The shrinking woods Wiki

**Welcome to the Shrinking Woods wiki !**

This wiki contains the detailed information one needs or may need about the universe to roleplay on **the Shrinking Woods Giant/tiny RP Discord** : [link here later].

On this page, you can find the different steps to get started on the server.

## What are the Shrinking Woods ?

The **Shrinking Woods** are the universe where the roleplay (RP) of the **Shrinking Woods Discord** server takes place. This universe doesn't really have any other purpose than giving an interesting context and inspiration to play characters who will be brought to shrink, grow, and interact with people of various sizes. The Shrinking Woods are especially designed for conflictual interactions, shrinking other characters being a mean to neutralise them or to gain wealth and power.

However, nobody needs to perfectly know all the universe to roleplay. It isn't necessary either to strictly respect what is written on the canon pages of this wiki. Though if during a RP, a dispute occurs about a power or an action from a character, the wiki decides.

## Getting started #1 : The universe

Since the Shrinking Woods universe is pretty dense, this section only gives you enough to roleplay. Later you can explore further the other pages of the wiki. All the colored expressions are clickable links to further explanations, though you may read all this section before clicking any of them. Good luck !

### Official summary of the universe :

> The ***Shrinking Woods*** take place in a magical medieval world, where two antagonist groups live. **Witches**, women born with magical powers and exiled in the woods, against **Knights**, ruling and protecting the other humans from witches.
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> This antagonism and the interests of each group cause many events to happen in the woods and main human city : witches conspiracies, knights burgling witch huts, witches and villagers smuggling together, knights hunting lonely witches to exploit their powers, shrunk people on the run, and more.
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> These events often lead to duels involving actual weapons, though most of the time it only results in people getting shrunk and captured.
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### Society and classes

Most of the population of the Shrinking Woods lives within the fortifications of Caerville, the only known town. Its inhabitants are mostly Villagers, living under the thumb of a minority of Knights who implicitly rule in exchange of protecting them.

The town is indeed permanently threatened by the humans who live outside in the Woods covering most of the region : the Witches. These magic users are (mostly) women who mysteriously get magical powers when they reach 18 years old, and must be evicted from Caerville to not become dangerous for Villagers. Therefore knights are always present all around the town to make sure neither witches nor magical items are around, except in their own hands. This is what makes the relation between Witches and Knights especially conflictual.

### Magic and shrinking

As the main cause of the current situation, magic is a fundamental aspect of the interactions between characters. It's what makes Witches daunted and practically able to easily dominate Villagers and Knights out of a fight situation. This is also the reason why Knights struggle to get hold of magical items and totem witches (shrunk witches can be used to get magical powers), in order to be able to compete against the witches they meet.

In these magical struggles, the easiest way to win is often the same : shrinking the opponent to a manageable size. After all, a knight who can fit in somebody's hand can hardly be a threat, especially when their iron armor and weapons can't shrink with them. The witch too is very vulnerable to shrinking, since her powers can't work on people and objects bigger than her (except for Fairish Witches), leaving her like a regular human. Shrinking and growing are made even more important by the fact that (except Fairish Witches) all kinds of Witches have a way to shrink other characters and a weakness able to shrink them without using magical items. Many magical items are also only designed to allow their user to shrink or grow themselves, or to alter the size of other characters.

## Getting started #2 : Creating a character

Now that you have most of the necessary information about the Shrinking Woods universe, it's time for roleplaying. For this you need a main character (and you can possibly create more characters in the future).

### Witch or knight ?

When you make a character, the first thing you need is to choose between a knight and a witch.

A knight

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