Lore- Once upon a time all the magical fairy tale characters we grew up reading about, from the fairest Sleeping Beauty to the dastardly Headless Horseman, lived in their equally magical worlds called the Homelands. They all lived their happily ever afters in the Homelands, though in some cases not so happy ever afters, until one day a monstrous being named the Adversary began to conquer their worlds with it's massive army of monsters. As the Adversary took control of more and more of the Homelands his army only grew and became more powerful, destroying or forcing whole kingdoms to join him. Those of whom who managed to escape the Adversary's grasp began looking for somewhere safe to live. Rumors of a sanctuary world began to circulate. The sanctuary world was the Mundy world, our world, where no true magic existed. The refugees who made it to the Mundy world founded a community that they called Fabletown in the 1600s at a spot north of New Amsterdam, the location of present day New York. King Cole, the king known from the Old King Cole nursery rhyme, was elected almost unanimously as their first mayor and served for many years. The Fabletown Compact was the founding document of Fabletown. Every citizen must sign it and under the compact amnesty is granted for all crimes committed in the past, including murder. The only person to be stricken from the compact is Hansel. To help manage and protect the fairy tale characters of Fabletown Snow White, the assistant to the Deputy mayor Ichabod Crane, tracked down the monster wolf known as The Big Bad Wolf and offered him the job as the community's protector, but only if he would be willing to take human form. The wolf accepted, took the name Bigby and the role as the town's sheriff. As the city spread, the fables had to establish The Farm for fables that can't pass as human. Eventually, the entire community was absorbed into New York. The main building of Fabletown is the Woodland apartments, it serves as housing for many of the community's fairy tale characters and is where both the mayor's office and sheriff office is.

What are the Homelands?- The Homelands are a diverse collection of worlds that were the homes to every known Fable. Each type of Fable, Germanic, Arabian, English, etc., has a unique world that houses all of the legends of that culture. There also exist magical gateways that link one world to another.

What is a Fable?- A Fable is what the fairy tale characters and creatures of the Fabletown community call themselves. Fables, unlike normal people, don't age. They tend to stay the same age as they were in their stories, such as Pinocchio stays a small boy and King Cole stays in what appears to be his 50s. Fables are also much more durable than humans, they can take a beating that would kill normal person and keep going.

What is a Mundy?- Mundy is what Fables call normal people and anything that has to do with the normal people's world, it is a shorten nickname for mundane.

What is a Glamor?- A Glamor is a form of spell used to disguise the appearnce a Fable who does not look human naturally or can't do so on their own. Glamors are provided by the witches and warlocks that live on the 13th floor of the Woodlands, though like all of their spells they are expensive.

What is the Farm?- The farm is the up state branch of Fabletown where all of the Fables who can't appear human and can't afford a Glamor are sent to live. Though it is not a prison none of the nonhuman residents are aloud to leave with out a glamor, which means most can't leave. Though there is one exception to this rule in the case of the flying monkey Bufkin, but he stays in the Woodlands 24/7. One of the rules of the farm is that Bigby is forbidden from ever setting foot on it's grounds because he ate many an animal Fable back in the Homelands.

Rule number one for a Fable- The golden rule for all Fables is that they do not exist. They have to do everything in their power to make sure no Mundy finds out about their existence, many dark deeds have happened to keep this a secret.

What is the Fabletown Compact?- The Fabletown compact is the document all residents of Fabletown, whether they live in Fabletown, the farm, or any where else. It erases all the crimes one committed in the Homelands, such as witches cooking kids or giants crushing whole villages.

1. Grand Green Florist/Chateau D'if Fencing Academy (Second Floor)
2. Edward Bear's Candies
3. Ford Laundry
4. Nod's Books
5. Lewis' Antiques
6. I Am The Eggman Diner
7. The Yellowbrick Roadhouse (Extents to 2nd Floor)
8. Webb 'n' Muffet Market
9. Woodland's Front Courtyard
10. Woodland's Garden
11. Woodland Apartments
12. Glass Slipper Shoe Store
13. Branstock Tavern
14. Vacant
15. Stone Soup
(I am open to changing these if some one wants to own one of these buildings listed)

Name: Abdul Alhazred. This name is (falsely) thought of as a pseudonym by his readers.

