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I am going to use this thread, when I have time to explain who the main characters are in this saga as they appear, although anyone following the sagas closely will know who they are.

But first

The real origins of the Mystical Realms Saga

Briefly, when I used to post on the Channel 4 Reach forum (now no more), I was the subject of a flame attack in 2001, just after and around Big brother 2. The Mystical Realms sagas was the only way I could post. More details here if you have time


Graeme Andrews
Originally this was an idealised version of me, in the first (2001) and second (2002) series of the Mystical Realms, but when we get to the third Series (Autumn 2007) Graeme Andrews is a former computer public relations advisor and part time advocate. Since his first encounter with entities from the Mystical realms he has operated as a sort of private detective. In fact in the first season, the Sam Spade Meets Big Brother Vignettes that was the impression of what he did.

Graeme Andrews is the only mortal known to have visited the Mystical Realms. Both times he was brought there by force.

As we come across this Graeme, we find he has just finished a case where he has helped an insurance company deal with an attempted insurance fraud. He also has a number of artefacts from the Mystical Realms, namely a dimension jump orb to travel to the Mystical realms and back and also a device to detect such orbs or any attempts to enter our world from the mystical realms.

The Spirit of True Love Deceased
The Spirit of True love used to be the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite. In 2001 she "arranged" for Paul Clarke and Helen Adams to meet and fall in love on Big Brother 2 to try and create a warm feeling in those who watched. She engaged the services of Graeme Andrews to point out, that in fact they were genuine and true to a sceptical world in Cyber Space. Both were subsequently arrested and brought before the legal authorities in the mystical realms on the heinous charge of "interfering with the affairs of Mortals

Graeme Andrews was released as being a mortal, the charge was a nonsense in law, but The Spirit of True Love stood trial with Lachesis one of the Greek fates. Lachesis was let off on a legal technicality, but mid way during the trial, the Spirit of True Love was found dead in her cell. The official cause of death was ruled suicide, but in season three we discovered she had actually been murdered by the person supposed to be her Elven lawyer, Yagel Penswift, who was infact a dark elf, known as a drow, on the orders of the Spirit of True Love's own sister, The Spirit of Lust.

The Spirit of Fidelity Fidelity for short to those who know here true identity and Faith to others
The Spirit of Fidelity is one of a Twin, the other being her long lost twin Spirit of Fancying. Unlike her mother, who was a major spirit of virtue, she is only a minor spirit of virtue. When she was born, sixteen years previous to Series three, on the orders of The Spirit of Lust, name tags were switched, so for most of her life she thought she was her long lost twin sister. This meant she never was able to knowingly use her true powers. She was taken from her mother and secretly brought up mostly by Yagel, allegedly to protect her, but in reality as spite towards her mother, The Spirit of True Love.

Fidelity's true power is to shore up people's faithfulness to a partner or to some other object or entity.

Fidelity's twin sister disappeared shortly after birth, carried away by the fairies to the world of Mortals. Her whereabouts are unknown.

After her rescue by Graeme Andrews from the collapsing cyber world of the World of Warcraft, in which the Spirit of Lust was entrapped, she lives as a sixteen year old girl, (as she thinks she is sixteen, but because they calculated ages differently in the Mystical Relams, by human standards she is actuially 15) Fidelity works in a coffee shop in which Graeme Andrews managed to find her a job, as the manageress knew about the Mystical Realms, since she had seen Graeme return from there back in 2001. Fidelity resides in a hostel, which she hates, but staying with her "saviour" was considered impossible. She is deeply traumatised by her upbringing as she was subjected to physical, but not sexual abuse by Yagel Penswift.

Edit - In part 4 we find that The Spirit of Fidelity had got her age wrong by over stating it by one year, because on the Mystical Realms they worked to the year you were living through, not how many years you had lived as in our world, thus a new born child in their system is 1, as it is living through it's first year. (Analagous to our dating system)

Edit 2 this way of calculating ages also takes place in East Asian countries

Edit 3 - Spoiler
After finally meeting with her sister at Shannon Airport they both took the opportunity to give up their Minor Spirit status and became full humans with a human soul. Fidelity was later adopted by her Twin sister's adoptive parentsl

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Crandal McTuckle
Crandal McTuckle is a leprechaun, however instead of living in the Mystical realms he has been living in our world, based in Dublin, since leprechauns are part of Irish mythology and folklore. Crandal for some reason was on a mission to try and reach Graeme and the Spirit of Fidelity, after learning of their impending arrest by some unspecified agency, with the help of Special Branch. He hets very irritated of stupidity, especially a relative who drew the attention of this unknown agency to the area where Graeme and the Spirit of Fidelity were living.

