Timeline

A fan-written chronology of the trickster's legend. Every entry is original fiction; the only official fact is the app's card description.

Fan-written timeline · original fiction

The first omission

Somewhere before history, someone tells the first story and leaves out the important part. The omission puts on a mask. Nobody notices. That is, arguably, the whole trick.

The mask is found

The Liar discovers that faces are negotiable and masks are honest — a mask admits it’s hiding something. The collection begins with the Innocent, which fools everyone, including, briefly, The Liar.

The Halfway House opens

Tired of haunting other people’s stories, The Liar builds a carnival in the gap between tales — purple smoke, paper lanterns, eleven tents for eleven abandoned stories. Admission is free. The exit moves.

The Chronicler arrives

A humorless archivist begins writing down exactly what happened, in order, with footnotes. The Liar is delighted and furious in equal measure. The great game begins: one tells the story straight, the other twists it. Audiences can’t decide which is more entertaining.

The great unmasking (that wasn’t)

At a midnight gala, The Liar announces the true face will be revealed. The crowd leans in. The mask comes off — revealing a smaller mask. Then another. Then another. Eleven masks later, the face underneath is smiling too hard to read. The crowd cheers anyway.

The twist canon is named

Fans begin cataloging the signature twists — the Reversal, the Confession, the Mirror, the Vanishing Point. The Liar claims to have invented all of them and none of them, sometimes in the same sentence.

The Vizlings card

The character appears in the Vizlings app with the card description “Every story has a twist” — the first official record of the trickster. (This entry is real: it’s the app’s wording, quoted verbatim.)

The fan guide opens

This site launches as an unofficial fan guide, gathering the legend, the twists, the voice lines, and the games in one place — every page labeled fiction, every quote attributed. The Liar approves of the labeling. Probably. It’s hard to tell.