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So, I'm unsure about this, as I know that the idea behind the canon is attempting to assimilate most forms of canon without contradiction, but there's a thing that deeply confuses me about how the extended SCP canon is treated. I'll say that I'm not versed in the SCP extended canon, so I may be making some bad assumptions here, and I ask you to correct me.
As far as I've seen in the wiki, the currently accepted extended canon, or at least the one with the most priority (With good reason, as it is by far the most well-detailed one) is the canon that goes on about the Scarlet King and all that. However, when I was active in the community, it didn't seem like it was something that everyone... accepted, for the lack of a better word. Rather, it was just one canon amongst many. Of course, a particularly good one, and one that many expanded upon with their own theories, interpretations complementary tales, and all that.
But there are many more that have absolutely no relation to them, tales written by people that are their own thing or making part of other wide collections of tales and stories that, in their vision, are not connected to the Scarlet King storyline.
Of course, this is all very muddled. Anyone can write a tale that connect two, vastly different canons, and if they want they can make it so that only specific tales are canon, or not. Heck, there is no measurement here.
So, my question is just a reassurance: The focus on the Scarlet King canon is because of the attention given to the detail and the numerous expansions written by other people? Because, as far as I've seen here, a canon that contradicts things stablished by the Scarlet King storyline are denied in the extended canon key.
As far as I've seen in the wiki, the currently accepted extended canon, or at least the one with the most priority (With good reason, as it is by far the most well-detailed one) is the canon that goes on about the Scarlet King and all that. However, when I was active in the community, it didn't seem like it was something that everyone... accepted, for the lack of a better word. Rather, it was just one canon amongst many. Of course, a particularly good one, and one that many expanded upon with their own theories, interpretations complementary tales, and all that.
But there are many more that have absolutely no relation to them, tales written by people that are their own thing or making part of other wide collections of tales and stories that, in their vision, are not connected to the Scarlet King storyline.
Of course, this is all very muddled. Anyone can write a tale that connect two, vastly different canons, and if they want they can make it so that only specific tales are canon, or not. Heck, there is no measurement here.
So, my question is just a reassurance: The focus on the Scarlet King canon is because of the attention given to the detail and the numerous expansions written by other people? Because, as far as I've seen here, a canon that contradicts things stablished by the Scarlet King storyline are denied in the extended canon key.
