Saga

Fantasy // Sci-Fi

Creation began at a single point: Yggdrasil. The World Tree. The Tree of Life. All-Father. All-Mother. God. Goddess. Alpha. Omega. Genesis. Yggdrasil was the font of all Creation: the Miracle of Dawn. From the first spark of Yggdrasil's consciousness the Multiverse and all things within it came into being.

When the Multiverse was young and small, Yggdrasil walked among its creations. It guided them; it helped them and watched them grow. It provided laws and rules; peace and order. It provided its creations with the free will to follow or defy it as they saw fit. But as Creation changed - as Free Will and Life took hold and moved things beyond even Yggdrasil's wildest dreams - it became harder for Yggdrasil to maintain alone. So Yggdrasil called upon its most noble acolytes to govern the minutia of the Multiverse in its stead.

On the plane of Saga, peace and order was kept by the High Council, a collection of gods that governed the digital world. Their influence and authority kept the would-be warring blocs of Saga in check; they served as mediators and peace-keepers when tensions and old feuds rose along faction lines. This served to maintain the Balance, Homeostasis - the fragile peace that allowed Saga to continue existing peacefully. The High Council accomplished this through use of the thirteen Royal Knights. This mighty order of digimon, brought together ages ago to overcome an otherwise-insurmountable foe, had protected Saga; intervening in times of cataclysm and steering the world away from destruction.

It was only in the recent decades that human technology and society advanced enough to allow crossing over into the Digital World. The first human child entered completely by accident. But as the worlds began to know of one another, more followed. These humans partnered with young digimon and set out to explore the vast reaches of Saga. The High Council saw fit to allow this, and encouraged a partnership with the human world.

At first, things seemed calm. There were negotiations with the humans - Tamers, as they were called - on their rights within the Digital World itself and the nature of their bond with digimon. The Tamers showed respect for the digimon and their bond with their partners was equal and fair. There was peace and cooperation.

For a while, at least...

Not all were happy with this declaration. Galahad, the Alphamon, the newly-appointed High Commander of the Royal Knights, saw the human-digimon partnership as an abomination, a subjugation of digimon will and freedom. Galahad decreed the Tamers a blight against digimon the world over and a threat to the very nature of Saga. He called for all loyal digimon to take up arms against the Tamers. The High Council, however, intervened and set forth a decree forbidding all military actions against humans.

Now Galahad, infuriated by this perceived betrayal by the Council, has ceded from their authority. He has called the Royal Knights and a cadre of other digimon from all cornders of the world to his cause, and launched a bloody crusade to banish the humans from the face of Saga - by force. Under his leadership, the Royal Knights carry out this campaign without mercy or restraint, destroying partner digimon, shattering digivices and attempting to force the Tamers to go home.

The Council, outraged by these bloody and pointless acts, has summoned a group of warriors to its presence with one aim: to stop the Royal Knights before the world is plunged into war and consumed by this Unholy Crusade.

Digimon partners will generally be either of the Rookie level or a "small" Champion (think Gatomon or Wizardmon). These Digimon are generally younger, less experienced Digimon (as older ones would have not had the opportunity to bond with humans in their youth - it was only in the last 10-15 years that humans were able to enter the Digital World consistently). Their partnership relies on the bond between human and Digimon - it fuels the Digimon's power, providing temporary boosts of human-derived energy and digivolution capability.

Humans in this universe wield the D-3 model Digivice. It allows them to evolve their partner Digimon to higher levels, track and communicate with other previously-identified Digivices and their partner Digimon, open Digital Gates between the human world and Saga, and can repel weaker dark Digimon. Additionally, it allows its wielder enhance and specify the strength of their partner at different times. Because a partner Digimon's evolution is strongly influenced by its tamer, the tamer can direct evolution lines and branches, allowing for divergent lines and Slide Evolution based on the specific nature of a task or mission. In certain Digimon it also facilitates Armor Evolution so long as the pair has obtained the required Digimental artifact. Finally, two human-Digimon pairs have been known to activate DNA or Jogress Digivolution; where the emotional bonds between all four participants are incredibly strong.

Digivolution: Permanent Digivolution in this RPG is incredibly difficult to achieve. That is why most instead use a temporary Digivolution (like that seen in the television series) It normally requires immense energy and as such, Digivolution will leave a character very drained. Mode Changing (Burst Mode, Blast Mode, Crimson Mode etc) is treated as Digivolving and fills the same criteria, namely that it requires a lot of energy to achieve. Should you receive a lot of damage, then for the purposes of realism you can regress to a lower form, however I will allow resting time between battles for us all to achieve our main form again before another battle.

DNA Digivolution is incredibly rare in this RP. Without human partners to produce the powerful emotional and psychological connections, the Digimon must rely on external sources of energy that are few and far between to generate the power needed for DNA digivolving. Only in very rare cases can two Digimon DNA digivolve on their own, and they must rely on rare sources of power such as Golden Digi-Eggs to unleash enough energy to permanently merge themselves together. Temporary DNA Digivolution is achievable more easily, but the resulting Digimon is less powerful than one permanently DNA Digivolved.

Biomerge Digivolution can be used by some of the more experienced Tamers to combine with their Digimon partner and form a powerful Mega Level Digimon. Essentially, Biomerging involves the Tamer and Digimon fusing together, with the Tamer held within the resultant Digimon’s body inside a sphere of energy. They are fully conscious and the Biomerge Digimon usually speaks with the voices of both Tamer and Digimon in synch, though one of them can speak without the other. Biomerge Digivolution produces a Digimon slightly more powerful than is usual than its Level, thus making any Biomerge Digimon a formidable ally or opponent.

Ancient Digimon are forms derived from the essence of the ancient Proemial beings. An extremely rare but powerful evolutionary form akin to a Mode Change (but perhaps even more intense), the Ancient form grants its wielder enhanced power and temporary godhood, bestowing awareness and the ability to manifest one's divine power in the form of their essential essence. The Ten Ancients have appeared at various points throughout history; mortals stumbling upon the Proemial power during their adventures and journeys. The Ten are always drawn towards one another, gathering together in all their iterations across the ages.