Hello everyone! We are releasing our table of contents for the trilogy lore today (complete pdf here).
What it is, exactly? Well, when we created MEL we were aware that the Mass Effect wiki was a fantastic source of information. We didnāt want to copy it. Our goal was to provide a contextualized and complete analysis of the Mass Effect lore. For that, we needed a good foundation to work on, and thatās the table of contents that weāre publishing today.
How did you work on this? We tried to take everything into account, including information we couldnāt completely verify and information we still donāt have (though the lack of information is information in itself!). We had a lot of discussions within the team about how to word section headers and possible entries, and we are confident that we have made the table of contents as intuitive as possible. It was a collaborative effort, and we are lucky to have the fantastic team that we have!
So, what now? Now we are going to work on writing lore articles by using our table of contents as a sort of base structure, as well as using all the canon sources we have to do research (one of those sources being the transcripts we are publishing). Itās a big job, no doubt MELās biggest work in progressā¦ Keep in mind this is only for the trilogy. We still have to do the same type of work for Andromeda. Mass Effect is also not a closed canon. We can always edit the table of contents and/or entriesā¦ But at the end of the day, you can think of it as if weāre writing a book called āThe Lore of Mass Effect.ā
If you have any questions please read below first!
Can I join you guys and work on this? Yes. Contact us at [email protected]
If I do join you, do you expect me to work on all entries? No. We believe in letting people work on what fascinates them. If you donāt care for a specific species, we donāt want you to gather information and write a lore article about them. However, if you feel passionate about a specific Mass Effect theme, species, technology, and you feel capable of writing an informed and complete lore article about it, contact us.
What if Iām more of the āgathering informationā type? Contact us too. We can always use help with that!
Can I give you feedback about your table of contents? Sure! Send us an email at [email protected] or contact us on Tumblr.
We are very excited to be sharing this with you, and hope you love it as much as we do!
