2/24 - Are You All Really Going to Yu-Gi-Oh! Me Lol

Posted 2/27, the 2/24th updates! 

Yu-Gi-Oh! started off as a manga all about a boy who, after he unlocks powers of Egypt, doesn't quite stay the same high schooler. He now has an different personality within hisself that is able to play dangerous games of death, often traumatizing opponents by turning them into clocks or revealing their hideous forms. 

At some point, a fake card game inspired by Magic: The Gathering appears when he faces off against Seto Kaiba. Many fans were interested in this card game, and therefore even called on Kazuki Takahashi and asked his thoughts on writing more of this card game "Duel Monsters", eventually causing the creation of not one, but two different arcs featuring the game, and then ending the series with a final Duel Monsters clash between Yugi and Yugi. 

Obviously, N:Era has a similar card game known as "Towers". Now, Towers actually existed pre-N:Era in different forms, and even in N:Era, the game is kept mysterious in rules to adjust, because the point is mostly to show the girls have certain hobbies. 

However, some have asked more about Towers, or even want to see more and more full versions. This isn't something I haven't worked with, in all actuality, game design is a partial hobby. 

What's kinda weird is writing feels less like a hobby, and more like a behavior, like something that is done overall. Maybe like singing, right? Singing is a behavior, same as how the bird sings, same as how even the gorilla sings. This isn't necessarily a hobby or profession, but an action a smidge more sophisticated than yawning. 

But game design feels like a hobby. Something that is meant to fill the time, that requires craft. Not something fathoms deep in the soul, but something actively engaged in. Writing is intuitive, just comes in randomly. Game design requires focus. 

But, is Towers ever going to be realized? No, but yes. 

Now look, logistically, this game would be hard to produce, for sheer factor that there are nine different elements (at least), all requiring Tower cards to supplement as Tower is the main resource overall. Tower supplement cards give the initial building blocks to Call the Fighters, and Fighters usually have Build stats to create Tower at the end of each turn. 

During fights, a player picks up to three Fighters to put in the Frontline and these fighters can attack that turn and defend on the opponent's turn. Keeping some Fighters in the backrow can allow them to Build more Towers, but also puts Soul Points at risk, and with only 60,000, this can be some major blows. 

The point of this has always been to draw from major card games, while also adding in unique spins and twists. Having created many fanmade Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, these definitely aren't hard to generate, but the thought of painting them and also playtesting seems impossible overall. For 60 cards in either player's Stack to draw from, and 9 different elements, this requires . . . well assuming 40 cards in a player's stack are elemental spells or Fighters . . . that would be 360, and then some type of element generic support cards, or staples, and finally the Tower Supplements themselves, getting to about 400 cards necessary in the initial set. Even subsequent sets would likely require tons of unique cards, except for two options: 

-Reduce number of elements. For instance, maybe Light, Lightning, and Fire can be paired together, or Lightning and Fire overall. Maybe Psychic and Darkness. Maybe water and ice can be paired together. 

-Screw some elements and make most monsters Dark like Yu-Gi-Oh! Actually, this is sorta how all games with element systems work overall. 

. . . Maybe element systems never were for cards.

But yeah, Towers will always appear in N:Era, or at least get some winks at points. In fact, there will be a new game between Cyras and a character named Vilit in "AAA'. 

 

 

 

When this comes to short stories, I have different names and terms internally. Saying internally is fun like being an actual studio, but basically . .. 

There's really four types of major short stories. 

There's what is known as internally the ".5"s. Like, Cycle 1.5 had "Message in a Bottle", "Liberty of Fangs". These are usually transitionary stories between the major novellas, but are still importants reads to get the flow of the story. 

Side Stories are less relevant. I want to say "oh these develop the cast", but really, they're more the essence of what N:Era was originally planned as. Something more slice-of-lives. But of these, there's basically the Spongebob and MLP. And what this refers to is really 

Spongebob: These are shorter stories more about a funny thought. Like, what if Ahmond says a Russian curse and Cyras and Lilu try to get her to teach them more, and that story is actually going to come out eventually. Everything was written a couple years back but never got published overall.

