Nyx's Fireplace number one; all the colours of the (very pinkish-blue) rainbow.

As a brief forenote, welcome to a segment that will come fairly regularly throughout the fic, usually at the ends of arcs or when things of particular significance happen that I want to go into more detail of outside of the story.

Anyhoo, this is the first issue of what I like to call 'Nyx's Fireplace,' where I'm going to go through and explain a whole bunch of things about the content before hand (and in the future, possibly do some Q&A provided I get questions). I'm going to make use of this NF to primarily break down a bit of my process going forward, a few tidbits of detail, and a personal message.

First of all, I wanted to break down a bit how my release schedule and chapter length is going to work. To begin with, I'm looking at (hopefully) bringing an average chapter out every single week (probably looking at the region of 3k-5k words when I say 'average') However I do ask that you take in mind that this is not a fixed schedule by any measure, I'm personally in my last year of school before uni next year, I've been dealing with a lot of concentration and focus issues AND the anxiety resulting from that. I'm going to do my best to adhere to a schedule, but between homework, anxiety and writing block, I'm just going to ask that you bear with me.

Welcome to the Lore Bubble (trademark pending), today I'm going to just establish some details about particular things that came about in a few of the trailers that I want to explain in more detail.

Firstly, with Cyrus, is the Stahl family; they own the Stahl Hunter Utility Corporation, Atlas' prime producer of standardised hardware for huntsmen and huntresses, all the little things like fittings, parts and munitions follow the Stahl standards. Especially their calibre standards; the chances are that unless you're using an incredibly unique weapon with rounds produced specifically to specification, any gun that fires dust rounds will either use Stahl casings, or use ones built to Stahl measurements and quality. Regardless of where you are in Remnant.

Secondly, with Azura, is the Platanam family; they have an important relationship with the government of Mistral as key diplomatic staff and negotiators. Dating back generations, Platanams have been the go-to for the Mistralian government for all things diplomacy specifically because of their unique hereditary semblance which Azura exhibits particularly strongly.

Third, with Skye, is her weapon; this thing has been one of my brainchildren from almost when I first began coming up with OC's, the original character to use this concept of a weapon was the King Arthur-based captain of a team of mythological hero characters, with a Perseus-based character, a Thor-based character and a Hercules-based character. They all had lightning/electricity semblances too. The sword has three forms, the first is the dormant form which is simply just a big sword; the second form is also just a big sword, but it will use the electric dust loaded into it to zap things as it is used; the third form essentially just makes it a massive pylon-esque thing, with electricity actively arcing off it and hitting other things.

Speaking of inspirations for characters, did you know that the Perseus-based character design is what became Lily Mithril? They both share my goal of a shield-orientated brawler, however they take different approaches; whereas the original concept used it more defensively (taking big cues from characters like Athena from Borderlands), Lily uses hers more like a big bludgeon (ala Captain America) although it is still a shield.

CONTINUING with this trend of character inspirations, Azura was originally just a regular human until the thought hit me; her semblance makes her fit really well into the whole 'kitsune/enchantress' archetype, so I decided why waste a golden opportunity and made her a fox faunus. So that's cool.

ALMOST FORGOT, (Sneaky edit I'm hoping nobody will notice...wait) Rat in the Skye trailer wasn't me being mean to the poor fella, he's actually loosely alluding to Rat from Wind in the Willows and Mol, the lady behind the bar and his wife, is based of Mole from the same book.

Lastly, the time setting for this fic is probably in the region of 12 years before RWBY itself; which means we maaaay see later on, a character that taught another canon character everything he knew about a particular fighting style. Get hype. I think. This setting is also why Professor Port looks fucking faaaabulous in Skye's trailer.

Part of this segment next time around will hopefully be some Q&A provided I get some questions, if not it will be another info dump like this.

Lastly, I just want to extend a personal note out to all of you reading. As of writing this, the Skye trailer just went up and in total, there have been 104 total reads of the story, and roughly 20-30 unique readers. It doesn't sound like much but it is insane for me to see that there are people actively reading what I put out, and it's an amazing feeling. I've always had all these different ideas buzzing around my head and always struggled to actually write them. To know that something I've finally been able to get to write has been received (I hope) well is such a massive boost for me. I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who has read so far and I hope you stick around for more

If you feel you enjoy what I write and want to see more, please please please, if it doesn't sound needy, I would love for you guys to try and spread this around a bit and help me build some traction. If not, just knowing you're reading is amazing. If you ever have any questions or just want to give some kind words/constructive criticism, I make sure to read and reply to any reviews I get as soon as I possibly can!

Lastly, I want to extend a huge thanks to the story's first follower:

13th Child

Well, that's all the blubbing from me over and done with, and hopefully look forward to Chapter One coming around this time next week!

-Nyx