How can we connect the fifth installment with the previous games in the series?

And what if other gods took the virtually destroyed Enroth under their protection, brought the races out of the abyss, and as a reward for themselves, created a cult? And by the way, wouldn't you like there to be a connection between the third and fifth games?

Although, on the other hand, the connection already exists: the gameplay is borrowed from the third game, the races, artifacts, everything simply "moved" into 3D graphics with a different plot.