'Sentinels' more constant than 'Multiverse'

When I first heard the name of the game Sentinel Tactics, I assumed that 'of the Multiverse' had been left off of the name simply for ease of use, that something like "Sentinels of the Multiverse: Tactics" was considered too unwieldy.

Recently, though, it was revealed (or at least implied) that 'of the Multiverse' was left off because by the time of Sentinel Tactics, the 'Multiverse' had been resolved.

This suggests to me that everything in SotM related to multiple timelines and multiple -verses (still not sure if that's two different things or the same thing) is tied together, and that all of the timelines/-verses collapse into a single one by the time the events of Oblivaeon are resolved.

This further suggests that the events of Oblivaeon happen, in part, _because_ the timelines have been shattered. 

What really blows my mind, though, is that if the above is true, then my assumptions about the name 'Sentinels of the Multiverse' have been wrong! I'd always assumed that from the start Christopher and Adam had conceived of a multiverse that had superheroes in it, but it seems instead that they had conceived of a _universe_ that had superheroes in it and then their imagined storylines included shattered timelines which eventually led to multiverses and a massive cross-universe event.

Recall that the name of the comics is 'Sentinel Comics', not 'Sentinels of the Multiverse Comics'. 

My perspective is shifting around. I used to think of 'Sentinel Tactics' as being a sort of awkward shortening of 'Sentinels of the Multiverse: Tactics', but I now realize that 'Sentinels of the Multiverse' and 'Sentinel Tactics' are just two ways to refer to Sentinel Comics. Probably what happened is that when Christopher and Adam appropriated the characters from Sentinel Comics into the card game and started thinking about what stories they wanted to tell in that game, they settled on the resolution of the multiverse arc as the climax of the game, and thus NAMED THE GAME AFTER THAT ARC OF THE STORY.

That's the thing that's blowing my mind. I think they named the game after the story arc in a way that I did not recognize until we were five years and _every_ expansion into the game. Maybe I'm just being slow about this and others saw this all along.

So, another things related to this. When the Sentinels hero deck came out, the naming seemed sloppy to me. Why would one relatively minor superhero group get the same name as the entire game?! Now we've seen that Chokepoint went to The Sentinels' training grounds, Ft. Adamant, with some sort of mission in mind, and it's all seemingly wrapped up in what's going on in Oblivaeon.

I'm beginning to think that The Sentinels have some crucial role to play in the events of Oblivaeon that I don't understand yet.

Assuming Adam and Christopher had a damn good reason to name The Sentinels the way they did (and why didn't I trust that was the case all along?), WHAT IS THAT REASON?!

Mind…blown…

In the Q&A yesterday Christopher indicated the Sentinels are more powerful than they seem but still have a way to go to get there .   He said that in relation to their Ft Adamant training so while I'm sure they play a role in taking on OblivAeon it sounds like they are just a piece of it just like every hero in the multiverse that was gathered.  

He also implied that The Sentinels' team name is actually "The Southwest Sentinels", saying that the word "Southwest" had simply been truncated off the card backs. So it's probably less of them being THE SENTINELS of the multiverse, and more that they are like the west coast avengers to the Freedom Five or Prime Wardens.  To me this implies that they consider the other groups of heroes to be the "sentinels" of wherever those groups choose to operate. And these four heroes are simply the sentinels of the "Southwest" variety.

In short, I think every hero is a Sentinel. Those four heroes are just the Sentinels of the Southwest.  But since "The Southwest Sentinels" is a mouthful and is a lot to fit on a card back, they just made it "The Sentinels".  They may have a lot to do with the OblivAeon arc, but so does literally every other hero most likely.

Maybe we're all Sentinels...if we believe.

We are all Guise from my understanding.  

Dibs on the Argent Adept!

Hmm, Chokepoint goes to Ft. Adamant with Deadline’s technology…Deadline came to Earth to try to cut off OblivAeon’s power source…seems like the Sentinels, the Termi-Nation fight, and OblivAeon must be pretty tightly connected.

I thought Chokepoint was already at Ft. Adamant when she found Deadline's tech?

Deadline equipment was powered by an oblivion shard. She integrated the oblivion shard in herself becoming a scion and starting to do OblivAeon's work.

Just to keep from things being too distored, wanted to pop in and say that the bit of Endling tech that Deadline used to find the weakpoints in the world was not an Oblivion Shard. Also, Deadline's ability to detect, alter, and even sever ley-lines did not come from the tech he employed.

I'm helpful/additionally confusing!

*smoke bombs*

Okay, now I'm leaning toward Deadline being a hero, if he can mess with / manipulate ley-lines without his tech.

something something whats the pandamonium key something something

The key to the room with the pandas in the Enclave of the Endlings.

Well happy myhonest mistake brought more info on deadline. Now I'm even more curious at what motivated Chokepoint to strike fort Adamant with good timing for OblivAeon's invasion. Doesn't seem likely to be a coincidence.

During a PAX after Vengeance came out, I said to Christopher that I was pretty sure the guys named 'The Sentinels' were probably pretty important. His answer was something to the effect of 'Not yet, but they will be."

And now we know that Ft. Adamant had mysterious shards of power hidden within, Oblivion shards it seems. Which made the Southwest Sentinels into the Void Guard, and we have no idea what that means

Yet…