How does our world work? Well, that's quite simple; to show you that, I'm going to need a world map.
Imagine your Earth. England, France, India, Argentina. Imagine it without borders––just the landmasses, the Horn of Africa, Vesuvius, the Barringer Crater, the Grand Canyon, the meadows of not-France, the deserts of not-Africa, the islands of not-Japan. Now, replace it with new borders and old, some of them where you might imagine them to be and others wider, more historical, more fantastical. Draw them in. Colour them in.
Now take a pair of scissors and cut them all up.
No, no, that's too neat: rip up the edges, because the Cataclysm wasn't gentle. Blast them all apart, and scatter them all over the room. That's the state of our world right now. Each of our kingdoms which once traded with each other over sea and land routes can no longer do that, because at the edge of our borders, there is just a gaping chasm – a void. Dark magic fills this, and laps up at the edges and leaks through.
Kingdom by kingdom, what you would call 'the fairytale world' (but what we would call 'home') fell apart with us still surviving in the cracked pieces. Famine. War. Death. We continued until we could no longer assure our continued existence, and channelled the very powers that broke up our world in the first place to come to send our best somewhere new, somewhere safe.
That's how we ended up here. Earth. It has been five long years of eking out a living in the sleepy city of Seattle, adapting to a world with technologies that do what our magic could not. Sticking together, sticking close. Our lives are the stories parents tell their children to make them fall asleep. Perhaps, in the last five years, some of us fables have had children of our own.
But all of that is threatened. Seismic events. Long, human shadows that steal away the innocent that only we can fight. Magic is coming to Earth, as those with the ability to tap into it have noticed, and with it, it brings a second Cataclysm.
We cannot let it happen again.
Hello and welcome to the interest check for Written: A Fairytale RP. Following on from the likes of The Wolf Among Us and, more importantly where the game came from, Fables, we want to focus on a dark, corrupted fairytale world that might once have been as innocent as the stories... but it certainly isn't now. It is important to note that it is not just the main fairytales that are being allowed: we accept legends and folktales with characters, classic literature aimed at children (Peter Pan, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland and so forth).
While this RP starts on Earth, it will likely progress at some points – many points – into the shattered remains of the fairytale world(s). For this, we already have some teasers written up to showcase the various tribulations our characters will face in these lands that they might once have originated from:
We have lore, plot and action all ready for you straight from the get-go, and with a bit of elbow grease, we think we can make a story about it.
I know that's a lot of info, but there's really no strict requirements! So, you know, usual two paragraph minimum and a casual standard.
The RP itself has been in the works for awhile as a rework of an old RP that never lifted off due to a busy schedule called Mystvale. ^^
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