HERO x HERO

Two kingdoms inhabit the sky, trapped by ripples of the ARMOR War from ages ago.
As echoes from centuries past re-emerge, heroes from across the world converge.

For the last four years, I have been writing a five-part fantasy saga, set in a pair of floating kingdoms called Tera and Alta. It started out as a small hobby: just something to pass the time in Sixth Form… but once university came around, I found myself returning to this world again and again to add more stories and lore, eventually going as far as to rewrite the entire thing to improve it’s narrative quality.

That project has now become my most ambitious project yet, something I’m constantly adding to and improving on over time. Near the end of 2024, I finally revealed this project to my brother and my friends, and they’ve been a colossal help in writing this tale, giving second, third and fourth opinions that I sorely needed, and finding or raising details that I never would have thought of.

I’m not ready to reveal this story just yet, at least not all of it. A lot of it is still early in concept, and a lot of it is being rewritten… but I have added aspects of it into my other projects. For instance, almost all of the characters in Pathmaker come from this universe, and HERO v HERO directly adapts it into a fighting game.

The Five-Part Story

Part 1: Age of Darkness - A young Teran knight, Alex Smith, finds himself caught in an adventure far bigger than himself, travelling across the country of Tera to find a cure for his friend’s deadly curse, and to stop the evil usurpers seeking to undermine Tera and take the throne.
(10% Complete - Undergoing a complete rewrite.)

Part 2: The Grand Tour - Alex mysteriously wakes up in a kingdom thought long gone, with no way back to Tera. Alongside the mysterious Nora Captio and a new crew of friends, Alex rises to face this new adventure head-on, to find the truth about the legendary ‘Sleeping Treasure of Alta’.
(100% Complete - Completely written from start to finish.)

Part 3: Shadow of Necron - Three years have passed since the Alta Incident. Despite the chaos that ensued, life has gone on… despite that, one loose end had still not been tied up, and soon enough, it comes back to plunge the world into jeopardy. Against a force of nature, Tera and Alta have to unite once and for all, and face this threat as one.
(50% Complete - The story is incomplete.)

Part 4: Concrete Jungle - Ruby, lost in time, finds himself without his friends and without a purpose, lost in a world completely unlike his own. When a stroke of luck gives him a home, it’s up to Ruby to… well, he’s going to have to figure that out on his own.
(50% Complete - The story is incomplete.)

Part 5: The Dark World - Six more years have passed, Alex and Serena have disappeared, and the Cloud Sea is dying. In this final chapter, all of Altera unites to find the truth of the dark world, unite the world once more, and save the world once last time.
(10% Complete - Heavily work-in-progress.)

Additional Story

Part 0: The ARMOR War (Created by Miles) - One thousand years before the main story, the twin nations of Tera and Alta inch closer to an all-out war. Unaffiliated with either, a prodigal hero called Helias Rael leads 8ᵗʰ Sage Pluto’s peacekeeping force in a desperate battle to prevent the upcoming conflict.

“I wish I had more to say, but this is really gonna take a while…”

Credits

Myself: Most of the story.

NinjaBash, ‘Miles’, ‘Simeon’: Many key story details.