Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector

Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector 

Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector is a high fantasy interactive fiction made in Twine. During the story, your protagonist will change from a helpless child to a Silver Protector, an elite warrior and protector. In time, you may wield powerful magic, or be a master of the blade.  

The game is in early development. All content is subject to change.

There is something on tumblr. There is also now a ko-fi page. 

Demo version

The current demon contains a prologue (~5500 words) , an interlude (~6000 words) and chapter 1  (~32000 words), a second interlude (~12000 words) and Chapter 2 (~ 48 000 words). The prologue and interlude have a limited amount of choices. Chapter 1 has a lot of choices. The second interlude has no active choices, but is somewhat affected by choices in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is focused on character customization, and therefore has a lot of choices. 

Total words ~ 103 500. The word counts include all branches from choices and code inside the text.  Old saved games are not guaranteed to work for new updates. 

Feedback for the game

I would appreciate the reporting of bugs, typos and constructive feedback. The comments should be on on this page, or you can use email: talesofwocdes@gmail.com. Please see the feedback page inside the game for more detail. The option to see it appears at the end of the demo.  

Premise

Wocdes is a world full of magic, monsters, and secrets. No beings in this world embody all three better than the Ancients,  godlike in power and unbeatable in battle. Incredibly wise and compassionate. Incredibly terrible and cruel. Immortal and glorious. Petty and vengeful. Or so the stories go. 

Not that you know the stories. Why would you? You are a child kidnapped for unknown purposes.  You barely know anything about yourself. Your life is one of pain and suffering at the hands of people you do not know. 

In a moment of desperation, a plea leaves your lips. Or perhaps it is only in your mind. Unexpectedly something hears you and will never ignore a broken child alone in the dark asking for help. You are saved but you are permanently scarred by your experiences. Given into the care of the newly created Orphanage of Firgrat, here is where your journey truly begins. How will you cope with your past and current reality?  Can you survive the cruel world of Wocdes, the weight of your trauma? Can you help others survive? Can you grow up, make friends, learn to love, and become a real person again?

What to look forward to

In this game, you will (eventually) be able to:

• Customize your character, from their appearance and gender (male, female, non-binary) to their abilities and personality.
  • Admittedly, your characters emotional development has taken a bit of a hit due to recent events, leaving them a bit confused in general about... everything. 
  • You can add elements of fantasy races to your character's appearance, such as a tail, wings, pointy ears and many more.
    
• Discover why you were kidnapped, eventually.
• Protect those you feel deserve it, become stronger for yourself or to protect others.
• Grow up alongside other orphans and kids from the city, journey through childhood at the orphanage and the surrounding city, to adulthood with responsibilities. 
• Develop your relationships with your fellow orphans and other companions, maybe even get into a romance. 
• Speaking of romance, the author aims to offer an option to be completely and utterly dense about romance, like completely oblivious to the degree people worry about you. Or maybe you will be a smoother operator.
  
• Go on adventures and missions, both innocent and not, in an original fantasy world full of magic, wonder and cruelty.

Characters

Primary

• The twins Atru (m) and Azha (f): The original inhabitants of the orphanage and the only children already there when you arrive. Both twins have short blond hair and green eyes. Atru is a seemingly silent emotionless boy who clings to his sister Azha. Azha is a little girl shaped ray of sunshine and well-meaning mischief. And chatter!
• More characters will be filled out later.

Secondary

• Havard (m): The head custodian of the Orphanage. A father figure to all the children. His duty is to guide the children, and it is a duty he takes very seriously.
• Lexia (f): The Silver Protector in charge of you. Young, excitable and strong. One of the first to be chosen for the new elite order called the Silver Protectors.
• Alessa (f): The custodian in charge of the twins. A sweet young somewhat shy woman who the twins adore, both in their own ways. 
• Sandor (m): The Silver Protector in charge of the twins. A good-natured and somewhat shy young man often trailing after the twins with a fond look. 

The Ancients

• RAFO (Read And Find Out). You might meet some. 

Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction! Any potential resemblance of appearances, names, or personalities of characters with people in real life, living or dead, is coincidental.

This story is meant for adults. The game contains depictions of violence, blood, gore, sexually suggestive content, black humor, explicit language etc. A more complete list can be found in game. Like everything else, this list is subject to change. 

The game contains dealing with traumatic events. The author is not a qualified medical professional, and the in game responses to trauma are not in any way encouraged.  If you are uncomfortable with what you are reading, please refrain from continuing until you feel better. Or drop the story entirely. None of this is worth your health.

Known issues 

• It seems that on mobile, the choices at the end of a page will simply not be visible (at least on my phone) if a few empty lines is not left in the Twine file after the choices. I have tried to remember to always do this, but do let me know if there are any instances of this. 
• Spacing between paragraphs needs to be done by hand. Coding counts so if I forget to put in the right commands, the spacing can be off.