View source for User:Subvisser5

Hello all! I first experienced [[The Gamers]] on Youtube at 240p in the mid-2000s. Now, I'm super into [[The Gamers: Hands of Fate|Hands of Fate]] and [[Countermay]].

I cleaned up the [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/Romance_of_the_Nine_Empires_Wiki R9E Wikia/Fandom.com wiki] (the one created to add a mythic history to [[Romance of the Nine Empires]] in 2013) with lots of sources and stuff in 2019 and was pointed here from [https://discord.com/invite/fhPckP7 the ZOE Discord] (I'm random-allium-table there) by [[User:Moritz.schubert.pb]]. My wiki passion is in citations and internal hyperlinks. Hope to talk to you soon!

==Articles to Create==
<ul>
<li>[[Alaric Buxtehude]]
<li>[[Simm Buxtehude]]
<li>[[Myriad Buxtehude]]
<li>[[Emissary]], The
<li>[[Ulix]]
<li>[[Salia the Slaughterer]] - https://www.instagram.com/p/ob2WqpQD-7/
</ul>

==R9E Fandom.com Wikia: Origins==
The old Wikia was created by a professional creative team to promote the movie and game (confirmed by the ZOE team in a Youtube comment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkyrykLnxI&lc=UgyyqBETTNC3OH1JHeR4AaABAg ). Most of the content on the old Wikia can be traced back to faction descriptions in the AEG card game manual. However, there's a peculiar amount of content that doesn't seem to come from anywhere outside of the Wikia. Here are my most recent notes trying to squeeze ever last bit of lore out of the remains of that project, trying to parse out what was written by the professionals, conspiracy theory cork board style.

===Bread Crumbs: Deep Dive on [[Elbeth the Weeping Duchess|Elbeth]]===
Here's where my latest search started. There is no mention of Elbeth in official ZOE releases as far as I know, so I went looking for where she came from. If she's a fan creation whole cloth, there's reason to delete her article. However, there is another mention of Elbeth on the internet: a [https://sites.google.com/site/fagewiki/items/magic-items/brooch-of-elbeth-the-weeping-duchess Fantasy AGE homebrew item] credited to Ajay Pollarine. The R9E Wikia article on Elbeth was created by [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Shadesofkin shadesofkin] (likely [https://myspace.com/shadesofkin also Ajay]) and [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Utherseth73 Utherseth73] (likely [http://www.zoefan.net/p/fan.html this ZOE fan]). Also, the Wikia article content was mostly added in June 2013, before any public HoF screenings. Were they jumping in on the online promotional campaign (which started in Jan. 2013) as fans or were they brought in as part of the promotional team officially?

This got me going...

===More Digging===
In the storyline AEG created to give the real R9E card game a sense of history, they pretended that a database of R9E info had "crashed," the backups "fried," losing all R9E information---their blog post sharing this story [https://web.archive.org/web/20160818153819/https://www.alderac.com/r9e/2013/05/27/major-crash-update/ is archived and available]. A "replacement" Wikia was created in early June 2013 by a small number of accounts:
<ul>
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Utherseth73 Utherseth73] (164 edits, mostly adding images and dumping faction descriptions from the AEG rulebook, which had not been publically released at the time)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Roborangutang Roborangutang](48 edits, mostly wiki maintenance and admin duties)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Otteriffic Otteriffic](46 edits, mostly adding images and a fictional tournament story about Ord players)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:MKgorgone Kgorgone](11 edits, dumping a large amount of Shad-Hujem lore)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Shadesofkin Shadesofkin](3 edits, all to the Elbeth article)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Shad-O-Facts Shad-O-Facts](3 edits, all to fictional tournament info)
<li>[https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Ordislife Ordislife](1 edit, adding a category to the Ord article)
</ul>
Activity didn't pick up again until Oct. 2013, after HoF was already released. This is reason to believe that content posted to the Wikia in June 2013 might have come from a promotional team, rather than AEG or ZOE fans. Roborangutang [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Roborangutang/Welcome! posted in kayfabe] that the old Wikia was "the rebirth of the [R9E] wiki," but there was no way to know whether they were a pro or just an altruistic ZOE fan...

Then I found [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:2087 this bombshell conversation]. Roborangutang was in familiar contact with AEG, and Utherseth73 had access to an early copy of the R9E card game manual! If no one else, we know those two were coordinating with pros if they weren't pros themselves.

===Who was Rhea?===
Suddenly, in mid-Oct. 2013, a newcomer leaps onto the scene. [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User:Rhea_Flint Rhea Flint] is a fully [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe kayfabe] account, from the profile to [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MKgorgone/The_Gift_and_Truth#comm-2253 a couple] [https://r9e.fandom.com/wiki/The_Apple_of_Life%3F#comm-2252 comments] they left on some pages. This account is in-character as if the game's history is real, and they're