Quick ramble, but there's so many things I actually do develop but never fully publish. Actually, when I didn't have any good internet over a month or any water, I wrote a bunch of various pages of scripts for short stories. That actually brings the next category. And yes, I said MLP was next, but I lie a bunch.

Neopedias: Named after Neopets own short story showcase for their lores. These stories are stories about characters who live in the world of Wysdom or N:Era, but don't necessarily overlap with these character events. 

MLPs: These are more heartfelt. More longer stories that develop a single premise more thoroughly. These are like 22 minutes. 

In some cases I also call some the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Filler" wherein the plot is 22 minutes as well, but is more about a deeper or dramatic event. But I don't really define this that often, moreso that Yu-Gi-Oh and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have entirely different plot styles. 

I have a small docket full of the various short stories that are planned, and honestly haven't actually gone through this in a bit.  

 Like, there's one docket that's full of these various tags:  [Adventure][Quest][Normal][Light][Dark][Mystery][Comedy][Romance][Drama][Horror][With KIERAL the Scourge.] 

And you might be wondering, "What's with all these funky colors? Is there a disco story?" 

Well, actually, yes, but that's for "Underlife". However, this was because many of these were tags from Equestria Daily and their tags usually had some types of colors. Or maybe that was Fimfiction. Okay . . . yeah. Was Equestria Daily, basically. 

Beyond that, there's some physical papers with the actual notes. For short stories basically. But these stories end up being way, way less interesting in physical. Maybe because more letters can be put on one page in text, so paragraphs look way smaller than when written, where a similar paragraph of four lines might actually look like twelve or thirteen lines, and just look supermassive when you're trying to write a short story. 

For instance, one is about a bro gryphon who is going to college wherein his need to get to work is opposed repeatedly. Or one about a wolf who finds out his eyes generate flames. 

 

 

Oh yeah: Progress, nonexistent.  

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Update Chinese New Years

Update Chinese New Years

So there's a new story for Chinese New Years. Unfortunately, that story can't be posted right now, but there's still an entire month to go.

When creating a holiday story, there's a few things. Firstly, what does this holiday actually do for the setting? And in a world without such holidays, how to represent them. 

Halloween is easy because N:Era has plenty of natural horrors. However, Christmas is a lot harder, and therefore probably never coming back as well. Snofall giving out gifts year round or having special interest in certain pups who behave well seems in-character for such an omnipresent being. 

Honestly, Christmas is a genre by now. Ironically, Christmas could be filled with much more great movies, instead of movies for July. Wonder how that translates across the hemispheres, because, obviously, the point of Christmas in July is to get the warm feeling during the hottest months of the year, but in New Zealand where Summer is going into Autumn, Christmas is already hot . . . so the new influx of movies in the Winter coming from America must actually feel relatable really. 

Anyway, so, back to Chinese New Years . . . I don't really have any thoughts about this topic that deeply. I really started on this rant, but after several days, holidays can be backdrops or main events in a story. Since "Chinese New Year" can't really exist, this is more inspired by mythology, and if you can figure out what, that's great. 

 

 

 

For those who care about Soleus updates: 

There isn't much in terms of writing so much in terms of reordering. The focus now is to keep pushing on the thought of either Cyras or Owlis' fatal flaws. 

 

I just don't always have deep thoughts on all updates. 

Update 2/10: Cyras X Equiroth Story--Soleus, Soleus, Soleus

 So anyway @Regno-Works is currently doing his anniversary for his gryphons. And since I got the crossover soon, let's talk about that. 

For nearly five years, I've got N:Era.

Anyway, so our characters are meeting or crossing over, to fight against Light Menace, who is living in the Superior Heights. Cyras starts some shit and the two fight, but ironically Cyras is an actual divine being while Light probably fancies herself as worthy of divinity. Light Menace wants to protect a "Treasure In the Sky" that belongs to her. Cyras wants a way out, but isn't letting anyone get in her way. 

