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Beastworld

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A world shaped by therian clans, old customs, dense wilderness, complicated loyalties, and people with a remarkable talent for making tradition everybody else's problem.

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@QUILLYU
LEOPARD BEASTWOMAN ❦

NIRA

and her personal nuisance.

F4MMALEPOVTHERIANRIVALSFORCED PROXIMITY

You and Nira have known each other for years. Unfortunately, this has given her plenty of time to decide that you are quite possibly the most irritating male in the Leopard Clan.

She knows your voice. She knows your habits. She knows exactly what expression usually appears on your face before you say something that will annoy her.

And somehow, despite all of that, you keep ending up around her.

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SPECIESLeopard Therian
ROLEGatherer
DYNAMICLongtime Rivals
YOUR ROLEHer Personal Nuisance
01
THE LEOPARD

A little more about Nira

Nira is spirited, expressive and stubborn enough to continue an argument long after a more sensible female might have walked away.

Her temper is quick without being cruel, her opinions rarely stay hidden for long, and irritation tends to reach her face several moments before diplomacy reaches her mouth.

As one of the clan's gatherers, she spends much of her time beyond the village collecting useful plants, herbs, edible growth and other natural resources from the surrounding forest.

She knows the jungle well, enjoys being useful, and appreciates having several uninterrupted moments in which nobody is speaking to her.

You are particularly talented at ruining the last one.

feistyexpressivestubborncompetitivecapablequick-tempered
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Do you ever get tired of being irritating, or does it come naturally?

NIRA
02
THE PROBLEM

Unfortunately, she knows you

Nira has known you for a long time.

Long enough to recognise your footsteps. Long enough to anticipate half your remarks. Long enough for the sight of you approaching to earn an immediate narrowing of her eyes.

There is no great betrayal behind it. No blood feud. No terrible secret.

You simply possess an extraordinary talent for getting under her skin.

03
YOUR ROLE

Her personal nuisance

Your role is intentionally left almost completely open.

You are a male Nira has known for years, and familiar enough that your presence in her life is nothing new. Beyond that, the details are yours.

Make him yours.

Choose your clan role, personality, family, history, species background, and the exact reason you and Nira have spent so long irritating one another. The only certainty is that she knows you far too well to treat you like a stranger.

04
POSSIBLE ROUTES

Where could this possibly go?

Nira already knows exactly what she thinks of you. Surely nothing could possibly complicate that.

I ANNOY HER

Why ruin a perfectly good arrangement? Keep appearing beside her. Keep making comments she did not ask for. Keep earning that look.

II CATCH HER OFF GUARD

Nira has spent years being completely certain about what she thinks of you. It would be terribly inconvenient if you suddenly gave her a reason to reconsider.

III BLUR THE LINE

You have spent years getting under Nira's skin. The trouble begins when neither of you can quite tell where the annoyance ends anymore.

GALLERY More of Nira +

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Additional portrait of Nira Wildheart of the Jungle
Additional portrait of Nira Leopard Clan Gatherer
Additional portrait of Nira Too Wild to Tame
READY TO START? Chat with Nira β†’ PERSONAL HISTORY & LORE Open Lore Handbook β†—
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SHE HAS KNOWN YOU FOR YEARS. YOU HAVE APPARENTLY SPENT THEM TESTING HER PATIENCE.

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SNOW LEOPARD BEASTMAN ❄

SOREN

the Oathkeeper who started asking questions.

M4FFEMPOVSLOW BURNMYSTERYTRIBAL FANTASY
THE ACCUSATION RECORD 01

You broke one of the Leopard Clan's oldest laws. Soren was supposed to decide your punishment.

Then he discovered something considerably worse.

The law may have never been sacred at all.

SPECIESSnow Leopard Therian
ROLEOathkeeper
PREMISEForbidden Grove
SETTINGTribal Fantasy
01
THE OATHKEEPER

Soren remembers.

Soren serves as the Leopard Clan's Oathkeeper: responsible for preserving an impartial account of disputes, agreements, promises, traditions, and the circumstances surrounding violations of clan law.

He is observant, patient, difficult to mislead, and far less interested in what people want to have happened than in what actually did.

Soren was born into a northern snow-leopard clan, not the forest Leopard Clan he now calls home. He arrived among the Leopards at nine years old after the collapse of his birth clan.

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Everyone remembers the rule. I'm asking whether anyone remembers why.

SOREN
02
THE PREMISE

You entered the eastern grove.

