The Far Travelers is a Heroic Fantasy and Comic Fantasy Webcomic created by Modstin Pierce, started in late 2022 and is ongoing. It is hosted on the Neocities website of Chromaverse.net, as well as other art hosting services. It features Action and Comedy in similar measure.
The Webcomic features a standard Adventuring Party who run up against villains and monsters of all sorts as they seek to bring about a new age of Adventuring. The heroes of Daedr, Sindel, Thell, Ifne, Briar, and Valor all come from varying backgrounds and histories, though all seek to change the world in their own little ways.
The series takes place in a fantasy setting based primarily around Color-Coded Wizardry, in which every extraordinary power or ability is attributed to the use of a kind of Magical Energy called 'Chroma'. The protagonists of the series are each representative of one of the six colors of Chroma, though the extent to what specifically fits in each color is, as of yet, not strictly defined.
The Webcomic began with an Episodic Structure, but is undergoing a page overhaul that splits the series into Issues in the style of contemporary print comics.
Tropes by Issue
- Action Prologue: After a short introduction, a skeletal dragon fight immediately begins as an In Medias Res beginning.
- Draco Lich: In the action prologue, the party is facing down a skeletal dragon, though more specifically an amphitere.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Each of duos mistake the other duos for being in the temple for nefarious reasons upon meeting.
- Floorboard Failure: The ground The Far Travelers stand on during their altercation cracks and then gives way to a deep well that the heroes all fall into.
- How We Got Here: After the In Medias Res dragon fight, the real story starts roughly a day previous.
- In Medias Res: After the introduction, we are thrust into the action of our heroes already battle worn facing down a giant dragon skeleton, followed by a rewind to what happened earlier.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Valor shouts down Briar's warnings while staking a corner as a zombie sneaks up behind her.
- Rainbow Speak:Jeto's opening narration uses colored text to emphasize the different colors of Chroma.
- The Archmage: Jeto is proclaimed to be an Archmage as part of his signature.
- Volleying Insults: Daedr and Ifne trade a few insults before Valor can start throwing around threats of violence.
- When All Else Fails, Go Right: When the classic 'Hug the Left Wall' trick doesn't work for Thell (by leading her into a swarm of Zombies), she decides that maybe Right is the Right way to go.
As further issues are collected from the episodes and organized, their tropes can be categorized properly.Certain Character Tropes are listed and reference events from the unorganized Issues 2, 3, and 4, but these episodes are freely available to read.
