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Post by Toz76 on Sept 3, 2021 6:19:11 GMT -5
Yes, all of this (except Tier 8, the joke tier) is canon.
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Post by TGC on Sept 3, 2021 23:33:10 GMT -5
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Post by Toz76 on Sept 5, 2021 19:47:50 GMT -5
Thanks for enlarging it!
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 11, 2022 9:53:04 GMT -5
Please go through the iceberg now and explain all the entries. Oh my god.
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 14, 2022 16:24:17 GMT -5
That's so much work Pick a few entries and I'll do a TIER LIST EXPLAINED thingy like all those youtube videos where they do no research. Or I could go tier by tier, whatever. Everything in the tier list is canon though. EVERYTHING. Except the bottom tier. And I can prove all of it with textual evidence (I think, some of the later stuff might be wiki-exclusive lore or stuff I only said once in a chat)
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 14, 2022 16:37:19 GMT -5
Iโd love to see you go tier by tier, Iโd read / watch that shit and then like and subscribe.
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 14, 2022 17:05:16 GMT -5
Ok bet
TIER 1:
THE HORNED ONE: A massive evil being that is worshipped by the VEC
KENDARBOO FLICKERBEE: A very talented toymaker who works for VEC but is way less evil than the rest of them and has been an ally of the colorfolk since the first TTTE wikia forum.
SHEAR: A mysterious figure who later became the Man In Pink and was set up to be a major character before the story spiraled out of control and Man In Pink became a recurring minor character in Colorfolk scenes.
VEC IS A CULT: Related to the Horned One thing, the VEC is planning on summoning a great monster they worship as a god into our world to destroy everything.
WOMAN IN ORANGE: There are two Women In Orange. The first was a close ally to Man In Black who refused to turn good and later joined VEC, and the second is her daughter who is close friends with Percy Silver.
TIER TWO
PERCY SILVER IS SILVESTRON: There is a prophecy about a powerful mage called Silvestron that will shift the balance of power in the world towards evil. The figure that VEC believes most fits the prophecy is a naive boy named Percy Silver who usually serves as comic relief due to his incompetence, but as the story progresses hints of Silvestron are beginning to show through.
CUBII: Extradimensional entities that are helping the VEC for their own ends. They are extremely powerful, but due to the limitations of our three-dimensional universe, can only use a fraction of their power. Xex is the most famous one.
FRENCH COLORWOMEN: First introduced as a joke, the French Colorwomen are a spin off group of the colorwomen based in France. Their goals are unknown and they rarely get taken seriously.
CRYPT OF THE ANCHOR: The crypt of the anchor was where the Man In Amber Apricot was voluntarily imprisoned after being subjected to the anchor curse, which forces one colorman to become irrevocably evil. The VEC was later briefly imprisoned here, but broke out after Percy Silver absorbed all of the raw "black stuff" from the crypt and either broke the anchor curse or became the next anchor himself.
QUINN: Quinn is the name of a superspy working for a mysterious organization called the Guild Of Death. She has appeared in many disguises, including Harley Quinn Millie and Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman.
SALFRASLATAR: Salfraslatar is a member of the Servants of Metalicana who works at the Impel Down Prison, and is some sort of snakeman. Best known for constantly being implied to be a double agent despite probably(?) being fully loyal to Metalicana. Alssssssso talkssssss like thisssssss.
FARK DEVONSHIRE'S POWERS WORK BEST AGAINST COLORFOLK: Fark Devonshire is a high ranking member of GOD. When he fought Man In Blue in Mister Marvelous' Tournament, he revealed his true powers over light and color, which can drain the colorfolk's power from them and power himself up. Against most other combatants, Fark must rely on his wits and his fourth wall knowledge to win.
There that's the first two tiers
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 14, 2022 18:55:21 GMT -5
I love how my dumbass Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman insert has evolved. Very excited for the next tier breakdowns!
