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The collective unconscious
The collective unconscious, according to Jung, is made up of what he called "archetypes," or primordial images. These correspond to such experiences as confronting death or choosing a mate and manifest themselves symbolically in religions, myths, fairy tales, and fantasies.
In myth, depth psychologists found material to delineate the structure, order, and dynamics of both the psychic life of individuals and the collective unconscious of society. Sigmund Freud utilized themes from older mythological structures to exemplify the conflicts and dynamics of the unconscious psychic life (in, for example, his Oedipus and Electra complexes). Carl Jung, in his psychological interpretations of the large body of myths that have been collected from cultures throughout the world, saw evidence for the existence of a collective unconscious shared by all. He developed a theory of archetypes - patterns of great impact, at once emotions and ideas - that are expressed in behavior and images.
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The creation of the Mystical Realms
If you recall it was postulated, gentile reader that our collective unconscious is able to give form to a world where magical creatures actually exist. Every fantasy genre, such as that from Tolkien, or the Brothers Grimm feeds through into the collective psyche, so somewhere, even they come into being. Beings discounted as fictional become self aware, and are able to exist in their own realm. They manage to become independent of humans, so much so, that their magical powers given by fiction, fantasy and myths and archetypes, could allow them, if they so wished, to cross into our world and exist here with their magical powers.
However, you may recall that as fantasy beings form part of our culture and thereby our collective unconscious, so too does order. With all these mystical entities having to co-exist, there must be laws. To protect the world of mortals and the collective unconscious, which once gave form to these mystical realms, a special law must be required, to prohibit the deliberate interference by these entities in the affairs of mortals.
But in recent times, these beings have been distracted with affairs of their own, with a civil war of Orcs, Hobgoblins, Drow, some Troll clans clashing with Trolls loyal to the household of the Prince Low Troll, son of the murdered Lord Low Troll
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Along side him, the other inhabitants of the Mystical Realms, that the Orcs would "ethnically cleanse"
However, for many years prior, some of these beings had visited the world of mortals, our world. Some even tried to live amongst humans. They thought they had been flitting between our world and the Mystical Realms, unnoticed, except by at least one Mortal, a man by the name of Graeme Andrews, a specialist in cyber lore as well as folk lore, and one time fixer.
They were wrong, oh so very wrong.
They comings and goings had been watched, These watchers were not from any faction of the Mystical Realms, in the civil war. These watchers were humans, from the world of mortals, and now the watchers were poised to strike...