The Steampunk Adventures of Sorcerer's Apprentices is an Arthurian, historical fantasy fan-fiction series which first quarter of it's overall tracks reimagining events in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. This fan-fiction has confirmed to be exclusively released as literature in this wikia, so this wikia so far is the only site to read the Fan-fiction. The first page, Prologue, has been released in 11 October in 2014.
This fan-fiction series is set in a fictional Scottish town named Trostville in 1938, prior to World War 2 within steampunk reality counterpart of The Sorcerer's Apprentice film universe. In the first part, the series involves friendship between the Mr. Blake, wise but mysterious sorcerer whom actually one of Merlin's three original apprentices with his slightly clumsy but very competent apprentice named Raido (1930s steampunk reality counterpart of Dave Stutler), a young apprentice whom enrolls in Crossmages Academy and works as a private detective in his part times. After discovering both true nature of his master and his nature as a Prime Merlinean, Raido sets out to defeat the unleashed Morgana before she could unleashing an army of the undead via The Rising and had to participating in the war against surviving Morganians.
In this Fan-fiction series, aside Sorcerers(humans whom innately possesses magic), another kind of human race that serves as sorcerers' distant cousins also introduced. This said race is Magus, a human species has evolved to the point that they more like magical creatures than regular humans. Magus has all powers of Sorcerers, but they have additional powers that both Sorcerers and humans lacks: Regenerative Healing Factor, immunity to Vampirism, and ability to magically control their own body cells into either weapons or armor or even shapeshift into more monstrous form called Whitelight Magic.
In July 20, 2015, it was announced that the fan-fiction series plotline would be influenced with elements of Lovecraftian works, which began from it's tie-in story Truth Behind The Salem Witch Trial.
Part 1: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Part 1: The Sorcerer's Apprentice involves Canary Raido's discovery where Mr. Blake, his wise but mysterious mentor, turned out to be one of Merlin's original apprentices that looking for Prime Merlinean. This was started from his accident with Dragon Ring that causes the catastrophic explosion that gave him and Tlob's Whitelight Magic and several encounters with remnants of Morganian whom seek to destroy the world. This Part reimagining the storyline in the original The Sorcerer's Apprentice movie.
- Prologue
- Explosion In The Middle of Thunderstorm
- Enigmatic Master Part 1
- Enigmatic Master Part 2
- Morganian's Resurgence
- Preparation for Possible Inevitable Fate and Battle
- Mr. Blake's Request
- Battle in Warren District part 1
- Battle in Warren District part 2
- The Next Move
- Unexpected Family Reunion
- Mystery of Mr. Blake's Past
- Swarm Moth and Raven
- Participating
- Mr. Blake's Old Friend
- Tlob and Raido
- Prime Merlinean (Track) Part 1
- Prime Merlinean (Track) Part 2
- Resurgence Begins
- Magic Absorption
- Alden's Brigand Part 1
- Alden's Brigand Part 2
- Love
- Prime Merlinean Rising
- The Beast Rising
- Terrorcorpse
- Darkness Rising Part 1
- Darkness Rising Part 2
Part 2: Black Knight Zacros and Battle Between Apprentices
Everything was seemingly back normal again months after Morgana's defeat, though original Morganians remain at large. When attending a funeral of one of his parents' old friend whom coincidently being the older brother of his favorite Japanese descent archaeologist Prof. Kya Munakata, he spotted a mysterious human girl whom carrying a mysterious artifact that turned out able to permanently turned normal humans into sorcerers. The girl, whom later revealed to be the first and the best friend that Tlob had in her younger days, has no idea what she has -- or what it can do. But Veronica does. And when he sees the girl with it, he knows that he and his allies have to get that artifact at any cost before it fell into the wrong hands. But what should have been a simple plan ends up led the girl and a local bystander turned into sorcerers whom cannot control their newfound powers.
Though this also led the reunion between Tlob and her old friend, her said friend and the local bystander whom accidently turned into sorcerer like her are on the run from Morganians. In order to help them defend themself from their new enemies, Mr. Blake aka. Balthazar decided to train them in practicing and control their magic. Raido also assist his master, though at the same time, he need to help his father in solving the mysterious murder of the assistance of Prof. Kaya Munakata. Unfortunately, one of his newest apprentices has a secret, and it's not good...
Veronica however, had a problem of her own, as one of the Morganians whom attacking the transformed girls for their artifact was revealed to be her former friend Maxim Zacros.
Part 3: Stars Are Aligned
Part 4: The Creators
Soundtrack:
Tie-In Stories
The following Tie-in stories are confirmed to be canonical with the primary storyline of the fan-fiction series ad set in the same universe, though in different timelines. Unlike in main series, characters that featured in this series not given any description about their physical appearance so their appearance can be ambiguous.
- Broken Bird and Man Whom Only Learn Hate
- Desolation of the Abomination, sequel of the Broken Bird and Man Whom Only Learn Hate.
- Truth Behind The Salem Witch Trial, stand-alone tie-in story that involves the horrors behind the said infamous witch trials.
Characters and Their Possible Voice Actors
This sections consists of list of characters in the fanfic story, with names of actors that likely suit as their voice actors and actresses. As these are pure fanon, it means these are simply the author's fantasies.
Merlineans/Crossmages
Major Merlineans
- Jake Cherry as David "Raido" Canary/Swarm Moth
- Jodelle Ferland as Rebecca "Tlob" Barnes/Raven
- Tom Kenny as Snowy Twoflower.
Secondary Merlineans & Other Allies
- Nicholas Cage as Balthazar Blake/Mr. Blake(veteran Merlinean)
- Peter Cullen as Balthazar Blake (Whitelight Armor form)
- Cherami Leight as Veronica Gorloisen
- John Hurt as Corinth the Gentle (the Great Dragon and veteran Merlinean)
- Elle Fanning as Janey Canary-Zurrow
- Alyson Stoner as Sherman
- Omar Miller as Bennet "Travis" Zurrow
- James A. Stephens as Merlin
- Maggie Blue O'Hara as Holly "Dorothy" Ornitier
- Paul Dobson as Inspector Canary Jaques
- Monica Rial as Charlotte/Black Raccoon.
- Bruce Sherfield as Fletcher.
Morganians
- Frank Welker as Ravage(de facto leader)
- Alfred Molina as Ravage (human disguise)
- Alice Krige as Morgana Le Fay (founder/The Beast)
- Amelia Warner as Heralth
- Oscar A. Colon as Owl-Eye
- Gregory Woo as Sun Lok
- Toby Kebbell as Draco Stone/Spiker
- The Swindlers
- Linda Cardellini as Turquoise Witch
- Bumper Robinson as Chernabog
- Richard Green as Menmet-Ra
- Jason Cottle as Alden Sikes
- David O'Hara as Marv
Others
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Scarred Man
- Jodelle Ferland as Broken Bird
- Maxey Whitehead as Crona
Inspirations
Though this fan-fiction series was based on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Steampunk Adventures of Sorcerer's Apprentice series also greatly inspired with these fictions:
- Transformers series(particulary Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise(mainly), and Transformers: Age of Extinction)
- inFamous game series
- Skulduggery Pleasent series
Posters and Gallery
