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The Legendary Lost Muses
Every magical girl’s relic has an ultimate summon. An entity that’s heads and shoulders above all other summons. The Heterodynes and the Trilobite Relic have always had Der Kestle, their terrifying castle summon. Gil and the Flying Baron Relic have the airship city, Castle Wulfenbach. The Wasp Queen Relic has the engimatic and apocalyptic Other, and the Great Tower Relic has the great city of Paris.
Now, it is a common fact that summons can be traded or stolen. Switched from one book to the other, willing or otherwise. There are many ways it can be done, depending on the nature and power of the summon in question. Sometimes it can simpy be a matter of the summon in question deciding it likes a different magic girl better. Such as the case with the Waspeater Weasels making an initially unnoticed migration from Gil’s to Tarvek’s book. Much to the amusement of Gil. Or it could be the case of Korsp, the mercenary cat summon who originally belonged to the Beastmaster Relic, but decided to go independent for undisclosed reasons.
The Book of the Flying Baron Relic is infamous for containing summons that originated in other books, and Gil has found entire sections that appear to have been spliced in. On the other side you have the Trilobite Book, which holds nearly all its original spells and summons, and is famous for the deep loyalty of its Jager summons. The Storm Queen relic on the other hand, has been ravaged over the centuries as people have fought over its power and the prestige it represents. Its summons and spells have been picked away piecemeal, and even its ultimate summon, The Legendary Muses, has been seperated into its component summons and scattered. When Anevka, and later Tarvek, first get the relic there is only one muse left, Tinka.
That, among all the indignities that have been visited on the Storm Queen Relic, bothers Tarvek the most. For all his conflicting loyalties and personal pressures, it is the restoration of the Muses that is closest to Tarvek’s heart. Of course being lost, he has no idea where to even begin searching. That changes when a hunt for a mechanical chest summon takes them to Mr. Paynes Carnival and Circus Museum. There they discover that the dusty replica in the corner is not a replica. When all is said and done, Tarvek has a new summon in is book, and the hope that maybe, he can actually do this.
The third muse they find, was one they had had all along. Agatha had summoned the Lady Von Pinn before, but the more they explore the mystery of the first Storm King and his supposed arch-nemisis, the more a suspicion starts to grow in her mind. Its not until the hoard of Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Despensers hidden under the local amusment park wake up, that things start to crystalize, and she makes a gamble.
It is a commonly known fact that the first time a magic girl summons a new summon, that that summon is empowered by the new contract. This first summoning is often used as a trump card, as summons empowered this way can often fight well above their metaphysical weight class. So she send Von Pinn over to Tarvek and yells at him to summon her.
Otilia appears, restored and returned to her proper place among her sisters, as radiant as she was in the days before the Storm Queen Relic was plundered of its summons, and empowered with the strength of a first summoning. With her help its not long before Agatha is summoning Der Kestle and rounding up all the Agony and Death Despensers back into its depths.
Of course, the mystery as to how such a summon ended up in Agatha’s book in the first place, is not answered so easily.
Agatha Heterodyne: Magical Girl - The Plot
Agatha’s main day to day buisness is rounding up all the rogue summons her ancestors have unleashed on the city and country over the centuries and which are now starting to wake up and go on rampages. This is mainly done by weakening the monster through combat (or you know, talking it into going quietly) then summoning her ultimate summon, Der Kestle, which then appears, casts out black chains, and then drags the monster of the week into its depths. To aid in this endevor she has of course her family’s Magic Relic, the Triolobite Relic, and the accompaning book of spells and summons. She also has her two friends, Gil and Tarvek.
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach holds the Flying Baron Relic, which originally belong to his father. He is currently under the impression that his oftentimes overprotective father has no idea that he has this relic, and that he needs to keep it secret from him. What he doesn’t know is that his dad knows exactly what he’s doing, because he was going the same thing when he was Gil’s age, he just hasn’t caught him at it. Many surprising conincidences that result in Gil nearly being revealed are in fact no such thing. He is also freqently briding his psychotic ex-priate bodyguard, Bang, not to reveal his secret to his father. (Not realizing his dad already knows.) His costume of course resembles a mix between a Prussian Baron and a swashbuckling pirate. Complete with pantaloons, and a large hat with a feather in it. Agatha runs into him on her first night on the job. Unfortunately they were both in the middle of a jump between rooftops. The resulting fall, five stories, face-first, into a concrete sidewalk, demonstrated just how supernaturally tough magic girls are.
Tarvek Strumvoraus holds the coveted Storm Queen Relic. It originally belonged to his older sister Anevka, except she is currently comatose in the hospital. Thanks to the magic of the Storm Queen Relic, she is currently possessing a clockwork doll styled after the legendary Muses of the Storm Queen Relic. Tarvek takes his possession of the Storm Queen Relic very seriously, and one of his major goals is to find the Nine Lost Muse summons that once formed the ultimate summon of the Storm Queen Relic. While he is dedicated to keeping the city safe and to helping Agatha round up her family’s rogue summons, he is also facing pressure from his father as what exactly he should be using the powers of his Relic to do. His costume includes a golden crown and a burgandy silk cape. He also has a long, complicated, and sometimes antagonistic history with Gil.
Aiding their endevors are Agatha’s two normal friends, Zeetha and Violetta. Zeetha is Gil’s twin sister, and the crown princess of a remote society of women warriors who live in the depths of the amazon jungle. Violetta is Tarvek’s cousin, and has literally gone to school to study the ways of the mythical Smoke Nights, the order of Europan ninja, who specialized in stealth and poison. Both consider themselves to be the normal ones of the group. The rest of the school does not agree.
Of course there are other things that stand in their way. Xerxsephnia Von Blitzengaard, another one of Tarvek’s cousins, is very angry with Tarvek because according to the ancient traditions of female inheritance when it comes to Magical Relics, she should have gotten the Storm Queen Relic when Anevka went comatose, not Tarvek. Of course with Magical Relics, possession is nine-tenths of the law. Its very hard to steal a relic from a Magical Girl that is actively using it, due to the fact they will know immediately if someone touches it, and they have magical powers that allow them to defend it. Thankfully, her brother Martellus holds the powerful Beastmaster Relic and is always willing to help his little sister out. Resulting in him and his Knights of the Hunt becoming a major pain to Agatha and her friends.
There is also the shining Zola Malfezium, a rival magical girl who holds the Queen of the Dawn Relic. On the surface she looks like your standard friendship and rainbows magical girl, abet one who is frequently duped by less scrupulous people. Below the surface she looks like a deeply insecure teenage girl who is trying her hardest to get people to like her and is determined to try and cast herself in the best metaphorical and literal light. Below that however, there are a lot of dark mysteries and unanswered questions. First among those is the fact that her Relic is nothing more than an expensive and beautiful, but otherwise normal piece of jewelry. Demonstrated by the fact Violetta was able to steal it undetected in the first place. Which begs the question, where is she getting her powers from then?
Then there is the perpetual mystery of Agatha’s ancestor Euphorosyina, and her relationship with the legendary Storm King, Andronicus Valois. A story which is increasingly revealed to be much more complicated and twisted than the contemporary story would suggest. A mystery made particularly relevant when they encounter the furious corpse ghost of the man in a hidden tomb under the city of Paris.
And behind that there is the dark and troubling mystery as to what agenda Tarvek’s dad is pursuing, and its increasing connection to the mysterious Geisterdamen summons, the deadly hive engines, and their connection to The Other, the ultimate summon of the Wasp Queen Relic, the same magical relic held by Agatha’s mother Lucrenzia.
