User blog comment:SsVivid/Divisional Split Theory/@comment-5519258-20120924165731/@comment-4536066-20120924213648

I'm not saying that nobody ever does it well, because on the rare occasion, they do.

Something that this does for us is not only make it easier to accept and justify not-quite-perfect mahjarrat, but also covers several of the intricate technical details of writing a mahjarrat's background in one fell sweep.

For example, on the thread in our dedicated forum, it was mentioned how Kato Drakkar's mahjarrat wasn't in Zemourgal's notes because he faked his death during the third age and disguised himself as a human. That's perfectly legitimate and justified - it's very plausible that one mahjarrat could pass under the radar in this manner if he played his cards right. The issue arises when you realize that we have twenty or more roleplay-Mahjarrat who faked their deaths at some point and are pretending to be humans, and it starts to become seriously unlikely. This theory, then, explains how we could have 40+ mahjarrat running around that nobody ever mentions and who never show up to any in-game Mahjarrat events in quests, without jeapoardizing the biographies everyone has worked so hard on.

It just... it generally makes everything fit together more smoothly.