Eventual second lorebook fear

[Iscah]

What more people are worried about are subtraction retcons ("That never happened. We're ignoring that.") and revision retcons (directly editing the source material). Every time something like this has happened, we were given an apology and explanation. It clearly bothered the team as much as players, if not more.

That's why the astrologian quest information bugs me. The lorebook puts certain events in the backstory "fifteen years ago" and directly at the time of the Sharlayan exodus, instead of "almost twenty" and specifically prior to that happening. It messes with character ages as well, and I don't know which version is supposed to be the correct one.

I'd been hoping I might get an official response to my other post here since I'd seen that some older lore discussions got replies from the dev team, but it hasn't happened. Is there any more direct way to contact them? (I would assume you can't just PM them... or can you? Is there etiquette about this, or are normal users just blocked from sending messages to them? I haven't tried in case it 'works' but you're not supposed to do it.)

Or has it possibly been addressed somewhere else, and if so then where would I look to see if it's been resolved? I read through the lorebook errors topic a while ago but nobody mentioned it there.


By the "LOC forum" do you mean Localisation? I hadn't been in there before but I'll be making use of it from now on when I notice typos and things. I assume I can't use it for asking about the more complex lore information though? I don't think my questions would fit into the "specifically language-related" rule as set out in the 'welcome' topic.

EDIT: On further thought, even though the timeline might be beyond the scope of the localisation forum, the variable facts between questlines might be worth asking about.