Editing Spellplague (section)

===Changes to Characters===
In a nutshell, any human character from 3rd edition is dead and buried of old age. This includes many iconic characters like Mirt the Moneylender, King Azoun of Cormyr, and Khelben Blackstaff.
* The [[Seven Sisters]] are all wiped out, except for the Simbul, who is reduced to a mana-eating lunatic that [[Elminster]] must keep locked up in a dungeon hidden under Shadowdale.
* Speaking of [[Elminster]], he loses 99% of his magical abilities and is left as a genuinely frail, embittered, tired old man.
* [[Drizzt]] loses all of his companions to old age.
* [[Tyr]] was manipulated by [[Cyric]] into duelling with [[Helm]], accidentally killing the latter. In grief, he abdicates from godhood, giving his power and his faithful over to [[Torm]] instead. This titbit is actually covered in the article "Channel Divinity: Champions of Torm" in Dragon #381.
* Most of the [[demihuman]] deities are downgraded to "Exarches". In practical terms, this didn't change anything, it just meant WotC declared they weren't going to bother creating feats, [[Paragon Path]]s and other mechanics to support them.
* A few deities are conflated or merged together. One prominent example of this is that [[Amaunator]] temporarily returned from the dead and subsumed his younger inheritor, [[Lathander]].
* [[Asmodeus]] murders the god [[Azuth]] and steals his divinity, combining it with the raw magical energies of the Spellplague to forcibly reshape the [[World Tree]] into the [[World Axis]].