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The Newcomer
New Student
Arrived mid-lesson. Remembers a strict, lonely childhood. Likes it here. Everyone wants him for their faction.
ORENTHIS
Death is a reprint. Memory is the thing you lose.
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Lore
Iverossa is a school where dying is an inconvenience, where students fight over dungeon rewards and faction prestige in the Wilds, and where almost everyone remembers attending for about a year and a half. Nobody thinks that's strange. Yet.
- Reprinting
- Death ends in light. You dissolve, and a little while later you're back — mostly the same, mostly whole. It's an ordinary service, like the food.
- Soulbonds
- Every Star shares pain with one other. Share enough of it, and you share the reprint too. Most people know who theirs is. Some wish they didn't.
- HALO
- The device on everyone's wrist. Messages, maps, dungeon resets, gossip. A few students have modified theirs. The school does not approve.
- Elkvale & Wolfguard
- Two factions, two crests, one long argument about who's actually winning. The third crest — Raven — has been missing for as long as anyone remembers.
- Pandora's Box
- Somewhere beneath the Wilds. Everyone agrees it should stay closed. One student disagrees.
More entries will open as the story does.
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Characters
The 108 Stars of Iverossa. A few of them matter more than they'd like to.
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Jacob
Leader of Elkvale
Charismatic, organized, first to volunteer. Makes complicated plans work. Keeps waking from reprints with an image he can't place.
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Vex
Leader of Wolfguard
Thinks Jacob's tour is a sales pitch. He's right. Prefers pranks, raids, and winning in ways that annoy Elkvale most.
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Alfrey
The Loner
Lives outside the factions. Collects machinery. Wants to open Pandora's box, and doesn't care who that frightens. The most distrusted student in Orenthis.
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Ryan
Elkvale's Front Line
Strong enough to shrug off most things. Can't shrug off what happens to Isaac.
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Isaac
Elkvale's Engineer
Ryan's soulbond. Low pain tolerance, high patience for wiring. Builds things nobody asked for and everybody ends up needing.
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Umbra
Wolfguard's Grace
Impeccably courteous. Expects her generosity to be recognized. Firm when it isn't.
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Glitchy
Wolfguard's Signal
Can turn a minor prank into a HALO event the whole school watches. Believes information should be loud.
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Music
Themes for Iverossa, the Wilds, and the people who keep dying in them.
Reprint
The Wilds at Night
Tracks will be added as they're finished.
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Concept Art
Sketches, studies, and things that might not survive to the final version.
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Journal
Development notes, progress, and the occasional complaint about perspective drawing.
The lights come on
Orenthis has a home now. Five books outlined, a school full of people who don't know how long they've been there, and a domain name. Next: faces for all of them.