Chapter 1
Nintentopia
Imagine, if you will, a world adjacent and parallel to ours. The world is quite similar to ours aside from having a green sky and is largely composed of a fusion of fantasy and science-fiction settings. It features a large population (the true number being undisclosed due to the large amount of births every year), continents that vary wildly (for instance featuring volcanoes in the middle of snowy and icy wastelands) and is constantly under attack by demons, monsters and other eldritch horrors on a near constant basis. That world is named…Nintentopia.
Nintentopia is a world featuring a variety of flora and fauna, several of which are sentient and capable of speaking with humanity. The beasts in particular consist of animals with human characteristics (who are known as beastmen) and humans with animal characteristics (who are known as Faunus). Several other lifeforms also exist- elves, dwarves, gnomes, hobbits, fairies (who are primarily known to people as the Fae), giants, orcs, trolls, goblins, horned people, literal blobs of water, aliens of various different types and honest to God robots. The Faunus there are also separated into various different sub tribes of their own depending on animal trait- cat Faunuses are known as Gormotti, dog Faunuses are known as Erunes and rabbit Faunuses are known as the Taguel for example. Not only that, but certain beastman tribes are also separated in regard to their species too- for instance bird type beastmen are known as the Rito. Many of Nintentopia's denizens are capable of many weird and wonderful feats, some using psychic powers and others using magic. The land's cities, towns and villages also show extreme social disparity- some settlements are exact replicas of our modern world, some are mediaeval and others are outright futuristic. And don't get me started on the colonies established in many of the harsher regions of the world. The world is also home to many ancient ruins, some of which are still being found.
Part of Nintentopia itself is unique due to its laws of reality (known as the World) being fashioned after what we would call role-playing games. This is known to its denizens as the System; many have tried to break free but to no avail. The World itself grants powers such as Witch Time (slowing time down to a crawl after a dodge), Rift Magic (using the power of a spiritual world known as the Fade to perform extremely broken magical spells even by the World's own standards) and the ability for a chosen hero to see the stats of its people. Oh, did I not mention that? Yes, Nintentopia is quite picky in regard to what it selects as its chosen hero. This hero is notably selected randomly in response to a threat attacking the world; what this threat entails is also random- sometimes it is demon, othertimes it is a God. Said hero (typically someone who was not born on the world) is usually selected by the World's agents and is traditionally granted the ability to exist outside the rules of the World; Nintentopia's own heroes are similarly powerful themselves but exist within the World itself, but they are granted abilities that are beyond the rules of the System but are still bound to the World. Indeed, saving the world is certainly no tall order.
This brings me to Nintentopia today: a world dying from the machinations of those who try to invade it. The world itself is dying from the invaders' ability to warp its reality and the refusal of the heroes who stopped them to heal the broken world. All except one, his name lost to time.
The story continues in the next chapter.
