[Spoiler] Isn't Dark Knight using Akasa ?

[Lyth]

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What is so 'hasty' or 'contrived' about the discussion about Dynamis' in this expansion? Just because a world-building element wasn't formally discussed in ARR doesn't automatically make it a retroactive change. Any serial work is obliged to expand on itself and introduce new information about the world eventually. There are missing parts of the map. Does it matter when these segments are fleshed out by the writers? Is designing the map as you go along cheating? No, it's irrelevant, as long as you don't go back and redraw areas that we've already seen when it's convenient.

[Theodric]

What is so 'hasty' or 'contrived' about the discussion about Dynamis' in this expansion? Just because a world-building element wasn't formally discussed in ARR doesn't automatically make it a retroactive change. Any serial work is obliged to expand on itself and introduce new information about the world eventually. There are missing parts of the map. Does it matter when these segments are fleshed out by the writers? Is designing the map as you go along cheating? No, it's irrelevant, as long as you don't go back and redraw areas that we've already seen when it's convenient.

You're free to believe differently, though Veloran's post covers much of the constructive criticism being put forward. It need not be a controversy - the writers are free to write whatever they so wish, though that doesn't mean that everybody invested in the story needs to like or agree with absolutely everything put in front of them. Nor does it mean that those same individuals dislike absolutely everything that the expansion brought about.

It strikes me as something to agree to disagree on. Personal tastes are just that - personal tastes. The writers may or may not opt to retroactively change how past story elements played out, though WoW did the same thing and it led to more problems than it solved.