Talk:Calishite

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"Calishites are descendants of the slaves of the genies who ruled great empires south of the Marching Mountains and are not native to Abeir-Toril.[1][3]" This is a bit unclear. If it's saying that the genies are not from the Material Plane, that's obvious, because they're elemental outsiders. If it's saying that the Calishites aren't, then one of the sources is false, because the 3rd-Edition FRCS only says that Calim, Memnon, and their followers came from "otherwheres." Races of Faerûn states that the slaves came from Zakhara, same as the Bedine. (Unlike the Mulhorandi and Untherics, this planet already had a culture based on this Earthly one.) Likely the "otherwheres" were the Elemental Planes of the contemporary cosmology, and the human slaves were originally from that land on Abeir-Toril that has so much traffic with genies, but this is just my speculation, which can stay on the talk page. If the other source is accurate and this is a retcon, it should probably be changed to what's up the canon hierarchy, with the other being relegated to an "alternate version" note. —Archlords (talk) 19:54, October 27, 2012 (UTC)