Book I

The first book of *Unsounded*, made up of seventeen chapters of varying lengths. Subtitled "The Zombie and the Brat".

## Chapter 1: A Reluctant Escort

The tagline for Chapter 1: A Reluctant Escort reads "In Which There Are Strange Beasts & Stranger Stirrings". This chapter is thirty-one pages long including its cover page. The cover page depicts Sette and Duane walking on a path that is just starting into some trees.

Sette Frummagem and Duane Adelier are introduced, as well as the concept of wrights, spells and Senet beasts. Lemuel Adelier appears in a flashback to a battle, though it won't be clear he's a named character for several chapters more.

Nary-A’Care Frummagem appears in The Midnight Cricket via a hazy flashback when Sette is knocked unconscious, but his face is obscured and he remains unnamed and mysterious, though unlike Lemuel obviously tied to the story. Stockyard Frummagem and his Deadly Nevergreen are mentioned.

## Chapter 2: The Red Berry Boys

The tagline for Chapter 2: The Red Berry Boys reads "In Which Bad Guys Ruin Everyone's Good Time". This chapter is sixty-nine pages long including its cover page. The cover page depicts Cara crying while surrounded by the burning bodies of plague victims while smoke eels twist through the rising smoke.

The Red Berry Boys Starfish, Turas Thanigirri, Ephsephin Alweather and Bett are introduced along with their current victims including Jivi Flask and Cara. Captian Toma's Peaceguard contingent of Elka and Petr makes their first appearance. Cutter is introduced but not yet seen. Mathis Quigley and Uaid are mentioned when Starfish is complaining that they won't work with them on their current smuggling job. Pymarics are introduced through Beadman Better's Rattraps and Bett's attempt to use one to summon a ghostly construct to fight Duane. Sette picks up Boo and Cara mistakes Duane for Bastion Winalils, who remains unnamed as "Black Tongue Doctor".

## Chapter 3: A Miserable Drizzle

The tagline for Chapter 3: A Miserable Drizzle reads "In Which Skies & Temperaments Are Begloomed". This chapter is fifty-one pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts a pair of carts pulled by giant hounds full of limp collared and chained slaves being rained on while Ephsephin's wounds are treated by Cutter by one of the hounds.

Regina Flask is seen in monstrous form in her son Jivi's dream, though she's yet unnamed. Plods are seen in their usual "Recycled Labor" form very unlike Duane. A woman explains the four twin Gefendur gods--Father Riv, Mother Yerta, Brother Baelar and Sister Tirna--to pilgrims on the road while trying to sell figurines. The final two members of Emil's squad are introduced but not named. Mathis Quigley, his son Matty and Uaid appear on panel and get a proper introduction. Chea Toma, Bodkin and Pantoffel are introduced and named, Chea and Bodkin in conversations as they are not present.

## Chapter 4: Convergence

The tagline for Chapter 4: Convergence reads "In Which Heroes Are Difficult To Find". This chapter is seventy-five pages long including its cover page. Said cover depicts Sette leading Duane on a rope leash past a wooden sign while in the background the giant construct Uaid walks through the moonlight forest, towering over the trees.

Maike's name is revealed and Siwl gets some characterization but no name yet, and Eriks is introduced but not named. Bastion Winalils is named and given an introduction in a flashback to his hiring of Nary and Sette, Regina's shadowed form is seen in the black as Jivi tries to plan an escape and rescue of his fellow slaves. Vliegeng are named and seen for the first time while Duane recounts a battle and starflies are named as Sette sets a bunch lose to cause a distraction. Roger Foi-Hellick is first alluded to and the Foi-Hellick Rebellion is first mentioned and said to have been thirty years prior.

## Chapter 5: Darkening Sky

The tagline for Chapter 5: Darkening Sky reads "In Which Two Wrights Make A Wrong". This chapter is sixty pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts Quigly working pymary in the foreground while Matty runs towards him and the Red Berry Boys hang out in the background, all among white trunked trees.

Swarm is used for the first time, showing how useful a Pymaric can actually be in battle in the hands of someone competent. As Duane starts hallucinating with nightfall Mikaila Adelier is seen as a glowing mnemonic ghost intruding on his grasp of reality. The Black Tongues are spoken of for the first time with enough detail to put together an idea of what the group is. No new characters are introduced or named in the story's present.

