What was the Exodus and why did it happen?

[QtheMuse]

The little blurb didn't really say anything about why everyone had to come over. Just said it happened and then in the journal it said something about armies and goblins and a war. So now was it like Ragnarok of the faerie tale world or something?

[Illegal Dubstep Mixtape]

Basically an evil overlord started taking over and enslaving Fables. Most of the Fables tried to fight back, but they were not strong enough. So they found ways to leave and most ended up in New York after a long journey across hundreds of years. The comic series is excellent, check it out sometime!

[melkathi]

I'll keep it brief:
The fables come from many different lands based ont he tales they are from. These lands are called the Homelands. At some point, an unknown enemy invaded these lands with large armies. The fables tried to fight but were pushed back. Eventually they were pushed all the way back to one keep that guarded a way into the mundane world. Those fables who made it to locations like that fled the Homelands to our world. This mass flight was called the Exodus. Those who made it through that specific portal pretty much all ended up in New York and founded the community you see in the game.

If you are interested in what you see, checking out the comic may be worth it.
Tried to keep the answer spoiler free.

[Ray Smuckles (Icky Moves)]

Fabletown has existed since New York was New Amsterdam. The Homelands are made up of hundreds of individual worlds. One, for example, is the Black Forest of Germany, home to stories like Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper, Red Riding Hood and many more. Our Germany is basically a miniature version of that homeland.
The Adversary began conquering these worlds one by one, and instead of banding together to fight him off, most homelands ignored the problem until it was too late and they realized he was going to conquer all of the homelands. The Fables came here, to the mundane (Mundy) world, which has no innate magic, a world the Adversary has no interest in.
When they founded Fabletown, they made a compact that all members of this safe haven would have full amnesty for past crimes. That's why villains like the Big Bad Wolf and Bluebeard are allowed.

[Sudomori]

Originally posted by BurningPenguin6:

Originally posted by GeraltDeRivia:

The comic series is excellent, check it out sometime!

Comic series? What comic series? Sounds interesting.

Fables by Bill Willingham. It's been running for eleven years now. The game is actually a prequel to the comics.

[Arcanity]

Originally posted by BurningPenguin6:

Originally posted by GeraltDeRivia:

The comic series is excellent, check it out sometime!

Comic series? What comic series? Sounds interesting.

Comixology has all the current volumes if your okay with digital copies.

[MorningLightMountain]

There are some very low points in the comic but overall a good read.

[Illegal Dubstep Mixtape]

I totally agree. Much more good than bad overall. I thought the few spinoffs I read were well done too. I really liked the 1000 Nights of Snowfall.

[IbPalle]

Comics are definitely worth a read - been following them since the start. Taking a little break atm so I have a bunch of them to pick up when I get the urge:)

[Space is the Place]

I have to admit, as good as the comics is, the videogame comes closer to what i expected the comic to be when I started. What I mean it´s that the comic is just not as noir as the videogame, and you hardly see tragic figures like The Woodsman in the videogame.

Take Toad for instance, in the comicbook he´s only a cameo appearing a few numbered times in single shots with no dialogue. In here, he perfectly tells the player about the setting of the main plot in just a few seconds of seeing him and hearing him, this a story about fables living in "actual" (two decades ago) New York.

Expecting a lot to see more characters re-re-reinterpretations, since there´s a lot of popular fables that while appearing in the comic series, they do not have that much weight or are provide with enough character. And some in the other side of the spectrum have a tendencie to die.

[Illegal Dubstep Mixtape]

I agree. Most likely they will use a lot of lesser characters, as its probably easier to use them and not mess with canon for the comics, since they have stated that this game is canon. I for one, and excited to see and hear from some of the lesser characters. I also loved The Walking Dead, so I'm just excited to experience TellTales take on it.

I will totally admit that the game version of Bigby is basically how I had him sounding throughout those 100 or so issues of Fables I have read so far.

I jokingly bet that the game is only a noir because its through Bigby's point of view, and that is how he views what he does. Nobody else thinks that way about his job possibly? Maybe he has seen too many Humphry Bogart movies... I am curious to see how the rest plays though though, glad I bought this one so soon in the series.

[Space is the Place]

Originally posted by GeraltDeRivia:

I will totally admit that the game version of Bigby is basically how I had him sounding throughout those 100 or so issues of Fables I have read so far.

Yes, I don´t know exactly why but I had the same impression. Somehow the comic version is way more calm and seems to be more inteligent (I mean, he practically resolves the first comic arc in the first page and then just drags the investigation to connect the dots, I like a lot more the suspicious detective we get to play here), invested in people but detach from the case and obviously there´s the Deux Ex Machina thingy, when things go way to bad, Bigby transforms in the big Bad Wolf with no problem and dispatch everyone.

I just LOVE this TellTale version, a more suspicious men that wants to understand the case (I´m assuming will see him getting a little obssesed with the case as any good noir detectives), he´s not as intrusive and firm with fables laws, and then my favorite diference, the transformations and Bigby relations with his inner beast. In the comics there´s no real plot there, he´s the Big Bad Wolf turned into men form and becomes the wolf again when he wants, no character differences, in here it really looks like he´s avoiding himself to turn into the wolf in every tension moment, remaining himself when once he loose it and transform, he´s not gonna be very polite, he turns into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ animal, and as any animal, he depends on himself to control himself and don´t get loose in the scent of blood. That was just superb and it was something i wanted in the comicbook, but never got it.

Pretty interesting what you comment in the end and I agree, in fact the one thing I love about this is that Bigby is the noir element as much as the plot, while the rest of the character don´t have that noir feeling (or at least, not all of them, Faith and The Woodsman had their share of noirish elements, like Faith dialogues after the fight or The Woodsman backstory in the bar and the way he pressented).