Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)

 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
type
TVTItem
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
label
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
page
AHDotComEternals
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
comment
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })AH.com Eternals is a long-running blend of a roleplaying Play-by-Post Game and action-espionage dramatic webseries created over at the AlternateHistory.com discussion board. Though originally intended as a one-off idea, it soon grew and expanded and now carries the distinction of being one of the few roleplaying games on AH.com to be still running after nearly 5 years. Obviously inspired by the Highlander series during its starting phase, it has firmly grown into its own original mythos and canon over the years, only sharing a few basic ideas with its source of inspiration.One of the main elements of the canon is the existence of The Trust, a secret global organization of Eternals that was founded in the 16th century. Its goals are to help Eternals cope with their unique fates, shelter them, record their life stories, allow them to contact and help each other and work to protect regular humans and world peace from various threats. Naturally, many Eternals never warmed up to the idea of the Trust or never liked other Eternals and regular humans all that much to begin with. These are Rogue Eternals, the primary antagonists of the series.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })An important milestone in the game's Myth Arc was the Reveal. It occured in early 2011, and from then on, the game has stopped being a purely secret history populated by the Eternals, and has become a kind of Alternate History of our present. In addition to this narrative Retool, the pace of the main storyline has sped up a bit and is now set about five or so years into our own future. This was done as a move to chronicle the gradual influence of Eternals and their declassified knowledge on modern human society and science.The series was nominated regularly for "Best Roleplaying Game" in AH.com's annual Turtledove Awards (the AH.com Oscars). It had already won once in this category, in 2009.The discussion thread in which the series is played can be found here. The series page on the AH.com Wiki can be accessed here. A revival thread called AH.com Eternals Forever has recently been created, and can be found hereAdvertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Unfortunately, since that forum is off limits to non-members, you'll have to join the board before you can read the discussion thread itself. However, the always-accessible wiki page of the series regularly summarizes the main developments in the story.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
fetched
2019-08-06T23:55:30Z
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
parsed
2020-06-25T06:31:44Z
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
processingComment
Dropped link to DoctorWho: Not a Feature - ITEM
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
processingComment
Dropped link to TheManFromEarth: Not a Feature - ITEM
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
processingComment
Dropped link to Warhammer40000: Not a Feature - ITEM
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
isPartOf
DBTropes
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_14848fa3
type
Multinational Team
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_14848fa3
comment
Multinational Team: As one would expect, the Eternals come from all over the world and from many different eras of human history. Many (if not most) come from nations that have long since disappeared.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_14848fa3
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_14848fa3
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_14848fa3
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1616e13
type
Ripped from the Headlines
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1616e13
comment
Ripped from the Headlines: One of the early post-Reveal side storylines was about the Eternals helping the Japanese government in containing and cleaning up the reactor chamber of the ill-fated Fukushima Daichi nuclear powerplant. Some of the stories that followed this one were related to the Arab Spring of 2011, including the Libyan Civil War.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1616e13
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1616e13
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1616e13
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_177a6464
type
Genre Shift
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_177a6464
comment
Genre Shift: While Highlander is primarily an action adventure story, this series has more of a spy thriller tone, with lots of Deconstructor Fleet elements. It's less about the fancy swordfighting with ancient adversaries, and more about Eternals reminescenting about their past adventures and experiences in the form of oral history interviews, or taking part in working for the Trust and for the Eternals' cause. Helping Muggles from behind the scenes or protecting them from villainous Eternals is one of the Trust members' main missions.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_177a6464
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_177a6464
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_177a6464
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1be36a63
type
Immortal Procreation Clause
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1be36a63
comment
Immortal Procreation Clause: Averted. Eternals can have offspring just fine with regular humans and other Eternals alike (unless they're impotent).