Crandal actually knows more than he is prepared to say and packs a 9mm automatic hand guns, behaviour not normally associated with leprechauns. This may be because he is a member of G2 The Irish Military Intelligence Service


There may or may not be other aspects about Crandal, which may or may not come to light later

Edit - Add in the bit about G2 involvement

Edit 2 - Spoiler
Crandal was killed by the Egyptian god Set

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Character updates:

The Spirit of Fidelity See previous listing which has been edited

New main characters

Fox Mulder Guest Character
Fox Mulder is borrowed from the TV show, the X files which finished in 2002. After the events listed here the assumption is that everything was somehow cleared up and Fox returned to active duty

Dana Scully Guest Character
Fox Mulder is borrowed from the TV show, the X files which finished in 2002. After the events listed here the assumption is that everything was somehow cleared up and Dana returned to active duty

Others - check back later

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Location - The Facility
A secret government building in North London that has been selected because it is non-descript. It's main function is for holding, interrogating and exterminating entities who are from the Mystical Realms, or any other parallel universe. It has the state of the art scientific equipment. Employees are of the mindset that prisoners are depersonalised entities, who are a possible threat to national security.

Miss Ochre
This is a code name, as employees have to maintain the utmost secrecy. Miss Ochre is a senior lab manager, and as such has access to the cells holding those from the Mystical Realms who have been captured.

Mr Blue
This is a code name, as employees have to maintain the utmost secrecy. Mr Blue is the head of, "The Facility" and takes an active role in interrogating prisoners. His philosophy is to be hard ruthless and tough. His military style haircut lends credence to the rumour that he is ex-military. He is not above using methods bordering on torture, as those from the Mystical Realms are not considered human, do not even have their gender recognised and have no rights. He is very quick to point out how other allied countries use suspect interrogation tactics. Not that he disapproves of them, in fact he believes in the phrase "Inter arma enim silent leges" ("In times of war, the law falls silent.") .

Mr Sepia - More of him possibly next time

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Updated characters
See entry on Crandal McTuckle

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New Characters


The Spirit of Fancying (living as a normal human 15 year old girl called Caer O'Docherty)
The Spirit of Fancying was the child of the deseased Spirit of True Love and a human from the Irish Republic, hense The Spirit of Fancying along with her twin Sister were part human. Shortly after her birth, the fairies on leaning of a plot against the twins by the Spirit of Lust set out to remove both twins, but were only able to rescue the Spirit of Fancying as they could only rescue one of them at a time, by by the time they got back it was too late.

The Spirit of Fancying was left at a police station in Dublin as an abandoned child, the best cover the fairies could think of at the time. As she was physically a human baby, she was put up for adoption and adopted by Shaun and Felicity O'Docherty. Her special power is to enable people to see what is good and attractive in other people, but the Spirit of Fancying shunned this power, preferring the name Caer after a celtic princess, and longing for her twin sister and to be fully human. In time her adoptive parents told her she was adopted, making sure to let her know she was special because that had chosen her because they wanted her. She has a human brother, who her parents also adopted. As a result of her upbringing with a human family, The Spirit of Fancying grew up to be a well adjusted and assertive teenager, (assertive in the good sense).

She and her adopted family knew of her heritage because they were told by the leprechauns. This made no difference whatsoever to her relationship to her adoptive parents.

Spoiler
After finally meeting with her sister at Shannon Airport they both took the opportunity to give up their Minor Spirit status and became full humans with a human soul

Shaun and Felicity O'Docherty
The adoptive parents of The Spirit of Fancying. They are fully aware of who her daughter truely is, but they love her all the same. They also adopted a boy when as a baby he was orphaned by a car crash. Like the Spirit of Fancying they longed to find the missing twin sister, so if possible they could adopt her as well.

