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The Tales of Olta

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The Tales of Olta is a dark fantasy set in an alternative school for magic. | By @brettedwardstout.com | Books 1 - 4 coming soon from @breurmedia.com.

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frjosom@frjosom.com · 3h ago

Antimatter Monasteries (and others) are scattered across the galaxy. Wherever civilizations found a stellar system with no vivaformable planets but with material resources to build a Monastery, they would leave behind these automated facilities, making antimatter and refining useful ores… #frjosom

The Tales of Olta@talesofolta.com · 47m ago

At Olta School of Magic, new students' robes are black until they have their House revealed to them in the Revelations Chamber.

The room was octagonal, and ornate. Statues towered to the ceiling in the three-story space, facing inward. Detailing the statues were carvings of magical plants and creatures. Each of the three levels was tiered with unlit balconies populated by hundreds of robed students who watched the moment unfold. On the ground floor, the youngest of the students’ robes were black.
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 17h ago

#NovemberWorldbuilders Heya, friends, how's everyone doing? This is the last day of our color themed week! Tell me about something in your world that is BLACK. Or, if you want to talk about something grey and didn't get a chance yesterday, today is another good opportunity! 🖤

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #NovemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Colors 7: Something in your world that is black The background image shows a ship on a river with rocky hills and forests nearby. A natural arch connects two pieces of land, and there is a robed man standing on the arch, watching the ship
frjosom@frjosom.com · 5h ago

Hey, Kira! I'm getting a late go today! Black is the color of uninhabited LastDay. It is also the color of goverment, law, & remembrance. Shown here is the wooden Badge of Office for the Island's Speaker, which shows the colors of the six inhabited Days and LastDay… #frjosom #NovemberWorldbuilders

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 17h ago

#NovemberWorldbuilders Heya, friends, how's everyone doing? This is the last day of our color themed week! Tell me about something in your world that is BLACK. Or, if you want to talk about something grey and didn't get a chance yesterday, today is another good opportunity! 🖤

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #NovemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Colors 7: Something in your world that is black The background image shows a ship on a river with rocky hills and forests nearby. A natural arch connects two pieces of land, and there is a robed man standing on the arch, watching the ship
The Tales of Olta@talesofolta.com · yesterday

Much of the Olta School of Magic is white stone or stucco. (Special thanks to the amazing Oli Cristadoro for the beautiful illustration of the Olta campus!) #NovemberWorldbuilders #fuckTERFmagic #TalesOfOlta

The same rectangular cloister that the Great Aquarium had occupied on the floor above was, on the House Floor, an entirely different scene of aquatic magnificence. Sweet-smelling steam clouded and perfumed the air, rising upward into the enchanted ceiling. Beams of artificial sunlight filtered delicately in the billowing cotton of the steam, gently landing on an elaborate wonderland of travertine-terraced mineral springs. Thermal algae colored the water a vibrant turquoise as it splashed over the coconut-white limestone, trickling down rusty orange and pink-stained rock till being absorbed into the next turquoise basin and the next. Students soaked, stretched, lathered, and laughed in the pools. Even here, a couple was kissing while another student splashed to get them to stop, and others held up protective enchantments to protect their books from getting wet.Illustration of the Olta School of Magic by the amazing artist Oli Cristadoro.
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 2d ago

Good morning, #NovemberWorldbuilders! The last two color days of this week will be white and black, but feel free to squeeze a grey in on either day if you'd like! For today: Tell me about something in your world that is white (or grey!)

