History DarthWiki / TheChroniclesOfFate

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation (So many different ones are possible. The Revs: Are they the BigDamnHeroes? [[{{Utopia}} Guardians of all that is good and bright and true in the world, keepers of the flame, paragons of freedom and liberty]], LaResistance who are going to beat the bad guys, [[SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved save the day]], [[SavingTheWorld rescue the universe from certain annihilation]], and lead humanity into a shiny new golden age? Or really just a bunch of psychotic mass-murdering terrorists on a scale the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis could never dream of]], chaos-worshipping psychopaths led by a [[EldritchAbomination mad god]] to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt drag the world down the path of destruction]]? The Socs: [[UltimateEvil Utterly, irredeemably evil]] [[TheEmpire Empire]] of [[{{Dystopia}} soulless machines, military cogs, unthinking drones, bleak, omnicidal, demon-worshipping fundamentalist collectivists with no place for individuality]], who in fact are either knowingly (for the higher-ups) serving a force that is using them as soldiers to bring about [[ApocalypseHow The Apocalypse]], or are slaves to said force, knowing or not? Or [[TheGoodCaptain legitimate authority]] who has only been [[BreakTheCutie forced to turn into such a tyrannical state as a result of their enemies' actions]], thus opening themselves up for [[TheCorruption Marcy to take control of them]]. And while we're at it, Marcy's worshippers: [[ReligionOfEvil evil mad cultists]] who willingly worship an EldritchAbomination knowing it will bring [[ApocalypseHow their own destruction and that of all existence]], or [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist-like peacefuls]] who are trying to [[HappyPlace free themselves and the world from the endless cycle of suffering]] by [[TheNothingAfterDeath finally bringing about a peaceful state of oblivion]]? Synths: [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence mindless]] [[ArtificialHuman bioroid slaves]], or [[LoyalAnimalCompanion willingly]] [[BondCreatures loyal pets]] to Revkind who, [[CanineCompanion like dogs]], might [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turn vicious]] if they [[KickTheDog don't like how they're treated]]. The list goes on and on.)

The idea is ''also'' that it's supposed to be not just the one campaign {{Sourcebook}}, which [[DevelopmentHell itself will hopefully ever be finished]], but once it is, beyond that, an entire ExpandedUniverse which will be developed to be set in the same [[TheVerse universe]]-- {{Novel}}s, [[VideoGames Computer and maybe Console Games]], maybe even {{Graphic Novel}}s or {{Manga}}, an [[AnimatedShows Animation]] or {{Anime}}, a CollectibleCardGame or even maybe a [[{{Film}} Movie]]. The hope is that some day people he's never heard of will be writing bad FanFic set in his world. Something like the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, the world of VisualNovel/FateStayNight, or even ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' itself. A {{troper}} can dream, can't he?

* AliensAndMonsters ([[TheEmpire The Socs]]. Their sinister masters, the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]]. ''Their'' sinister masters, the [[EldritchAbomination Evil Demon Gods Of The Darkness]] -- [[GodOfEvil Marcy]], her husband [[TheGrimReaper Chet]], and their children Katey, the [[EnemyToAllLivingThings goddess of decay and plague]], Dee, goddess of lies and deception, Timmy, god of [[AxCrazy rage and hatred]], Zack, god of [[JerkAss Malice]], and Leonard, god of Cruelty. In the setting's [[BackStory past]], there were lots of StarfishAliens running around, but they were pretty much [[AlwaysLawfulGood all good guys]], so they're not this trope. In the setting's future, the Socs become [[TheEmpire The Viral Confederation]], and the Garns become an [[TheAlliance alliance]] of ''unpleasant'' SpacePirates called The Duster Kingdoms. And [[{{You Do NOT Want To Know}} don't even ask]] about The Doomshadows.)

