@Cyclone It's not like the references actually require any knowledge of Mk.1 whatsoever - and when anyone asks about what happened, I'm very forthcoming. Plus, I personally like building on what came before rather than pretending it didn't exist. Having tradition is important.
That is true. Yet why create MK.2 if Mk.1 isn't destroyed? How would all the dead souls of the old MK.1 gods exists?
We created Mk.2 because Mk.1 came to something of a dead-end, no fresh blood, too much using of the whip, the population was ridiculously low, people got busy, we collectively thought a restart would be for the best.
If Mk.1 is ongoing, a transfer of a character's soul from Mk.1 to Mk.2 would happen as such:
Arguis was sat in his glorious library teaching Thulemiz his ABCs. 'Need to go to the loo quickly, brb.' Said Arguis.
He never came back.
OR
Thulemiz left to study. 'I'll be back!' he said.
He never came back.
etc.
Edit: the implication being that they never came back because they were sucked into a wormhole which spat them out in Mk.2
@LokiLeo789 Not at all. Various souls from Mk.1 have somehow made it into Mk.2. It would simply mean, if Mk.1 is still going, that they were somehow torn from the Mk.1 universe (i.e. mysteriously disappeared from there) and entered the Mk.2 universe.
I'm literally 23 days from freedom. Once there, my plans are potential: a post detailing the going ons in the capital before Fallen's characters arrive, and two posts detailing Aulus' journey to the capital.
The Rukbans will not be joining this war. Nor will the Victors. That's at least four months I've saved you - and seeing as Kho does not understand the concept of 'but we had a plan', there's also an extra four months of unexpected setbacks and extensions, minor side stories etc. I've saved you. Thank goodness.
@Double Capybara We, the victims of post loss, post mutilation, post self-destruction, post kidnap, and separation of the heart, soul, mind, body, self, essence, and existence from our precious posts, shall not forget this latest horror inflicted upon one of our own.
We shall not forget. You will never walk alone, Capy, we are with you. 'We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the halls of the IC, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our RP, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!' - Winston Khorchill
I remembered my own losses, and could not help the melodrama welling within my chest. Sorry :|