Great question, Hilda! I haven’t read up on DT2, but for years I’ve been comparing in my mind RS3 and OSRS to the split timelines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and to the timelines of the Zelda universe and, even older, to speculations of what
could have
happened to the world of Enroth of the Heroes of Might and Magic games 1-3/Might and Magic games 6-8 after the “Reckoning”).
I’d love to see the lore of RS3 and OSRS integrated in some complex way - like explicitly tracing the split to the death of Guthix. It could be argued that Guthix could not be killed so simply. At best Sliske could kill him in only one timeline; a second timelines
had
to come about. It would be too easy to say that this is just because Guthix was so powerful. Instead, I’d love to see/develop a theory that addresses something analogous to unfulfilled storyline potential. Somehow, if a story went untold, it couldn’t end so easily. Kind of why some souls linger as ghosts while others pass on. A similar dynamic might have been used by the Mahjarrat to draw people into the Shadow Realm.
So my hope is that the lore of RS3 and OSRS could someday get entangled. I don’t know how that might look. But maybe like the mysterious connections between parts of the Wilderness and the Spirit Beast Realm but in a grander and more subtle, lore-focused way.
Questions I’ve long pondered: If a timeline splits, is one privileged and the other doomed to wither and die as its residual potential is exhausted? Do the timelines always ultimately merge? Can both be vibrant? And if so, will
they
merge? And how?
31-Jul-2023 12:07:24