* AGodIsYou (Josh definitely is, of the accurate assessment sort. Somewhere between PhysicalGod and AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. So is his wife, Jen, essentially [[NatureSpirit Mother Nature]]. Their enemy, the evil Marcy, [[AncientConspiracy secret lord of the Socs]], fits this trope too, she's more in the GodInHumanForm category. All were once PowersThatBe/[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]]/{{Eldritch Abomination}}s (and they sort of still are. Like I keep saying, it's [[TheChrisCarterEffect very complicated]]), with Josh having used to have been essentially [[{{YHWH}} that God. You know the one.]] And Marcy being basically the equivalent of [[{{Satan}} the person that that person fights]]. They got [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]]. [[spoiler:Later, in the future of the timeline, they all regain their former power.]] To make things more complicated, most regular PlayerCharacters can [[SerialEscalation become so powerful over time]] with [[StockSuperpowers whatever their particular powersets happen to be]] ([[MindOverMatter telekinetic]], [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotechnological]], etc), that they can eventually come up for some version of this [[EnergyBeings upgrade]] themselves. Has an example up and down pretty much every level of the OurGodsAreDifferent scale.)

* AbnormalAmmo (Revs have guns that [[ElementalPowers fire lightning, that fire air, that fire fire and even water, that shake the earth]] and that project packets of [[ShownTheirWork actual energy, the real kind]], as in, "the ability to do work", (not just [[PureEnergy fancy yellow light]]) through the air, which turns into heat and force upon impact with an object, [[StuffBlowingUp blowing it the hell up]]. They have guns that fire [[SpamAttack tiny showers of metal shards that can rip anything to pieces]], [[FrickinLaserBeams expanding spheres of solid plasma]], [[OrganicTechnology organic weapons]] that fire deadly living projectiles, and [[ArrowsOnFire plasma-crackling Force Arrows]] that can [[{{BFG}} blow apart a fortified bunker]]. The Socs have [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill kinetic rounds that go faster and do more damage the further they travel through the air]], EM-dampening rounds that [[ArmorIsUseless can punch through Rev electromagnetic armor]], [[{{Nanomachines}} nano-filled rounds]] that start pulling a target apart atom-by-atom as soon as they hit it...the list goes on and on and on.)

* AGodAmI (Josh definitely is, of the accurate assessment sort. Somewhere between PhysicalGod and AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. So is his wife, Jen, essentially [[NatureSpirit Mother Nature]]. Their enemy, the evil Marcy, [[AncientConspiracy secret lord of the Socs]], fits this trope too, she's more in the GodInHumanForm category. All were once PowersThatBe/[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]]/{{Eldritch Abomination}}s (and they sort of still are. Like I keep saying, it's [[TheChrisCarterEffect very complicated]]), with Josh having used to have been essentially [[{{YHWH}} that God. You know the one.]] And Marcy being basically the equivalent of [[{{Satan}} the person that that person fights]]. They got [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]]. [[spoiler:Later, in the future of the timeline, they all regain their former power.]] To make things more complicated, most regular PlayerCharacters can [[SerialEscalation become so powerful over time]] with [[StockSuperpowers whatever their particular powersets happen to be]] ([[MindOverMatter telekinetic]], [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotechnological]], etc), that they can eventually come up for some version of this [[EnergyBeings upgrade]] themselves. Has an example up and down pretty much every level of the OurGodsAreDifferent scale.)

