Passt ganz gut hier rein.
Auf rpg.net gibt's gerade einen Thread in dem Metaplots aufgedeckt werden.
Ich fand speziell den ziemlich witzig:
"Legend of the Five rings
Premise
A fantasy universe set in essentially fantasy Asia-that-thinks-it's-fantasy-Japan, trying to emulate the idea of Shambara movies, plots of political manipulations, forbidden loves, the opposition of honour and duty, war as a prolongation of diplomacy and diplomacy as a prolongation of war, all this with basically Hell just behind the Great Wall of Not-China, inflicting monsters, demons, sorcery and demons that can only be opposed by righteousness, honour and weapons of jade.
Truth
The entire universe and what happens in it is the result of the confrontation of the ideas of the marketing team for a collectible card game, and the reactions and tournament resolutions of the players of said collectible card game.
Fallout
Nothing make sense. Every clan is a pawn of Hell at one point or the other (especially those that are supposed to be the direst enemy of it) because playing Corrupted [clan] works too much. The sun and the moon have been killed and replaced by fan-favourite cards (who were later thrown down unceremoniously when the marketing team took back its senses). The greatest river of the Empire goes through three mountain ranges uphill, and Not-Japan is continental but still eat sushi because geography doesn't matter in a card game. The Empire at uneasy peace for a thousand years has been at constant open war for the century of the card game timeline, and the dynasty that stayed on the throne for ten centuries has been replaced thrice or more already. The latest Empress has been, in game, literally chosen at random by the gods because there are no other way to justify this choice by the winner of a tournament. Entire races have been destroyed out of hands because they didn't sell enough packs*. Hell-Next-Door has tried, like three times, to go legit and create a Great Clan of damned corrupted samurais that would still be part of the Empire and its politics, and all have failed because when you play specifically Shadowland, it's specifically to not get taken up into politic and honour. Creatures from a time-line that never happened have crossed the wall of possibilities because people insisted on playing them from the limited "Alternative reality" pack. The ex-leader of the Clan Who Guards The Great Wall Against Hell who personally summoned demons, grafted demon-weapons on his own son, betrayed the Emperor AND the army trying to save him from a previous betraying is now the God Of Persistence.
*my favourite being the nezumis, a fallen ancient civilisation of rat-people whose entire mythology and point-of-view is axed on the idea of "Fighting Tomorrow", inherited from the constant way their once great cities are falling and their culture degradation due to the inexorability of time, destiny and death... until it was revealed that "Tomorrow" was actually the name of a big monster all along, who devoured them all off screen)."