## Chapter 6: A Good Night for Crazy

The tagline for Chapter 6: A Good Night for Crazy reads "In Which We Witness Several Arrivals & Departures". This chapter is eighty-four pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts Starfish and Ephsephin yelling at Quigley while Quigley reaches for Matty who is sitting just in one of the slave carts and Jivi looks on where he's chained inside the cart, casually reaching for a bottle.

The blackmailed Peaceguard Elan Aled, Stockyard's henchladies Anadyne Frummagem and Knock-Me-Down Frummagem and the Pymaric construct Timofey make their entrances.

Vienne Quigley is given her introduction by Elka who explains she was some kind of pacifistic revolutionary with the rebel group The March who was killed by the Aldish government. There's an apparently popular play in Cresce about Vienne and her husband Mathis fighting the Vits Council.

## Chapter 7: Phantom Pain

The tagline for Chapter 7: Phantom Pain reads "In Which Nothing Is Forgotten & Death Holds No Dominion". This chapter is one-hundred twenty-three pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts Duane working as a scrivener while his client happily talks about his family, his stories taking shape in the smoke wisping above their heads.

Iori Ripa and Rahm Ripa are make their introductions in Ethelmik. In the Khert Sette is chased into a cave containing Murkoph by Lady Ilganyag, then flees and finds herself in Duane's memories as he relives the day and evening of his assassination. Mikaila Adelier and Lemuel Adelier get proper introductions and Leysa Adelier, Simon Adelier, William Argenti (Jr.), Bodi, William Argenti (Sr.), Shadwe Grandvin, and Thackery are all introduced. Sette finally realizes that Duane is a real person, with soul attached and intact, rather than just a plod with an artificial intelligence.

## Chapter 8: Masks

The tagline for Chapter 8: Masks reads "In Which Everyone Is A Liar". This chapter is seventy-seven pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts Elka cheering on the conscripts of Ethelmik as they walk from town in a sort of impromptu parade. Pages of Crescian propaganda flutter through the air in the foreground while the residents of Ethelmik look over the leaving conscripts from balconies.

Siwl finally gets named as he and Maike make their exit, splitting from Captain Toma and Lieutenant Elka to leave with the army and the rest of the Peaceguard headed towards the northern boarder to deal with the latest Aldish incursion. Hart Hetr of the Peaceguard, Emne Toma who is Emil's wife, and Officers Vale and Yuma of Ethelmik are introduced. Crescian Lord General Bell, part of the ruling Council of Four, is mentioned.

## Chapter 9: The Deadly Nevergreen

The tagline for Chapter 9: The Deadly Nevergreen reads "Wherein Family Ties Chafe the Throat". This chapter is seventy-four pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts a bloodied Sette fleeing the as yet unintroduced Bodkin Jr. through a dirty alley while reaching for a coin purse. Girls giggle in the background next to a crude graffiti depicting Sette, and there's a bloodied body on the ground between Sette and Bodkin.

Sette and Duane finally reach Stockyard Frummagem, at his illicit Ethelmik brothel the Deadly Nevergreen. Among his employees Stockyard turns out to have two more of Sette's cousins working for him, Anadyne and Knock-Me-Down Frummagem.

## Chapter 10: The Deadly Nevergreen part 2

The tagline for Chapter 10: The Deadly Nevergreen part 2 reads "Here There Be Monsters". This chapter is one-hundred sixty-four pages long including its cover page. Said cover page depicts Sette bound with prostitutes throwing wine on her while Stockyard and his gang celebrate. Toby hoists a bound Duane overhead where nooses dangle from the ceiling as decoration.

Sette plots against her cousin in light of new information and tries to justify her father's actions, and her own in support of him. Duane is escorted back to the Nevergreen by Stockyard's henchmen. Beneath the Nevergreen the Shatterstar Cache reveals just what its been turned into. Cutter reveals his true colors to be more ambitious and even darker than his already known murderous and people eating urges. Segil is introduced.

## Chapter 11: Only a Cause

The tagline for Chapter 11: Only a Cause reads "In Which Idealism Gives Rise to Ugly Ideas". This chapter is ninety-two pages long including its cover page. Said cover depicts Dani and Rahm Ripa demonstrating their flying device for the Queen's sister while his mother looks fretfully on and ominous cracks appear in the wings.