So with seven different major characters, there's no way to meaningfully represent them all in a 10,000 word novelette. There might be following novelettes, but so far only a sequel has been discussed, but three would make for a trilogy of the Cyras and the Gryphons of Equiroth series. 

This has been in talks for maybe a couple years now as nothing has to be rushed yet. 

But, main goal is, how to represent the right characters. And, the right choices for this entire plot about a Treasure In the Sky was the more fancy and flighty Windspeed and the more sensible and sensitive Hugo. A great importance is the theme of Friendship versus this attraction to Miracles. 

If you went with Robert McKee's theory, the positive is Friendship. The treasure represents the negative of Affectation to Higher Orders, trying to transcend above one's station in a meaningless way. To have accepted oneself is more what Hugo represents. He has no lofty ambitions or dreams.  

So you get Friendship, then the half-step of the negative is Pretentiousness. Affection. And finally, the sacrificing.

Well, while getting a new life is an investment, Light Menace wants that investment to get what is rightly hers. However, she has never actually opened that Treasure In the Sky. 

Now, while Regno-Works has written in his lore, there's plenty to add to for these purposes.We're introducing a race of Tuatara peoples, who are very much into prophecy and believe there will come a time where both Sun and Moon shine at same moment. 

Ironically this means there will be a part of the world that can't see anything for a few hours, lol.

This will have some drawings in the style of Greek Pottery Art. There are prophecy vibes, and chances are some references to Jason and the Argonauts.

While this was plotted before really getting into the Argonauts, that seemed quite appropriate in retrospect to fill the treasure with more elements of the "Golden Fleece", after all. Goulder and Cyras get something of a small fight. 

Cyras' adventures are about how she's already super loyal. Ironically, maybe if she actually thought about herself for once and what she wants, she might Ascend a bit.

Maybe after all, that is her Soleus. Thy Orisons, Ophelia, Ophelia, Ophelia-a-a, will update about Soleus next week at 2/17, Chinese Lunar New Year. 

Update 2/3 - How many OCs Presently

 

 The February 3rd update, released on February 11th.

Welp, nearly finished Krampus. 

 

How many characters do I have in actuality? Well, when people ask this, they really mean this question for OC creators. People who draw a character regularly, but don't usually have a real plot or storyline with them. 

However, having a storyline to follow, there's plenty of various side characters. For instance, the Pewtersmith in Glacialane who's main purpose is realizing the suffering of the peoples of Glacialane overall. In fact, he's one of many. 

But these aren't developed characters. Overall, I really classify the characters into four major groups: N:Era proper, N:Era Minor, Reoccurring characters, and jobbers. 

For instance, N:Era proper is Cyras, Rosod, Lilu, and Ahmond, with Owlis being somewhere between this group and N:Era minor, or characters who appear in each story but don't usually play a main or active role in them or don't appear in every single chapter. Characters such as Karv, Jazmyn, Owlis, Mosor, Vanos, Kyofi, Sumhyr, and Kryyk, or Maypol. 

Reoccurring characters refers to characters who appear in some stories and maybe even major elements. Such as Snofall, Wasting, Swillow, Clovur, or Portus. Someone like Karv is right above this list, where he appears in each story, but only acts as a named guard for Jazmyn. Same with Maypol who never lead a real plot. At lowest end of this list is probably someone like Baynana, who appears in like one different story and rarely again. These characters are free-drifters.

Then there's the jobbers. The first three are all developed characters. But the jobbers only have to give so much illusion they exist beyond the pages. 

I don't think of this as needless categorization. In fact, these lumpings are important to the process, even if admittedly I didn't lump them like this until just now for purposes of this article, lol. But, main characters should almost always have something going on, even if they aren't the main choice-makers. For instance, in Ascalon, Lilu has shit going on, but she still has a superplot that extends beyond that one novella, and this novella represents a step in her story for now. 

However, the N:Era Minor are more characters that are meant to fill the world and to be present as representations. Maypol represents Owlis mostly. Sure, she could be replaced by different guards, but having her named gives more a sense of a closed world, and if this ever got animated, this would definitely reduce amount of time doing designs. They enhance the characters they're usually around by acting as shooting points. Maypol is more angry than Owlis and less graceful.  

