>>59032224Anon, do you have any knowledge on the concept of a lore bible?
Documents that exist around a story, that have concepts, ideas, historical points, ect that never actually get put into a game, movie, show, or book, but inform the stories written for them?
Somewhere out there is this document for games like, say, Elden Ring, a game that tells you very little, but has to have a reference document used to inform what clues to include in descriptions and explanations, because those descriptions and explanations are consistent. Just because these things aren't explicitly told to the audience, doesn't mean they don't exist, and doesn't mean they aren't canon to the story. In fact, the actual story of the game as presented is derived from that, not the other way around, so you could even argue that these things are MORE canon, because the things in this document are closer to the laws of the universe, while any actual story told off of it. Internal documents like this are what the presented narrative of a story are built off of, internal documents like this are assumed as true, more true than even things said in a game to get the plot over the finish line. The game is a secondary source, these documents are a primary.
That doesn't stop being true when the internal documents make you feel icky, this is how collaborative storytelling works.
