Not to be confused with the song by Ten
Far Beyond the World is a Ren'Py fantasy Furry visual novel based on Adastra currently in development by Kael_Tiger.
It follows the story of a human who has found himself in the medieval world of Avalan, which is populated by anthropomorphic wolves and other animals. Unable to remember anything about his life before ending up in the world, and inexplicably having developed the ability to understand all spoken languages, the human must survive in the xenophobic wolven society, relying on the few wolves that he can consider his allies.
As this novel is still in development, the tropes listed below are subject to change. The game can be found here
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Far Beyond the World provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adorable Fluffy Tail: One of the many things that endears the main character to Ranok is the latter's habit of wagging his floofy wolf tail whenever he's happy.
- Adventures in Comaland: Caelan's time in Avalan is implied to be this by the sound of a heart monitor during one of his conversations with Ranok, but it is yet unknown whether this trope will be played straight or subverted.
- As of Chapter 8 part 2, subverted. At one point, Caelan seems to wake up in his house with his parents telling him that he had been in a coma for a long time, only for this to be revealed to be a nightmare.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Caelan gets drunk at his first feast and, as a result, lets his guard down and ends up dancing by the bonfire with Tano despite being supposed to pretend to be gravely injured. His charade is thus exposed to the white wolf, but he keeps quiet about it.
- Cool Old Lady: Enelle is very much nothing like her two colleagues. Behind her "dementia", she is a clever, kind and wise she-wolf with a lot of stories to tell (along with scars to prove them). It's very telling of how cool she is that even Vulgor of all people likes her.
- Closet Gay: Ranok must hide his attraction to males as LGBT individuals are seen as "defective" in the wolves' society.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: At the feast before Caelan and Ranok travelling to Strandbard, it is revealed that an army consisting of ten thousand wolves lost to a battle mage and a small group from Tigeron. Tigeron didn't even have to send its proper army to deal with the wolves.
- Fan Disservice: Caelan and Ranok's first true sex scene becomes one when it's immediately followed by Ranok tearfully revealing to Caelan that he is leaving him at Strandbard.
- Hearing Voices: Caelan occasionally hears an "Ominous whisper" that makes negative remarks towards his situation, but he has also heard a more "pleasant" voice at times, such as when the player is faced with a choice by the moonwell, telling Caelan not to approach it.
- Heteronormative Crusader: The tribe in which Caelan finds himself in is this. It is common to hear wolves use the word "Defective" to refer to those who are homosexual, and any appearances of homosexuality are avoided avoided.
- Honor Before Reason: Ranok recounts how the wolves once went to war with the Tigers because a noble damaged one of their sacred name trees. The wolves knew that they could lose everything, but still went to war.
- Hulk Speak: Whilst Ranok’s ability to listen & read in Tigerii seems up to snuff, his diction & eloquence has a lot to be desired. Vithyr, Varok, Aldris, and Dran purposely speak short, broken Lapin sentences when giving orders. Dran cannot stand it and simply said "It's like your tongue is swollen and you're choking on it."
- Interspecies Romance: The wolf Ranok and the human Caelan fall in love with each other.
- Jerkass: Aldris hurls insults and profanities at pretty much anyone she talks to. During one feast, she says that the wolves took "no losses", and is corrected by Regara, stating that several "otherkin" were killed, to which Aldris replies "You know damn well that otherkin don't count".
- Lotus-Eater Machine: It is strongly implied that some malevolent force is behind Caelan's "awakening" and subsequent illusion-shattering.
- Moment Killer: Of the Fatal Fumble variety. As Ranok and Caelan are about to have sex after the former comes back from battle, the mood is completely ruined when Ranok is reminded that he just killed someone.
- Morality Pet:
- Vulgor is a short-tempered bastard who would probably gladly watch the whole world die, yet he unquestionably cares for Ranok and takes their relation as Moonbrothers very seriously, even if Ranok is often the one who infuriates the black wolf with his impulsiveness. It's thanks to Ranok if Vulgor didn't straight up kill Caelan the moment he first saw him. He also is very much in love with Verissa, but she's not much of a Morality Pet to him since his love for her rarely ends in something good for everyone else.
- The only way you're ever going to get any non-pragmatic kindness from Dran is by playing off his care for his son.
- Obfuscating Insanity: Enelle seems to have gone completely senile, but it becomes increasingly clear to Caelan and the reader that the old she-wolf is just as wise and witty as ever, and her dementia is a facade to look innocuous like a "true wolf" should...and to Troll Aldris and Dran, who fall for it hook, line and sinker.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Caelan must pretend to not be capable of understanding the Wolven language in order to avoid being killed.
- Shattering the Illusion: Caelan at first thinks that he has been comatose all along and that his adventures in Avalan were just a delusion, but then comes to realize that the "real" world is an illusion based on the fact that everything is out of place, such as an old computer being in his room despite him having knowledge of cell phones being ubiquitous, and a "keep out" sign being placed on the wrong side of "his" door.
- Shout-Out:
- At one point, the setting of Avalan reminds Caelan of Middle Earth.
- Before getting proper clothing, Caelan muses to himself that he looks like Mowgly...then realises he has no idea who that is.
- Knowing Ranok will be coming back from the mission, Caelan is so overjoyed he starts singing "We're Off to See the Wizard" from The Wizard of Oz in his head.
- The sequence of events that subverts the "Adventures in Comaland" trope is a shoutout to Coraline, even with Caelan making a joke about his "mother" having buttons for eyes and her replying with "Very funny, Coraline", followed by her nightmarish transformation.
- The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: Discussed Trope. The fact Caelan constantly makes references to modern-day technology and pop culture, sometimes without even knowing what he's talking about, is proof that he's a human from our world and age who somehow ended in a fantasy world of magic and anthropomorphic, talking, and bipedal animals.
- Title Drop: "This means...that wherever we are... it's far beyond the world I know"
- Wham Line: “You’re not coming back with me!” […] “I’m taking you to Strandbard to leave you there!”
- Yes-Man: Dran is this to Aldris, he is often called "Aldris's shadow" by the player character, and is always intimidated by Aldris into following along with what she wants. The most he has done against her is to abstain during a vote, rather than vote as Aldris wanted. If he voted yes, then that would mean his son, Delran, and his pack would have died or trek back to the village longer.
