For those of you who have not talked to me before, I'm Toir, the writer of this science fantasy story. It is nice to meet you.
Legends of The Sky Hurricane has been living in my head for many years. I grew up reading things like Janissaries and Hammer's Slammers, Bolo, Star Wars side novels, The Stainless Steel Rat, and even weirder stuff. My mom would come back from the used book store with bags of books, and I would devour them. (My sister would only read non-fiction things). I liked the characters, and I wanted to see what would happen if they were able to meet one another.
There were novels about singular bars and places where people could meet and go on adventures, but nothing about where they could visit one another's worlds. I wanted a place where anyone could get in their rickety airplane, blimp, skyship, spaceship, or whatever and head off to adventure. Meet new friends and go take the fight to the bad guys in their home.
So I wrote things in notebooks, tried to sketch in horrible crayon, pestered people to do art, and tried my hand at Role Playing Game publishing. But, boy, was that tough. Talk about high production costs. I hit so many roadblocks I just shelved everything for years. I was hitting my head on a wall.
Then I started reading not only LitRPG books but also Japanese Light Novels and remembered the old works that I had abandoned. In one of the Light Novels in the very back, I read that the author said he was "Tired of waiting for someone to make the book I want. So I made it." I thought about that for a while. I had reams of background for a game that I had never published. I wanted to read that story.
No one was going to do it for me, and I needed to get this story in my head out. So I decided to dig out my old 3rd draft, explode it, expand and make things better. Add the Lore I had in my head, and make some new things up. I'm much more knowledgeable than I used to be, and I had gotten a lot wrong. Hell, I know some people will say I still get a lot wrong. Story pacing, bland characters, and too much lore.
All that may be true, but I'm finally telling my story, and I am loving being able to share it with others.
I thank all of you for reading; there will be more. My story Isn't over. You can even see one of the new characters in the Spoilers below.
Now the art stuff!
Ok, I got hold of the Stable Diffusion and have been going a bit nuts trying to make my characters in it.
Prompts and negative prompts are hecking hard! I'm a bit of a derp when it comes to it, so I can't make the uniforms consistent or the hair... But they look like my people! That's super exciting for someone who has as much less talent for drawing than a toddler.
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
I'll be adding stuff here and there as I make it and updating the Art Chapter. When I can finally get my scanner working, I will put the Ancient art I had commissioned many years ago.
Althea's Storm League ID Photo
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Althea's normal uniform
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Althea In the City
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Althea Curious
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Althea: "I have too much hair..."
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Tiki's Night Out
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Tiki Close Up
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Song Wuying - Leader of the Sidhe Resistance
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Xi Yong - our resident Femme-boi and 2nd in command of the Sidhe Resistance
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Song Xifeng - Wuying's brother
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Limbikani Krebs, the Hacker
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Iwai
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Khloris
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From Part 2
Tamirindus Rohm
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