A New Interactive Novel
The Legend is a fantasy story that has romantic aspects with Latin American roots, it will be free to play from start till finish, both on pc as well as mobile! It’s entirely text-based, with choices throughout to shape both your main character’s personality and skills as well as influence their relationships with others. There are four love interests for you to choose from, their genders can be random or set by the player, each with their own stories and pasts for you to uncover!
The game itself is currently a work in progress, where each new chapter will be released as I finish it.
Total wordcount and progress: 14k words - prologue Avg playtime per playthrough: TBA First published: 09/08/2022 Last updated: 09/08/2022
CONTENT WARNINGS: Depictions of injuries and blood, death, trauma, psychological and physical body horror, and sexually suggestive content. Safe to play for those 16 years and older.
❀ THE SETTING
The story takes place in Diatos, a fictional city within Isla de Almas, a fictional island that draws inspiration from both modern and historical settings in Latin America. Much of it is based on Mexican culture, drawing from my own experience as someone with direct Mexican descent and a long list of Mexican ancestors.
Your character is 20 years old and was born and raised in Diatos where speaking, seeing and just plain old communicating with spirits is considered a skill no different from reading or writing. Seen as a tradition that parents pass on to their children. Gender, sexual orientation, and race have no bearing on social position or class; instead only based on wealth, level of education, and connection to the spirits.
The island is overseen by a coven of witches, with a bruja blanca overseeing all the choices, or at least that is what your character has been told, for the white bruja hasn’t actually been seen for years. A new member of the coven is chosen as the need arises or whenever someone really talented in spirit communication is discovered. But unlike traditional governments, the position of bruja blanca is not given through vote. Whenever a new bruja blanca needs to be chosen due to the passing of an old one, a new bruja is chosen by the spirits of the underworld to take over the mantel of bruja blanca with a vision: this is said to happen at random, as brujas in the past have ranged from the poorest farmer to the wealthiest noble.
❀ THE STORY
Their parents suddenly go missing and now a rumor that the previous bruja blanca of Diatos has been dead for 2 years, what else could go wrong? Well, your character who has never been able to even feel spirits now finds themselves supposedly the new bruja blanca. So they do what everyone would do under stress, follow a cute stray animal only to find themselves surrounded the next second by what look like skull people. Normal right???
Enemies at every turn and with the stress of leadership, will they succeed in finding their parents, having to deal with discoveries of their past that will try them, figuring out how to bring back spirits from the dead, and unlocking their spiritual capabilities? Or will they lead their small island to its end and fall to literal ghosts that will haunt them?
❀ CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
At the beginning of the story, you’ll have the opportunity to customize your mc’s name, pronouns, sexual orientation, and their alebrije. You can also customize many parts of your mc’s appearance: hair color, hair texture, hairstyle, skin color, height, and the choice of having a mix of mental and/or physical disabilities are all up to you and will be reflected in the story as well.
Their ethnicity and culture are locked in as Hispanic/Latin American. That means the mc is also locked in as a person of color, as is in line with the setting - their specific race is up to the player to imagine.
As for your mc’s personality, there are twelve different character traits in total, six of which will be decided based on the choices you make in-game. This will in turn change your mc’s behavior during the story and romantic scenes.
❀ THE LOVE INTERESTS
Depending on what your mc's sexual orientation is, the gender of the love interests will change accordingly to match that. There are four of them in total, and regardless of their gender, their titles are as follows: the Spirit guide, the Eagle Warrior, the Jaguar warrior, and the Mercenary, as depicted in the character art above. Each love interest will have its own route which you will get to choose from at the end of the common route.
Would you like to know more about the story, the setting, or the love interests? Check out the links below!
❀ PLAY THE GAME ❀ THE LOVE INTERESTS ❀ THE STORY AND SETTING ❀ KO-FI ❀ PINTEREST ❀ PLAYLIST (TBA) ❀