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in reply to @bazelgeuse-apologist's post:
That might also be a necessary concession to the alliance raids being optional content. From outside the raid story, the world has to look the same whether or not you’ve done that story, which is easier to narratively justify if most people don’t know anything has changed.
Yeah, that's always going to be a major pain point re: storytelling in MMOs, alas!
I was, admittedly, pretty turned off by the whole plot by the plot's eurocentrism and it being The Ancients Again(what a twist) so I might've misread it, but wasn't it kinda the point that the Twelve left behind the divine -stuff- that comprised them?
The Twelve still -exist-, but as a nebulous divine thing that's shaped by prayer, it was just the souls of the ancients driving that stuff that decided it was time for a dip in the lifestream after they considered their jobs done.
e: granted there were always going to be pains, walking up to a pantheon and tearing away all the mystery...
They did, but I think the concern presented was that The Populace might not see it that way - hence the need to keep it under wraps.
(Also reminded of a conversation I had with a close friend who's a Christian, where she said that having a personal relationship with God, who is a person and not just a nebulous divine energy, is a core part of her faith - obviously not every faith in the world operates this way, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were parts of Twelve-worship that did!
In that context, I can absolutely see how "your god isn't a person anymore, their soul has passed on and left behind an Impersonal Apparatus of Faith" can shake the foundation of someone's faith. I still think they have the right to know about what happened, though. If anything I think it's even more important that they know, just as someone would have a right to know if their beloved grandparent died.)
It'd take some time to actually explore the after-effects of the story that the plot straight up Did Not Have, but I wouldn't even be so quick to deperson that lump of divine godstuff that still contains all the stories of the Twelve that govern their behavior. Although I guess souls -are- what determine 'a person' in this setting sooo... who knows.
e: I just realized that I might be a -little- incoherent here, and missing the point re:faith by saying 'if it ends up walking like people, talking like people, and acting like people, who is to say it isn't people?'