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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azuresun" data-source="post: 8033090" data-attributes="member: 7022312">I think it was the X-Files / Lost / Battlestar Galactica principle. You could plan out the big secrets and the revelations in advance.....but it's a lot easier to throw out some vague allusions to something big in the background that you never intend to follow up on, and just let the fans work themselves into a frenzy trying to figure it out to earn Internet cred. By the time the house of cards collapses and they realise you were just making stuff up as you went along, eh, who cares? You've already sold the advertising or books.It's one of the reasons the Fading Suns sourcebook Dark Between The Stars is one of my all-time favourites. Since it covers demon cults, psychic covens and the ancient Sathra religion, it could have been a prime chance to have big Everything You Know Is Wrong revelations. But it's very intentionally presented as "this is what these people believe happened" rather than objective truth--in particular, the demon section got a laugh from me when they explained how every demon or cult in existence will tell you how THEY and they alone were the secret mastermind behind every major event in the setting's history, even those they couldn't possibly have been there for.I think the story there was that the writer was leaving WW on....not the best of terms....and decided "Eh, screw it." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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