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* EvilVirtues: Honor. For what it's worth, he not only allowed, but actually treated the people of Tarnil as little more than renewable resources, but he fights fairly, was willing to negotiate, and sent Queen Iniri a letter warning her that the four cities he ruled were going to fall apart with his departure, rather than simply running away and letting them collapse without doing anything.

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* EvilVirtues: Honor. For what it's worth, he not only allowed, but actually He treated the people of Tarnil as little more than renewable resources, but but, for what it's worth, he fights fairly, was willing to negotiate, and sent Queen Iniri a letter warning her that the four cities he ruled were going to fall apart with his departure, rather than simply running away and letting them collapse without doing anything.
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* AngstComa: After she fired the [Light of Lechston], and learns the consequences, she completely shuts down and has to be teleported off the battlefield as a Nivir deep agent takes the opportunity to blast her with an attack spell. It's only once she's inside Blue's dungeon that she breaks down in tears, and even Shayma comforting her doesn't register.

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* AngstComa: After she fired the [Light of Lechston], Eschaton], and learns the consequences, she completely shuts down and has to be teleported off the battlefield as a Nivir deep agent takes the opportunity to blast her with an attack spell. It's only once she's inside Blue's dungeon that she breaks down in tears, and even Shayma comforting her doesn't register.

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! Nivir

[[folder: Chancellor Keel]]
Queen Iniri's chancellor, serving the royal family for generations.

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! Nivir

[[folder: Chancellor Keel]]
Queen Iniri's chancellor, serving the royal family for generations.
Yit Niv]]
One of Tor Kot's allies.



* DeepCoverAgent: He's been serving the Tarnil family so faithfully, even Cenya, the spymaster was fooled into thinking he's a loyal Tarnil. It's only when he turns on Queen Iniri in the aftermath of the battle with Tor Kot's army that his loyalty to Nivir is discovered, and even then, he would have taken the secret to his grave if Blue hadn't noticed that his teeth were magically altered.
* PlayingWithFire: The only magic he used on-screen is a powerful fire-ball.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that he's Nivir's mole could easily spoil the ending twist of book 1.

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* DeepCoverAgent: He's been serving the Tarnil family so faithfully, even Cenya, the spymaster was fooled into thinking he's a loyal Tarnil. It's only when he turns on Queen Iniri in the aftermath ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Part of the battle with Tor Kot's army that his loyalty to Nivir is discovered, and even then, he would have taken mage-king invasion of the secret continent of Einteril… right up until Shayma arrives telling them to his grave if Blue hadn't noticed that his teeth were magically altered.
* PlayingWithFire: The only magic he used on-screen is a powerful fire-ball.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that he's Nivir's mole could easily spoil
get out or suffer the ending twist wrath of book 1.Blue. She promptly leaves without a hint of resistance, complaint, or hesitation.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: One of the exceedingly rare female mage-kings.



[[folder: King Virn Esox]]
The king of Nivir.

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! Nivir

[[folder: King Virn Esox]]
The king of Nivir.
Chancellor Keel]]
Queen Iniri's chancellor, serving the royal family for generations.



* EnemyMine: He works together with Blue, Shayma, Keri, and Annit to deal with House Anell, upon Blue receiving a vision that the Anells were planning to assassinate the entire royal house. Earlier, Nivir had launched an armed invasion into Tarnil immediately after Queen Iniri had used the Adamant Fortress to defeat Tor Kot at incredible cost and Tarnil was vulnerable.
* RevengeMyopia: Discussed. He tells Shayma that there are factions in his country that are opposed to normalizing relations with Tarnil as a result of the humiliation of being repulsed with ease by Blue's Lost Forest strategy. Blue points out that he could have killed the invading armies with ease, but Shayma doesn't pass that particular message on.

