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* ArcherArchetype: She's a martial artist by preference, but falls back on archery to support the melee fighters in the squad.
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* OldMaster: Centuries old, and what little time he's been in the comic has firmly established him as [[SuperWeight more than a couple notches above what anyone else in the comic is capable of.]]
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* OldMaster: Centuries old, and what little time he's been in the comic has firmly established him as [[SuperWeight [[JustForFun/SuperWeight more than a couple notches above what anyone else in the comic is capable of.]]
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* BoobsOfSteel: Has larger mammaries than Lyra and Thistle combined.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: It's bizarre appearance is similar to Abrahamic descriptions of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraph seraphim]], angels of heaven that have six wings and are described being closest to God.
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* TheSoulsaver: As a [[TheArchmage Wizard]] and [[spoiler:EmissaryFromTheDivine]], Master Wu can save people who've been [[LivingBodysuit possessed by Drath]]. His powers let him reach into the BlackBugRoom where the victim's soul is trapped, but the soul has to choose to leave the Drath's influence, and all he can do is [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/610 talk them through it.]]
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* EnemyWithin: When drath latch on to a sapient host, they also dig into the hosts' minds by constantly bringing up their failings and insecurities. This makes it that much harder for the hosts to break free. Even if the host is freed, the drath will leave an "echo" behind that continues to torment the host. This echo can be removed if discovered quickly enough by someone powerful enough to remove them, but those people are rare and the window of opportunity to remove it is short. Several characters so far have had echoes:
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* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse as shown by Thistle and the rest of the team's reaction to her stories.
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!!Races
[[folder:Cave Elves]]
Tribal cannibals who live underground, cave elves are widely feared and hated.
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* BatPeople: Cave elves have a distinctively bat-like appearance (upturned noses, large eyes, fin-like ears, sharp teeth), developed from living in the dark underground.
* CypherLanguage: The cave elf language is a simple substitution cypher, making it fairly easy to translate. For example: [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/17 "Sorry it's nothing personal"]] & [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/110 "You killed my comrade!"]].
* FantasticRacism: ''Nobody'' likes cave elves. Considering that they [[ToServeMan happily chow down on other sapient species]] and aren't too picky about said species [[EatenAlive being dead first]], it's not hard to see why.
* InnateNightVision: Cave elves can see in complete darkness.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Zig-zagged. They're classified as non-sapient by other species and are referred to as "it" by most of Orrig's crew; [[TheHeart Thistle]], who knows about cave elf culture and [[spoiler:secretly is one herself]], uses "him" and has many more reservations about the job.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Cave elves are savages who inhabit caverns and mines, live in a tribal and matriarchal society, and happily prey on and eat other sapient beings. Other races hate and fear them in equal measure and view them as dangerous vermin to be exterminated. However, it's hinted that they may have more going on, as [[spoiler:the main character, Thistle, is a civilized cave elf living in disguise]].
* PointyEars: Exaggerated -- cave elves have very large batlike ears extending from the sides of their heads.
* ToServeMan: Cave elves eat other humanoid species, even [[EatenAlive taking bites of flesh off living victims]], and can [[InnateNightVision see in pitch darkness]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Cave elves are written off as non-sapient monsters even though they have a language and an internal society. On the other hand, they're fine with [[ToServeMan eating people alive]]. [[spoiler:As a cave elf herself, Thistle has a lot of anxiety over being a "monster".]]
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[[folder:City Elves]]
A sophisticated, learned, and deeply arrogant people, the city elves view themselves as the apex of civilization.
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* FantasticRacism: It's mentioned that more old-fashioned elves look down on orcs, not least because the orcs defeated them quite handily in war. Thistle is enraged to realize that the fantasy book she bought is clearly racist towards orcs, presenting them as evil and savage. Orrig dismisses the author as "an angry little man making a fit".
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The city elves are based on monarchic to Napoleonic France, with the associated fashions and snootiness and a capital named St. Trivium sur Bourge.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: City elves are urban, civilized, and arrogant; their society is largely based on that of the French ''Ancien Régime'', down to using Francophone names, and they place great value on protocol, elegance and learning. Physically, they resemble humans with long, pointed ears and slimmer frames. They're also known for looking down on others, and have a long-standing feud with the orcs that started when the city elves tried to conquer the orc homelands and failed disastrously.
* PointyEars: They have extra-long pointed ears that extend past their heads
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[[folder:Orcs]]
A race of muscular barbarians from the highlands.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The orcs speak with Russian accents, and Orrig tends to insert Russian phrases into his speech such as "nyet" for "no" and the occasional swear. There was also a notable historic incident where the Napoleonic-styled elves tried to invade them and failed miserably.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Green, muscular, horned, occasionally axe-wielding and inexplicably Russian-accented, but besides that, they're just another sapient species, and just as capable of reasonable and civilized behavior as everybody else. They do have a history of warfare with elves, but note that the elves started it.
* ScrewYouElves: Historically, the orcs [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/814 dealt]] a large-scale one when the elves thought their lands would be an easy target for invasion. Traditionalist elves are still sore about it.
-->'''Orrig:''' Tink ve too stupid to beat them. Ve show them the vay of tings real qvick.
