zenithrewinder | AU Information Post (In-process)

This is a catch-all for all History deets, character changes, racial commentary, worldbuilding, and whatever else comes to mind. That said, this is going to be a disgustingly huge post, so read at your own risk. To those who don't want to read a disgustingly huge post about stuff you don't care about, here's the important bits.

In Emerald, Sakuya has recently finished the Imperishable Night storyline and returned with her gaggle of idiots. Everything after that has not occurred. Yet.

Now for those who do want to read a disgustingly huge post, it starts off with general large-scale changes - locations, races, the PC-98 era, etc - followed by everyone's favorite main characters, then each comment after will be about the specific game.

Links below if you're looking for something specific and you're lazy.

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• Locations

• Races
    • Demons and Spirits
    • Lunarians, Magicians and Familiars
    • Gods and Vessels

• History: The PC-98 Era
    • Highly Responsive to Prayers
        • Characters

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

For starters, specific places (the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the Forest of Magic, Hakugyokurou, etc) will be mentioned in their respective games and gone into detail here at a later date.

Next big one. There's no Gensokyo - At least not as the canon makes it. It's been common knowledge for centuries that magic is real, demons can be summoned, nightmares exist around every corner, et cetera. There was never any denial of "illusions", so they never had to hide.

There is still a place called Gensokyo in Japan, where a barrier is erected around the whole town to protect it from the toxic influence from the universe around it. The Hakurei shrine maiden enforces this barrier and eliminates any threats to it. However, with the rise of Pro-Lovecraftian cults and the dwindling political force of the Hakurei, the need for the barrier has grown less desired from Gensokyo's citizens. They give less donations, Reimu grows more bitter and does more mercenary work, the barrier grows weaker, and the citizens give less donations because the barrier weakened. It's a vicious cycle.

Each of the Games takes place in a different area of the world, following Reimu's adventures (that will be explained in her section) and follows an over-arching story as the world's morals get further and further ruined. There will still be happy drunken festivals at Reimu's house, but be prepared. It's Lovecraft, there's no happy endings here.