These characters do tend to have plot twists and get their own times in the limelight, such as Karv's near death scene in "Fangs of Liberty", or how Maypol works for Snofall. A character like Kryyk has major developments in terms of his masculinity. Then, Sumhyr is mostly a mystery who might be a maniac or insane maniac. 

Reoccurring characters are more about their mysteries. There's so much to Swillow or Wasting that won't be figured out. They still have developed backstories, but these backstories won't be fully unraveled.  

Alternatively, they're mostly about one-note events. Or repeats in harmony. Clovur and Cyras both have loss of mothers. 

 However, in some way, Jobbers are the hardest because they have to push the plot forth while still having reasonable motivations. Why would the pewtersmith assist Team N:Era. Why is Orch assisting? Why is Daybreak acting awry or like a dudebro. 

Jobbers go from Villain of the Day worthy with Daybreak being fairly high as he's the main antagonist for "Where We Lie", to the crimson ladies who smile as the flood occurs. They exist because they exist, they exist because old women smile during accidents. 

There's also some reoccuring jobbers, like characters who appear a couple of times but don't really have any important roles, or the Incidentals as Spongebob says. They might not even have a truly set personality. After all, random joe schmoe's can seem to have very different personalities at different points. This is less obvious since N:Era isn't typically visual.

Oh, right, how many characters?

Well, I guess this varies by what counts. Like, what point do the jobbers count as characters? IMO, all of them do, but I don't feel a deep link or attachment to everyone at all. Yeah, sure, I COULD give each character, even the most minor deep-seated traumas, insecurities, great virtues, and heroic prestiges. But, why? 

I think that'll be funny if I reveal someone like Raynfall is a major villain despite just being a foreign dignitary in "Where We Lie". Oh. Wait.

 

 I just realized this doesn't really update anything . . . Yeah.

 

 

Update 1/26 New comic? and "Soleus" part 2

My toilet got drunk and vomited. Yeah. Few days later, the toilet did that again. 

 

So for the weekly update on 1/26/26, posted on 1/29/26.  

  

 So, with such a poem, there is one thing: Lack of simplicity, lol.

Like, the themes being addressed so far are: 

-Cyras' hesitation (this being her "soleus"). 

-The moral failures of Owlis. 

-Cyras dislike of heroes. 

-Ophelia.

 

So let's go down each of these more deeply. 

 

Cyras' Soleus: Cyras' major flaw, at least by her standards, has become hesitation, her fear. She's done many things, but none are bringing her closer because she keeps wanting truth on her terms versus getting truth on someone else's. Snofall and Owlis aren't trustworthy sources, but is going into the catacomb for a fallen nation really her best chances? 

Owlis' failures: 

Obviously, her phrasing herself as non-suicidal is a way to absolve herself. I think she'd find herself innocent like Ophelia, wherein her family members are fighting. But in reality, she's literally got the major flaw of Hamlet. I imagine her going full Dark Karma while carrying the skull of [THE GAMEMASTER], (if I remember, I will update this with the character by the time the story is released, lol). 

Heroes 

Cyras hates how everyone wants what they want as "best for her". 

Ophelia: 

The victimization, or the innocents hurt. 

 

Fire is also meant to be a motif throughout. Like a city burning. Cyras used her fire early on in story as a boost and now this becomes her main attacks.

 Unfortunately, these are all pretty big themes, all that could probably have their own poem. I might have to cut some of these though. 

 

 

 

 

 Well, anyway, I experimented with better lines, put in (). 

 

To be or not to be never was the question. 

(Admire my fire's light, for yours flickers to end)

For who are you to question my flame when yours ends?

(And even with no crisis of faith in myself) 

I was in lack of crisis for the faith in myself 

(Quaint "heroes" rescue to profit for theirselves.) 

(I question "heroes" who profit for theirselves )

I question rescue from heroes who want for theirself.

Who saves the damsel from the savior's evil? 

(She drowns by the visions of fallen brethren.) 

