Talk:Moonstones

Blackrock Moonstones ?

I was reading an interview with Richard Garriott in the U9 hintbook, and there it goes - he mentions that Moonstones and the Orb of the Moon are made of blackrock. Which kind of make sense I guess. I wonder should this be mentionned here? I'm not too sure about having thing from developers used about factual canon (this should be kept for ingame stuff), but perhaps it might be worth a mention in a trivia bit. What do you think ? --Sergorn 00:08, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you. Useful as trivia information, but not really canon. 00:50, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Ah yes, I meant to add that info at one point but forgot about it. I agree it's probably more appropriate to put it in Trivia, since it's never explicitly mentioned in-game. --Terilem 04:35, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I added the trivia to this article and to Orb of the Moons. From the tone of the conversation, it looks like this part of the interview originally came from Ultima: The Avatar Adventures. It would be excellent if someone could confirm this, however. --Terilem 06:47, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

As per the above discussion, it was previously decided that the piece of trivia regarding the moonstones and Orbs of the Moons being made of blackrock should not be integrated as canon into the main body of these articles, as the only source is an interview and nothing in-game. I still stand by this position.

Furthermore, is there anything in Savage Empire confirming that the giant moonstone is actually made of blackrock, as claimed in the article? It's a tempting connection to make, but I haven't been able to find any concrete evidence in the transcript. --Terilem (talk) 22:50, 4 April 2013 (PDT)

Ah, I had totally missed this conversation. Sorry about that, I'll just undo those changes. Now, personally, I still maintain my opinion about the fact that "canon" doesn't make much sense in an encyclopedia. I tend to be an integrationist, which would be the exact opposite of defining a canon. But we did decide somewhere else that we would use the idea of canon to decide where to put things in an article, though it was mainly to see how to put contradictory information from different sources inside an article. Anyway, I guess this is kinda being consistent with that. --Sega381 (talk) 07:14, 5 April 2013 (PDT)

Oh, and about the giant moonstone being made of blackrock, it was just a consequence of the moonstones being made of blackrock. If we take that as true, and since the article mentioned that the giant moonstone was made of the same material as Britannia moonstones, then you have that the Eodon giant moonstone was made of blackrock. I don't know if it is explicitly mentioned anywhere. But, at least for now, in order to be consistent with what we are saying about blackrock and trivia, I removed that.--Sega381 (talk) 08:14, 5 April 2013 (PDT)

Not canon?

I thought that comments by the game authors (especially the prime author) carry weight against canon. It may require careful analysis of his words, but I had the idea that if someone in authority says this is the way it is, even though the execution of the game doesn't make that clear, this is the way it is.--The Ultra-Mind (talk) 20:51, 19 January 2021 (UTC)