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Apr 14, 2022 21:05:16 GMT -5
No exaggeration- The great horned beast originated on the wiki, as a one of my random creations that I thought would just be a neat little aspect of lore, but then Toz made a very notable edit and the rest is history (Thatโs right, I created the Great Horned Beast )
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 15, 2022 4:29:12 GMT -5
That's true, my one ability as a writer is taking throwaway references by other writers and expanding them into ridiculous proportions. There's a couple more examples of that in here, actually Anyway, TIER THREE THE TALE OF TAIL IS ABOUT SILVESTRON: I don't remember exactly when I decided this but I know it was mentioned very late in thread 2: the Tale of Tail is actually a lengthy epic poem/prophecy about Silvestron and his inevitable reign. The prophecy I referenced in a previous entry is either the Tale itself or part of it. I kinda feel bad coming up with a legitimate lore reason for one of our oldest running gags but at the time it made a ton of sense and no one bothered to retcon it sooooooooo WOMAN IN GREEN IS ALSO SHORT: We all know that Man In Green is deeply insecure about his height and uses stilts, but did you know that Woman In Green wears stacked boots? She has always been a very minor character with even less personality than Man In Green but she at least had one consistent trait. ABADDON: In the old canon, the GOD was created at the behest of a being known only as "Abaddon", a consciousness existing in the gaps between universes who gave the GOD their unique ability to subvert morality filters. GOD believes that conquering the planet for Abaddon is the only way to protect it from the Horned One. I ultimately decided that this concept was too similar to the Horned One and Silvestron, so in the new canon the GOD's motive for being evil is that they're bad people who want power, with no involvement from Abaddon. Abaddon also created the Cubii, but they rebelled against it and became a far bigger threat to the multiverse than whatever they were created to fight, but that detail might have only existed in my head, I genuinely can't remember how much of the Cubii deep lore I've posted both here and on the wiki. STORY GAME IS CANON: I deliberately referenced the characters and events of The Story Game as being real events that happened about 1000 years before the Prism came to earth. The real deep lore is that Percy Silver is implied to be a reincarnation of Story Game character Heph, who in turn is a reincarnation of the user on the TTTE Wikia forum that started the Three Word Story Revolution thread. PERCY SILVER'S DAD IS MAN IN GOLD: Pretty self explanatory. Man In Gold believes his wife and son were killed, but in fact his son was deliberately saved by the Bronze Mage because he believed Percy could fulfill the prophecy mentioned earlier. HONEY IS THE NINTH ELEMENT: You've all heard me go on about this one enough, I'm sure. I don't think I will ever get tired of the running gag that honey magic is both extremely powerful and deeply taboo. Ordinarily I like to go back and provide lore justifications for running gags, but I can't think of an explanation for why honey magic is so taboo that would satisfy me, and it's far funnier to just have it be a taboo that's never fully explained. The reason I chose honey specifically is because 1) freezing people in honey was established as one of the recurring goofy spells colorfolk would use, second only to "pants into rockets", and 2) Frank had recently introduced the four classical elements as a concept into 3WSR, and I thought that since each element can be said to roughly correspond to a state of matter, and honey is technically a liquid but in that weird state where it's sort of not a liquid, it would be funny to use it as a fifth element (I was fourteen, remember, this was really clever to me at the time). Then Frank added four more elements, and you know the rest. The tenth element is soap, by the way. ALL COLORWOMEN ARTIFACTS ARE RINGS: And now we enter the first in a series of what I will call "lore Toz is ashamed of". In contrast to the colormen, who each have a unique artifact, each colorwoman in 3WSR has a "ring of [insert color here]". I think my thought process at the time was "having them all have the same artifact is a neat contrast to the colormen, we haven't done a ring artifact yet, and in the early days the colorwomen were fugitives and didn't have the resources to create massive artifacts like the colormen did", but at the end of the day, come on. I don't think I have to explain why having the "girl faction" exclusively wielding rings while the boys get all kinds of cool gear is a bad look. Just making it anything other than rings would have been better. I did reference the rings in the Deszeld city arc briefly because I don't like