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Marylaid Everlasting (most commonly known by her shortened name, Mary Everlasting), is a mock-paranormal phenomenon in YoWorld that dates back to January 16, 2013. The phenomenon resulted in what is arguably the most popular fan-made character in YoWorld. It's gradual rise in popularity would lead game developers Big Viking Games to creating an entire theme and items (Haunted Manor) inspired the game's own horror urban legend for Halloween 2015. The theme was also accompanied by an event and promotional video. Due to this, the fan-made mystery and events surrounding it have mostly been adapted as canonical game side-lore by the developers and the community of YoWorld.

The story, however, predates Big Viking Game's re-acquisition of YoWorld in 2014. The original mystery initially began on the YoVille Forums on January 16, 2013. On that day, a forum-user created a thread on the forums recounting a bizarre event he had experienced in-game. In his account of the event, he was visited by a woman in one of his homes within the game. This mysterious woman was a stranger to him. He emphasized, that the woman was not on his buddy list, and that she had already been in the room prior to his arrival. So how she was able to visit him live in-game, would remain a mystery. Because of how she was dressed, her manner of speech, and her mysterious nature, he suggested that she may have been a ghost. Many skeptic forum users dismissed his story as a common misconception, or even a lie due to his lack of evidence or screenshots of the encounter.

The original story began to claim some credence from the community about two days later, on that 18th of January, when two other forum users claimed similar yet disparate encounters with the same woman. Her name became known as Mary Everlasting throughout the community.

Lore[]

Not much is known as to the lore or reasoning behind Mary's haunting. Over the course of the years she has been haunting YoWorld, individual players and groups have been able to dig deeper into her mystery and piece together parts of its puzzle. Mary Everlasting and the events surrounding her are only the more popular part of a larger saga taking place in YoWorld since it's very first year in 2008. Small remnants and whispers remain about an earlier, deeper family background baring host to the Everlasting family name existing between 2008 and Mary's initial manifestations in 2013. Because of this, it's reasonable to say that Mary's story is part of an ongoing tale of events comprised of different parts, acts, or stages.

Most parts of the story remain consistent with the idea that there is a yearly phenomenon taking place in YoWorld called "The Everlasting Rift". It's described as an event that peaks in intensity between October and January, where the fabric between YoWorld and the spirit world thins. This allows spirits and YoWorlders alike, to accidentally slip into each other's reality. This bizarre yet fascinating occurrence serves to explain why Mary Everlasting sightings typically increase during the fall and winter months in YoWorld. The nebulous events and history is dotted with other names like Eterna Everlasting and Kendrake Everlasting, the family's founding members who walked YoWorld in 2008. It is unknown how any of Mary's extended family or ancestors tie into the events of her death.

Mary herself is described to appear as the mourning spirit of a bride in an everlasting search to uncover the whereabouts of her missing children. Originally in earlier sightings, she was known to exhibit strange behaviors, such as manifesting in a Yo's room without the need for a buddy list. In Big Viking Game's adaptation of the story, Mary's ghost also possesses the ability to temporarily fade away into invisibility. Mary is believed to have had three children total. The three children were Cecilia, Eugene, and Undee, with Undee being Mary's only surviving child. In 2021, it was discovered by an independent group of investigators, that upon Mary's death, Eterna Everlasting, who is immortal and therefore still alive and walking YoWorld, agreed to raise Undee in Mary's absence. Eterna has been quiet about Undee's whereabouts, despite the Mary's alleged desires to make contact with her last surviving child from the spirit world. Mary's children come from two different fathers. Cecilia and Eugene were from Maximiano, who had mysteriously passed away leaving Mary a widow. Undee would have been Peter's child before he too mysteriously ended up dying off. Peter Herscht's chained up skeleton can be found in a hidden chamber in the Estate wine cellar.

Initial Impact[]

After the first three original sightings took place, users from within the YoWorld community began investigations. This lead to a rise in sighting-reports and claims throughout the game, not just on the YoVille Forums but among other fan communities as well. On many occasions, seance-styled events took place, with evidently little to no success. Most attempts to establish contact with Mary Everlasting were of futile nature. Members of the community who cosplayed or impersonated the ghost made fan-led investigations more difficult. There is account of only three séances attempting to summon Mary actually being successful. One of them was in 2015, and the following two took place in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Each time Mary has been summoned, it the spirit has been able to drop more minor details surrounding her story and family past.

Alternatively, some members of the community sought to unmask person behind the entity earlier on. Some theorized this to be a player's alternate account, believing that someone within the community may have been leading a double-identity. Such claims were never substantiated, and most theories like this never took hold. Further attempts to unmask Mary died down after Big Viking Games produced its own adaptation of the legend, solidifying it's lore into the games canon. Investigations became a lot more focused after the discovery of the account's profile on the games original YoVille Community Site (YoVille.com). Given that player profiles are currently not available, accessing all profiles is currently impossible.

