If the fantasy elements are used to explain how reality really works, it leads to discovering the Magical Underpinnings of Reality.Ĭompare Conspiracy Kitchen Sink, Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink, All Myths Are True, Crossover Cosmology, World of Weirdness, World of Mysteries, Domino Revelation and Anachronism Stew. Inevitably results in at least one character who's Seen It All. The opposite of Meta Origin, in which all of the supernatural elements of a setting come from the same single origin or event.
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If the Science Fiction series does have bona fide magic, like Star Wars, it's Science Fantasy. There are Psychic Powers, but they are given a pseudoscientific Technobabble explanation. then yes, everybody shall meet everybody, and let's get crazy with the results!Ĭompare this to, for instance, the various Star Trek and Stargate-verse series, or Babylon 5, where the "magical" aspects are Applied Phlebotinum or the Sufficiently Advanced Alien. However, once Worldbuilding has done its magic, everybody is sufficiently established and there is a good developed lore of who is who and which is their deal in the setting. For example, in the case of angels, will Heaven be a recurring place in the setting? Is God going to be a character, and if so, what kind of character? Anyone can see them, or are they Invisible to Normals? It would be a good idea to stay focused on the angels while you do all this work, and leave the vampires, werewolves, elves, dwarves and the like for a later episode. Besides, you always need to iron out many details when incorporating such beings to the setting. If you add angels to the setting, you want people to see them as angels and give them angel-related motivations and agency. The reason for this lack of overlap is to keep things resembling what they are supposed to resemble. For example, the Mage Species never accidentally erase the memories of the supernatural of, say, someone who's secretly a Ninja or vice versa no matter how indiscriminate either are at enforcing the Masquerade. but so are The Fair Folk, the Body Snatchers, and the Time Travelers and their plans don't have any connection with each other. The Ancient Conspiracy really are behind everything.
Occasionally, they do interact in the form of a Monster Mash. It's as if there are a bunch of disconnected secret worlds lurking under and above the surface of the real world and the heroes are the only ones who go between them. The alien bounty hunters do not run into the vampires, the angels, or the superhuman (non-alien involvement) mutants only the main characters. There's no overlap between the different genre creatures. In general when you have a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, the premise is mostly used for Monster of the Week plots - where there's one Myth Arc that focuses on a fantastic element and a bunch of totally unrelated sub-arcs about various lesser creatures or beings. Generally a sure sign of it is when creatures from typically different genres (Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy) all exist within the same world with individual origins of their own, each implausible in their own way - leading up to a long series of suspensions of disbelief rather than just one. So not only are there really dragons, there are fairies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, aliens, robots, time travelers, espers, angels, demons, gods, eldritch abominations, precursors, magic, and so on. What happens when All Myths Are True is turned Up to Eleven? You get a Fantasy Kitchen Sink! Everything is true, even if it comes from vastly different origins. The Order of the Stick (scene from the creation of the world), strip #274
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