Fire always comes before smoke though . <| sep |> Exactly . Reno Jackson and Corrupted Seer are two neutral solutions to the problem of lacking clears or healing , both of which come without just a bland spell drop . They ' re intuitive solutions to the problem . <| sep |> Preface For the purpose of this post , I ' ll using the current titles I have for the stories . The first draft to the first story I wrote , When the Bridge Between Fate and Hope Falls or just When the Bridge . for short was Sonic OC fanfiction that I started putting together in late 2005 when I was 16 . I didn ' t expand on it that much since I had nothing to go on , so I abaondoned the whole thing . The second story I started writing , Black Millennium , was also Sonic OC fanfiction , but was completely separate from When the Bridge . Again , this only went as far as first draft until I found a way to connect the two stories together and was able to flesh them out a little further . But , the fact that they were still Sonic OC fanfiction kinda rubbed me the wrong way , so I slowly went about rewriting it to have it stand on its own . In this , I ended up crafting two more stories , The Stranger and I Know You ' re There the former being a prequel detailing the antagonist ' s rise to power and the latter being a midquel to Black Millennium and When the Bridge . , which would soon form the story arc The Fall of Amis ' fia . By this point , it ' s around 2011 . Meanwhile , back in 2008 , I had written a song telling a completely different and separate story about the leadup to a planetwide war that would wipe all but a small pocket of humanity with the intent of writing an album The New World and the World Beyond that would serve as a sequel kind of like how Dream Theater wrote the song Metropolis Part 1 and the album Metropolis Part 2 I was heavily into that band at the time that detailed the last of humanity leaving Earth in search of a new planet to live on , enventually finding a world whose inhabitants allowed them to stay , hinting at them also having dealt with war There is a reason we fell But that ' s another story to tell which turned into its own story , Fall of the Messengers . Alas , said album never really came to fruition . that is , until 2012 , when I started writing a completely new and ended up being my first album , Decet Hostiumemuk . bandcamp . c o m a l b u m t h e m e s s e n g e r trilogypartiidecethostium . This album told a story about a planetwide war that resulted in all but a small pocket of humanity being wiped out . you can kind of see where this is going I ended up repurposing The New World and the World Beyond as a sequel to Decet Hostium , with Fall of the Messengers as a prequel , forming the story arc The Messenger Trilogy . So while that is all going on , I still have these initial four stories The Stranger , Black Millennium , I Know You ' re There , and When the Bridge Between Fate and Hope Falls sitting in my head doing nothing . I had originally tried to finally write them as short storiesnovellas , but had hit a mental block halfway writing the first story I knew what I wanted to happen , but I couldn ' t put into words how to get the characters to reach that moment so I had ended up leaving them to one side . until I thought Why not have The Fall of Amis ' fia inhabit the same world as The Messenger Trilogy ? Sure enough , by referencing elements of The Fall of Amis ' fia and its history into The Messenger Trilogy , the whole thing ended up making sense . Heck , I even have ideas for a prequel to The Stranger , which details the history of the world even further . So now I have this seven potentially eightalbum rock opera planned , with only one album finished so far . Heck , once these are done , I even have ideas for a possible third story arc . but I ' m gonna wait until I finish the initial seveneight before worrying about that .