Sepulchrave's Tales of Wyre
(originally Sepulchrave's Story Hour) is a Web Serial Novel based on the author's Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It follows the epic adventures of Eadric, Mostin, Nwm and Ortwin as they deal with demons, war and religious upheavals.
Also in PDF form here.
Tales of Wyre provides examples of:
- A Chat with Satan: As part of his divinely sanctioned temptation, Eadric must accept Titivilus as his Treacherous Advisor.
- All There in the Manual: More information on the setting is found in footnotes and supplementary material.
- Anti-Climax Boss: The characters expected Crosod and Threxu to be much tougher.
- Arc Words: Soneillon: "Nothing becomes."
- Ascended Demon: The story happens because Nehael claims to be one. Both Nehael and Soneillon eventually ascend.
- Burn the Heretics!: the Inquisition's preferred punishment.Brey: As unrepentant apostates, heretics, idolaters and blasphemers, ...I am authorized to inform you that the entire adult population of Trempa will be condemned to burn.
- Cast from Hit Points: Nwm often does this, since he can heal himself afterward.Shomei: Effectively, the Green absorbs the backlash.
- Celestial Deadline: Demons vary in power with the positions of the stars. Some spells are also affected.
- Celestial Paragons And Arch Angels: Rintrah, Enitharmon and others of Oronthon's Host.
- Chaste Hero: As a paladin, Eadric is required to be chaste. Mostin is not interested.Mostin: I am not oblivious to the existence of certain baser urges, but I have utterly transcended the notion of coitus. Nor do I any longer require the use of a latrine.
- Church Militant: The Temple is heavily armed.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Soneillon enjoys pain, but what she really likes is being killed.
- Cool Horse: Eadric has two supernatural horses, Cotundor and Narh.
- Cool Sword: As usual for D&D, there are many. Eadric has the sunblade Lukarn; Ortwine has the throwing-and-returning scimitar Dread Githla.
- Dating Catwoman: At the start of the story, Eadric is courting Nehael, who turns out to be a succubus. Later, this is taken up to eleven with Eadric and Soneillon.
- Death Is Cheap: resurrection is so routine that characters plan on it.
- Demon Lords And Arch Devils: many of the major antagonists and, later, allies are archfiends.
- Evil Sorceror: Many, especially Feezuu and Rimilin.
- Evil Weapon: Heedless is a sword with a penchant for chaotic destruction.
- The Fair Folk: the Loquai are corrupt, evil fey.
- Fallen Angels: Devils are fallen angels, demons are "twice fallen" (from angel to devil to demon), and Falling is a major concern for Eadric.Nehael: Am I now thrice fallen?
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: the Nireem were greatly weakened by the loss of their worshipers.
- Hate Plague: Grazz't's Wave of Hate makes the entire population of Morne murder each other.
- The Heretic: There are many heretical sects, and heresy is a major issue.
- Humanoid Abomination: Quite a few of the Demon Lords and Archdevils can appear as one. Mostin is turning into one due to his Alienist Prestige Class.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: the story begins with Eadric agonizing over whether to slay a supposedly repentant demon.
- Kill the God: The heroes must kill Visuit, a war goddess.
- Kill the Lights: the Pall of Dhatri extinguishes all light within a hundred miles, to protect the undead.
- Nature Hero: Nwm defends Uedii and her worshippers.
- Numerological Motif: deities follow numerological rules.
- Our Gnomes Are Weirder: Gnomes are a kind of fey.
- Our Liches Are Different: several antagonists are liches, and Feezuu nearly becomes one.
- The Paladin: Eadric starts out as a stereotypical paladin.
- Physical God: the Nireem, and Visuit.
- Sole Survivor: Brey is spared to Bring News Back after a massacre, twice.
- Succubi and Incubi: Several major characters are succubi, most importantly Nehael and Soneillon.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Eadric's constant dilemma.
- The Trope without a Title: The Nameless Adversary.Eadric: Orthodoxy maintains that he was stripped of his name, and it was erased from every whisper of consciousness. Nothing in creation, including himself, can recall it, save Oronthon himself.
- The Undead: Dhatri's host, a major part of the Cheshnite force.
- Vancian Magic: complete with Vancian spell names: She Is Tired of Your Interference, First/Second/Third/Fourth Perceptual Transcendence, Renewal of Purpose and Desire, Quiescence of the Spheres, Ecstasy of Negation, Be Not.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: all fiends, and Nwm, and occasionally the wizards.
- Why Did It Have to Have Feathers?: Mostin is terrified of birds.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Mostin.Cheiromancer: I'd be worried about getting that high an intelligence. What if there is some aspect of reality that Man Was Not Meant To Know?
The Lone Badger: Then it's Mostin's job to know it.