Encounter Characteristics[]

Original sightings describe Mary Everlasting usually appearing in private rooms, such as homes, typically appearing already present in the room before any other players arrive to the scene. Manifestations in public places or spots on the map were uncommon or non-existent at first. Marylaid rarely appears before large crowds, only ever having done so after being summoned at three different séances since 2013. Mary evidently dislikes being summoned, as it takes time away from her searching for her children. At this time, no authentic sightings of Mary Everlasting have occurred at events. It still appears very unlikely that she will appear at any events made for her. Some later reports and testimonies describe the manifestation or presence of silent speech-less ghost-like children appearing either before or after a sighting, usually as a bad omen. The children have been described as having a similar appearance to that of Marylaid, and are motionless. Up to ten of these children have been reported being seen together in the same place at the same time.

Sightings may occur occasionally throughout the year. Though it has been observed, that sightings of Mary Everlasting are generally more frequent in the fall and winter. Especially around October and January, where the Everlasting Rift is said to be at its peak in weakness. Mary herself has been described as a benevolent, yet mournful spirit. Others claim her to be a quite violent and uncontrollable entity. Her behavior varies from report to report. Another common description of her is that she has a distant and almost withdrawn personality. In sightings, she is usually situated in a remote or isolated region within the room, crying to herself. Her speech has been shown to be very broken in screenshots, and it is very likely that she is unable to communicate properly with the 'living'. 

Mary's Home[]

After the discovery of her YoVille Community Site profile, many users were able to use the player ID associated with her account to construct a link to her apartment. Other anomalous events have taken place within the apartment, some claim to see candles and clickable items work themselves, and clickable lamps and light fixtures turning on and off on their own. These claims specifically are unsupported due to their lack of evidence. Some have claimed to see other ghosts, a little girl in a green dress, or even Marylaid herself in the apartment.

Early on, players have described her apartment as having an oppressive impact on their gaming performance, as many players claimed earlier on that their game would experience irregularly high amounts of lag when traveling through her home. This lag could never be explained. Her home is a standard apartment that changes over time, as players would often come back to see that some furniture rearrangements have taken place, and on some occasions, entire rooms are created or updated. Mary's early apartment was consistent with that of a modest gothic dwelling. That soon came to change in 2021, when many players were able to come together and not only summon the ghost, but emit enough energy to rip open the Everlasting Rift, a portal that leads to the other side, or spirit world. The portal was opened via a weak spot that was present in Mary's apartment. Since then, no player has been able to close the portal, and it has continued to grow, consuming Mary's entire apartment in the process. It has been observed that because the portal was forced opened throughout unnatural means, that it possibly doesn't follow the same laws as other weak spots in YoWorld, where they disappear during the spring and summer. Therefore, if unchecked, this portal is expected to continue growing before it eventually consumes all of YoWorld.

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A news article detailing a carriage crash taking place in Blackacre Woods. Curtesy of Big Viking Games.

Currently, if one were to enter the portal, it would lead players to the forsaken Everlasting Estate, located near a cemetery in Blackacre Woods. This was presumably Mary's home before her passing. The place is flooded with potential clues as to what occurred on the night of her death, the same day she was supposed to marry Peter Herscht. Thus far, no one has been able to piece together the events that transpired the night Mary passed away. Only that Mary's mother, Constance Everlasting, was present when Mary's carriage went over the cliff and landed in Blackacre River. Though, it is heavily suggested that Constance wasn't in the carriage with Mary, and had witnessed the accident from inside a purple vehicle. This is supported by the fact that a carriage crash and purple car are present near one another on the grounds of the Estate. Besides the scenes of the incident, portraits of other Everlastings are present throughout the house.


Trivia[]

  • There are currently two variations of the Mary Everlasting legend. There is the original fan-made one, which players began reporting in very early 2013, and the Big Viking Games rendition where the game developers made their own story inspired by the legend, which came out in 2015.
  • Mary Everlasting is the more popular part of an ongoing fan-made saga taking place in YoWorld since 2008.
  • The characteristics of Mary Everlasting are very similar to that of La Llorona (The Weeping Woman), an urban ghost tale shared in different parts of Latin America in real life.

Big Viking Games Adaptation[]

On October 18th, 2015, Big Viking Games began an event in YoWorld about solving the mystery of Mary Everlasting. The event lasted from October 18th - 31st. The event even included a theme based off of the game's urban legend, along with an adaptation of the tale, in which the developers created their own story of what they believed happened to Mary.

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