Talk:Malbolge

So here's a question. In 1-3e Malbolge was a neverending slope before the Hag Countess exploded and it got transformed into her corpse. In 4e, being 4e, this was just ignored and it was treated as a part of Stygia. Now in 5e it's rocky again and no mention was made of its former state. In the Fiendish Codex where it was transformed it was stated that it was 'still-changing terrain'. So can one just assume that eventually the corpse parts rotted away? Not sure what 'protocol' for this situation would be.Vegepygmy (talk) 22:50, March 27, 2020 (UTC)


 * When working on articles dealing with planes or deities, the best approach is to separate descriptions that pertain to different cosmologies. 1e, 2e, core 3e, and 5e use the Great Wheel cosmology, while 4e describes the World Axis cosmology, and Realms-specific planes in 3e are in the World Tree cosmology. So when there are very different descriptions in different cosmologies, as is the case here, each belongs in a subsection of the Geography/Cosmography section.


 * Although one may think of the Spellplague or the Second Sundering as events that had cosmological repercussions, a good approach is to take care not to establish any causal relation between cosmologies, since the Dungeon Master's Guide 5th edition states that all three coexist.


 * Also, be careful not to introduce any speculation. It's not our job to fill in the blanks with possible explanations to connect discrepancies. Our job is to record what is known of the canon lore, nothing more. So, in the 5e case, even though it is in the same cosmology as the previous description, what we can do is say that "some sages" reported that the land was this way, while "others" reported something else.


 * ― Sirwhiteout (talk) 03:43, March 28, 2020 (UTC)