Here's the hub for all of my little worlds! You can break them down primarily into The Witch World vs. everything else.
The Witch Warden of the West
The Witch Warden of the West
Sixteen-year-old Clary Tautanham never wanted to do magic. Tending flowers is more her speed. When her parents send her on an apprenticeship with Madame Magnifico, the Witch Warden of the West, Clary is determined to coast for a few years and then head back home. The problem is, Clary arrives to find her teacher murdered—and now she’s got the job.
Clary quickly learns that Madame Magnifico left behind a mess: the people don’t trust her, and the country’s greatest wizard, Vincent Carvello, wants her out. Soon the city will be flooded with witches for the quinquennial Convocation, where Clary is expected to present her last five years of research as the Witch Warden. If only she had any!
With one month until the Convocation, Clary will have to figure out this witch business, solve a few murders, and decide: can she protect the west?
Clary Tautanham: A brand new witch, but the first day of her apprenticeship doesn't quite go the way she expects.
Jacqueline Silva: Third apprentice to the Witch Warden of the North, but if Rose needs her to train a new witch she'd drop anything.
Perrin Lau: A disgruntled postal worker. She has a grudge against Clary for reasons unknown.
The Genius Witch Aliya Ravenbone
The Genius Witch Aliya Ravenbone
Fifteen-year-old Aliya Ravenbone is supposed to be the next Witch Warden. She has it all: the magical genius, the famous family, the cushy apprenticeship. Then the Witch Warden picks her rival as heir to the position, and suddenly witchcraft doesn’t look so inviting. When a pair of famous royal wizards some calling, Aliya leaps to join them.
But wizardry isn’t as grand as it promised, and before long Aliya finds herself in over her head, trapped in the royal towers, and playing mother to a bird of legend.
Aliya will have to decide: what price would she pay to regain her freedom?
Aliya Ravenbone: A magical genius. Second apprentice to the Witch Warden of the North, but she just found out she's never getting the job...
Cassius Caeso: A witch apprentice in his final year of study. He would give up anything to get that title.
Lihua Lin: A new witch under Imani and Soren. She's got a lot to prove if she wants them to give her the time of day.
Ana Baba's Large School for Small Folk
The Haunting of Cerise Brighton
Cerise Brighton is thirteen-years-old and never wants to see a piano again. Her family, a long line of famous musicians, is waiting for her big debut. But Cerise just wants to be a witch.
Equipped with a cat, a book and a bunch of old quills, she enrolls in western Anteria’s famous University to find her own way.
Cerise Brighton: A young girl with a mild haunting problem. The little she knows about magic is surpassed only by how little she knows about people.
Ronan Attie: Cerise's roommate; a selkie who hates the water. He isn't quite sure what he wants out of this whole "school" business, but at least it's dry.
Salma Salamanka: A Reptilian who cares about studying more than anything else. They're hoping to spend the next ten years at the Academy.
The Search for the Rowan Branch
Fourteen-year-old Cerise Brighton’s second year at western Anteria’s University for witches might be too magical. Her homework is piling into mountains, the ghosts hiding in the rafters have started appearing in her bedroom, and the one man who knew how to wrangle the dead has vanished.
Violet: Cerise's biggest rival. Maybe a little stuck up. Loves pink. If anyone's gonna beat Cerise to the rowan branch, it's her.
Melly Maas: Salma's roommate, a magical genius who started school a year early. She plans to graduate in just four years.
Sorcha Bryne A good-natured witch, always looking for a laugh. She throws the best parties.
Percolating Projects
Falling World
This property is the one that's been around since I was a small child. As a teenager I used to rewrite the same story every few years, always beginning with a girl who couldn't stop herself from walking through walls and a boy terrified of people's emotions.
Now the tale is split between a struggling mage knight-in-training (who still can't stop herself from walking through walls), a monk dedicated to the wrong god, and an assassin determined to murder the pantheon.
The boy who feared emotions ran away to the desert to race lizards, where he lived happily ever after and certainly wouldn't get wrapped up in anyone else's plot.
Mihralyn Arfavel: A mage knight in training. She has a weak grasp on her powers, but she and her older brother promised to be knights together.
Vralli Crane: Acolyte to Serafina, the mother goddess. Vralli will be the first new god risen to the pantheon in centuries.
Shaosim: A member of the Oathkeepers, a sect trained to protect the gods from dangers new and old. She aims to murder the entire pantheon.
Demons & Astaire
Astaire Oeillade was born after I saw the movie Inframan for the first time. There's an awesome demon princess with a sidekick who has eyes in the palms of her hands, but I thought a single pair of extra eyes wasn't enough.
Astaire is Chiroptera the Demon Lord's right hand: their loving gaze; their loathing stare. Crysanthemum, my second purple-haired demon who wears tattoos like a suit, is Chiro's left hand.
And the Demon Lord themself is the weight that ties them both to the underworld.
Astaire Oeillade: The Demon Lord's right hand: their loving gaze; their loathing stare.
Chiroptera: Lord over all demons. Scourge of humanity. Loves deeply, when they love at all.
Crysanthemum: The Demon Lord's left hand: their sharpened spear; their piercing strike.
Dara & Wendell
In 2013 I thought this story would be a webcomic, but it's 2024 now and I still only have the four pages I started ten years ago. Hmmmm.
Dara and Wendell were my first real drawing obsessions. Before them I mostly drew fanart for Fire Emblem and Little Witch Academia. Over the last ten years their story has gone a lot of places in my head, and I hope one day I'll finally pin it to the board.
Importantly, the blob creatures are named Ferdinand (aka Nandy) and Moon.
Dara: An acolyte to some kind of moon god? A human girl who fell into the magical realm as part of a ritual some centuries past?
Wendell: Just a regular ol' guy waltzing through a magical world. He has no idea what he's doing or if he should be doing it.
Ferdinand & The Moon: A couple of lil' guys! They may as well be glued to Dara, as they haven't left her side in centuries.