Welcome to Vermilion Royale!

Across deep space & in a future time, seven adventurers face the challenge of their lives, facing their fates and the machinations of a shadowy mastermind hellbent on destroying their lives. Welcome to the Galactic Fantasy Adventure, Vermilion Royale!

The future is now! VR transports you many millennia forward to the year AE 9977. Humans have long fled Earth after a cataclysmic fallout awakened magic into the universe and triggered a mass exodus from the planet. Since then, many planets have been colonized in the wake of mankind's extraterrestrial journey - one of which is a very Earth-like world on the edge of space known as Kusanagi.

Featuring an ensemble of characters, the series kicks off with a day in the life of a pair of freelancers - adventurers for hire who are in the middle of what should be a routine mission. Joan Jolicoeur & Nightrunner are tasked to deliver a priceless artifact from the spaceport above Kusanagi to a local museum centered in their hometown below, Esaka City. Chaos ensues as the infamous sorceress, Xia, leads a mob to impede the freelancers' mission and take the artifact by force. Just another day at the office for JoJo & Night, battling their way back to town while desperately protecting their quarry from Xia's clutches.

The first volume of Vermilion Royale introduces all seven of the series' main characters; some immediately while the remainder appear momentarily and in unconventional ways. Former space marine-turned-adventurer, Joan Jolicoeur, is first to appear, and when she does, she rarely goes unnoticed. Standing tall above most at 6'6", JoJo immediately turns heads when she enters a room with her alluring looks, long violet hair, wily purple eyes and Amazonian-esque stature. However, her visage nor her devil-may-care attitude isn't the only way she can light up a room; JoJo is an elementalist.

When the cataclysm on Earth birthed magic into the universe, human-kind evolved into new realms of potential. A segment of the population gained the strange and dangerous ability of summoning the "elements" - earth, wind, fire, water and the rarest one of all, lightning. By stroke of luck - good or bad - Joan was a late bloomer when unlocking her own element and was stunned to discover it to be the shocking kind. Jolicoeur manages to find creative ways to utilize her powers, despite never being formally trained on how to properly wield it. Her arsenal of expert martial artistry is only further enhanced by her high voltage elemental, even in spite of any occasional anomalies she encounters with her powers in combat.

The 27-year old Jolicoeur is as bombastic as she is mysterious, usually mum on about her past with hopes to put it all behind her in favor of a new life. Unfortunately, her privileged upbringing is difficult to escape when a surname is as famous as hers - the Jolicoeur family, who founded the largest military industrialist in the quadrant, J-Tech. With the exception of her older brother who she cares for dearly, she has dismissed herself from having anything to do with the family business and even more so the CEO of the corporation - her estranged mother. Her separation from her troubled past began three years before we meet JoJo in the first volume, abruptly leaving the military of her home region of space, the Order of the Holy Mother, to start over as a civilian in the neighboring sector of the Union of Free Planets. There, she travels to the crown jewel of the UFP, the lively colony planet of Kusanagi and within it, the "retropolis" known as the fight capital of the galaxy” - Esaka City. A stranger in a strange land, what drew Joan to the exciting metropolis of Esaka was not only the promise of a happier life, but a chance to bond with her beloved in-laws who live there and experience the birthplace of her late wife.

What she initially believes will be a short visit to Esaka eventually becomes an extended stay after she falls in love with the bustling city and the people there. The Ramnarines warmly welcome her to town and not a full day passes before she’s not pulled into a high-stakes rescue mission with her brother-in-law, Richter Ramnarine. Also known to his friends as “Nightrunner”, Richter is a career musician who, against his better judgement, also works part-time as a “Freelancer” - licensed individuals hired to take on potentially dangerous jobs. He’s initially strong-armed into “Lancing” by legendary warrior Athena Ramnarine, who is not only his mother but his hard-nose martial artist instructor. Initially, she roped him Freelancing to put his training to the test, but they soon learned that he had a natural talent for it, despite his misgivings for some of the difficult missions she has sent him on. Joan - looking for excitement - quickly offers her assistance when Night is drafted for his latest assignment, and thanks to that experience, it kicks off a successful freelancing partnership between them.

By the time the first episode of Vermilion Royale begins, three adventurous years have passed, with Joan & Night becoming the top Freelancers in the city by that time. Soon after their first freelancing, Joan was offered a place to live in the penthouse both Night and his half-sister share and despite their wildly different personalities, live together in relative harmony. The initial episode takes readers through a day in the life of freelancing with Joan and Night, but overall this series will rotate focus amongst them and the remaining principal characters - seven in all. All are introduced within the first two volumes but how their stories intertwine and connect is one of the major tenets of Vermilion Royale.

More information to come! Stay Tuned!