Fractured Tales
Dark Fairy Tale
Happily ever after is a lie. A once-perfect world of enchanted forests and gleaming kingdoms has shattered into fractured realms where magic runs wild and broken stories clash with each other in endless conflict.
Where Stories Go Wrong
The Verse — the mystical force that once gave each tale its meaning — has been corrupted. Heroes have become villains. Villains have become tragic victims. The endings that were supposed to be certain have unraveled into chaos.
Navigate a world where the Big Bad Wolf leads a resistance movement, Sleeping Beauty has been awake for a hundred years and is furious about it, and Cinderella runs the most dangerous thieves' guild in the realm.
Key Features
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Broken Magic
The Verse runs wild, corrupting everything it touches
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Twisted Inhabitants
Familiar characters reborn into unfamiliar roles
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Ancient Mysteries
Why did the stories break? Who — or what — shattered the Verse?
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Failed Narratives
Colliding story fragments create impossible situations
Subverted Tropes
Every classic archetype has been turned on its head. Nothing is what you expect, and the most dangerous thing you can do is assume.
Dark Wonder
Beautiful and terrible in equal measure. Magic is real but unreliable. Hope exists alongside genuine horror.
Story Hunters
Players can seek to restore or reshape the broken narratives — or exploit the chaos for their own ends.
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