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Plot And Setting; Literally the plot and setting
Topic Started: Nov 1 2017, 06:30 PM (21 Views)
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THE STORY THUS FAR....

Fullmetal Alchemist is an extremely expansive franchise, spanning a total of two series, two movies, and even a live action movie coming soon. As such, it's considered quite an iconic series! Despite that, the plot is rather easy to follow. For the sake of this RPG however, we'll only be following both Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood (2009), since both spawned not only a movie each, but also had video games based on their respective series.

Fullmetal Alchemist follows the story of two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who suffered the tragic loss of their mother at a young age. When the two made an attempt to bring her back via alchemy, which is considered a taboo, both of them suffered even more. Edward lost his left leg and right arm, and Alphonse lost his entire body. Edward bonded Alphonse's soul to a suit of armor, and the two vowed to eventually find a way to return their bodies to normal, through the power of the mythical Philosopher's Stone.

Becoming a "dog of the military", or, State Alchemist, Edward gets one step closer to potentially achieving that promise, and thus, the two set out on their journey, meeting plenty of new people along the way; friend and foe alike. So far along the way, the allies of the Elric Brothers have grown, but they've also made enemies too. With Amestris, the country in which the two are currently traveling; waging war on all sides of it's border, the world is in a state of turmoil, but people are getting by. Whether with Alchemy, their own will power, or simply by making a living the only way they know how, the citizens of Amestris are thriving.

As for the setting, it's said that Amestris is heavily inspired by the real life setting of Germany, and even Europe to an extent. Time based specific would be somewhere around the early 1900s. Some areas outside of Amestris are based on other places, in specific, Xing is based more on the eastern countries. Still within Amestrian territory, Ishval (Ishbal, depending on series) is based on the middle eastern countries. Further still, in terms of 03 specifically, one city is actually based on Italy. In short, a lot of real world inspiration went into the series as a whole.

The main setting RPG wise will likely be almost exclusively built on the few areas we actually get to see within the series. This means areas such as Drachma, Creta, and etc might not be explored nearly as much without a little more research into what they were based on and inspired by. This is to avoid as much confusion as possible with the actual canon. So in joining this RPG, to make things less complicated, we're going to focus a bit more on Amestris until events that shape the canon allow us to explore outside of it!

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