Futile Fantasy Trilogy
THE LEGEND
SETTINGS
THE FUTILE FANTASY TRILOGY IS SET IN VARIOUS TOWNS AND CITIES IN AN UNTAMED MEDIEVAL WORLD. BEASTS AND VILE CREATURES ROAM IN THE WILDERNESS. SOME CITIES ARE VAST CIVILIZATIONS WITH PALACES OR CASTLES, SOME ARE PROTECTED BY DEFENSIVE WALLS. OTHER TOWNSHIPS ARE LOCATED IN MORE IDYLLIC AND REMOTE RURAL SETTINGS.
MAGIC
MAGIC IN THIS WORLD IS AN ART FORM. THE ABILITY TO USE MAGIC IS OPEN TO ALL, THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO CREATE IT, HOWEVER, IS NOT. AS A RESULT, THE COMMON MAN RARELY POSSESSES MAGIC. THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF MAGIC ARE BASED IN THE ELEMENTS SUCH AS FIRE, WATER AND ELECTRIC. A TRUE MASTER OF MAGIC CAN CONCOCT A WHOLE VARIETY OF MAGIC CREATIONS FOR MANY DIFFERENT USES.
WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE CITY OF GUEVINA MAGIC IS RENDERED USELESS. SOME BELIEVE THIS TO BE AN ACT OF HOLY INTERVENTION, OTHERS BELIEVE THE WALLS ARE MADE FROM SOME KIND OF STONE THAT SUBDUES AND NULLIFIES THE MAGIC. THE TRUTH IS, NOBODY KNOWS.
EVIL
THE EVILS THAT BESET THE WORLD INCLUDE DRAGON LIKE CARNIVORES CALLED CUDDYFINKLES AND WOLF LIKE KILLERS CALLED GRENDITHS. BOTH WILL ATTACK AND KILL HUMANS WITHOUT HESITATION. IN MORE REMOTE AREAS, A VARIETY OF BIZARRE FREAKS OF NATURE STALK THE LAND. OUTSIDE OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS, NOWHERE IS SAFE. EVEN WORSE THAN THESE BEASTS ARE WITCHES, WARLORDS, BANDITS AND VIOLENT TRIBES. THESE HEARTLESS KILLERS ARE HUMAN BEINGS HELL BENT OF RULING THE WORLD AND POSE A FAR GREATER THREAT THAN ANY HUNGRY BEAST. TIME RARELY PASSES FOR TOO LONG WITHOUT A GROUP OF LAWLESS MEN RISING UP AND WREAKING HAVOC SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD.
THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD FIGHT ONLY WHEN THEIR OWN SETTLEMENTS ARE INVADED OR THREATENED. THE TOWNSHIPS WITHOUT ARMIES ARE QUITE OFTEN RAISED TO THE GROUND AND DESTROYED. SOME ARE OCCUPIED. IN THIS MEDIEVAL TIME, THERE IS NO COALITION OR UNITED FORCE TO BRING PEACE TO THE WORLD. EACH TOWNSHIP ONLY LOOKS OUT FOR ITSELF.
THREE KEYS
DESPERATELY TRYING TO BRING PEACE TO THIS LAWLESS WORLD, "THE CREATORS", A COLLECTIVE OF MYSTERIOUS MYSTIC WISE MEN, CREATED A SET OF THREE KEYS. THE KEY OF PEACE, THE KEY OF JUSTICE AND THE KEY OF LIBERTY. THESE ENCHANTED KEYS, WHILST IN THE POSSESSION OF A PACIFIST, WERE INTENDED TO BRING ORDER TO THE WORLD. SADLY, THE KEYS OF JUSTICE AND LIBERTY WERE LOST. THE KEY OF PEACE REMAINS IN SAFE HANDS BUT ONLY WORKS TO BRING AND END TO WAR, NOT SINGLE ACTS OF AGGRESSION. SHOULD ONE NATION ATTACK ANOTHER, IT WOULD DO NOTHING. SHOULD THAT NATION DECLARE WAR ON THE OTHER, ONLY THEN WOULD THE KEY ACTIVATE. SUCH WAS THE WILL OF THE CREATORS.
THE THREE KEYS, CREATED AS A GIFT TO MANKIND, HAD ONE ENORMOUS DRAWBACK. IN THE HANDS OF AN AGGRESSOR RATHER THAN A PACIFIST, THEY HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT, HEIGHTENING THE PROPENSITY FOR THE KIND OF EVIL ACTS THEY WERE CREATED TO ERADICATE. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE WRONG HANDS, THE KEY OF PEACE WOULD EFFECTIVELY BECOME THE KEY OF WAR. THERE WOULD BE CHAOS. THIS HAS MADE THE KEYS A PRIME TARGET FOR THOSE OF AN EVIL DISPOSITION.
HAVING BEEN MADE AWARE OF THIS FLAW, THE CREATORS TOOK ACTION. UNABLE TO PHYSICALLY INTERFERE WITH THE ACTIONS OF MANKIND, THEY TOOK THE DECISION TO MANIPULATE UNSUSPECTING HUMANS INTO DOING THEIR WORK ON THE EARTH FOR THEM. SHOULD AN EVIL ENTITY EVER GATHER THE THREE KEYS, THERE WOULD BE ARMAGEDDON.
VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE ANY NOTION OF THE CREATORS EXISTENCE. IF THEY HAD THEY MIGHT ASK WHY THEY'D LEAVE THE THREE KEYS, THE SCEPTRE USED TO CREATE THEM AND THE CHAINS THAT POWERED THE SCEPTRE WHERE MAN COULD EVEN GET NEAR THEM. MANKIND SIMPLY CAN'T BE TRUSTED.