just flat out contradicting previously established plot points if I can avoid it, but when we made the jump to 4WSR, the colorwoman rings were retconned with extreme prejudice. Part of this is an artifact of the early canon, where the colormen and colorwomen were treated as two different but connected factions. As the story progressed, the distinction essentially disappered, and frankly I think we're all glad about that. I'm still a proponent of the "there should be one person per color rather than one man and one woman per color" concept, but I recognize that I am alone in that. MAN IN WHITE IS GAY: Man In White never got much characterization beyond being "the smart one", skilled at strategy and with a helmet that he can use to conduct illegal surveillance or whatever. In my attempt to give each of the "core eight" colorfolk a distinct personality, I wrote a scene in the Deszeld arc where Man In White tells his allies he is gay, but in such a needlessly verbose and impossible to comprehend way that neither the characters nor the readers realized what he meant (which was part of the joke, and also partly me hedging my bets in case people were like "don't make him gay you already did that to Woman In Gold"). I'd referenced wanting to make him gay in a few places before that, but I think that that post was the only time it was ever included in anything canonical. Fuck it I should sleep soon but who cares it's time for TIER FOUR THOMAS GOLD COULD BE SILVESTRON: The prophecy I've mentioned before, the one in the tale of tail, listed specific things that must be true for a person to become Silvestron. The list is buried somewhere in thread two if you're interested, but parts of it definitely belong on the list of "lore Toz is ashamed of", especially a crude pun about asses meant to justify why the Tale of Tail is called that. The VEC are specifically training Percy because they believe he meets the criteria, but the GOD also knows the prophecy, and they are training Thomas Gold for the same end, as revealed near the end of Thread Two. In my heart of hearts I always knew that Percy Silver would inevitably become Silvestron at some point YEARS down the line, but when I reintroduced Thomas Gold, a counterpart to Percy Silver that never really made the jump to the new forum after the original Bronze Mage arc, I figured adding that extra wrinkle would create some interesting tension, especially since the Deszeld arc features the first moments of Percy Silver truly displaying his future Silvestron self. Of course, I forgot to factor in the fact that no one but me gives a shit about my posts, but I stand by the character of Thomas Gold. COLORENBIES ON A BOAT: Hoo boy we can add this one to the "lore Toz is ashamed of". There was a period earlier in my life where I was kind of a holier-than-thou dickhead (this has not changed btw I'm just more polite now). The colorwomen are an early result of this, of me going "hey there are no women in the Colormen, I'm gonna create a rival faction that's all girls because as a thirteen year old boy [sic], I'm clearly an expert on feminism and can solve it with my Thomas the Tank Engine posts". Anyway fast forward to this forum being created. At some point I had learned about trans and non-binary people (a group that now includes me and roughly 87% of my IRL friends and sexual partners but at the time was mostly a thing I had read about online). So naturally I decided to do the colorwomen thing again but with nonbinary people this time. While I think the "Shear is a trans man who doesn't know if the prism will let him be the Man In Pink" thing was a decent idea done decently (except for the pink thing, in the new canon I'm pointedly making Shear inherit a different color), the Colorenbies appeared in like five posts, taking a boat that is definitely not meant to cross an entire ocean to Sodor to unite with the colormen and colorwomen. They were ignored after thread one, and although I always meant to go back to them at some point, I never could find a way to incorporate them that I was happy with, and frankly the idea and execution was kinda shitty to begin with and fed into the stereotype of nonbinary people as entitled and attention seeking. One thing I've definitely realized between then and now is that while including marginalized characters is important, you gotta do more with them than just have them show up and criticize the existing cast for not including marginalized characters. They have to actually be characters with traits beyond their marginalized identity, and I kinda skipped that step with these folks. :;:: Okay this one is just silly fun to serve as a palate cleanser after that serious self-criticism. :;: is a tiny spherical robot built by the character Inferno. The joke was that characters would say :;: in dialogue, but there would never be any indication of how :;: is pronounced. It's