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* EnemyMine: He works together with Blue, Shayma, Keri, and Annit to deal with House Anell, upon Blue receiving a vision that DeepCoverAgent: He's been serving the Anells were planning to assassinate the entire royal house. Earlier, Nivir had launched an armed invasion into Tarnil immediately after family so faithfully, even Cenya, the spymaster was fooled into thinking he's a loyal Tarnil. It's only when he turns on Queen Iniri had used in the Adamant Fortress to defeat Tor Kot at incredible cost and Tarnil was vulnerable.
* RevengeMyopia: Discussed. He tells Shayma that there are factions in his country that are opposed to normalizing relations with Tarnil as a result
aftermath of the humiliation of being repulsed battle with ease by Blue's Lost Forest strategy. Tor Kot's army that his loyalty to Nivir is discovered, and even then, he would have taken the secret to his grave if Blue points out hadn't noticed that his teeth were magically altered.
* PlayingWithFire: The only magic
he used on-screen is a powerful fire-ball.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that he's Nivir's mole
could have killed easily spoil the invading armies with ease, but Shayma doesn't pass that particular message on.ending twist of book 1.



! Haerlish

[[folder: Milly Aops]]
Known as The Hurricane, she is one of the three fourth-tier adventurers who sign on to fight Vok Nal. She is more than a little unhinged.

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! Haerlish

[[folder: Milly Aops]]
Known as
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The Hurricane, she is one king of the three fourth-tier adventurers who sign on to fight Vok Nal. She is more than a little unhinged.Nivir.


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* EnemyMine: He works together with Blue, Shayma, Keri, and Annit to deal with House Anell, upon Blue receiving a vision that the Anells were planning to assassinate the entire royal house. Earlier, Nivir had launched an armed invasion into Tarnil immediately after Queen Iniri had used the Adamant Fortress to defeat Tor Kot at incredible cost and Tarnil was vulnerable.
* RevengeMyopia: Discussed. He tells Shayma that there are factions in his country that are opposed to normalizing relations with Tarnil as a result of the humiliation of being repulsed with ease by Blue's Lost Forest strategy. Blue points out that he could have killed the invading armies with ease, but Shayma doesn't pass that particular message on.
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! Haerlish

[[folder: Milly Aops]]
Known as The Hurricane, she is one of the three fourth-tier adventurers who sign on to fight Vok Nal. She is more than a little unhinged.
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* CivilWar: The aftermath of Shayma coming in and solving a national crisis that the country’s leadership tried to deny was even a problem leads to a civil war erupting.

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* CivilWar: The aftermath of After Shayma coming and Blue come in and solving solves a national crisis that the country’s leadership tried to deny was even a problem leads to a problem, the country erupts into one of these.
* ComplainingAbourRescuesTheyDontLike: Despite Tarnil taking in refugees fleeing their
civil war erupting.war, most of those refugees do little beyond complain about it.

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* DecadentCourt: Most of the mage kings are more concerned with maintaining a luxurious lifestyle than actually doing anything productive about the depletion problem they claim to be dealing with.



* KryptoniteFactor: Their corekiller weapons are this to Blue, being able to inflict permanent damage that ignores all of his defenses with no discernible medium to block.

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* KryptoniteFactor: Their corekiller weapons are this to too Blue, being able to inflict permanent damage that ignores all of his defenses with no discernible medium to block.block.
* SmugSuper: They tend to have extremely superior attitudes as a result of their core-granted powers that put them well above all but the strongest of adventurers and their depletion auras which make them dangerous just to stand near.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: None of them really grasp just how powerful Blue and his companions are until they’ve already provoked him well past the point of peaceful negotiation.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The government actively hides an existential crisis to the nation from its own officials.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The first, second, and third thing anyone with authority does when Shayma arrives with Blue’s fortress to answer their call for help (to a national crisis, no less) is to give her the runaround rather than anything productive. It should be noted that Shayma had to ditch each of them and go looking for someone potentially helpful herself before finally deciding to just go straight to the problem.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Combined with SoreLoser. When the last of the captive Ell children elects to escape rather than stay at his command, he tries to murder the kid for it, and only Shayma pulling a HeroicSacrifice stops it.
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* GeniusLoci: “Not that I feel particularly trapped or anything; I’ve got more than enough space. It’s just that there are certain limitations that come with being a landscape.“
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* {{Unobtainium}}: Blue eventually sets up a way to manufacture extremely rare materials, some of which are so rare other people have never heard of them. A few of these are so difficult to make, even for him, that they remain highly limited resources.
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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. Blue is actually a fragment of a gestalt intelligence developed by a highly advanced civilization (Kardashev level 2 according to WordOfGod)]]

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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. Blue is actually a fragment of a gestalt intelligence developed by a highly advanced civilization (Kardashev level 2 according to WordOfGod)]]WordOfGod) for the purpose of simulating the rise of civilizations for study.]]

