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Devlog #3: About Fictional Universes and Subjective Storytelling
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If you are not the original creator of the franchise, its universe requires a very special approach. As a fan, you want to add something to your favorite world that would be true to its spirit, but also meaningful and not feel like a mindless fan fiction. The task becomes more complicated if the franchise is old (like Might and Magic) and has a complex history (like Might and Magic).Full article
Heroes of Might and Magic is a spin-off of the Might and Magic franchise. The events of this series take place in the same world (until the third part). Then an eschatological event occurs, and HoMM4, followed by subsequent games, takes us to new worlds. Some of the inhabitants of the original Enroth manage to escape to the world of HoMM4, but HoMM5 and beyond, from a cosmological point of view, is a kind of soft reboot of the setting, turning it into a more traditional fantasy.
This, of course, does not affect us, as HoMM:OE returns to the original world of the series – Enroth. But the aforementioned soft reboot didn't happen for no reason. It had a reason, and it is that fans of "Heroes" have a… ambiguous attitude towards the origins of the series.
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