Fan Fiction

My attempts at fan fiction started out with a desire to flesh out a backstory for Furnace but it eventually turned in to an abbreviated backstory for all 22 Heroes in the game (including the Nameless Hero). It even led to the creation of two original Heroes, Firebrand and Fuogo, to bring the total to 24. Encouraged by Inkathu's call for contributions and some user comments on the Forum (notably here and here), I posted the stories on the Scribe's Conclave Board as a series, but they were all completed at different times and posted out of order. They are still a work in progress although all you will likely see now are edits to the existing stories (I probably won't be adding any new stories). Here are the links to the stories as they should appear in chronological order on the Forum:

Part in Series	Title	Date Posted
Part I	The Vermilion Foundry and the Rise of Furnace	June 11, 2017
Part II	The Emancipation of Everwinter	August 23, 2017 (b)
Part III	The Haunting at Wintermaul	August 23, 2017 (a)
Part IV	No Tea in the Sandperch	August 24, 2017 (b)
Part V	The Caged Wolf in the Land of the Yetis	August 24, 2017 (a)
Part VI	Return to the Brym	July 28, 2017
Part VII	The Freeing of Firebrand	August 5, 2017

While some research and a great deal of guesswork went into the writing of the stories, and I took care in trying to get everything to fit into the Crazy Kings universe as accurately as possible, the stories remain a mix of canon and mostly non-canon material. I would have liked for instance to tie every Hero to a level or a land in the game, using the predefined Card drop locations when possible. However, nearly two-thirds of the Heroes appear at random in the game and do not appear to have predefined drops. Some Heroes I couldn't tie to an existing land (much less a level) so I had to create a land or pick a level of their own, while trying to keep within the game's storyline. That is why Oni, Blink, Drake and iRon come from the non-canon land of Sarugattori (think 15th and 16th century feudal Japan with some robotic technology dating from the 1920s to the 1940s) but they are actually encountered while they are traveling in the Sandperch Desert. Knox is a notable exception: I thought a watering hole in the neotropical Sandperch Desert would be a more fitting location for a crocodile-hunter than the Unholy Land. So perhaps it could be said Knox was in the south vacationing for the winter! Although there is no predefined drop for Behemoth in the game, a post by TicBits on their Facebook page (and thus canonical) seems to imply he comes from the forests of Everwinter. Like Knox, I have expanded upon this in my fan fiction, having him encountered in the Sandperch Desert as well. My rendition of the background stories for Frostbeard, Furnace and iRon differs substantially from those contained in recent Facebook posts (late March to early April 2018). These posts revealed that Frostbeard and Furnace are brothers as well as Titans that respectively represent the opposing elements of ice and fire. I presume this makes them giant dieties or gods and not Human after all. iRon, on the other hand, was "dug up" in Everwinter (see Hero Cards Spotlight).

Furnace is the main subject of Part I. Haunt is the main subject of Part III.

Here is the key to the symbols used in the table to follow below: It is the same as the predefined drop in the game. When followed by a plus sign it means it has been expanded upon, e.g., Sapphira. There is no apparent predefined drop in the game and so one was added. It is different from the predefined drop in the game, e.g., Knox.

Symbol	Hero Name	Land	Level(s)
	Ace	Unholy Land	"The Siege of Figaro"
	Behemoth	Sandperch Desert	"The Fallen Leviathan" (originally from Everwinter)
	Blink	Sandperch Desert	"Sentinel" (originally from Sarugattori)
	Centurion	Everwinter	"Helm"
	Cindara	The Brym	"Refuge of the Pyroclast"
	Cobra	The Brym	"An Unlikely Haven"
	Drake	Sandperch Desert	"Sentinel" (originally from Sarugattori)
	Firebrand	The Brym	"The Forktongue Pens", "Tunneling Through"
	Frostbeard	Boreal	"The Mikkelwood"
	Fuogo	The Brym	"The Ophidian Pass"
	Furnace	The Brym	"The Caldera’s Blessing"
	Haunt	Unholy Land	"Wintermaul"
	Holly	Unholy Land	"A Watery Grave"
	iRon	Sandperch Desert	"Sentinel" (originally from Sarugattori)
	Knox	Sandperch Desert	"Watering Hole" (not "The Grass is Always Greener")
	Knuckle	Everwinter	"Andegavion Keep"
	Nameless Hero	Everwinter	"The Shores of Everwinter"
	Oni	Sandperch Desert	"Sentinel" (originally from Sarugattori)
	Oracle	Unholy Land	"The Blasted Heath"
	Sapphira	Unholy Land	"A Bridge Too Far", "Vespers", "Aspenfall"
	Shelly	Boreal	"Vintervirke"
	Umbra	Sandperch Desert	"The Nikadian Badlands"
	Valorius	Unholy Land	"Dying Embers"
	Wolfric	Boreal	"The Giant's Table"