Chapter 1: Facadia the Wisher

Series title on episode 1

## Summary

**Chapter 1: Facadia the Wisher** marks the beginning of the Wisher World story. It is broken into eight parts spanning episodes 1-8. This chapter serves as an introduction to Facadia, her tumultuous relationship with medieval society, and the tragedy of her powers.

### Plot

The story is set in Rouen, France, which has been set ablaze during a violent peasant revolt. Facadia the wisher observes the city from the window of an empty cathedral. Watching the flames glaze across the city, she blames herself for the situation. Facadia claims the city’s chaos was caused by her curse, and that she is no better than her father.

During this time, a noble is chased out of his castle by peasants and his own staff. He slaughters revolters as he runs to the cathedral in order to repent for the crimes he just committed. Inside the cathedral, Facadia and the noble have an unfriendly encounter. The noble demands a wish from Facadia, motivated to reclaim the riches he had just lost during the revolt. When she shows reluctance to oblige, he attacks. Despite wanting to engage, she restraints herself from fighting back. Facadia instead decides to give him his wish.

Facadia states that she has the ability to turn spoken words into a reality however, the wish will take the form of the noble’s heart’s true substance. As the wish powers up, a band of knights and peasants interrupt them in order to capture the noble for his crimes. The noble’s name is revealed to be Chancellor Festus.

At once the wish manifest into enormous sharp pillars of gold and crystal. Chancellor Festus and all but one of the band of men die from being punctured/crushed by the structures. One escapes with injuries. Facadia, having leaped out of the way has a sullen and serious expression, implying that she knew the outcome of the wish would be grim.

## Publishing

*Chapter 1: Facadia the Wisher* was published on Webtoon Canvas in eight episodes.

### Episodes & dates:

* Episode 1: Facadia the Wisher pt. 1 / Oct 29, 2022
* Episode 2: Facadia the Wisher pt. 2 / Nov 5, 202
* Episode 3: Facadia the Wisher pt. 3 / Nov 18, 2022
* Episode 4: Facadia the Wisher pt. 4 / Dec 4, 2022
* Episode 5: Facadia the Wisher pt. 5 / Dec 17, 2022
* Episode 6: Facadia the Wisher pt. 6 / Dec 31, 2022
* Episode 7: Facadia the Wisher pt. 7 / Jan 3, 2022
* Episode 8: Facadia the Wisher pt. 8 / Jan 21, 2022

### Extras

* Episode Promo Art Cover Gallery [in Episode 8]

## Concept/ Background

* Chapter 1 was written resemble a self-contained story that fully addressed the series premise with major internal set ups and pay offs. This was done to hopefully gain audience trust on delivering longer chapter long set ups and pay offs as the story goes on.
* In episode 1 the introduction to Facadia was written for the audience to see the variety of sides to her personality that come up in the overall story of Wisher World, all in one scene. This includes her contemplativeness, goofiness, religiosity, frustration with herself, a hints of the important relationship she has with her father.
* In episode 2 there are was an intention to minimize full body forward facing shots of Chancellor Festus. Most of the panels show him small in the frame, as a silhouette, or heavily zoomed in on. This was to imply visually to the audience that he is not a major character despite having an entire episode centered on him so early in the story. This is in contrast to Facadia in the episode right before this, and Keomi from later on in the story. Both of their introduction episodes include lots of forward facing and large full body shots of them.
* Episodes 1 -2 are colored much more minimally compared to the rest of the series because as a series originally intended to be black and white, there was little vision of Wisher World color aesthetic yet. Coloring was minimal for speed and to meet the demand for colored art on Webtoon.
* Blues and other tropical colors become prominent in order to set Wisher World’s aesthetic apart from the browns and grays associated with its medieval setting.
* The opening shot of the city was drawn traditionally. It was part of an earlier uncompleted version of chapter 1.

#### Earlier versions

* Punloid’s first version of the story told in Chapter 1 was originally written in a letter to a friend in 2014. The general plot is nearly identical. One difference is that the noble was a knight and had a band of knight underlings.
* In an intermediate draft of the story, the nobleman had a daughter he was trying to protect and help escape the castle in which they get separated.

## Trivia

* The song Facadia sings in episode 1 is a medieval catholic hymn named Veni Creator Spiritus by Giovanni Vianini and Scola Gregoriana Mediolanesis.
* The peasant revolt in the story is a loose reference to the real life 1382 peasant revolt in Rouen, France known as the Harelle.