A question regarding Chaos canon.

[Lord Satin]

This may seem like a pointless question, but I'm completely serious.

In my posts, I tend to make references towards commonly known events/individuals/lore, mostly for the sake of fun. I oft utilize historical events (many of which fall into Legends now, unfortunately...) when writing up a character, mainly when making up an item's origins, etc.. For example, I may note that an ancient sith warblade one of my (in progress) characters found likely existed in the Great Hyperspace War. That's a non-canon event.

So is "Legends/EU" considered canon here? Revan, Starkiller, TOR, Tulak Hord, Naga Sadow, etc.. They are real historical characters/timelines on Chaos, yes?

I ask because my current character project leans slightly on some of these ancient Sith Lords (I did read the rules, I don't intend to use them in a direct way, but I do intend to reference them), and I'd hate to accidentally break site canon.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

[member="Lord Satin"]

Yes, we don't maintain the distinction between current Canon and Legends: most of us grew up with Legends, reading the books and comics, playing the games etc. Those are canonical here, and the events of TFA are less so (although obviously those have been incorporated, too - we even have a character with Kylo Ren's lightsaber!). But, for your purposes, those Sith Lords did indeed exist, and are considered canonical by the majority of the writers here.

 

[Lord Satin]

And I am glad to hear it.

Finally, so much freedom. I can only, quite literally, imagine how fun it'll be to have my rather untraditional Sith trained. Which reminds me, I should probably go ahead and ask for a trainer!

Thanks for the quick answer!

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

[member="Lord Satin"]

Might be worth finding yourself a 'playby' and whipping up an avatar or signature, to start with. Character bio, too!

There is a lot of freedom to write as you will around here, but do take note of some restrictions: should you wish to learn from a Holocron of one of the above Sith Lords, you'd either need to obtain it from one of the current holders (if it's on the board), or submit a submission to the Factory that outlines what it does and how you got hold of it. That way we don't have new members claiming that they were personally taught by Darth Andeddu, Bane and Palpatine, using their Holocrons.

 

[Lord Satin]

Oh no, do not worry. I dare not make such extraordinary claims. My Sith merely found himself wandering about an ancient Sith cave, where he, or should I say it, came upon age-old inscriptions speaking of the great Sith history. Possibly the remnant of a secluded Sith historian?

I'll definitely get a character description, biography, all that up. I attempted to draw my own picture of my character, yet I lack a scanner to import it. And so I must wait with the sheet... Still, I can always describe the character to any potential masters.

Anyway, thanks for the assistance and all! I'll do my best to remain vigilant. I'd like to think of myself as a seasoned roleplayer, but I've got much to learn still.

 

[Samka Derith]

Chaos is far enough into the future and after a galactic plague which destroyed much of the galaxy's knowledge that everything around that is deliberately vague. By keeping exact details vague we get around effectively having both the Legends and current Canon existing at once. Looking at the Canon objects possessed, you can see objects belonging to both Mara Jade and Kylo Ren listed there.

As most of the depth of Star Wars knowledge comes from the Legends continuity, you'll find a wealth of elements from it appearing. If we were to only use things confirmed by the new continuity, half of the characters on the board couldn't exist due to their species! Likewise we have The First Order as a major faction now and much of their faction lore and backstory comes from The Force Awakens, for obvious reasons. So the events of that film and characters like Kylo, Snoke and Hux are referenced quite often but not usually in a way that invalidates Legends. Basically if there are any contradictions it can be shrugged off as "It was centuries ago and we lost the true version of events."