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* AnimateDead: the entire purpose of "Death" magic.
* AntiMagic: "Void" element.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
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* ShoutOut: a "Corpse Cart" enemy/ minion blatantly plagarized from ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', and a [[MagicMirror Malevolent Mirror]] trap taken from ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''.
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* ShoutOut: a "Corpse Cart" enemy/ minion blatantly plagarized from ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', and a [[MagicMirror Malevolent Mirror]] trap taken from ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''.''Film/{{Mirrors|2008}}''.
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''Diaspora: The Scattering'' was ''supposed'' to be a WebComic. But, the Author realized that he can't draw worth shit. He is currently re-working it as a TabletopRPG. Title needs work. [[NamesTheSame Has nothing to do with the]] PostCyberPunk novel.
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''Diaspora: The Scattering'' was ''supposed'' to be a WebComic. But, the Author realized that he can't draw worth shit. He is currently re-working it as a TabletopRPG. Title needs work. [[NamesTheSame Has nothing to do with the]] the PostCyberPunk novel.
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* Terrans: [[HumanSubspecies Evolved humans]] from EarthThatWas, [[ILoveNuclearPower adapted for high-radiation environments.]] Not being irradiated causes their immune system to stop, and so they [[BodyHorror rot]]. Strong sense of Justice, often cooking up horrible punishments for murderers, kidnappers, {{Necromancer}}s, and rapists.
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* Terrans: [[HumanSubspecies Evolved humans]] from EarthThatWas, [[ILoveNuclearPower adapted for high-radiation environments.]] environments. Not being irradiated causes their immune system to stop, and so they [[BodyHorror rot]]. Strong sense of Justice, often cooking up horrible punishments for murderers, kidnappers, {{Necromancer}}s, and rapists.
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* {{Wutai}}: Elves have adopted japanese archirecture Japanese architecture and weapon styles.
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* BodyHorror: "Mana Poisoning", Biotheurgy spell "[[BalefulPolymorph Shape Flesh: Enemy]]", Dregs (Terrans who are no longer being irradiated), and several custom-made undead minions.
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* BodyHorror: "Mana Poisoning", Biotheurgy spell "[[BalefulPolymorph "[[ForcedTransformation Shape Flesh: Enemy]]", Dregs (Terrans who are no longer being irradiated), and several custom-made undead minions.
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* InsistentTerminology: In an attempt to avert {{Whatevermancy}}, the proper suffix for a wizard's dicipline is "-theurge" ([[TheNecromancer Necrotheurge]], [[PlayingWithFire Pyrotheurge]], etc). Call them a "[X]-Mancer" and they'll correct you. "Furry" is also a grevious insult to Zoomorphs.
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* InsistentTerminology: In an attempt to avert {{Whatevermancy}}, the proper suffix for a wizard's dicipline is "-theurge" ([[TheNecromancer ([[{{Necromancer}} Necrotheurge]], [[PlayingWithFire Pyrotheurge]], etc). Call them a "[X]-Mancer" and they'll correct you. "Furry" is also a grevious insult to Zoomorphs.
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Diaspora is set on an earth-parallell world known as Second. Humans came there after fleeing a [[ApocalypseHow Class One Apocalypse]], and were given samples of an experimental [[TheVirus Retrovirus]] made from Human DNA, known as the "Evolutionary Accellerant". Second was a world where the two main sentient species were [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]], who enjoyed a connection with the world's natural Magic, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Verdammt]], who slept the millenia away in their crypts in thje center of the continent. The elves demanded that the humans, who had recently landed, leave. Humans responded by releasing the Evolutionary Accelerant, and enslaving the {{Uplifted Animal}}s this created. Crushed beneath sheer weight of numbers, the [[ImmortalProcreationClause long-lived but low-virilty]] Elves, they were forced to surrender. Humans, secure in their dominance, began to mine their new home. They uncovered a large ammount of {{Power Crystal}}s that allowed them to perform [[FunctionalMagic magic]]. Now, after several thousand years, strange things are happening. Strange, shadowy armies destroy entire towns, and a patch of land on the border between the three factions is devastated by a column of fire...