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1be36a63
featureApplicability
-1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1be36a63
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1be36a63
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1beef720
type
Living Forever Is Awesome
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1beef720
comment
Living Forever Is Awesome: Many of the good-natured Eternals enjoy being immortal, especially if they can use their powers for the benefit of mankind and for helping people in need.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1beef720
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1beef720
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_1beef720
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_21c05222
type
Long-Runners
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_21c05222
comment
Long-Runners: As already mentioned, it's one of the longest-lived continuous roleplaying games on Alternatehistory.com. Late February 2013 will be its 5th anniversary.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_21c05222
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_21c05222
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_21c05222
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_26ac510e
type
Mythology Gag
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_26ac510e
comment
There are some Mythology Gags towards Highlander, of course : The whole Highlander franchise was actually created and produced with secret input from the Trust, in order to prepare the global public for a potential reveal of the Eternals, whether intentional or not. Yeah, even the crappier cinematic movies (it's all part of a clever ruse to keep the public from searching too hard for actual Eternals). In-universe, the film characters of Connor MacLeod, Ramirez, The Kurgan and Ramirez's Japanese mentor are revealed to be all broadly based on existing Eternals, though with most of their backstories changed. The Kurgan himself is supposed to be an adaptation of this series' memetic Big Bad, The Blood Knight (over-the-top Evil Gloating included). In one of the in-universe casual discussions between Eternals, one of them claimed to have written the lyrics to Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever during a depression in the 80s and later had it covered up when the film studio and band picked up the lyrics for use in the movie.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_26ac510e
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_26ac510e
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_26ac510e
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29292e6d
type
Walking the Earth
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29292e6d
comment
Walking the Earth: The older and more adventurous the Eternal, the higher the possibility that he/she is an experienced globetrotter.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29292e6d
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29292e6d
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29292e6d
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29b218b4
type
In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29b218b4
comment
In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous: Subverted. While many of the longer-lived and more globetrotting-oriented Eternals have certainly met a lot of famous historical figures, no character has bumped into every single famous figure of any given era and any given country.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29b218b4
featureApplicability
-0.3
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29b218b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_29b218b4
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d407620
type
Undead Tax Exemption
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d407620
comment
Undead Tax Exemption: Averted. Eternals have to eventually move to another place and adopt a new identity in order to not become too suspicious to Ephemerals.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d407620
featureApplicability
-1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d407620
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d407620
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d5b1c65
type
Expansion Pack Past
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d5b1c65
comment
Expansion Pack Past: Some characters tell their autobiographies chronologically, some do it in a more Anachronic Order. It adds to the charm and unpredictability of the series.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d5b1c65
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d5b1c65
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d5b1c65
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d6f00e4
type
Psycho for Hire
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d6f00e4
comment
Psycho for Hire: The commonest Secret Identity of The Blood God. The trope also applies to a number of other Rogue Eternals, mooks and leaders alike.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d6f00e4
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d6f00e4
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2d6f00e4
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2df4fa08
type
Omniglot
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2df4fa08
comment
Omniglot: Gregorios is specifically stated to be this, being able to fluently speak 37 languages at last count. Other elder Eternals would also fit this trope.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2df4fa08
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2df4fa08
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2df4fa08
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2f36d97
type
Older Than They Look
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2f36d97
comment
Older Than They Look: An Eternal will look the same age they had when they died for the first time, before regenerating. Thus, you can have 20-something Eternals who are 2000 years old, and septuagenarians who became Eternals "only" some 50 or 100 years ago.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2f36d97
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2f36d97
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_2f36d97
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_309b8806
type
Cursed with Awesome
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_309b8806
comment
Cursed with Awesome: All Eternals. Some revel in their unnatural gift (often going overboard), some utterly hate it (emphasis on the "cursed" part of the trope), most Take a Third Option and adopt a relatively neutral stance.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_309b8806
