I always thought it might be a lot easier if each of our characters considered what happened before the Second Great Swarming to our own characters and also that of others (like the stories they tell about wars between Matis and Fyros and the like) as "long, long time ago", just to make it have less impact on the RP of today.
Generally I can only recommend to just avoid mentioning specific dates and perhaps also names IC as much as possible. We all know the major server-differences and we know that we can avoid fighting if we just don't talk about specific topics IC. I have never experienced an English-speaking player from former Arispotle nor a German-speaking player from Leanon mentioning IC ingame details about the "end" of Karan Yrkanis and Sharükos Dexton or the war between the Matis and Fyros under the rule of Yrkanis & Dexton that has never happened on Leanon.
However in other cases you can easily merge server-histories and such enrichen the lore by new details that you can learn - as we found out by talking about Muang Hoi-Gi / Marung Horongi. We just have to get used to the idea that some Homins have told different names of themselves to others or have changed names in the past, and that there are still Homins using more than one name. Just like I have been renaming my guild after the server-merge from the German version to English and like the Sages of the Zorai who have 4 names each.
Because of that Zhoi once told Fey-Lin Liang that it doesn't seem unusual for Zorai to change names or use more than one name. I was irritated even OOC (and IC alike) when the Awakened answered in a categorical decisive way that it is NOT common; because I still think it's not a problem to get used to hearing different names for the NPCs we have gotten to know in our character's past and Lore...
Generally I can only recommend to just avoid mentioning specific dates and perhaps also names IC as much as possible. We all know the major server-differences and we know that we can avoid fighting if we just don't talk about specific topics IC. I have never experienced an English-speaking player from former Arispotle nor a German-speaking player from Leanon mentioning IC ingame details about the "end" of Karan Yrkanis and Sharükos Dexton or the war between the Matis and Fyros under the rule of Yrkanis & Dexton that has never happened on Leanon.
However in other cases you can easily merge server-histories and such enrichen the lore by new details that you can learn - as we found out by talking about Muang Hoi-Gi / Marung Horongi. We just have to get used to the idea that some Homins have told different names of themselves to others or have changed names in the past, and that there are still Homins using more than one name. Just like I have been renaming my guild after the server-merge from the German version to English and like the Sages of the Zorai who have 4 names each.
Because of that Zhoi once told Fey-Lin Liang that it doesn't seem unusual for Zorai to change names or use more than one name. I was irritated even OOC (and IC alike) when the Awakened answered in a categorical decisive way that it is NOT common; because I still think it's not a problem to get used to hearing different names for the NPCs we have gotten to know in our character's past and Lore...
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