It goes a little something like this: It's AfterTheEnd. Well, technically, it's more like DuringTheWar. WorldWarIII has broken out, leading to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. What's left is a [[DesertPunk wasteland]], an [[EarthIsABattlefield endless battlefield]] of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell burning destruction]] where survival or annihilation are the only prizes. For those few [[TrueNeutral Garns]] who aren't tied up with one side or the other, it's a ScavengerWorld, living like frightened mice, few survived the [[ApocalypseHow Nine Days Of Fire]] unless protected behind layers of what is now LostTechnology, which is primarily the two [[OrderVersusChaos main factions]] left fighting it out over what's left of the Earth. The PlayerCharacters would typically take the roles of members of one or the other of those factions, either the [[ChaoticGood rebellious]] [[LaResistance Revs]], who've got kind of a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop going on; that "society is bad" and they're fighting for freedom by overthrowing it; in [[WorldHalfEmpty this world]] they somehow manage to be the good guys-- more established than your typical LaResistance, they've actually got their very own extremely... zealous ChurchMilitant to back them up complete with it's own [[MeaningfulName Meaningfully Named]] EmperorScientist CrystalDragonJesus [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]] called [[http://www.thenazareneway.com/yeshua_jesus_real_name.htm Josh]] (who by the way is actually an ancient [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] reborn in [[GodInHumanForm human form]] after an epic cosmic defeat) -- or the [[ObviouslyEvil evil]] [[TheEmpire Socs]]. What's left of the OneWorldOrder, CyberneticsEatYourSoul is kind of these guys' story. Not that the other guys don't sort of have [[{{Nanomachines}} Cybernetics]] too...and crazy [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], but somehow it doesn't eat ''their'' souls. Well, [[KudzuPlot it's complicated]].

* AirJousting (90% or more of the combat in this series is this. Teleks use their [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]] to fly around, obviously, Soc [[FlyingBrick nanotechnicians]] are propelled through the air aloft on [[AppliedPhlebotinum propulsive nanoclouds]]. When they get to the actual battlefield where their primarily flying armies clash, humongous, incredibly long and brutal sequences of AwesomeButImpractical AirJousting commence, complete with lots of [[strike:[[KiAttacks Ki]]]] [[KiAttacks Telekinetic and Nanotech]] KamehameHadoken BeamSpam, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors matter being transformed into other elements for the purposes of destroying the enemy, created and destroyed to try to damage eachother]], and [[HealingFactor characters constantly healing, soaking up and inflicting more horrendous damage]], not to mention [[ApocalypseHow massive damage to the environment]] until enough warriors are finally [[FromASingleCell completelly melted down to the subatomic scale]].)

''Chaos'' (formerly ''The Chronicles Of Fate'') is a [[TabletopGames Tabletop Game]] [[{{Sourcebook}} Campaign Setting]] currently in production by Tropers/Unknown20Troper. [[DevelopmentHell In theory, it has a publisher lined up ready and willing to publish it as soon as it's done. A successful RPG publisher who's successfully published several RPG books in the past. In practice, that contract was signed a long time ago, has probably lapsed, and it remains to be seen whether the project will ever be finished anyway]]. So ''Chaos'' is currently {{Vaporware}}-- hopefully it ''won't'' advance completely to OrphanedSeries or StillbornSerial status. If RealLife didn't [[CreatorBreakdown keep getting in the author's way]], it would stand a much better chance of getting finished someday.

The idea is ''also'' that it's supposed to be not just the one campaign {{Sourcebook}}, which [[DevelopmentHell itself will hopefully ever be finished]], but once it is, beyond that, an entire ExpandedUniverse which will be developed to be set in the same [[TheVerse universe]]-- {{Novels}}, [[VideoGames Computer and maybe Console Games]], maybe even {{Graphic Novel}}s or {{Manga}}, an [[AnimatedShows Animation]] or {{Anime}}, a CollectibleCardGame or even maybe a [[{{Film}} Movie]]. The hope is that some day people he's never heard of will be writing bad FanFic set in his world. Something like the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, the world of VisualNovel/FateStayNight, or even ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' itself. A {{troper}} can dream, can't he?

The premise of ''Chaos'' could best be described in the XMeetsY style as ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' meets ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' meets ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' meets ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' meets ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' meets ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' meets ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Yeah. SerialEscalation is definitely in play here.

The premise of ''Chaos'' could best be described in the XMeetsY style as ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' meets ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' meets ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' meets ''{{Exalted}}'' meets ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' meets ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' meets ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Yeah. SerialEscalation is definitely in play here.