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_309b8806
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_309b8806
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_3407c500
type
The World Is Not Ready
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_3407c500
comment
The World Is Not Ready: Why the Eternals tried to keep their existence secret until 2011, when the Masquerade became no longer feasible. Even after the 2011 Reveal, they only gradually release information about Eternals, their activities and The Trust to the rest of humanity, due to diplomatic and security reasons.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_3407c500
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_3407c500
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_3407c500
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_445bc425
type
GreyAndGreyMorality
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_445bc425
comment
Grey and Grey Morality: Eternals and regular humans in general, though most are (or aspire to be) A Lighter Shade of Grey. Turns to Black and Grey Morality when the saner Eternals are dealing with the most villainous ones, particularly The Blood Knight and his posse.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_445bc425
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_445bc425
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_445bc425
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_446a3230
type
The Greatest History Never Told
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_446a3230
comment
Numerous references to actual historical events and facts, including many obscure ones.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_446a3230
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_446a3230
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_446a3230
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_44880a8c
type
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_44880a8c
comment
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Usualy averted and frowned upon by the Eternals. If a rogue Eternal tries to reveal the Trust or hurt regular people or Eternals, at the very worst, he's hunted down and gets imprisoned. If a regular person reveals Eternals, he is made a life-long confidant or employee of the Trust.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_44880a8c
featureApplicability
-1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_44880a8c
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_44880a8c
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_47d35854
type
Intergenerational Friendship
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_47d35854
comment
Intergenerational Friendship: Several examples, but Macarius (old medieval hermit) and Nicolet (young 19th century Franco-American woman) as two lonely explorers on Mars takes the cake.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_47d35854
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_47d35854
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_47d35854
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_4b17763f
type
Technology Marches On
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_4b17763f
comment
Technology Marches On: In-Universe. Despite a certain amount of traditionalism, the use of ever-developing technology by The Trust and Eternals is one of the main points of the series. One of the reasons why The Blood Knight is caught so fast after his 2011 escape is because he had no idea of modern satellite tracking technology. And while the Muggles Do It Better trope occurs, it also gets subverted a bit, in an ET Gave Us Wifi sort of way: The Eternals have financed the development of some groundbreaking or state-of-the-art technologies, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, some of these have been kept in secret storage until well after the Reveal (like The Runaway).
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_4b17763f
featureApplicability
-0.3
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_4b17763f
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_4b17763f
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_5c5ac0e2
type
Really 700 Years Old
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_5c5ac0e2
comment
Really 700 Years Old: And not only 700, but anywhere from 40 to 16 000 years old.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_5c5ac0e2
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_5c5ac0e2
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_5c5ac0e2
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_60fa92ac
type
NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_60fa92ac
comment
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The top dogs of the Rogue Eternals all have Evil Gloating-style The Adjectival Man nicknames, while their real names remain unknown. The three most infamous of these - the leaders - have nicknames that openly refer to their bloodlust: "The Blood Knight", "The Bloodsinger" and "The Blood God" (aka "The Hashasheen").
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_60fa92ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_60fa92ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_60fa92ac
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6366f900
type
Old Soldier
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6366f900
comment
Old Soldier: Many Eternals, especially male ones that were born in earlier eras and were forced to travel and fight a lot. At least one or two characters even mention the name of the trope verbatim when describing themselves and their tribulations.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6366f900
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6366f900
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6366f900
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_64b303c0
type
Drunk with Power
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_64b303c0
comment
Drunk with Power: Why and how a lot of Eternals turned to evil, treachery and anti-social behaviour.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_64b303c0
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_64b303c0
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_64b303c0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_69e4f7b7
type
Historical Fantasy
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_69e4f7b7
comment
Historical Fantasy: Though the only fantastical element are the Eternals themselves. It's still enough to create room for some really compelling stories.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_69e4f7b7
