The Lore Train at Gamer Escape

[Fenral]

who says she's not an imposter Lolorito hired to keep the con going, eh? EH!?

Lolorito's internal monologue in that scene, actually. It leaves very little room for doubt. The left hand had no clue what the right hand was up to when that scene was written, but we accept it and move on, because that is the only option we are ever given.

Again, good work on the writeup, and I look forward to butting heads with you (and those marvelous antlers) over events still yet to come!

[Belhi]

Awesome interview. I'm always really impressed about how much we are given in the lore interviews from these guys.

[Anonymoose]

Aaand flight is delayed.

Lolorito's internal monologue in that scene, actually.

Jeez, that'll teach me to throw sarcastic lines in on my way out the door...

<grabs eraser / rephases, "who says she's not" to "who says she can't be changed to be">

This was just something given as an example of a way that the quest might have been altered by a flag that checks if you've completed Patch 2.55's finale. Instead of dedicating time to finding, flagging, and branching old content, however, they focused on new stuff and hoped we could accept that it was Patch 2.00 content. It's at Sector 2.00 of The Bubble (I can only imagine how much that phrase is going to grate on the continuity purists.) I didn't think something like this would come up, but it is what it is. Look at the bright side, at least death isn't cheap... >.>

I look forward to butting heads with you (and those marvelous antlers) over events still yet to come!

Ditto! Judging by the trailer, the mythology is about to hit some turbulence; here's to future debates.

[Fenral]

Aaand flight is delayed.

/comfort

Jeez, that'll teach me to throw sarcastic lines in on my way out the door...

/soothe

Ditto! Judging by the trailer, the mythology is about to hit some turbulence; here's to future debates.

/loreforumsalute

[StarDrake]

Turbulence is putting it mildly; I suspect by this time next week, a number of the assumptions we've been making about certain elements of the world are going to have to be ejected out the window.

This will be a fun week.

[Samcaesar]

I really appreciate you asking about the Au Ra and their whole design/motif ordeal, word from Ferne himself is always appreciated even though it's nothing particularly new. I really hope Heavensward delves some into exactly what the heck they come from and what they are however. It just seems like some really weird reasoning that they go "Huh, well we don't want players to feel alienated by having a draconic race and them fighting dragons, so we'll say they're demonic/have a demonic motif instead".

Either way! Excited for the whole new batch of lore we all will be finding out! I'm definitely looking forward to one or two things I've spoiled myself with.

[WhiteArchmage]

Hold on, we get a lore forum salute? Or is that just something for the loremasters?

[StarDrake]

Personally, I still heavily suspect that the Au Ra are going to tie in heavily to the Heavensward story, particularly by the end.

While legend can certainly vary greatly from truth, I refuse to believe that all the hints, large and small, dropped over the course of 2.x were just red herrings.

[Samcaesar]

Personally, I still heavily suspect that the Au Ra are going to tie in heavily to the Heavensward story, particularly by the end.

While legend can certainly vary greatly from truth, I refuse to believe that all the hints, large and small, dropped over the course of 2.x were just red herrings.

Hmm, like you're talking about the whole Shiva/Dragon ordeal or something else? Cause some things just don't line up so much with the Shiva/Dragon thing, but I'd love to see something else come up to tie the Au Ra into the story.