A late challenge present for Christmas.

Overlord x Log Horizon: Theldesia's Overlord

Personally I was always a fan of virtual reality animes as I have grown up with Digimon Adventures, which is most likely the reason why I like animes such as Log Horizon, Sword Art Online and Overlord of course.

However instead of talking about my past, I would like to voice out this idea of mine today not in form of a story myself, but as a challenge to those of you who feel like it.

The basic concept is easily figured out. A player from YGGDRASIL or a NPC or multiple individuals, that can be both players and NPCs alike are transported to Theldesia as a result of the server shutdown. This event will have consequences for the newly arrived people from YGGDRASIL as well as the adventurers or Elder Tale players and the landers as both the transportation of the YGGDRASIL players and the release of the Novasphere Pioneers would need to fall either on the same date to prevent complications with former game content of Elder Tale or later to 'the Catastrophe', but I haven't heard any news about Log Horizon since 2016.

Because Theldesia is basically Earth with different names for the landmarks and only half the size of the original celestial body, this world can be seen as an ideal world to conquer for certain overlords (*cough* Ainz *cough*) as continents and environments of Theldesia are more or less clear for the players. So the only real opponents on Theldesia for a level 100 player are most likely the high level raid boss monsters and the genius travelers, that probably won't like it when suddenly something stronger than the adventurers appears and interferes with their plans to obtain Empathium (whatever that is since it is still not explained), though I doubt that they can reach the power of literally god slaying beings like the level 100 YGGDRASIL players are.

There are a lot of possibilities. How you would like your stories to be is up to you. However the story just needs to fullfil some minor criteria.

1. A player, NPC, (boss) monster, dungeon, guild or even multiple ones from YGGDRASIL must appear in the world of Theldesia/Elder Tale. It can be a OC, but also a canon character like Ainz.

2. Try to take this crossover a bit serious. I know it isn't easy and it is most likely easier to simply transport people from a game to a real world or the other way around instead of jumping from one game to another, but I'm sure that if this is written very good it has a chance to be a great story.

3. There are no other criteria. Do as you like and let your imagination do the rest for you. If you want to conquer your overlord to conquer this world, than do so. If you want him/her/it to wipe out the adventurers, then do so. If you just wish to assist Shiroe and Log Horizon, be my guest. Or if you just want to let your OC interact with this new (or old) world, then do as you please. I've put the Log Horizon/Overlord crossover on my list of stories I want to write myself already, but it will most likely come out 2019 or late 2018.

Here to give you an example how this could look like:

Let's say a NPC of YGGDRASIL comes to Theldesia, let's call it Vladimir (I like that name). He's a True Vampire warrior with a class build for a tank, meaning high defense, HP and attack, but low MP, magic defense and agility. After somehow having come to cope with the fact that neither his fellow NPCs nor his creators are present anymore, he decides to go explore this new unfamiliar place without any other reason to exist. If this person would appear anywhere on Theldesia, how would the story continue? It would be up to you to decide what to make of this. That's the crude idea of this.

So if you like those two animes as well or just want to try yourself on this challenge, you are free to try. If I've left anything out, please PM me. If you want to say something about it, don't hold back. It's after all only a suggestion. Just please don't just come barging in and start flaming for no reason.

So happy holidays you guys ;)