Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-8656-20141028192119/@comment-8656-20141029173050

hanks for the replies, everyone.

Actually, one thing I noted in the latest anime episode was Yui's note about the Cardinal System allowing player data, but not map data, to be stored in the event of a map reset.

Presumably that would tie in to what happened with Pina here - in that even though the original data for old Aincrad itself was deleted, the player info (to include avatars and items stored - such as Pina's feather) were in a recoverable condition?

Or to put it another way, the "copy" of the Aincrad castle itself that was used to build New Aincrad is kept apart from the recovered player data used to give SAO survivors their old avatars and items back?