The idea behind it lies in @The Freelancer 's signature which quotes Meph.
Basically, this might be a project to collect, classify and generalise the lore of different factions (the best example is The Nomad lore), gathering and fitting all together faction activities, player's interaction, small details, and etc. to yield the extended lore from it.
Why? Because it can be spread as a brochure or a small book, generalising and unifying the knowledge and be an easy access to a lore and history.
From the other hand, it might be just interesting to read through and find something catchy that was lost in time and a pile of threads.
Once again, if you are familiar with The Nomad lore document you can pretty much imagine such for, let's say a house, or a dedicated faction - whoever decides to put effort into it.
Trade-off for the great effort put into collecting the works of playerbase will be the extended knowledge, amount of interesting links to be re-introduced to a fresh public and, I hope enjoyment of reading through the tonnes of text.
Moreover - having everything generalized and in one place will make it much easier for new to get into the things faster and correctly.
Swallow Wrote:Another side note is the format of the Tome of Discovery (suggest your name).
If we are about to gather everything up, the main feature of it must be that any time somebody commits an update, it should be able to be quickly updated.
The documentation might come in different documents, mind it, but what my suggestion is so far:
1. Write-ups are to be in .pdf;
2. The main structure of the Tome could be resembled by an archive (.zip, .rar) with respective subfolders.
3. Make availability through Google drive with multiple edit access.