Shamus McTuckle
Shamus McTuckle is a leprechaun in the Irish diplomatic service and brother of Crandal McTuckle. He also had responsibility for looking after Minor Spirits of Virtue as he arranged for the O'Docherty family to be informed of the status of their adopted daughter, The Spirit of Fancying. He insists on using the proper titles of the Minor Spirits, even though The Spirirt of Fancying prefers to go by her human name of Caer.

Character updates
See earlier posts


BTW does anyone still find this useful to understand my scriblings?

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Mystical Realms Season 5


For the new fith season story line, we have some new characters coming up, and as I did with the fourth season, to help people follow it, this is the character summary.


Angela Roberts
Angela is the manageress of the coffee shop in the north of England, where for a time The Spirit of Fidelity worked. Angela was raised by her aunt after her parents died and stayed with her aunt to look after her when her aunt became ill with cancer. Her aunt has just died and Angela is kind of at a loose end. Back in 2001, she was present when the cyber warrior as he was then, Graeme Andrews emerged through a dimension gate. They have been close friends ever since. Angela is loving and caring, but beneath that exterior hides the fact she is very resourceful and has a brown belt in karate.

The Clan Chief of the Manjura
Formally the son of the tyrannical Lord Low Troll and for a time went by the name of the Prince Low Troll. Because of troll politics in the mystical realms, he has now adopted his new name to indicate he is now leader of his troll clan.

Edit I am covering this character later in the thread in more detail

Other characters may follow

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Sarah Smith (Token damsel in distress ?)
Sarah Smith is a five year old girl from New Zealand. Her mother died sometime just after her birth, most likely from natural causes. Her father was mysteriously murdered by an unspecified entity from the Mystical Realms, and Sarah herself was abducted from the aircraft in which they were travelling at the time, and sold on as a slave by those claiming to believe she was a hobbit. After being whipped at a state banquet in honour of the new Troll Emperor Graeme Andrews and Queen Angela, she was rescued by the royal pair, healed of her injuries by a troll healing potion and adopted by the royal couple as their own daughter. (See episode one)

The nature of Sarah's abduction is a mystery, as it was also a crime under the laws of the Mystical Realms. She is an innocent victim, and the trolls consider her adoption as going some way to make up for the hurt that has been inflicted upon her by agents unknown

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BTW I did a JK Rowling and from Season Three made one of the reoccuring characters gay .

See if you can spot which one?

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The Clan Chief of the Rachtal Season 5
This is the leader of the Rachtal clan, which during the Mystical Realms Civial war was one of those clans that fought with the orcs on the wrong side, primarily because the orcs had moved against their clan rivals the Manjuara clan and the Lord Low Troll, their leader at the time. The Rachtal and the Manjura are known to not get on, but the clan chief of the Rachtal is an astute politician, seeking to embarrass their rivals and while making frineds with the emperor.

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Originally posted by Sticks
BTW I did a JK Rowling and from Season Three made one of the reoccurring characters gay .

See if you can spot which one?

I just spotted that a main character does briefly wonder about this character. I need to learn to read what I write

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It has been a year since I updated this thread

Would people find it useful if I continued with a sort of glossary / Character profile or would they be considered spoilers, which in effect they could be if some have not caught up?

[Lewis.]

Oh wow.. Sounds exciting. I would like Character bios personally.

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There are so many, so where to start but first this

Style changes
At the end of season five we see the retirement of one main character, and the end of a particular style. It was the end of stories done in the first person.

In order to keep going in season six I had to introduce new characters, and to make the transition one character, the one I will give the character details next made a cameo in season five, it was like a handing over the baton

Also the main switch went from first person to third person, although for season six and the two interim side tales, even though it was third person for the most it was from the perception of one character. In Tales one towards the later episodes the perception alternated between the main protagonist and a relative of theirs. Unavoidable as the protagonist became incapacitated.

Most of the story lines ran for six episodes plus an epilogue (Except for season six and tales one which did not have the epilogue)

Tales two ran for three episodes only



Then there was a long break...


The Relaunch
I came in with Season seven as another relaunch, and brought in as many characters as I could. Plus there was another slight style change. We got parts from other characters view points. Another feature of the relaunch were the back references right to season one and two (Neither aired on TIBB). Characters from both tales were also brought back, effectively bringing the side tales back into the main Parthenon

Also the length of story grew to eight episodes.