The idea is ''also'' that it's supposed to be not just the one campaign {{Sourcebook}}, which [[DevelopmentHell itself will hopefully ever be finished]], but once it is, beyond that, an entire ExpandedUniverse which will be developed to be set in the same [[TheVerse universe]]-- {{Novels}}, [[VideoGames Computer and maybe Console Games]], maybe even {{Graphic Novel}}s or {{Manga}}, an [[AnimatedShows Animation]] or {{Anime}}, a CollectibleCardGame or even maybe a [[{{Film}} Movie]]. The hope is that some day people he's never heard of will be writing bad FanFic set in his world. Something like the WhateleyUniverse, the world of VisualNovel/FateStayNight, or even ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' itself. A {{troper}} can dream, can't he?

The premise of ''Chaos'' could best be described in the XMeetsY style as ''{{Rifts}}'' meets ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' meets ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' meets ''{{Exalted}}'' meets ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' meets ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' meets ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Yeah. SerialEscalation is definitely in play here.

The idea is that it's supposed to be published to be compatible with MutantsAndMasterminds under their M&M Superlink License; not so much because it's exactly a SuperHero [[TheVerse world]], although it sort of is that as well, but more because it's instead some crazy SchizoTech AnachronismStew UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny FantasyKitchenSink NinjaPirateZombieRobot SerialEscalation {{Troperiffic}} Fueled-Solely-By-The-RuleOfCool [[TheVerse world]] of insanity populated chiefly by [[PersonOfMassDestruction beings so powerful]] that their interactions can [[PVPBalanced only be handled by rules designed for super heroes]]. And even then, only barely.

It goes a little something like this: It's AfterTheEnd. Well, technically, it's more like DuringTheWar. WorldWarIII has broken out, leading to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. What's left is a [[DesertPunk wasteland]], an [[EarthIsABattlefield endless battlefield]] of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell burning destruction]] where survival or annihilation are the only prizes. For those few [[TrueNeutral Garns]] who aren't tied up with one side or the other, it's a ScavengerWorld, living like frightened mice, few survived the [[ApocalypseHow Nine Days Of Fire]] unless protected behind layers of what is now LostTechnology, which is primarily the two [[OrderVersusChaos main factions]] left fighting it out over what's left of the Earth. The PlayerCharacters would typically take the roles of members of one or the other of those factions, either the [[ChaoticGood rebellious]] [[LaResistance Revs]], who've got kind of a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop going on; that "society is bad" and they're fighting for freedom by overthrowing it; in [[WorldHalfEmpty this world]] they somehow manage to be the good guys-- more established than your typical LaResistance, they've actually got their very own extremely...[[{{badass}} zealous]] ChurchMilitant to back them up complete with it's own [[MeaningfulName Meaningfully Named]] EmperorScientist CrystalDragonJesus [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]] called [[http://www.thenazareneway.com/yeshua_jesus_real_name.htm Josh]] (who by the way is actually an ancient [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] reborn in [[GodInHumanForm human form]] after an epic cosmic defeat) -- or the [[ObviouslyEvil evil]] [[TheEmpire Socs]]. What's left of the OneWorldOrder, CyberneticsEatYourSoul is kind of these guys' story. Not that the other guys don't sort of have [[{{Nanomachines}} Cybernetics]] too...and crazy [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], but somehow it doesn't eat ''their'' souls. Well, [[KudzuPlot it's complicated]].

''The Chronicles Of Fate'' has recently undergone a [[OddlyNamedSequel name change]] to, [[DarkAgeOfSupernames simply]], CHAOS. Throughout the rest of this wiki, it's still going to be referred to as ''The Chronicles Of Fate'', mostly because [[TheyJustDidntCare I just can't be bothered]] to go through and change all the names, but just be aware that's not the name anymore.

''Chaos'' (formerly ''The Chronicles Of Fate'') is a [[TabletopGames Tabletop Game]] [[{{Sourcebook}} Campaign Setting]] currently in production by Unknown20Troper. [[DevelopmentHell In theory, it has a publisher lined up ready and willing to publish it as soon as it's done. A successful RPG publisher who's successfully published several RPG books in the past. In practice, that contract was signed a long time ago, has probably lapsed, and it remains to be seen whether the project will ever be finished anyway]]. So ''Chaos'' is currently {{Vaporware}}-- hopefully it ''won't'' advance completely to OrphanedSeries or StillbornSerial status. If RealLife didn't [[CreatorBreakdown keep getting in the author's way]], it would stand a much better chance of getting finished someday.