Who drowns by the visions of fallen siblings

(Ophelia, ophelia, ophelia-a-a-a. 

 

None of these lines are final, still. Next verse, same as the first.

 

 (Are arrows nobler self-inflicted, slings prettier)

Are arrows noble, slings so great, self-inflicted 

Than fortune's seas of troubles, wanting call for ends

Refusing sleep and dream, odd sight to see by now 

The visions rising death, men still dancing to song  

Paradise's pointless when you see who's clamoring

Yet Earth is struggling, hatefully with cynicism 

 

The thing is, referencing Hamlet isn't always easy, especially when in a different meter than he was. However, new throwback to Ancient Mariner with "odd sight", "visions rising". 

I didn't really care for the end part of "hatefully with cynicism", and I wouldn't even show that at all if I wasn't doing progress reports. 

 

 And hell, for fun, here's more versions:

 

Are arrows and slings more noble when self-inflicted

Than fortune's seas of troubles demand an end 

But I refuse to dream, about a new paradise

When I see the people who will meet me then 

What is the point of paradise when I want to go away

But the struggle of earth is also a fault.  

 

Are arrows noble, slings graceful self-inflicted 

Than fortune's seas of troubles calling for an end 

But I refuse to dream, chance to shuffle away 

The wounds are wounds, and blood is colored the same way. 

 

 There's never really a shortage of attempts at writing. As a small writing lesson: Oftentimes first thoughts are the most cliche, so you really need to grind the stones.

 

 This last part is definitely completely getting tossed out, and is only a placeholder for rhythm:

 

We rummaged

and scrummaged 

with nothing to show 

and we went so low

And what we unleashed from the ground

and from what was within us . . . 

 

I see the burning men and cities, wishing for justice

Never acknowledging their own illusions of heroism

Only generated by mirages of their own propaganda paradises. 

 Who saves the hero at the end of fairytales

Who saves the hero from the savior's evil? 

Who hesitates by the visions of fallen fathers

 

 The first stanza is meant to give off the impression of energy or almost speech to the emptiness. She isn't really going to be telling anyone (even though in this play she's telling everyone), so much as Cyras is rhetoricizing herself, and the fallen men. 

 

NEW COMIC!? 

AlienLizard123 and I are co-writing a comic of sorts! Or "Magazine" as I say, about our characters meeting. I'm not entirely sure how far we'll get, but I will try to post some storyboards next week.

 https://www.deviantart.com/alienlizard123/art/Space-Foxes-1200483535 his official characters list. 

Yup. Cyras at the Edge of the world of peoples and into the Violetspheres. Comic planned to be 22 pages. Still scripting. 

And yes, Cyras is totally eating them out of house and home, obviously. She fuels her fire in some type of way. 

 

How to end these articles, hm, 

 https://www.deviantart.com/saviorfoxowlis/journal/N-Era-Play-Story-Update-1-19-Soleus-1289044486

https://www.deviantart.com/saviorfoxowlis/journal/N-Era-Play-Story-Update-1-19-Soleus-1289044486https://www.deviantart.com/saviorfoxowlis/journal/N-Era-Play-Story-Update-1-19-Soleus-1289044486 here's the previous part.

N:Era "Play Story" Update 1/19 Soleus

 Random Progress Report: 

 

I know that this isn't really time to be talking about the "Play" story. That might not even come out this year. But this opening poem is pretty important. And I wanted to give progress updates to make this seem like I was doing work, okay.

 

So, in story, Cyras is doing this in a play wherein she's playing a character who is singing this to Empress Owlis, but fun fact! She's also literally singing this to Empress Owlis who is watching the play about her own self. But, funner fact: 

So in N:Era, insofar, all the main villains have one thing as a shared trait: Their love for Cyras. Cyras is in severe danger of this unfathomable love of all these villains, from her father Reynard. To Echo who wishes to serve her. Or Kryyk who lives in spite of her. So this is Cyras' anti-love song or "GET THE FUCK AWAY". 

