Interactive Hunger Games Discord Panem Lore

The following is an in depth framework for all the lore of the server.

Year 0 (0 PDD)
The rebellion seems like a generation away now. It has been 7 years since the most promising minds in the Capitol seized power and called themselves Gamemakers. At their head is President Casca Highbottom - reclusive and brilliant. He’s invented the technology that’s the framework for the games. His right hand is Deputy Head Gamemaker Gap, a keen and detailed young mind. Gamemakers have come and gone, by choice…. Or not. There is no one President Highbottom will not cross, every Gamemaker must be prepared. It could end in a moment's notice. Amarana, has been with the team from the beginning. Tooth for 6 years, Axel and Robin for 5, Cheese Rainy and Capri for 3. Passan, Beau and Ams are the newest. The first Gamemakers were the brilliant minds that laid the first games in the smoking ruins of the recently decimated Quadrant 4A of the Capitol. It remains off limits to this day. The Capitol squashed the Districts once before - now they will squash their youth year after year. There have been 6 games so far, 5 regular and one twist - The Quinti Quell.

Year 1 (1 PDD)
In the first year the Gamemakers said, here are the fruits of your labor: skyscrapers reduced to little more than rubble, buildings lying abandoned, and sinks that run poisoned water. 24 children went into this arena, and one came out: Sarah, of District 6. An archer who stayed in the shadows, building her strength until she could strike. She won her games in tears, cradling the head of her victim. Killing didn't come naturally to her, but the year after there were mysterious disappearances of her tributes on her train to the Capitol. Rumors abound, but nobody knows for sure what happened.

Year 2 (2 PDD)
The second games set tributes loose in a stinking swamp, a once pleasant wetland flooded as an indirect result of District warfare. Look what you have wrought, the Gamemakers told the Districts. This is what you have done. Tributes this year played socially - alliance after alliance, double agents and triple agents all not trusting each other a lick. The tributes taught the Districts their message even better than the Gamemakers could. The eventual victor, hailing from District 4, killed a number of his own alliances - Ian began and ended his Games by slaying the ones he’d initially promised to help protect. His conscious mind crumbled, the weight of his actions crushing him - but there must be some reason why his allies fell at his hand.

Year 3 (3 PDD)
The third year the games brought new horrors. A mystical land of adventure and sacrifice awaited. In the rebellion it was a holding place for rebel forces, in the ancient past it was something they called a carnival. The machinery crumbling and the mutts abound, Panem was stunned by the most horrific games yet. Live footage of teenagers being shredded by rusty iron carriage horses and clowns with peeling faces roaming the darkness. The third victor was Joule Faraday from District 5. She carries the horrors with her to this day.

Year 4 (4 PDD)
All three victors of these games now live in solitude in their district estates. They only appear on the most special occasions, windows shuttered and lights off otherwise. The next year the tributes were taken underground. Tributes explored the complex labyrinth of tunnels and caves for almost 2 weeks. The ingenuity, engineering and technology of the Capitol only grew stronger year after year. The Capitol was almost entirely rebuilt and the memories of the famine and suffering in the Capitol fading. The games were becoming a spectacle, an annual holiday, something to look forward to.

Rebel Activity
While one side grew stronger, the other grew more desperate. Rebel forces were rejoining in decade old planning bunkers. Discontent was brewing and President Highbottom only fought it with fire. Yet, the youngest victor yet, Minx Bluebell of District 11 survived these games. Hard fought yet never the same. Her childhood robbed of her, forever destined to Capitol parties of glamour and manners. That did not stop the rebel forces. They planned with strong groups in the woods but weak individuals in the cities. They recruited vulnerable government officials and sought to end the suffering. Whatever it takes to end the games.

