I saw a mention of some historical mud events on Discord, and it made me think about how much history the MUD really has, that is somewhat decentralized across the memories of many long-time players. The Rank 8 and Rank 9 names for my clan are 'Chronicler' and 'Historian', and even though I am neither of these (yet?) there are a lot of events that happened a decade or more before me that I've always heard about, such as the Bowl of the Winds Quest, some quest where Fades captured little boys, some dude named Huma, a Red Circle, the implementation of Seanchan, the introduction, removal, then re-implementation of Blademasters in a different form, something called a 'Blazetrailer' etc. etc. I thought it would be cool to put that knowledge into one place, have all you oldbies collaborate, and we could put together a timeline of events. This all could be an interesting page we could put on the website that a new player might be able to read and see how deep the history and lore of the MUD has been.
Some ideas for the Comprehensive History of WoTMUD (CHOW? Hmm... whatever, this acronym will work!):
- Dates and descriptions of major code changes (abilities, Seanchan additions, fade stuff, weaves, ambush, etc.)
- Dates of major zone additions
- Dates, descriptions, participants for major global quests (Red Eagle War of Independence, Bowl of the Winds, raids on the Stone, CoL wars, etc.)
- Dates of clan implementations or changes
- Perhaps active periods and accomplishments of some of the more famous characters, first remorts, first Seanchan, that sort of thing
- Links to classic PK and RP logs, any saved global quest logs people might have
- Nylen the Magnificent, Bardmaster Gleeman Extraordinaire