~*Character Types*~

There are two types of playable characters in this game. There are Dreamers and Aspects. Both character types are indistinguishable to anyone in the city, they merely have different origins and attributes.

~*Dreamers*~
Dreamers are people in the real world who are making up the basis of Eidolon City itself. They are comatose in the real world, and should they ever wake up from said coma, they are no longer in the city.

~*Aspects*~
What Aspects are the embodiments of fantasy. Humanity needs fantasy. The elements of it, the ability to dream. They need heroes to cheer for, villains to condemn, underdogs to watch triumph, true love to prevail...they need all of those things and more. Humanity needs a good story, they need elements that are beyond the simple concepts of good versus evil. They need to struggle and conquer, temptation and chastity. They need the hunt, they need gods, they need figures that are time tested and true, members of the collective unconscious just as much as any real people were.

Aspects come in different flavors, but all amount to the same types of beings. They're the embodiment of ideas. Old gods, fairytales, figures from humanity's long term history, figures most everyone can recognize in one form or another. Now, these translations are not literal. Such as, the big bad wolf is not actually a wolf; Prince Charming isn't actually royalty; and the incarnation of a god does not have god-like powers (so no calling down thunderbolts, or making vines grow up out of the ground). What they do have are strong themes that will remain true.

Each Aspect has to have three constants in their lives that fit in with what they're the embodiment of. For example, an aspect that is the embodiment of Little Red Riding Hood will have certain things that are steadily present. For instance, they always need to have an oppressive force in their life, a dark, sinister shadow of someone close to them, which would be their personal Big Bad Wolf. They will always have an elder matriarch figure, and perhaps will need to make a long, potentially perilous journey of one description or another.

Aspects should have both positive and negative constants, taking in elements from their source concept that capture a more full view of them.

There can only be one of a specific type of aspect in game, ie only one Little Red Riding Hood. Also, aspects are meant to be fully realized with one character, therefore splitting the aspect into more than one character isn’t allowed. Mostly aspects come in three different genres. Fairytales, mythological figures and literary archetypes. If you have a question about whether an aspect is acceptable, contact the mods: eidoloncity@gmail.com

Full Constants Example

~Lilith~
Dominant - even if something is in her best interest, if it runs along with the status quo, she can't fall in line like a good little girl. It doesn't matter how much hell she catches for going against that norm, she'll do it anyways, fuck the consequences. This impacts every area of her life, from her physical appearance to the way she talks. She doesn't have it in her to be submissive. She doesn't agree with the way women are treated in particular (believing men and women to be equals at least), which has lent itself quite a bit to her profession.
The Dark Side - She really can't get along with the beautiful people. She's never going to get along all that well with the vanilla mundanes, she's always looking for that dark side to everyone she meets. Anyone who actually holds her attention has to have some element of a dark side to them, some black streak to their personality that she's fascinated with. This fascination extends as well to the dead and dying, something she's quite interested in even if she doesn't understand why. It could be linked to a lot of things, but has been a long standing interest of hers that she hasn't felt the desire to try and quell.
Led Astray - There's something about December that lures in some men (and every single one of them are pretty damaged in some way). Something about her that they're drawn in by, most of them couldn't even say what it is. Possibly the forbidden, or the promise of something that's anything but boring. It's actually what keeps her in business a lot of the time, said men coming to her for specific sorts of things--a trip to the darker side of sensuality. It's happened before that some of these men have cracked, and there's one who's locked up at Bedlam. She doesn't set out to do that, she isn't cruel, but she's seen it happen more than once. Sometimes a man will fixate, and there's little she can do about it. Sometimes, it gets a little intense, and they won't go away.