Mythica (film series)

Mythica: A Quest for Heroes
Directed by	Anne K. Black
Written by	Anne K. Black, Jason Faller, and Kynan Griffin
Produced by	Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin
Starring	Melanie Stone Adam Johnson Jake Stormoen Nicola Posener Christopher Robin Miller Kevin Sorbo Natalie Devine Robert Jayne Michael Flynn
Cinematography	A. Todd Smith
Edited by	Rob York
Music by	Nathaniel Drew
Production company	Arrowstorm Entertainment
Language	English

Mythica is a series of primarily direct-to-video fantasy films. The films are produced by Arrowstorm Entertainment, with first film Mythica: A Quest for Heroes being partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294. ^[1] There are six films in the Mythica series, all produced and co-written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin. ^[2] The films star Melanie Stone as Marek, an escaped slave girl and budding magician, and co-star Kevin Sorbo as Gojun Pye the magician who trains her, along with Adam Johnson, Jake Stormoen, and Nicola Posener as those that team up with Marek on various quests together.

Film series

1. Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (December 8, 2014)
2. Mythica: The Darkspore (June 19, 2015)
3. Mythica: The Necromancer (December 19, 2015)
4. Mythica: The Iron Crown (May 14, 2016)
5. Mythica: The Godslayer (December 17, 2016)
6. Mythica: Stormbound (January 31, 2024) ^[3]

Cast and characters

List indicators

This section includes characters who have appeared in a film in the series.

• An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
•  ^V indicates a voice-only role.

Character
	Film
	A Quest for Heroes	The Darkspore	The Necromancer	The Iron Crown	The Godslayer	Stormbound
	2014	2015		2016		2024
Introduced in A Quest for Heroes
Thane	Adam Johnson
Teela	Nicola Posener
Marek	Melanie Stone					Does not appear
Dagen	Jake Stormoen					Does not appear
Hammerhead	Christopher Robin Miller					Does not appear
Gojun Pye	Kevin Sorbo					Does not appear
Peregus Malister	Robert Jayne			Does not appear
Rawhead	James Christian Morris			Does not appear
Caeryn	Natalie Devine Riskas		Does not appear
Vagamal	Michael Flynn		Does not appear
Magistrate	Nyk Fry		Does not appear
Kishkumen	Ryan Palmer		Does not appear
Tersa	Clare Niederpruem		Does not appear
Ana-Sett	Lauren Spalding	Does not appear		Nicola Posener	Lauren Spalding	TBA
Mekru Nom	Kee Chan	Does not appear				TBA
Egan "The Stranger"	Sebastian Barr	Does not appear				Will Kemp
Narne	Angella Joy	Does not appear
Introduced in The Darkspore
Szorlok	Does not appear	Matthew Mercer
Qole	Does not appear	Rocky Myers	Does not appear
Althalos	Does not appear	Brogan Johnson	Does not appear
Embarr	Does not appear	Larissa Beck	Does not appear
Introduced in The Necromancer
Betylla	Does not appear		Philip Brodie	Does not appear
The Eel	Does not appear		Davey Morrison	Does not appear
Captain Purio	Does not appear		Geoff Hansen	Does not appear
Yuliya	Does not appear		Evie Brodie	Does not appear
Introduced in The Iron Crown
Thorsten	Does not appear			James Gaisford	Does not appear
Caia-Bekk	Does not appear			Ash Santos	Does not appear
Rezzik	Does not appear			Jasen Wade	Does not appear
Sergeant Lipschitz	Does not appear			Maclain Nelson	Does not appear
The Guardian	Does not appear			Chris Rueckert	Does not appear
Admiral Borlund Hess	Does not appear			Eve Mauro	Does not appear
Introduced in The Godslayer
General Argus	Does not appear				Clint Vanderlinden	Does not appear
General Roghar	Does not appear				James Martin Trenton JamesV	Does not appear
Tek	Does not appear				Kristian Nairn	TBA
Introduced in Stormbound
Arlin	Does not appear					Ryann Bailey
Leyaris	Does not appear					Dave Martinez
Rhistel Kriswood	Does not appear					Paul Cartwright
Erid	Does not appear					Nate Morley
Giblock	Does not appear					Joe Abraham
Aymon Thadruck	Does not appear					Tod Huntington

Production

The film was partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294, and which described the proposed film as an "epic fantasy". ^{[4] [1]} It was produced by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin for Arrowstorm Entertainment, directed by Anne K. Black, and written by Black, Faller and Griffin.