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Diaspora is set on an earth-parallell world known as Second. Humans came there after fleeing a [[ApocalypseHow Class One Apocalypse]], and were given samples of an experimental [[TheVirus Retrovirus]] made from Human DNA, known as the "Evolutionary Accellerant". Second was a world where the two main sentient species were [[OurElvesAreBetter [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]], who enjoyed a connection with the world's natural Magic, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Verdammt]], who slept the millenia away in their crypts in thje center of the continent. The elves demanded that the humans, who had recently landed, leave. Humans responded by releasing the Evolutionary Accelerant, and enslaving the {{Uplifted Animal}}s this created. Crushed beneath sheer weight of numbers, the [[ImmortalProcreationClause long-lived but low-virilty]] Elves, they were forced to surrender. Humans, secure in their dominance, began to mine their new home. They uncovered a large ammount of {{Power Crystal}}s that allowed them to perform [[FunctionalMagic magic]]. Now, after several thousand years, strange things are happening. Strange, shadowy armies destroy entire towns, and a patch of land on the border between the three factions is devastated by a column of fire...
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* OurElvesAreBetter: they're feircley patriarchal, and "drow" are not their EvilCounterpart, they're just the elven equivalent of a teenager with a deep suntan and bleached hair, kinda like gyaru girls (Those japanese chicks who wear blonde wigs and really thick brown makeup).
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* OurElvesAreBetter: OurElvesAreDifferent: they're feircley patriarchal, and "drow" are not their EvilCounterpart, they're just the elven equivalent of a teenager with a deep suntan and bleached hair, kinda like gyaru girls (Those japanese chicks who wear blonde wigs and really thick brown makeup).
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* MentalFusion: One faction of the Terran church, as they beleive that wickedness stems from not personally experiencing the victim's pain (for further reading, see {{Website/Cracked}}.com's article titled "the Monkeyshpere" for [[DidDoTheResearch why this is a valid idea]]).
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* MentalFusion: One faction of the Terran church, as they beleive that wickedness stems from not personally experiencing the victim's pain (for further reading, see {{Website/Cracked}}.com's article titled "the Monkeyshpere" for [[DidDoTheResearch [[ShownTheirWork why this is a valid idea]]).
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* WhatMightHaveBeen: WordOfGod: originally, there was [[HighMen High Elves and High Men]] (Terrans had implanted nanomachines that made them invincible, Elves had a super powered counterpart called ''Alfar''), and a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Flood]] {{Expy}}, and it was a SpaceOpera. Once the Author got inspired by ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', these were dropped and it mutated into a HighFantasy /ClockPunk hybrid work. This was then overshadowed by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII creating a Materia Expy]], and it then became DungeonPunk. Getting back to it's SciFi inspired roots, the Terans were revived. The [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons nuclear war]] backstory was blatantly cribbed from Fallout, terrans became a HumanSubspecies, and it then became the current work. The author also started on a CharacterSheet that has a bratty [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess Zoomorph]], a DefectorFromDecadence Verdammt, [[LastOfHisKind the last Precursor]], and a GenreSavvy Human governor. Once he accepted that he can't draw, they were dropped.
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* WhatMightHaveBeen: WordOfGod: originally, there was [[HighMen High Elves and High Men]] (Terrans had implanted nanomachines that made them invincible, Elves had a super powered counterpart called ''Alfar''), and a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Flood]] {{Expy}}, and it was a SpaceOpera. Once the Author got inspired by ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', these were dropped and it mutated into a HighFantasy /ClockPunk hybrid work. This was then overshadowed by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII creating a Materia Expy]], and it then became DungeonPunk. Getting back to it's SciFi inspired roots, the Terans were revived. The [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons nuclear war]] backstory was blatantly cribbed from Fallout, terrans became a HumanSubspecies, and it then became the current work. The author also started on a CharacterSheet that has a bratty [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess Zoomorph]], Zoomorp], a DefectorFromDecadence Verdammt, [[LastOfHisKind the last Precursor]], and a GenreSavvy Human governor. Once he accepted that he can't draw, they were dropped.
