User blog comment:Rorek I/Untold Legends/@comment-1070010-20170921134546

Rorek, "Marquis" is my Steam name. The community here is more familiar with me as "Deathwalker" or "Edwin."

Regardless, I didn't want to mention this project until I was sure that this community was fully active once again, nor until we had a more solid foundation for such a story. There was a miscommunication, and now I suppose the cat is out of the bag. What's done is done, so let's see where this takes us.

Since this community has been dead for many months, what we have planned so far was based on the possibility that certain members would not be returning. I am glad to see Inferno and Misery make posts, following Hero- though optimistic, I do retain a degree of caution after seeing how our previous attempt at a reboot fell apart, and was followed by months of silence from the community. I'm not blaming anyone for that at all- I, too, fell silent alongside everyone else. Additionally, real life does come first and foremost, and I'm not going to pretend to understand anybody's circumstances.

Now, as for this project, it is an idea I've been wanting to do for quite a long time, and I do believe I have made mention of it before. In discussions with Rorek, we have determined that this side canon would be one singular realm, politically divided into various kingdoms and provinces. The main cast will be large, but there will be no sense of "protagonist immunity." Anybody can die. All characters will be reimagined to varying degrees of change: deities like the Secrets or organizations like the Balance-Keepers would be repurposed to fit within this world, meaning that their scale of power would be severely toned down. So-called "planet breakers" can't fit in this story.

My ultimate goal is to write something that, while rooted in our canon, can stand on it's own as an independent, well-written saga. There is going to be a lot of pre-planning, and even as we go along and write the story, I will be combing through every last word to proofread and make changes to diction, syntax, and structure. It's an ambitious project, sure, and there's no guarantee that it can even be finished. But this canon that we've been developing since 2009... I'm not ready to let it die just yet.