[quote=@Oddsbod]
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Gotcha.  So, it's less like fables that're given life by virtue of being told on Earth, and more like two parallel worlds that're linked by one world's storytelling matching up with the beings of the other world?  

The idea I'd been tinkering with was a Rumpelstiltskin variant where the miller's daughter is a cruel sorcerer-queen who can weave enchanted gold out of straw, and she uses it to dominate the surrounding provinces.  Rumplestiltskin is an imp from the elflands who goes off one day to challenge her and end her reign of terror.  He and the sorcerer-queen have a terrible duel that lasts for three days and three nights, and each night, the sorcerer is able to steal a name of power from the imp.  By the third night of fighting, the sorcerer has obtained the last and most powerful name, and the imp is now nameless—essentially, the sorcerer wins.  But by stealing his names the sorcerer is forced to see the world now through his eyes, unclouded by her own malice and cruelty.  She can't bear it and tries to return the names, but the imp, somewhere during that last night of fighting, has vanished, or maybe been misplaced, and the story basically ends with those three names stuck to her for the rest of her life.  Drastic differences in how the story gets told comes from the queen basically having her entire worldview torn apart and remade.  Different variants of the story include the traditional Rumpelstiltskin version, plus all the variants that go into what happened to the queen in her days after the duel.  Would that be salvageable, or does it deviate too much from the base story? (I was hoping to play as the Queen, post-name stealing)


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Pretty much, there's the "real world" and The Homelands. When a Tale begins and ends it somehow finds it's way to the world of man, through an idea or something of that nature. The mortal world then interpretes the Tale in their own way.

I'd say that particular story sounds fine, Rumplestiltskin is a little more obscure than your Cinderellas so I can buy the regular Tale being much different to its real world counterpart