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Establishing The World/ Overlord Bonds

"Alright everyone," Jeremy straightened his stack of paper for notes in one hand while twirling a pencil in the other, "We're not yet done with character creation, but the last few steps require us making the world of Atlas first. Everyone ready?"

The four children nodded, eyes wide with excitement as the former nightguard placed the notes down. He let out a silent sigh of relief that he had managed to handle the Overlord reveal. That seemed to rattle them for some reason. Then again, maybe his speech was just that convincing.

Smiling to himself at the thought, he cleared his throat while placing his pencil down, "Ok then. We're going to use the Guided Establishment rules for this since this is everyone's first time playing. We're going to lay out some broad ideas and facts about Atlas, and then flesh them out either as we right them or as we play. The first step is to introduce your characters but since we've already done that and I have what you all have said written down, I'm going to move on to the other questions."

Jeremy looked towards Mary, wanting to get her out of the way due to her hyper personality, "You're first Mary. Why are you you're people's champion?"

"Because I'm the best and smartest and prettiest and-"

Ib placed a hand on her step sister's shoulder, stopping her mid-speech, "Mary. I think you should be more...specific. Like....what does Tanis do better than every other elf in the world? What makes the other elves look up to her?"

Jeremy silently thanked Ib as Mary started racking her brain for an answer. Her eyes opened wide with discovery as she shouted, "Oh! I know! She's the best painter in the entire undersea kingdom! All her paintings look like they're about to leap right off the page!"

"Really?" Jeremy's hand was already writing down what the young girl had said, "Does that mean they put a high value on art?"

"Yeah, I guess," Mary shrugged, but her smile didn't leave, "And they can talk to fishes, and can turn their legs into fishtails so they can swim! Like mermaids!"

Jeremy nodded, "Very good, Mary! That takes care of both of my questions. The first was why you were the Champion, the second was for you to tell me three facts about your people. These are things that are 100% true and will come into the creation of Atlas."

"Yes!" Mary pumped her fist, shooting a smug smile towards Asriel. Her smile turned into a frown when she saw the goat boy burying his nose in his character sheet.

Jeremy finished writing and turned to Ib, "Why don't you go next, Ib? Why is Arwen the Champion of her Kingdom?"

"Because I'm the only remaining member of the royal family," Ib brought her sheet up, her eyes narrowing as she read it, "It says here my kingdom has fallen, my family and fortunes have been lost. Does that mean it won't matter when creating Atlas?"

Jeremy shaking his head made Ib smile, as the adult said, "No at all. It just means we'll have to tweak it a bit. We can consider them a part of Atlas' past rather than its present. Does that sound good?"

"Yeah! I like that!" Ib put her paper down while putting a hand to her chin, "As for my facts, um..they cared a lot about being able to survive. Everyone was expected to be able to care for themselves if they have to. They also had a two-headed eagle as their symbol, the same that I have on my Royal Crest! And..."

"Oh! Can they have known my elves, Ib?!" Mary asked putting both hands on her stepsisters' shoulder excitedly, "Please?"

"Well, what do you all think?" Ib asked the other two players in the room. Both nodded yes, so she turned to Jeremy who gave her a thumbs up and started writing it down. Ib grabbed Mary's hands, both of them giggling with happiness.