'The Twisted Poppets' - excerpt - full storybook coming soon!
Long ago there lived a traveling showman named Maximillian whose gregarious ego far outweighed his questionable talents. His greatest attraction, if such could be called, was Maximillian's Magnificent Menage. The Menage was a paltry collection of self-styled morality-tales, acted out through puppetry. Originally he crafted his own 'poppets' by hand, but despite his inflated sense of artistry, he always felt they could be better as did most of those who attended his shows.
As fate would have it, Maximillian accidentally encountered a band of faeries who had unfortunately wandered far from the safety of the Brook. Naturally enthralled and amazed by the diminutive creatures beauty, he managed to trap them, thinking he would put them on display during his shows. It didn't take him long to figure out that the faeries could easily escape. He also realized that they would make wonderful 'poppets'. Tragically, Maximillian clipped the faeries wings and set out to 'train' them to perform in his Menage.
Initially, the show was slightly more 'successful', as his audiences were amazed by the life-like qualities of his 'poppets' and wondered at the fact that they couldn't see any strings. However, deprived of their wings the faeries' beauty diminished quickly, and their magic became distorted and erratic. Understandably frustrated by their imprisonment and the ever-antagonizing personality of Maximillian, the former faeries became more chaotic and rebellious. Over time, they barely even remembered who or what they were - slowly devolving into the catatonic characters they were forced to be in the show.
Hatred, anger, and melancholy rapidly consumed the 'poppets', and Maximillian was the first and most obvious target of their volatile emotions. One evening they conspired against their captor. Summoning their collective magic, broken and blackened as it was, they managed to kill the nefarious showman by willing him into asphyxiation. Free of him but with no place to go, the poppets organized themselves into the 'Camorra'. They were no longer trapped, yet they moved on in only the loosest sense. To this day they continue to perform the roles they learned in the Menage, acting with unabated spite and maliciousness towards anyone who encounters these 'Twisted Poppets'.
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