Fanfic:The Art of the Hunt/INTRODUCTION

Hellllooo everyone, today I'd like to introduce my new project fanfiction: The Art of The Hunt!

This is going to be a collaborative, cooperative effort, lead and written by me and aided by Wikia users: a fanfiction, the like of which has never been seen before. Every person on the Wiki can leave a comment, in which they can suggest story line additions or edits; I fully encourage everyone to do so.

If you want your monster included, you may also do this in the comments. Same thing for weapons and areas.

I also would like character suggestions: I need as many as I can get, and characters that have been used (but make sense in the time period) are all right. I'd prefer originals, but...

Finally, let me be perfectly blunt: there is no real magic in this story, and I'll explain later on. I would prefer to stay away from even shapeshifting, although human+monster relations are encouraged for this. However, any possible suggestions you have are greatly appreciated!

Setting
This takes place with a cast of (at least) ten characters; it will be an even distribution of males and females, and none of them can be greatly overpowered. Mind you, I won't be using characters that are extremely overpowered; and you need to suggest characters with a little background (preferably an original one), though I may change them slightly to better suit my purposes.

The characters' personalities should all even out one another; depression to happiness, anger to calmness, you get the idea.

The place is in Moga, five hundred years after The Divine Darkness's ending. All memory of the Ancient Times has been wholly forgotten, and all "magic" that Was has disappeared from the world, the little that remained after the Peace was achieved finally having dissipated. Now, only certain monsters and a few remote places still possess any small notion of magic; and they are hidden and unknown.

Story Notes
The story takes place with the cast of characters meeting one another in the first three installments, hopefully; and all of the cast are currently going to Hunter's Training, in a currently unknown (unreleased) location. The main plotline consists of the group finally getting to their first Hunter's Test.

In this Test, a freak mistake happens: a great monster (please suggest) comes from some unknown location (again, suggest, and it will have to make sense with whatever monster you suggest) and wreaks havoc on the Test Area; the ten companions are scattered, as they run in blind panic until they cannot run anymore. When they reunite, they come back to find that they are the only surviving student hunters that were present; even their instructors and many of those who were watching have been severely injured, and each of them lost something or someone; due to these events, the ten learning hunters decide to go after the mysterious beast. Everyone at the campus is against their going, but they sneak off in the dead of night to find the beast; their only help comes from their eldest instructor, who knows what it's like to lose someone. He sends out messages to all the Elders across the land and lets every surrounding town know of the calamity; he does not, however, reveal much of the monster, claiming it is much too sad for him to remember.

After many trials, and errors, they eventually find the beast; and the rest.... you can figure out when we get there.

This shall be written in installments, and, if all goes well, I will write one long installment per week.

Please suggest!

How to Suggest
The basic format of simply stating your suggestion and desire for the story is welcome; but if you want to, say, just suggest a character (or want to suggest one in a specific way), use the below examples.

Character
Name: whatever name you have

Counterpart Monster: the monster that accompanies your student hunter later on (can be a Felyne helper or Shakalaka), or the monster your character is most like.

Appearance: What they wear, what they look like, what armor they start out with, what they prefer to wear when they're not armored, etc.

Backstory: A creative, original backstory to go along with your character. Their backstory needs to back up their personality and dress preference.

Personality: Your character's in-depth personality.

Areas
If you want to suggest a fanon area, I'd prefer you make a page on it; however, if you don't want to (say, it's a very simple area or you have ideas for already known areas), use this method:

Name: name of the area, does not change even if its a known one

Changes/suggestions (if known area):

Details (if new area):

Have fun!