Season eight was to tie up loose ends I had left from Seasons one through season six.

Season nine later this year promises to do what the vignettes between season three and season four did, propose a what if...

If you want to see what that was, and if you have not done so already see my season eight

Next posting - before the bios the orgs

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The Organisations



Spoilers for Season four and season six onwards




Inter Dimensional Entity Control

In season four and in the inter season vignettes, we come across this secret organisation, initially the main base was centred in North London in a deliberately nondescript building, called the Facility and in the Kent countryside an off site archive centre with few limited laboratories and three people to staff it, called the Annex

and under the old regime, the Inter Dimensional Entity Control was tasked with capturing any entity that came to Earth from the Mystical Realms, interrogating them and exterminating them, all of course in the interests of national security.

However when they captured the Spirit of Fidelity, a minor spirit of virtue, the old regime made a fatal mistake, when they interrogated her, effectively beating up what to most people could see was a fifteen year old teenager. It was uncovered that she had a human biological father who had been killed in Afghanistan by US friendly fire, days after he had save a number of US personnel.

This led to pressure on the British Authorities to release The Spirit of Fidelity. It later turned out that the former director Mr Blue, was under the control of a major spirit of vice.

Control passed to Mr Sepia who on discovering that some agents of the IDEC had an exterminate mindset passed total control to the Americans.

The Americans had successfully been involved in the eradication of a Colombian drug cartel that was dealing drugs with a troll clan on The Mystical Realms, and had learned, also with the help of the G2 Special unit, to work together with the authorities on the Mystical Realms to obtain their common objectives, reduce the interference in each other's affairs and hide the existence of the Mystical Realms from the rest of the people of Earth.

The Facility was later bombed by a group composing of humans and Mystical Realms entities who were following a very powerful entity known as the Magnus Timor

Due to political pressure, the UK section was never rebuilt and all surviving personnel were shipped to Washington DC.

The official function is to liaise and aid mutual co-operation with the authorities on the Mystical Realms. It has it's own means of reaching the Mystical Realms by artificial means, although these means were once banned by the mutual co-operation pact until they were required to help save their Mystical Realms allies.

Another function is the tracking down of Minor Spirits of Virtue or Vice and helping them to rid themselves of this status and become fully human with human souls, (What all minor spirits aspire to, thus making their job easier) .

The existence of this agency is ultra secret and only known to select people in various other government agencies and to select people in the US Senate


G2 Special Section
G2 is a real organisation. It is the Republic of Ireland's Military Intelligence service.

G2 Special service is where the Leprechauns work from. They are led by a human officer.

Many years previous, the leprechauns came to Ireland and in return for sanctuary in Ireland they offered their services to the Irish government. Like the IDEC this organisation is ultra secret


Special Diplomatic Service
Leprechauns not only serve in military intelligence, but also the diplomatic service to Liaise with the authorities in the Mystical Realms

The Convocation of the Trolls
As the trolls are the dominant species, they run the law and order on the Mystical Realms. There was a civil war which removed a tyrannical leader from one of the clans, and afterwards the last emperor of the trolls proposed an Earth like structure for governance

The trolls run a rotating presidency along the lines of the European parliament, with each clan chief being leader for a season. Not all troll clans are involved as due to the involvement of human drug dealers three troll clans with drew to their ancestral lands, and remain neutral. It is hoped one day they will come back to the fold.

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Originally posted by Sticks
It has been a year since I updated this thread

Would people find it useful if I continued with a sort of glossary / Character profile or would they be considered spoilers, which in effect they could be if some have not caught up?

Not really sticks tbh

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Originally posted by Lewiis.Xx
Oh wow.. Sounds exciting. I would like Character bios personally.

Do you still want this, since this has now been questioned

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I think it would be rather intersting sticks, just to give good introductions etc.

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Jenny Green

Spoilers for season six onwards

If you consider the Mystical Realms in two phases, the seasons up to season five, (Apart from the vignettes between season three and four) which were in first person and the rest in third person, the character of Jenny Green forms the bridge.

Jenny Green was first referenced in Season five in episode one and the epilogue. Originally she was an assistant manager at a coffee shop in North East England and the right hand woman of the former manager Angela Andrews nee Roberts.

