Honestly, I think if the Kingfisher book was presented as fanfic and nothing more, it would be fine. You could say it was an AU, or OOC, etc. Its the fact that its implied to be canon or something close to that, and that WOTC wanted Kingfisher to change his backstory, that rubs me the wrong way.
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