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%% * DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
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* BilingualDialogue: The Tribe, including Sarn, speaks a mixture of English and Mandarin
* BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
* ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
* ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
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%% * BilingualDialogue: The Tribe, including Sarn, speaks a mixture of English and Mandarin
%% * BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
%% * ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
%% * CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
%% * DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
%% * BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
%% * ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
%% * CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
%% * DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Sarn for a good portion of the story, and Hespera at times.
* KnifeNut: Locke definitely falls under this; he has a belt filled with an assortment of different knives.
* LargeHam: Ankh sometimes becomes this, to her never-ending amusement.
* LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
* MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
* Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
* ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
* SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
* KnifeNut: Locke definitely falls under this; he has a belt filled with an assortment of different knives.
* LargeHam: Ankh sometimes becomes this, to her never-ending amusement.
* LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
* MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
* Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
* ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
* SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
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%% * HatesBeingTouched: Sarn for a good portion of the story, and Hespera at times.
* KnifeNut: Locke definitely falls under this; he has a belt filled with an assortment of different knives.
%% * LargeHam: Ankh sometimes becomes this, to her never-ending amusement.
%% * LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
%% * MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
%% * RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
%% * Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
%% * SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
%% * ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
%% * SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
%% * LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
%% * MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
%% * RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
%% * Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
%% * SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
%% * ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
%% * SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
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* TheMuse: The "spark" that inhabits Sarn is the most literal form of this.
* WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
* WildChild: Sarn.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
* WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
* WildChild: Sarn.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
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%% * WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
%% * WildChild: Sarn.
%% * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
%% * WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
%% * WildChild: Sarn.
%% * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
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->''True tales have no beginning or end. They do not exist only when men say 'Exist!' but instead are always there...reverberating through time in a dance, a weaving if you will. Only humans try to contain it with beginnings and ends. To put boundaries on everything simply because our own lives are bounded by birth and death. And thus we seek to lessen the power of that which is immortal.''
-->The quote from the beginning of ''Spark.''
->''There's something different about you, Sarn.''
-->A quote from ''Spark.''
''A world without stories. An ancient hero who can’t remember who she’s supposed to be. And one girl who discovers something that should have never had been forgotten...''
The year is 3163, and the world is ruined. Those who have survived the devastation of the Sino Empire and the preceding wars now live as scavengers, fighting to survive in the skeletons of old cities. Sarn is a young scavenger of the Tribe that lives in the Zhongshui, which used to be known as Shanghai. Like the others of her kind, she doesn't speak, doesn't dream, doesn't wonder of what happened before her time...
...that is, until she finds a spark of something in the ruins of an old building. Something almost dead. Something beautiful and fragile. Something named Story...
And that's when everything begins to change.
''The Spark Chronicles'' is a series written by Seraphania, also known as Elleirabird or Ari. It contains five books, two of which are written, with the other three in progress. The books are:
* ''Spark''
* ''Ironsong''
* ''Boneteller''
* ''Dreamships''
* ''Storychild''
There's also a prequel, titled ''The Last Story'', and a short novella called ''The Sphinx and the Thief'' detailing Locke and Ankh's origin stories.
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!!Tropes in this series include:
* BadassNormal: Most of the people of the Zhongshui are some shade of this - they live on a dystopian world where buildings crumble beneath their feet. Sarn's a notable example: she fights a tiger.
* BilingualDialogue: The Tribe, including Sarn, speaks a mixture of English and Mandarin
* BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
* ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Lorechant is this in a way; each bridge is based off a different human culture.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Ankh, being a sphinx. Kaelin falls under this too, being a selkie.
* HatesBeingTouched: Sarn for a good portion of the story, and Hespera at times.
* KnifeNut: Locke definitely falls under this; he has a belt filled with an assortment of different knives.
* LargeHam: Ankh sometimes becomes this, to her never-ending amusement.
* LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
* MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
* Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
* ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
* SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
* RuleOfCool: Sphinxes? Scimitars? Cities made of glass? Yeah, the entire world of Lorechant operates on this.
* TheMuse: The "spark" that inhabits Sarn is the most literal form of this.
* WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
* WildChild: Sarn.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
-->The quote from the beginning of ''Spark.''
->''There's something different about you, Sarn.''
-->A quote from ''Spark.''
''A world without stories. An ancient hero who can’t remember who she’s supposed to be. And one girl who discovers something that should have never had been forgotten...''
The year is 3163, and the world is ruined. Those who have survived the devastation of the Sino Empire and the preceding wars now live as scavengers, fighting to survive in the skeletons of old cities. Sarn is a young scavenger of the Tribe that lives in the Zhongshui, which used to be known as Shanghai. Like the others of her kind, she doesn't speak, doesn't dream, doesn't wonder of what happened before her time...
...that is, until she finds a spark of something in the ruins of an old building. Something almost dead. Something beautiful and fragile. Something named Story...
And that's when everything begins to change.
''The Spark Chronicles'' is a series written by Seraphania, also known as Elleirabird or Ari. It contains five books, two of which are written, with the other three in progress. The books are:
* ''Spark''
* ''Ironsong''
* ''Boneteller''
* ''Dreamships''
* ''Storychild''
There's also a prequel, titled ''The Last Story'', and a short novella called ''The Sphinx and the Thief'' detailing Locke and Ankh's origin stories.
----
!!Tropes in this series include:
* BadassNormal: Most of the people of the Zhongshui are some shade of this - they live on a dystopian world where buildings crumble beneath their feet. Sarn's a notable example: she fights a tiger.
* BilingualDialogue: The Tribe, including Sarn, speaks a mixture of English and Mandarin
* BrotherSisterTeam: Tor and Hespera.
* ClockworkCreature: The Guards in ''Ironsong'', as well as the [[spoiler: doctor's wife...and the faye.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The Zhongshui definitely counts as this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, notably Tor, Locke and Hespera.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarn really hates them, being barefoot her entire life. Kaelin and Ankh don't like them much either.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Lorechant is this in a way; each bridge is based off a different human culture.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Ankh, being a sphinx. Kaelin falls under this too, being a selkie.
* HatesBeingTouched: Sarn for a good portion of the story, and Hespera at times.
* KnifeNut: Locke definitely falls under this; he has a belt filled with an assortment of different knives.
* LargeHam: Ankh sometimes becomes this, to her never-ending amusement.
* LossOfIdentity: This happens to Hespera, who has no idea who she is for the first half of ''Spark.''
* MakeoverMontage: Sarn gets one of these. Granted, she never took a bath before...
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Practically quoted between Tor and Hespera.
* Reincarnation: Hespera was trapped on Earth for about a thousand years and was forced to live several human lives.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hespera plots this out.]]
* ShoutOut: To Series/DoctorWho, Literature/TheBible, Firefly and many other works and TV shows.
* SteamPunk: The second book, Ironsong, is a definite example of this. Also fits into ClockPunk.
* RuleOfCool: Sphinxes? Scimitars? Cities made of glass? Yeah, the entire world of Lorechant operates on this.
* TheMuse: The "spark" that inhabits Sarn is the most literal form of this.
* WaifFu: Kaelin and Sarn both have this, being short, small girls.
* WildChild: Sarn.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sarn's not this...yet.
