I've heard mixed things on this: is this actually true? I have heard people who might know say that Vates and Haktoo were the same GM, and I've heard they were different. I honestly don't know; but even haktoo was fine for quite a while.
Yes the reason there is confusion is at one time we had two Zuma GM's. One left so now we have only one. While we had two, there were some different "factions" within the Zuma. This still exists to some extent, but is no longer as pronounced. The Zuma now act the same as THOSE Zuma have always acted. Vates acted differently, Vates was never all there was to the Zuma though. Just like our own realms, the Zuma have disagreements, power struggles and the like, they aren't a hive mind.
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