After Angela's shock resignation after her marriage to Graeme Andrews and their subsequent flight to the Republic of Ireland with the little girl Sarah Smith Jenny was promoted to manager of Angela's old coffee shop.

One Winter's evening she was the victim of what seemed to be a brutal sexual assault, just short of actual rape as she was closing up the coffee shop. After a night in hospital she was then captured by an IDEC retrieval squad working to the old way of doing things and delivered bound and naked, suspected of being a doppelgänger assassin, since that was what her assailant truly was.

After it was established she was human, she then found out about the world of the Mystical Realms and had a brief visit there.

Because she managed to take on at least two doppelgänger assassins and disarm a IDEC technician who had gone rouge, Jenny Green was eventually recruited to serve on the IDEC special operations team. Part of her duties was the assisting of Minor Spirits of Virtue and Vice become fully human

Jenny is accomplished with the short bow after being a junior champion in a regional competition, which on combat missions she has used to deadly effect. Jenny Green has had some experience of unarmed combat and handling some fire arms, from her former fiancée who was a soldier killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.

Jenny Green did at one point have a sort of unofficial uniform which came about when she encountered a Troll chamberlain still wedded to the old ways of treating females. This is just dark blue skirt shortened to halfway between the waist and her knees, with no other clothing whatsoever (Including panties) and the container for her arrows.

This "uniform" was called the Amazon look, however her CO Colonel Samuel Peters insists she wears something more substantial, which Jenny is normally happy to do so, however there were two times when she deliberately slipped into this "uniform". The first was on the Facility's gun range when she thought her inability to hit a target with a handgun was because she was not wearing the Amazon look. The second in the quarters of Commander Mark Johnston, with whom she began an affair with

Along with Commander Mark Johnston she was considered missing in action, but it recently transpired the pair had been sent to another universe from where they have returned.

The latest on her operational status at the end of the most recent story is

[spoil]Jenny has now been put on light duties as she is pregnant with Marks baby, revealed by an IDE to be a boy[/spoil]

Next time, The Colonel

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Maybe could you make a very, very brief summary of the whole thing so far, in 500 words say, as most of this is huge amounts of text.

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Originally posted by Samuel
Maybe could you make a very, very brief summary of the whole thing so far, in 500 words say, as most of this is huge amounts of text.

Would you ask JK Rowling to do the same of her works


The Mystical Realms is a parallel universe that was shaped by our human collective unconsciousness to have every creatures from mythology, folklore and fantasy literatures living in semi ordered communities. They are aware of us, but not many human s are aware of them. Their primary rule is not to interfere in our affairs, a rule mostly honoured in the breach.

Some government agencies are aware of the Mystical Reams existence and keep it secret.

In recent history the Mystical Realms were ran by a tyrannical ruler, suffered a bitter civil war, fuelled by interference from Columbian drug cartels and later a take over by a dangerous cult which used stolen weapons from Earth.

Earth authorities meanwhile went from trying to exterminate all entities from the Mystical Realms to working co-operatively with them, and finally saving them and Earth from the evil cult leader who planned to destroy both worlds by slamming them into one another, at the same time keeping the existence of the Mystical Realms secret from the rest of humanity.

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Colonel Samuel Peters

Samuel Peters is a colonel in the US Marines. He was married and had a daughter, but they were killed in 1998 by a driver who had drunk a whole bottle of Bourbon.

Samuel served with distinction in operation Restore Freedom in Iraq in 2003 along side his friend and comrade Mark Johnston, a commander in the US Marines.

Samuel's introduction to the Mystical Realms came when he was involved in a black ops mission in Columbia when he helped eliminate a drug cartel who had captured a dimension jump orb which allowed them to sell cocaine to the Yataxal troll clan.

As a result of this mission, Samuel was appointed to the Inter Dimensional Entity Control as acting director at the UK base known as the Facility. He also led a special operations team.

He was responsible for the Former Spirit of Kindness becoming fully human

The last mission his special operations team went on together was almost a disaster when going to confront the Magnus Timor. Samuel was the only one who returned safely

Since the destruction of the Facility, he has been operating as the leader of the IDEC special operations unit out of the Washington DC headquarters.

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Can i ask, is this like all made up or real ?

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Originally posted by jaybitches
Can i ask, is this like all made up or real ?

This is in the creative writing section

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The biographies continued...

If that's ok