Grimmairy Worldbuilding Workshop

This is a place for the Grimmariy setting to be fleshed out without creating articles until details are here sorted out. This article thus features ideas that are being considered and may not appear in the final product.
==General Assumptions==
Player characters will be entering the setting after the events of the fairy tales incorporated into the setting- Grimmairy is there story after all- the story of the player characters.
There are many versions of a fairy tale, and we can thus draw from various sources while keeping in mind that two different stories could be about two different individuals- we have wiggle room.
==Aladdin==
The oldest surviving text of Aladdin was recorded in Bagdahd and thus while claiming Aladdin to be from China largely incorporates Islamic influences in the narrative. The Sultan's land is not named in the story, with Agrabah (ala Disney) being the only name ever given to it. Jafar is also the only name given to the Sorcerer. The Princess has been given two different names; Boulbadour and Jasmine- both referencing a flower.
Current plans are to name the land 'Agrabah' and in line with the Dark Fantasy of Grimmairy more closely follow the oldest text. By the end of that narrative Aladdin has inherited his father-in-law's throne. Aladdin in the old text was the son of a cloth merchant (who is named in the text) who took to some thievery to tend to his mother after his father passed away. Aladdin after getting the lamp restarted his father's buisness and it was while on caravan that he encountered the Princess and impressed her father.
== Big Bad ==
In a world set after the various fairy tales there are few 'big bads' that can be expected to still be at large. This is a list;
* Big Bad Wolf - classic
* 'The Devil'
* Shrek - Shrek is an interesting film- awesome- but the book is a lot different and it's from this that this iteration is drawn. Shrek was an ogre who encountered a talking donkey who served as a consciousness for him. Shrek tried to be this good guy at the donkey's behest but everyone feared him and eventually he was given a chance by a King who sent him to save a princess many had failed to. Coming to the castle she was held in he found out she was an Ogre like himself, and came up with the story about the princess in order to draw people in for her to eat. Well, being smitten with her Shrek didn't take kindly to Donkey suggesting that as she's obviously evil he should kill her. So Shrek and the Ogress ate him and continued to keep up the rouse the Ogress had set up.
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