Getting back to the Isle of Dread, there's another reference earlier on in the same chapter: So yes Mystara is officially recognised, but it's also probably going to be the last setting to get any publications or other actual support. While it's superb to see Mystara included, it's also difficult not to see the ordering here as deliberate: either as the importance of the setting to WotC, or the intended order of publication. Mystara is the last in the list which consists of: Toril, Oerth, Krynn, Athas, Eberron, Aebrynis, Mystara. So surely it's just a matter of local nomenclature rather than any kind of pecking order. I'm not sure what the motivation is, since mortals have been raised to godhood in other canon settings as well (for example Kelemvor in Forgotten Realms and Raistlin in Dragonlance). That's an unfortunate thing for the authors to have done. " Nearly divine status" somewhat devalues Mystara's Immortals compared to other settings' gods. The world is further shaped by the meddling of the Immortals - former adventurers raised to nearly divine status.Two things in particular to mention are: On Mystara (a heroic-fantasy world born out of the earliest editions of the D&D game), diverse cultures, savage monsters, and warring empires collide.
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