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''Diaspora: The Scattering'' was ''supposed'' to be a WebComic. But, the Author realized that he can't draw worth shit. He is currently re-working it as a TabletopRPG. Title needs work. [[NamesTheSame Has nothing to do with the]] PostCyberPunk novel.
Diaspora is set on an earth-parallell world known as Second. Humans came there after fleeing a [[ApocalypseHow Class One Apocalypse]], and were given samples of an experimental [[TheVirus Retrovirus]] made from Human DNA, known as the "Evolutionary Accellerant". Second was a world where the two main sentient species were [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]], who enjoyed a connection with the world's natural Magic, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Verdammt]], who slept the millenia away in their crypts in thje center of the continent. The elves demanded that the humans, who had recently landed, leave. Humans responded by releasing the Evolutionary Accelerant, and enslaving the {{Uplifted Animal}}s this created. Crushed beneath sheer weight of numbers, the [[ImmortalProcreationClause long-lived but low-virilty]] Elves, they were forced to surrender. Humans, secure in their dominance, began to mine their new home. They uncovered a large ammount of {{Power Crystal}}s that allowed them to perform [[FunctionalMagic magic]]. Now, after several thousand years, strange things are happening. Strange, shadowy armies destroy entire towns, and a patch of land on the border between the three factions is devastated by a column of fire...
Races:
* Humans: Everyday humans with a penchant for BioAugmentation. Has an Empire, composed of several clan-like Houses ([[TheVonTropeFamily Von]] [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Harkonnen]], [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Von Krosp]], a few others and the non-affiliated Freeholders; who owe loyalty to the emperor himself and none other), a merchant guild, and a rebel group whom developed by learning to get along with the natives.
* Zoomorphs: [[UpliftedAnimal Furries]] (but [[BerserkButton don't call them that to their faces, you'll regret it]]) with a deep caste structure based on cunning and strength ([[CatsAreSuperior Felinoids are by-and-large, theones running things]]). [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Genetically engineered as cannon fodder]].
* Verdammt: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] who cannot die outside of their homeland. Invariably equipped in GasMaskLongcoat, and armed with weapons that are best described with words like "Nightmarish" and "Horrific". Males develop into huge bat-men known as "[[{{Chupacabra}} Chupwracks]]" and females drop their legs and grow hollow tongues. They are known as "Manarians" (those well-versed in vamp lore will know the author really meant "Mannangaal", he was going to use "Aswang" but that is like using "cock" for "rooster," it only invites trouble). Their native language is very close to terran germanic. Never seen without gasmasks and trenchcoats.
* Elves: [[PointyEars Pointy-eared]] immortals with a penchant for magic. [[GenderRarityValue Patriarchal, due to the fact that they produce only one male for every 100 females.]]
* Terrans: [[HumanSubspecies Evolved humans]] from EarthThatWas, [[ILoveNuclearPower adapted for high-radiation environments.]] Not being irradiated causes their immune system to stop, and so they [[BodyHorror rot]]. Strong sense of Justice, often cooking up horrible punishments for murderers, kidnappers, {{Necromancer}}s, and rapists.
Magic types:
* [[GreenThumb Earth]]
* [[RazorWind Air]]
* [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
* [[MakingASplash Water]]
* [[LightIsGood Light]] AKA [[WhiteMagic Life]]
* [[DarkIsEvil Dark]] AKA [[AnimateDead Death]]
* [[ElementNumberFive Chaos]]
* [[AntiMagic Void]]
* [[AllYourPowersCombined Elemental Fusion]]
* [[YinYangBomb Duality]]
* [[SpawnBroodling Bio]][[BloodMagic theurgy]]
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* [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Air Ships]]: Air Cruisers and [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Air Carriers]].
* AllThereInTheManual: however, [[GuideDangIt it has yet to be published]]
* [[AlwaysLawfulGood Always]] KnightTemplar: Terrans hang murderers, chop the hands off abusers/muggers ([[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale of any gender]]), and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil torture rapists to death]]. The vast majority of them work for the ChurchMilitant, and anyone convicted of "corruption" is force-fed liquid gold.
