"It is special because it is a gift. Cherish it. Take care of it. And some day, years from now,...use it to protect what's most important to you."
— King Roland Lachesis to his daughter Saffron, about her cane sword.
Saffron Lachesis is one of the two princesses of the Kingdom of Strife, although she doesn't quite look at all like a typical princess, preferring instead to utterly wreck the living daylights out of any criminal who is unfortunate enough to come across her, regardless of his original intent. She doesn't quite get along with her more conservative twin Nephilim. Ever since their father, the great king Roland Lachesis, left the kingdom for no apparent reason, they had to take care of it in his stead, sibling bickering and all. Nephilim's only solace from her trials and tribulations is the young Fafnirianand younger Happily Adopted sister Ambrosia Verdandi, whose desire to become a doctor someday she cautiously supports.Meanwhile, from the Kingdom of Cicle, to the far north of Strife, a Child Prodigy in the arts of magic, Felicia Whitewind, is traveling to its capital, Strife City. As she travels, she is suddenly attacked by a couple of thieves. Although she defends herself quite well, it takes a stranger known only as Lionel "the Lucky" to dispatch them. After they meet, she accepts his offer to escort her to the city.And that's just the tip of the iceberg.Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts is a webcomic series written by Mike Renner of In Wilys Defense fame and drawn by Alan Solivan, the Original Manga Artist. Although it reuses characters from both IWD and Tales of Southtown, it does have its own storyline and world, complete with people of all races and a compelling plot.As of July 2012, Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts has been discontinued due to Real Life pressures.
Black Magic: The Demons give this out to anyone willing to seek them instead of the Seraphim for power.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Chizuru Yamamoto. Third Sword of Terra (i.e. third strongest member of the Terran military), yet is obsessed with fashion and generally does not like being responsible.
Casual Danger Dialogue: Although not necessarily in danger, Saffron has no problem starting a casual conversation with Lionel in the middle of their sparring match without missing a beat.
Chekhov's Gunman: Remember the two thugs Saffron beat up in Chapter 1? They've kidnapped Nephilim nine chapters later as some misguided attempt at revenge due to mistaking her for Saffron.
Curse: Those who obtain their magic from Benimarkum, Demon of Anguish, can add insult to injury by cursing the victims' wounds.
Cranial Eruption: Saffron gets this as punishment for hitting Lionel with a chalkboard eraser, though to be fair, she didn't see him coming. She gets another by stealing Nephilim's tea.
Crystal Dragon Jesus: Even with three Goddesses, and their eight Seraphim, they are primarily worshipped (at least in Zephyr) through a church led by a pope.
Great Offscreen War: Empuzu implies in his first appearance that Terra and Zephyr had a war at one point, and that his and Chizuru's presence in the latter country might start another if they were found out.
My Greatest Failure: Lionel losing against Alastair, and thus losing his loved ones in his backstory. The fact that he lost again to Saffron makes that slightly Harsher in Hindsight.
Schedule Slip: It started out updating on a M-TH schedule (with a few extra chapters for a head-start), then overran its Strip Buffer once and was temporarily on a Monday-only schedule that ended at Chapter 9, Page 2. Then it went on hiatus so that Alan could catch up with life. That hiatus ended on 9/5/2010 with the release of Chapter 11: The Princess of Swords. However, starting sometime before the release of Chapter 16, Real Life began to drag on both creators (causing them to update less often), and by July 2012 they realized they couldn't update the comic anymore with those pressures. Thus ended the comic prematurely.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Alastair. The guy who found him should've known better than to release him by touching that crystal.
Shout Out: Aside from the world of Bideogamu being based on several RPG tropes, along with some other Video Game tropes thrown into the mix, we also have:
Sunshine Islet is, according to Word Of God, inspired by a volcanic island that was the setting for one episode of the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon.
Brock (Rabi and Darius's superior) and Giovanni (his own superior) seem to take their names from Pokemon.
The Stoic: Empuzu, at least compared to the others. All he does when Alastair shows up in Zephyr again, preceded by a massive earthquake, is to glance at him while calmly drinking his tea.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Played straight with the common humans, the Seraphim, and the Goddesses, but limited with the Iliwati, and averted with the Tangashen.
You Have Failed Me: Giovanni gives Brock (the gang leader) this treatment after the latter's run-in with Saffron and Felicia.
is a webcomic series written by Mike Renner of In Wilys Defense fame and drawn by Alan Solivan, the Original Manga Artist. Although it reuses characters from both IWD and Tales of Southtown, it does have its own storyline and world, complete with people of all races and a compelling plot.As of July 2012, Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts has been discontinued due to Real Life pressures.
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