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_69e4f7b7
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_69e4f7b7
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6ef09297
type
Masquerade
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6ef09297
comment
Masquerade: The Eternals try to uphold it as much as they can (until if finally fails in early 2011). To ease this process, they created the Trust in the 16th century. The trope is also namedropped and hilariously lampshaded in this in-character discussion:
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6ef09297
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6ef09297
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_6ef09297
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_78d103c3
type
Exposition of Immortality
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_78d103c3
comment
Exposition of Immortality: On a personal scale, when a new eternal reveals himself/herself to The Trust or when The Trust contacts a confirmed Eternal and explains to him/her his/her immortality. On a global scale, the 2011 Reveal that finished The Masquerade Myth Arc and remade the timeline into an outright Alternate History.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_78d103c3
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_78d103c3
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_78d103c3
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7aa989ea
type
Token Evil Teammate
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7aa989ea
comment
Token Evil Teammate: Valkert is not explicitly evil, but he's morally ambiguous and crazy enough to pull off some weird stunts that are often embarassing to the Trust.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7aa989ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7aa989ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7aa989ea
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7bb1296b
type
"Rashomon"-Style
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7bb1296b
comment
"Rashomon"-Style: Given the amount of characters, their differing ages and motivations, this is to be expected from time to time. In the case of Rogue Eternals, you just have to roll with this trope full-time, since the Rogues are more often than not Unreliable Narrators - either deliberately or just because of their own insanity.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7bb1296b
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7bb1296b
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7bb1296b
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7ffca8c4
type
Immortality Begins at Twenty
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7ffca8c4
comment
Immortality Begins at 20: Unless you actually become an Eternal during your 20s, this trope is averted.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7ffca8c4
featureApplicability
-1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7ffca8c4
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_7ffca8c4
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_823c6e3e
type
LargeHam
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: The villainous Rogue Eternals, natch. Some of them are fond of a Breaking Speech from time to time.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_823c6e3e
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_823c6e3e
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_823c6e3e
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8430699a
type
Alternate Universe
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8430699a
comment
Alternate Universe: Exactly the same as ours until 2011, with a single exception: A certain portion of humanity are immortal humans who live among us, keeping their superpowers in secrecy.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8430699a
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8430699a
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8430699a
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_854b029a
type
Encyclopedia Exposita
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_854b029a
comment
Encyclopedia Exposita: Most of the wiki pages covering this roleplaying project (apart from the introductory one) are written in-universe in order to better immerse readers in the narrative and backstories.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_854b029a
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_854b029a
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_854b029a
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_86d4f985
type
Doing In the Wizard
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_86d4f985
comment
Doing In the Wizard: Zig-zagged. While the trigger of immortality that some people receive at birth seems supernatural, it is eventually discovered to be a rare glitch in the human genome. (To the surprise of Eternal characters, the number of people with "Immortality Genes" has only grown throughout human history, not dimished as was once thought.) However, despite the discovered scientific evidence for natural immortality genes, the actual cause of their existence still isn't well understood.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_86d4f985
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_86d4f985
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_86d4f985
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8b6e8d7
type
Anachronic Order
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8b6e8d7
comment
Anachronic Order: Most of the storyline in general. Sometimes, a chapter will focus on the latest events in the storyline, sometimes it will be an examination of the known history of the Eternals, sometimes it will be a retrospective of an Eternal about one particular period or event in his life, etc.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8b6e8d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8b6e8d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8b6e8d7
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862
type
Ancient Conspiracy
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862
comment
Ancient Conspiracy: Played with. Eternals trying to cover up their own existence definitely qualifies as ancient, but the Trust as an organization was only formed in the 16th century. And, for once, the conspiracy itself is actually benevolent and serves to protect both Eternals and Ephemerals. Rogue Eternals, on the other hand... They play the typical "malevolent" connotations of the trope fairly straight.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e92e125
type
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e92e125
