Antelope Books

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The Antelope Books is a series that takes place within the Course Books storyworld. It is related and followes the same rules, and even has a few common characters. For example, Hunter Jusenkyou makes a cameo in the first book, and at the same time, Ryo Sansen appears in one of the Course Books.

Books in the Series

Story World

The Antelope Books take place on a world of many islands. It is almsot straight up on it's axis, allowing people to live comfortable on every part of the planet. There is little seasonal variation, though it does snow at the poles in winder. The rest of the planet sees rainy and dry seasons throughout the year

Since the planet is around 90% water, sail is the primary means of travel. It's a sea-fairing adventure of epic proportions!

Like the Course Books, The Entelope has an over-arching plot that moves through all three volumes. However, unlike the Course Books, it is a series of three novels, instead of short story collections.

Characters


Backstory and Similarities

The Antelope series takes place slightly beyond the known worlds of the Course Books, and in the time of the Course Books is actually part of the Known Worlds. Chronologically, the Antelope series takes place around 200 years earlier.

Ryo's world was first seeded with humans some 8,000 years earlier, specifically by refugees from the Mage Wars, this would put them in the mid-to-late First Chaotic Period.This would be the begining of the slow transition into the Dynastic Period. A story that will be seeing print eventually explains how they fled through an ancient Road in front of the advancing Marcon Alliance.

The Marcons, in turn, play fairly heavily into the history of the Course Books, by epitomizing everything bad about absolute rule.

Ryo's world, meanwhile, was already home to mermaids, and it is heavily implied that they were created artificially as an experiment by the ancients.