Gamemaker Headquarters Bombing
On a cool but calm Friday night 6 months before the 5th games, the rebel forces struck. With all the Gamemakers in the Gamemaker Research Facility, a concrete fortress in the Capitol, they detonated a bunker buster bomb and decimated the facility. All surface level structure was destroyed and it pierced to the 9th basement of 80. The scientists and officials were trapped in the basements for days, only to be rescued at the very last moment by the hardest working soldiers in the nation. Many gamemakers were missing for days. In the end, all sustained some type of injury, and it was this that put President Highbottom over the edge.

Announcement of the Quinti Quell
In the following weeks, it was decreed that the whole number multiples of 5 games shall be forever known as Quinti Quells in punishment for the actions of the rebels. These games shall have a special twist, announced by the President prior to the games. In this Quell, 12 normal tributes, 4 rebel leaders who resided in the Capitol and 8 past tributes (revived by preexisting Capitol technology) would enter the arena. For the past tributes, it was a sign that not even death could free them from the Capitol. For the rest, it was simply sadistic punishment for Capitol enjoyment. The Capitol forces exterminated most rebel circles after the bombing. Intelligence and torture led Highbottom to the prize. Only pockets remained. With the Capitol at ease, they planned for the Quell to be the most vicious yet. They lured the tributes with glamour and glory, but when it was time for the games, the Gamemakers wanted them to pay the price.

Year 5 (5 PDD)
It started with allowing the tributes to enjoy a relaxing vacation aboard the Capitol Revelry, a specially constructed luxury cruise ship that would sail the coasts of Panem. 3 days into the 4 day voyage, the rebels struck again. The rebel leader, a stowaway living in the engine room detonated another bomb at the heart of the ship. It sank swiftly. With what was looking like all the tributes being sentenced to death at sea and no games, the Captain of the ship along with President Highbottom made a desperate move. There was an island unknown to the nation. An island where all past arenas were dumped. There was no need for the mutts and tortuous machinery after each victor, so the Avoxes would quietly dismantle each arena and ship it to this island after each games. The captain grounded the ship near the island and undocumented Capitol forces scooped them from the ship and dropped them on the island. The Gamemakers even made it look like that was the plan all along. With the horrors multiplied by 4, each arena of the arena bringing new suffering, it was the complexity of this land that brought fault to the foundation of what the Gamemakers had always known. Errors in the games were rampant and Capitol citizens were furious. They blamed it on the rebels but all along, it was only a matter of time. At the end of it all, Happy de’ Guzman of District 8 reigned victorious. His suffering was immeasurable.

Year 6 and 7 (6 PDD & 7PDD)
To keep the citizens at bay and to avoid another revolution, the Gamemakers hid away in the newly rebuilt research center. President Highbottom was far underground for months. Yet, to show the strength of the Capitol, the President ordered all remaining rebels exterminated. Peacekeepers searched every house, bedroom and hallway until they found what they were looking for. 3 Gamemakers had participated in the rebel cause. Their identities forever hidden and legacies erased. They were sentenced to death. The nation was in a long winter. The President and Gamemakers would make occasional appearances, but it was two long years before another Hunger Games were announced. Meanwhile, the Gamemakers meticulously experimented with and fixed the root of the unrest, for it to never happen again. The District citizens celebrated the end of the Games in only 5 short years. They saw new light. However, on a cool April morning, President Highbottom announced the return of the games. 24 teenagers, one victor. The games were back.

Year 8 (8 PDD)
''The 6th Hunger Games was indeed a chilling sight to behold. The 24 tributes were thrust into a tundra wasteland where the only source of warmth the ice-cold desert provided was the cornucopia itself, adorned with twisting coils that radiated heat on a frozen lake. Mountains stretched in the North and streams trickled in the SouthWest. In the majesty of the sparkling blue arena… the tributes were set loose. Alliances were made, battles fought, and natural disasters occurred. Betrayals were acted upon, love was found, and mutts wreaked havoc on the 24 players as the long, hard days passed by. Eventually, a victor was crowned. Terra Paddon, a 14-year-old girl from District 8 rose to the top and claimed the title; Victor of the 6th Annual Hunger Games.''