 The song so far takes two different major inspirations. So, the song takes inspiration from "Fire" by Illium. I didn't even know that the song was called Fire at first, but the image of Fire was super important to how I pictured this part. I just found out about Fire as a song like, three days ago, probably 1/16th. This should be out on 1/18th. (1/19th actually, lol.)

 https://youtu.be/VEuk3jnGi58?si=SjdIQrkquFirRsMp

But the next inspiration is Going Under by Evanescence, "Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself."

However, here's the opening lines. 

 

 Split Soleus Operatic Faculty OF TRAGEDY

(To be or not to be never was the question. 

And who are you to deny my flame when yours ends?

I was in lack of crisis of the faith in myself 

I question rescue from heroes who want for theirself.

Who saves the damsel from the savior's evil? 

Who drowns by the visions of fallen siblings

(Ophelia, ophelia, ophelia-a-a-a. ) 

 

 The Ophelia part isn't canonically part of this. This is just something I sing mildly to get the cadence, so I can get back into the song if a different song enters. (Though tbh now I sing to cadence of "No Longer You" in Epic: The Musical. Specifically: "I see your palace, covered in red." Doesn't match perfectly so have to enlengthen the note, so like 

To be/or not to be/never was the/question

I see/your palace/ covered in/red. 

 

You can see the opening line was a reference to Hamlet. And the final line in this first stanza is how "Fire" ends with a sorta eerie note of who is being talked to. "The one your gift of prophecy creates". And I wanted to replicate that feel, like, "wait, I know who she's talking about." And so I wanted this first stanza to end with a twist. However, this isn't about who she's talking to, as much as who she's talking about, and this "Ophelia" is everyone being harmed that Cyras' hesitation is preventing her saving. Same as how Hamlet's hesitation is what ended up murdering Polonius and ended up with Ophelia falling in a river. And you can get a sense of vagueness on how direct that is, because no one knows why Ophelia really dies.

One of the keywords here is Fire, as the theme or feeling of burning is very important in this arc, and the background of the novel for official art may even be red or black, like fire and smoke and mirrors.  

So a major theme is Cyras's own accountability. The line of "don't want your hand this time" gets turned into "I question rescue . ..  who saves the damsel . . . " This relates to the evil of trying to save her, because no one is saving Cyras the Cyras, they're trying to save Cyras the Princess, Cyras the symbolism of Owlis' failure to stop Sumhyr, Cyras the symbol of Kryyk's hatred of women, Cyras the daughter. No one wants to save Cyras for what she wants saved, but only what they can tap from her. So the middle actually references the Watchguard, or: Who watches the watcher?

As the Ethereal King said: The structures and Laws of good people are used by evil people as yokes. Who saves peoples from saviors when those saviors are corrupt.  

Anyway, yeah, this is current progress report. Uh, go ahead and give your thoughts. Do you think any lines are janky or mixed up, you think the symbolism makes sense or no. 

Don't have any official ending, so, give your thoughts and get a life, scumbag.

 

2026 Plans

I don't post nearly at all this entire year. Long story short: I lost my house, ended up living in a place without running water or any regular internet for a month, ended up living in a place with undrinkable water and no AC and three people who might genuinely be psychotic, lost friends, and lost a cat, and became a local cryptid as well. 

However, I found out I qualified for food stamps and I was like, "I thought that was for people in a really bad situation." 

Uncle Sam: "Yeah."

Also, got a new cat. Not as replacement, my trailermate found her in a car.

I always figured if I had nothing else to do but write I'd write all day. I didn't.  

So yeah. 

Next for N:Era though:  

This Winter season will have Sands of Ascalon, the Special that has been meant to come out throughout this year. 

Spring will have the next parts of Owlis FOD, or the Apelpisia arc.

This will mostly be about Owlis' first attempts at building civilization. What I will announce is that this will be done in a "Block". 

 

What Is a Block? 

 A block will be how I release Owlis: FOD for the next format. Going as such: 

Six - eight parts will be released at first, forming the beginning of the arc. Then there will be two more releases of a few more parts, most likely four according to the outlines. 