* AnimateDead: the entire purpose of "Death" magic.
* AntiMagic: "Void" element.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* ArmCannon: Just about everyone has their weapons forearm-mounted.
* AuthorAppeal: Only certain animals became Uplifted, this was meant to be HandWaved with "because the other ones don't look sexy when anthopomorphisized/it only affects mammals."
* BackgroundMagicField: Mutates people who live within it to be able to use magic.
* BattleCouple: Gun Crews, two genetically and magically enhanced teens (A MagicalGirl and a male MagicKnight) who can unleash devastating magical attacks. The girl uses attack spells ([[SmallGirlBigGun and a]] {{BFG}}), the male is a BarrierWarrior with an EvolvingAttack (starts out with a bubble shield, eventually gains Monomolecular Khatars and [[SpikesOfVillainy a Spiky Vitality Barrier]]), and also acts as a power-pack for the girl.
* BodyHorror: "Mana Poisoning", Biotheurgy spell "[[BalefulPolymorph Shape Flesh: Enemy]]", Dregs (Terrans who are no longer being irradiated), and several custom-made undead minions.
* BioAugmentation/ AnatomyArsenal: Biocrafted weapons. Baisic package includes chitin plates, claws, venom sacs, CombatTentacles, and SpawnBroodling.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: Vitality Points, which are a result of focusing the will to survive into a DeflectorShield. This also works as a HealingFactor.
* {{Curse}}: Several, all of which revolve around GrimyWater, airborne pagues, and SpawnBroodling. Special mention to [[ThePunishment Undead to Death]] (and before anyone points out what this does in D&D, JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant SpawnBroodling and worked it in), it turns the affected into a TechnicallyLivingZombie who [[AndIMustScream is suffering hellish agony and is incapable of disobeying it's master.]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Title sounds a lot less sexy once you realize that Diaspora means "to be scattered".
* DeathRay: "Radiation Projectors," standard issue weaponry for Terrans.
* DemBones: one for each element, based on what killed them, or their Necromancer master infusing them with that element.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Terrans routinely commit Genocide on cultures thy deem "Anathema", such as ones that allow slavery.
* DoomTroops: verdammt
* EarthThatWas: Earth is still there, but it's horrificly irradiated.
* ElementNumberFive: Void, actually "Element number Eight"
* ElementalPowers
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Life, Fire, and Earth are weak vs. Death, Water, and Air, and Vice Versa. Chaos is strong (and weak) against all, and Void counteracts magic.
* EnergyBall: The "Orb" spell lets one throw a sphere of whatever element they happen to be channeling.
* EvolutionaryLevels: Verdammt "Adult" forms.
* FantasticSlur: Calling a Zoomorph a "Furry" gets you a trip to the hospital.
* FiveRaces
* FunctionalMagic
* GaiasLament
-->They beheld, and wept, for never had they seen such good, green growing things.
* GasMaskLongcoat [[GasMaskMooks Mooks]]:Verdammt.
* GenderRarityValue: Type one with Elves. The men are in charge because there's so few of them.
* GenkiGirl /{{Keet}}: An entire race of them, known as [[Creator/HPLovecraft Deep Ones]], who are Uplifted Sea Otters (whom rely on excersize, rather than fatty tissues to keep warm).
* GoodIsNotNice
* GreyAndGrayMorality
* HalfHumanHybrid: The aptly-named Chimeras.
* HitPoints/ CallAHitPointASmeerp: Actually justified, "Vitality" is not just physical health, it's a Personal DeflectorShield made of one's will to live.
* HumanSubspecies: Terrans. Their evolution is based on beneficial or superflous mutations caused by radiation, for example, bone spurrs, leathery skin all over, a third eye, a long, viciously thorned tail, and a sixth finger. they are also a OneGenderRace.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Terrans. they actually need it to fuel their immune system and metabolism.
* InterContinuityCrossover: Terrans wiped out the Manga/DearS host race, the [[Manga/BlueDrop Arume]] and the Alatra, those guys from ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' who murder/ dismember their men whenever they feel like a little bloodshed (in fact, they pulled an [[EarthShatteringKaboom Exterminatus]] on the Wheel of Time world because this pissed them off so much).
