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Prologue

From encarta

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.

The creation of the Mystical Realms
Suppose, gentile reader that our collective unconscious was 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, just as fantasy beings form part of 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. However some of the entities were once worshiped as gods by mortals and were revered by mortals. They would find it hard to follow this rule. Where they once were given form by followers exclusively, they must now rub shoulders with entities created for fairy tales, oh the come down and humiliation. But they must be subject to the same strict laws, as they now have to inhabit the Mystical Realms, since man has moved on to science and reason.

Suppose also that these beings in the mystical realms, look upon us, and would like to have the plush goodies we have. So they get such things as courts of law, TV, the tabloid newspapers. Who keeps them in line

For many years, this was the job of the trolls, lead by the most evil intelligent and fiercest of them all

The Lord Low Troll



No body dared challenge his authority, but then in the summer of what the mortals called 2001, a Greek goddess, originally called Aphrodite visited the land of mortals. Going by the new name of The Spirit of True Love, she helped engineer the falling in love of two contestants on a new reality TV show called Big Brother.

These contestants were called Helen Adams and Paul clarke.

But the Lord Low troll would not take this lying down and so dispatched his trolls to arrest her, and a mortal Cyber Warrior whom she had enlisted. Along with the pair, Lachesis, the youngest of the Greek fates was also arrested, after one of the mortals in the new relationship said Fate had brought them together.

The charge was the most heinous one on the statute book, interference in the affairs of mortals. By quirk of the law, the Lord Low Troll saw one of his potential victims slip from his grasp, the mortal cyber warrior, as mortals may interfere with mortals.

The remaining two were placed on trial, but halfway through the trial, The spirit of True Love mysteriously died in her cell, after apparently hanging herself.

Lachesis was released on a technicality, which irritated the lord Low Troll, but what could he do, apart from get his minions to make sure the three fates were driven from the Mystical Realms.

In the world of Mortals, without the Spirit of True love's help, the romance of Helen and Paul failed after five years.

The Lord low Troll had finally won

The Mystical Realms were his to keep

Or so he thought...