#Mystryal

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Looking for something new to read? Something in Fantasy? Perhaps some detectives story? Both? Looking for a Vengeful Fire Demon causing havoc? Or, do you simply want a new world to explore? Are you here for the character interactions, and the relationships they build?

Then may I recommend to you MYSTRYAL, a world almost certainly to be unlike anything you’ve ever encountered before. Secreted off in a tiny pocketed bubble of the Universe, there lies a tiny world shattered by a long distant war between a Fire Demon, KYIAHLNAH, and the Creators who made this planet their refuge. Following this Cataclysmic War, the Pathfinder, HECATE, created a Detective Agency and Academy to train those who would keep peace across the world from those seeking to do others harm. Centuries have passed since then, and this Detective Agency, MYSTRYAL, has kept the balance of the world intact... until now. The year is 1618 A.C. (After Cataclysm), and with the threat of Kyiahlnah’s imminent return looming on the horizon, it falls upon an unlikely gathering of people to save the world, all while trying to maintain order and bring justice against those who commit the most foul of crimes.

MYSTRYAL is a Fantasy/Mystery/Detective Novel Series, written by CALUM TRAVELER, Currently being published in the web-novel format on the “mystryalnovel” Wordpress website.

Mystryal is rated “M” for “Audiences Mature Enough to enjoy shows like Bones, Castle, Elementary, or A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

TWO (2) CHAPTERS from each currently updating novel go live every WEDNESDAY MORNING.

With Six Books already in various stages of completion, with a seventh currently in the drafting stage, this series is showing no signs of stopping any time soon.

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they’d swapped clothes like the adorable girlfriends they are.

This is Kiiindof a spoiler since Faye isn’t even introduced into Mystryal proper yet, but what the hell, it’s Pride month! (I should probably make some kind of shipping wall post for the various characters soonish.)

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Hergie

The Matron of Thieves; Observer of Luck; That One Cat.

Most Mortals know little of she who created the Lucky Cat’s Guild, and that’s just how she likes it. Only her Kittens know of her, and interact with her regularly. Only certain people who are not her Kittens know how to contact her directly.

Hergie observes the flow of Luck within the world. And although she is known to those who know her as a Thief and a Cat… she is somehow Lovers with Hecate, Mystryal’s creator and Patron, and considers herself their other half.

Little is known about how she came to stand by the Creator’s side, except that it was through a trial by fire.

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MYSTRYAL BOOK 1 COVER TEST RENDERS.

I did some new cover test renders. give me your thoughts tell me which you like best! (they’re numbered!) (Click for full view subtitles?)

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or did I? H3H3H3H3H3H3

Callout post

@beepbeep-jerrythejeep at least i dont kill off my main character -waffles

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BAH. EXPOSITION

And book 7 was chugging along so nicely too >_> Danged chapter 8.

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Yaovi – The Reaper in Green.

She who deals in Death and Rebirth. The Reaper who takes souls, and reincarnates them into new lives. Yaovi is the most well known of the Creators, preferring not to hide herself or her job, and presides over her realm in an otherwise normal mansion on Green Skull Island. She, like Hecate, can be summoned or contacted with a well known circle and symbol-set.

That said, Yaovi seems to take a peculiar pride in being as confusing as possible at times. Even her fellow Ascendants can never be entirely sure whether she knows more than she’s letting on, or if she has some plan hidden away, waiting to be sprung…. or worse, that she has no idea what’s going on and is struggling to maintain an air of control.

I’ll admit I went a bit too detail crazy on this one. It’s somewhere between a fusion of the Evangelion Plug Suits and the Power Rangers 2017 movie ranger suits.

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Tsukia Tsubaki

Drow – Female. Age 16. Birth date unknown.

(Adopted) Daughter of the murdered Shirou and Matoi Tsubaki. A friend of Miri’s who doesn’t quite seem to know what’s going on.

Feels very tired after everything that just happened regarding her adoptive parents, and her very recent bodily possession. Were she awake to appreciate it, she would be thankful that her Drow physiology reacts instinctively to danger.

Short hair version here for the moment- even though this sheet probably wont even go up on the main site until book 5 LOL.

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She threw the door open and ducked inside, slamming it closed behind her even as an ice spike crashed into the real door that the mystical portal had been overlaid ontop of.

For a few precious moments, the girl breathed in and out to settle her breath, then relaxed. “Fucking Hell, Alcor, Mizar, and every single one of you... What is it with these people and 'kill first, ask questions later'!?” --Mystryal Book 5,  Chapter: “Alarm 2″

If you see this, post the last three lines you’ve written.

Some way to stop seeing bowler hats or glowing cigarette butts from the corners of his eye. Sometimes he swore he could smell them, unwashed bodies muted with mud, a godawful stench really, but his godawful stench. His men.