* IntrepidMerchant: The basic job description of the Merchant Guild.
* InsistentTerminology: In an attempt to avert {{Whatevermancy}}, the proper suffix for a wizard's dicipline is "-theurge" ([[TheNecromancer Necrotheurge]], [[PlayingWithFire Pyrotheurge]], etc). Call them a "[X]-Mancer" and they'll correct you. "Furry" is also a grevious insult to Zoomorphs.
* LiquidAssets: the ''Vita Ex Nex'' Aura (Life from Death) drains the life-force and {{Mana}} of anyone not at full health-freind or foe! and adds it to the caster's power pool/ HP.
* MagicMisfire: Chaos magic has a chance to cost twice as much Mana as it should, and/or accidentally ''heal'' the target enemy. However, it also [[CriticalHit has a chance to be treated as a Free Action and do triple damage.]].
* MagiTek: Thaumetic Gauntlets, which [[AmplifierArtifact allow non-mages to cast spells]], and Thaumetic Reactors, which power {{Cool Airship}}s and cities.
* {{Mana}}: used roughly the same way as "Lumen" or "Decibel".
* MentalFusion: One faction of the Terran church, as they beleive that wickedness stems from not personally experiencing the victim's pain (for further reading, see {{Website/Cracked}}.com's article titled "the Monkeyshpere" for [[DidDoTheResearch why this is a valid idea]]).
* TheNecrocracy: Verdammt, type I.
* NotUsingTheZedWord: :You can call undead whatever you want, but "Furry" to a Zoomorph is the rough equivalent of "the N-Word" to a black person.
* OneGenderRace: Terrans are actually both sexes at once ({{Hermaphrodite}}s).
* OneWingedAngel: "Shape Flesh: Self".
* OurElvesAreBetter: they're feircley patriarchal, and "drow" are not their EvilCounterpart, they're just the elven equivalent of a teenager with a deep suntan and bleached hair, kinda like gyaru girls (Those japanese chicks who wear blonde wigs and really thick brown makeup).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're GasMaskMooks because radiation makes them decompose. they also can't die outside their homeland, because their {{Soul Jar}}s have a minimum range.
* PoweredArmor: can also be scaled up to MiniMecha and four-legged assault walkers (HumongousMecha are too ineficient, so {{Spider Tank}}s are the next step).
* PowerCrystal: Tachyonite.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Control Groups, two magically and genetically enhanced children used to control Thaumetic Reactors. The process, while not torturous, is very taxing. Once computers capable of performing the process were developed, Control Groups were rendered obsolete.
* PowerOfRock: Bards use Tachyonite in their instruments. This lets them chuck fireballs at the enemy by playing "Disco Inferno" and the like.
* {{Precursors}}: The Ancients, whose ruins dot the landscape. Most of the worlds' MagiTek was reverse engineered from their goodies.
* ProudWarriorRace: all of them, to an extent.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Terrans torture rapists to death, carve out his/her heart, and gibbet the corpse. They serve said heart to the victim however they want it (traditionally, "Sauteed in herb butter and served with Mint Jelly and a sprig of parsly.")
* RolePlayingGameVerse
* RuleOfThree: Magic Missile is fired in three volleys of three. Metamagic "propogate" and "Cluster" also allows each projectile to split into three.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Subverted, a Scary Dogmatic HumanSubspecies.
* ScienceFantasy: BioPunk versus DungeonPunk versus AtomPunk.
* ScrewYouElves: the entire point of the war.
* ShoutOut: a "Corpse Cart" enemy/ minion blatantly plagarized from ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', and a [[MagicMirror Malevolent Mirror]] trap taken from ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''.
* StandardFantasySetting: [[AvertedTrope no.]]
* StandardSciFiHistory:Type Two triggers Type Three and Four.
* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Wretches, "A rotting person who is not qute dead, but close enough for the worms".
* UpliftedAnimal: Zoomorphs.
