Unlike most Trekkies, I wouldn’t care. The concept of canon is overrated. Much of the Star Wars Expanded Universe contradicted itself and I learned to deal with it early on.
Just came out of reading the Second post for the Purge in Dalaran…
We NEED this in game so when we read about events and the NPC’s involve there is consistency of WHAT really happened regardless of bugs or interpretations!
I supported this 100% now I’m up to 200%…
CM who have to skim through all these topic to bring to attention to the Devs…please at least let them know briefly that this would be a good idea? Please. Thanks for you tireless work!
It is nice to have something that’s just 100% undeniable fact instead of being bogged down by whatever faction or characters person perspective on the event was
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I don’t need a lore bible, but I wish the narrative team had one and had to abide by it.
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You just know they’d modify the hypothetical in-game codex to suit whatever retconned lore they’re pushing at the moment, though. It would be even worse gaslighting than they are already doing.
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That’s certainly true. I guess it just bothers me how they just change the lore on a whim. Adding events that completely recontextualizes past events or makes said event no longer cannon
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I think it’s actually the opposite. Whatever is presented as THE GOSPEL will still generate pushback from those who are not comfortable with it.
The major problem has always been there’s ONLY been ONE point of view presented. I believe that there should be multiple histories and books of “facts” that are simply plain wrong. And it should be left to the players to work out what they wish to believe.
The FASA Dr. Who game was pretty good with this. In the supplement on the Master, the players would be presented with the Celesital Intervention Agencies files on the renegade Time Lord including rebuttals on the claims made by another renegade called “The Doctor” that should obviously be ignored because of that Time Lord’s questionable status and sanity. And of course the GM would have the bigger supplement with the actual facts. They did the same for The Doctor’s other major foes as well.
Ah yes cause cosmic forces that make up the fabric of reality must be colored by biased histories, I find that to be annoying cause it gives carte blanch to do anything when universal forces should just be that.
Also never been a fan of doctor who, not my style of television. So the reference is completely lost on me, but hey you if people like this they like it. We are diametrically opposed because we favor two different styles of conveyance for things that build a world and that’s fine, honestly it is. I just prefer more concrete things for stuff that is fabric of reality and not history of said peoples in said lands.
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I on the other hand prefer a more organic approach. We don’t even have a unified history of the real world.
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I think the world would feel far more organic and alive if the various people and cultures had their own version of how things came about. Much like we do in the real world
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Unfortunately that’s the opposite of what blizzard wants.
Except considering how WoW lore works we will eventually find out the “truth”. and the current truth is everything was made by the First Ones. So people’s origin story for the world that does not ultimately correspond to it are just “wrong”.
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Irrelevant what the meta truth is. As long as the PEOPLE of AZEROTH have their faith and cultures intact, it makes the world organic and alive
Kills my love for the truth when said truth is overwritten by a new truth that supersedes the old, it’s more for my meta knowledge that I want it all jotted down concisely for my use in keeping in love with lore. Histories? Biases? That’s all just flavor text for me
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Hey they are just returning to those warhammer roots and adopting the same tactic that Games Workshop took that everything they publish/liscence is canon even if it contradicts itself.
This is how people wanted Blizzard to return to its roots, right? 
Does that mean that blizzard needs to also adopt Game workshops abysmal business practices as well? I mean they are already bad, but lordy lord is GW a tyrant with that IP
I would answer, but if I speak ill of GW they will likely sue me for slander.
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Shoot you are right
I just like the idea of various cultures having different takes on what they perceived to have happened.
We as players have a really bad habit of thinking that just because we know something, that farmer bob out in westfall knows anything about Zooval or any major threat that isn’t directly affecting him or the immediate/surrounding area.
And then we would find out that the truth we learned was not quite what it seems.
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