Talk:Salem/@comment-24008802-20190318105454/@comment-35434444-20190318200815

I thinking about this more from a storytelling perspective rather than anything pragmatic in-universe, Anon. Yes, if people really cared badly enough, M&K could cook up some kind of background to explain who Salem's father was and what he wanted, but if the goal of doing that is to just amass more knowledge about the lore, then someone would just wind up asking more questions in an endless cycle.

 It's like explaining something to a child and all they keep saying is, "And what happened before that?" It's a dead end for people who don't understand that a story always starts in the middle of something.