History ComicBook / Mystic

In 2011, there was four-issue miniseries that was most InNameOnly. In this series, Giselle and Genevieve are [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan orphan sisters]], who secretly studied magic which is normally reserved for the upper class. Giselle is chosen to attend a WizardingSchool, thus [[FishOutOfWater thrusting her into the upper class]]. Meanwhile, Genevieve ends up as part of LaResistance, thus placing the sister on opposite sides of the conflict.

In 2011, there was four-issue miniseries that was most InNameOnly. In this series, Giselle and Genevieve are [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan orphan sisters]], who secretly studied magic which is normally reserved for the upper class. Giselle is chosen to attend a WizardingSchool thus thrusting her into the upper class. Meanwhile, Genevieve ends up as part of LaResistance thus placing the sister on opposite sides of the conflict.

In 2011, there was four-issue miniseries that was most InNameOnly. In this series, Giselle and Genevieve are orphan sisters who secretly studied magic. Giselle is chosen to attend a WizardingSchool thus thrusting her into the upper class. Meanwhile, Genevieve ends up as part of LaResistance thus placing the sister on opposite sides of the conflict.

In 2011, there was four-issue miniseries that was part its own continuity. In this series, Giselle and Genevieve are orphan sisters who secretly studied magic. Giselle is chosen to attend a WizardingSchool thus thrusting her into the upper class. Meanwhile, Genevieve ends up as part of LaResistance thus placing the sister on opposite sides of the conflict.

!!''Mystic'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* HornyDevils: Succubi exist in this world as genderless demons that seduce mortals into their embrace, appearing in whatever form is most attractive, and then drain their life away. The Tantric Guild absolutely reviles them, both for the fiends' blasphemous practice of using intimacy as a trap and otherwise mocking the Guild's believes, and for the fact that Tantric Guild members are especially vulnerable to their depredations.

A ComicBook series published by Creator/CrossGen, ''Mystic'' is a story of magic and mysticism drawn in a conspicuously Art Nouveau style.

* Dark Magi Guild
* Astral Guild
* Shaman Guild
* Enchantress Guild
* Tantric Guild
* Djinn Guild
* Nouveau Guild

** Initially, Vashua, Guild Master of the Tantric Guild, seems to be just a near-naked hedonist not that different to Giselle herself. Then she betrays the world by allying herself with the Geometer Guild, lets a succubus start killing her own students as part of her cover, magically cannibalizes the Dark Mage Tancred, and when Giselle tracks her down into the Tantric Guild lands in issue #40, the new Tantric Guild Master warns Giselle that she had best kill Vashua quickly, or the ex-Guild Master is likely to trigger a volcanic eruption that will destroy her entire homeland just to spite Giselle. And then it turns out she'd actually stolen the body of the Guild Master appointee to try and avoid being punished, whilst also setting Giselle up to murder him.

** The heads of the Geometer Guild and the Dark Magi guild are both repulsed by the method Vashua, head of the Tantric Guild, uses to teleport.
** The Dark Magi Guild Master ultimately turns on the Geometer Guild after realizing they intend to functionally destroy magic entirely.

* LadyLand: The realm of the Enchantress Guild is, to the best of public knowledge, comprised exclusively of women. It's ultimately revealed that there ''are'' male Enchanters, but they spend most of the year physically and mentally merged into a single super-powerful demon, the Devasura, which engages in a mock war against the Enchantresses to hone the realms' collective mystical abilities. It divides back into its components at one point of the year, mainly for procreation.

** The Geometer Guild doesn't sound impressive, but their powers allow them to create dimensional folds and rifts on a massive scale, even creating a sealed-off world completely stripped of magical energies.
* LightIsNotGood: In issue #36, Giselle makes an alliance with Tancred, a paladin-esque mage who claims to want to defeat the Dark Magi Guild Master. She learns too late that he is not only a trained challenger meant to ensure the Guild Master is worthy of his position, but he's actually even ''more'' warlike and bloodthirsty than the current incumbent.
* LoadBearingBoss: Invoked; after Giselle defeats the the Geometer Guild Master, an angry Dark Magi Guild Master asks why she's looking at the ceiling, to which she explains she was expecting the victory to cause the ceiling to start caving in. The amused Dark Magi then causes a single section of the ceiling to give way and crush the Geometer Guild Master to death.

** Initially, Vashua, Guild Master of the Tantric Guild, seems to be just a near-naked hedonist not that different to Giselle herself. Then she betrays the world by allying herself with the Geometer Guild, lets a succubus start killing her own students as part of her cover, magically cannibalizes the Dark Mage Tancred, and when Giselle tracks her down into the Tantric Guild lands in issue #40, the new Tantric Guild Master warns Giselle that she had best kill Vashua quickly, or the ex-Guild Master is likely to trigger a volcanic eruption that will destroy her entire homeland just to spite Giselle.

* {{Magitek}}: A feature of the Nouveau Guild. Other guilds are more traditional.

* BurpOfFinality: Vashua lets out a tiny, cheek-puffing "urp" after magically devouring would-be Dark Magi Guild Master Tancred.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The heads of the Geometer Guild and the Dark Magi guild are both repulsed by the method Vashua, head of the Tantric Guild, uses to teleport.

* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: The lands of the Astral Guild.

* LightIsNotGood: In issue #36, Giselle makes an alliance with a paladin-esque mage who claims to want to defeat the Dark Magi Guild Master. She learns too late that he is not only a trained challenger meant to ensure the Guild Master is worthy of his position, but he's actually even ''more'' warlike and bloodthirsty than the current incumbent.

%%* DealWithTheDevil

%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry

A ComicBook series published by Creator/CrossGen, '''''Mystic''''' is a story of magic and mysticism drawn in a conspicuously Art Nouveau style.

A comic book series published by Creator/CrossGen, Mystic is a story of magic and mysticism drawn in a conspicuously Art Nouveau style.

Set on the planet Ciress, where magic is an everyday profession and the magic guilds rule. The story follows the sisters Genevieve, the hardworking top sorceress and Giselle the spoiled socialite.

* * Djinn Guild
Nouveau Guild

* Cloudcuckooland: the lands of the Astral Guild.
* DealWithTheDevil
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry
* Magitek: a feature of the Nouveau Guild magic. Other guilds are more traditional.

* TheRoaringTwenties: the culture of the Nouveau lands is pretty much this.

Set on the planet Ciress, where magic is an everyday profession and the magic guilds rule. The story follows the sisters Genieve, the hardworking top sorceress and Giselle the spoiled socialite.

* TheRoaringTwenties: the culture of the Nouveau lands is pretty much this.