The Story Track
Uaellaen's Chronicles is not told as a book and it is not told as a list of pages. It is told in episodes — long, 30–40 page installments, each one a stretch of the story that can be read on its own and that lands where the next one picks up. Every page in an episode carries one to three mood-matching pictures, so the story is as much something you see as something you read.
This is the index of the series. It is short because the story has only just begun.
Episodes
- Episode 1, First Ground — the six land on the broken coast, the world does not answer, one or two of them are not where they were sent, and the camp becomes a guild. The whole of the first 40 pages.
How an Episode Is Built
An episode is a beat sheet before it is a story: every page is planned, every page is given a mood, and the mood is the thing the image generator will later draw. The beat sheet is the spine; the pictures are the skin. When a page has its pictures, the episode is no longer a plan — it is a thing you can open and read.
"An episode is a promise you make to the reader before you know what the story will do. You promise the shape of it — the crossing, the ground, the fire — and then you let the story fill the shape, and if the story wants more shape than you promised, you go back and draw the rest." — Uaellaen