Thread:Berus/@comment-5727151-20150804185213/@comment-5727151-20150805161318

It is good to hear that we share the same view about the Wiki. I'm glad that someone else shares my views about the future of the Wiki.

Anyways, I like the idea that we begin to tie existing articles to the New Venture and to actually make something more from it thatn what it is at the moment, as I have been planning to do just that for a long time. A lot of pages in the Wiki are tied with New Venture, one way or another, and it wouldn't be too hard to tie loose articles with the New Venture in order to create a bigger story. That's what I had in my mind for the quests as well: the quests from New Venture would've introduced new quest series which eventually tie together to form a greater story, culminating in the Outcast, where all of the people you helped in the rest of the New Venture quests team up against a common threat. There is a lot of story potential for the New Venture quests and content, and we should definitely take advantage of that.

I am unsure what we could do with New Signature Heroes, though. On one hand, since Jagex seems to have fallen short on what they originally planned to do with them and are mostly tied to their own storylines, I feel that the "new" Signature Heroes should be kept seperate from the old "Signature Heroes". Personally, I dislike tying RuneScape with other series, and Silksong Guild, as well as the first Signature Hero, Rika, does just that, so I'd love to retcon/heavily change the Silksong content to make it more RuneScape-y rather than a reference to an anime. The Signature Hero Duo, while their names are not exactly the most impressive, the idea of teaming up with a duo of peculiar heroes to investigate strange rune altars in the Southern Lands and exploring the lands of other people sounds pretty interesting. Not to mention there are supposed to be five more fan-made Signature Heroes, whom I know nothing about: not introducing them would feel kind of cheap, as then there wouldn't really be a team of new Signature Heroes but new quest NPCs, while on the other hand adding more Signature Heroes for the sake of adding more is not a good design either.

I actually agree with abandoning/swiftly dealing with the Northern Lands, as much as I dislike doing that to projects. I always found the Northern Lands to be a bit odd: after looking through the wiki, it was clear there were multiple articles which would take us to the lands north of mainland Gielinor, but no big storyline like with other continents: it had no kingdoms, no unique races so to speak, and all instances players were taken there were the result of stories from other continents. In fact, whatever we would do with them it would be rendered lorebreaking in a few years, as the real RuneScape's Nothern Lands, Acheron, is supposed to debut with the next Penguin quest. Really, the only unique content that the Northern Lands specifically have are either the penguin-related articles, which there are a lot, or the Succubus quest series and the Ice Nymphs, which were created by Howiter1 and could be tied up rather easily within the rest of the Wiki's narrative and storylines.

A lot of projects have flopped after they got too ambituous or big, so it would probably be for our best intentions to not make any too big ideas for start, and to keep it rather simple for the beginning, and expand if things go well. For instance, one of my ideas for the first effort to tie articles together is to tie the various articles dealing with Elven content into a one, greater story with a shared storyline: and even better, it can be introduced without relying on the in-game lore too much, ensuring that the Wiki article remain faithful to the canon of the game for longer than previous articles have, and as a result do not need to be updated as frequently. I've already made most of the research and framework on what should be done with them, and at the moment it looks pretty awesome, if you ask me. I can post my notes to the Wiki, if you want to start with the project. What do you say, should we start our project with the elves?