User blog:Inferno Pendragon/The Never-Ending Story (and why it has to completely reboot)

don't worry, I'm not implying the movie Never-Ending Story needs a reboot - rather my own story.. which has never truly ended despite many years of neglect.. the worlds of Avalon and Pendragon.. while they have always connected to a wider (and equally never-ending and sadly never-finished) cosmology they have also had their own thing going on for a long while.

That's why all these years later I'm finally going to reboot Inferno and the Avalon series.. why? because it is sadly completely impossible not to.. so much has changed and so much was left incomplete, either via poor planning of the past, too much eagerness to get to new stories and not finishing old ones and general RL devouring time like The Omega itself.

Thus in my eyes the reboot of at least my sector of Lore is underway as of now, I've talked with Misery and Red about it and they will also be rebooting - Misery came up with an idea that somehow, some way The Dreamer woke "for a split second" and EVERYTHING was completely rewritten as a result..

This would mean we start from the very beginning, a clean slate, origins and all - we shape it up from the start and with no insult to anyone but my past self.. we do it right this time : no starting new stories without finishing one first, no unnecessary plot-twists or major changes in lore without approval of all in a story (if a story is shared), no new cosmic-tier beings without approval (any being likely to alter lore), co-operative and active use of off-wiki resources when possible (docs etc).

basically this is my older, still not-wiser but hopefully smart-enough self deciding I can't toss away things I've dedicated so much time in, nor can I continue said things the way they were..

Misery and Red are likely to have a similar outlook and while time will see if it can work I'm hopeful of this reboot being finalized next year - unlike before this one requires time and planning.. via discussion and so forth, making notes.. ensuring that when the reboot happens those involved are all in the know and willing to follow a path and structure.. leading to much more productive story-telling.

imagination is so powerful that we often let it wash us away in a flood of ideas, to make a truly epic world you need to find a way to channel the imagination before it gets the chance to do that.. hopefully I can do that.

anyways, wish you all well, whomever reads this.