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Subject: [FOLKLORE-L] Overview and Setting The gargoyles
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:19:49 EDT
Overview and Setting
The gargoyles are a race of very powerful winged beings who were the
defenders of a keep in the year 994 A.D.. By day, they are immobilized in
stone as statues on the castle parapets. When the sun sets, the stone turns
to flesh and they take to their task of defending their home. They do not
have names of their own, but eventually take names to deal more easily with
humans. Thanks to a betrayal, all but six of the gargoyles are destroyed, and
the remaining ones are turned to stone "until the castle rises above the
clouds."
The year is now 1994, and the gargoyles have been sleeping for a thousand
years. A rich businessman buys the castle, and moves it stone by stone to the
top of a skyscraper in Manhattan. The sun sets on the gargoyles and they come
back to life, free of their curse. They have a hard time dealing with their
new environment, and have to deal with their feelings of mistrust toward
humans. A mistrust that is deepened by another betrayal. It is revealed that
one other gargoyle survived the destruction in 994, and she was also at the
heart of both betrayals. Her hatred for humanity runs deep, and fuels her
less-than-honorable intentions. The gargoyles have one human friend, a police
detective. With her help the gargoyles begin to assimilate into the twentieth
century, and begin to trust.
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