A Cannon’s Dream: Clash Royale Fan Story, Episode 1 Recap

By Clash World · Guides · Oct 18, 2026

AI Overview: A Cannon’s Dream is a Clash Royale fan story by Scarlett about Danny, an iron cannon with a brain and feelings. The saved page lists 14 episodes but holds the text of Episode 1 only. This guide gives the cast, six story beats and links to the cards behind the characters, and the original text is kept below.

Last Updated: October 2026

Key Points:

• The story is a Clash Royale fan fiction by a writer called Scarlett.
• The narrator is Danny, a cannon with a brain.
• The saved page lists 14 episodes but holds Episode 1 only.
• Violet is a Musketeer, Scarlet a Valkyrie and Joe a Hog Rider.
• The Cannon costs 3 elixir on today’s official list.

What This Page Holds

Short answer. A fan story by a writer called Scarlett. The cannon narrator, Danny, is made of iron and has a brain, feelings and emotions.

Plain talk. It reads like a short school story with card names.

The catch. The saved page lists 14 episodes in a table of contents. The text kept here is Episode 1 only. Episodes 2 to 14 are not on the saved page.

Why a guide. A reading guide helps new readers follow the cast before they start, and helps old fans find what they remember.

The Cast, From Episode 1

Fun detail. Danny arrives in a tiny silver chest, with a note from a made-up maker, Stephen Supercell. It says the cannon is a bug in a good way.

Zoom out. Fan stories give a game a heart that cards cannot. If studios keep writing lore, fan fiction will either grow richer or become less needed. The risk is that fans lose the quiet space to make their own, and new cards arrive with a canon already in place.

Episode 1 in Six Beats

1. Danny is shipped in a silver chest with a note about his defect.
2. King James IV lifts him out and introduces his daughters.
3. Violet explains the Training Camp and the Builder’s Workshop, the arena where trophies are won.
4. Joe and Scarlet argue. Joe says she dropped her axe in her first match.
5. Danny watches Violet, Scarlet and Joe fight, and feels nervous.
6. Danny takes the field, beats a Witch, loses to a Giant, respawns, and the team wins three towers to none.

What it teaches. The story is a small training lesson: everyone is nervous the first time, and a team wins by taking turns.

The game parts that match. In the old game, the Builder’s Workshop unlocked at 1,700 trophies and the Legendary Arena at 3,000. Violet says both. Today’s official list prices a Cannon at 3 elixir.

How to Read It Today

• Start at Episode 1 and treat the table of contents as a plan, not a promise.
• Look for the card in each character. Violet is a Musketeer, Scarlet a Valkyrie, Joe a Hog Rider.
• Do not use the game facts as current. The story is from the early ladder.

The cards today. The site’s October 2026 guides show Cannon: Evo barrage 281 to 261 on October 6, with all eight printed base lists at 53.0% or more. Hog Rider: best list 61.2%. Valkyrie: all eight base lists 47.8% or less.

Reading note. The rest of the saved page is the full Episode 1 text, kept below.

Zoom ahead. Missing chapters are a common fate for fan fiction. If the author or the site ever restores the other 13 episodes, expect a bigger story with new cards worked in. If not, the first episode is all that remains, and a story that stops at a first win is hard to judge.

Zoom in. Fan fiction thrives when a game gives players characters to love. If a game adds named heroes, expect more stories about them, and expect fewer about plain cards like the Cannon.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is A Cannon’s Dream?

It is a Clash Royale fan story about Danny, an iron cannon with a brain, feelings and emotions. Use it as a guide, and check the linked pages for the current details.

How many episodes does A Cannon’s Dream have?

The table of contents lists 14 episodes, but the saved page holds the text of Episode 1 only.

Who are the main characters?

Danny the Cannon, King James IV, the princesses Hannah and Holly, Violet the Musketeer, Scarlet the Valkyrie and Joe the Hog Rider.

Who wrote A Cannon’s Dream?

A writer called Scarlett, who said it was her first Clash Royale fan fiction.

Is the story part of the game?

No. It is a fan story, so the plot and names are not game facts.

Original Guide, Kept in Full

The text below is the original page, kept in full. It was written between 2016 and 2024, so some details are out of date. The tips and numbers above use 2026 sources.

Hey all! It’s Scarlett here, and as some of you may have heard, I am starting a new fanfiction series! This is my first fanfiction on Clash Royale, titled “A Cannon’s Dream”, and I really hope you guys will like it, as I literally spend hours each day writing it. I am still in the process of writing the story, and I am going to post them episode by episode. I’m not sure how many episodes there will be in total, but I will try to keep you guys up to date on this stuff. Well, hope you enjoy… 🙂

Table of Contents

A Cannon’s Dream: Episode I

They created me from pure iron, perfectly polished, and packaged me inside a tiny silver chest. I was cramped pretty tightly, but I didn’t care, because I knew this was all part of my destiny. There was a paper taped to my back that read:

Defected Cannon: My apologies, we accidentally made a minor error in Danny’s programming. He has proved in our experiments to be highly intelligent for his kind, and unlike all other cannons, he actually has a brain, feelings, and emotions. We tried hard to turn him back into a normal cannon, but after several failed attempts, we couldn’t fix the bug.

Sincerely,

Stephen Supercell

This note kinda disturbed me, but it also complimented me at the same time. I was soon shipped to a stone castle, where a King opened the chest that I was trapped inside and carefully lifted me up and out of the chest. He read the note taped to my back silently, and smiled even harder. Beside the King were two princesses, who I believe were his daughters. I could tell by his joyful grin and his cry of delight he was happy to see me, and I couldn’t help but feel the same. After all, I had finally found a master.

