Victoriana

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Victoriana can refer to either of two things when it comes to a /tg/ context; a media genre, or a roleplaying game from Cubicle 7 Games, currently on its 3rd edition.

The Genre

"Victoriana" is genre of fiction relating to the Victorian period, or influenced by the attitudes, politics, science, and other aspects of the Victorian era. The Victorian period is considered by many to be the dawning of our modern era. Cities and industry flourished and the western world considered itself truly civilised. However, it was also a time of exploration and great interest in the rest of the world. The British Empire conquered much of the globe in order to expand their trading interests and civilise the “ignorant savages.”

Aside from being a distinctive branch of the Historical Fantasy flavor of Setting Aesthetics, Victoriana has also given rise to two three subgenres; Gothic Horror (Horror through a Victoriana lens, namely Victoriana morality), Steampunk (Victoriana Science Fiction) and Gaslamp Fantasy (Victoriana meets Fantasy, usually in an Urban Fantasy sense. This has also produced the sub-subgenre of Screampunk (Steampunk Horror).

The Game

Victoriana the RPG takes place on an alternate version of Earth during the year 1867. On this Earth, magic is, and always has been, real, and humanity shares the world with many classic Dungeons & Dragons style races, namely elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, ogres, orcs and beastfolk. Yet somehow the British Empire is still roughly the same as it was in our world, despite the fact that Mary Tudor was an Elf or the presence of giants in the army.