another one of those gags that I think only I found funny, but I always meant to bring :;: back in some form. THE MAGIC TV REMOTE: In the original arc, which is the only piece of pre-proboards 3WSR text that survives intact, the magic TV remote was a device used by Thomas's crew to change the story when they didn't like where things were going, by using buttons you'd find on a typical remote to alter reality (teleporting by changing the channel, for example). I brought back the remote in a darker and edgier way somewhere around late thread 2, intending it to be the core of Lightbender's evil plan to use copyright infringement to destroy the 3WSR universe, but the story stalled out before we reached that point. It's a fun concept though and I'd love to find a way to justify it in a future verson of 3WSR. ORDER OF GERADE APPEARED IN OLD CANON (IN NAME ONLY): There's a thread in the The Game board called "THE GAME ZERO", which I created during one of the many, many periods of stagnation in the main game. The idea was that this game was a prequel, set during the time skip between when the 3WSR thread on the wiki forum was deleted and when we rebooted the thread on this forum. At some point in the brief span of time before that thread was forgotten, I briefly introduced a group called the Order of Gerade, a group of powerful mages that work to share knowledge among the mages of Europe while keeping it secret from the general public. They were meant to be the "good guys" to contrast the Guild of Death, both being sprawling magic secret societys but with very different goals. In the new canon, a group called the Order of Gerade appears, but they're based in America and very much play into negative American stereotypes, while the role of the original version has been subsumed by the Akademie Der Magier and Magykka Supremus. But people who are as hyperaware of 3WSR as me might recognize the early version of this faction from an unlikely source. CUBII HAVE ELEVEN PENISES AND ELEVEN VAGINAS: This is extremely canon. They have both at once, to clarify. The penises are extremely stretchy and flexible. Their genitalia look like friggin star-nosed moles. There's a reason they exist in groups of 12. You might think I'm ashamed of this lore but I'm just waiting for society to progress to the point that Cubii erotica becomes socially acceptable. No further explanation needed, this is the best lore ever and one of the few times past Toz being horny actually produced something that's cringe in a fun way instead of just cringe. STEPHOFTHEEAST: StephOfTheEast is the username of a user on the original Wikia forum who started the original 3 Word Story Revolution game long before TGC or I or even Frank was around. This is only relevant because I implyed at one point that StephOfTheEast was the ultimate god of the 3WSR universe, who later died and was reincarnated as Heph, who later died to be reincarnated as Silvestron (Toz Lore is surprisingly interconnected, I think I covered all of this already in Tier Three.) NORRAMBUS: Norrambus is the evil alter ego of Sir Robert Norramby, the TTTE character. I had plans for an arc where he, Brainiac, the French Colorwomen, Hessenhessen, and all the other shitty minor running gag antagonists would be killed off one by one to clear up the story going forward, but the story stalled out before we could get there. It's fine though, no one but me even remembers those guys. HIVEMIND IS A BLUE ROCK: Hivemind is the most powerful non-Cubii VEC character (except for Mark, who is good at death), a single hivemind intelligence that can spread through touch, has no upper limit on how many people, animals, or sentient vehicles it can inhabit, and cannot be destroyed simply by killing the "queen". Essentially, Hivemind was designed to be a Borg ripoff without all the weaknesses, and it's overpowered on purpose. However, what most people don't know about Hivemind because I think it only came up once or twice is that Hivemind's original body is a small blue gem in the possession of the Cubii, hence why the eyes of the people Hivemind possesses turn a striking sapphire blue. Hivemind wouldn't die if the gem was destroyed, but it would make it harder for the Cubii to control it. There's actually more to this lore, way more, but I run the risk of spoiling at least three future entries if I talk too much about Hivemind lore so I'm gonna cut myself off here. Alright, it's early o'clock and I have sleep and procrastinated homework to contend with, so I'm gonna stop here, but I might cover the remaining four tiers over the next couple days. It's kinda fun revisiting my old ideas and talking about what worked and what didn't. Contrary to popular belief, it's possible to be critical of your past self and what your past self wrote without wallowing in self-pity about it. I'm curious to hear about y'alls reaction to this deep lore nonsense, so please let me know what y'all think