Iori and Rahm give shelter once more to the Mathis, Matty and Jivi, with the addition of Sette and Duane. Jivi asks after a name he saw in their garden and Iori tells him and Matty of her son Dani and his death while demonstrating the flying device he and Rahm were constructing. The Ripas are visited by Bastion Winalils who talks Rahm into betraying Mathis. While this is going on Bell's forces return to Ethelmik to kill the whole town in order to prevent word of what he's doing getting out, and blame the attack on the Aldish.

## Chapter 12: The Collar of Kasslyne

The tagline for Chapter 12: The Collar of Kasslyne reads "In Which The Question Itself Is Called Into Question". This chapter is one-hundred and one pages long including its cover page. Said cover depicts waterwomen swimming and Uaid walking among them from behind and underwater.

Waterwomen are first seen with the introduction of Minnow, River, and her group. Sara Litriya, Siya Litriya and Ruffles make their first appearance when Mathis and Minnow escort the kids into the Litriya Shrine. The chapter completed its public upload on November 19, 2017.

## Chapter 13: Litriya Shrine

The tagline for Chapter 13: Litriya Shrine reads "From Whom Do I Hope for Help, O Heavens, If Cruel Are Those Who Love Me?". This chapter is one-hundred and forty pages long including its cover page. The chapter first started uploading publicly on February 13, 2019 and was completed on November 24, 2019.

The cover page for Chapter 13 depicts Prakhuta reaching mournfully from his monstrous bleeding Silver Eel of twisted and mangled bodies towards the golden Khert and the happy squid-fish memories swimming there.

## Chapter 14: The Brothers Adelier

The tagline for Chapter 14: The Brothers Adelier reads "In Which Motherless Children Wander". This chapter is one-hundred and thirty-three pages long including its cover page. The chapter first started uploading publicly on January 14, 2018 and was completed on December 16, 2018.

The cover page for Chapter 14 depicts Duane and Lemuel back-to-back in the middle of battle, Duane crafting a green lion shaped spell with one hand and casting Lemuel's swords with burning heat with the other while Lemuel grins raising his duel swords at his back.

This chapter introduces the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll members Captain Claggart, Jon, Magnus, Darid, Danila, Morty, Martin, Henri and Evans as well as the Foi-Hellick rebels Vampire, Dhampir, and Eustace all from some fifteen years prior as Duane tells the story of how he came to meet Lowing Shaensigin during the Foi-Hellick Affair.

## Chapter 15: Litriya Shrine, Part 2

The tagline for Chapter 15: Litriya Shrine, Part 2 reads "Rust Amid Greenness". This chapter is one-hundred and fifty-four pages long including its cover page. The chapter first started uploading publicly on January 26, 2020 and was completed on February 02, 2021.

The cover page for Chapter 15 depicts Sette, Ruffles, Jivi, Matty, Sara and Siya laying on the floor through a window on a rainy day.

## Chapter 16: Passionate Intensity

The tagline for Chapter 16: Passionate Intensity reads "Wherein Things Fall Apart". This chapter is one-hundred and sixty pages long including its cover page. The chapter first started uploading publicly on April 04, 2021 and was completed April 24, 2022.

The cover page for Chapter 16 depicts Sara walking towards Litriya with a group of pilgrims, turning flirtatiously to a pair of boys. Ruffles stands turned towards the viewer, smiling at her friend while carrying two large full baskets. Siya and two other pairs of twins sit in the shade of a tree watching the procession while Litriya Shrine stands shining on its isle in the background.

With the long storm ended and the stormfolk moved on the shrine faces infiltration and attack. While Litriya proves to not be completely defenseless it is far from a military fortress. The attacking Aldish soldiers include a mysterious figure called the Golden Delight and one of their leaders is very familiar to Duane.

## Chapter 17: Port Morstorben

The tagline for Chapter 17: Port Morstorben reads "And All the Time, That Smiling Sky", it is the final planned chapter of Book I. The chapter first started uploading publicly on June 30, 2022.

The cover page for Chapter 17 depicts Lady Ilganyag reaching mournfully upwards in the khert while sitting in the nest of stolen memories shes gathered, in which numerous characters lay in tangled brambles apparently unconscious.

## Notes

Please note that this refers to the structure of *Unsounded*, not the print volumes.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/716855956551647232/is-unsounded-the-name-for-the-franchise-series-as