WEIRD WORLD WAR 2 BACKGROUND FOR RANGERS OF SHADOW DEEP

Reality is not what it used to be... 


In what moment did reality go to hell?

No one knows exactly, what is certain is that things are no longer what they used to be. 

The truth is that reality was already a real shit... the Nazis had occupied half of Europe and threaten to occupy the other half... the war lasted for several years... The allies made a common front and fought to reclaim Europe ...

The Nazis tried to win the war by all means, and when say "by all means" we mean exactly that... BY ALL MEANS.

Hitler had always been a great follower of the occult and the dark arts, supernatural, magic and mysticism had always surrounded his ideals and doctrine.

The Order of Odin (Der Orden Odin's) was a research group into the paranormal, established by order of SS head Heinrich Himmler. It was expanded during the Second World War on direct orders from Adolf Hitler.


Himmler’s SS, the leading special forces of the Nazi Army, was conceived of and designed based on occult beliefs. Wewelsburg, the castle headquarters of the SS, was the site of initiation rituals for SS “knights” that were modeled on Arthurian legend.


Psychics and astrologers were employed to attack the enemy and plan tactics based on the alignment of the stars.


Nazis tried to create super-soldiers, using steroids and drug cocktails, in a twisted interpretation of Nietzsche’s übermensch.


Arcane books of forgotten lore were studied to have more knowledge of a extinct race of beings that inhabit another dimension.


Many nazi expeditions were launched. To Tibet, to search for traces of the original, uncorrupted Aryan race, and for a creature called the Yeti, what we would call the Abominable Snowman. To Ethiopia, in search of the Ark of the Covenant. To steal the Spear of Destiny from its display among the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Emperor at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, the lance which Longinus used to pierce Christ’s side as Christ hung on the cross.

The Order of Odin was hard at work looking for a secret code in the Icelandic saga "The Eddas," which many Nazi officials thought would reveal the entrance to the magical land of Thule, which they believed to be the very real place of origin of the Aryans.


The members of The Order promised the führer the force to devastate his enemies. Eager for power, this group of occultists gained the necessary knowledge to summon an antediluvian entity in order to obtain powers that could make them win the war.


The members of The Order of Odin discovered that in order to summon that supernatural being that would make them win the war, they had to open some kind of door to another dimension.


And maybe that was the moment that everything went wrong. 

After several failed rituals, they made a successful ritual in which they opened a door to another world, tore the veil that separated our world from an unknown dimension, and what they saw through that door was madness itself. As they looked into the abyss, the abyss returned their gaze.


With nazis that made the ritual dead or mad, the portal was left open, a tear in the veil that separates both worlds, and the consequences were seen pretty soon.


Monsters came through the door, following the smell of death, pain, and blood of the battlefields.


Cigarettes around a fire during the night were followed by stories of impossible beings who appeared in the shadows, killing soldiers and civilians alike and disappearing into darkness again.

Ancient legends came to life and prowled the army settlements, filling the pages of history with blood.


When Allied soldiers enlisted in the armies they knew they were fighting to free the world from evil, but not to what extent.


The American and British armies created their own special departments to deal with these supernatural beings, specialized units with knowledge about the arcane and dark to be able to fight this new enemy.



The American Army created Section 45, with selected members of airborne, rangers, or any unit that had faced supernatural beings and had successfully killed them.

The soldiers who were part of these units were well trained, but given the kind of enemy they were fighting, it was common for those units to disappear without a trace during any mission.


And at this difficult moment we are ...


This is the road so far...