“Welcome to the castle, Danny. I am King James IV, and these,” he said, pointing to the Princesses, “are my daughters, Hannah and Holly. Follow me, Danny, and I will lead you to your first practice battle.” King James motioned for me to follow him and led me through a narrow hall leading to a door which he slowly pushed open. I walked outside the door and was excited to see that I had been led to an area with fresh air, where the grass was so green and the sky so blue. Six stone towers were ahead of me, three coated in red and three in royal blue, and a red banner that read “Training Camp: Trainer Basil VS JamesTheGreat” was held high above the trees. Hannah and Holly each occupied one of the two smaller towers coated in blue, and the biggest tower was located between them.

I also saw a few friendly creatures sitting on a bench behind the biggest tower, including a scarlet-haired girl holding a double-bladed axe, a man with a mohawk sitting on the back of a pig,  a purple-haired girl wearing a metal helmet, and four bony skeletons. The king told me to sit with them on the bench, and I quickly listened, knowing that he was my one and only master now. I sat next to the pretty girl, with the solid metal helmet, purplish curls, and a musket held tightly in her arms.

“Hey,” she said, waving at me. “Call me Violet.”

“Hi Violet, I’m Danny.”

“So the rules of the match are simple; we have to destroy the towers coated in red while protecting our own. Also, don’t worry about the elixir payments and that stuff; King James will take care of that. So this is the Training Camp, obviously, as I’m sure you can read the banner. Basically, King James takes us here to test our skill, and if he sees potential in you, you might just get the chance to battle in the Builder’s Workshop, in which I’m sure you will get the chance to,” Violet explained.

“What’s the Builder’s Workshop?” I asked in confusion.

“Oh,” she smiled. “That’s the name of the Arena we battle in. When we win a battle, we gain trophies, but if we lose, we lose trophies too. One day, I believe we will collect three-thousand trophies and be able to fight in the Legendary Arena, which is located on a floating island!”

I may have been a little over excited when I heard that I would have a chance to show my skill and possible battle in the Builder’s Workshop, for there was such a high possibility that I would screw up and ruin my biggest chance. Violet also introduced me to two of her friends, Scarlet and Joe, and she explained that she was a Musketeer, Scarlet was a Valkyrie, and Joe a Hog Rider.

“Wassup, Danny! You ready for your first battle in Training Camp?” Joe asked me.

“Yeah, I guess, but I’m a bit nervous,” I admitted.

“Everyone’s nervous at their first battle. Hear that, Scarlet?” Joe laughed.

“I. Will. Throw. My. Axe. At. You,” said Scarlet with a don’t-mess-with-me tone.

“Oh, she’s always been cold with me. What I mean, Danny, is that during her first battle, she was so nervous that she dropped her axe, and out of embarrassment ran off the Arena. And this was in an actual battle where everyone was watching, not a Training Camp like this here. Sounds familiar, Scar?” Joe teased. Triggered as she was, Scarlet stepped up from the bench and threw a hard punch at Joe’s shoulder. He took one step back in alarm, and regained his balance after a few failed attempts.

“Geez, Scarlet. Chill,” Joe said, rubbing his shoulder. “I was just trying to make Danny feel more confident in himself, right my friend?” he asked, patting me on the back. “And also,” he added to Scarlet, “Do you not know how tough that fist of yours is? It seriously feels as if it’s made of iron. No joke.”

“Hey, Joe? Be thankful I didn’t use my axe. And by the way, lesson learned, eh? Don’t mess with me,” Scarlet shoved Joe again and then took her seat at the bench. Joe simply raised his eyebrows and muttered something I couldn’t hear.

When we were out of earshot from Scarlet, Joe whispered to me, “That girl is pure savage.” I nodded in agreement and sat down next to Violet after she was done conversing with the skeletons.

After we were settled, the King climbed onto his tower and the match began. I watched Violet and noticed how easy it was for her to shoot down the enemy troops. She swiftly shot down an entire horde of  Minions and then managed to get a few shots off of the enemy tower, until she succumbed to the tower’s arrows and left a pile of elixir on the grass. I was worried for her for a bit, but then she somehow spawned on the bench beside me again, and I was relieved to see she was unharmed. I was too busy watching Violet earlier that it took me a while to notice that a huge army of enemy skeletons were heading toward our tower! King James sent Scarlet onto the Arena, and she somehow destroyed the whole army with just a few spins of her axe. Then Joe was sent behind her and together they destroyed the first tower. They were amazing, alright, but they only made me more nervous. How was I supposed to be as good as them?

The king was calling out the players on the bench to get on the Arena one by one, until he finally pointed at me. I was a little anxious, but I took a deep breath, got off the bench, and planted myself between the two towers with Hannah and Holly on top. A purple-hooded lady with pink eyes, who I believe is the Witch, came walking towards me from the opposite side of the Training Camp. This was not too hard of a start, as I easily took down the Witch with my cannonballs, feeling really accomplished. Perhaps I shouldn’t have said that, for at that moment a Giant came along and soon enough, I disappeared and respawned at the bench.

The battle kept going on as usual, as after I respawn, I rest, and after I rest, I fight in the battle again. King James also occasionally sent random supernatural things onto the Arena, such as a fireball or a mini lightning bolt. The cycle continued until the match was over, and we beat the trainer three towers to none.

Test any deck from this guide in the Clash Royale Deck Builder: it shows elixir cost, cycle speed and patch risk before you spend a single card level.

Sources

Researched from the following (no links, listed for transparency):

• CryptoAIMeta card guides for these cards, built from RoyaleTracker October 2026 samples and SeeMeta 2026 balance changes
• SeeMeta, Clash Royale balance changes 2026 (page updated October 2026), read through search summaries
• Supercell official Clash Royale API, card list (elixir cost, rarity, unlock arena)
• The original clash.world pages (2016 to 2020), kept in full below