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* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: Blue seems to check all the boxes for this trope except the most important one: He doesn’t ever mention having been anything other than a dungeon, even to himself.

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* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: Blue seems to check all the boxes for this trope except the most important one: He trope, though he doesn’t ever mention having been anything other than a dungeon, discuss his origins even to himself.himself until we’ll into the second book.


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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. Blue is actually a fragment of a gestalt intelligence developed by a highly advanced civilization (Kardashev level 2 according to WordOfGod)]]
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* SupremeChef: They love to cook and are well-known to be skilled in their craft.

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* SupremeChef: They love to cook and are well-known to be skilled in their craft. They are good enough that Blue commissions them to cater a diplomatic summit using his dungeon-grown plants as ingredients.
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How is this Insane Troll Logic? Ansae makes a well-reasoned argument for her actions that Blue agrees with.


* InsaneTrollLogic: After she's been eavesdropping on Blue and Shayma for a week, she decides the best way to show she's trustworthy is to ambush Blue and Shayma with the knowledge that she's been betraying their trust. It only works because she's both a dragon and a [Power] and can easily stomp Blue at his best while she's at her worst. '''''Easily'''''

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* %%* InsaneTrollLogic: After she's been eavesdropping on Blue and Shayma for a week, she decides the best way to show she's trustworthy is to ambush Blue and Shayma with the knowledge that she's been betraying their trust. It only works because she's both a dragon and a [Power] and can easily stomp Blue at his best while she's at her worst. '''''Easily'''''
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* KryptoniteFactor: Their corekiller weapons are this to Blue, being able to inflict permanent damage that ignores all of his defenses with no discernible medium to block.

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[[folder: Under the Dragon's Eye]]
The adventurer's party lead by Duke Sarthi's only son.

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The adventurer's party lead by Duke Sarthi's only son.
Cheya]]
Tarnil’s spymaster and one of Iniri’s closest confidants


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* ParentalSubstitute: Iniri’s mother figure growing up.
* TheSpymaster: Literally her job.
* TripleShifter: Being spymaster and rebuilding an entire country’s infrastructure is hard work. At one point Iniri has to order her to take a break.
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The adventurer's party lead by Duke Sarthi's only son.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Less than half, actually, after what Iniri does in response to his assasination attempt leaves him in an unspecified number of pieces.
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* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: Blue seems to check all the boxes for this trope except the most important one: He doesn’t ever mention having been anything other than a dungeon, even to himself.
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* SexGod: The ladies find his breeding chamber '''addictive''' and given a choice, keep coming back for more...

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* SexGod: After upgrading his breeding chamber, not only can he control the number, size, and shape of his tentacles, he can even sense what his partners are feeling. The ladies find his breeding chamber '''addictive''' and given a choice, keep coming back for more...



* QuestionableConsent: TheirFirstTime with Blue is full of problematic circumstances. She took refuge in his dungeon to avoid four hunters, he never communicated his intent, because he couldn't, she asked him to secure her metal cube, which he did, and then she lay down on his breeding chamber, unprompted, after which he opened the door the instant she recovered.

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* QuestionableConsent: TheirFirstTime with Blue is full of problematic circumstances. circumstances due to her desperation and his muteness. She took refuge in his dungeon to avoid four hunters, he never communicated his intent, because he couldn't, she asked him to secure her metal cube, which he did, and then she lay down on his breeding chamber, unprompted, after which he opened unprompted. After she recovered from the door the instant she recovered.experience, he made no attempt at persuading her to stay.

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[[folder: Duke Lehrem Sarthi]]
The father of the adventurer who stupidly let his greed lead a party in an ill advised attack on Blue's core. At first, his demands for "justice" were understandable, since few people knew Blue wasn't either a Great dungeon nor a red one, but his single-minded pursuit of vengeance eventually leads him to engage in full-blown treason, right as mage-king Tor Kot was attacking. He '''still''' thinks he's in the right after Blue rescued the country from certain annihilation from no less than three hostile vectors.