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 15, 2022 6:39:05 GMT -5
Some thoughts: โข Abaddon being a โconsciousness that exists between gaps in the universesโ is really cool and I think we could do some interesting stuff with a being like that, even if no longer part of the GOD lore. Maybe a more neutral black hole figure? โข Honey being considered an element is easily one of the gameโs best concoctions. What are 5-8 though? I only remember the classic earth, fire, water, and air. โข Okay so thereโs a lot in this post about equality and I wanna say firstly that I think it depends on where we want to take the story. I would totally support making the characters one person per color (although then a lot of established characters would disappear, like Woman vs Man in Blue, but it would allow for non-binary people to become part of the story way easier), but I think that another interesting route would be a Spirit of the Prism whoโs kind of a bigoted dick, only letting men get the power until forced to give some to women, and then later to trans people, etc. And a part of me also likes the badass way the Colorwomen just took the powers for themselves in the old canon. But yeah, thereโs some room for thought. Too many religious figures are homophobic and sexist so it would be interesting for our Prism to work the same way, maybe in contrast for the villains who are actually good about representation. All part of a wider examination of how the Colorfolk are more flawed than they try to pretend. This could also tie in to the ring situation; โOkay, hereโs some of the powers, but since youโre girls and canโt HaNdLe A sWoRd, you get rings instead.โ โข Did I come up with :;:? It feels like something I made up. I assume pronouncing it is like a void being placed in the middle of your sentence. โข My PMs are always open, day or night, rain or shine, for Cubii porn. I gotta see this now. Also I do care about what you write, I just forget half the shit before the next game update.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Apr 15, 2022 8:36:12 GMT -5
First of all, no- the Spirit is a being of benevolence. And he created Colormen and women *because* he saw them as equals. He despises bigotry
To answer your other question- the other elements are ice, lightning/ electric, light and dark
also- the colorwomen donโt have rings anymore- that was retconned. It was probably also initially done to differentiate them, but I can see where the problem lied
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 15, 2022 14:30:42 GMT -5
I feel the need to point out that most bigots throughout themselves as beings of benevolence. I do think the colorfolk are usually portrayed as too perfect and need some humanizing flaws, but I also agree that the spirit shouldn't be made to have human flaws just for that, but I also also agree that the spirit shouldn't be used as a cudgel against all attempts to make the colorfolk less than perfect, so idk it's a complicated issue. Responding to some of Eyes' other thoughts: check page 92 of thread 1, I definitely created :;:. I do still intend for Abaddon to exist in the new canon, but in a much more alien, incomprehensible to mortals way. Definitely not someone who directly interferes, more of just a presence, like a god with very little power. I also might change its name to something less cheesy. Anyway, I've got some time to kill (that's a lie so many deadlines approaching so fast) so let's go down the list! TIER FIVE UNICORN THE COLORFOLK ENGINE: At some point in the 1860s, the Man In White of the era was working on the Transcontinental Railroad in America and granted some semblance of colorfolk power to a steam engine named Unicorn. Unicorn was going to come back in some form at some point but I never got around to it so it's just a weird piece of lore that exists. THE TWELVE HIGH CUBII: There are a ridiculous number of cubii out there, roughly equal to 12^x, where x is the number of generations of Cubii that have been born. The original twelve Cubii are still alive and exist somewhere in the multiverse, commanding hordes of cubii to conquer universes with their specially bred battle beasts, the Horned One being one of these. Their names are somewhere on the wiki, but I am strongly considering changing their names going forward. We will see. THOMAS HATES THE COLORFOLK: As the story shifted away from TTTE in favor of colorfolk and VEC shenanigans, Thomas the Tank Engine grew increasingly indignant about it. At a certain point, it shifted from annoyance to genuine hatred. I had an arc planned that would explore Thomas' feelings about the changing world around him but we never got to it. PRAMOLOXY: This is a super deep cut, some old canon lore that never made the jump to this forum. Pramoloxy was a strange white substance that was allegedly the source