How can a fable die?

I couldn't get the concept of death in Fabletown:-)

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  • A headshot/sliced off head, a cutted throat, suicide and as the case of the Mirror, a missing piece.
  • MrLeeMrLee Banned
    Prince Lawrence was tried suicide and it worked if you didn't go to his place
  • It also depends whether their stories are really popular with the Mundies or not, determining how easily they can get killed.
  • edited May 2014
    Snow hadn't died from a headshot by being famous
    michael911 posted: »

    A headshot/sliced off head, a cutted throat, suicide and as the case of the Mirror, a missing piece.

  • Good point. Probably drew power from her "insane" popularity.
    phxpo posted: »

    Snow hadn't died from a headshot by being famous

  • and she was immediately treated for it
    michael911 posted: »

    Good point. Probably drew power from her "insane" popularity.

  • They're immortal but they're not impervious to harm. It just takes much more to kill them than a mundy.
  • There immortal only way to kill them is the witching well hidden till people forget about them then they die can't explain it further as read it on a website before and I never read the comics so don't really understand it
  • edited May 2014
    Cutting their heads off is a fairly reliable way to kill them. Fabletown's official capital punishment is death by headsman's axe and your body dropped into the Witching Well. Otherwise, it really depends on the Fable in question and the circumstances. Snow and Jack recover completely from a headshot and being blown up and burned to a crisp, respectively, both with more or less immediate modern medical assistance. Frau Totenkinder survived being thrown into her oven and burned to ash, back in the Homelands.

    In Bigby's case it's even more complicated, as on top of being a very popular fable he's also a werewolf, which in and of itself is supposed to make you unkillable with anything but fire or silver.

    In the cases of Lily and Faith, their stories are obscure enough that it's fairly safe to assume that decapitation is fatal to them.
  • It depends on the popularity of a Fable. If you're Snow White or Jack Horner, you're NEARLY impossible to die. If you're Rose Red (Much lesser known sister of Snow White), you could die almost as easy as any mundy can. It also relies on the power of some Fables, if they have certain spells casted on them (Such as Prince Brandish, who had spells that reflected all his pain and suffering to Snow White; The spell was altered later on though.) Snow White has a fate in the comics that she will die to a sword through the chest, but we have yet to see that come true (If it will at all.) Usually if a Fable does truely die, then something else takes it's place because we need the characters to know the stories. There's always something that coincidentally happens to fix the void once it appears, if that makes sense. (Ex: One of the 3 blind mice was killed, and coincidentally a Fable who used to be a mouse was turned back into a mouse, but was left blind. He was the replacement.)
  • Depends on how popular they are...
  • They live forever, but they can be killed, I.E. Dum, if you need an in-game example. They just take a lot more to kill than a mundy.
    Markd4547 posted: »

    There immortal only way to kill them is the witching well hidden till people forget about them then they die can't explain it further as read it on a website before and I never read the comics so don't really understand it

  • A rubber normally works
  • Getting their head chopped off by a guillotine.
  • Bigby have to die 7 times before he can die fully. Other than that killing a fable takes a lot of work. The better your known the harder you are too kill.
  • There are a lot of factors. Famous fables like Snow White, Bigby, Prince Charming, Cinderella are nearly invincible. Witches also are nearly invincible depending on their power like Frau. Fables like Rose Red, Bluebeard, Prince Lawrence, Faith, Lily can be killed more easily but still are hard to kill. The most invincible fables are Bigby, Snow, and Frau.
  • At this point we can't say for sure that he tried suicide. He said he wasn't sure, that he was confused, his memories seemed like a dream. He may have been victim of some spell like the one Crane uses in the cops, and someone staged the whole scene, including shooting him.
    MrLee posted: »

    Prince Lawrence was tried suicide and it worked if you didn't go to his place

  • So if Snow dies another pale fable could end up with memories of being rapped by 7 dwarves? :O
    EMMYPESS posted: »

    It depends on the popularity of a Fable. If you're Snow White or Jack Horner, you're NEARLY impossible to die. If you're Rose Red (Much less

  • edited May 2014
    So if Snow dies another pale woman fable could end up with memories of being rapped by 7 dwarves? :O
    EMMYPESS posted: »

    It depends on the popularity of a Fable. If you're Snow White or Jack Horner, you're NEARLY impossible to die. If you're Rose Red (Much less

  • I think he did commit suicide, because if you go to his place, he eventually says something like: I shot myself in the heart, thought I would be dead by now.

    At this point we can't say for sure that he tried suicide. He said he wasn't sure, that he was confused, his memories seemed like a dream. H

  • So their Lifespan depends on how well known and popular their own Fable is? To the Mundys or in general? Pretty weird Concept. At first it sounds like its in the Hand of the Fans which reading the Comics lol.
  • That's two different things. The Witching Well is where they send dead Fables and are clearly unaware of what happens to those put down it. The forgetfulness part is actually the Memory Hole which features in the initial Jack story arc.
    Markd4547 posted: »

    There immortal only way to kill them is the witching well hidden till people forget about them then they die can't explain it further as read it on a website before and I never read the comics so don't really understand it

  • edited May 2014
    Don't forget Jack. It's specified that when more stories describe the individual adventures of a single unnamed or unspecified archetype (namely the "Jacks", the wolves, the handsome princes and the unnamed witches), more or all of them might be about the same character. Jack, for example, has had a whole bunch of crazy adventures and tried a whole bunch of crazy schemes while Prince Charming has saved, married, divorced, saved and remarried one woman after another, and Frau Totenkinder is the witch in many of the stories about people who are cheated and/or eaten by witches.
    LukaszB posted: »

    There are a lot of factors. Famous fables like Snow White, Bigby, Prince Charming, Cinderella are nearly invincible. Witches also are nearly

  • edited May 2014
    It also depends on their individual powers, of course, but eternal "youth" seems to be universal while durability depends on their popularity with the mundies.
    Fangster posted: »

    So their Lifespan depends on how well known and popular their own Fable is? To the Mundys or in general? Pretty weird Concept. At first it sounds like its in the Hand of the Fans which reading the Comics lol.

  • No. As hundreds if not thousands of Fables died during the Adversary's conquest of the Homelands. In the comic when a Fable has been replaced it has been due to something working to replace them. The same thing happens with the Three Pigs but this is due to three other Fables being transformed.

    So if Snow dies another pale fable could end up with memories of being rapped by 7 dwarves? :O

  • No, they are all immortal. The resilience is potentially tied to popularity.
    Fangster posted: »

    So their Lifespan depends on how well known and popular their own Fable is? To the Mundys or in general? Pretty weird Concept. At first it sounds like its in the Hand of the Fans which reading the Comics lol.

  • Thanks for the full background of popular fables
    Off_Ground posted: »

    Don't forget Jack. It's specified that when more stories describe the individual adventures of a single unnamed or unspecified archetype (na

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