Danuser+Ion Sriracha Take on retcons and lore

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@Lienthras-zuljin

I think he’s saying if our characters didn’t see it, then maybe it didn’t happen the way it was recorded, aka all non directly in-game lore is liable to be soft retconned.

I made a thread stating that was what Danuser was doing, and everyone lambasted me for it as if I was illiterate.
Lmao.

Danuser confirmed that you can't take NPCs as factual

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/24/21063847/world-of-warcraft-battle-for-azeroth-lore-interview-steve-danuser “A lot of the time, if [players] see something in the game, they take it for granted that it’s the absolute truth,” says lead narrative designer Steve Danuser in an interview with Polygon. “It could be a book they read on a shelf somewhere, it could be something a drunk guy in a bar says to you at one time or another. Whereas in the real world, if you ran into a drunk guy in a bar and h…