Twokinds

Twokinds is an ongoing webcomic created by Tom Fischbach. The first page of Twokinds was released on October 22, 2003 but the origins of the comic itself go back even further than that. After originally writing a book during his mid-teens, Tom decided to make his idea of Twokinds into a webcomic instead, this was because it was a more accessible format for him. An earlier short webcomic resembling the ideas of Twokinds but set in the modern day titled "The HalfKind" had been made by Tom beforehand, though he decided to move his focus away from that and began Twokinds officially soon after (The HalfKind is considered a non-canon side comic of Twokinds.) The inspiration for the comic was primarily racial discrimination Tom had experienced in his school since the majority of the students were white.^[1]

The main Twokinds comic consists of 22 chapters of varying length, as well as a short Prologue that takes place immediately before the events of Chapter 1 and a 10th Anniversary Chapter that takes place between Chapter 16 and Chapter 17. A 32 page side comic titled "The Dragon Masquerade" was also created during the comic's run which chronologically takes place a few years before the Prologue's events. The main comic itself, coupled with The Dragon Masquerade, currently stands at 1130 pages as of Chapter 20's ending. Various individual side sketches are produced by Tom, one per day for the most part, alongside the comic on his Patreon as fan requests. Though most of the side sketches are considered non-canon and made for just for fun some can be seen as canon, serving to show aspects of character backstories or expand on Mekkan's world building.

From The Author (Summary)[]

Plot[]

"After losing his memory to a mysterious battle, Trace Legacy, a former leader for an organization of mages called the Templar, finds himself in the company of Flora, a girl of strange, tiger-like qualities. As Trace gradually begins to re-learn what he once knew, he soon discovers that Flora belongs to a race of people who are enemies of his kind. As friendship connects with racial differences, Trace and Flora find themselves in a situation more critical than either of them can imagine."

Setting[]

Main article: Mekkan

Twokinds is set in the world of Mekkan.

From The Author (Overview)[]

"Twokinds is a webcomic that takes place in a world conflicted with racial tension, primarily between the human-like Humans and animal-like Keidran. They have dramatically different societies and ideas on how to live and act. It is because of these differences that the two races are almost always in some form of conflict. The story begins as the world hinges on the brink of another war. However, unlike before, this time war seems to be the result of a single man, manipulating the two races for his own personal gain - though he no longer has any memory of doing so."