Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
My guess is the Codex is their answer for people who use skips. I can't see SE making two completely different stories if you already were the WoL and there are connections like to Azem that wouldn't make sense anymore.
On that coin, if we went my suggestion, sure, the WoL has connections to Azem but is *not* Azem themselves. You could give a new adventurer Azem's crystal (whether it was given to you or found in this proposed 1-hour-intro) but they won't know the true nature about it unless they read into it or focus on it, they'd just know it was important and maybe some minor dialogue would explain what it was used for and who it used to belong to. It on its' own does not identify the WoL's character, just a sundered past life of theirs.