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!!Cosmic Forces
[[folder:Drath]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:A greater drath crawling over a horde of lesser drath.]]
Demonic spirits called by unscrupulous mages as familiars and servants, the drath wish to one day overwhelm and rule the world of the living.
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* BlackBugRoom: When a person is possessed by a drath, their mind is trapped with the drath's spirit in a black void where it delivers an unending HannibalLecture of their deepest insecurities.
* BodyHorror:
** Drath hosts mutate hideously when initially possessed. When the fusion dance aspect of possession comes into play, it gets even worse, and apparently corpses are ''really'' icky when {{possess|ingADeadBody}}ed.
** The drath themselves have their heads twisted backwards.
* DarkIsEvil: Hell is pitch-black with drath wandering around complaining and begging, and huge centauroid statues/guards off in the distance. In the physical world, drath without hosts manifest as {{Living Shadow}}s.
* DealWithTheDevil: Many of the older or more intelligent drath do this in order to possess you. The teacher of the Magical University that holds [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong drath summoning courses]] notes that the drath are able to sense and latch onto peoples' insecurities, although no one is sure how.
* DemonicPossession:
** The drath can invade living and dead bodies with a touch, mutating and taking control of them while the host spirit is trapped in a BlackBugRoom. [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/322 The results]] [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/336 can be]] [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/419 horrifying]].
** Even without possessing them, Greater Drath can infect a victim with a touch, leaving an EnemyWithin "echo" behind that constantly brings up their insecurities. The echo can be removed if discovered quickly enough by someone with the power to do it, but the window of opportunity is brief and the people who are able to remove it are rare.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Drath are divided into lesser and greater variants. The greater ones (like Brody) are the really dangerous ones that can leave pieces of themselves inside you.
* EnemyWithin: When drath latch on to a sapient host, they also dig into the hosts' minds by constantly bringing up their failings and insecurities. This makes it that much harder for the hosts to break free. Even if the host is freed, the drath will leave an "echo" behind that continues to torment the host. This echo can be removed if discovered quickly enough by someone powerful enough to remove them, but those people are rare and the window of opportunity to remove it is short. Several characters so far have had echoes:
* {{Familiar}}: "Familiars" are drath spirits bound into living or dead animal hosts, to [[AnimalisticAbomination generally gruesome effect]]. They're intelligent and can serve as protectors, aides, or "supplements" to spellcasting, so long as one doesn't mind a [[DarkIsEvil shadowy]] companion that intuitively knows one's deepest insecurities and most painful secrets.
* FusionDance: Drath hosts can absorb other creatures into themselves by simple touch. If they do so with a person, they return to full sapience.
* TheLegionsOfHell: They yearn to enter and overrun the physical world and will take advantage of any breach that allows them through to come boiling out into corporeal existence.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: When drath possess a herd of animals, they mash the herd together into a ''very loosely'' humanoid form with hundreds of drath voices speaking in sync from its mouths.
* {{Necromancy}}: Drath are damned souls summoned at random from the netherworld and placed in the body of another creature. It's illegal to use people for it (because that makes them dangerously powerful), and if a corpse is used it's even more disgusting than usual.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: "Drath" or "drackthmal" is an umbrella term that comprises both damned souls and more powerful demons that can be summoned from TheUnderworld and possess living beings and dead bodies.
* PossessingADeadBody: Drath can possess almost any body after being summoned, generally causing a grotesque TransformationOfThePossessed. When a dead body is used as a host, the [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/e105 results]] are even grosser.
* SummonMagic: Drath-summoning overlaps with {{Necromanc|er}}y, since it calls damned souls into a host through a [[GeometricMagic ritual circle]].
* TransformationOfThePossessed: A corpse or living being possessed by the drath is quickly twisted and warped into unnatural shapes. The first example seen is of a white mouse that turns gray and has its head twisted upside down while its mouth grows to cover most of its neck; later examples include cyclopean or many-eyed creatures, a three-headed bird, and a cat with human hands.
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[[folder:The "Anti-Drath" -- UNMARKED SPOILERS]]
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Mysterious entities who oppose the drath and appear to have some association with wizards.
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* GodsHandsAreTied: They're extremely powerful, enough so that one is able to turn back a drath horde through its presence alone. They cannot simply take over, fight back the drath and stop their summoning, however. Thistle speculates that there's something special about mortals' ability to make their own choices, even when these choices are wrong, and that these beings cannot or will not force their will on mortals.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're supernatural entities opposed to the demonic drath, and manifest as glowing beings with multiple arms, wings of flame, and halo-like horns studded with eyes. They claim to be servants of "the One Who Is Three", and the first one seen introduces itself with the classic "FEAR NOT".
* UnusualHalo: They have eye-studded, horn-like halos growing out of their heads.
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* BlemishedBeauty: She is an ActionGirl who got serious acid burns on one side of her body, including her face and {{eye|Scream}}, from a monster fight. In her [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/709 next appearance]], she's styled her hair to accent her scars and is dressed up for a date.
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* SkirtOverSlacks: A necessary fashion choice when the skirt is an [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/517 emergency reserve]] of transmuted water for her MakingASplash powers.
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