Story Lore Promo

Yes! I love this thread idea. I've got two:

https://tapas.io/series/Amazement-Originals

The idea behind Amazement Originals to introduce all of the characters who exist within the fictional Amazement Universe. Some stories are one offs, while others are part of a narrative. While these stories aren't canon and are random, none of the characters are random. Every character exists in the greater continuity.

https://tapas.io/series/Typhoon

This series details the origins and escapades of superhero Typhoon. He goes by many names: "The Water Warrior", "The Oceans Protector". But he'll discover his true purpose as leader of the Typhoon Squadron of Leadership.

Me looking at my notes trying to figure out which of this isn't going to give away too many spoilers because I will spoil if not restrained.

The Hazey City is very obviously Venice. But, not just because I like the looks. It's based very heavily on the Republic of Venice. It has a heavy focus on the rich merchant classes, who are essential in government, and has an elected head of state for life from said merchant government. It is full of wealthy merchants and artisans, and because the setting is heavily automated, there's a much heavy focus on people finding a position in scholarship or artistic directions. It's reputation as a home for the artistically and academically minded and a general paradise where all illnesses are cured is a honey trap that lures in more and with the fact that no one can leave brings in ever new minds with no way for them to leave and take their passion and knowledge other places. Naturally this makes it rich pickings for our thieves who smuggle it out on automated boats, the only thing that can get out the city. To go along with this, of all the various dangerous creatures and monsters around the place the only truly safe and even protective one is the winged lion (the Lion of St Mark), the symbol of Venice.

I am trying my best to be spoiler-free. You can open any of the points to read.

Culture

Maiyean is mostly inhabited by an ethno-racial group called the Tôryaemaen. They are indentified from their purplish irises and commonly a range of red to brown hair. The people are the wielder of a magic type called bound spell. The main character of this series is ethnically one, yet he suspects that he is racially not.

A Tôryaemaen is usually devoted to some degree to their monotheistic religion and has a strong value. While Tôryaemaen food is diverse, they refrain from eating mammal's meat or breed them for slaughter because they believe they were siblings. They have rich cultural heritage reflected in their decorative art, clothing, and jewelry. Their magical ability is incorporated into their daily life.

Example of a Tôryaemaen woman

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For every ten chapters I do an intermission chapter to note down the characters, recapitulate the story, and add additional info. The latest intermission chapter contains a bit of lores, you can read it here

Here is my series:

I'm giving you folks a two-for-one deal:

"They say the village of Stockholme grew into the city it is today because of the journey of one small child through the celestial realm. She alone awakened the Seven Spirit Gods from which modern magi derive their power, and it is said that the very tower that stands in the center of Stockholme is itself from that realm. It acts as an anchor to our world, allowing the Sacred Seven passage between worlds, and it is to her we owe our thanks."

"There exists a sword in Aphing with the power to destroy the human soul. It goes by many names: Soulrender, The Demon Blade, The Unending dark... but its true name... is Mors Anima, and it answers only to one man. They say that an inquisitor tried to use the dark blade against its master, but Mors Anima has a hunger all its own, and it consumed him."

In my series, the potency of an artifact's magic depends on the individual user. While one artifact might give a user near-perfect luck; it could give another user obsessive compulsive tendencies.

The Museum building itself is in a pocket dimension that can only be accessed by museum staff.

I love getting into story lore, both from other stories and my own. XD There's a lot of lore in my comic, mainly about this big ass war that happened that split the world up into different parts. This war really changed the way everything works but it takes place around 20,000 years ago from the current story lol. Prequel about it coming maybe, idk

Oh, I love this one because I have an entire like multi-plane apocalyptic backstory around Stains, and in my fairly straight run romance plotline, none of it gets used at all!

In one of my later scenes, Cain curses out a "vulture" for crashing into his wards and Casper gets a little confused 'cause he doesn't think there's any vultures locally. He's right, because what Cain calls a "vulture" is actually one of the monsters from the plane he draws his sorcery from - called the Veil. Vultures are a colloquial name that the ragtag apocalyptic group used for a giant flying insectile beast about the size of a lorry (which clearly doesn't follow physics) that attacks by dive bombing anyone who wanders around outside the walls. So this rogue vulture flying around in the Veil (which lies like a skin across the shape of earth, has coincidentally smacked into where Cain's wards exist both on Earth and in that separate plane as well, effectively stitching the fabrics together just in that place.

The gods in When Souls Awaken are very active and one of the bits of lore around Viserus, the forest god, is his song.
To those who respect his ways and the forest will hear a sweet cacophony of song birds while those who disrespect the forest and unnecessarily or cruelly take lives will hear a torrent of hellish screams that will shake them to their core.