Mythica was filmed in Utah, where producers/writers Faller and Griffin are from, and where Arrowstorm Entertainment is based. ^{[5] [6]} The films received a tax credit of up to $278,000 in 2015 for filming in Utah from the Governor's Office of Economic Development Board. ^[7]

Kevin Sorbo, who plays one of the roles in the film, said about the project: "Mythica"— a movie like "The Lord of the Rings", where I play someone like Gandalf... ^[8]

A Quest for Heroes

Mythica: A Quest for Heroes is a 2014 Arrowstorm Entertainment fantasy film written and directed by Anne K. Black and starring Melanie Stone and Kevin Sorbo. ^[9] The movie is the first of a six-part film series, and was partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294. ^[1]

Plot

Marek, a young aspiring magician and slave girl, dreams of escaping her drab life and taking on exciting adventures, while being taught by sorcerer Gojun Pye. When she meets the priestess Teela in Hammerhead's tavern who is seeking help, Marek offers her assistance, running away from her owner. While beginning to use her magic abilities and using a brace to help her with her injured leg, Marek assembles a motley troupe, consisting of herself; Teela; Thane, who is a former soldier/warrior and who rescued Marek from a harassing Peregus Malister; and Dagen, who is a half-elf, thief, and womanizer. Together, they go in search of Teela's sister, who is in possession of a mysterious stone that was taken from a temple of Teela's people, and who was kidnapped by a wild ogre and a few orcs who want the stone for their necromancer master, Sung Hill. ^{[6] [4]}

The Darkspore

Mythica: The Darkspore

Mythica: The Darkspore is a 2015 Arrowstorm Entertainment fantasy film, the second installment in the Mythica series. ^[9] It is directed by Anne K. Black and co-written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin, starring Kevin Sorbo ^{[4] [6]} and Melanie Stone.

Plot

Following immediately from the end of the A Quest for Heroes, Teela's sister is killed by Kishkumen, a dark magician with yellow eyes, who also steals the mysterious stone that she was carrying, and wants to give it to his master Szorlok.

Meanwhile, sorcerer Gojun Pye tells Marek about the stone: a fragment/shard of the full Darkspore, a piece that can give the user a great immense power, which once belonged to the Lich King, and that was found by Szorlok and his followers years ago, split into fragments, but after using his followers to reunite the Darkspore he was stopped by Gojun Pye and other sorcerers from getting the power from the piece, and in the aftermath, the sorcerers split the piece into four fragments/shards and hid them apart in the world (one was with Teela's sister and her people, a second was hidden in a dragon's lair in an ancient ruined city).

Gojun Pye also tells Marek about who she is: a necromancer, just like Szorlok, and that is why Szorlok also wants Marek at his side, because the potential power she holds within. That power is also what Teela sensed in the previous film, while trying to heal Marek's leg, and it's also what might drive Marek to the darkness if she is not careful when using it.

Marek and her company must go on a journey to the ruined city, and prevent the evil necromancer Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost. Therefore, they must get the hidden shard from the ruined city before Kishkumen does. Along the way they meet Qole, a mysterious dark-elf warrior with his face marked with strange drawings that allows him to be unharmed by dark magic, who allies himself with Marek after she saves him from faeries, and they are also pursued by Peregus Malister and his forces, who wants revenge from events of the previous film.

The Necromancer

Mythica: The Necromancer

Mythica: The Necromancer is the third installment of Mythica, ^[9] directed by A. Todd Smith and written by Jason Faller, Liska Ostojic, and Justin Partridge. It stars Kevin Sorbo ^{[4] [6]} and Melanie Stone.

Plot

Marek is beginning to master more advanced magic, by training with Gojun Pye and receiving a staff from him, and even helping him stop some orcs who had set a trap for him, although he reminds her that she needs to be careful about her necromancer powers which can lead her to darkness, because by taking life force from someone it would be hard for her to come back from it. He details a bit more of the past (which he began telling Marek in the previous film) and about his former team of sorcerers and their enemy Szorlok: they were called The Red Thorns, they were powerful and invincible, the envy of the realm, and Szorlok wanted to stop the invading vitalian soldiers, by becoming the Lich King and thus rising and controlling hordes of undead. By defeating Szorlok, one of the sorcerers sacrificed himself, and that led to the disband of the group, and also to the accomplished invasion by the vitalian soldiers as a side-effect. For the ritual to become the Lich King, after gathering the four pieces of the Darkspore, Szorlok will need other necromancers, and that includes Marek, so she must lay low as to not be found by Szorlok. Gojun Pye reminds Marek that Szorlok already has two pieces of the Darkspore.

