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▷ First Impressions ▶ VISUAL: Cabal is thin and slightly over six feet tall. His hair is a very light blond and his skin is pale, giving the (correct) impression that he spends very little time in daylight. His eyes, usually hidden behind blue smoked glass spectacles, are grey-blue. Cabal habitually wears black suits with white shirts. The only color he's ever been known to wear willingly are a pair of red tartan carpet slippers. |
▷ IC Permissions▶ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Cabal isn't one for physical affection of any sort, but if your character wants to watch him squirm, sure, give him a hug! Just don't be surprised if it ends poorly. |
▷ OOC Permissions▶ BACKTAGGING: Absolutely. |
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The Johannes Cabal novels are set in an alternate reality with many parallels to our own. We have no idea when the books are set, as the author refers to it as the year ----. Placing them is further confounded by pseudo-Edwardian fashion and sensibilities coexisting with 1950s technology. The following is a short list of the major differences between his reality and ours:
The Necromancer
( Something wicked this way comes. )
The Detective
( Passengers dropping like flies. )
The Johannes Cabal novels are set in an alternate reality with many parallels to our own. We have no idea when the books are set, as the author refers to it as the year ----. Placing them is further confounded by pseudo-Edwardian fashion and sensibilities coexisting with 1950s technology. The following is a short list of the major differences between his reality and ours:
- Magic, in some forms, is very real and extremely dangerous. The days of wizard towers dotting the landscape are over and most people view the practice of magic to be passé. Those who study it do so in secrecy.
- The Fey exist in all their unpleasantly mercurial glory.
- R'lyeh is a real city off the coast of Massachusetts and its rising is a rare and observable event.
- The Elder Gods of the Cthulu mythos also exist. They're just as mind-warpingly horrible as advertised.
- Technology has progressed differently. Aeroships are very real and there are even personal fliers that operate on the same principles as insect flight. Etheric line propulsion actually works and is the basis for air travel. The closest thing to a computer Cabal has encountered was the thinking engine a former necromancer had stored his consciousness on; it worked more like Babbage & Lovelace's analytical engine than anything built by IBM.
- Technology addendum: automobiles co-exist with horse-drawn carriages, and the refinement of the parachute and its subsequent military application is a recent development.
- In addition to the usual countries there are a handful that are unique to Cabal's reality. Known countries are: Mirkarvia, a small militaristic state that most likely lies somewhere in the Germanies, its Italian-speaking neighboring country Senza, their wartime ally Polorus, and on the far side of Senza, Mirkarvia's long de-fanged ally, Katamenia. The fictional countries of Ruritania (created by A. Hope) and Graustark (created by G. B. McCutcheon) are also referenced.
The Necromancer
( Something wicked this way comes. )
The Detective
( Passengers dropping like flies. )