Release 0.0 of Owlis FOD is obviously the Apelpisia Arc. 

 

 

 

In Summer 

This will begin "Apotheosis, Academy, and Alchemy" novella of N:Era (name pending).

 

Teaser: 

(All Teasers are not final and may depict parts that don't end up in final product. Parts that do show up may be edited significantly.) 

[Rosod's last thought before the tower fell on her was her friends. Then she fell into darkness. On that mountain, she was reborn, and she saw Cyras standing in front of Sumhyr? She had never seen Sumhyr except in old pictures. 

Sumhyr was laying, looking like she was dying. "Cyras . . . Cyras!" 

"I'm right here." The red fox sat, almost kneeling. Ryvoh watched in the distance, and didn't acknowledge Rosod's presence. Cyras was quite a bit younger than Rosod remembered her.
 

Rosod reached for Cyras. This all must have been a dream.
 

Then, from the ground, thousands of skulls emerged, forcing Rosod to reel back. They rose into the sky like a great formless fog, creating a fierce whooshing, wind rushing towards them. Rosod's fur swirled in the vacuum, watching in horror as they all turned to Cyras.
 

Cyras instinctively stepped over Sumhyr's prone form.
 

The ten-thousand skulls spoke, every one with a different voice. 
 

"Sumhyr, Sumhyr, please, you have to stop the tyrant Owlis!" 
 

"Fight on, Queen Sumhyr. Take up your birthright."
 

"Who will save us if you don't rise?" 
 

In unison, they chanted, "Save us, save us, save us, save us!" The noises were so loud, Rosod couldn't even hear her own thoughts for a moment and fell into the bitter cold of the snow. 
 

In response, Sumhyr began to rise, the sweat pouring down from her, until Cyras argued at her, "No. You can't keep fighting." Sumhyr tenderly glanced at Cyras while panting. 
 

Flames surrounded Cyras as she faced the spirits in her mother's stead. Her eyes were narrow, her expression fierce, as she faced the endless spirits.
 

"You will never harm her again." Cyras told them all, "From now on, Sumhyr is all mine." 
 

"Selfish!" 
 

"Give us back Sumhyr!" 
 

"She is all ours . . . " 

 

The skulls in their chanting floated towards Cyras. 

 

Rosod reached out as she went towards the fox. "Cyras! Cyras!" There was no way to get to her in time before the skulls turned into ten-thousand threads, and--

 

 

Cyras' eyes widened. 
 

Her tail flapped like in the sky.
 

Endless cables emerged/sprouted from Cyras, rushing towards Sumhyr, but from Cyras eight new tails grew, each aflame, each catching the cables. "All of you can go to hell." 
 

The tails glowed yellow. "I will damn everyone who wants to harm her," Cyras said maliciously as ten-thousand souls howled in harmonious pain.
 

"Cyras! Sumhyr!" 
 

Rosod fell through the snow and she could've sworn she saw the dragon known as Silence swimming around, a giant black sea dragon. "You can save her." Wait, this voice was masculine. Who was this, then? "But the only question is, are you ever going to be allowed inside this fortress? Can you possibly bear all of this weight? Why were you reborn?" Then, the dragon reached for her chest . . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyras kept shaking Rosod, forcing the otter girl awake. "We're gonna go meet with the teachers now. You miiight wanna make a better first impression."

Cyras' voice was high-pitched, nasally, and usually slightly annoying, and her sarcasm didn't help matters much. And yet, instead, Rosod focused more on the warmth and playfulness of her tone. 
Rosod doubled over, groaning. She tried to separate reality from fantasy, dream from truth.  

"You planning to be a while?" Cyras joked. "Or does seasickness even affect aquatic animals?"
 

Rosod rolled her eyes. "Just give me time."

Cyras laughed and shut the door to her cabin, while Rosod wasn't entirely sure how she felt about the fox. Yet, every negative thought for Cyras was about her safety.]

 

In Triple AAA (Name Pending): Rosod and Cyras will end up going to a Luxworth university where Rosod's family members are, however one of them is actually being framed for academic dishonesty, meanwhile she has a bad relationship with her eldest sister Rosetta. 

