#outcast shadows

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Pseudo-Title Tag Game

So @mvcreates created a tag game where you explain your WIP’s chapter titles in as much or as little detail as you want. I did it wrong for my first book, where I just gave a vague synopsis of each chapter, but I liked doing that, so here it is again, for Outcast Shadows: The Styx Trilogy Book 2:

Prologue

In which a few students do black magic

Chapter 1: Chaos is Calculated 

In which Delilah, Bostwick, and Emmaline are confronted with the horrors of bureaucracy

Chapter 2: Awake in Chiaroscuro 

In which Millicent meets a forgetful memory merchant 

Chapter 3: A Hick from Styx 

In which Emmaline plays politics, and wins

Chapter 4: Lesse’s Moor 

In which Delilah procures an airship, and Emmaline names it

Chapter 5: Keeping Up Appearances 

In which Millicent no longer has green hair

Chapter 6: Shadow and Light 

In which Sebastian learns geography, discusses bioethics, and gets a new coat

Chapter 7: The Goblin Avalanche 

In which Dolly singlehandedly causes one in a long line of avalanches

Chapter 8: Shadow Crisis 

In which Millicent and Misha figure a few things out

Chapter 9: Love Potions and Soliloquies  

In which Bostwick consumes a love potion, with hilarious results

Chapter 10: Scales and Archipelagos 

In which an immortal beast makes a bargain

Chapter 11: Light and Shadow 

In which everything is awful all at once

Chapter 12: Last Request 

In which Sebastian feels bad about himself, and Millicent runs away

Chapter 13: Unexpected Reunions 

In which we once again meet a tea inspector, a door-to-door magician, and a clumsy goat girl

Chapter 14: That Way. This Way. Which Way? Here.

In which there is almost a love confession

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I tag whoever wants to play! You can play it the real way or my way (or both!)

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Light & Shadow

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Styx Chibis!!! (The Goblins)

Here are some more chibis made with https://picrew.me/image_maker/9889), of my characters.

Delilah Glossolalia of Styx, the mad goblin queen who rules with capricious whim. Her hair should be spikier and her eyes should have slit pupils, but c'est la vie.

Sebastian, the beautiful white-haired dude with a mysterious past. Because every story needs at least one.

Alcea, another mysterious shadow goblin. The mark over her eye should be darker and lower and diamond shaped. I’m not sure if I ever say she has heterochromia, but I think it would be cool if she did.

If you’re interested, check out my book, Miscast Spells :3

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This is a good book and you should all read it (but read Miscast Spells first).

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World Building: Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro (pronounced cure-ah-scure-o) is a small city built of black and white stone and occupied by a similarly monochromatic populace. Most of the citizens are hatched, live, and die without ever leaving, but because they depend entirely on materials and comestibles from “outside”, there are select individuals who are allowed out into the world. These include farmers, miners, procurers of technology, engineers, and memory merchants.

The Empyreal Palace is both the tallest and largest building in the city, supported by numerous flying and unflying buttresses. The main body of the palace is comprised of many family-sized apartments that form the outer walls, all surrounding an open atrium. Though most of the building is hollow, the northernmost section’s lower levels are more densely packed, but many of the walls between rooms are wooden rather than stone in order to reduce excess weight. Special rooms in the palace include the Council Chamber, Document Chamber, Theater, Library, and Bath House (the water of which is magically procured and replenished).

Though most Chiaroscurans originally lived in the palace, the gradual increase in population led to a need for more living quarters, as well as a larger variety of restaurants, workshops, and stores. Due to certain restrictions on the city limits, however, the citizenry quickly realized that it would be better to build up and not out. Thus, numerous multistory buildings were constructed under, around, and occasionally on the flying buttresses, as well as up against the walls of the palace. The various levels of the city are accessed by bridge-like walkways and winding stairs.

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