The Oswald Chronicles
The Oswald Chronicles is a Web Comic by J.D. Calderon.
We'll go to the one who's helped the mad one. The one who straddles two worlds, but is of neither.
—Gwimbe, describing Oswald
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The story centers around Oswald, scribe and gentlemouse, who straddles the human world and the Fae world.
The first storyline, although not the beginning of the story, begins when a group of Fae steals the hammer of Kalvaitis, stopping him from forging the sun that day and leaving the fae world in perpetual darkness. A lone kitchen helper from Kalvaitis's castle manages to escape, and heads into the human world to find the only person that can help, Oswald.
The second storyline starts in a time before the first. Diane, Oswald's love interest, heads out on a mysterious errand and leaves her cousin Diadra to look after Oswald. Three Mysterious Waifs show up, being followed by a monster called Howard.
- Badass: Oswald is....
- Beware the Nice Ones - You will not like Oswald when he's angry
- Creation Myth - Kalvaitis's life story
- Eats Babies - Howard gets it from his father Regi
- Eldritch Abomination - The Light That Attracts
- Engagement Challenge - Kalvaitis, challenged to bring back the sun
- Horror Hunger - Part of Baba Yaga's repertoire is inflicting the hunger for guts on other people.
- I Am a Humanitarian - Baba Yaga
- I Am One of Those, Too - Kalvaitis's story sounds mysteriously like Marduk's.
- Knight Templar - Malkit
- Light Is Not Good - "I would hate to have seen what you would have done if you were an Unseelie"
- Our Goblins Are Wickeder - Howard, the dragon-esque monster
- Our Trolls Are Different - Proud Warrior Race Guys that will turn to stone if exposed to daylight.
- Sharp Dressed Mouse - Oswald, again
- The Chosen One - Oswald, apparently.
- The Fair Folk - Mostly of the Seelie court, including Malkit. In later stories, the Unseelie start showing up.
- The Night That Never Ends - In Fallen Gods
- Ultimate Blacksmith - Kalvaitis, who forges the sun each night