of vehicle sentience in the TTTE world. We never really explored this concept in depth and I think it may have been repeatedly contradicted later in the story but whatever it is, it was very briefly a key piece of worldbuilding. MAN IN STEEL COMMITTED A WAR CRIME AT ELBAF: During the Elbaf arc, Tug wrote this awesome post where Man In Steel used his ice powers to defeat a fleet of GOD bomber jets. 3wsr.proboards.com/post/13006/thread While a cool scene, GOD seems to think it makes Man In Steel a war criminal. I'd argue he was stopping a far worse war crime, but honestly I always struggled with Man In Steel as a character and thought giving GOD a reason to hate him personally would make it easier for me to write him, so this lore happened. The only real consequence this has had so far is that Fark near-fatally stabbed him out of spite at the beginning of the Deszeld arc (he got better). VENGEANCE BRINGER TRIED TO KILL HER DAUGHTER WOMAN IN ORANGE: Someday I really want to flesh out the relationship between these two. They interacted some in the Deszeld arc, but I don't think I captured what I wanted to capture. While she was a member of the evil colorfolk as Woman In Orange, Vengeance Bringer was a bad mother (in the new canon she's a better mother, but not a good one). At one point, when Woman In Orange the younger discovered what she was doing in service of VEC, Vengeance Bringer genuinely tried to kill her own daughter. This is buried somewhere in thread one. Both Women In Orange are genuinely some of my favorite of my characters, and I definitely intended to explore them both more, although I never really had a clear endgame for either character. HIVEMIND IN STORY GAME: Remember that blue rock I mentioned earlier? It showed up in the Story Game. Hivemind called itself the Spectre, and only appeared in a couple of ominous posts foreshadowing a future villain, and frankly Hivemind being there contradicts some Hivemind lore that we'll discuss in Tier Six, but like, it happened. COCOPUFF IS CANON: Do I have to talk about this? Ugh fine, this is more lore I'm ashamed of. There was another story some friends and I had created about a family of wealthy immortals living in a goofy, implied to be postapocolyptic world. The immortals, for reasons that were never explained, all had names relating to cereal brands (Cinnamon Toast Crunch was a significant supporting character, for example). The cereal family was amoral, incestuous, and generally served as antiheroes who could switch loyalties at any time, in contrast to the much friendlier figures living in their non-Euclidian mansions, such as Steve the young T-Rex and Slow Panther With A Knife. It was also CRINGE AS HELL. But for whatever reason I referenced it in 3WSR a couple times so it's canon. It's not canon to 4WSR though. I might salvage the story of Cocopuff for parts someday, because there was some genuinely fun worldbuilding in it, but I'm content to let it die. TIER SIX: THE BRONZE MAGE COULD BE SILVESTRON: After I wrote the Silvestron Prophecy, which I carefully worded to apply to both Percy Silver and Thomas Gold, I realized that the Bronze Mage technically meets the criteria too. I never had any intention to make that be a plot point but I thought it was funny. ICELANDIC COLORFOLK: One of the big plot twists of Thread Two was that the French Colorwomen were not the only international colorfolk. Many nations have their own faction of colorfolk with their own prism, although none are as big or as powerful as ours. This was a cool concept that I stand by, but it is simply too complicated and it didn't make the transition into 4WSR. The Icelandic colorfolk are significant specifically because I was setting up a reveal that they had been destroyed by GOD as part of their first push towards world domination. VEC GENDERFLIPPED CLONES: More "lore Toz is ashamed of". In my desperation to come up with backstories for VEC characters, I ripped off wholesale a plot point from the webcomic El Goonish Shive, a webcomic that I love far more than is healthy. One of the main characters, for reasons too complicated to explain, gained a opposite-sex clone of himself that became another member of the main cast. This is EXTREMELY NO LONGER CANON. CHESSMASTER JOINED VEC BEFORE CHESS WAS INVENTED: This is just a funny quirk of my bad worldbuilding when creating the old canon VEC lore. It's not a plothole because one of the other VEC members, Worldender, is canonically a time traveller, but needless to say new canon lore is much simpler and the inconsistency has been retconned away. BRONZE MAGE HAS A KOBOLD ARMY: One of Bronze Mage's main powers is the ability to create and control "pocket dimensions", alternate "layers" of reality with the rules controlled by him. One of these dimensions contained an entire society of warrior kobolds who are fiercely loyal to him. They only appeared once or twice, I think. In the new canon, I don't think kobolds exist, because I want to drastically cut down on the number of fantasy humanoids we use. ALEPH: Okay, this one is cool. Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate Man In Bright Turquoise. I actually like him a lot. I take issue with how he's used, as a magical "solve all problems instantly" button that kills the stakes, but the character himself, with his tenuous grip on reality after centuries of study and isolation, is fascinating. A storyline that I wanted to do in the future and briefly set up involved a version of Bright Turquoise from an alternate universe, who had gone the opposite direction to our Man In Bright Turquoise, become evil and power hungry, and built robot bodies for himself, his Id, Ego, and Superego, and was going on a multiversal rampage, renaming himself Aleph. I think Aleph is the inevitable result of a universe where Bright Turquoise has no one of equal intelligence to talk to besides his own Id, and the presence of reality warpers like Vados to challenge him ensures that our Bright Turquoise will probably not snap anytime soon. PHILOS, HIVEMIND, AND THE UNICORN TAPESTRY WERE CREATED BY THE CUBII: Ooh boy Cubii lore and Hivemind lore all in one, we're travelling far up my own butt for this one. When the Cubii came to earth, they brought three magic gems (THEY AREN'T INFINITY STONES THIS IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT). The red gem is a gem of power and rage, the yellow gem is a gem of knowledge and fate, and the blue gem is a gem of minds and domination. The red gem became the philosopher's stone and later Philos, the yellow gem became imbedded in the unicorn tapestry, a recurring magic artifact that grants wishes, and the blue gem became Hivemind. This lore has been in my head for a long time but was only ever implied, and I suspect Tug has a different origin in mind for the Philosopher's stone, but this was my version that remained in my head for a long time and is definitely true in all canons I have majority control over unless Tug has a way better origin for Philos that makes me abandon this. Okay that's tier five and six, I might do the last two tonight or tomorrow. Tier eight is mostly memes, but Tier Seven contains some of the juiciest, most obscure, most ridiculous Toz lore, so that'll be a lot of fun.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 18, 2022 21:15:17 GMT -5
Toz it has been three days pls im begging u
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Post by TGC on Jun 22, 2023 23:22:54 GMT -5
still waiting for the last two tiers. Rereading this, I'm very interested in that Aleph idea.
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Post by Toz76 on Jun 23, 2023 1:05:33 GMT -5
Ugh, fine TIER SEVEN GAME TOZ HAS MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES: This was a running thing with my author avatar for a while, basically whenever I changed my username. At some point, one of the anti-writers cast a spell on me, and my idea was that the spell fractured my author avatar's brain so that when my username was different, my avatar acted different too. In practice, this didn't really stick, and I don't really like it much. PRIORI IS A NECROPHILE: Fuck you this one's still canon. It was canon in the old canon and it will be canon in Bronze Blood and Bone. Priori is a deeply depraved individual. I don't think this was ever made explicit in the old canon, I had planned on writing a story that explored this in more detail but only wrote a prologue, which can be found here: 3wsr.proboards.com/thread/465/bones-loveMy final comment in that thread is the closest this ever came to being explicitly mentioned, but it's going to be a plot point in Bronze Blood and Bone, my ongoing series about the Church of the Horned One. Unlike the shit I talk about here, that one's actually more or less competently written. ABADDON CREATED A THIRTEENTH CUBUS: Oh this is some AO3 edgy OC bullshit. Basically, you remember the 12 High Cubii from tier 5? And Abaddon from tier 3? Well, Abaddon created the 12 high Cubii as his personal army of angels or whatever, but they rebelled against him and became an omnipresent multiversal threat. My vision of the Cubii was that they were actively taking over the multiverse (which, in the Toz interpretation, is a maximalist multiverse where every work of fiction and possible reality exists somewhere within it), and would therefore never be permanently destroyed in 3WSR. At best, they could be driven away from a specific universe for a period of time. However, I did want to allow for the possibility that in the far future, 3WSR would reach a point where destroying the Cubii and/or Abaddon would become a possibility. So I created a character, a mix between Man In Steel, Adam Warlock, the Doomslayer, and Jesus. I called it "the thirteenth Cubus", created by