Whitebark Ash -Excerpt-

Story

Her blood had long soaked into the floor. There was so much blood, the wood sticky with it, reeking of rot and metal. A shiver ran down her spine at the thought of the void, the darkness, the ice, the emptiness. She had died, here.  

Read the full story here, written by KnightHoneybee

Setting

This is set in the Dark Souls universe. Once there was fire, and with it came disparity: heat and cold, life and death, light and dark. For eons untold, gods, heroes, and kings have offered themselves and the power of their souls to the supernatural "First Flame" that brought this change, in hopes of keeping the world alight. But now, only embers remain.

Characters

Narrator 

The disembodied voice that tells the tale of Lorelai's first death.

White Sheep Gaia

Lived in the Royal Wood until she went to the Township to train as a knight at 18. When she returned to the Royal Wood to be a guard at around 21 years old, she was injured and Finnian took care of her. They realized they used to know each other as childhood friends and hit it off from there, and years later when she was around 23, she proposed to him before needing to return to the Township again, where she then trained to be a Lieutenant (but was able to get married a short while later still in training).

Black Sheep Lorelai

After finding her village swallowed by the Abyss when she was 12, she spent 10 long years training to fight back against it while also searching for survivors and her lost family. She wears her mother’s old white armor, now coated in black Abyssal muck. Just recently undead, she found that her own mother, long trapped as a ghost in the Abyss on the armor, had tried to save her, and it pulled her mother from the Abyss just enough to give her her own will again. Together, they aim to destroy the source of the Abyss.

Features

~A short Kinetic Novel told through the RPG Maker MZ engine featuring voice acted lines and character portraits crafted to fit the narrative.

Controls

Mouse:

Left click > Confirm/Progress

Right click > Back/Cancel/Menu

Keyboard:
WASD > Move menu cursor

Z/Enter > Confirm/Progress

X > Back/Cancel/Menu

Credits

Powered by the RPG Maker MZ Engine

Developed by KADOKAWA, Yoji Ojima

Published by Degica

Based on "Whitebark Ash" written by KnightHoneybee

Edited by
DeLuxInn

Cast

Narrator ... Laura Mirsky

White Sheep Gaia ... Melanie Doll

Black Sheep Lorelai ... ZoraLune

Art

sugarcoatedmoth

KADOKAWA

Testers

EuphoricSigh

Bigenderly

Backgrounds/SFX

From Software

KADOKAWA

Music

RPG Maker MV OST - KADOKAWA

Konomabutano Okuni - Audio Highs

Longing Piano Version - DrJekyll MrHeil

Saigono Address - Audio Highs

Empty Memories - Yasunori Nishiki

True Colors - Brooklyn Duo

Assets

Window Skin by Skotty TV

Honoka Mincho by http://font.gloomy.jp/

VisuStella

Special Thanks

Bigenderly

AwesomeTrinket

MonochromeStag

Omelevate