This is what infuriates me:

Here's what happened. Ubisoft bought the franchise from 3DO, but in "material terms," they essentially received only the "game discs." There was no encyclopedia of the old Might & Magic world; there were only scattered stories known from the campaign plots. Then, Ubisoft representatives started scouring "Heroes" websites, trying to gather as much information as possible and tie it all together into a "unified whole." But it didn't work: the information often contradicted itself, so they decided to rewrite everything "from scratch."

No, this is utter nonsense. What "campaign plots" are they talking about? Besides the Heroes campaigns, there are NINE games in the main series, plus spin-offs about Ardon, and three books. And the plots don't contradict each other at all; there are only a few minor inconsistencies. And that's it. Furthermore, by the time Ubisoft acquired the rights to the brand, the "History of M&M" already existed on the "CRPG Anthologies" website, already in its second edition. Ubisoft simply couldn't be bothered to properly study the game's lore (they even said for some time that Erathia, Enroth, and Jadame were continents on the same planet as Chedian), and now they're making excuses. It's a disgrace, frankly.

I'm currently in negotiations with one of the insiders to have him and Marzin suggest to the developers that they connect Ashan to the old universe using external text in one of the missions.