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.
Tropes:
- 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.
- Hard Light: Barriers, which can be cast by Physical Mages.
- Our Elves Are Different: Elves in this setting don't consider themselves better than everyone else.
- Precursors: The Principia, and their creators.
- 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.
- You All Meet in an Inn: The Raven Mythic inn and tavern is the central location.
- 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.
