The Kingdom (novel)

The Kingdom is an original urban-fantasy collaborative fiction project. The plot centers around the descendants of the prehistoric Geldon Kingdom, who wield their elemental magics to combat the supernatural evils that threaten the world, or at least those of them that show up in Sunset City California.

Stories, or "logs", take any form. Prose is the most popular format, but play-by-post roleplays and comics are also used.

The portal page can be found here. The forums (where all the storytelling takes place) can be found here.

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Tropes used in The Kingdom (novel) include:

• Action Girl: Pick a female on the cast. Odds are, she kicks serious ass.
• All There in the Manual: The Kingdom portal page explains the storyline and game mechanics for newcomers.
• Alternate Universe Fic: The writers at Kingdom love alternate universe and continuities and give them almost as much love as the main storyline.
  • "Breaking My F***ing Heart" - The aftermath of an epic battle set about a decade ahead of the main storyline
  • Dark Future - The government learns of the existence of Hunters and is none too pleased about it
  • Noir AU - Non-powered series in vein of the Noir Episode.
  • Bandom - Another non-powered variant with the characters rocking out
• Anachronic Order: Logs aren't created in any specific order and may jump decades into the future or the past. The campaigns page on the portal helps make some sense of the timeline.
• Ascended Meme: El Combito, a mythic Mexican whom even Chuck Norris fears.
• Badass Bookworm: Irving, mostly in the Dark Future series.
• Bad Future: The aptly-named Dark Future AU
  • The "Breaking My F***ing Heart" series
• Beautiful All Along: Jane
• Body Snatcher: One of Rufus' trademarks
• Break the Cutie: All the writers seem to enjoy tormenting their characters.
• Break the Haughty: In-universe, Irving does this to his students.
• City of Adventure: Man, there sure are lot of daemons in Sunset City.
  • Justified by the inexperienced Hunters accidentally opening a seal.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Deon suffers from a bad case of this.
• Cursed with Awesome: Alice and Irving both feel this way about their Alchemist abilities.
• Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much the whole cast at one point or another.
• Dismantled MacGuffin: A living variant, in the Purity Princess.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Pretty standard reaction for Deon, Mara, and Irving.
• Elemental Powers: Goes beyond the standard classical sets to include things like EM radiation and photosynthesis.
• Everyone Can See It: Deon and Mara. Unfortunately they have a raging case of Belligerent Sexual Tension.
  • Alice and Peter fit this.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: Brian and Rae.
• Fictional Document: The El Combito comic books
• Hot Amazon: Raquel, complete with Boobs of Steel
• Ignorant of the Call: The majority of the characters don't understand why they have powers or comprehend the relationship between daemons and Geldon.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Max.
  • In the Dark Future AU, he borders on a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but then again, it's in his best interests to keep the feds from locking up Hunters.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Loni and Alice.
  • Nessa
• Memetic Mutation: Irving's reputation blossomed from quirky professor to full-on Mad Scientist
  • This log goes into more detail.
• Meta Origin: The eponymous Kingdom
• Moe: Jane. Full stop.
  • Brian borders on this as well.
• Noodle Incident: Several of Irving's past stunts, including "The Great Pigeon Rampage"
• Papa Wolf: Go ahead and threaten Melanie. See how long it takes for Irving to completely ruin your day.
• Refusal of the Call: Max would much prefer a nap to fighting evil.
• Stoic Woobie: Reddell
• Super-Hero Speciation: For the most part no two Hunters or Guardians share the same power-set. The closest is Irving (electromagnetic radiation) and Paris (magnetism).
  • Averted, in the Dark Future AU, where Melanie and Valentine are both Ice Knights.
• The Blacksmith: Deon, with shades of Gadgeteer Genius and Machine Empathy.
• The Trickster: Irving. He's a combination Karmic Trickster and Screwy Squirrel.
  • Irving's mellowed somewhat since he became a father.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Deon and Mara. Full stop.
• Weird Science: Relic crafting
  • Irving's scientific analysis of his abilities.