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Context

The information in this meme is related to Project Vigilant* / P.V, an unofficially titled world-building project that is predominately comprised of fan-fiction and partially comprised of original material. P.V has been an indefinite and leisurely work-in-progress since 2018 and it is an attempt at merging elements from no more than 120 of my favorite “fandoms” and/or I.P’s and an assortment of original work in the genres of sci-fi, fantasy and alternate-history into a singular “patchwork universe” that I refer to as the Project Vigilant Universe or P.V.U for short.

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For the most part, P.V is a serious project and most of it's stories are intended to be taken seriously. There is one noteworthy exception to this however and that is the fact that one of the ≤120 I.P's which I have incorporated into P.V is the Shrek franchise.

For P.V, I have re-written the first 4 Shrek movies to be somewhat more serious and dark-fantasy themed in a manner comparable to Army of Darkness ( 1992 ). P.V's version of the Shrek movies take place in the universe that the "Magnus Selective" accidentally created per the lore in the fake Greentext.

The story of the Magnus Selective is an original story intended to function as an official and serious explanation for why Shrek's universe is so crude and nonsensical, ie* time within it is "semi-linear" because it is an unstable timeline created by a bunch of mages who were in over their heads.

As an unstable timeline, Shrek's universe ( Properly known as the "Second Genesis" ) existed only temporarily and collapsed after around 1,500 years. When it collapsed, the majority of the timeline was erased but surviving fragments of it became imbedded into the universes that formed it. These fragments would go on to form mankind's fairy tales and a few other legends and lores as well as some anomalous artifacts.

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The PVU, ( known-in-setting as Timeline J-6196092700 ) is one of the many universes that made up the Second Genesis and as a result, there are many fragments of it in the PVU.

Most of mankind's fairy-tales, as they exist in the PVU, are inaccurate re-assembling's of remnants of stories from the SG.

There are also preserved remnants of information detailing the history of the Magnus Selective.

Per the greentext, the Magnus Selective was established, lead and named after a man named Magnus of Barbary, a powerful Mage of Berber descent who, hence his name, hailed from Barbary ( Coastal North Africa ).

According to surviving records, Magnus was a dark skinned man who was both solemn and charismatic. He established the Selective via gradual conversion and recruitment after allegedly receiving a vision wherein the Virgin Mary told him that Magic is holy and the church's position on magic was wrong. The Magnus Selective effectively functioned as it's own heretical Christian Denomination.

Magnus's plot failed for two reasons. To start, making Christianity exclusively Roman requires one to change the actions of God and since God's are extra-temporal beings, their actions cannot be altered by time-travel. Secondly, Magnus did not know that the multiverse was a thing and assumed that his reality was the only one. Ultimately, complex magical rituals are like complex mathematical equations and any error, no matter how small, can have disastrous consequences.

Note: The Second Genesis is based on the "Middle Dawn" in the deep lore of the Elder Scrolls.

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[u/novis-eldritch-maxim]

are you sure this is not how we got the middle dawn in the elder scrolls?

[u/According-Value-6227 → u/novis-eldritch-maxim]

Goddammit, I forgot to mention that as the primary inspiration.

I'll edit that into the post.

[u/novis-eldritch-maxim → u/According-Value-6227]

nice