued Abdel was a member of the Hands of the Loyal Fury and his name was Sir Daesric the Pious and he rescued young Abdel from a group of Deathstalkers. In contrast to the official novel, in the game, Gorion personally rescued the game protagonist from Bhaal cultists in a secret temple of Bhaal in the Forest of Wyrms (a forest not far from Boareskyr Bridge, the spot where Bhaal died. "Siege of Dragonspear" reveals the location of where Gorion rescued the game protagonist when he/she was a baby). Gorion was also a friend and a lover of the game protagonist's mother, who happened to be a priestess of Bhaal and had to kill her to rescue the game protagonist, and Imoen, and unintentionally leave Sarevok behind. Gorion didn't personally know Abdel's mother, all he knew about her is that she died shortly after she gave birth to Abdel. Also in contrast to Abdel's birth date, the game protagonist is supposed to be born in 1347 or 1348 DR, as Baldur's Gate 1 the game claims that your character has lived in Candlekeep for nearly 20 years.
