MAIDS OF MIGHT

Maids of Might is based on a 50-paged cartoon drawn by Mikachu Yukitatsu in 2004. In turn, that's based on Mikachu's own fantasy world that developed inside the head of the writer since 1999. That world reminds of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world, except that for instance dragons are in a bit more centered role and it has plenty of influences from Japanese pop art as well. According to the back cover text of Maids of Might comic, ”Maids of Might is located in a fantasy world, where castles reach up to skies, magic has no limitations and the names of characters aren't controlled by even the grammatical rules of Finnish or Japanese.”.

Chapter 1



Lüxiong threw three dice and got 24 as a result. ”Champions attack and deal 3290 damage!” she quickly calculated. ”Well thrown, Lüxiong! The rest of Royal Griffins die!” praised Hanakasumi. Lüxiong took the Champions, Royal Griffins and the rest of her playmarks from the battle game board. ”What does Atsunami-chan say now? Savonlinna belongs to Russians now!” she asked. Atsunami, Hanakasumi's little sister, had a relaxed approach to the defeat. She knew that one lost city in the strategy game ”Heroes of Ruåtsi-Suomi” mattered nothing when you considered the entire map.

”I'll be there shortly, with Väinämöinen and her Gold Dragons...” Atsunami said. Huangying, Lüxiong's little sister, joined the three girls. ”One hundred may be enough for Russia, but what about the Darkness itself?” Huangying commented. ”That game of ours is nothing compared to those wars that have raged on these lands, too!” she kept on.

Hanakasumi and Lüxiong had read history the furthest, as the oldest of the group. They knew to tell that men, elves and dwarves had always warred not only against each other but also against a common enemy. Atsunami and Huangying could see the mountains, castles, meadows and waterways of Keskustan Maat, when they listened to the tales of their elder sisters.

”1206 years ago, on the 8th year of Empress Miaochen's era, a battle was fought in the west, on the other side of Itämeri. A battle called 'Kaikista Karkein Taistelu'.” Hanakasumi quoted a history book she had read. "The evil fled from Keskustan Maat back there, but now it has risen again. The Dark Lord Morkoth of Hämärä Kingdom grows orcs and other creatures to his said and more and more are rising from the hopeless lands."



"Maybe Morkoth could lose his ability to fight if we two marched across Tuhka Mountains all the way to Dark Towers and bewitched the Great Eye with our gorgeous beauty!" Hanakasumi joked leaning to Lüxiong.

But in the girls' homeland, Auringonnousu Mountains, there had been seen creatures, that really weren't on the side of men, elves, dwarves or orcs. All of them confronted dragons time after time, not knowing that these creatures suffered from neverending wars, too. But Morkoth wasn't afraid of using the means to get wicked men or other nations on his side. He could even capture smaller dragons and then blackmail their parents.