I tried answering to this and I realized that any lore details I give for my stories end up being massive massive spoilers.
Still... let's see what spoilers I can I can share.

No Steel
* The tribes on the planet are what's left of the original population
* Ratkins are the most numerous with their own kingdom but the bulk of it isn't in the geographical areas where the main story takes place. You get just the tip !
* The planet has very recently been declassified so all human colonies are very young.
* Foxes are an all female race.
* Although the planet is connected with the rest of the galaxy through a starport, its basically like a stop in the middle of nowhere. This makes it very isolated and even though its under someone's jurisdiction, no laws apply.

I love this thread! Most of the following lore does make it into the comic at some point, but I thought it would be refreshing to explicitly talk about how my fantasy world ties into the real world, and the points I want it to make, so here goes!

Dragonwood takes place on an alternate earth in which certain islands have (or had ) fantastical wildlife such as dragons and other magical or semi-magical beings. They are integrated into an earth-like ecosystem, so like one can generally assume that all animals that currently or previously live(d) on earth exist in Dragonwood, but there are bonus animals too. At the start of the comic, dragons have been run off of the island that the protagonist lives on due to habitat destruction, and, in their wake, the flies that the dragons liked to eat have swelled both in size and population and wreaked havoc on the local ecosystem. The main character is a young girl who loves to play outside and appreciates the beauty and magic of nature, but daydreams about the dragons with the pecuilar nostalgia of someone who never experienced a better world but constantly has information about it shoved down her throat.

Here's a link if you're interested!

All life on the continent the Turbulent March takes place on nearly ended two hundred years ago during a storm that covered most of the landmass.

The Alfar, an empire of Northern Elves, ceased to exist overnight. Various small scattered human kingdoms were wiped out as well.

But the storm brought more than destruction. It altered the very makeup of the lands it affected. Powerful monstrous beings called Chimera seemingly appeared from nowhere, wiping out many of the surviving cities. The seas around the continent teemed with aquatic versions of these monsters, cutting it off from the rest of their world. In the south, the trade Empire of Qismat became a city-state overnight after losing all of its holdings.

And the storm also brought the orcs in existence. Early on these orcs joined in the destruction. But at one small trade city, Greihold, the three elders of the town prostrated themselves before the advancing orcish horde. The town was defenseless and overflowing with refugees from across the continent. The Warlord was an eight-foot armored giant, and became disgusted at the sight of these three humans in rags surrendering themselves and their people so easily.

There would be no worthy battle from these people. He left them alone and returned to the north, disbanding his army.

Two hundred years later, the orcs are locked in a perpetual conflict with the chimera, trading with the humans for necessary metals to defend their lands.

That is the basic backstory of the world. Much of the series will focus on discovering the events that led to this Great Tempest.

This is an awesome idea! I'll share a little of the global lore for the universe my current comic is set in.

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Throughout the cosmos there exists evidence of prior civilisations, mysteriously destroyed by what is known as the Cataclysm; an enormous burst of energy which obliterated buildings, technology, and took countless trillions of lives. Entire worlds were cast back into the dark ages. History was lost, knowledge forgotten, and the time before the Cataclysm fell into legend.

What exactly caused the Cataclysm is fiercely debated. Common histories from worlds light-years apart point to a great malignancy known as the Scrios, which nearly tore the fabric of the cosmos asunder. Scars of the Scrios still litter countless worlds. Some blame magic for summoning it. Others say greed, war and narcissism called it forth. Most Elven legends describe a great sacrifice; a goddess, known as a Keeper, who, by splitting her essence into two halves, purged the Scrios from the cosmos at the cost of her very existence.

This sacrifice saved the cosmos, but it was not without cost. The resulting burst of energy caused unthinkable destruction. Some worlds were luckier than others. Less magical worlds were scarcely touched. Deeply magical worlds were stricken. Some recovered quickly. Others did not recover at all. It has now been two thousand years since the Cataclysm. The cosmic community is once again beginning to thrive, and it is among these stars that our story takes place.

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Love this idea.

Wizamages are powerful magic users. They became Nebula Knights to help defend the empire from threats. All healing wizamages used to be doctors.

https://tapas.io/series/Nebula-Beings

In order to not be too much spoilerous, I will say a little Lore fact revolving my Serie's World:

An advanced colonial alien race ends up Teraforming the same Planet Humanity in the future is ready to colonize, and end up to cooperate and create a world with tech so advanced that It's almost like magic, and with a variety of bizzare but also equal races that ranges from "Frog-like" "Lizardmen" "Harpies" and "Giants" and of course, Humans.

I release both in English

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