Meanwhile, Marek and her group have become respected in Hammerhead's tavern, they adopt the name of Red Thorns, and Thane becomes more involved with Teela. When he is taken hostage by Peregus Malister, the cruel master of the Thieves Guild who is seeking revenge for having been forced to sign for the freedom of Marek, she must embark on a corrupt mission to serve the Thieves Guild with her team of would-be heroes, by retrieving some ilystrium from The Eel (his name later revealed to be Kelton) whose whereabouts are known to a Captain named Purio, while in the midst of creatures called gooches, and also several golgotians, as well as cave demons.

The Iron Crown

The fourth film in the Mythica series. Directed by John Lyde and written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin.

When daring young wizard Marek steals the final piece of the all-powerful Darkspore she embarks on a desperate quest to deliver the cursed artefact to the gods. But is caught in a death race between a ruthless team of elite mercenaries and a trinity of demons.

The Godslayer

Mythica: The Godslayer (titled Mythica: The Dragon Slayer in the United Kingdom) is the fifth installment of Mythica, ^[9] directed by John Lyde and written by Jason Faller, Kynan Griffin, starring Kevin Sorbo ^{[4] [6]} and Melanie Stone.

As the Lich King's zombie legions ravage the world, Marek and Dagen embark on a quest to obtain a weapon from the gods.

Stormbound

Mythica: Stormbound is the sixth installment, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter on December 09, 2022 with Jake Stormoen returning to direct the film. Confirmed returning cast include Matthew Mercer, Nicola Posener, and Adam Johnson. The story is set to take place some time after the events of the fifth film and will introduce new heroes and villains. ^[10]

Reception

SciFiPulse.Net called Mythica: A Quest for Heroes "a solid opening chapter" and said that although the show was not particularly original it was "an unabashed celebration of role-playing tropes" and that "Despite the engaging storyline and confident acting some of the CGI [...] was ropey to say the least." ^[11] Eyeforfilm.co.uk gave it 2.5 out of 5 and called it "a flawed but enjoyable film." ^[12]

References

1. "Mythica: A Quest for Heroes – starring Kevin Sorbo" . Retrieved 2020-07-15– via Kickstarter.
2. Robert Lloyd (July 10, 2018). "Review: 'The Outpost' is a revenge fantasy you've dreamed before but with a few surprises". Los Angeles Times. p. E5. The series is the work of Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin, producers and writers whose previous crowning achievement is the six-film low-budget film series "Mythica"...
3. "Mythica: Stormbound". IMDb .
4. Raymond Masters (April 5, 2015). "GeekDad Interviews Kevin Sorbo of 'Mythica'". GeekDad. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
5. "'Mythica: A Quest for Heroes' filmed In Utah". Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. April 10, 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
6. Thomas Swan (March 31, 2015). "Kevin Sorbo Talks Mythica: A Quest for Heroes". Hidden Remote at Fansided. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
7. "Lights, camera, tax credits". The Daily Spectrum. St. George, Utah. July 2, 2015. p. A7.
8. "On the Russian screens out the fantasy thriller "The Legend of Hercules»". vm.ru. January 23, 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
9. "Mythica: A Quest for Heroes". Alexbledsoe.com. December 8, 2014.
10. Stormoen, Jake, Mythica: Stormbound (Fantasy), Arrowstorm Entertainment, retrieved 2022-12-12
11. Raissa Devereux (March 30, 2015). "In Review: Mythica — A Quest for Heroes". SciFiPulse.Net.
12. Jennie Kermode (March 5, 2016). "Mythica: A Quest For Heroes (2014) Movie Review from Eye for Film". Eyeforfilm.co.uk.

External links

• Film portal

• Arrowstorm Entertainment
• Mythica Series Homepage
• Mythica Movie Order
• IMDb:
  • Mythica: Quest for Heroes at IMDb  
  • Mythica: The Darkspore at IMDb  
  • Mythica: The Necromancer at IMDb  
  • Mythica: The Iron Crown at IMDb  
  • Mythica: The Godslayer at IMDb  
  • Mythica: Stormbound at IMDb  
• Rotten Tomatoes
  • Mythica: A quest for heroes at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Mythica: The Darkspore at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Mythica: The Necromancer at Rotten Tomatoes
• Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2015)