Thelus is a IRC based forum roleplaying game hosted on the Raven Mythic boards
, a community originally set up around the MMO EverQuest II. It is an original fantasy world created by a team of roleplayers after EQ2 was brought down for two weeks due to the April 2011 Sony server hack.
- All Trolls Are Different
- Bad-Guy Bar: The Lumless
- Big Bad: Wintersoul's Herald.
- Black-and-Grey Morality
- Chekhov's Gun: The Sword of Tenebrae. The very first event in the game involved a character finding an incredibly valuable sword on a low-level monster in a sewer. In Tenebrae's Contingency, the players travel to the past and see Black Cygnus kill the sword's rightful owner and gave it to one of her minions as an insult.
- Dark Is Not Evil
- The Dragon: Black Cygnus.
- The Empire: The Wolfen
- Eldritch Abomination: The Anathem.
- Fantastic Racism: Against Silvers.
- Fueding Families: Iniquin and Anathem derived Abyssal Elves.
- Functional Magic
- Friend or Idol Decision: Akuro was forced to make one in Umbral Ultimatum.
- Hard Light: Barriers, which can be cast by Physical Mages.
- Horny Devils
- Incest Is Relative: House N'Tal.
- Lizardfolk: Akkedis, Szlakians
- Necromancer
- Moral Myopia: Most player characters.
- N.G.O. Superpower: The Guild of Navigators.
- Our Demons Are Different
- Our Dragons Are Different
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same/Hobbits: Harboft
- Our Elves Are Different: Elves in this setting don't consider themselves better than everyone else.
- Our Gods Are Different
- Our Gnomes Are Weirder
- Our Orcs Are Different
- Our Vampires Are Different
- Precursors: The Principia, and their creators.
- Proud Merchant Race: Harboft
- Scotland: The Land of the Five Clans. However the capital city Terminus, where the game is set, is cosmopolitan.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Wintersoul.
- Shapeshifting: Silvers
- Standard Fantasy Setting: By design, though the world is in transition to Gaslamp Fantasy.
- Theme Naming: Akuro (kuro, black) and Hikari (light). Akuro doubles as Werewolf Theme Naming and a Shout Out.
- Time Travel: Tenebrae's Contingency, a Stable Time Loop.
- The City: Terminus
- The City Narrows: The Blight, for Terminus
- The Clan: The Drycan major houses, especially House N'Tal.
- Wutai: Shiroishima
- You All Meet in an Inn: The Raven Mythic inn and tavern is the central location.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Wintersoul, Tenebrae, and Tenebrae's contingency plan.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Lydia, in Tenebrae's Contingency, stops Black Cygnus long enough for the party to escape.
- Zero-Approval Gambit: House Entalle executes one during the Abyssal Genesis, leading to them falling and becoming Abyssal Elves.
