Meta:Xin-Grafar
Retcon
Per James Jacobs, the Pathfinder Module City of Golden Death might be non-canon and its contents retroactively changed or removed from canon by subsequent works about Tar-Baphon and the Isle of Terror.
“The City of Golden Death is mostly retconned; it was a mistake, I feel, to set a 5th level adventure at a site that should have been set aside for 20th level adventures. Furthermore, tying it so much to Thassilon is a bit much; it weakens the lore of Tar-Baphon and the Isle of Terror and complicates the lore of Thassilon in ways that aren't great for Thassilon stories. This is a good example of a module whose creation and publication happened when we were too overburdened with other projects and weren't able to give the adventure its proper creative direction (in fact, it had none as far as I recall). ... In any event, my strong preference is that the contents of "City of Golden Death" are mostly set aside and out of canon, alongside of Dragonfall (another module that didn't mesh with Golarion lore).
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