The Oswald Chronicles

"We'll go to the one who's helped the mad one. The one who straddles two worlds, but is of neither."

- Gwimbe, describing Oswald

The Oswald Chronicles is a Web Comic by J.D. Calderon.

The story centers around Oswald, scribe and gentlemouse, who straddles the human world and the Fae world.

The first storyline, although not the beginning of the story, begins when a group of Fae steals the hammer of Kalvaitis, stopping him from forging the sun that day and leaving the fae world in perpetual darkness. A lone kitchen helper from Kalvaitis's castle manages to escape, and heads into the human world to find the only person that can help, Oswald.

The second storyline starts in a time before the first. Diane, Oswald's love interest, heads out on a mysterious errand and leaves her cousin Diadra to look after Oswald. Three Mysterious Waifs show up, being followed by a monster called Howard.

Provides examples of:

 * Badass: Oswald is....
 * ...Adorable
 * ...A bookworm
 * ...Cultured
 * ...and can take on an entire army
 * Beware the Nice Ones - You will not like Oswald when he's angry
 * Creation Myth - Kalvaitis's life story
 * Eats Babies - Howard
 * Eldritch Abomination - The Light That Attracts
 * Engagement Challenge - Kalvaitis, challenged to bring back the sun
 * Horror Hunger - Part of Baba Yaga's repertoire is inflicting the hunger for guts on other people.
 * I Am a Humanitarian - Baba Yaga
 * I Am One of Those, Too - Kalvaitis's story sounds mysteriously like Marduk's.
 * Knight Templar - Malkit
 * Light Is Not Good - "I would hate to have seen what you would have done if you were an Unseelie"
 * Our Goblins Are Different - Howard, the dragon-esque monster
 * Our Trolls Are Different - Proud Warrior Race Guys that will turn to stone if exposed to daylight.
 * Sharp Dressed Mouse - Oswald, again
 * The Chosen One - Oswald, apparently.
 * The Fair Folk - Mostly of the Seelie court, including Malkit. In later stories, the Unseelie start showing up.
 * The Night That Never Ends - In Fallen Gods
 * Ultimate Blacksmith - Kalvaitis, who forges the sun each night