#t.i.c

Chapter 2 is up!

No worries, anon! You're not rude at all.

So "tic" is The Islandian Chronicles. It's an original work of mine. I've been working on it for over 16 years. I post about it for myself. I don’t expect anyone to see it, but sometimes they do! I know a few of my mutuals support my posts about it when they find them, that's for sure.

T.I.C is a high fantasy horror, or I intend for it to be. I want people to both want to live on Islandias and be terrified to live there at the same time.

High Fantasy = story w/ magic and monsters set in another world.

Horror = spooky, creepy, and unnerving content. Ghosts, darkness, spiders, undead, and more.

From anyone living on Islandias who knows anything at about recent(ish) history at all, the above question will get you a reaction much like the typical response to "Who is Jesus?" in our modern world. Some will be mildly amused while others will be downright offended. Either way, you can expect to be pestered with questions about your life as they try to figure out how you don’t know about Fire Hearts.

So what is it?

The Fire Heart is--at least, as seen thus far--a human man with red hair and green eyes. More often than not, he is muscle-bound and confident, occasionally to the point of arrogance.

His country of origin is almost always the Republic of Keltae. He is rarely from a high economic class and is most often born to native Keltaen families. He is rarely born as a twin but always has at least one sibling, be they older or younger.

A Fire Heart's powers are self-explanatory. They wield ethereal fire magic; i.e., fire magic infused with the power and blessings of the gods. The god that blessed their magic is unknown and can't be discerned by matching the energy signature to the current pantheon. It's widely assumed that the blessing the Fire Heart carries is the last will from a now fallen or deceased god.

Why ethereal fire?

The purpose of this magic and blessing is to combat the blight of the Shadow Plague, the curse cast on the world by the Allipsees before they were sealed. For millenia, Fire Hearts have been driving the clouds back by defeating the plague keeper of their era and striking out at the black clouds with their blessed birthright. Unfortunately, this method has yelded little to no progress in fully dismissing the darkness.

Why Fire and not Light?

Light magic can cast a shadow somewhere else. In the case of dark magic, it's more defensive than offensive. Fire magic is light magic, just in a more offensive and aggressive form. Solar light magic could do the trick, being a combination of light and fire. However, it's exceptionally rare, and it's even more unusual for it to be strong enough to do damage aside from the occasional minor sunburn or withered shade plant.