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[Katrina Oniseki]

http://www.gameskinny.com/60vjc/everything-you-ever-wondered-about-eve-onlines-backstory-mark726s-eve-lore-survival-guide

Has anyone read this? Any opinions? It's being circulated pretty widely.

[Esna Pitoojee]

It's... hit and miss. Looking at the Amarr section (because it's something I feel I can reliably comment on), he gets the history - slow, but unswerving progression - and social archetecture down pat... but seems to take the Amarr faith to mean that ultimately only True Amarr are actually saved, regardless of faithfulness. Later in his RP tips section he goes on to suggest that there are two categories of Amarr character: The Religious Reclaimer and the Faithless Self-Promoter.

Looking at the Matari section it's the opposite: He's got a lot of the RP archetypes and player-surrounded politics well described, but in history he skips straight from the original Rebellion to the Elder War - which seems to be a bit of a jump, seeing as it passes over things like the Defiants, Khumaak crisis, and peace initiatives (along with the controversy surrounding them) under the leadership of Karin Midular.


EDIT: TL;DR - it's a good simplistic document for the very, very basics of EVE lore. However, if one had only read this document alone and then dropped in OOC, they would likely find out that a lot of things aren't necessarily as presented.

[Morwen Lagann]

He started with a pretty bare-bones version and has been updating it as CCP updates the lore portal on the wiki.

You should mail him ingame if you have concerns about accuracy or such.

[Samira Kernher]

but seems to take the Amarr faith to mean that ultimately only True Amarr are actually saved, regardless of faithfulness.

This is a reasonable belief, and one held by a few RPers I know of. That being said, ideally a guide should include mention of most common variations, leaving the choice up to the player.

[Ayallah]

Props to him for attempting it though, I know I have had a massive headache just trying to build a single source for the Matari.

[Nicoletta Mithra]

but seems to take the Amarr faith to mean that ultimately only True Amarr are actually saved, regardless of faithfulness.

This is a reasonable belief, and one held by a few RPers I know of. That being said, ideally a guide should include mention of most common variations, leaving the choice up to the player.

It's a reasonable belief that some Amarr hold this view - it's not so reasonable to hold the view that is generally how the Amarr see it.

Other than that: I agree with Esna.