History TabletopGame / WraithTheOblivion

* CrapsackWorld: Not only is this the World of Darkness, but you're "living" in the [[UpToEleven darkest, grimmest, most hopeless place in it!]]

** [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Looking at it]] even drives gods ''[[UpToEleven and the things that made those gods]]'' insane. You don't want to know what it will do to you.

* LightIsNotGood: The sect known as the [[SinisterMinister Fishers]] once used the promise of passage to the Christian heaven, only to turn the souls in their care into [[ReforgedIntoAMinion lobotomized plasmic slaves]] that enforce their masters [[KnightTemplar draconian vision of purity]] on the miserable realm known as [[HellOfAHeaven The Paradise of the Fishers]] in the Far Shores. The revelation of the depths of their betrayal was what finally [[DespairEventHorizon broke
Charon's belief in the possibility of Transcendence]].

* LightIsNotGood: The sect known as the [[SinisterMinister Fishers]] once used the promise of passage to the Christian heaven, only to turn the souls in their care into [[ReforgedIntoAMinion lobotomized plasmic slaves]] that enforce their masters [[KnightTemplar draconian vision of purity]] on the miserable realm known as [[HellOfAHeaven The Paradise of the Fishers]] in the Far Shores. The revelation of the depths of their betrayal was what finally [[DespairEventHorizon broke his belief in the possibility of Transcendence]].

* LightIsNotGood: The sect known as the [[SinisterMinister Fishers]] once used the promise of passage to the Christian heaven, only to turn the souls in their care into [[ReforgedIntoAMinion lobotomized plasmic slaves]] that enforce their masters [[KnightsTemplar blinkered vision of purity]] on the miserable realm known as [[HellOfAHeaven The Paradise of the Fishers]] in the Far Shores. The revelation of the depths of their betrayal was what finally [[DespairEventHorizon broke his belief in the possibility of Transcendence]].

** In a more literal example, certain items that are destroyed will make their way into the Shadowlands, from guns to [[UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg rigid airships.]]

''Wraith'' was considered a tough concept to handle, even for the World of Darkness. The characters were constantly at war with themselves (and sometimes each other) while trying to find their place in both life and death. The concept required advanced troupe-style roleplay, with each player playing their own character, someone else's Shadow, and occasionally other characters; for a group that wasn't experienced with this (i.e., players of nearly ''any other'' tabletop RPG), this placed a heavy burden on GMs/Storytellers. The first edition focused more on the personal struggles than the actual setting; it took the second edition to truly flesh out the Shadowlands. ''Wraith'' was the first and only gameline in the Old World of Darkness to be cancelled before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.[[note]]There were a couple pages dedicated to it in the MET's ''Laws of Judgement'', but nothing like the other books.[[/note]] However, its passing was not ''quite'' the ending it seemed, as the circumstances that shut down the setting tied directly into the backstory for both TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen and TabletopGame/MummyTheResurrection, and to a lesser extent, TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning.

* HumanoidAbomination: The Onceborn. As opposed to the Neverborn, they were human at one point, but they were such bastards that upon death, they plummeted right into becoming Spectres, and then ascended to the grand ranks of the Malfeans. Some of them meet a *very* liberal definition of "humanoid," like Mulhecturous the Filth Goddess (best described as a gigantic crab that is constantly rotting and regenerating), but they have a sense of human perspective that the Neverborn lack, now matter how corroded it may be.

* HumanoidAbomination: The Onceborn. As opposed to the Neverborn, they were human at one point, but they were such bastards that upon death, they plummeted right into becoming Spectres, and then ascended to the grand ranks of the Malfeans.

''Wraith'' was considered a tough concept to handle, even for the World of Darkness. The characters were constantly at war with themselves (and sometimes each other) while trying to find their place in both life and death. The concept required advanced troupe-style roleplay, with each player playing their own character, someone else's Shadow, and occasionally other characters. The first edition focused more on the personal struggles than the actual setting; it took the second edition to truly flesh out the Shadowlands. ''Wraith'' was the first and only gameline in the Old World of Darkness to be cancelled before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.[[note]]There were a couple pages dedicated to it in the MET's ''Laws of Judgement'', but nothing like the other books.[[/note]] However, its passing was not ''quite'' the ending it seemed, as the circumstances that shut down the setting tied directly into the backstory for both TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen and TabletopGame/MummyTheResurrection, and to a lesser extent, TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning.

''Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife'', a VR game by Fast Travel Games, was announced in June 2020, for release on all major VR platforms.

** The Dark Kingdoms of indigenous America have also gotten a reprieve. Before, the Dark Kingdom of Obsidian was completely destroyed, and the Lands of Flint and the Lands of Gold (indigenous North and South America), if they still existed, were now possibly hiding deep in the Tempest to avoid Stygia. As of 20th Anniversary, the Dark Kingdom of Obsidian has started making a comeback, with survivors of the Third Great Maelstrom creating their own houses that lurk in the background of Mexico's current Stygian outposts. Further, other indigenous outcroppings exist, but they either lurk in the Tempest and hold a firm grip on who gets access to their Byways (like the Salish in Seattle) or they've learned to blend into the background using shapeshifting Arcanoi (like the Taino in Puerto Rico).

** The Mnemoi have a similar mark from use of their Arcanos, which is why a number of them have hidden out in the Monitors.

''Wraith'' was considered a tough concept to handle, even for the World of Darkness. The characters were constantly at war with themselves (and sometimes each other) while trying to find their place in both life and death. The concept required advanced troupe-style roleplay, with each player playing their own character, someone else's Shadow, and occasionally other characters. The first edition focused more on the personal struggles than the actual setting; it took the second edition to truly flesh out the Shadowlands. ''Wraith'' was the first and only gameline in the Old World of Darkness to be cancelled before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.[[note]]There were a couple pages dedicated to it in the MET's ''Laws of Judgement'', but nothing like the other books.[[/note]] However, it's passing was not ''quite'' the ending it seemed, as the circumstances that shut down the setting tied directly into the backstory for both TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen and TabletopGame/MummyTheResurrection, and to a lesser extent, TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning.

* WorldWreckingWave: ''Six'' of them. Five of the Great Maelstroms were caused by historical events that thrust large numbers of the dead into the Underworld: the fall of Rome, the Black Plague, the Conquest of the Americas, World War I and the Spanish Flu, and World War II, the atom bombs, and the Holocaust. The relic of one of said atom bombs caused the Sixth and final Great Maelstrom when it was accidentally set off near the mouth of Oblivion.

* CelestialBeaurocracy: The Emerald Legion, who even pride themselves on customer service.