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[[folder: Duke Lehrem Sarthi]]
Under the Dragon's Eye]]
The father of the adventurer who stupidly let his greed lead a adventurer's party in an ill advised attack on Blue's core. At first, his demands for "justice" were understandable, since few people knew Blue wasn't either a Great dungeon nor a red one, but his single-minded pursuit of vengeance eventually leads him to engage in full-blown treason, right as mage-king Tor Kot was attacking. He '''still''' thinks he's in the right after Blue rescued the country from certain annihilation from no less than three hostile vectors.lead by Duke Sarthi's only son.


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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: The party's leader is the son of Duke Lehrem Sarthi, who, beyond all reason, tried to avenge his death.
* GlorySeeker: As spelled out by Ansae. The fact that they chose to name themselves after her unique artifact means that they just want to be famous wherever they go.
* TooDumbToLive: Using a magical device to track down Blue's core, while Vok Nal's armies are trying to swarm the place, in order to loot the core and try to sell him to a mage-king that is unlikely to be grateful and would far more likely feed you to his own dungeon for the affront of thinking he's an equal? Yeah...
* UnderestimatingBadassery: They thought Blue was just an inanimate dungeon. He's sentient. He just stomps them with steam, lava, and a nice water-cutter.
* UngratefulBastard: How do they thank Blue for rescuing them and the country of Tarnil from the deprivations of Vok Nal? They use a magical device to track down Blue's core in the attempt to enslave him and either abuse his dungeon powers for themselves, or sell him off to pad their wallets. It's a fatal error.
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[[folder: Duke Lehrem Sarthi]]
The father of the adventurer who stupidly let his greed lead a party in an ill advised attack on Blue's core. At first, his demands for "justice" were understandable, since few people knew Blue wasn't either a Great dungeon nor a red one, but his single-minded pursuit of vengeance eventually leads him to engage in full-blown treason, right as mage-king Tor Kot was attacking. He '''still''' thinks he's in the right after Blue rescued the country from certain annihilation from no less than three hostile vectors.
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* {{Ambadassador}}: After the 1 year timeskip because of the Port Anell incident, she returns to the story as a level 45 [Scalemind Ambassador], and she's already demonstrated that she has no problem being part of Shayma, Atti, and Keri's adventuring party, holding her own weight just fine.

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* CutenessProximity: She dotes on and goes gaga around Shayma all the time. Blue has a hard time disagreeing.
* MismatchedEyes: She has one green eye and one gold.
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* CutenessProximity: She dotes on and goes gaga around Shayma all the time. Blue has a hard time disagreeing.
* MismatchedEyes: She has one green eye and one gold.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: One of their leaders uses a kisaru and they're clearly evil. Liana Ell, one of their hostages, also uses a kisaru, and she's unflinchingly a good person.


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* EvilVirtues: Loyalty. He's stubbornly loyal to the Anell House, when they clearly don't deserve it, and don't care about him in the slightest, openly saying they wouldn't mind if Shayma killed him, as long as he buys them time to escape and regroup elsewhere.


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* TheVictimMustBeConfused: He is so self-righteously wrapped up in Anell House propaganda, and his own PrinciplesZealot belief that filial piety is a deity that must be worshipped, no matter what, that the only reasoning which makes any sense to him is that Shayma must have used some kind of mind-control skill to compel all the hostages to leave his compound, when it finally dawns on him that they're fleeing through portals. He tries disrupting this non-existent skill with his Void Affinity, and when that fails, goes absolutely murder-crazy, trying to kill the nearest helpless child for "being an ungrateful brat."

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* TheExile: Their Ornell member, Tissana, was exiled from her extremely xenophobic country. Under normal circumstances, this isn't an issue, but when they were catering the Orn continental summit, an overly self-righteous Inquisitor decided he was going to cause trouble by abusing his authority. None of the other delegates were pleased and Queen Iniri had Blue boot him out with a nice teleport.
* FamedInStory: They are a well-known and talented adventuring party, loved by all, save the isolationist country of Ornell.

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* TheExile: Their Ornell Orrelin member, Tissana, was exiled from her extremely xenophobic country. Under normal circumstances, this isn't an issue, but when they were catering the Orn continental summit, an overly self-righteous Inquisitor decided he was going to cause trouble by abusing his authority. None of the other delegates were pleased and Queen Iniri had Blue boot him out with a nice teleport.
* FamedInStory: They are a well-known and talented adventuring party, loved by all, save the isolationist country of Ornell.Orrelin.



