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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/v2.png]]
2 [[caption-width-right:350:Enter the Immortal War]]
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4-> ''"I looked away..."''
5-->-- '''Everyone, at some point.'''
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7Beginning as Guardians Arising in 2013, Rise of the Believers is a jcink hosted site based [[AdaptationExpansion loosely]] in the world of Rise of the Guardians. Set a decade after the war in 2012, [[BigBad the Nightmare King]] is back and ready to begin the war anew - only this time, [[BigBadEnsemble he's creating an army.]] The Guardians have started amassing allies of their own, and both sides fight a deadly war for the belief of human children. Humans, of course, are left relatively in the dark and unawares. Sporting a cast that hails from various worldwide folktales, stories and mythos, Rise of the Believers explores belief as a mechanic of power, the uglier aspects of [[WarIsHell war,]] and of course, love, friendship and camaraderie.
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9There are five major groups a character falls in.
10* [[TheTeam The Guardians,]] who work for [[BigGood the Man in the Moon]] and aim to bring joy and light to children around the world, and protect them from harm and fear. For the most part, they require belief to be seen.
11* [[RoguesGallery The Court of Shadows,]] who work for [[BigBad Pitch Black]] and aim to bring about a world of darkness and fear. Some of them have [[IJustWantToBeLoved valid]] [[ReluctantMonster reasons,]] and despise that humans outcast them simply for existing, so it's [[BlackAndGreyMorality not easy to classify them all as villains.]] Most can't be seen by those who don't believe in them.
12* [[TheAgeless Immortals,]] who are typically neutral on this whole war thing, but rely on belief to exist nonetheless.
13* [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Creatures,]] who can range from [[ToServeMan kelpies and wendigos]] to [[CheerfulChild pleasant and friendly flowers.]] Typically they're out for their own gain, like Immortals, only their lives tend to be shorter.
14* [[HumansAreAverage Mortals,]] who are, for the most part, just your average clueless humans. Some are CursedWithAwesome or otherwise have magical powers, and some are young enough to believe in magic, but the rest have no idea that there's a war going on around them.
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16You can find a link to it [[http://riseofthebelievers.jcink.net/ here]].
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18!!Rise of the Believers shows examples of...
19%% * AerithAndBob: To be expected with a cast of modern, ancient, and alien people.
20%% * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified, most Celestials came to earth a long while ago.
21%% * AllMythsAreTrue: From Snow White to Zeus to Santa Claus, it is a central theme of belief in a way.
22* AgeGapAlgebra: Some of the ships include characters that are hundreds if not thousands of years apart, though they're within the same mental age bracket.
23%% * AmbiguouslyHuman: So many, though the fae come to mind as the biggest perpetrators.
24%% * AscendedFanon: A couple examples that have gone down in the cbox. The very existence of the Stork, for one.
25%% * BadassFamily: We like to consider ourselves one of these. In character, there's the Greeks, the Celestials, and the Brat Brigade....
26%% * BigScrewedUpFamily: The Greeks for sure.
27%% * BlackComedyCannibalism: One of the cbox pastimes.
28%% * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: There are multiple variants of these on the board, male and female.
29 %% * A mixed gender case for puppy!Shuck rescue team, respectively Leora, Ninianne, Caer.
30%% * BreakTheCutie: Happens oh so often to oh so many characters.
31%% * CanadaEh: Carma. [[ExploitedTrope Gleefully flaunts it.]]
32%% * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Many mythical characters good or bad. Things go bad if no one believes in their existence.
33%% * CloudCuckoolander: Basically everyone on the forum, to some degree.
34%% * CommonTongue: The Celestials had one in addition to their individual Constellation languages.
35%% * CoolBigSis: On the forum, Asgard and Alivi could be seen as this. In-character, quite a few among the Gods and Celestials.
36%% * CoolOldGuy: Arguably quite a few characters to the point where one questions what is "young".
37%% * DeadpanSnarker: Spotteh, Carma, Shade, Katrina, Sam. Even Alivi and Chickadee get in on it sometimes.
38%% * DisappearedDad: This has occurred to a couple characters; some of them are unaware they have children floating about. [[CharacterDevelopment We're working on that.]]
39%% * DysfunctionalFamily: To call the Greeks this would be an understatement.
40%% * EvenEvilHasStandards: Pitch; he may be fine with murder under normal circumstances, but when you threaten children, his primary source of fear? [[BigNo No.]]
