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World Wakes & the RS Timeline
This FAQ is cunningly spoiler-free and safe to read. Its purpose is to highlight how we are considering The World Wakes to be ‘in the past’; what that means for RuneScape’s timeline; and why you should be very excited about that change.
What does the following mean in the newspost for The World Wakes: “as of next week’s update, all future game content will work on the premise that this quest happened in the past”?
The World Wakes will affect almost every piece of content that follows it – and not just quests. It will have ramifications for the majority of our release calendar. This change will be seen in updates from next week onwards. This is so that the story of The World Wakes comes thick and fast, rather than losing any momentum.
Fundamentally, this means that next week’s update will contain story that continues from The World Wakes. It will take the form of a holiday event, and will be available to everyone in the game. So, it will communicate some of the events of The World Wakes to everyone, regardless of how far they have progressed through that quest.
Can’t you release next week’s content without including any spoilers?
The dialogue of next week’s update will certainly give you the opportunity to choose whether you hear any spoilers. Unfortunately, while you can control the number of spoilers given to you, the general theme of the holiday event will make the twists in World Wakes very easy to guess.
But I try so hard to ignore spoilers!
We can completely understand that some of you will want to save The World Wakes for a later date, or you may not have the requirements to start the quest yet. We only ask that you understand why we are releasing follow-up story so close to the release of The World Wakes: continuing the story in a week’s time allows us to change the story of the world dramatically and while everyone is (hopefully) really excited about it.
If you are still eager to play The World Wakes without spoilers, we encourage you to avoid any community discussions about the quest, and play the holiday content without choosing any spoiler dialogue.
How is The World Wakes going to be considered “in the past”? Surely all quests are only in the past once I have completed them.
From next week, we will be considering The World Wakes to be in the past from the perspective of RuneScape’s timeline. I can understand why that may seem confusing!
Essentially, from the week beginning the 11th of March, the events of The World Wakes - and a number of other quests - may be referenced in new content, regardless of whether or not you have completed those quests.
Why move quests into the past, and why should I be excited about this?
Moving quests into the past means that you are not required to play The World Wakes (and all the quests that lead up to it) to experience some pretty cool future storylines.
We want the events of the storylines we have coming up to be obvious and important to everyone - even to new players, from the minute they create an account and log into the game. Putting The World Wakes and a number of other quests into the past means that we can affect the world globally, without any quest requirements, based on their events.
Why are you moving quests into the past? I worked hard to complete those quests!
Of course, and putting them into the past in no way diminishes their relevance or importance. If a quest is put into the past, it's because its events are in some way important to the huge storyline events which are coming soon. If you've experienced those already, then what we have in store should seem all the more significant and - we hope - jaw-droppingly spectacular.
Does this mean I can’t play The World Wakes after this week? Will it be removed?
You can play The World Wakes whenever you want! We won’t stop you playing it, and it will remain permanently in-game. The only change will occur before the quest for those who have not played it yet: they will receive a small message noting that The World Wakes took place in the past, so they can mentally adjust and understand how RuneScape’s timeline works. That’s it!
Will more quests be considered ‘in the past’?
Yes. Again, these quests will be prefaced with a small message, letting you know that they took place in the past. There will be no other difference. The quests will still be in-game, playable and we will not remove them. It will not make them any more likely to be reworked or replaced.
The message will be added to the below quests in the near future, and we will be releasing a timeline to explain RuneScape’s chronology in the coming weeks.
Quests to be considered in the past:
• The Lost Tribe
• Death to the Dorgeshuun
• Another Slice of HAM
• Land of the Goblins
• The Chosen Commander
• Tail of Two Cats
• Enakhra's Lament
• Fight Arena
• Hazeel Cult
• Temple of Ikov
• Desert Treasure
• Tale of the Muspah
• Missing My Mummy
• Defender of Varrock
• The Curse of Arrav
• While Guthix Sleeps
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• The World Wakes
• The Firemaker's Curse
• Temple at SenntistenSooooo, seeing as the quest was of the past. This pretty much completely changes the rs history?