Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga

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Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga (abbreviated as ELotH:TES) is a fan-driven parody of the generic fantasy fiction that serves as the backstory of many fantasy game franchises.

It started as a single PBWiki page written by Jerry "Tycho" Holkins of Penny Arcade, and rapidly grew in size as Penny Arcade fans joined in expanding the parody.

The tales of the Saga itself rotate around several bases: The original 13 'canon' books, the Japanese anime series, the American re-make of the anime, the collectible card game, and even the odd life of the author himself, and such events as his several-year long "pills and booze binge". These are only the major pieces of the story, and other fragments abound.

In addition to direct pastiches of works in the parodied genres such as Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Harry Potter, and Magic:The Gathering, the wiki also touches on and parodies most of popular culture such as the Beatles' song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

Within the community, the idea that the franchise has existed for at least a decade is strictly enforced. Suggestions that the real world timeline that exists on the official site may, in fact, itself be a work of fiction are strongly discouraged. Such accusation are referred to by the fans of ELotH:TES as "crimethink."

The saga was first introduced as an entry on Wikipedia, only to be quickly excised as fancruft. It would better have been classified as original research (which is also not allowed), but was difficult to classify as such to the uninformed as it was presented as a factual resource about an existing franchise.