#post-modern

A world of magic and technology, intermingling as one...

A world of many lives, faces, livelihoods, natures, and needs,

The World Around Chrysanthemum!

Welcome to The World Around Chrysanthemum, a tabletop roleplaying game hosted by yours truly, mythologicalbiologist!

This is a not-so-new project that i have been working on in my downtime.

What is Chrysanthemum?

Chrysanthemum is a city, set in a post modern time, in a world surrounded by magic of all ends and nearly all kinds! Technology has advanced drastically, intermingling with magic to create a small, yet grandiose city!

Regarded as the safest place in the world, chrysanthemum has surpassed many other civilizations, with its leader, lysander, fronting the charge. many kinds of people and creatures, humanoids and beasts participate to survive from the threats far and wide, some small, yet deadly, with some wielding the size and strength to hold up entire mountains!

Prepare for anything with magic in abundance and options applenty, changing out gameplans and making careful actions along the fly.

Live, try, wonder, and die with one another as you venture through the city and far outside of it to civilizations small and slighly less small, while weathering torrents of wildlife, magic, dragons, and opportunities from end to end of the planet, all to save chrysanthemum from itself as its sour center is revealed further and further to both you and the world around it.

Note - everything is based on the traditional pack, the closer to modern we get, the more we see divergence from that standard.

Traditional - Your pack is your tribe, your town, your community. Packs have geographical permanence in the same way irl people groups did. Important things to note - Packs can have branches that operate similarly to feudalism. There are many people of all dynamics, but there is one main pack leader with several different pack leaders underneath them. Leadership does not need to be based on bloodline, although that's also possible. This often happens when a big pack absorbs small packs into the system - people close to the main pack alpha will be chosen to go lead and establish these new pack off-shoots. Everyone is in a pack, and if you aren't in a pack you're pack-less which is no good. Your pack is your lifeline, and you probably won't leave your pack area ever unless you are married off to another one or hold one of the few pack jobs that requires travel and communication with other packs. Packs are extremely territorial, and you can't go to certain places if your pack isn't allied with that location's ruling pack.

Contemporary - Your pack is still your community but we start to lose that feudalism element. Not everyone describes themselves as being in a pack, but the idea of being pack-less has less weight. You no longer need to depend specifically on your pack for security, food, etc... In the same way that some Americans often refer to themselves in terms of their long heritage (such as Italian-Americans whose closest Italian ancestor was 5 generations ago), people may have a similar feeling to their hereditary pack. Not many people are starting new packs that operate similarly to traditional packs. New packs are more like found families or communities that often don't have a leader or pack organization. If you do have strong pack ties, that could come in handy when it comes to things like getting a job or meeting people. It's the same as being in a sorority or frat, people feel kinship there and alignment with others. You can travel pretty much anywhere except closed-pack lands (unless you have an in).

Modern - Nobody is using traditional pack language and it's seen as antiquated and old-fashioned/conservative to still be actively in one (traditional). It's common for people who live in extremely rural areas to still be somewhat attached to it but other than that most people wouldn't say they're pack-attached. There are very few closed-pack lands, and those places are pretty much 100% closed off to outsiders, It's not like in the contemporary au where you can come depending on your affiliation. These are truly closed communities. If you list your pack heritage on a resume or official document you are either a super old person, or it's assumed you have some elitist/ultra-conservate viewpoints. More people now use packs to describe their community or group of friends or found family, but this is more anecdotal because packs don't have names, they don't have location permanence, they don't have an internal economy, etc.. Unless you are from a royal bloodline the name of your ancestors means less than nothing.