Gidget
I'm going to argue on both sides here.There are a fair number of hardcore Lore Purists that ruined RP for those of us that dare deviate from the strictest, most conservative interpretation possible of Atysian Lore. The self-titles "RPistes" who want more stories about what color loincloth the latest ruler of the Fyros wears and who enjoy hours-long speeches about nothing have different ideas about RP than the other >95% of the world, and that has created a rift in the community.
In a sense, the lore as it stands should be respected by the official channels, and should be coherently moved forward. I am absolutely against retroactively changing known history. For example, amber cube stories imply that homins speak a unified language, which in the past had different dialects. Suddenly there's lore from pushy RP elitists that made up completely different languages for the civilizations. That sort of behaviour is something I do not like, since it breaks any existing RP stories that depend on the background that was already established.
Now, on the other side, there are portions of the lore which are not historical fact, but beliefs. Or that may be historical tales, but could be easily believed to contain fantasies, or that are very much up to interpretation. It's absolutely fair for a homin to believe that the Kami are crazy monsters made by the Karavan that created the Kitin to destroy us all; it doesn't change any lore. It's totally acceptable for a homin to write fictions about the private life of Jena.
I can fairly write up a story about a Fyros scholar who did linguistic research and found that the Homin language was derived from the Karavan's language. It doesn't imply truth, neither does it change any fact. But it depends on already established knowledge from the lore. And that story goes into the water when someone retroactively introduces completely separate Homin languages with no historical roots. When hard facts in the lore retroactively change, there's no point in working with the lore.
Stories don't change facts. Changing facts changes stories.
Heernis
Cool!Dynamic Kitin Invasion will come! It is now in testing
Gidget
There is plenty of play, but it's mostly among those who realize that Atys is in 2603 instead of 2503 who acknowledge that, since Merge was a thing that happened, there is one unified server where humans from all cultures share Atys instead of multiple bubbles isolated from each other.
Siela
There's a problem of accessibility here. Most people aren't in-game 24/7. There's no friendly chronicles or bulletin board to be found that sequentially narrates and informs players of storyline developments. The lore wiki is literally stuck in the 2550's. New and returning players can't catch up, and have no clue what's going on, and may fairly assume everything is abandoned. Where are the chroniclers?The attentive eye (or Roleplayer attending Fairhaven assembly) will have noticed that it's already happening... Kitins of the Depth were seen in great numbers in Fount and also in Hidden Source... So stay tuned and get ready to crush some Kitins!
Roleplay is still happening, and for the guidance there are some interesting new storylines starting (Thesos wall, Kitins coming back, Marauders getting access to Goo weapons).
(Kitins of the Depth... again? Can we get some other Kitins?)
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Kaetemi