Minor Thing

I think you misunderstood what Ari said. He never said anything about the general Shadow/Theatre missions, he's saying that all the limitations of a S/T Mission still exist in the Generation versions. All that's different in G15~ Shadow Missions is that the skies aren't red.

I'm not disagreeing with that, the point is that G15+ does not take place in the shadow realm. Why the heck would you consider eavesdropping on Black Mask and Black Dragon Knight in G18E8 to be a Shadow Mission? Mission being an official term or not is irrelevant in this case.

There are Shadow Missions in the Shadow Realm, and 'Shadow Missions' not in the Shadow Realm?

Shadow missions is just a term for a mission taking place in the canonical Erinn that we normally don't play in, the Erinn where Tarlach is not still just a bear in Sidhe Sneacta.

But you're kinda right. Shadow Realm Shadow Missions give you a separate quest for that mission that prevents you from entering any other shadow realm shadow mission. Maybe we can come up with a different term for the Saga missions.

Why come up with a term for JUST Saga Missions? How is that different than just suggesting the term "Mission"? Also, Theatre Missions and Shadow Missions interfere with each other too, so do Party Quests since that's what a mission is, a Party Quest, just not in an item scroll form. Also, what exactly was your point in that middle line? Shadow missions are in the shadow realm, hence the Shadow part.

The middle line was using the term 'shadow missions' in the meaning of Saga missions. It was originally going to have a qualifier that the Shadow world was also an example of 'an Erinn that we don't normally play in', but that line somehow got cut.

Yes but that would be an assumption, whereas its well established its called as Shadow Mission because it takes place in the Shadow Realm. The "Shadow World" is a specific placed outlined in G9-11 (maybe 12 too?), not a name for anywhere that takes place in a instanced world or outside of the overworld.

G12 has Shadow Realm too, but Falias is considered Shadow Mission and doesn't even take place in the Shadow Realm.

That wasn't in question, what was in question was if G12's story talks of the Shadow Realm.

Too much wall of text makes it hard to follow what's going on.

...so much ambiguity now.

Does anything in the story say weather or not the shadow realm is the same "realm" as the "another world" whose Tir and Bangor you go to for G1 and G3?

To my knowledge no, but G16 mentioned something along the lines that the other world and the shadow realm, along with scathach beach and metus, deteriorated from the soul stream. I THINK G16 refers to them as separate locations.

The shadow Realm was a product of the Caliburn and existed due to its abuse.

I thought Cichol told Shakespeare that it was also the result of the Soul Stream?

You'd think so but Leymore/Cai clearly says they wanted to get rid of the Shadow Realm by returning the Caliburn. Unfortunately that was not the case.

Except its still there in G12 for some reason...

It's something that can't be undone.

So, for all we know, shadow missions might not be the only time the player enters the shadow realm.

Where did that come from? At the same logic (if I'm understanding correctly), Manus's Shop in Dunbarton could be the Shadow Realm which it is obviously not.

Manus's shop is assumed to be the same realm, but both Shadow Realm and AnotherWorld/fakeTirNaNog are a separate from, but mostly identical to Erin/realTirNaNog.

Good you understand that, so what's your point?

My point is that the zombie field may be part of the same "world" as shadow Tara.(and that bringing up the Manus thing was kinda meaningless)

Yes, we do not know if the Shadow Realm and Another World is or is not the same world, or if either are the same world as that which takes place in Vindictus. Sorry for my misunderstanding

Well there's times that the Shadow mission is just a casual meeting.

I called it, ALternative plane of existence for that particular quest for it to be carried out.

If you come up with a different term for them, it will also have to apply to shadow missions since they still run on the same system.

If we do use a new term, just "mission" would be bad, it's literal definition is closer to a quest than to an instance based map. could use something like "ibm"(instance based map) or "NOWM"(non-open-world map). It's hard to come up with a term that's both suitable and short enough to use without an acronym.

"Mission" is too broad of a term. Just keep it as a Shadow Mission since...I think it uses the same Icon no?

Yes, they do use the same icon.

I'm still going with Shadow Mission.

Oh by the way, does Grandmaster Mission have that "Mission" term?

I think that's something coined by the players. I never bothered with my GM quest. No intentions on getting GM just yet...

I'm not voting for changing or replacing the term Shadow Mission, but only calling missions entered from the Stonehenge Shadow Missions. As I said, this isn't a question of Mechanics, I just don't think they should go by the same name (even if we just shorten both to Mission, which doesn't really sound right).

I didn't want to continue discussing this, but Infodude and Sozen's points still stand. Mechanics is the crux of the argument here. The game itself classes these Generation missions (which for the purposes of this post I will refer to as Story Missions) as Shadow Missions, because the quest itself has that Shadow Mission icon on the Quests list when you enter, as well as that info button on the upper right. Call it lazy on devCat's part if you will for, but if devCat is classing it as a Shadow Mission, then it's a Shadow Mission, because that's how they want to name things. Your argument is better taken up with the developers themselves, not this wiki. Shadow Mission, as currently used in the game is simply used to describe a 'mechanic' type (not actually describe something according to current lore), which you may not like due to the misleading and possibly politically incorrect name, but until they give it a more official term (for the Story Missions), it's sticking on the wiki.

Besides, if we do use whatever term you want to use for those Story Missions, every single Shadow Mission-only item (and Barrier Spikes) in the wiki would need to be recategorized as also usable in (your term here) and explained in notes below as to why. And that is simply too much work for something so trivial.

(I like the term Story Mission better, though it wouldn't work with things like GM Missions.) Regardless, I know your point. I would be fine with not changing the term so long as we specifically say it does not take place in the shadow realm for each page that it applies. Whichever takes the least effort I guess, not that we base things on effort. To my understanding, an admin's textreplace doesn't require much effort.

Nexon's inconsistency irritates me to no end, and I am very much in favor of mentioning that these shadow missions are outside the shadow realm on the pages. I'd even go for mentioning it near the top of the page instead of the trivia section.

I could agree with this.

"Could agree with this"? It was your idea.

Being at the top was your idea.