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## ⚝ The Arcana ⚝

Title card

Book cover

### Starring

Stefen Sanchez, Lucas Hale, Naomi Campbell, Austin Dy, Amree Aguinaldo

### Languages

English, Spanish, Italian

**The Arcana** (commonly stylized in promotional media as **THE ΛRCΛNΛ** or simply **Arcana**) is the first project **Austin Dy** and **Amree Aguinaldo** have written together in 2021 so far. Its plot features a boy's love (BL) that would contrast to that of After Solstice, which is both HM and Chrysalis' first girl's love (GL), even though The Arcana will most likely be a *shounen-ai* instead.

The story has six characters to focus on; Kellan Xalvador who is the protagonist, the deuteragonist Diether Lozano, and four tritagonists; Sapphire Chauvera, siblings Illias and Indirah Alnazar, and Lucio Damaris. All of the characters have their own character arcs, with Kellan being **The Fool**, Diether has **Death**, Sapphire having **The Moon**, Illias has **The Hanged Man**, Indirah being **The Magician**, and Lucio is **The Devil**.

## CH**Λ**R**Λ**CTERS

#### **Tritagonists**

* Sapphire Chauvera
* Illias Alnazar
* Indirah Alnazar
* Lucio Damaris

#### **Antagonists**

* The Devil

* The Warlocks
* The Crimson Plague

#### **Minor Characters**

* Khaleesi Rosales
* Elias and Airah Salazar

## LOC**Λ**TIONS LINKS

* Belvoire
* Belvoire University
* Villa Xalvador
* Khaleesi's Cabin
* The Realms

## ITEMS LINKS

* Tarot Deck/Journal of the Arcana
* Aura Amulets

## ORIGIN**Λ**L SONGS

* **Arcane Memories**
	+ **Eyes Wide Open** by Austin Dy and Amree Aguinaldo (theme song)
		- **Eyes Wide Open** (Piano Ver.) by Austin Dy
		- **Eyes Wide Open** (Reprise) by Austin Dy and Amree Aguinaldo
	+ **Eleven : Eleven** by Austin Dy and Amree Aguinaldo (end credits)
	+ **Blood, Sweat, and Tears** by Amree Aguinaldo (featured)

## RECURRING/RUNNING G**Λ**GS

#### **KELLAN**

* It doesn't matter if he's narrating in his own perspective or in a dialogue, Kellan always forgets Indirah's name and keeps calling her "Blanca", due to them knowing each other for a long time. He often says "Bla-- Indirah"; catching himself halfway.
* He apparently has a problem with unlocking doors. In *Chapter II: The High Priestess*, Kellan is shown trying to unlock Indirah's bedroom door just for fun, repeating "Recludo" even though he knows he couldn't open it. In *Chapter VI: The Lovers*, he struggles to open his own bedroom door with a simple key, and used "Recludo" yet again.

#### **DIETHER**

* Diether always gets cut off and interrupted by either someone or something whenever he says a swear word. The interruption follows right after his swear words which are usually "fuck". An example of this is in *Chapter V: The Hierophant*, when Sapphire uses magic to make their teacher pass out and Diether saying, "Let's test this out, you're a stupid motherf--" to prove if she really is asleep. Diether is then interrupted by Sapphire, telling him, "She's asleep, she won't hear you."

#### **SAPPHIRE**

* She's the one who's always getting carried by her friends because of her weight (even if Kellan complains she's too heavy), particularly in *Chapter III: The Empress*, where Kellan jokingly offers her to be carried by him and she takes it, making Kellan carry her from their classroom to the cafeteria.
* Due to her father being a doctor, Sapphire has her fair share of having basic medical knowledge. This is shown in *Chapter V: The Hierophant*, when Diether wants to eat ox tartare for lunch, which is raw meat. Disgusted, Sapphire warns him that he could have Salmonella, E. Coli, and/or Yersinia if he eats it.

#### **ILLIAS**

* Illias almost always accidentally hits someone (mostly Sapphire) for various reasons.

#### **INDIRAH**

* Indirah keeps bumping into someone or some*thing* since she's always reading a book while walking.

#### **LUCIO**

* Lucio has an inability to understand sarcasm or irony, which frustrates the characters.
* He has a habit of wearing white or light-colored clothing because he says it's "flashy and fashionable", when in reality, he keeps soiling them for various reasons and would complain that his outfits are ruined, no matter how he tries to avoid unfortunate instances.
	+ This is exactly the reason why his vest is mostly black and his inner-shirt is white in color for his combat outfit.