comment
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: While the canon is self-admittedly Inspired by... the rules of the Highlander series, they weren't copied wholesale. This was due to a desire to create an original take on the "immortal humans among us" theme. The AH.commers that have taken part in the game have gradually fleshed out the backstory with a host of new and different ideas. The second reason was, of course, to avoid obvious copyright issues - one of its telltale signs is that the characters are properly referred to as "Eternals", not "Immortals" as in Highlander.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e92e125
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e92e125
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e92e125
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_98a63dc6
type
Time Abyss
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_98a63dc6
comment
Time Abyss: The oldest Eternals (including the much-revered "Forefather G'Len") are often so old and have gone through so many experiences in their lives, that they themselves aren't always sure how long they've been alive.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_98a63dc6
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_98a63dc6
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_98a63dc6
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9a1d239e
type
Been There, Shaped History
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9a1d239e
comment
Been There, Shaped History: While some Eternals tried to keep to themselves for their entire long existence, most Eternals helped shape history in one way or another, to various degrees and because of various motivations.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9a1d239e
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9a1d239e
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9a1d239e
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9e6e54db
type
The Older Immortal
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9e6e54db
comment
The Older Immortal: G'Len and Th'And in particular. They were alive and adventuring already before the end of the last ice age.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9e6e54db
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9e6e54db
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_9e6e54db
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a1a1491e
type
Homage
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a1a1491e
comment
Homage: Immortal humans, born in various eras and places, walk among us. Some good, some evil, some of dubious alignment. They cannot die of natural causes. They can only be killed by decapitation or vaporization of the head. This is all that this series and Highlander have in common.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a1a1491e
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a1a1491e
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a1a1491e
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a3385649
type
In-Joke
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a3385649
comment
In-Joke: On the wiki pages of the roleplay, at least. In the database of biographical interviews with Eternals, each Eternal is assigned a seemingly random large number by the Trust Archives. This code is actually derived from the secondary code of a post made in the roleplay's thread on the AH.com discussion board.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a3385649
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a3385649
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a3385649
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a4f2570d
type
Muggles
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a4f2570d
comment
Muggles: Mortals, commonly referred to as Ephemerals. Most Eternals want to assist them, the rogue ones would like to see them enslaved in one way or another.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a4f2570d
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a4f2570d
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a4f2570d
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a86069f
type
Alternate History
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a86069f
comment
Alternate History: At first, the premise of the game was more of a standard secret history with a dash of historical fantasy. After the 2011 reveal of the Eternals to the world public, the game's universe became an explicit Alternate History version of ours. While the storyline has yet to leave the 2010s, the ramifications of the Reveal have already been felt. And even while the game was in its Masquerade phase, the meddling of many Eternals in the course of world history implies that the baseline history itself could have been quite different without their intrusion.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a86069f
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a86069f
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_a86069f
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ab74122a
type
Wasteland Elder
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ab74122a
comment
Wasteland Elder: The character of Macarius, a silent and stoic old man, who was originally an early Christian hermit monk. After living through the entirety of the Byzantine Empire and harassment by Napoleon's troops in Egypt, he was contacted by the Trust and became an important protegé of it. Eventually, he got bored out of his skull and disillusioned by Earth, so he volunteered for the Eternal's first secret mission to Mars in the 1970s. He's been living there ever since and later Eternal missions have come to make him company.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ab74122a
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ab74122a
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ab74122a
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ac7cbf8d
type
Myth Arc
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ac7cbf8d
comment
Myth Arc: The storyline has slowly and organically moved through several over the years. The early history and fundamentals of Eternals, the quiet war between altruistic and avaricious Eternals, the establishment and history of the Trust, the bringing of malevolent Eternals to justice, the coping of Eternals with the modern and globalized world, with the failure of their long-held masquerade, the start of a new era of Eternal and Ephemeral human coexistence and relations, etc.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ac7cbf8d
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ac7cbf8d
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ac7cbf8d