* AGodAmI (Josh definitely is, of the accurate assessment sort. Somewhere between PhysicalGod and AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. So is his wife, Jen, essentially [[NatureSpirit Mother Nature]]. Their enemy, the evil Marcy, [[AncientConspiracy secret lord of the Socs]], fits this trope too, she's more in the GodInHumanForm category. All were once PowersThatBe/[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]]/{{Eldritch Abomination}}s (and they sort of still are. Like I keep saying, it's [[TheChrisCarterEffect very complicated]]), with Josh having used to have been essentially [[{{YHWH}} that God. You know the one.]] And Marcy being basically the equivalent of [[{{Satan}} the person that that person fights]]. They got [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]]. [[spoiler:Later, in the future of the timeline, they all regain their former power.]] To make things more complicated, most regular PlayerCharacters can [[SerialEscalation become so powerful over time]] with [[StockSuperpowers whatever their particular powersets happen to be]] ([[MindOverMatter telekinetic]], [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotechnological]], etc), that they can eventually come up for some version of this [[EnergyBeings upgrade]] themselves. Has an example up and down pretty much every level of the OurGodsAreGreater scale.)

''TheChroniclesOfFate'' has recently undergone a [[OddlyNamedSequel name change]] to, [[DarkAgeOfSupernames simply]], CHAOS. Throughout the rest of this wiki, it's still going to be referred to as ''TheChroniclesOfFate'', mostly because [[TheyJustDidntCare I just can't be bothered]] to go through and change all the names, but just be aware that's not the name anymore.

''[[TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' (formerly ''TheChroniclesOfFate'') is a [[TabletopGames Tabletop Game]] [[{{Sourcebook}} Campaign Setting]] currently in production by Unknown20Troper. [[DevelopmentHell In theory, it has a publisher lined up ready and willing to publish it as soon as it's done. A successful RPG publisher who's successfully published several RPG books in the past. In practice, that contract was signed a long time ago, has probably lapsed, and it remains to be seen whether the project will ever be finished anyway]]. So ''[[TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is currently {{Vaporware}}-- hopefully it ''won't'' advance completely to OrphanedSeries or StillbornSerial status. If RealLife didn't [[CreatorBreakdown keep getting in the author's way]], it would stand a much better chance of getting finished someday.

The premise of ''[[TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' could best be described in the XMeetsY style as ''{{Rifts}}'' meets ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' meets ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' meets ''{{Exalted}}'' meets ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' meets ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' meets ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Yeah. SerialEscalation is definitely in play here.

The idea is ''also'' that it's supposed to be not just the one campaign {{Sourcebook}}, which [[DevelopmentHell itself will hopefully ever be finished]], but once it is, beyond that, an entire ExpandedUniverse which will be developed to be set in the same [[TheVerse universe]]-- {{Novels}}, [[VideoGames Computer and maybe Console Games]], maybe even {{Graphic Novel}}s or {{Manga}}, an [[AnimatedShows Animation]] or {{Anime}}, a CollectibleCardGame or even maybe a [[{{Film}} Movie]]. The hope is that some day people he's never heard of will be writing bad FanFic set in his world. Something like the WhateleyUniverse, the world of FateStayNight, or even ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' itself. A {{troper}} can dream, can't he?

->''The year 2246 AD. Earth is a tomb. The corpses of Old Humanity lie buried beneath the desolate, death-haunted wastes of a world that ended in fire. In their wake — new, transhuman races — stronger, stranger, forged in the crucible of war and bloodshed on a scale never known before. For the first time since Neanderthal man shared the planet with early Homo sapiens, more than one species of humans walk the Earth. Advances in technology and changes in culture have led the sons of man down three separate evolutionary paths. Each has their own culture, their own way of life, their own technologies and their own Gods. They have become fundamentally incompatible, and they are engaged in a bitter war for survival.''