Nickname: Abdul

Race: Humanoid Fable

Gender: Male



Job: Abdul makes a tidy sum as a writer of coffee table horror novels. He has written several books on alternative medicine and spirituality, to mixed reception.

Personality: Despite his history, Abdul embodies the very concept of a kindly old man. He is always happy to accept guests into his home, and holds no small amount of patience for children and pets. Abdul's voice is a horrendous grackle-squawk tempered only by a soothing tone and a thick Arabian accent.

Fable: Once upon a time... Abdul was of a scholarly mind from his birth in the early 700s, in The Arabian Homeland. Surrounded by beings with terrific powers, Abdul took it upon himself to record many of the less savory beings living in his Homeland. He traveled across his homeland, learning hushed stories from local shamans and priests, and narrowly evading death at the hands of ghuls, djinni, and other demons of all sorts.

The end result of Abdul's travels and learnings was enough to fill an entire grimoire of dark lore and sinister rituals. Abdul named his grimoire Al Azif, after the mysterious howling noises supposedly made by demons in the night. Not satisfied with the reception Al Azif got in the Homeland, Abdul moved to the Mundane World, and worked his way across medieval Eurasia, learning from the local cultures and adding onto Al Azif.

Abdul Alhazred happily shared his works with all who were curious, and found astonishing popularity as a wizard, medicine man, and exorcist. Al Azif was passed on to a wide variety of recipients, and influenced a large amount of the world's occult culture throughout the Renaissance and beyond.

Al Azif was rewritten dozens of times by Abdul, each attempting to serve a different purpose. Some became holy instructions for demon-hunters, others became an occult recipe book for raising the dead and cursing one's enemies.

The latest of Abdul's rewrites, the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, had found its way into the possession of a little-known English author in the early 1900s. Plagued by nightmarish dreams about what he read in the Necronomicon, the author wrote story after story based off his fiendish night terrors. At the forefront of all these stories was the nightmare-creation of the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred.

Due to the nature of belief and its effects on one's life, this astonishing surge of popularity not only gave Abdul great amounts of power, but it changed him immensely. Once thought of as a kindly old wizard, his public image had turned him into a snaggle-toothed warlock with a crooked back and yellowing eyes. All of Abdul's other works were forgotten, and the Necronomicon entered into the public subconscious as Abdul's greatest and only product. Now known as a mad worshipper of elder gods and sinister demons, Abdul went a bit insane. He produced many more eldritch tomes bastardizing his previous works, and personally headed a number of dangerous cults. Each time, his tome went forgotten, and each time his cult was disseminated within the decade.

In 1950, Abdul realized that his current attitude would only end in an unpleasantly brief moment of government attention, and opted to find some peace away from his homelands. He moved away from the Old World, and emigrated to America. His books on cruel rituals and mad gods found no audience beyond the tabletop wargames crowd, and so Abdul turned his encyclopaedic knowledge of the occult outwards into the fictional realm. Now a little-known writer of penny-dreadfuls and spooky doorstoppers, Abdul eked out a quiet living in New York.

Never one to interact with other Fables, he hadn't even realized that Fabletown existed until recently. When it was discovered that he was the Abdul Alhazred, Abdul was promptly forced into Fabletown, to live with the rest of the Fables. The alternative, of course, was definitely not preferable. Abdul is certainly not a pillar of the community, but he has earned some measure of popularity as the suspiciously kind old freak living in a creepy apartment.

Abilities: Abdul has no actual combat abilities, though his fingernails are almost constantly filthy, and he is abnormally strong for someone of his stature.

Abdul's many travels have given him a wealth of knowledge, focusing on tradition, herbal medicine, ancient religions, and defense against evil creatures. He knows a wide variety of rituals for a wide variety of circumstances, though the materials necessary for them have long ago gone extinct. Only a few rituals can be reliably replicated with modern equivalents.

Abdul is a quite popular author, and his appearance is well-known to his readers. Though he is certainly not a celebrity like the (in)famous Jack, Abdul is capable of using his star power to get small amounts of special treatment from mundies.

Though Abdul is quite hideous, he is not nearly hideous enough to require a Glamor and has had plenty of experience working with mundies. Abdul is capable of comfortably fitting into mundane culture with very little effort on his part.