What are the Southlands?
The Southlands pay homage to nostalgic years spent reading stories – stories of our people, stories of a land with a long history and strong personalities. As such, they aspire to be exactly the place where people can experience those same feelings we did, and can create their own stories – stories like the ones we delved into when we were young.
What is the scope of the game?
We aspire to live and let live. The Southlands are in essence a role-playing playground. They aspire to enable people to create stories and connections, to play characters that are meaningful to them, and to contest with and challenge each other. We are inspired by the Fog LARP in Bulgaria and the intense stories and connections that are told in its MilSim thematic.
However, we do not wish to talk of struggle and conflict. We wish to talk of hope, of dark days and of myths and legends. We want to encourage our players to reclaim the right to dream and aspire for tales of legend in a world that looks too dark and too brooding.
Light and Darkness
Does that mean it is always going to be a bright game? No, we want Darkness and Light to be in stark contrast as a thematic within our game. We want the temptation of evil to always loom around the corner, for hopelessness and division to always rear their ugly heads when the Heroes least expect it. We want to point a finger at the players and ask of them:
“In such a world, what do you think should be addressed? How can you bring light into this darkness?”
The Southlands speak of Heroes and Villains, of Saints and Humans, of Monsters and of Men.
In the end, it is up to you to decide which is which.
What about The Fog LARP?
Playing in the Fog LARP in the Bulgarian forests is what gave birth to the idea of the Southlands in the first place. The world of the Southlands is a passion-project of ours, which aims to expand the world of the Fog to the Greek South, and give birth to new campfire stories and tales of legend.
DISCLAIMER: The Southlands LARP is NOT an official The Fog LARP game, nor is it designed by the amazing people who have been making The Fog LARP since before most of us even knew what LARP is. The Southlands aim to tell stories within the same world of The Fog, but centered around new, local legends, mysteries, customs, and even saints that walk among mortals. They are an independent project, that we wish will blossom into something truly unique and inspiring.