Forum:Canonicity of "Realms Apocrypha"

I think I'm probably in the minority in that I actually liked the DDTS and wish that it was canon. There isn't enough coverage of the Utter East and it's a shame that WotC dropped its canonicity. That being said, it wasn't just the fans that declared it non-canon, WotC itself apparently decided to just write the whole series off as an “Apocryphal Future Fiction of Volo’s published in Realms”, granting the DDTS the unique status of being apocryphal canon in the Forgotten Realms. The place where they explicitly did this no longer exists on the web, but using the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine https://archive.org/web/ and plugging in the old WotC link to travel back to an article originally published around 2005, you get: https://web.archive.org/web/20050212151736/http://www.wizards.com/forgottenrealms/FR_Timeline.asp#index From there, click on the link that says, "Apocrypha / Volo's Attempts at Fiction", and the DDTS books are listed.

Sounds good, thanks for the clarification. :) I think it's pretty awesome that the implication is that the DDTS books exist within the Realms itself, that is, if we're to believe that Volo's Guides are existent works within the Realms as well (which the Stone of Tymora series implies they are). In any case, I'll work on adding the citation.