Plot

The Nova franchise is currently split into 2 sections: the Paragon Quartet, and Chek's Journal.

## Paragon Quartet

The Paragon Quartet is a series of 4 different books, or "seasons", each filled with a variety of different adventures starring Ace and The Gang. They are intended to be read in order, as each book follows a larger, all-encompassing story.

### Season 1:

#### Escaping Bonds

This arc begins with Ace, Chi-Hal, Sentinel, and Blaike all captured in prison cells in the Star's Eye facility. Ace and Chi-Hal were captured after an encounter with Sapphire, Sentinel was busted while trying to peek on the Volcan Raiders, and Blaike ran away from his dad. Due to shenanigans with Ace's Ion Stone, there is a power outage in the facility, allowing the team to escape. Ace and Sentinel unite over their heroics and route an escape, while Chi-Hal and Blaike follow a much more heavy plot as they face off against Sapphire. Eventually, the teams unite, and face off against Sapphire. While it seems they are in the clear, Olberic suddenly busts in and demands Blaike. The team struggle against him, pulling out all the stops just to get on even ground, Eventually, Olberic reluctantly notes the team's power, and allows Blaike to be free.

#### City of Lights

This arc takes place a few months afterward, with the team finally establishing themselves in the world. They are hired by local police to visit New Lumio to clear the streets of crime. While in the alleyways, however, they are stopped by a clumsy Dawn and quiet Cavier. The team eventually bond with the new recruits, however, and they take up some local antics. However, this peace is shattered when Trika, an illusive chick, breaks into Dawn and Cavier's home and steals a bloodbending staff. Through Cavier, the team uncover that Trika was Cavier's past girlfriend who he betrayed for the greater good, and is now hired by a mysterious group to pretty much enslave New Lumio. Through further struggles, the team eventually raid her tower, in which the lovebirds face off against Trika. She proceeds to humiliate and sexually harass Cavier and possess Dawn, ending with Ace surging power through the building, causing lights to flicker and letting Dawn pull off a powerful attack. As the team recovers from the incident, Cavier is forgiven.

### Season 2:

#### The Sunspear Crisis

This arc begins a month after City of Lights, with the team leaving New Lumio, as well as Dawn and Cavier behind. This also marks Dawn's birthday. Cavier, desperate for the team to stay together and to celebrate Dawn, "hires" some people to give them the adventure of a lifetime. He pulls the strings to get them to these chain of islands, minus Sentinel, where they encounter that these dudes are actually serious terrorists, going by the name of Sunspear. The team gets split up between Ace and Chi-Hal recruiting an oracle and looking to destroy the Sunspear, while Dawn, Cavier, and Blaike instead teach Blaike magic and relax. This culminates in the raid at Sunspear, where Ace and Chi-Hal get betrayed by the oracle and fight through hell, while Cavier is revealed to have caused the entire crisis. Eventually, the Sunspear collapses, and the team leave for their own ventures, while Dawn and Cavier stay behind to deal with the consequences.

#### Redwood Run

This arc features Ace and Chi-Hal, following The Sunspear, with Chi-Hal returning to the forest that she trusts while Ace pathetically follows her. Chi-Hal vents for some shit, when they uncover a mixed crisis of powerful firebenders led by Sapphire, as well as a burst of hostile Koridon. Ace and Chi-Hal then navigate the forest, meeting the Kimbo and Caitlyn, culminating in saving the entire fucking ecosystem. However, as they return to home base, they find the Kimbo hosting a coup, preparing to fight the Umbright, who caused all of this.

#### Ruination

This arc goes in parallel with Redwood Run. Sentinel and Blaike, who stayed in the Sunspear islands to look over the Sunspear, interrogate the cultists and discover that they came from a mysterious continent west of Novide. The two go to explore this trail, stumbling into Osterra. They then encounter the Gleamisage, an Osterran people responsible for Trika, who are trying to dissolve Novide and destroy the Core. They also stumble across a few powerful Sunspear agents led by Lukai, a Lumurai. Sentinel and Blaike eventually uncover the mysteries of Osterra and befriend Lukai. Lukai teaches Blaike light magic, completing his magic training, and the trio face off against the Gleamisage leader and his Mana Knight, halting them from harnessing the Core's power, though weakening it. Sentinel and Blaike then return to Novide, where they find a war between the Kimbo and Umbright has broken out.

### Season 3:

#### Among Stars

Blaike and Sentinel call the team to unite, and find that Ace managed to escape the Green Swath but left Caitlyn and Chi-Hal behind to deal with the coup, and that Dawn and Cavier have been mostly forgiven in New Lumio. They find that a local leader is using the Time Stone to make his kingdom eternal, and so the team face off against him, claiming the last stone. Before that, though, they befriend a scientist named Chek and they are encountered by the Star's Eye member Nicholi, who refuses to join but keeps a close eye on the team. The team, after learning many of their problems are due to the Star's Eye, then decide to raid their main facility. During the raid, they fight off Sapphire and Slush, are helped by a mysterious thief named Alcatraz, and prove themselves to Nicholi. However, as they prepare to defeat the chairman of Star's Eye, they learn that the Star's Eye does not actually support the war, as it was spearheaded by the new king, whose policies they disagree with. After talking with the Star's Eye and ending the Volcan Raiders, the Star's Eye and The Gang call a temporary truce, allowing Nicholi and Chek to go with them to defeat the king of Umbright. They are also joined by Chi-Hal and her resistance movement. However, as the team plans their attack, Ace and Chi-Hal get into a heated argument, and Ace, pressured by the war, having to work with the evil Star's Eye, and fearing losing his friends and adventure, surges with power, causing reality to warp.

#### Omega Reality

The team wakes to find reality warped and unfamiliar. While attempting to navigate their new world, they are captured and brought to a castle, where Ace attempts to talk to them, but Chi-Hal argues with him, leading to a fight that causes the team to be imprisoned. They are broken out by a new rebellion that wants reality to go back to normal, and the team navigates this new crisis while Sentinel stays with Ace to calm him down. Shit happens, Ace lifts the fucking castle into the sky, Chek's liquid mana is used for magic, the rebellion makes a huge spear out of crystals, and the team attempts to fight Ace. Ace snaps, Sentinel and Chi-Hal fight, and eventually the team make up. Ace resets reality, though he makes magic accessible to all, and opening up the opportunity for Wild Magic. The team then finally go their separate ways. Ace decides to return to the Icelands and live in isolation, scattering the stones across the world. Blaike attempts to master his 5 old magics, Mana magic, and learn about Wild Magic, and forms a team alongside Nicholi to keep an eye on Star's Eye. Sentinel helps Blaike now and then, though he eventually begins operating in Osterra as a vigilante. Chi-Hal navigates a truce between the Kimbo and Umbright, and Dawn and Cavier return to New Lumio.

### Season 4:

The Fire Arc, this time with 100% more explosions, angst, and death!