Dreams of the Quill

If you have not read any Tundra of Heroes before, check this post out anyway. This new writing stands on its own, though it benefits from a reading of previous material. Be sure to read the release notes before the chapter, even if you’re familiar with Tundra of Heroes! Happy Halloween!

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Hey there. It’s been a long time since the last Sunday Update.

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I just out and rewrote the “meh/awful” prologue of Tundra of Heroes. It’s needed it from the beginning really due to quality things, but then there’s also that I did some research and found that the so-called tundra the speaker described couldn’t possibly be a tundra.

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Thanks to *SPOILERS*, I have finally got a good direction for Tundra of Heroes, an old project I started back in 2005. I have a more or less completely outlined plot from which to work and I know what I want to cut from the old experiment and what I want to add. So, I’m doing a resurrection.

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(For the impatient, the link is at the top of the post. See it?)
HC: Book One, Crystals of Mana - Chapter One

Well folks, on July second, I hinted at having some content that would interest people from the war3forums, “if only because war3forumers were the first to whom related content were exposed.” Well, if you’re one of those coolcats, you would know that the first place I ever exposed the Hunter Chronicles at was, in fact, war3.net. Even more specifically, it was exposed at the behest of KingCrazyGenius.

I’ve been working on this new content since around May, on and off, touching things up here and polishing others up there. Stacking up and cutting down. Some time and effort in, and I think that we’re well on our way to having a version of the Hunter Chronicles that will reach completion on dotq.org. Basically, I’m rewriting it, scrapping all previously written material. The background and world are the same, the characters are the same, and the progression should be more or less the same, but the new version is not merely a series of revisions. It’s a full rewrite. It should stand on its own without previous HC-related knowledge. It should work on its own without perusing the nineteen chapters of the previous Crystals of Mana that are on this site.

If it doesn’t, that’s a problem that should be addressed in the comments, just like any grammatical error you happen to come across and dislike. Please, this is not a final work. I’m proofing as much as I can, but there’s only so much I can read into my own writing. If you come across a mistake, please notify me of it.

So, please take a peek at this new chapter, and if it interests you, stay with me as I post chapters over time in the future. Give me feedback if possible, but if you just read it and enjoy it that’s grea too. Keep in mind that HC has always been and will always be my most extensive work, even moreso as versions accumulate and overlap and obsolete eachother. Works like For the Pen simply don’t have the depth that comes from having more than 200 pages previously written on the same happenings in the same world. If you like reading big things, you’ll enjoy HC. It is big and it will only get bigger.

Ah, and thanks to GheoFabulousDuk and Alar for some light proofreading on this first chapter.

Notes on this chapter: for the confused, this chapter starts us off with Gem as a twenty year old in Verga City, around the time of chapter 9 in the previous Crystals of Mana. We’re skipping the first seven chapters of the previous COM (they might reappear in flashbacks later on) and what was chapter 8 (Mana and Julien’s departure from the Mana Palace) will still occur, just… next chapter, not now.