Where do the names “Toril” and “Faerun” come from?
There are conflicting opinions: Pat Werda dug up: In Evermeet: IoE, it is revealed that Faerun is an elven word meaning “the one land” which is what the elves saw it as before the High Magic that created Evermeet cracked the end of the continent off and hauled it out to see, forming the Moonshaes et al as it went. Pierre Godbout clarifies: It doesn’t mean anything really. It was called Faern by prince Durothil, the first gold elf to have ever set foot on Toril. He led his people out of Faerie, his home world, and upon feeling that the Weave was strong in this new world, he named it Faern, which is similar to Faerie in pronunciation but it didn’t mean anything else in their language. You could interpret it as something that sounded like their home world, but that could remind them gently that they were somewhere new and that they now had to move on. This is all found in Evermeet, Island of Elves. Jason Hatter adds: IIRC, the grey box (or it might be the 2nd Ed box) states that abeir-tor
