Meta:Slavery

Removal of slavery from the campaign setting

Reproducing the footnote from this article here so that it's also linkable from other articles:

Paizo publisher Erik Mona announced in 2021 that Paizo works would no longer center on slavery, and that slavery would no longer be a notable part of the Pathfinder campaign setting. Subsequent Paizo works provided canon rationle for the removal of slavery from most parts of the campaign setting and heavily de-emphasized it in others as part of a conscious decision to avoid telling stories about slavery and similar forms of exploitation. PathfinderWiki relies on canon works and explicit official clarifications to update this in parts of the setting, and some of these locations might not be revisited in future canon works, so this list might never fully align with Paizo's real-world stance on the subject. As a player or GM, it is often safe to assume that slavery no longer exists in places where it once did.

As far as I've been able to tell slavery has not been retroactively removed from any part of the setting, with the exception of perhaps the Darklands, which were broadly revised to retcon the drow out of existence and have not mentioned slavery as being part of sekmin or hryngar culture as they once were. The rest of the canon changes removing slavery have been depicted in-universe, which means without official confirmation, references to places/organizations/deities who employed or endorsed slavery can't be assumed to still do so but neither can we confirm that fact in canon. -Oznogon (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Unincorporated sources

• Pirate's Promise some updates needed --Fleanetha (talk) 12:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
• Pathfinder Origins 6: 'Slavery in Absalom' Appendix --Fleanetha (talk) 13:50, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
• Scourge of the Godclaw: "Beyond the Borders" article about how various organizations react to the rebellion of the Glorious Reclamation against House Thrune in Cheliax. --Fleanetha (talk) 07:19, 17 October 2016 (UTC)