Gothic Classic Lore: Xardas (spoilers) 

Thank you for the feedback.^^ I'm not planning on continuing it for now. I got all the lore stuff I planned for out of the way and I need a break from working through the Gothic lore. Perhaps I will continue in 2022, but only if I can think of enough ideas for the series to keep it going.

Heyho, can't do that quite yet. Still got too much on my plate to work off.

If he had successfully done that, he might have even become a being of "true power". That is terrifying, considering just how much he was capable of with just the dragon's power. Okay said dragon was an avatar of Beliar, but not nearly as powerful as Krushak from what we've seen.

@@criticalbytes1739 so true

Still inactive at the moment.

@@criticalbytes1739 must be busy, huh? Hope to get more free time soon.

​@@goodoldgamingyoutuber6371 I hope so as well, though it doesn't look promising right now. Thanks though, I wish you the best.

Thank you for the compliment. I immediately recognized your name, your channel is basically my first go-to whenever I want to watch or learn about Gothic speedrunning. Back to the topic: Prior to the release of Gothic 2, they confirmed multiple times in interviews that they have no master-plan at all, and that they're writing the story based on whatever they need to create the world they want. Maybe some of the other members later claimed otherwise, I don't know. The OG team of PB always said that they haven't planned anything. What I remember is that PB never really acknowledged Gothic 3's lackluster writing or their general tendency for retconning. Gothic 3 is a good example. On one hand, they admitted that the entire plot is unfinished and that the writing is flawed, and at the same time, they claimed that G3's story is fundamentally the same as G2's story. They claimed the actual issue with their writing was their "deliberate" choice to thin-out the world-building and that they didn't give important characters enough dialogue to work with. And then, whenever the question of retconning comes up, they usually said something along the lines of "oh it's just because people in that world have different perspectives and opinions" to wave the criticism away, while repeating the same mistakes up until the studio's closure. :( Personally, I don't have a strong opinion in either way. I definitely would have preferred stronger writing, especially in terms of consistency. When it comes to the Xardas-Master-Plan-Retcon, I feel kinda neutral because Gothic 3 happened and basically killed any potential this plot could have had. I do prefer the G2-focused War-of-Gods plot over the Orcs-vs-Humans plot because it makes the universe appear as much deeper than it really is. I do know though that there are many that prefer the Orcs-vs-Humans plot because it's more condensed and grounded, I think.

Ich denke weiterhin darüber nach, aus verschiedenen Gründen, aber ich bin zeitmäßig derzeit ziemlich ausgebucht.