Everice - a faerytale

WARNING!! This is the story inserted in my illustrated calendar Everice. If you don’t want spoilers you should not proceed with the reading.
The illustrated calendar is available here .

- I
Once upon a time there was a town called Everice, where everything was made of ice. Houses of ice, streets of ice and the people were made of ice too.
A magic spell avoided the ice to melt down; the magic spell was all around the town and let the people to live happily.

- II
Glacies, the high priestess of ice, lived alone in the temple in the middle of Everice and with her magic dance kept the ice well. No one visited her, because the people of Everice were afraid of her and they though she was a witch. Gelidus, the chosen knight, was the only one at the gates of the temple and the only one who stood guard over Glacies.

- III
One day, Ignis the demon of fire, who hated the people of Everice and wanted their extinction, broke through the temple and kidnapped Glacies. Gelidus tried to save the high priestess, but the Ignis’ fire was too powerful and he was defeated.
So Ignis brough Glacies in the land of fire to melt down her with his demonic flames.

- IV
Gelidus didn’t give up. He wanted to save Glacies no matter what, but he didn’t find anyone in Everice who wanted to help him, because the people were too frightened by Ignis and the high priestess. So Gelidus asked for help to the only one person who crossed successfully the land of fire: the old Frigus.

- V
Frigus trained Gelidus very hard to make his ice stronger to resist to the Ignis’ demonic fire.
But training wasn’t enought. To defeat Ignis, Gelidus had to find two legendary weapons: the absolute zero sword and the absolute zero shield.

- VI
The absolute zero sword was stucked in the back of the giant Nix and the pain made him a raging beast.
But Gelidus was faster: when the giant tried to pick him up, he jumped on the giant’s arm, ran until he reached his back and drew the legendary sword.

- VII
Gelidus travelled to the kingdom of tritons, who were friends of the people of Everice, because Aqua, the queen of tritons, guarded the absolute zero shield.
The queen also gave to Gelidus some of her wisdom saying that the will is more important than the sword.

- VIII
When Gelidus entered in the land of fire, he found the giant dragon Ardens was waiting for him. Thanks to the power of the absolute zero shield, he was able to pass through the dragon’s deadly fire and pierce the monster body with the absolute zero sword.

- IX
The beginning of the battle between Gelidus and Ignis was favorable for the first one, while the fire demon was in trouble.
Feeling the defeat was near, Ignis tried to swallow Glacies to see that Gelidus could not save her anymore.

- X
Without thinking about the danger for his life, Gelidus jumped in the Ignis’ mouth of flames trying to grab Glacies.
When their hands came closer, a blinding white light sprang from them and it covered everything.

- XI
The Gelidus’ will was amplified by the Glacies’ magic power defeating the demon Ignis once for all. But all this left the two without strength to return to Everice.
When everything seemed lost, some frozen hands embraced the high priestess and the chosen knight: spurred by Frigus, all the people of Everice travelled in the land of fire to run to help their heroes.

- XII
Returned to Everice, Glacies was never left alone.
Every day the people paid their heroes a visit, they talked with the high priestess and with the chosen knight and Everice became a place of serenity and happiness for everyone.


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WARNING!! This is the story inserted in my illustrated calendar Everice. If you don’t want spoilers you should not proceed with the reading.
The illustrated calendar is available here .

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I’m an italian guy who likes drawing since he can remember. I love manga, anime, 3D graphic, fantasy and videogames.

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  • Thunderfox
    Thunderfox10 months ago

    …Very classy storyline. A little stereotypical of an action/adventure story but I like it. Seeing the images along with reading this makes me feel like I’m reading a manga. Nice job dude. :D

  • Tnxxxx Thunder!! This was an experiment, I didn’t know if I were able to do it, so I kept the story very simple. Manga have affected my style since I was young, so it’s natural see some similarity ;)

    – japu