* TheCavalry: When a particularly rude Inquisitor from Ornell decided to try and make trouble, singling out a member of Piping Hot Pies, for daring to breathe the same air he does, this Leviathan led the charge in calling to oaf to task.

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* TheCavalry: When a particularly rude Inquisitor from Ornell Orrelin decided to try and make trouble, singling out a member of Piping Hot Pies, for daring to breathe the same air he does, this Leviathan led the charge in calling to oaf to task.



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* AbsoluteXenophobe: They absolutely want nothing to do with any other country on the planet, and don't want to let their people leave either. When one of their Inquisitors sees Tassani of Piping Hot Pies, he cries out "TRAITOR" and then flashes his Inquisitor badge to try and boss her around. Naturally, since he did this on Tarnil land and refused to apologize for overstepping his authority, he gets the boot from the Orn continental conference.
* CantLiveWithThemCantKillThem
* {{Dystopia}}: The country is so xenophobic that even though they live on a giant plateau, with cliffs that are impossible to scale by normal means, they still surround their country with fifty meter tall walls of stone and have concentric rings of the same, open only for roads and rivers. The entire country is basically one giant prison as Blue sees from above as he's giving his fortress a test-flight en route to Port Anell to deal with the crime syndicate that's been harassing him and his allies for the better part of two books.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Their isolationist nature makes them extremely unpleasant to work with, and Blue would very much love to leave them to their own devices to deal with the Blight menace themselves, but the position of their country means that the Blighted monsters would not stop at the border and instead swarm the rest of the continent unopposed if Orrelin was left alone, so Blue is forced to tolerate coming to their aid, as ungrateful as they are and considering the fact that they are the one nation that utterly refuses to recognize Blue as a polity, even though he's clearly demonstrated he's a Power and can end them ''with ease'' if he so desired.
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* StupidEvil: Despite knowing Blue is a power and that his envoy has ordered them to surrender their captives, not to mention Blue's flying fortress is staring them in the face, they use their CovertDuressCode to get Shayma past the guard entrance, guaranteeing that Taeli Ell and Shayma fight, to the death, because Taeli is just that deluded. They have the gall to be shocked when Blue retaliates.

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* StupidEvil: Despite knowing Blue is a power and that his envoy has ordered them to surrender their captives, not to mention Blue's flying fortress is staring them in the face, they use their CovertDuressCode CovertDistressCode to get Shayma past the guard entrance, guaranteeing that Taeli Ell and Shayma fight, to the death, because Taeli is just that deluded. They have the gall to be shocked when Blue retaliates.



* CovertDuressCode: The Anell heads informed him that anyone coming to the hostage hideout uttering the phrase "I'm a friend of Taeli" is someone who took the information from Rusi Anell under duress, and he should treat them as an enemy.

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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After she's killed in trying to rescue the Ells from House Anell, she wakes up one year and a day later under the Tree of Eschaton, or the tree of Fate, and learns she has a skill that should do that if she dies again, but Blue isn't going to take that kind of risk.]]



* AssholeVictim: '''Nobody''' mourns them when [[spoiler: Blue nukes them with a [Star Lance] in a fit of anger at seeing Shayma struck down by Taeli Ell while she was shielding a child who was fleeing a prison camp.]]

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* AssholeVictim: '''Nobody''' mourns them when [[spoiler: Blue nukes them with a [Star Lance] in a fit of anger rage at seeing Shayma struck down by Taeli Ell while she was shielding a child who was fleeing a prison camp.]]


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* FauxAffablyEvil: When Shayma shows up and demands the release of the Ell family hostages, they talk and act in overly polite ways but it's all an act so thin a sheet of paper looks downright solid by comparison.


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* StupidEvil: Despite knowing Blue is a power and that his envoy has ordered them to surrender their captives, not to mention Blue's flying fortress is staring them in the face, they use their CovertDuressCode to get Shayma past the guard entrance, guaranteeing that Taeli Ell and Shayma fight, to the death, because Taeli is just that deluded. They have the gall to be shocked when Blue retaliates.

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