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #NovemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Colors 6. Something in your world that is white The background image shows a ship on a river with rocky hills and forests nearby. A natural arch connects two pieces of land, and there is a robed man standing on the arch, watching the ship
Arthur Breur - composer, writer, creative@arthurbreur.com · 2d ago

I do love the "fanfare" part of this piece. While the main theme represents seeing students walking around on the campus, the fanfare at the end represents seeing one of the Olta School of Magic's floating dormitories, majestically soaring overhead. #AmComposing #ComposerLife #ThemeSong

The Tales of Olta@talesofolta.com · 2d ago

The beautifully designed logo for The Tales of Olta combines beautifully with the quirky, inspiring music by Arthur Breur in the first Tales of Olta video on YouTube! @arthurbreur.com @brettedwardstout.com @breurmedia.com #TalesOfOlta #fuckTERFmagic youtu.be/UAiEm7eoPTA

The Tales of Olta@talesofolta.com · 3d ago

The robes of the mysterious figure who appears in the Lunch Hall are purple. #talesofolta #NovemberWorldbuilders #FuckTERFMagic

Blue perked up, “I love it! Like a chosen name. That’s amazing.” Waz popped a grape in his mouth. “Is it really chosen if someone forced it on you?” He winked at Woofy, who looked away. Woofy reached over and took the rest of Wadjet’s half-eaten muffin. “The truth is I was just born with ordinary ears that happen to be pointy. But one well-placed lie and people will run with it.” Waz nodded at Mace. “Oy, you seem awfully calm for the kid at the center of the biggest shitstorm the likes of this place has ever seen. Your parents cast some kind of maniacal enchantment on you to keep you from losing it?” Mace rolled her eyes. “It’s called therapy. Not sorcery.” “Did you get your schedule yet?” Blue asked Mace. “Clearly not,” Wadjet declared. “Schedules are determined after you get to your house, they’ll probably…” Her voice trailed off as she looked up at something behind Mace. Waz’s eyes grew large, and he looked down at his plate, diverting his gaze.  Mace opened her mouth to speak when the two senior boys whom Headmaster Dalton had been whispering to approached the table. Their robes were each trimmed in shining metal fabric, one silver and the other gold. “Mace Morningstar, The Assembly has asked—" Just then, the room went silent and dark. The light through the windows dimmed, and the food seemed to pale in color. The candle flames on the tables and in the chandeliers took on a strange rainbow flame. The doors to the lunchroom opened by themselves with a thunderous boom. A figure in billowing deep purple robes poured into the room as if being pulled by the air. The robes were trimmed with the same strange geometric language Mace had seenon the Revelations Chamber floor. The hooded figure did not look up or reveal itself as it traveled the length of the room.  The flowing purple fabric lifted and moved like swarming tentacles held by an invisible force. Blue stared and shivered. The blue from her robes began to stain purple at the edges. She quickly looked away, and the purple stain withdrew from the fabric of her robe. The shy boy next to Waz clung to the wand under his blue robe while staring at the purple sorcerer. Unlike Blue, the boy was not lucky enough to know how to look away. A stain of purple engulfed his robes, and the flesh of his face changed from olive to a deathly pale, matching the colorlessness of the diamonds in a pendant he wore around his neck. As the flowing robes approached Mace, the figure stopped. The robes hung still, as if filmed in slow-motion mid-flight. No one moved. A delicate, golden-gloved hand raised from beneath one of the purple sleeves and felt the air as if to examine its texture. Then, abruptly, the moment of stillness ended. The figure resumed walking and passed out of the other side of the Lunch Hall. The students looked at one another, their eyes wide with shock. Woofy reached out to touch Mace’s hand, but Blue wagged her finger, warning him not to do anything. Inhaling deeply, Mace stood, and the senior boys in trimmed robes led her from the underclassman lunch room. Mace glanced back at the table, where her eyes met Blue’s… whose expression was one of fear.
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 3d ago

#NovemberWorldbuilders, today is all about that PURPLE! Tell me about something in your world which is that most royal of colors. 💜 As always, any shade/hue applies, and I don't care to distinguish purple and violet for a prompt game, so if it's *technically violet*, then please include it, too!

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #NovemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Colors 5: Something in your world that is purple The background image shows a ship on a river with rocky hills and forests nearby. A natural arch connects two pieces of land, and there is a robed man standing on the arch, watching the ship