Setting and History

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Setting for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen : Legends Reborn

All your literary legends come to life. Player characters should be either canon or based on canon characters. The hero Prospero established a hero team back in ancient times, and the league was formed. In 1810 their base moved to London, England ... and they took residence in a massive estate taken from one of the league's enemies. This eventually was torn down and became the London Museum of Natural History. The extreme sub-basements of this building remained and were expanded with the building of the museum. Vast tunnels and catacombs exist, extending throughout London.

In 1885, the leadership of the league was taken by the mysterious 'M'. Was this hidden director the legendary Sherlock Holmes? His brother Mycroft? Perhaps the aging Phileas Fogg?

The members would probably never know.

So, where does the 'reborn' come in? This storyline has varied points where one may play. A modern storyline exists in which the descendents of the league members live and continue the adventures of their forebearers (and a few of the immortal league members from days past) . Of course, modern literature characters can be played in the modern storyline. IE : one can play James Bond or Remo Williams, etc.

The Legends Reborn - Modern storyline is current day, and can take place anywhere. London still works well.

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Teams through the years (Subject to change)

17th Century
Prospero's Men

The first League was established at the behest of England's Queen Gloriana recommending that Italian sorcerer Prospero and his squire Orlando found a group of extraordinary individuals after her death who would operate independently of the government.
Prospero, the Duke of Milan, the sorcerer protagonist of Shakespeare's 1611 play The Tempest.
Caliban, Prospero's malformed, treacherous servant, also from The Tempest.
Ariel, a sprite and air spirit, bound to serve Prospero, also from The Tempest.
Captain Robert Owe-much, a British explorer and discoverer of the Floating Island
Don Quixote, the Spanish aristocrat, from Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Amber St. Clair, the courtesan from Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor.
Orlando, the sex-changing immortal from many works, but drawn most closely from Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.

18th Century
Gulliver's League

The second League was formed by Lemuel Gulliver in the 1750s and secretly gathered in Montague House, London, in service to the British Crown.
Lemuel Gulliver, the far-flung protagonist from the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn, also known as the pirate Captain Clegg, and later known as the Scarecrow, the vicar turned pirate turned smuggler in the Doctor Syn novels (1915–1944) of Russell Thorndike.
Sir Percy (The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Lady Blakeney
Hawkeye - from Last of the Mohicans
Frances "Fanny" Hill, the eponymous heroine of the 1749 erotic novel Fanny Hill by John Cleland.
Orlando, the sex-changing immortal from many works, but drawn most closely from Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.

19th Century
Mid-19th Century League
Sir Francis Varney, the vampire from James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampire
Count Allamistakeo, from Edgar Allan Poe's Some Words with a Mummy.
The Blue Dwarf, a.k.a. Sapathwa, by Lady Esther Hope.
Jack Harkaway, first featured in 1871 Boys of England, from the Penny Dreadful fiction.
Phileas Fogg, the gentleman traveler from Around The World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
Mina Harker - of Dracula
Dorian Gray, the forever young main character from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Late 19th Century League
Jonathan Praede - The Artful Dodger all grown up
Lenore - A shapeshifting Raven of Edgar Allan Poe fame
Victor - the Frankenstein Monster
Lucy Westerna - of Dracula
Finn - An American gunslinging hero

French League
Robur the Conqueror, an insane genius who creates a flying machine, from the books The Clipper of the Clouds and The Master of the World, by Jules Verne.
Arsène Lupin, a master thief, from the books written by Maurice Leblanc, recruited to "cancel out" any benefits afforded to Mina's League by A. J. Raffles.
Nyctalope, a superhero created by Jean de La Hire.
Fantômas, a criminal mastermind created by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain.
Monsieur Zenith, a pure albino who uses a drug that gives him extraordinary abilities.

Late-19th, 20th and Modern Leagues : This is the current Campaign

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Characters not played for six months go back on the block. One or two canon characters per storyline (ie : two for LXG-legends 1800's, two for modern). Original characters with ties to the canons are not limited.

Keep power levels and technology reasonable. No one will enjoy playing their human character when someone else is playing someone with godlike powers.

The world is an amalgam of storylines. Respect this. IE : Just because in the book your character comes from is the last psychic on earth doesn't make it so here.

This is a new campaign, though people may play their old characters if they like. These are, however, not reserved. If you wish a canon reserved, please send a message via the board or PM ... and play the character at least once every six months.

Thanks, and have fun.