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There won't be exactly 26 characters in one year, according to what the post says there will be about 19 marquees if we take into account that they won't work in Holiday and that this "second" ERA will only have 5. They say that at the end of an era they will "try" to make it a special event or a travel guide character event. And if we add the conquest ones there would be 22, 23 plus the legend.
I mean i hope that your right, though i dont rly know how you come to the conclusion of 19 marquees? for the bad batch i know there are 5 characters and 1 legendary type character coming out and not 6 and a legendary but they didnt say that that is the norm. Again i rly hope that im wrong and that im just overly pessimistic about it but that is what i took out of the post. Maybe im wrong, i rly hope that i am... but if im not... thats a lot of marquees, to many to me at least