Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-86.24.50.100-20130623082136/@comment-24590102-20140826163805

I tend to think that it's more parsimonious to assume that everything a developer does is intentional unless it is announced as a bug or the subject of a bugfix. For me, this tends to clear the table for a little lore-realism in all its contentiously self-contradicting detail. Maybe this allows the developer to change their minds from time to time but if you look at the timeline one culture at a time it easily has enough empty space to make these alterations without introducing contradictions. It's just that, as I've pointed out, real lore is characterised by variation, contradiction and inconsistency if only because people using different methods rarely arrive at the same conclusion unless they are inferring directly from the same facts. And so, as the game becomes more detailed and more realistic, I think the lore also needs to evolve in the same direction.