The land of Arquetipos - An Urban fantasy setting -

[Orcus The Vile]

So, this is the new setting I have been working on.

There is a supernatural race called Jungians. This race has many subdivisions.
Players are members of a race called “Arquetipos” these creatures come from a realm known as “collective unconscious” this place created by the collective mind of all mortals is home to every single version of every single character from every single from every single story, fable, legend and fairytale.

The Arquetipos are divided in two categories, specific and general.

Specific arquetipos are the specific version of a character form a legend, all the incarnations from the movies adaptations to the bedtime story of a four years old exist at the same time.
The general are the embodiment of an idea and concept of character. A trickster, a mentor or a hermit for example.

The Arquetipos are at odds with another race of Jungians called Ubranoids, these creatures are the physical manifestation of all the bad things mortals perceive in themselves, all forms sins and bad traits.

The setting is earth but no really our earth.

There are three parallel universes that look the same; although similar they can NEVER interact with each other.

The first Universe is called Sun universe, this universe looks like our own but has some supernatural substances that can affect time, space and the very fabric of reality. The time behaves in a dynamic timeline fashion.



The second universe is called star, and it is the universe we live in, mundane with a lot of technological advances. The time in this universe is a fixed timeline.



The third universe is called moon and it’s the main setting and where the Arquetipos live. The time is set in a multiply time lines form, although different from the normal configuration since the timelines only happen on remarkable events with enough magic or energy influence to cause it. Most of the timelines are fragile and unstable falling apart after some days.





The moon universe:
Although most alternate timelines don’t resist for very long a particular unknown event has caused three fixed timelines to be created and exist simultaneously, unlike the universes this alternate timelines can pensive and interact with each other.

Earth one:
In this earth an organization of mortals called Purge, found out about the arquetipos and started hunting and fighting their influence on the world. They tried to fight against the magic of the arquetipos but failed, this event led to many wars and the public reveal of the arquetipos and magic and now the world live in a post apocalypse version of itself with medieval level technology and a lot of fantasy elements and magic.



Earth two:
The conflict between arquetipos and ubranoids evolved into an all-out war against the two races. The Umbranoids had the upper hand forcing the arquetipos to run away to the real world.

Now the surviving arquetipos must find a way to live among the mortals and serve as the last barrier against a Jungian(Ubranoids) invasion.

Magic and arquetipos exis,t cooexisting with a modern contemporary earth and try to fight against the shadows of humanity hearth(Umbranoids) and this earth version of The Purge.

They are forced to keep their identities hidden and low profile, it’s a hidden world of magic in closed communities all over the world all inter connected in the “main arquetipos buildings”, a building in NYC is connected via magic with all the other ones such as the building in Tokyo, this gate ways can be shut in case of attack but are as much as a feature as bug since it’s a big weakness if they fail to contain the umbranoid invasion.



Earth three:
The Purge won the fight against magic and almost destroyed it all, it broke the gateways to the other planes and realms of existence, hunted witches, wizards and the fey.
This secret war led to the end of many mystical creatures in Europe and Asia, and the decimation of many native and mystical creatures in the Americas.



The purge is a strong and powerful secret organization who seeks to end all forms of magic. Since magic is a form of chaos giving form they are seekers of order.

After, many years of hunting, The Magister Mundi one of earths most powerful wizards used almost all his power to create a place called “The Radiant Abyss” since the connections to the others dimensions and planes was lost, he created this demi-plane that constantly grows and placed it in the middle of the trinity of timelines, a feat never seen before specially for a mortal mage, he found out that since he was a temporal unique; Only existing in the third version of the timelines and wasn’t born in the other two, he could place his demi plane in the middle of the timelines and use it as a base to fight the purge having access to all 3 timelines and consequently to their versions of dimensions and planes not closed by the purge.



This demi plane serves as home for the many magical creatures and arquetipos from earth three.
Such feat of power has put the wizard among the most feared and powerful creatures of the universe, and he is now considered the elder, leader, king, emperor and dictator of all things magical and arquetipal in earth 3 and his plan to defeat the Purge is simple, make them irrelevant.

By taking all the magic from the world and sealing the gateway to the Radiant Abyss to not risk an earth 3 purge invasions to other, more magical timelines, he made the order irrelevant, in some centuries the sons and daughters of the elder members will be convinced their ancestors were mad, fighting and seeking myths, lies and delusions. With time the order would decay and cease to exist, like a rotting cadaver soon it would be gone, nothing but dust in the wind.

Tired and weakened by such feats (Unheard to mortals since most of the time, only gods created dimensional planes) The great wizard retired to a long slumber in the hearth of his burning world, leaving three arch mages in charge.

They are composed of:
The Grand Wizard: A wise wizard with a rare disposition he is a fancy academic but with a deep connection with nature magic. He acts as a leader and tries to keep everything in order.



The Arc Mage: A powerful but wicked mage, he is an old man but can shape shift in any form, a sex addicted practitioner of chaos magic, sex magic, elemental magic and energy manipulation, is a very unpleasant fellow but has the raw power to keep things running, weaker only to the original mage, if it was up to him he would burn the purge and earth 3 along with hellfire and rebuild it from the ashes, that place is lost.



The High Sorcerer: A sorcerer slender man deeply twisted and deformed, he practitioner of the darkest and most vile arts but has a good hearth, believes in hope, has a weird sense of humor, multiply personalities and a very odd and eccentric attitude. He is the one who shapes and redirects the second wizard power, has talent and a passion to build things and botanic, despite the destructive and corruptive nature of his magic.



The three Wiseman (as they call themselves) have sealed all the artifacts and objects in one abandoned building in a city of earth since nonliving things can’t enter the radiant abyss. Using all forms of protection and anti-detection spells to keep the building that have infinite vaults in the basement with every single object every displayed in fiction from being found by the Purge.











They also keep a few immortal arquetipos to keep an eye in the world and a few powerful spell casters sealed away in stasis sleep to be awakened when no signs of the order are left, so they can re-open the connections to the Radiant abyss and bring all magic back to earth 3.