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ATTENTION: Although Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs and Song Of The Sorcelator are separate series, due to the complicated issues surrounding alleged plagiarism and the interactions of their fandoms, they will be featured on one page.
Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga
 .The Song Of The Sorcelator
for the wiki and list of works.Due to their close release dates and certain stylistic similarities between the two series, there have been conflicting accusations of plagiarism, both from the authors and their fandoms. Heated debate on the matter continues, with no resolution likely in the near future.WARNING: Below this point are serious unmarked spoilers for both series......and this is also the point where we stop telling Blatant Lies. So what's going on here? Dueling Atlanta Nights, that's what.To elaborate, Tycho of Penny Arcade suffered near-fatal brain damage from attempting to read the tie-in novels for Magic: The Gathering, and the experience gave him an idea: To pretend he had written an atrocious fantasy series for a make-believe Collectible Card Game. Thus was Hierarchs born. Making a few comics to illustrate how he would write bad fantasy novels, he set up a wiki and invited readers of Penny Arcade to flesh it out with all the glorious Stylistic Suck they could invent. They rose right to the challenge.Taking things further, he conceived Sorcelator, a competing series authored by a paper-thin expy of Tim Buckley*, with its own wiki and (kayfabe) rabid Fan Dumb, complete with hilarious role-played flame wars between the two wiki groups. Sorcelator has ended up being more visible, with several mini-series comics, since Gabe and Tycho ended up having more fun with its particular brand of Stylistic Suck. Tropes taken to the extreme:
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