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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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 Posted - 15 Apr 2021 : 00:40:17
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
So for me, everything up through the end of 2E would be canon. After that, I pick and choose what I like. My own headcanon -- like my theory that Bane 2.0 is really Xvim -- goes into the mix, and what I call "semicanon" stuff like unofficial lore from Masters of Realmslore like Krash or Eric Boyd.
I've occasionally experienced that "semicanon" feel when doing work with Eric.
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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Wendolyn
Seeker
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Posted - 15 Apr 2021 : 02:02:05
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Originally posted by George Krashos
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
So for me, everything up through the end of 2E would be canon. After that, I pick and choose what I like. My own headcanon -- like my theory that Bane 2.0 is really Xvim -- goes into the mix, and what I call "semicanon" stuff like unofficial lore from Masters of Realmslore like Krash or Eric Boyd.
I've occasionally experienced that "semicanon" feel when doing work with Eric.
-- George Krashos
George I just want to say that the stuff you and Eric have put out recently is just so well done. Such respect for and artful weaving together of prior Realmslore, with good storytelling to boot. Superb work.
For me, and what the hell do I know, I think about canon as the parts that "we all agree on." It has a sort of community element. Of course everyone has their own version of the Realms, as we should, but part of what's so great about a website such as this is as a forum for us to come together and make decisions about "the way things are." Now I don't mean in it an oppressive way, like anyone needs to be forced to conform to anything, or in a utopian way, like we're all going to ever actually come to complete agreement and reach some promised land. I mean it in a more practical sense, like we're all colleagues in a shared project of collective worldbuilding, and whatever this core of this shared thing is, is what canonicity represents. And so excellent works, such as those put forth by Eric and George of late, works that win the hearts and minds of the community over time, become increasingly canonical, existing as a sort of semicanon.
However, I feel duty-bound to add, that there is a large corporation that also produces Realmslore, and tends to operates quite independently of the aforementioned community project, complicating matters somewhat...
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What happened to Xxiphu?
