The Story So Far...

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This page is an attempt to summarize the story of Aurora to make it easier for re-readers to find parts of the story and be able to find related wiki pages for parts of the story they'd like to know more about.

**To anyone who has not yet read the comic or is not caught up, please do not read this, go read the comic first and then come back.**

## Prologue

The story begins in year zero with The Twins creating an Ancient, a voice can be heard speaking of how the creation is closed to the elements. The Twins create more Ancients, Elves, and Humans until the voice is satisfied with a human with pink hair and dark skin who appears to have an affinity for all the elements. Suddenly in a flash of light the voice loses its control over this new human. In the background a panic grips all the assembled creations and they flee as the voice yells and lashes out at the Twins, blaming them for its failure.

## Chapter 1

Vash appears in his city (also named Vash), which has been under siege by chimeras. He goes out to fight the chimeras and discovers the Collector, who is responsible for them. The Collector then destroys the city. She reveals to Vash that she drew him out to steal his soul, saying that, while she's "taken apart hundreds of mortal souls ... [she's] never acquired the soul of a god". Vash then stabs her, but it has no effect, and she stabs him instead. The Collector then steals his soul, storing it in the dagger she stabbed him with, leaving Vash collapsed on the ground. The Collector disappears into a boulder, taking Vash deep underground (into the Singing Caves).

Meanwhile, a few hours later, Vash's body wakes up. He recognizes Vash's sword, and verbally questions where Vash is. He then tries to stab into the now-mountain that used to be the city of Vash, but the stab wound stops him, and he passes out. As he is unconscious, a mysterious hooded figure walks over and appears over him.

## Chapter 2

Vash's body awakens in a hollowed-out tree with the mysterious woman nearby. She introduces herself as Alinua and explains that she lives outside the city before it was destroyed. The two of them talk and Vash's body realizes that he is a separate entity from Vash. Vash's body tries to leave to find Vash but Alinua stops him, revealing that she is a carrier of the Chimeric Plague, and is unsure if her healing might have resulted in a mutation. Vash's body is insistent, however, and they eventually agree that they can investigate the ruins of the city if Alinua comes with to make sure nothing goes wrong.

They find the city and realize that Vash wants to return in order to free the souls of the people in a death rite, otherwise they will be trapped between life and death. Alinua attempts to break into the Singing Caves using her Life magic, but loses control. Vash's body insists that she doesn't try again, and they start heading back to Alinua's tree to consider their next course of action when a stone giant approaches from the woods.

## Chapter 3

The stone giant attacks the two, and they start running through the forest as Vash's body explains that the giant is called a Sentinel. He orders Alinua to run and find a safe place while he fights the sentinel, remembering more about them as he fights.

Alinua, meanwhile, has ran and hidden in a tree, where she hears the fight. She has a revelation that she doesn't want to die without helping and goes to aid Vash's body in the fight. Vash's body is critically injured in the fight just before Alinua returns, and she heals him just enough to stabilize him before taking on the sentinel with her Life magic. She succeeds in ripping it apart, but again loses control and passes out, where she has a vision of a ten-eyed green being saying "FINALLY!" She jolts awake a few hours later, with her eyes suddenly green where they were once grey. Alinua notices Vash's body still badly injured and cautiously goes to heal him, where she realizes that she has a newfound mastery over her magic. She fully heals Vash's body and comes to the realization that she's "really alive."

The two return to Alinua's tree to gather their things and head out to find Vash. As they leave, Vash's body decides on a name: Kendal, after Vash's sword.

## Chapter 4

The chapter opens with a prologue by an unknown researcher about the Standing Storm and the mysteries about it. The researcher states that he intends to venture into the center of the Storm and find what lies there, and sets out to complete this task.

Kendal and Alinua arrive at a small town called Windcrest after a few days of travel, and they are immediately stopped by a scared mob of citizens who think that they are the ones who destroyed Vash. The mob is stopped by a cloudchild named Kria who saw the destruction of Vash from above and confirms that they were not dangerous. She leads them to talk with the magistrate of the town so they can offer insight into how the battle went. The magistrate expresses distrust in the two of them, and grills them on how exactly they escaped. Kendal draws his sword and communicates with Vash in order to earn the magistrate's trust, and the magistrate apologizes for his accusations.

After the meeting with the magistrate, Kendal expresses his fear of not being capable of saving Vash. Alinua assuages his fear and they go shopping in the town market when suddenly the wind coming off of the Storm stops.

## Chapter 5

The disappearance of the Storm poses a problem for Windcrest since their infrastructure is based off of harnessing the constant wind. Kendal notices that a cave entrance was exposed with the Storm's disappearance, but before they depart, Alinua grows a massive tree on the edge of Windcrest to sustain the town while they rework their infrastructure. Out of gratitude, the magistrate gifts them two mounts for their journey.

While on their way to the cave, they notice an explosion of black energy and go to investigate. The green entity from Alinua's vision tells her to run, but Kendal spots a person in the middle of the cloud and goes to see if he can help. The person yells at him to run, and Alinua runs in to fetch Kendal and get him away. The person releases another explosion of black energy and Kendal is severely wounded shielding Alinua. Alinua is able to heal him, and when the figure in the cloud sees Alinua, he sees her as a green figure with eyes all over. The dark energy retreats into the man's body, revealing it to be the researcher from the prologue of Chapter 4, after which he faints.

Kendal convinces Alinua to take in the man and make sure he's okay, and when he awakes a few hours later, he introduces himself as Erin Ruunaser.

## Chapter 6

Erin explains that at the center of the Storm, he found a ruined Ancient city and a damaged pedestal engraved with the runes of the six Primordials. In an attempt to stop the Storm, Erin touched the pedestal and a dark entity entered his body.

*more work needed*

## References

1. ↑ Page 1.1.11 (comicaurora.com)
2. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-3-28/
3. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-3-33/