This is a thread split from the Gen Con 2017 thread. Context: Report on the Letters Page Live podcast.
Go back and review the episode… I've forgotten the details, but the Nexus seems to have been brought to the surface by the early Virtuosos. The first one was from ancient Sumer, so it was brought to the surface in time for the colonial period.
(I know I was listening carefully for that, since the question was in my mind based on the language A&C were using, with "spirits" and "blight" and the like.)
Another tidbit: they declined to answer whether Akash'Bhuta might appear in a future expansion to Spirit Island. (They were going to say something sly like, "Maybe you already have!", but then backed off and confirmed that we have not seen Akash'Bhuta in Spirit Island.)
I'm fine with the Nexus of the Void gaining influence in the deck because of Spirit Island but being tied together still seems odd. The Nexus of the Void would have been an idea they had in mind when they started SotM and especially by the Infernal Relics expansion which would have happened before they knew of Spirit Island. So this seems like an unnecessary retcon though maybe their explanation will have me feel better about it.
Nobody asked how it came about that Spirit Island was in the world of Sentinel Comics. I know that Spirit Island, the game, was developed quite independently before Greater than Games started publishing it. I'm presuming that it was something like the situation with Kismet as described in her episode: the independently-created Spirit Island, that they wanted to publish anyway, meshed well with something they had already been thinking about.
Yeah I was wrong on that point timing wise. I still want to hear the explanation on what I see as an unnecessary retcon.
I don't see it as a retcon so much as simply filling in the gaps. The Virtuosos raised the Nexus to the surface a long time back, and then it basically drops out of Sentinels history until the Akash, Nat, and AA visit it during OblivAeon. Presumably other stuff happened in between those events, so why not Spirit Island?
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Sentinels assumes a shared history that we have with these characters inserted. Spirit Island notes that it is alternate history from colonial times.
Maybe it’s the same island just different timelines. So Nexus of the Void is Spirit Island in that they are geographically the same. But in one timeline it’s 2017 and there are superheroes and such while in the other in the Colonial Age but European history is a bit different.