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b1efb7a7
type
Mayfly–December Romance
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b1efb7a7
comment
Mayfly–December Romance: Most of the immortal Eternals marry mortal humans. A couple might eventually learn that they are both Eternals, thus averting this trope. The characters of Timothy and Jesci are good examples of this.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b1efb7a7
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b1efb7a7
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b1efb7a7
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b5171e10
type
Tragic Villain
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b5171e10
comment
Tragic Villain: Out of all the Rogue Eternals (especially the highest-ranking leaders), The Bloodsinger comes off as more of an Anti-Villain, rather than the usual power-hungry Omnicidal Maniac. This is because he became an Eternal after he was murdered in a particularly vicious and gruesome manner. He was lynched to death, then burned alive. The traumatic death experience and unexpected ressurrection messed up his sanity for the rest of his life. Unlike The Blood Knight and The Blood God, he doesn't particularly revel in his evil acts, considers unarmed civilians and Muggles not worth killing and follows a morally twisted vigilantist doctrine in which he indiscriminately "punishes" (i.e. slaughters) people he decides are "irredeemable" purely because they participated in armed conflicts or crime in one way or another. One of the clear signs that he's been off his rocker for centuries are his constant references to spilt blood "singing to him", calling him to murder more supposed adversaries or wrongdoers. Hence his odd nickname. To quote the character's creator and player:
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b5171e10
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b5171e10
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b5171e10
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b7c53a22
type
Blood Knight
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b7c53a22
comment
Blood Knight: Literally! The Blood Knight is the most dangerous and sociopathic Eternal all around. Though only born relatively recently (during the Middle Ages), he has fought for centuries against the Trust, murdered many Eternals and worked on creating a network of allies and minions among likewise minded rogue Eternals. Thankfully, by the time the Eternals community reveals itself to the rest of the world, he is caught one last time, interrogated and imprisoned by the Trust for good.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b7c53a22
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b7c53a22
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_b7c53a22
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c007c53
type
Cool and Unusual Punishment
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c007c53
comment
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Several of the worst Rogue Eternals had to be punished by extreme confinement in order to protect both mortal humans and good guy Eternals from their endless rampaging. How extreme? Like being burried alive in a mine or being burried in the ocean crust extreme.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c007c53
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c007c53
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c007c53
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c2393191
type
Show Within a Show
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c2393191
comment
Show Within a Show: The autobiographies and personal memoirs of specific Eternals, gradually gleaned through many interviews.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c2393191
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c2393191
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c2393191
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c25c7890
type
Fun with Acronyms
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c25c7890
comment
Fun with Acronyms: One of the service branches of The Trust is TETRA - "The Eternals' Trust Repository and Archives".
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c25c7890
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c25c7890
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c25c7890
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c3743565
type
Time Dissonance
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c3743565
comment
Time Dissonance: Naturally, Eternals experience the flow of time and the course of history a bit differently than Ephemerals. Said experiencing also varies from Eternal to Eternal and often has a lot to do with how long they've been alive.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c3743565
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c3743565
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c3743565
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: Numerous references to actual historical events and facts, including many obscure ones. There are some Mythology Gags towards Highlander, of course : The whole Highlander franchise was actually created and produced with secret input from the Trust, in order to prepare the global public for a potential reveal of the Eternals, whether intentional or not. Yeah, even the crappier cinematic movies (it's all part of a clever ruse to keep the public from searching too hard for actual Eternals). In-universe, the film characters of Connor MacLeod, Ramirez, The Kurgan and Ramirez's Japanese mentor are revealed to be all broadly based on existing Eternals, though with most of their backstories changed. The Kurgan himself is supposed to be an adaptation of this series' memetic Big Bad, The Blood Knight (over-the-top Evil Gloating included). In one of the in-universe casual discussions between Eternals, one of them claimed to have written the lyrics to Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever during a depression in the 80s and later had it covered up when the film studio and band picked up the lyrics for use in the movie. Open or veiled references of Eternals to other films and TV shows dealing with the theme of immortal characters (The Man from Earth, New Amsterdam, etc.). One member of the main trio of bad guys, "The Hashasheen" (aka "The Blood God"), uses the phrase "Blood for the Blood God!" as his favourite Battlecry and Madness Mantra. Though this is more coincidental and unintentional than not, the flatly descriptive one-word pseudonyms of many Eternals (especially the villainous ones) are similar to the naming conventions of the Time Lord characters from Doctor Who.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c75df49a