This story will resume the storyline of Rosod and Cyras' relationship and their feelings of antagonism and rivalry, but also their feelings of purpose and mutual trust, as they navigate through this academy, and both start to develop an even deeper bond through the strife of this university. 

We'll also see the comeback of the character Clovur after she was taken by N:Era in "Tunnels Under Wysdom". What knowledge will she bring, is unknown. However, this also adds in alchemy. 

This is basically a parody of Murder Mystery where instead academic careers are threatened by folly. Who will be the "murderer". 

 

Spotlights:  

 Rosetta: Rosetta is the eldest sibling of Rosod's family, and is almost perfect in every facet. Having had the best grades throughout her life, being a volunteer for school bake sales, being the president of class, and valedictorian, there is almost no stains. But is that because she washed them away really well or hidden them away? A personality based on being perfect is also a lack of personality, with a doubt as to her actual truthfulness. 

99: 99 is a new Crimson character. Bound in a wheelchair for most of her life and suffering from biocrack, she makes the best of her own life and attends classes whenever her health permits. However, what is she looking for in biology? And what kinds of cures is she looking for, and what kinds of curses will she take upon herself.

 

 

 

Meanwhile this starts the first Crossover with @Regno-Works known as "Cyras and the Gryphons of Equiroth".

 

 

Summary: 

A mysterious fox from a different world appears in the land of Equiroth and fights against five gryphons. However, she brings news of a treasure in the sky belonging to a gryphon of light. Cyras reveals where this treasure fell and finds out some link to her mother who vanished long ago. However, one of the gryphons, Windspeed, also falls in love with the allure of this treasure, this miraculous power that apparently can do anything to whoever unlocks the golden casing. But how much is one willing to sacrifice for the power of miracles, and how much is a miracle even worth in such sorrowful times? Cyras will get her revenge on the Gryphon of Light named Light Menace, and she will get back home to her friends. 

 

Spotlights: 

 Windspeed: Windspeed is a dramatic and witty type of gryphon, but known for his extreme quickness. Haunted on some level by his own cowardice, he has many things to show up for.

 https://www.deviantart.com/regno-works/art/Windspeed-the-Gryphon-958615931

https://www.deviantart.com/regno-works/art/Windspeed-the-Gryphon-958615931https://www.deviantart.com/regno-works/art/Windspeed-the-Gryphon-958615931 

Hugo: Autistic and shy, Hugo isn't really known for being upfront. However, he is still known for a type of internal resource that makes one still save a friend that's going down a dark or too bright path.  

 https://www.deviantart.com/regno-works/art/Hugo-the-Gryphon-952371623

Release 0.1. of Owlis FOD will come out known as "Eerie Springs of Aplepsis."  

 

 Autumn

 

If everything permits, then Autumn might be novella nine. However, the new novellettes or short story longs will be the unwritten Rosaberg story. 

And then East Glacialane story. 

Release 0.2., of Owlis FOD will come out, known as "The Battle for Utopia!"  

While I doubt this, if somehow there is time, we'll see the start of Novella 9 of N:Era. 

 

For Halloween, we will get two different short stories. Owlis: FOD will get "Murders of the Blood Mansion", unveiling BLOOD MAGIC. 

And for N:Era, we will get a reference parody to Poe of Edgar Allen. What is Cyras' hatred towards a wealthy aristocrat? Dangerous, you might say. 

 

Winter

There will be no major releases for Winter, and this will be to round up everything.  

 

Unknown Releases 

 What might be released is unknown.

 

This is a bit of a stretch to write 82,000 words and publish them.  

 

One thought is that N:Era might be getting a couple more stories. The current plan for the Endgame/final two is "Beginning of the End (name pending)" and "Call of the End (name pending)". 

For a year or so now there's been a growing urge to split Cycle 2 into, well, 2 cycles. AAA will be the end of Cycle 2, with Cycle 3 carrying on the torch. The fight for Call of the End part 8 will be Reynard and Kryyk versus Rosod and Cyras.