NOTICE: Canon Contest 2024
What are Canons?
When wandering throughout The Backrooms, some things may simply not make sense. A note from an unknown source documenting destruction, a Level which feels too reminiscent of certain events. No matter what, it's impossible to deny the fact that stories exist. It's not that we don't acknowledge these stories and events, it's the fact that they dip into each other, shatter each other's tales, breaking away at what founded these stories in the first place. They break laws established early on, and they show no indication of stopping.
Collected below are documents unearthed about each canon. If you wish to contribute to one, read the works under them first to get an understanding of what each represents. If you show interest in forming your own canon, check the bottom of the page for a guide.
BLACK!KNIGHTS
If it exists, it can be exploited. The Backrooms are no different. There is a force mounting, an army of darkness that comes and goes with means unknown. You have come to know them, one way or another. A rumor, a story, a point of caution. Will you live the rest of your life free of their taint… Or will you find them?
Decay Canon
How would you react if your whole world was jeopardized? If every single bit of your reality crumbled in front of you piece by piece, what would you do? What could you do?
Desolation Canon
Desolation canon focuses on humanity and its survival in a version of the Backrooms that is extremely inhospitable and attempts to assimilate foreign objects into itself. Can humanity claw through another day?
Industrialization Canon
Humanity has settled into the Backrooms, creating societies which echo the ones back home, for better and for worse. The horrors of creeping monsters and liminality crumble away as humanity finds its own horrors to replace them with.
Morgana Council Canon
This canon all revolves around explaining the existence, story, and motives of The Council. It revolves around Level 777 as a whole, however, there is more to it than just that.
Multiverse Canon
Earth and our vast universe are but a single drop. Beyond this observable cosmos, there is a literal ocean of other universes. The Backrooms reality is an important "hub" for portions of the multiverse.
The Pantheon Canon
In the beginning, The Backrooms were home to many gods, each commanding an aspect of reality. They were as close as family, but that all changed after humans first entered The Backrooms. They were overthrown and their alliance was fractured. Today, they may have to reunite to face a grave threat…
Simulation Canon
The Backrooms is a weird, wild place that can get as wacky as it wants, but this canon will always follow humans, human-based issues, and human feeling narratives.
Terror Hotel Canon
Wanderers flock to the belly of the beast in search of their own goals and accomplishments, only to be disappointed when they find that when they poke the sleeping dog, it awakes to bite them. Yet, the intrigue of the mysteries the hotel holds still attract visitors to it.
UnMasked Canon
This canon will follow the efforts of the group known as "The Masked Maidens" on their mission to cleanse the corruption of the different groups of The Backrooms — mainly the M.E.G. — from the supposedly virtuous values they claim to uphold.
So you wanna build a canon?
Making a canon is quite simple! As long as you have a good, original idea for a canon — it should be something others will have some level of interest in writing for — you can start work on the first few pages for the canon! This should not be a canon hub page, but a regular article that introduces the canon's universe and rules.
Collaboration is a vital aspect of every canon, and is the main difference between a canon and merely someone's personal series of articles. Because of this, to get featured on this page (and to get a canon hub and tag) a canon needs to have:
- 7 canon pages,
- 3 authors credited across any of those 7,
- The canon should be open to new contributions and collaborators no matter its state. Just because a one of its storyline is concluded doesn't mean people can't add new things to the setting!
If you want to control the automatic previews of pages on the feeds here you should use the preview component. You just use it as [[include component:preview text=Your 100 character preview here]].
If you have any questions, ask a member of staff for some help!
Other Canons
Those canons have a hub and some pages on the site, but they do not meet the requirements to get a tag or their own block on the hub. You are free to write for them in order to develop their story!