The Legend of Korah is a Flash animation series created by the author known as Xela/NFnote and the same internet community behind Eutopia, the Worlds.
The setting is a High Fantasy medieval world combined with some battle shonen, making quite a mix of Swords-beating-everything, glowy energy beams and "I was testing you by using my left hand" speeches.
Korah, a 15-year-old swordsman decides to take revenge and stop the evil emperor Nergal from taking over the world. To do so, he must find and recruit the seven other swordsmen, who wield the legendary weapons needed to defeat him.
It can be seen on Newgrounds here
or NF's YouTube channel here.
Not to be confused with The Legend of Korra.
This series provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: There has been quite a lot written and planned in comparison to what has been animated. So there are quite a lot of characters and scenarios that can be found nowhere except for BlizzardBlades' Forums.
- Annoying Arrows: Inverted. Even when 99% of arrows don't hit, when they do it is quite a serious matter.
- Art Evolution: Just compare the prologue (which used sprites from Fire Emblem) with chapter 4. Chapter 4 still has a few things Off-Model, but it's definitely better.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the attacks in the series, while awesome looking, seem to do little to no damage. This is probably to make the battles more interesting.
- Because Destiny Says So: Everything goes pretty much along the way of a legend.
- Elves Versus Dwarves: On a weird subversion, the Neodammerai and Angeli hate each other to death (as a matter of fact, they were in war), even when both species are wise and pacifistic.
- Fantastic Racism: Neodammerai and Angelis hate each other to death. Humans wanted the fur from the Angelis (as it was magical), so they hunted them down; almost to extinction. Neodammerai thinks lower of the other species like humans, not in a violent way of course, but they believe themselves superiors.
- Fisher King: The Good Kingdom was governed by a good and noble king, making it noble as well. When the Evil Chancellor kills the king and takes his place, it becomes The Empire. It is said that the way to return to peace is to kill Nergal, so this applies.
- Flynning: 90 % of the Battles are made of people countering beams with beams, or hitting each other's swords.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Korah learns in seconds techniques Snow took years to master. It's brought to attention by Snow.
- Invincible Hero: subverted. Korah defeats Snow 3 TIMES without a problem. Of course, Snow let him win, though Korah still showed no difficulty in defeating him, despite the years of training Snow has. After those fights, they battle separately against a group of bandits that try to rob them, which can be considered their first real battle. Even when Korah started smoothly, he is suddenly hit by an arrow. The blood lost from the arrow-hit renders him unable to keep on fighting, something Korah doesn't understand, as he believed he should be winning.
- I Let You Win: Snow lost on purpose to Korah the entire time. The author regrets this, as Snow is supposed to be stronger than Korah and the wrong impression was given.
- The Chosen One: The sacred swords can only be wielded by the ones they choose to wield them. This makes all seven swordsmen chosen ones.
