Cat Legend

The Boy Who Died

A story based fantasy Web Comic by Kat Santoro. Cat Legend is a rather unusual blend of Medieval European Fantasy and Urban Fantasy, with the narrative switching back and forth between two time periods. The comic follows the adventures of a core cast of characters which slowly expands as their places in the medieval portion of the story are revealed.

It can be found Here.

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Major cast includes:

• Cat Nymdemise- The Kid Hero and major protagonist. Starts out dead, but is revived at the beginning of the comic. Has no memory of his past life.
• Sarah Montagnaro- Fox-ear-and-tailed Half Fae, Older-sister figure and Love Interest of Cat.
• Kristin Bing- Blue skinned Fae with fire powers. Sometime guide and companion to the rest of the cast, his own aventures are a side-story to the main plot.
• Dorian Nymdemise- Secret son of the king and queen of Faerie, spent most of his life locked in a small room. Learned practically everything he knows from books.
• Alexandria- The last Delphic oracle. Usually answers to the name of Truth. Cannot be lied to.
• Deedra- Captured in a raid on a human village, she spent most her life in Castle Nymdemise. Has a rather unnerving appearance ever since she had her early memories erased
• Libby- The Vortex, whose presence in the world drains away magic. Starts out as a baby but doesn't stay that way. When she speaks, it may not be just her talking.

And many others whose stories are still being revealed.

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Tropes used in Cat Legend include:

• Anti-Villain
• Art Evolution: Significant change both in terms of quality and character design. Understandable when you consider how long the comic's been running.
• The Blank: Mindy and Leelah
• Blind Seer: Mendel was a Seer before ever going blind, but retains a form of his sight even in blindness.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Shadowmancers.
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: Sarah
• Dead to Begin With: Cat, but he gets better.
• Elemental Powers: Several.
  • Air -- Cat, Lily
  • Shadowmancy -- Sarah, Mercutious
  • Fire -- Bing, Ember
  • Lightning -- Dor...once.
  • Flora -- Vali
  • Earth -- Stone
• The Fair Folk
• Fantastic Racism: All over the place.
• Four-Fingered Hands
• Ghost Amnesia: Cat isn't dead (anymore), but dying did take away nearly all memory of his previous life.
• Glamour Failure: In a literal sense; some faeries in the modern-day setting, particularly Vali, seem to be having difficulty keeping their glamour going.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Sarah, with human father and faery mother.
• Happily Adopted: They don't get to see each other often, but Vali and adopted daughter Dee are nonetheless very close.
• How We Got Here: As of the end of the first act, Cat's retelling of past events is revealed as the Framing Device.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Threnody, the Mad Fae of Forget, possesses the ability to induce this.
• Living Lie Detector: Alexandria, aka Truth
• Living Shadow: Sunny.
• Mad Oracle: Not all the time, but to prophesize, Truth has to become temporarily insane.
• Meaningful Name: Again, Truth. Also Stone.
• No Social Skills: Dor grew up locked in his room, with no companionship but books and an occasional visit from Bing. Social skills are...lacking.
• Prophet Eyes: Mendel the Seer
• Relationship Reboot: Sarah and Dor
• Super Empowering: Lily to Cat
• Tap on the Head: Subverted. When Bing hits Mercutious Nymndemise in the back of the head with a candlestick, it doesn't simply knock him out, it puts him into a coma, from which his vassals fear he may never awaken.
• Unusual Euphemism: "What the crumb?"
• Verbal Tic Name: Mr. Peeps, as revealed in the companion comic.
• Winged Humanoid: Harpies and several faeries.