(08-02-2013, 10:40 PM)Sidonus Wrote: (...) so if people create things that wouldn't affect currently existing lore so badly to the point where everyone on server would have to follow the story then i'd say its fine.
The problem is that, continuing with my example, if you assert that the "Circle of Knowing in Sharlayan is an academy" is a true statement, you are in fact affecting existing lore in a way that everyone on the server would have to follow it. If I disagree with you OOC, and our characters meet and the topic comes up, what can I do? I can accept your take on the lore as true, I can dodge the subject, or I can call your character nuts. If I do the former, you have forced me to follow your story. If I do either of the other two, it screws up the RP. Either way, the result isn't positive.
Now, sure, you could say that it'll never come up for your character -- perhaps you'll never discuss it IC, and you have a reason why no one else from Sharlayan or the Scions of the Seventh Dawn ever encountered you -- but then what's the purpose of the assertion narratively? Why force others to accept your construction if it doesn't further anything in the story?
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