Cover Art

TBD

Title

A Prose of Years

The title is meant to refer that in the world of the story, an everyman spiritualist with an experience of years will be far superior than a monstrous genius.

Synopsis

For decades, spiritualist Evert Kallstrom and his team have joined humanity’s millennia-long fight against the beasts. Wielding their weapons and their ki, they became great spiritualists. And yet, despite their efforts, humanity was losing traction in the war. In the last fifty years alone, more cities had been overrun than in all of known history.

While most thought the great beasts natural, a few knew the terrible truth. They were the product of a dark lord, who desired neither fame nor wealth nor power. Instead, his sole purpose was the genocide of humanity.

While their peers dithered, a small faction of the strongest mankind had to offer—including Evert Kallstrom and his team, set out towards the Deadlands to find and confront this dark lord. After weeks of travel, twenty-one spiritualists found themselves approaching an ancient fortress wherein rested a being known only as the Eastern Guardian.

All they found was death.

But death has other plans for Evert.

Evert wakes up in his 16 year old body. He is confused, poor and weak. But with grit, sweat, and years of experience, he won't let the future repeat itself. That level of strength won't be enough by itself--it wasn’t last time--and victory is hardly assured—he’ll need to reach farther and higher than he ever did--but Evert refuses to squander a second chance.

[First Person POV]

Genres

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Tags

Male Lead, Secret Identity, Strategy

High Fantasy, Martial Arts, Strong Lead, Wuxia

Magic, Time Travel

Slice of Life, Progression

Content Warning

Profanity, Gore

Character Sheets Evert

Name:

Evert Källström

Trope:

Swedish

Job:

Spiritualist

Scribe?

Birthday:

2300

Hard Affinities:

Water, Air

Height:

180 cm (OTL)

170 cm (16 y.o.)

186 cm (19 y.o.)

Soft Affinities:

Thermal, Electric

Hair:

Ponytail (16 y.o.)

Romance:

Samantha (OTL)?

Rebecca (NTL)

Weapon:

Longsword and staff

Notable Skills:

Botany

Runes

Fighting

Training

Spiritualism

Lesser Skills:

Forging

Cooking

Personality Traits:

Grim determination; Experienced; Wise (to an extent); Optimistic; Helper; Defender of the peace; Defender of the people; Fair

Background:

Grew up on a farm in a hamlet outside Dorflich

Notes

He don’t need no damn emotional development. He is 47 years old damn it. Though he is the youngest physically.

Not the OTL leader

Sam

Name:

Samantha Finke

Trope:

German

Job:

Spiritualist

Birthday:

2299

Hard Affinities:

Air

Height:

162 cm

Soft Affinities:

Light, Kinetic, Thermal

Hair:

Blonde

Romance:

Evert (OTL)

Weapon:

Longsword (originally)

Trident (later)

Notable Skills:

Lesser Skills:

Personality Traits:

Hopelessly optimistic; bubbly; airheaded; fiercely protective when her things are threatened; only team member to have a 0-aligned soft and hard affinities, which she is made fun of for, especially since she does not have electric aligned

Background:

OTL: Dies in final battle along with Evert

Wildly under confident; low self-esteem; plays up the big tits small brain stereotype because it got people to hang out with her; might be a hedonist; but ultimately she wants to get stronger because she hopes she will then have confidence; actually a surprisingly sharp mind both in the battlegrounds (tactically) and socially (has the best read and figures out the Evert/Becca thing before either does). So need to get her lighting affinity, but even that doesn’t really fix the emotional issues. Needs victories based on her unique strengths. Maybe have Evert do a disappearing act, and attack them as the abominable snowman.

Becca

Name:

Rebecca Little

Trope:

Scottish

Job:

Spiritualist

Birthday:

2298

Hard Affinities:

Fire

Height:

178 cm

Soft Affinities:

Light, Kinetic, Electric

Hair Color:

Bright red

Exploded pixie cut

Romance:

Evert (NTL)

Weapon:

Gauntlets

Notable Skills:

Lesser Skills:

Personality Traits:

Fiery redhead

Plenty of people will dislike Becca. She's narrow-minded and hot-tempered. And occasionally cruel, as she's more than happy to bust a guy's balls for trying to hit on her. All men under 35 as asshats or creeps and don't deserve her. In the reboot, she becomes unconsciously attracted to Evert's old soul and can't figure out why.

Background:

OTL: Dies shortly after joining Party; major failure for MC; no romantic interest in MC due to antagonistic nature and MC's meekness/inexperience in OTL

NTL: Death averted by MC (intentionally or butterfly effect); MC's old soul attractive to CB

Is driven wild for power.

Over time, she is unconsciously attracted romantically to Evert's old soul and his maturity in allowing her the distance and not pursuing her.

Lennie

Name:

Lennie Fox

Trope:

British

Job:

Spiritualist (Scam artist/pick pocket); plays a scout role when traveling

Birthday:

2299

Hard Affinities:

earth

Height:

158 cm

Soft Affinities:

Light/dark

Hair Color:

Romance:

Weapon:

Dual-daggers

Notable Skills:

Lesser Skills:

Personality Traits:

Short; scrawny; hopeless womanizer

Background:

OTL: Robbed MC shortly after his arrival in City A

NTL: Scared shitless by MC; asks to be trained and becomes MC's gofer

Involved in various organized crime and crime; growing up (orphan), learned to find the biggest, baddest MF out there, and become his lackey; hence his easy segue into the group; emotional development will be either independence, or leadership, or developing his own desires

Vince

Name:

Vincentas Edvardas Žutautas

Trope:

Lithuanian

Job:

Spiritualist

Birthday:

2291

Hard Affinities:

Water

Height:

198 cm

Soft Affinities:

Thermal

Hair Color:

Romance:

Weapon:

Hammer

Notable Skills:

Lesser Skills:

Personality Traits:

Heavy-set guy; oldest of group; protector role emotional; and a tank in the field.

Background:

OTL: Older member of the dojo well ahead of Evert;

NTL: As an older member of the dojo, he joins in the tourney and is bushwhacked by Evert

Spiritual Techniques:

Ice Wave

Snowball

Hot Shower

Tundra

Hot Water Wall

He lost near and dear to him as a child, and so he feels a compulsive need to protect; this leads to his desire for more power. Emotional development is to separate the two, and realize that not everyone needs protections (he gets injured in fight) (book 1); in book 2, not everyone will be protected (he’s a bit sheltered since his gaining strength in Dorflich, both pre and post Evert, so early losses will hit hard).

Elemental Distribution Across Party

Evert

Becca

Lennie

Vince

Sam

Fire

X

Earth

X

Water

X

X

Air

X

X

Light

X

X

X

Kinetic

X

X

X

Thermal

X

X

X

Electric

X

X