41%% * FreudianTrio: The first three Admin could be seen as this. Not exact, of course.
42%% * [[TheSpock Alivi,]] [[TheMccoy Carma,]] and [[TheKirk Lady Archive.]]
43%% * [[TheSpock Megaera]], [[TheMccoy Tisiphone]], and [[TheKirk Alecto]].
44%% * The Ladies of the Lake could be this or a PowerTrio.
45%% * GagCensor: Taken to extremes in the cbox. [[WordOfGod Enjoyed heavily by staff.]]
46%%* GalacticSuperpower: There were many of these, well until Pitch [[TheBadGuyWins won his war.]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt It was not pretty.]]
47%% * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: They do not like to admit this particular fact.
48%% * GenkiGirl: A fair few members, including Carma, Chickadee, Nara and Alivi. Even more among the characters.
49%% * GentlemanSnarker: Charles, especially in the In-Character Cbox. Pitch, even more so.
50%% * IAmVeryBritish: Teapot, even in name alone.
51%% * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Sam. [[WordOfGod Her mother works at a church.]]
52%% * ImmortalityInducer: So many, even gods of death voice their annoyance.
53%% * {{Invisibility}}: Many characters can not be seen by humans, unless said humans is magically inclined.
54%% * JerkAss: A number of members, with love. A number of characters, not so much with the love.
55%% * LauncherOfAThousandShips: There are a few. See the Rotb Shipping Dock.
56%% * TheMatchmaker: Eros, Aphrodite and Caerwyn all fill this role.
57%% * MemeticMutation: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by our resident meme generator, Chickadee.
58%% * NoodleIncident: Plenty of these, especially with older characters who have hundreds of years of history behind them.
59%% * OfficialCouple: Quite a few.
60%% * Kellori
61%% * Caspaigen
62%% * Cupinoot
63%% * Malice
64%% * PlanetSpaceship: The Moon Clipper
65%% * PortmanteauCoupleName: Most ships qualify as this.
66%% * PromotionToParent: In-character, there's Paigen, Nootau, and Megaera.
67%% * PungeonMaster: Carma, and Spotteh to a lesser degree.
68%% * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Celestials are this; very few of them have much chemistry, but when push comes to shove, they'll work together.
69* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Haley kinda had this in her return as a Valkyrie. Guardians/Celestials held a very large funeral for Caspian
70%% * RoboShip: Ultimately any ship with [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Antares.]]
71* ShipperOnDeck: It's sort of in the Love Bros job description and Fairy Godmother gets very excited about budding romance.
72%% * {{Shipping}}: To be expected. There's a doc for that.
73* SignatureMove: Carma's pinning of the new'uns. Shade eating people. Teapot slobbering on people. Tammy nomming people. Nara tackling people. A lot goes on in the cbox.
74* ShipSinking: Not all ships have happily ever afters.
75* ShipTease: Far, far too much. Often used for speculative ships where the members in question are [[WillTheyOrWontThey uncertain if they'll get together.]]
76%% * Shout Out: Often in the cbox to the point that some words are filtered to the meme or quote in question.
77%% * SpacePirates: What Dream Pirates were.
78* StraightMan: Gengar has shades of this. Shade, Spotteh and Kat also qualify. Among the characters, there are too many to count on this page alone. Highlights are Arwynn, Antares and Souji.
79* TheNicknamer: There are a few on the site, to the point that nicknames are used in place of names.
80* TangledFamilyTree: Between the long lost relatives and frequent adoptions there's family connections all over the place.
81%% * {{Technobabble}}: Invoked by [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Carma]] and her love for steampunk.
82%% * TheChosenMany: All of the Guardians qualify as this.
83%%* TwiceShy: Merlin and Ninianne, they've even been [[EveryoneCanSeeIt called out]] on it by a few people and still deny it.
84%% * VitriolicBestBuds: Quite a few both in-character and out of character.
85%% * [[GenkiGirl Carma]] to [[DeadpanSnarker Shade.]]
86%% * Nootau to Alhena.
87%% * Spotteh to a fair few.
88* WickedCultured: [[BigBad Pitch]] is particularly fond of literature inspired nightmares.
89%% * WriteWhatYouKnow: True of many members.
90%% * TheSnarkKnight: Spotteh and Shade. In-character, Torrance.

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