The Wayfarer's Guide Wiki

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An 18+ inclusive community devoted to content relating to the Wayfarer's Guide fantasy fiction and roleplaying setting, a Monstergirl/boy-themed setting for Pathfinder 1st Edition and other game systems, created by Twelveseal. 
== Wiki Rules ==
Read the rules before posting or editing anything, as they include important information about behavior, who is allowed to view the wiki, and ownership and use policies. By posting and editing here, you indicate you have agreed to these rules and policies and will abide by them. 
The Wayfarer's Guide Wiki is a collaborative community where various creators may contribute their ideas and content to build a rich setting for their own use. It is intended for use in writing fiction, for roleplaying, and for personal fantasy and daydreams. It is here to serve as a tool to enrich the lives of its users, readers, and contributors and to offer them a way to engage with a community that similarly shares the setting. This is a place for people to enjoy themselves without ruining the fun of others. It's a place to share, to chat, to debate, regardless of the differences between users. Please make sure it stays that way. 
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== What is the Wayfarer's Guide? ==
The Wayfarer's Guide is a fantasy setting created for use in writing and roleplay. It is heavily inspired by various Monstergirl and erotic fantasy media, such as 12Beast, Monstergirl Quest, Corruption of Champions, Kamidori Alchemy Meister, Ironwood, Interspecies Reviewers, Monstergirl Doctor, Daily Life with Monstergirls, Nast the Enchanter, I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love, Alfie, Oglaf, and a host of other content, but especially Kenkou Cross's Monstergirl Encyclopedia. It also draws heavily on real-world mythology, literature, history, religion, folklore, and on traditional tabletop roleplaying games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, and frequently makes use of openly available content from both, including through the Open-Gaming License.
As a setting, it is meant to offer a world where slice-of-life, romance, and sexuality exist as an integral part of the setting, alongside more common fantasy tropes of combat, adventure, exploration, and problem-solving. Unlike Monstergirl Quest or Corruption of Champions, it is a setting without a single, central story. Unlike the Monstergirl Encyclopedia, it is not a world of pure escapism where danger, risk, and responsibility are minimized. It is a world where bad things can and do happen to good people, folks don't always get their happy endings, stories can be bittersweet or tragic as often as comedic or uplifting. It is meant to be a versatile setting where a broad range of stories can be written, and ideas and themes explored... while still having plenty of adult fun. 
The basic premise of the setting is that it's an Isekai fantasy world connected to the "real world" through a somewhat convoluted metaphysical state. Throughout most of the fantasy-side's history, it was a world in which magic existed and the various civilized people struggled to survive in the face of savage Monsters and various other dangers as part of a divine plan. However, several centuries ago this plan went awry, and the nature of Monsters was forcibly changed from violent, murderous creatures into attractive but rapacious ones. Mostly. It actually varies quite a bit from Monster to Monster. Anyway, this condition has persisted for centuries but is now once again disrupted by the sudden appearance of creatures known as Beasts, which seek to slaughter Man and Monster alike. If you're reading this and thinking "this sounds awfully familiar," then odds are good you're familiar with the largest inspiration for the setting, and also noticing immediately that it's not exactly identical. The setting, as mentioned, was inspired by a lot of different media, so if you go into it thinking it's just a copy of something in particular, it's not going to meet those expectations. You'll find many similarities, but it's not the same as the inspiring works. Hopefully this makes it sufficiently relatable to be enjoyable without offending or angering anyone. 
== Why Make This? ==
Mostly because I felt that there was a niche in need of filling, a niche that I wanted filled, but that wasn't already. A common complaint among the community at large, especially when it comes to individuals grousing over one existing setting in particular is that they should just "go make your own setting." Often accompanied by "Why are you even here?" Well, this is me making my own setting, and also making it available to everyone else so they can enjoy it, too.
I made this setting to fill a niche that people seem to want, a Monstergirl world that's open not just to love and lust and sex, but one that also embraces nuance, action, adventure, intrigue, war, subtlety, sacrifice, peace, friendship, camaraderie, death, and tragedy. One that gives actual weight and merit to the choices its characters make. A setting where responsibility and the repercussions of one's actions are felt. A setting that isn't cut-and-dry in regard to who is a hero and who is a villain, but where morality is greyer. A setting where characters can have it easy or have it soul-crushingly hard, where the world feels relatable even though it's clearly a fantasy. It's a setting that better reflects reality, a world where characters are more like people, more nuanced, more flawed. It's a setting where things can truly go wrong. Or right. Failure can happen here, though it's not a certainty. In fact, certainty itself is something that's fairly lacking in this setting. Risk and hardship are real.
And that's honestly just the way I want it.
It makes for better stories, after all. 
== So How Can I Use this? ==
Basically, you're allowed to use the setting to make your own content. It's here to be an inspiration and a basic framework for your own ideas. You can write or play in the canon setting as it's written, but understand that unless it's approved by me, your content will just be treated as one possibility in an infinite multiverse of the same and not the official events. Alternatively, you can create your own non-canon variant of the setting; deviate as much as you want. I don't mind, nor will I stop you unless you're using it to harass people. Just don't claim that your stuff is canon. You can even create your own little subset of the multiverse with its own alternate rules, name it, and link it all together through the category system on the wiki, creating your own canon distinct from the actual official content that other users can enjoy.
Anything posted on this wiki is fair game to use in your works, so long as you credit it appropriately and have the legal authority to use it. This means that if you don't want something ending up used or misused by everyone else on here, don't post it. This is in the rules. If you post it here, you've already agreed to allow others to use it. 
== So What Actually Belongs on this Wiki? ==
Content for the Wayfarer's Guide can include stories, roleplays, art (particularly of characters, places, creatures, items, etc...), music and sound files, videos and animation, games, game rules, game mechanics, theories and discussions, podcasts, and virtually anything else that doesn't violate the rules and is appropriately linked to the setting.
==Important articles==
File:Placeholder | A page about your topic |link=A page about your topic
File:Placeholder | A Main Character |link=A Main Character
File:Placeholder | The First Episode |link=The First Episode
File:Placeholder | An Important Location |link=An Important Location
File:Placeholder | A Key Event |link=A Key Event
File:Placeholder | A Crucial Item |link=A Crucial Item
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