The Premise
Nart, Bart and a Flume Called Flame is a darkly comic fantasy about a crooked city, two stubborn travellers, and one dangerously curious fire hazard.
Lost-star is a city built on rules, fees, relics, permits, saints, stamps and civic cruelty. Everything has a cost. Every hazard can be taxed. Every problem comes with paperwork, and every official smiles like they already know how much pain they can charge for.
Nart and Bart are not chosen heroes. They are outcasts with hats, bad tempers and a gift for attracting trouble. Nart carries a spray bottle because Flame, their small bright Flume, is less a companion and more a walking public safety incident with opinions.
What begins as a journey through mud, rotten inns, fake tolls and religious scams soon drags them into something larger and nastier. Missing fairies. The Star Office. Hazard permits. Saint relics. Ledgers. Extraction. Shadow-work. A city that turns suffering into procedure and calls it order.
This is fantasy comedy with dirt under its nails and smoke in its lungs.
It is rude, strange, violent, ridiculous and built around the simple truth that some worlds do not need saving by noble heroes.
Sometimes they need the wrong people to get angry enough.
The Characters
Nart
A velvet-topped brute armed with a spray bottle, poor manners and strong opinions.
Bart
Technically a man. Short enough to make most doors feel personal.
Flame
A delighted little fire creature with no useful understanding of rules.
The World
From floating spires to forgotten flumes, from taverns that sing to forests that hold their breath, this is a world built for wonder, danger and poor decisions.
It is beautiful when viewed from a safe distance. Unfortunately, Nart, Bart and Flame are rarely granted one.
Begin The Trouble
Read the premise, meet the unlikely crew, and step into a fantasy comedy world where magic behaves badly and survival often depends on who panics last.