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Heroes Assembled is a game set in Earth-24800 a world where the themes and characters of the Marvel Earth-616 universe and the universe of Hellboy and the BPRD have been blended into a single and different continuity and Earth-24 which is another hybrid continuity which combines the worlds of Wildstorm and the mainstream DC continuities (New Earth and some New 52).
What this means in practical terms is that while the characters and their attitudes are consistent between our worlds and the mainstream continuities of DC and Marvel some of the events in their past may differ. For example, Hawkeye is still just a snarky guy with a bow who rolls with the Avengers but in Earth-24800 he’s only been with the Avengers for a few years, has not been the leader of the West Coast Avengers (in fact, the Avengers are still primarily on the east coast!) or married Bobbi Morse. On DC side, Batman is still Batman but he may not have done all the things his stories in the DC continuity by this point in our game or have done them in a different order. To help new players navigate this we have developed timelines for both worlds which can be seen below as well as timelines for the various teams as seen on their team pages.
If you don’t see the character you want to play listed in any of the timelines? Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. That just means you will need to concept app them with an idea of how they could be worked into them into their respective world either with them just starting out when you begin to play them or worked into the overall backstory of their world.
One major event common to both worlds that sets the tone of the game going forward is The Merge. This is where forces of chaos in both worlds worked to destabilize the barriers between them. As a result the worlds almost became one, and the process was not gentle. There was massive destruction and millions of casualties on both sides of the dimensional divide. However the heroes of both worlds rose up to stop it and they succeeded, however as a result the worlds are still ‘touching’ and share a common bond in the general multiverse. This has resulted in randomly forming portals called ‘bridges’ that permits travel between the worlds and pocket dimensions that allow people from both worlds to mingle but not crossover.
For more details on the events of The Merge, Earth-24800, Earth-24 and the metaphysics of the conjoined worlds read the documents below.
==General Theme Documents==
Earth-24800
Earth-24
The Merge
Shared Souls
Historical Logs (from prior to game open-- these are logs of various important things prior to game start)
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