How is this tied to the forgotten realms?

[Deathjester]

I'm seeing a lot of similiar things in this game, even some of the greater deities are exactly the same as in forgotten realms, Asmodeus for example.

Is it tied in the same way like dragonlance and forgotten realms is tied together? (Planar sphere and the knights of Solamnia) Or is it just "an improved copy paste" of sorts, taken from different DnD worlds and rebuild?

No spoilers ofcourse.

[Frank Hardly]

Pathfinder is essentially 3.5 D&D updated to 3.75. The setting in it is called Golarion and not directly related to the forgotten realms, but I'm sure you could make the argument that its just one of the infinite material planes and that the forgotten realms also exist in universe if you wanted to.

[mishona]

Asmodeus is not a D&D creation.

[Notabot187]

Asmodeus is a IRL king of demons in the Bible, book of Tobit. Many fantasy games take their gods from IRL mythology, the more obscure the better usually.

Pathfinder uses a different version of the planes than either 3.5 D&D or the more modern versions. It is somewhat similar however.

[Rahveel]

Originally posted by mishona:

Asmodeus is not a D&D creation.

80's christian moms feel ya. :p

[Procrastinating Gamer]

As mentioned, Pathfinder uses its own setting called Golarion. Originally; it was made as yet another DnD campaign setting (back when Pathfinder was just a series of published adventures and such for DnD 3.5) and was a distinct and separate world from other settings (the same way Eberron, Dark Suns, and so-on were separate - same underlying ruleset but totally different settings).

Naturally, when Paizo decided to make Pathfinder its own separate game, they kept their setting of Golarion. Stylistically, it's like if Forgotten Realms got some darker elements to it but done well (like proper Lovecraftian horrors being a part of the setting and not skimping on truly brutal things - look up part 3 of the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path sometime, The Hook Mountain Massacre, one of the main inspirations for that being The Hills Have Eyes) and that wasn't afraid to go against the fantasy norm:

---Many nations in the setting feel more Rennaisance than Medieval, the printing press does canonically exist, a nation far to the south has developed blackpowder firearms, there's a nation of barbarians that had an alien starship crash land on it, the god of adventurers was originally a mortal man and got his current position via a drunken bet (which, let's be honest, is perfectly in-character for adventurers :P ), and so-on.

Asmodeus and a few other beings were only held onto because they're public domain - they predate DnD by centuries, after all.

You can learn more about the setting on this wiki.[pathfinderwiki.com]