"Welcome to Aetheria, Traveller; a world with many tales to tell."
Aetheria Epics
is a webcomic in the style of a
JRPG. It takes place in a vast world called Aetheria which is divided up into various "realms", each having its own unique culture and level of technological or magical development. Aetheria is populated by several variations of fantasy race mainstays such as humans, mystics, ferals and mekanics.
The twist of
Aetheria Epics is that it relies on its community of readers to make important character and story decisions by way of a daily vote. Theoretically, these factor into the character's overall personality, gradually solidifying it until their story is complete and another one begins.
The site launched in April of 2009, but daily updates are quickly cultivating an engrossing narrative as well as a decent-sized archive.
Like all webcomics that reference
RP Gs, this one's rather trope-heavy.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Abandoned Info Page - Averted. The cast page is kept quite current with all party members.
- Action Commands - VOTE! Aww, you missed the update? Too bad, the one you would have voted for lost.
- And Now For Someone Completely Different - Not yet, but by the sounds of it, Allete's arc will draw to a close after a while and someone else will fill the role of protagonist.
- Black And White Magic - The first party consists of a summoner, a black mage, and a white mage.
- Cant Drop The Hero - Thus far, anyway.
- Character Customization - Every once in a while, a new outfit vote will crop up.
- Character Portrait - On the character page, obviously (Status).
- Check Point - Every single update.
- Dialogue Tree - A rare webcomic example.
- Direct Demographic - And how!
- Easing Into The Adventure
- Fetch Quest - The Mana Ore.
- Get On The Boat - To get out of Veil.
- Good Morning Crono - For Allete, at least.
- Heroes Prefer Swords - Averted by vote, main character for the first arc is a caster.
- Hit Points - Possibly averted. The characters aren't aware of them if they do have them, and we haven't seen any floating damage numbers yet.
- Inn Security
- Isometric Projection - The first couple of comics make homage to this method.
- JRPG
- Late To The Party
- Love Bubbles - When the leader of the Dark Mage Gang meets Allete, she gets a flowery pink background.
- Multi Platform - Compatible with all known browsers!
- Party In My Pocket - Averted.
- Random Encounters - We all know where that snake really came from.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter - Mei, the feral slime
- RPG
- RPG Elements - A webcomic with these.
- Schedule Slip - Very minor, an occasional day missed.
- Science Related Memetic Disorder - Pello. Possibly.
- Side Quest - Obtaining the Mana Ore, presumably.
- Soft Reset - You can always hit the New Game button at any time in the archives. The run won't change, though.
- Stupidity Is The Only Option - Can result from a sour vote.
- Time Keeps On Slipping - Standard Day/Night cycles, it seems.
- Visible Silence - !
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