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Elizabeth “Lizzy” Smith

Spriggain – Female. Age 17. Born Dec 4th, 1600.

Elizabeth Smith is a student with a strange proficiency towards Enchantments… specifically the deconstruction and analysis there of.

Cast page going up shortly.

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The Reaper’s Assistant.

Though the face and gender changes over the years, a person standing at the Reaper’s side has been a mainstay part of Yaovi’s lore since the Cataclysm War. Nobody is quite sure if it’s the same person reincarnated time and time again, or if they are someone new, but regardless, they are there, and present, even if you could be forgiven for ignoring their presence in the background.

Currently, the role of the Assistant is taken up by:

CAH’LE

Human, Female. Age Unknown, but theorized to be somewhere in the 11-15 range.

Not much is known about this youngster’s origins, but like many of the previous Assistants, she is suspected to be an Orphan, or a child who has run away from home, called to something she likely does not yet understand.

Like most of the Reaper’s more recent Assistants, Cah’le is a young child who seems strangely more competent than her age would let on. At times, observers have noted she seems to struggle with maintaining the powers Yaovi teaches her to harness, yet always powers through the problem with a determined willpower that seems otherworldly.

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Kendal Kaie

Formerly Human/Pyromander, Now Lycan, Fox Type. – Female. Age 17. Born November 11th, 1600.

Detective Kaie’s daughter. Born to a Pyromander mother, Kendal would have eventually lost her human D.N.A. to the overwriting the Fire Magic naturally uses. However, due to circumstances involving a certain Demon Princess, an interrupted Summoning Ritual, and her father’s arm being cut off- the natural parts of the Magic that would have transitioned Kendal from Human to Pyromander safely were disrupted. If a cure to this disastrous change of events was not found before the Pyromander Magic begins its final transitional state, Kendal would have almost certainly died as the Fire consumed everything- even itself.

However, in a startling turn of events, Kendal survived both an Assassination *and* the overloading of her Fire Magic thanks to a last minute application of Lycanthropy. She is now a Lycan of the rare Fox type subspecies, and the Fire Magic which once almost certainly was her death warrant has been minimized to a containable level and has been sealed away.

Now, with a new lease on life, Kendal’s future is suddenly wide open and waiting to be written.

More pics and human form coming tomorrow. I ran out of time to fix an art error. >_<;

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Spoiler Alert: Mystryal Book 6 plot announcement... wait, no, wasn’t that Book 2? Shit, am I reusing plot lines already?

You’re more likely to get murdered in your own home in the next 30 minutes than win the lottery

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Two recurring characters from the Mystryal Novels, as they appear in Book 1:

Miri and Tony Nori, twin Lycan siblings. Here’s a Fun fact about Lycan Twins! While single child Lycans have alternating claw/eye colors, typically of Blue and Red in either order. twin born Lycans share a single eye color (In this case gold) and instead split the traditional claw/eye colors to one child or the other.

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Tyler “Bones” Obonz

Dragon- Male. Age 20. Born Oct 10th, 1592 A.C.

A Third + One year Student of the Mystryal Academy, and a soon-to-be graduated Coroner. Tyler Obonz prefers to be in a cold lab most of the time, dealing with dead bodies rather than living beings. Hates field work, but finds himself drawn into situations a coroner just should not be involved in with a frightening frequency.

Hates the nickname “Bones,” though he’ll tolerate it from certain people. Occasionally, he’ll reveal a hidden sarcastic side that he usually keeps bottled away, usually only around people he trusts, of which there are few.

If there’s one thing Tyler is wary of when continuing his current line of study, it’s the possibility of doing things that fall outside of the narrow definition of “Coroner.” That said, if someone upsets one of the few people he cares about, he will not hesitate to get revenge.

Annnd that’s Tyler up... I definitely used the wrong base model for him. He came out a *biiit* too muscly imho, but, oh well.... Crap. Did I just seriously forget to color in the belt buckle?? *DAMN IT* >_<;

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Chief Nahgi Llewellyn

Lamia – Female. Age 32. Born September 24th, 1585.

The Recently Sworn in Chief of the Mystryal Detective Agency. Though only at the job for a year now, the competency levels shown in her outstanding Detective Work continue to prove why she was chosen for the job in the first place.

As Nahgi Llewellyn and Ranagi Kaie were dating since well before she was given the job, they have to act professional when on duty. It’s a tough mask to maintain, so how they act when off duty is another story entirely, leading to (Not-So-)Subtle Teasing from their close friends.

Nahgi Llewellyn didn’t have the greatest relationship with her father, something that pushes her to try and help Ranagi raise Kendal as best as they can.

Voila, Chief Llewellyn done. Cast page going up shortly,