[2022] Lore: The Winter Wanderer

Hello and thank you so much for your passion regarding the Winter Convergence and overall lore of New World.

The insights on how The Winter Wanderer arrived in Aeternum through a cave definitely have a lot of implications as to how things show up on Aeternum. From the darkest reaches of the sea to the highest peaks of the world, it seems Aeternum can be accessed where the veil between magic and mundane is thin.

On the subject of how we can better incentivize loreseeking and reading, we hear you and are taking your comments into account in our future quests and notes. We hear your requests for cutscenes and are eager to add new storytelling tools to our belt in creating New World content as well. We are working on new tools for better camera control and possibly staging some scenes in-game, but we can’t promise anything quite yet. We’re also working on some illustrated vignettes for some of the more impactful parts of the story.

Some of these vignettes might be added to the game sooner rather than later, and we’re very excited to see how players respond.

-Fancypants