History Webcomic / TheBookOfLore

* ConnectedAllAlong: Initially, the various stories seemed to all be independent stories collected in the titular "Book of Lore", with nothing really connecting them in terms of characters or setting outside of the Lorecrafter's interference. This changed with the "True" Lore of "Cyber Road", revealing it to be a StealthPrequel to the rest of the Lore, the setting now being set AfterTheEnd following an apocalyptic event caused by the virus Alice, and giving way to "A Knight's End", where the titular knight Merek befriends the young sage Gavin and becomes enemies with the GlorySeeker Griflet, who would go on to become the Royal Sage and Overlord of "Another Princess Story" respectively, as well as becoming the grandfather of siblings Darin, lead of "Fangs of the Dragon", and Marisa, lead of "Unicorn Trail". From there comes "Another Princess Story" following the three Balogh princesses, with Eliza and Beth eventually breaking off for "Woodland Wanderings" before meeting Marisa in the setting of "Path of the Orient", and getting involved in the story of "Unicorn Trail" while causing a StableTimeLoop by dropping the young Brunhild in the time of "Mechanics of War", before she eventually met up with them again but [[TheLongWay now much older]].

* ConnectedAllAlong: Initially, the various stories seemed to all be independent stories collected in the titular "Book of Lore", with nothing really connecting them in terms of characters or setting outside of the Lorecrafter's interference. This changed with the "True" Lore of "Cyber Road", revealing it to be a StealthPrequel to the rest of the Lore, the setting now being set AfterTheEnd, and giving way to "A Knight's End", where the titular knight Merek befriends the young sage Gavin and becomes enemies with the GlorySeeker Griflet, who would go on to become the Royal Sage and Overlord of "Another Princess Story" respectively, as well as becoming the grandfather of siblings Darin, lead of "Fangs of the Dragon", and Marisa, lead of "Unicorn Trail".

#[[https://owlquill.com/lorestories/knights-000/A Knight's End]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Eliza Serdste and Beth Taberna, from "Another Princess Story", are best friends who are rarely seen separated.

* BigBad: While each story has there own main villain, the series as a whole has "The Order of the Last Page", a group of Lorecrafters led by a man named Mordred, who may or may not have any relation to the figure from Arthurian legends, whose goal is to change the stories and preserve them at the cost of the destruction of the story's inhabitants with the group only seeing the residents as just ink. Many of the villains from the book's chapters are later revealed to also have connections to the group [[spoiler:like the Overlord of [=TraVania=] from "Another Princess Story" who uses their ink from Llyod to keep his memories of the alternate branches as well as create his army of soldiers from it as well, the Boundman from "Unicorn Trail" who is actually a creation of Isaiah from the group, and Omnicules from "Fangs of the Dragon" where Yvette is later revealed to have corrupted the monster to continue attacking Darin after it should have been defeated.]]

* HyperlinkStory: All of the tales within the Book of Lore are directly connected to each other despite their vastly different settings, with characters occasionally crossing from one tale to another, such as Oly from "Mechanics of War" potentially bumping into a young Marisa from "Unicorn Trail" and her two aunts who are actually older versions of Eliza and Beth from "Another Princess Story". [[spoiler:In the Owl Quill version of the canonical "Another Princess Story" route, Roya's trial to get titania's powers was changed from the Deviantart version with all of the fairies changed into silkworms and Valja getting tied up by them as a mysterious bugcatcher with oriental clothing like the ones seem in "Path of the Orient" hunting Roya down with her other versions contacting her through the sword.]]

* HyperlinkStory: All of the tales within the Book of Lore are directly connected to each other despite their vastly different settings, with characters occasionally crossing from one tale to another, such as Oly from "Mechanics of War" potentially bumping into a young Marisa from "Unicorn Trail" and her two aunts who are actually older versions of Eliza and Beth from "Another Princess Story". [[spoiler:In the Owl Quill version of the canonical "Another Princess Story" route, Roya's trial to get titania's powers was changed from the Deviantart version with all of the fairies changed into silkworms and Vajra getting tied up by them as a mysterious bugcatcher with oriental clothing like the ones seem in "Path of the Orient" hunting Roya down with her other versions contacting her through the sword.]]
* IntrepidFictioneer: The Lorecrafters of "The Book of Lore" can use their magic to directly interact with the book's stories,

* HyperlinkStory: All of the tales within the Book of Lore are directly connected to each other despite their vastly different settings, with characters occasionally crossing from one tale to another, such as Oly from "Mechanics of War" potentially bumping into a young Marisa from "Unicorn Trail" and her two aunts who are actually older versions of Eliza and Beth from "Another Princess Story".

* SteamPunk: "Mechanics of War" is set in a nation where steam-powered airships and robots are commonplace, with its focal protagonists Marcus and Oly Baroque working as professional tinkerers.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Eliza Serdste and Beth Taberna, from "Another Princess Story", are best friends who are rarely seen separated.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:During certain sections of the chapters, some of the characters notice something wrong and potentially seeing the pages of their stories. One notable example is when looking at the choices for the canon route of "Another Princess Story" page 62 on the Owl Quill website, the options mention the reader attempting to choose an option and being unable to with the Overlord of [=TraVania=] able to see the pages himself with both options only leading to page 63.]]

* TheForthWallWontProtectYou: [[spoiler:During certain sections of the chapters, some of the characters notice something wrong and potentially seeing the pages of their stories. One notable example is when looking at the choices for the canon route of "Another Princess Story" page 62 on the Owl Quill website, the options mention the reader attempting to choose an option and being unable to with the Overlord of [=TraVania=] able to see the pages himself with both options only leading to page 63.]]

* TheForthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:During certain sections of the chapters, some of the characters notice something wrong and potentially seeing the pages of their stories. One notable example is when looking at the choices for the canon route of "Another Princess Story" page 62 on the Owl Quill website, the options mention the reader attempting to choose an option and being unable to with the Overlord of [=TraVania=] able to see the pages himself with both options only leading to page 63.]]

* BigBad: While each story has there own main villain, the series as a whole has "The Order of the Last Page", a group of Lorecrafters led by a man named Mordred, who may or may not have any relation to the figure from Arthurian legends, whose goal is to change the stories and preserve them at the cost of the destruction of the story's inhabitants with the group only seeing the residents as just ink. Many of the villains from the book's chapters are later revealed to also have connections to the group [[spoiler:like the Overlord of [=TraVania=] from "Another Princess Story" who uses their ink to keep his memories of the alternate branches as well as create his army of soldiers from it as well, the Boundman from "Unicorn Trail" who is actually a creation of Isaiah from the group, and Omnicules from "Fangs of the Dragon" where Yvette is later revealed to have corrupted the monster to continue attacking Darin after it should have been defeated.]]

* RippleProofMemory: Despite the alternate paths that can be taken in the chapters of the stories, some characters appear to keep their memories of alternate branches such as [[spoiler:the Overlord of [=TraVania=], Darin and Magnus, and Olyvia after she is freed from the Overlord's control but still has a part of the power he used to corrupt her. This is later revealed to be because they have either absorbed Lorecrafter Ink like the Overlord and Olyvia or because they are an imagina like Magnus who can see beyond the story.]]

* BigBad: While each story has there own main villain, the series as a whole has "The Order of the Last Page", a group of Lorecrafters led by a man named Mordred, who may or maY not have any relation to the figure from Arthurian legends, whose goal is to change the stories and preserve them at the cost of the destruction of the story's inhabitants with the group only seeing the residents as just ink. Many of the villains from the book's chapters are later revealed to also have connections to the group [[spoiler:like the Overlord of [=TraVania=] from "Another Princess Story" who uses their ink to keep his memories of the alternate branches as well as create his army of soldiers from it as well, the Boundman from "Unicorn Trail" who is actually a creation of Isaiah from the group, and Omnicules from "Fangs of the Dragon" where Yvette is later revealed to have corrupted the monster to continue attacking Darin after it should have been defeated.]]

* RippleProofMemory: Despite the alternate paths that can be taken in the chapters of the stories, some characters appear to keep their memories of alternate branches such as [[spoiler:the Overlord of [=TraVania=], Darin and Magnus, and Olyvia after she is freed from the Overlord's control but still has a part of the power he used to corrupt her. This is later revealed to be because they have either absorbed Lorecrafter Ink like the Overlord and Olyvia of because they are an imagina like Magnus who can see beyond the story.]]

* RippleProofMemory: Despite the alternate paths that can be taken in the chapters of the stories, some characters appear to keep their memories of alternate branches such as[[spoiler:the Overlord of [=TraVania=], Darin and Magnus, and Olyvia after she is freed from the Overlord's control but still has a part of the power he used to corrupt her. This is later revealed to be because they have either absorbed Lorecrafter Ink like the Overlord and Olyvia of because they are an imagina like Magnus who can see beyond the story.]]

* AllianceOfAlternates: Characters from the "Lore" occasionally end up crossing paths with another version of themselves and working together for a common goal. For example, the Paralogue "Labyrinth of the Bound" stars Marcus from "Machines of War", who finds himself having to team up with an opposite-gender version of himself that had previously fought with other versions of Marcus against an evil version of himself.

In addition to these main settings, there are also various "Paralogue" stories, such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-fangx/gallery/71796697/starrweald Starrweald]], [[https://owlquill.com/lorestories/wanderings-000/ Woodland Wanderings]], [[https://owlquill.com/lorestories/bound-000/ Labyrinth of the Bound]], [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-fangx/gallery/69196043/chapter-9-fangs-of-the-dragon Fangs of the Dragon]], [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-fangx/art/Ohmens-of-the-Future-The-Void-562751036 Ohmens of the Future]], and [[https://www.deviantart.com/benji-blacksky/art/Breakthrough-Beginning-581618835 Breakthrough]].

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The three princesses from "Another Princess Story" fit this; eldest sister Olyvia is the Brains but also socially distant, middle sister Roya is the Beauty that has a "motherly" nature towards their subjects, and youngest sister Geenya is the tomboy Brains that would rather fight battles than rule.

* ComputerVirus: Alice, from "Cyber Road", is a sentient virus that attempts to pull a GrandTheftMe on Alice's body while Alice's consciousness is connected to cyberspace.

* RebelliousPrincess: Geenya Balogh, Roya and Olyvia's younger sister, would prefer that one of her sisters inherit the throne so that she can take up a sword and go on adventures.

The comic's FramingDevice focuses on the guardians of the titular Book of Lore, who have the power to manipulate the worlds described within its pages. Thus far, there are six major settings described within the Book:

* ThoseTwoGuys: Eliza Serdste and Beth Taberna, from "Another Princess Story", are best friends who are never seen separated.

''The Book of Lore'' is a webcomic by Ted Bishop, the creator of ''Webcomic/TraderLydia'', with {{Gamebooks}}-style segments. The comic's FramingDevice focuses on the guardians of the titular Book of Lore, who have the power to manipulate the worlds described within its pages. Thus far, there are six major settings described within the Book:

#Another Princess Story
#Unicorn Trail
#Mechanics of War
#Cyber Road
#Path of the Orient
#A Knight's End