Abaddon to destroy the creation that rebelled against him. He would be silver and have a big old sword and oh god I'm so glad I never got around to this one. HIVEMIND TOOK OVER GERMANY OFFSCREEN: Don't remember if this was ever made explicit or not, but at some point I decided that Hivemind was in the background taking over entire nations. To combat this, GOD was injecting people with vallerium, permanently suppressing their ability to use magic but also making it impossible for Hivemind to infect them. I dunno, I kinda stand by this one and might use it in BBB. MAN IN SILVER ALSO WORSHIPS A GREAT HORNED BEING: This one is a misdirect. He's just a Wiccan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_God THE COLORFOLK ANCESTORS TORTURED CHILDREN FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND THE PRISM WAS OK WITH IT: Ok this one I also kinda stand by? One of the rare stories I wrote set in the old canon that I think kinda holds up was one called Cheating Death (https://3wsr.proboards.com/thread/624/cheating-death-warning-disturbing). It's one of the few times I've used anything resembling a content warning on 3WSR, and since the story deals with the torture of children, I stand by that. Basically, the big reveal is that the reason the colorfolk ancestors are able to manifest in the real world, seemingly violating the 5th Law of Magic, is because of a deal they made with a sinister being (Vlad from the story game reincarnated), which kept their spirits from passing through the afterlife in exchange for five children being tortured for hundreds of years down in a pit below the Great Hall. It was a shameless ripoff of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, and a bit of a unsubtle critique of utilitarianism, and I think it was slightly written just to annoy Frank by making the colorfolk do something evil, but in my effort to write something horror-adjacent I think it at least works. GOD OWNS A COPY OF THE LOST 3WSR ARCS: There's a post late in thread 2 that I posted with a lengthy cipher, with the in-universe explanation that the GOD used a scrambler so the writers couldn't see what they were talking about. If you decode that cipher, the conversation reveals that Labyrinth Christianti, a GOD member, has access to the arcs of 3WSR that were deleted from the old wikia forum. Obviously, this doesn't make any goddamn sense, since even we the writers don't have access to them. I also forget what they were going to do with the lost arcs. Maybe I was going to do a storyline about moving on from what's been lost? Who knows. This was dumb I think. EVERY CHARACTER IS IN A COMA AFTER A BUS CRASH: And when they die in 3WSR, they reappear at the site of the bus crash, decades after the accident, and remember everything. When characters died in the Marvelous Tournament and freaked out afterwards, this was why. I think I hinted at it several times across all three threads. Why? I just thought it was funny. TIER EIGHT: THE JOKE TIER QUICKSILVER THE A4 PACIFIC COULD BE SILVESTRON: I don't even think he fits all the necessary criteria, but his name has "silver" in it, so it's at least partway there. MAN IN INFRARED IS THE WRITER: He's 4th wall aware, but I just picked him randomly. The colorfolk are not Writers. THE GIFT OF CARROT IS JUST A NORMAL CARROT: I attempted to make canon that the Tale of Tail is the prophecy about Silvestron, but there has never been a serious attempt to explain what the Gift of Carrot is. This is my personal favorite joke answer but I don't think it should be canon. KRAKA TOA FROM TUGS IS IN VEC: There is a VEC member named Kraka Toa and a Tugs character named Kraka Toa, but they are different characters. PERCY SILVER AND ZEMLYA HAD SEX: Ok, I know this one's in the joke tier but it might actually happen in BBB. It's at least possible. RIVER TID IS THE MAIN CHARACTER: He's the Wellsworth and Suddery Railway's #3 engine. Get it? WSR #3? 3WSR? Like 3WSR??!!!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!11!!?!1! ************************ There I did it the Schnoz has been defeated for another day are you happy now Eat my ass past Toz you're a weird virgin who's not that good at writing. Transition and fix yourself This is just a bit I'm not actually that mad at my past self. I think 3WSR has been a vital source for me to practice writing and explore what interests me. A lot of this shit embarrasses me now but that's because I've grown a lot since then. And truth be told, some of the lore that I wrote off have kernels of good ideas too. The whole point of this project was to share some of the silly ideas I'd had, and I think that was something worth doing.
That said, the fucking rings? My god, past Toz, I know you were trying to make a feminist statement but you really went about it in the worst way possible every step of the way.
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