ABOUT
> Cinnamon Swirl, an enthusiastic, ambitious inventor seeks to solve the disappearance of the princess from a neighbouring kingdom, with her best friend, Bramble Carver being framed for the "murder" after being cursed by a mysterious entity. Amidst solving the mystery and seeking a cure, she soon finds out the possibility to shift fate, going beyond her initial plan by reversing tragedy in pursuit of more clues and a shared dream since childhood. Along her quest, Cinnamon blurs the line between life and death, all whilst uncovering the bitter ties between ancient bloodlines and confronting the weight of impermanence.
STORY PATCH NOTES~
✧ this section is to keep track of current story developments
✧ > overview: POE is also one of my oldest stories alongside TEF, meant to be developed in parallel though unfortunately TEF tends to be the one that I brainrot abt more mostly cuz alotta plot points are solidified unlike POE, though this is partly also cuz POE wasn't owned by me for a while lol I've basically "adopted" these chars and pretty much the entire story from an old friend of mine around 2021, there has been efforts to preserve the og nostalgic vibe of the story but there's also so much new stuff going on
the story sorta went through a revamp around mid 2023 when I finally figured out the char bonds/overarching theme of the story compared to the previous underdeveloped mess lmao, so far I quite like where the story is going though it has proven to be much much more complex (even more so than TEF arguably) mainly cuz it is meant to be a sort of companion story alongside it, not exactly a sequel though
the story is probs also more wack to write w the whole alt reality thing going on midway through the story lmao, like what exactly happens in there is a whole thing I'm still figuring out, though I do know it's the more lore heavy part of the story where all the ancient mysteries come to light, I just don't know yet how the chars will interact w such a plot point though
✧ > latest development as of July 2025: Nyx and Myth got darker lore now man... it took a while to solve it tbh but tldr: Myth was the original one that Thorn intended to use to revive Gandoline but since she only had red eyes Thorn deemed that she was only "half" of her since Gandoline had one red and one purple, and Nyx was basically created as a backup that just to happened to have purple eyes, so Thorn deemed her to be the other "half" hence why he wants to merge them together, Nyx was in someway created from Myth hence them looking so identical, Myth knows of this but Nyx doesn't...
✧ > Jan 2025: having Ember play a bigger role in the story (she quickly became such a fav of mine after developing her further, straight up renamed even, she was named Amber but the new fire related name rlly hints at the tragedy she went through alongside her role in Aaron + Shade's arc) overall she just haunts the story more now and even becomes some sorta mentor towards Cindy in the alt reality where she's still alive
TO DO LIST~
✧ upcoming story developments
✧ finish main lineup char playlists (10/14 done) > Reese, Peachi, Aspen & Ember left (might even tweak Aichi's playlist a bit tbh I want it to reflect her playfulness more)
✧ figure out more plot points rlly, and overall char arcs before I can start writing char profiles + outline the chapters further (funnily enough those who's playlists aren't finished yet are the least developed chars so far)
“ the edge of the sky, the end of the earth, they will trace along where it glows, by then they shall find us ”
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Paradigm of Empyrean follows Cinnamon Swirl, an enthusiastic, ambitious inventor that got entangled in a murder mystery after her best friend, Bramble Carver was accused of causing the disappearance of a young princess of a neighbouring kingdom, Whisper Himiko, who was a close friend of theirs.
Cindy had always been an optimistic dreamer and child at heart, having shared a dream with Bramble to share their creations to the world. Though said dream had seemingly shattered after Bramble was cursed to become a wretched beast after a failed attempt to save Whisper, with her being taken away by a mysterious entity and presumedly dead after said tragedy.
While there was an attempt to solve the mystery by a famous explorer team, Team Valor a while back, the quest led to the death of their leader and was followed by their eventual disbandment. It becomes apparent that with so much tragedy going on there must be the one true culprit, and Cindy is more than eager to play detective to seek the truth.
Though even if Cindy has the grand goal to bring justice to Whisper and the explorer team, her ideals are thinly veiled by her selfish desires to cure Bramble of his curse in which he never agreed to, thinking it will absolve everything that took their dream away, but that's for her to fuck around and find out (by toying with fate that is) (not a good thing to do)
