Japan Japan. A strange land in the eyes of all Westerners. Where Technology, Robotics, and Progressive advancements are so cutting edge that to other cultures of the world it makes Japan seem like an Alien world. An Alien World based on the rich cultural history of Japan, which developed through it's Feudal Age, where Samurai, Shinobi, and Commoners were lead by Shogun and Emperor in a direct Hierarchy that could not be questioned or debated, unless you wish to surrender your life. In this defined world were technology, robotics, machinery, there is a secret yearning of all it's citizens, where everyone is quietly screaming for freedom, a sense of escapism from this strict disciplined world, which encourages them to embrace Universal Taboos, Extreme Fetishes, and Kinky Fantasizes, forcing the people to live separate lives and hide their true feelings, thoughts, and desires from everyone, even the people closest to them, including lovers, husbands/wives, and family members. In this, the Fae can empathize with the people of Japan, they too must live separate lives, in both the Dreaming and in the Banal world. In Japan where we find our characters, the world seems different, not only in its culture and ethics, but physically as well. The world of Japan and it's rich history, and subconscious yearning has transformed the Dreaming and the Fae Mien. Both have been altered, changed, and shaped in unique ways. Inspired by Giant Mecha, Robotic Androids, Synthetic Cyborgs, Magical Schoolgirls, and Hentai Beasts, the Dreaming world of Japan, and the Fae Mien themselves have been transformed during their Chrysalis and now reflect the world around them. Changeling The Dreaming In Japan In this world far removed from High King David's watchful eyes in Concordia, shaped by the secret yearnings of its people, the Changelings find themselves empathetic to the causes, concerns, and desires of the people. They hear the beckoning through the Dreaming, they see the plight of the people, the struggles they must face, and understand that they desperately need a sense of release from all the strict discipline, emotional torture, and the persecution of its hierarchy bearing down on them. The Fae hear the cries through the Dreaming as a Call-To-Arms. High King David has sent a decry, for all Fae in Japan to do everything within their Power to inspire the Japanese, to help them find even a small sense of Peace and Freedom within their Mundane lives, or perhaps rally their forces and find an answer to what is keeping its people so bogged down with such emotional weight. Something is haunting the people of Japan, the weight of success, progress, and choosing advancement over happiness and pleasure has inflicted a painful wound in the people of Japan. Suicide rates so high and so extreme that Aokigahara, a popular forest destination for those wishing to end their lives has become infested with countless bodies, that the police and locals must constantly employ search parties to clean up all the messages, notes, letters and offerings left behind by the victims. Perhaps the myths and rumors of Aokigahara being invested with demons, sirens, beasts and monsters that beckon the fragile, the weak, and the lost into braving the Aokigahara Forest and meeting their demise with whatever inhabits the woods, only to be consumed by nightmares and terrors that force them to commit suicide, rather that be tormented by the darkness that dwells in the shadows.
