Talk:Rimuru Tempest/@comment-39763180-20191013105504/@comment-12642484-20191014154810

Things did change a lot though. The "structure" of the story remains the same, but a lot of things are already very different between WN and LN, like the Celestial Sages of the Ruberius church, who IIRC survived until the end in the WN as Rumina's followers, while in the LN they turned traitor and got killed by Ruminas, Diablo and Nicholas respectively.

Then there was the whole Rosso arc. Centering around two characters from the LN that didn't exist in the WN. Mariabell Rosso and Granbell Rosso. The former being a girl who is actually a reincarnated billionaire (male) from earth, while the latter is a retired Hero. The Rosso family constrols the Western Nations from the shadows and even cooperates with the Eastern Empire.

Velda appearently gets killed off by Yuuki at a point where it was nothing more than a "voice in Yuuki's head" in the LN and Yuuki want to conquer the world rather than destroy it. Also he failed to turn Chloe into 3-wishes-granting slave this time around.

Rudra is young and at full mental capacities, unlike the demented old man that he was in the WN. Furthermore Justice Lord Michael is a Manas now and there is a new antagonist called "Feldway" who got a power that should be quite familiar to those who finished the main story of the WN, i.e. sending someone to the end of space-time.

So yea, there are a lot of differences.