[CWBP2] Races

[Ghostman]

I must be failing really hard at communication here. I keep trying to say that I think it'd be better if we, the authors, didn't know all the facts. Because the more facts we nail down, the less mysterious the setting will seem from our point of view.

I am also trying to say that allowing multiple, independent origins for isolated groups of the same species would be a good thing. Because then someone could, for example, write up a kingdom of people that were transformed from bees into humans a long time ago. Something like that would not be allowed if we'd already decided (for example) that all humans came to the planet through a dimensional wormhole.

[Deadshade]

I must be failing really hard at communication here. I keep trying to say that I think it'd be better if we, the authors, didn't know all the facts. Because the more facts we nail down, the less mysterious the setting will seem from our point of view.

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No you didn't fail, it was quite clear. But for me it was basically a tautology.
The facts an author knows he per definition knows them. And the fact's he doesn't know, he doesn't know them. Besides no author knows all the facts anyway because there is an infinity.
There is always room for an infinity of new, not known facts (e.g mysteries) -, so there is no constraint on anybody but for a small (finite) number of communicated/agreed facts.

So it was neither about facts nor about knowledge.
It was just about what part of his knowledge an author communicates to others and what part he doesn't.
You seem to say that it is better that an author communicates only a (small ?) fraction of what he knows/imagines because what he doesn't communicate can't be "nailed down".
I was saying that he should communicate everything he knows/imagines.

And Azelor was saying basically the same thing like me, adding that the authors can always agree about what will be "nailed down" - probably a sort of voting.