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c75df49a
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_c75df49a
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_caa28b82
type
Cloudcuckoolander
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_caa28b82
comment
Cloudcuckoolander: The character of Valkert. Despite being on the side of the Trust and the good guy Eternals, he's a highly eccentric and sometimes downright nutty person.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_caa28b82
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_caa28b82
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_caa28b82
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_cc1bd54d
type
Non-Action Guy
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_cc1bd54d
comment
Non-Action Guy: While lots of Eternals have a past that includes military careers, various daring-do or just being Badass Normal by nature, many Eternals follow this trope instead, often being skilled artists, traders, con-men, or even Science Heroes or Ambadassadors. The trope also gets subverted numerous times: Many Eternals turn out to be Badass Bookworms and Genius Bruisers, or at least Cultured Warriors. Or were unremarkable Non Action Guys at first, but eventually Took a Level in Badass.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_cc1bd54d
featureApplicability
-0.3
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_cc1bd54d
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_cc1bd54d
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_d5d976dd
type
I Have Many Names
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_d5d976dd
comment
I Have Many Names: Every Eternal has a whole list of pseudonyms and made-up personas, and the list only grows as they get older and older. The character of Gregorios alone (born around 300 AD) has an infamously large collection of pseudonyms. The trope is also inverted in some cases, like with The Blood Knight, the Bloodsinger, and other terrifying rogue Eternals who are deliberately only known by their nicknames.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_d5d976dd
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_d5d976dd
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_d5d976dd
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_de15a322
type
Tangled Family Tree
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_de15a322
comment
Tangled Family Tree: Eternals and their offspring that had inherited the immortality genes, often only after several generations (i.e. a lot of Eternals don't even know some of their ancestors were Eternals as well and only reveal this after extensive genealogical research or debates with other Eternals). Some longer-lived Eternals are unfortunate in this regard: Some of their offspring turned outright evil or sociopathic over time, and they as their ancestors now have to live with it. This kind of situation occurs with the fairly normal Eternal character known by the moniker "Edward", who turns out to be one of the direct ancestors of The Blood Knight.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_de15a322
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_de15a322
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_de15a322
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ebcf99b5
type
The Unmasqued World
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ebcf99b5
comment
The Unmasqued World: The world since early 2011, when the Eternals decided to finally reveal their existence to the rest of humanity. This has led to the post-Reveal world veering into an increasingly Alternate History version of our present day world.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ebcf99b5
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ebcf99b5
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ebcf99b5
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ec7da60a
type
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ec7da60a
comment
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: While most Eternals have posed as common folk throughout the centuries and millennia, some of them did eventually become notable historical characters and personalities. One of the secret identities of the character Gregorios was the early American settler John Alden.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ec7da60a
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ec7da60a
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_ec7da60a
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_f9f2c33
type
RunningGag
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_f9f2c33
comment
Running Gag: Kind of an unintentional one. Despite the oft-repeated notion that the Trust has contacted virtually every Eternal on the planet by the 18th century, new Eternal characters keep popping up from time to time, shocked by the notion that they aren't the only immortal humans alive.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_f9f2c33
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_f9f2c33
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_f9f2c33
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_fb9e0265
type
Team Dad
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_fb9e0265
comment
Team Dad: There've two or three characters like this so far. In the pre-Trust era, the role was filled by G'Len, the oldest known Eternal. He is now retired and rarely visits the Trust. The post-Trust bearer of this trope is Bosch, the founder and head of the Trust. While Bosch, born in medieval France in the late 15th century, is chronologically younger than many of his clients, he is still the undisputed leader, spokesperson and peacemaker of the Eternals. Also a Gentleman Snarker and The Stoic. A villainous version of Team Dad would be The Blood Knight, with his many allies and minions.
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_fb9e0265
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_fb9e0265
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_fb9e0265
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
type
ItemName
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
comment
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
featureApplicability
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
featureConfidence
1.0
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)
hasFeature
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
 AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_name
itemName
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay)

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

(none found)