Chirault
Creator: Varethane
Date began: May 2007
Update schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: Teen
Contact: ly.delta [AT] gmail.com
DESCRIPTION: When a young not-quite-human girl fleeing from a ravaged home is accidentally shrunk to doll-size by a wayward mage, she encounters a strange figure: a fellow demon who hunts monsters on behalf of the humans living in isolated villages. This hunter agrees to help her, and the odd pair set off to find another mage in the hopes of restoring the girl to her former size. It is slow going, for there are no easy paths through the forest, and demons lurk at all turns. As if to compound that, something is stirring to the west; there are rumours of cities crushed flat in seconds, villages vanishing into the aether, and ever-larger and more dangerous demons straying far from their usual territories and into places previously held to be relatively peaceful.
Meanwhile, a dangerous artifact is stolen from the very stronghold of the powerful mages’ guild far away; and the large, aloof organization begins to scramble to get it back before it can be used to wreak devastation upon the land. Even with the thief themself sending a message asking for an impossible ransom, clues are scarce, and desperate measures may have to be taken.
Unrelated as the ongoing situations seem to be, they eventually prove to be unexpectedly related, and their resolution linked to both the state and fate of the world itself.