#### **MISCELLANEOUS**

* It seems as though everytime the characters are practicing in the school's field (or in the field in general), someone always gets hurt by an equipment, or at least almost getting hurt. The first instance is when Kellan was almost hit by a shield if it weren't for Diether in *Chapter 0: The Fool*, and when Indirah accidentally aims her arrow at Illias in *Chapter VI: The Lovers*.
* At least every character had fallen into the pond right in front of the fountain wall portal to Khaleesi's cabin. This was first shown in as early as *Chapter I: The Magician*, when Kellan gets frustrated with soaking himself wet because of the pond again despite knowing it's there, and once again in *Chapter VI: The Lovers.* Only this time, it's Sapphire, Diether, and Illias since they don't know about the pond nor did Kellan or Indirah warned them.
	+ Indirah remembers about the pond for the reason that she actually grew up in the cabin with Khaleesi when she's still alive, and had the layout memorized.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* Despite The Arcana being a story set in the Renaissance period (14th-17th century), the writers chose to write the story in modern wordings so it wouldn't be too hard for the readers to comprehend. Also, it's worth mentioning that sometimes, **Amree Aguinaldo** doesn't like stories that have way too many deep words.

* The Arcana would be the first of many projects in HM:
	+ First (and so far only) story of HM to be completely written by only two writers.
		- Plus its illustrations of the concept art, which were all made by the same writers, Austin and Amree.
	+ First story to be a BL with its direct opposite being After Solstice, which is the first GL project of HM. The Arcana is also canonically the third story of HM to have LGBT main characters, the first being After Solstice (Sydney Crimsen, Anna Sinclair, and Rio Togami), and the second being Beyond Worlds (Red Ordonia).
	+ First shounen-ai.
	+ First fantasy story of Chrysalis.
	+ First story to not reveal who the characters are supposed to be after it's being written.
	+ Since The Arcana will be a short feature film instead, it's the first story that wouldn't have a released demo reel in 2021 (both YES or YES and Beyond Worlds have demo reels and short animated storyboards for the fans in the blog).
	+ First story to have a single word as its title (alternate title: **Arcana**) that wasn't a translated literary work (SILENT is a film, excluding it, and *Dimensiones* is Beyond Worlds' title for the Spanish translation).
	+ First story to be written by **Austin Dy**.
	+ First story to be written by **Amree Aguinaldo** in 2021 (she helped with YES or YES' puzzles and Beyond Worlds' locations, but she never wrote a part in both stories and therefore wouldn't consider her as a writer).
	+ First story in 2021 to not reveal when the release date is.
	+ First (and so far only) story of Chrysalis to have broken the fourth wall (Beyond Worlds technically didn't break the fourth wall since it was a fanfiction) via the Narrators revelation that The Arcana is a story being told *in* a story. The Narrators- Elias and Airah Salazar, are stand-ins for Austin and Amree.
	+ First story to have an entire album of original songs for its feature film.
	+ First story to not be set in either the present or future time as it's set in the Renaissance period as mentioned before.
* The wiki theme and the main color motif of the story features the colors of the Belvoire flag.
* The characters' outfits are of mixed styles of Arabian, Celtic, Renaissance, and Medieval- the illustrators for the concept art turned to the characters' clothing of Disney's Aladdin, both the 1992 film and the 2019 live-action remake. The characters' guild outfits are inspired by the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
	+ Each main character's guild clothing depicts the color palette of their patron Arcana's colors, and are consistent with having gold in their ensembles:
		- Kellan (The Fool)- Green, light blue, gold
		- Diether (Death)- dark blue, light blue, gold
		- Sapphire (The Moon)- dark blue, gold, black
		- Illias (The Hanged Man)- black, red, gold
		- Indirah (The Magician)- pink, orange, gold
		- Lucio (The Devil)- white, red, gold
* The ending of the story suggests that the events in The Arcana actually happened, since the Narrators are revealed to have tarot cards and a picture of Khaleesi Rosales in their house, along with a white and blue-colored snake in a cage. The snake could either be just a pet of theirs, or their actual familiar.
* The story features a lot of real-world problems and this would also be the first story of HM and Chrysalis to have this many conflicts solved in a book:
	+ **Racism and discrimination**- Belvoire's people categorized either under a mage (pure, half, and familiar), Warlock, and humans and hunters, with humans considered the lowest of the low.
	+ **Plague outbreak**- Having a plague outbreak in the story as an actual antagonist (and the first story to have some*thing* as an antagonist as opposed to some*one*) is applied in real life, where the Coronavirus had an outbreak on March of 2020.
	+ **Gender inequality**- It's mentioned in *Chapter V: The Hierophant* that Lucio made fun of Kellan for being non-binary. Unfortunately, this does still happen in the real world.
	+ **Poverty** **and homelessness**- Sapphire gives the rest of her food to the children near Belvoire University in *Chapter VI: The Lovers*, and later in the story Kellan helps build more houses for the homeless people in the country.
		- **Government corruption**- For the reason that a lot of people in the country are homeless, it's mentioned once by Sigmund Chauvera that ever since the plague broke out, they didn't have enough budget- especially that their government hoards the money for themselves.
	+ **Large scale conflict/wars**- A war might break out in Belvoire with how the mages, humans, and Warlocks don't agree with each other and would result in major destruction in Belvoire.
		- **Climate change**- Under the large scale conflict umbrella is climate change: mages can manipulate the elements of nature and is mentioned that it could accidentally result in big floods, tornadoes, and anything natural disaster-related.