Literature / Okadu Realm

Web Serial Novel of DeviantArt, Okadu Realm is a Fantasy Web Original and comprises works set in the fictional Okadu Realm. The main characters thus far are all seventeen, around the age of the author. Locations in the Okadu Realm are the Town of Saint Robin which is in Hijo's Kingdom, Hijo's Kingdom itself, and Gola's Kingdom.

Two of the three main characters originate from the Town of Saint Robin, Jai and Lilia. Grae is from Hijo's Kingdom but it is not specified where. Jai and Grae are both Dragon Callers, who call dragons.

Along with the main characters, there are the characters of legend. These are Saint Robin, Hijo, and Gola. Other characters have also been mentioned.

Tropes that apply to Okadu Realm are:

• Academy of Adventure: Jai and Grae's Dragon Caller training school.
• All in the Eyes: The residents of the Town of Saint Robin have green eyes, except for Jai. His oddly-coloured eyes give away that he is a Dragon Caller.
• Alliterative Name: Lilia Le-eena. Now try say that when drunk.
• Amazing Technicolor World: With a description bordering on Scenery Porn, the Hidden Haven's inspiration art is majestic.
  • Possibly with Amazing Technicolor Wildlife, the dragons being "nearly gold and grey-blue, the colour of the sun and the colour of the restless sea combined".
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • There are random inserts of Spanish, like casas pintadas blancas, which is excusable as there isn't really an English way to concisely describe those◊ Mediterranean◊ buildings◊. It literally means 'houses painted white', but translates better as 'whitewashed houses'.
  • "Calle" is used instead of street and "edificio" instead of building. Not because the author doesn't know the English, though, because both 'street' and 'building' are used in the writing.
  • "Hijo" is the Spanish for 'son'. This is the name of The Good King.
• Bring My Red Jacket: Lilia could wind up as a Little Dead Riding Hood or Little Red Fighting Hood as in the last 'scene' she was in she was wearing a long red dress, in a room full of (mostly) red plants, with her red hair. Though she is, to begin with, a woman in white.
  • The town of red-heads was also the only place attacked by Gola, though this could be due to it being a Middle-of-Nowhere Street or that it was the nearest part of Hijo's Kingdom to Gola's.
• Call to Adventure: An old man lands in the lone town in the middle of nowhere and tells a boy he has great powers before whisking him away on the back of a dragon.
• Close-Knit Community: the Town of Saint Robin appears to be this.
• Creator Provincialism: Author does not mind saying that "The Town of Saint Robin may or may not be largely or in part based upon Es Migjorn Gran and the summer festival on the Festes de Sant Cristòfol." Of course, Es Migjorn Gran is inland and rather flat, and nowhere near a desert.

• Free-Range Children: They can't escape the town but they can go missing onto rooftops without parental questioning. They don't seem to have school, either.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Amongst the Spanish the author does know, and will use, the English for, there is "Pico", for which the English ('peak') is never used. The way pico is used in Spanish is different to the way peak is in English, and the author may very well know this. In the work, replacing any instance of Pico with peak wouldn't make sense, as the usage is different.

• Laborious Laziness: Jai and Grae cannot be bothered to get out of bed and so construct a ridiculously complicated contraption to transport them by means to their shower.
• Meaningful Name: Lord Hijo, hijo in Spanish being 'son' but is used specifically when referring to a male child - and sometimes instead of chico for just any male child - which shows innocence.
• Our Dragons Are Different:
  • They're all one colour to start with.
  • The Dragon Callers (minus Gola).
• People of Hair Colour: All the people of the Town of Saint Robin are red-heads. Except Jai who has a natural blonde streak.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: It is implied that the gold in Jai's native red hair is due to his being a Dragon Caller.
• Red Is Heroic: Because of the Law of Chromatic Superiority, we have Lilia being a force to be reckoned with.
• Self-Insert Fic: Though the naming was a coincidence, the author's first name is Jaia (Hah-yee-ah) and the main character Jai (Jy). They're around the same age, too. Even though the name was accidental, it is probably safe to assume that the author is living out fantasies through these characters, as they do.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: When Jai's Modesty Towel falls off he is totally fine baring all around Grae, but when the messenger kid sees his backside he grabs the towel again - though it is portrayed as more for the kid's benefit.
  • Because there is familiarity between the pair, Jai doesn't falter when Grae just walks up to the bathroom as he's showering.

• Single-Palette Town:
  • Where everyone is red-haired and the houses are all white.
  • The Hidden Haven is mostly red, red trees, red grass, Lilia in a red dress.
• Small, Secluded World: Residents have no clue if there's anything beyond The Wall Around the World.
• Technicolor Eyes: Jai's are "nearly gold and grey-blue, the colour of the sun and the colour of the restless sea combined. The colour of dragons."
• Thirsty Desert: Separates the Town of Saint Robin from Gola's Kingdom, it is the highest elevated (bar the Pico) and Southernmost point of the town, complete with angry raging sandstorm and other untold terrors, making it literally impassable (but not in the gaming sense).