Organization Explanation:
Characters are primarily sorted by their Country of Origin. The exception is for the Pirate Crews of the Stormtide Reach, which are organized by their Pirate Crews and an additional "Non-Pirate" Folder for former or never pirate characters.
Small note: Headshots/Refs for non-Main/Primary characters might be a little "inaccurate" when it comes to their clothing. Many of these headshots/refs were created before I more cemented their culture's clothing. When I have the time and energy, I'll be attempting to update these but it's not exactly a top priority for this project.
Since starting this project, a few reoccurring abbreviations and phrases have popped up. To make things a bit easier, here's a bit of a list with some helpful abbreviations and phrases I'll use.
Abbreviations
- OCaK -- "Of Courts and Kingdoms", the overarching name of this fantasy project.
- TFatB -- "The Flower and the Bull", one of four "Main Series" stories.
- TVP -- "The Viper's Poison", one of four "Main Series" stories.
- VitS -- "Visions in the Storm", one of four "Main Series" stories.
- FC -- "Firecracker", one of four "Main Series" stories.
- DoR -- "Daughter of Ranisia", a "Secondary Series" story. Prequel to TFatB.
- BtS -- "Before the Storm", a "Secondary Series" story. Prequel to VitS.
- ToV -- "Tales of Vitallis", a "Secondary Series" collection of stories. A bit of a collection of short stories set within the world of Vitallis. See the sub point under "Secondary Series" for a bit further explanation.
- TBS -- "The Bull's Shield", a "Mini Series" story. Depicts Emeric Syllorel and Varis Daloria's relationship from the start to before Arabella is born.
Phrases
- "Series" -- In this project, there are 3 different 'Series': "Main Series", "Secondary Series", and "Mini Series".
- "Main Series" -- The "core" series of OCaK. When I get to posting these stories, these will be the main stories that will include canon of the world and relevant "main" events of OCaK
- "Secondary Series" -- The "tie in" series of OCaK. These stories primarily add additional context and backstories to primary/main characters of the "Main Series" stories.
- A unique "exception" to the "Secondary Series" is "Tales of Vitallis", which is a collection of short stories that provide a variety of content. Some of this is "cut content" from the "Main Series", some is alternative POVs of events, and some are prequel content that doesn't fit into the "Main Series" or other "Secondary Series" stories.
- "Mini Series" -- The "bonus" series of OCaK. These are shorter stories that may or may not tie into the "Main Series". Typically, these are mini arcs that do not reach the min length I've set for a "Secondary Series" but are still too large to include in ToV.