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* AndIMustScream: The souls trapped on the Isle of Bones.
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* DraconicAbomination: The Border Wardens at Pontus, as well as the Dracul living in the tomb of Bahru. Neither are really malevolent, however.
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* ProudScholarRace: Throughout history, cats were chroniclers and poets, refraining from involvement with outside conflicts. Until the Great War, when the Federation of Man began to hunt them down, forcing them to take up arms themselves.
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* {{Animesque}}: The art style is done by a Japanese artist so it would make sense for the series to resemble {{anime}} and {{manga}}.
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* {{Animesque}}: The art style is done by a Japanese artist so it would make sense for the series to resemble {{anime}} and {{manga}}. It leans far more on Western comics than on typical manga, though, with the only explicitly manga-like artistic elements being big eyes on younger characters and how Professor Tam Tam and company are depicted--the whole series otherwise uses a pretty realistic art style.
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** Such mechanical limbs are actually quite common, it seems, as both humans and Arcanics are seen with them.
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** Such mechanical limbs are actually quite common, it seems, as both humans and Arcanics are seen with them. Maika's is still specifically noted as being especially advanced and perfectly integrated with the existing nerves at her shoulder, though.
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* BadassFamily: The Half-Wolf family of Moriko, Maika, the Sword of the East and the Queen of the Wolves [[spoiler: plus the Shaman-Empress who'd be a half-sister to Moriko and the Sword of the East]]. Zinn himself links to the Half-Wolf family and created a descendant branch tied thru the Shaman-Empress.
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* BadassFamily: The Half-Wolf family of Moriko, Maika, the Sword of the East and the Queen of the Wolves [[spoiler: plus the Shaman-Empress who'd be a half-sister to Moriko and the Sword of the East]]. Zinn himself links to the Half-Wolf family and created a descendant branch tied thru through the Shaman-Empress.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: The very first panel is Maika being sold as a slave. She's completely naked, with a collar around her neck and the slavemaster's whip threateningly lifting her chin up, but her nipples are either noticeably absent or small enough to be concealed by some fairly scanty GodivaHair. Whether that's the art, the audience, or an actual lack of SecondarySexualCharacteristics is not clear. Averted in the scene with the Arcanic female sumo wrestlers fighting in the tent.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: The very first panel is Maika being sold as a slave. She's completely naked, with a collar around her neck and the slavemaster's whip threateningly lifting her chin up, but her nipples are either noticeably absent or small enough to be concealed by some fairly scanty GodivaHair. Whether that's the art, the audience, or an actual lack of SecondarySexualCharacteristics is not clear.clear; other nude scenes where the "naughty bits" should be visible also have them conspicuously absent, though often with similar justification to Maika's introductory scene. Averted in the scene with the Arcanic female sumo wrestlers fighting in the tent.
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* CastFromHitPoints: Maika thought that [[spoiler:giving the Monstrum its true name]] would allow her to use it at no cost. She was wrong. Controlling [[spoiler:the Monstrum]] exacts a price. Each time Maika takes control, her flesh and bone are consumed by it. [[spoiler:Using it twice meant losing everything up to her elbow and then her whole arm.]]
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* CastFromHitPoints: Maika thought that [[spoiler:giving the Monstrum its true name]] would allow her to use it at no cost. She was wrong. Controlling [[spoiler:the Monstrum]] exacts a price. Each time Maika takes control, her flesh and bone are consumed by it. [[spoiler:Using it twice meant losing everything up to her elbow and then her whole arm.]]]] Otherwise, the trade-off is [[spoiler: consuming other living, sentient beings. Maika is ''not'' okay with having to (metaphorically) eat people as a result of this]].
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest[=/=]ParentalAbandonment: We don't yet know what happened to Maika's formidable mother, but she only appears in a vision, and Maika and all of her enemies assume she's dead.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest[=/=]ParentalAbandonment: We don't yet know what happened to The fate of Maika's formidable mother, but she mother Moriko was a mystery for a long time, appearing only appears in a vision, visions, memories, and Maika and all of her remarks from enemies assume and allies alike on the assumption that she's dead.dead. As it turns out, [[spoiler: she was Maika's first "victim" after she became halfway possessed by the Monstrum known as Zinn, being consumed by her own young daughter shortly after that happened]].
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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: [[spoiler:The Monstra inside Maika appears to have been once in a relationship with an Arcanic. It later turns out that the Arcanic was the Shaman-Empress and that a resulting lineage descended from that.]]
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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: [[spoiler:The Monstra inside Maika appears to have been once in a relationship with an Arcanic. It later turns out that the Arcanic was the Shaman-Empress and that a resulting lineage descended from that. In a bit of a twist on how this normally happens, the vaguely-male Zinn was the "mother" in this process.]]
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* DramaticIrony: The readers are let in on [[spoiler: Tuya]]'s status as a baroness of the Dusk Court relatively early, something that Maika is currently unaware of.
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* DramaticIrony: The readers are let in on [[spoiler: Tuya]]'s status as a baroness of the Dusk Court relatively early, something that Maika is currently unaware of.of, [[spoiler: or at least she appears to be--she reveals to Tuya herself that she'd known for a long time before seeing her against after years apart from each other]].
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* EldritchAbomination: The Old Gods are a race of giant, many-eyed, dark-skinned monstrous beings who are exiled from another dimension. They all drain life-force at a touch and have great supernatural power even in death. The one god that died, an island spontaneously formed from his/her bones as did undead guardians to defend it.
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* EldritchAbomination: The Old Gods are a race of giant, many-eyed, dark-skinned monstrous beings who are exiled from another dimension.dimension; the Old God inhabiting Maika's body in particular frequently appears as a mass of black tentacles with some eyes floating in it. They all drain life-force at a touch and have great supernatural power even in death. The one god that died, an island spontaneously formed from his/her bones as did undead guardians to defend it.
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* HomosexualReproduction: Implied when the Baroness Tuya warns her wife, The Sword of the East, against getting too frisky as it's both their "Lunars" and getting pregnant during the war would be inconvenient for either of them.
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* HomosexualReproduction: Implied when the Baroness Tuya warns her wife, The Sword of the East, against getting too frisky as it's both their "Lunars" and getting pregnant during the war would be inconvenient for either of them. Whether this is just how it always was in this universe or if that's unique to Arcanics is unclear.
