Dark Emissary
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Dark Emissary is the second multimedia series developed by USRPG. It is slated for release in Summer 2006 through multiple venues, including but not limited to: pen and paper role-playing, portable video game, and manga publication. Set within a classical fantasy setting, Dark Emissary breaths new life into commonly cliché elements by drastically shifting familiar expectations.
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Since the dawn of time, the Dark Emissary has traveled across the lands, spreading sorrow and misery in her wake. Few can fathom the paths of her wanderings; none can understand the dire intentions. Throughout history, innumerable armies and beings of godlike power have stood to oppose the Dark Emissary, only to find themselves utterly helpless against an invincible primordial force.
To those who dare listen, she speaks of fulfilling a prophecy so the Darkness will return to claim her. If this desire is borne of love, loss, curiosity, or hate she does not say: only that it must be done.
The Darkness is master of the everlasting void. He stands beyond the hierarchies of the divine, unheeding and unconcerned of their machinations: supreme among them as mortals are supreme among insects. Where his presence is known, nothing subsists but the cold, timeless, darkness of oblivion. Only in his absolute absence may creation and life can begin. Thus the Darkness is a quiet and distant being, whether of consequence or freewill, for there would be no existence were he to impart the littlest attention.
Should the Darkness return, regardless of His intent, everything will end. No matter how futile the effort, how insane the results, the Dark Emissary must be stopped from realizing her dream. The time of resolve is neigh, for little of the prophecy remains incomplete. Each footstep of her journey tolls the death of Creation: a travel that will inevitably reach conclusion.
How it concludes, remains yet to be resolved.
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Dark Emissary d20 is the pen and paper role-playing adaptation of the series; currently being evaluated for possible publication under the Magnum Opus label. Players take the role of an aspiring adventurer seeking to eventually oppose the Dark Emissary and save their world from oblivion, fully aware that countless others before them have attempted the same and miserably failed.
The world of Dark Emissary is a diverse one, populated by a myriad of civilized creatures, steeped in powerful magic, and influenced by evolving technology. One might commonly oppose a vampire with holy symbols and blessed swords, as they would with archaic spells and enchanted artifacts, or clockwork automations and gunpowder firearms. What sets Dark Emissary apart however, is the extreme diverse nature of the world’s sentient inhabitants. Only against a common threat would such beings band together in amity and cooperation. Were this adversary to be defeated, dissimilarity and incompatibility would erupt into strife and hatred.
