T H E . W O R L D
"Welcome to the Velvet Room. My! It seems we have a new visitor."
There are two sides to every soul on the planet. The face that everyone sees, ego, and another self. A secret self buried just below the surface. It is rare for a person to truly acknowledge that person beneath the surface. The darker side is usually something forbidden, something distasteful to some sect of humanity. So it is kept it hidden, far from where anyone can see. People deny this self, cover it with other thoughts - generally more pleasant thoughts, until it disappears into the universe until another time when it can bubble to the surface, each time getting stronger. It is a vicious cycle. Where does the shadow self go, when it is plunged into darkness once more?
With everything, even that side of yourself has a place to hide, a place to call its own. It has been termed the "Shadow World". This is a place where the darkest parts of everything live until it is their time to "live" once more. It is a violent place and a place where no one wants to live. There is a breeding of hate there, hate for the person who chooses to ignore them. The Shadow World, no matter how violent, how hateful, is far from the world that every day people walk on. Some might even call it a different universe. It has been seperated for many years, but where the veil is weaker, sometimes it can slide through, shadows taking the lives of the people who live in the real world, but heroes rise up when it is needed, and fight that evil, bringing everything in the world back to right.
This is the normal order of things, but humans have a strange penchant for sticking their nose in where it does not belong. This causes problems for everyone involved. It is not something that cannot be remedied. The shadow world cannot exist in the sunlight; it cannot exist in the world as we know it, but times are changing, some things that were not possible before, have become extremely possible. There is a group of humans, somewhere in the real world, that wanted to bring the Shadow World here, unknowing of what it truly was and what could come of it. Encouraged by shadows, they somehow broke the veil between the Shadow World and the real, creating an uncontrollable chaos.
Now that the world has been ripped asunder, factions will arise. Humans and shadows will fight, but are you strong enough? Will you become a shell of your former self? It is time, now, to choose between life in the light, or life in the darkness.
Who are you?