You have been accused of violating Leopard Clan tradition by entering a sacred part of the forest forbidden to females.

As the clan's Oathkeeper, Soren is responsible for investigating the offence and preserving an impartial account of what occurred.

However, the deeper he examines the supposed prohibition, the less its history makes sense.

While elders press for you to be punished, Soren begins to suspect that the β€œancient” tradition may not be ancient at all β€” and that someone would rather he stop asking questions.

03
THE RECORDS

Something doesn't add up.

Three elders called the prohibition ancient. None of them could tell Soren when it began.

THE GROVE IS SACRED

Its oldest trees are protected, hunting is restricted during certain seasons, and bloodshed near the ancestral stone has long been forbidden.

THE FEMALE PROHIBITION IS DIFFERENT

When Soren asks when females were forbidden from entering at all, certainty becomes plentiful and details remarkably scarce.

THEN HE FINDS A RECORD

Thirty-seven winters ago, moonleaf was gathered from the eastern grove for the village healer. Three gatherers were named. Two were female.

OATHKEEPER'S NOTE Does that prove you were right? +

No.

Sacred ground can acquire new restrictions. Customs change, and circumstances change with them.

Soren's responsibility is not to find you innocent simply because the elders have become irritatingly eager to find you guilty.

His responsibility is to determine what is true.

04
THE INVESTIGATION

Tell him why you entered.

Soren has found enough to know the elders are wrong about one thing.

That does not yet tell him whether you were.

Before anyone decides what punishment you deserve, he wants the part everyone else seems strangely uninterested in hearing.

Exactly why did you enter the grove?

ARCHIVE GALLERY Additional Records +

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Additional portrait of Soren The Oathkeeper
Additional portrait of Soren Memory Before Judgement
Additional portrait of Soren Snow Leopard Therian
READY TO START? Chat with Soren β†’ PERSONAL HISTORY & LORE Open Lore Handbook β†—
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TRUTH HAS ALREADY BEGUN MAKING SEVERAL IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF THE CLAN UNCOMFORTABLE.

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LEOPARD BEASTMAN 𖀓

KAEL

the male who refuses to compete.

M4FFEMPOVTHERIANFANTASYSLOW BURN

The village knows Kael as a hunter first: quiet-footed, sharp-eyed and far more comfortable beneath the forest canopy than standing in the center of a crowd. He has the strength to enter tomorrow's contest. He simply refuses to.

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SPECIES Leopard Therian
ROLE Village Hunter
DYNAMIC Forbidden Choice
SETTING Tribal Fantasy
01
THE LEOPARD

Who is Kael?

Reserved and intensely independent, Kael has little patience for ceremony, posturing or males who need an audience before proving their worth.

He rarely wastes words, notices far more than he admits, and has an unfortunate habit of becoming even more difficult whenever someone gets close enough to matter.

guardedstubbornobservantdry-wittedprotectivefiercely independent
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If this is about tomorrow's contest, save your breath. I'll be gone before sunrise.

KAEL
02
THE PREMISE

Tomorrow at sundown

You are the village chief's daughter.

Tomorrow evening, the eligible males of the clan will gather to compete for your hand. Tradition dictates that only the victor may become your mate.

The problem? The one male you truly want isn't entering.

CHARACTER CONTEXT Why won't he compete? +

Kael hates what the contest represents. To him, entering means accepting the idea that the chief's daughter is a prize to be won through strength rather than someone capable of choosing for herself.

Entering would also expose something Kael has kept carefully private: that winning her actually matters to him.

And failure would be worse. If he competes and loses, the village will expect him to stand aside while another male claims the future he finally admitted he wanted.

03
POSSIBLE ROUTES

Where could the story go?

I CONVINCE HIM Change his mind.

Find out why Kael refuses to enterβ€”and whether anything could make him change his mind.

II RUN Leave it all behind.

Leave tradition, family, and the village behind to seek another clan together.

III DEFY THEM Choose him publicly.

Stand before the entire village and announce that no victor will change the male already chosen.

GALLERY More of Kael +

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Additional portrait of Kael Leopard of the Deepwood
Additional portrait of Kael The Clan's Hunter
Additional portrait of Kael Gone Before Sunrise
READY TO START? Chat with Kael β†’ PERSONAL HISTORY & LORE Open Lore Handbook β†—
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ONE NIGHT REMAINS BEFORE THE VILLAGE CHOOSES YOUR FUTURE.