* TheUndead: Lots. Verdammt also become Zombies if they die outside of their homeland, and degenerate into DemBones.
* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Subverted, free-willed undead must take a quest to die for real.
* VaderBreath: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Whod'ya think?]]
* TheVirus: Evolutionary Accelerant.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: WordOfGod: originally, there was [[HighMen High Elves and High Men]] (Terrans had implanted nanomachines that made them invincible, Elves had a super powered counterpart called ''Alfar''), and a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Flood]] {{Expy}}, and it was a SpaceOpera. Once the Author got inspired by ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', these were dropped and it mutated into a HighFantasy /ClockPunk hybrid work. This was then overshadowed by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII creating a Materia Expy]], and it then became DungeonPunk. Getting back to it's SciFi inspired roots, the Terans were revived. The [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons nuclear war]] backstory was blatantly cribbed from Fallout, terrans became a HumanSubspecies, and it then became the current work. The author also started on a CharacterSheet that has a bratty [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess Zoomorph]], a DefectorFromDecadence Verdammt, [[LastOfHisKind the last Precursor]], and a GenreSavvy Human governor. Once he accepted that he can't draw, they were dropped.
* WorldBuilding: Rather extensively.
* TheWormThatWalks: Vermen, Skeletons tainted with Death Energy that use carrion-feeding insects as skin and muscle tissue.
* {{Wutai}}: Elves have adopted japanese archirecture and weapon styles.
Diaspora is set on an earth-parallell world known as Second. Humans came there after fleeing a [[ApocalypseHow Class One Apocalypse]], and were given samples of an experimental [[TheVirus Retrovirus]] made from Human DNA, known as the "Evolutionary Accellerant". Second was a world where the two main sentient species were [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]], who enjoyed a connection with the world's natural Magic, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Verdammt]], who slept the millenia away in their crypts in thje center of the continent. The elves demanded that the humans, who had recently landed, leave. Humans responded by releasing the Evolutionary Accelerant, and enslaving the {{Uplifted Animal}}s this created. Crushed beneath sheer weight of numbers, the [[ImmortalProcreationClause long-lived but low-virilty]] Elves, they were forced to surrender. Humans, secure in their dominance, began to mine their new home. They uncovered a large ammount of {{Power Crystal}}s that allowed them to perform [[FunctionalMagic magic]]. Now, after several thousand years, strange things are happening. Strange, shadowy armies destroy entire towns, and a patch of land on the border between the three factions is devastated by a column of fire...
Races:
* Humans: Everyday humans with a penchant for BioAugmentation. Has an Empire, composed of several clan-like Houses ([[TheVonTropeFamily Von]] [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Harkonnen]], [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Von Krosp]], a few others and the non-affiliated Freeholders; who owe loyalty to the emperor himself and none other), a merchant guild, and a rebel group whom developed by learning to get along with the natives.
* Zoomorphs: [[UpliftedAnimal Furries]] (but [[BerserkButton don't call them that to their faces, you'll regret it]]) with a deep caste structure based on cunning and strength ([[CatsAreSuperior Felinoids are by-and-large, theones running things]]). [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Genetically engineered as cannon fodder]].
* Verdammt: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] who cannot die outside of their homeland. Invariably equipped in GasMaskLongcoat, and armed with weapons that are best described with words like "Nightmarish" and "Horrific". Males develop into huge bat-men known as "[[{{Chupacabra}} Chupwracks]]" and females drop their legs and grow hollow tongues. They are known as "Manarians" (those well-versed in vamp lore will know the author really meant "Mannangaal", he was going to use "Aswang" but that is like using "cock" for "rooster," it only invites trouble). Their native language is very close to terran germanic. Never seen without gasmasks and trenchcoats.
* Elves: [[PointyEars Pointy-eared]] immortals with a penchant for magic. [[GenderRarityValue Patriarchal, due to the fact that they produce only one male for every 100 females.]]
* Terrans: [[HumanSubspecies Evolved humans]] from EarthThatWas, [[ILoveNuclearPower adapted for high-radiation environments.]] Not being irradiated causes their immune system to stop, and so they [[BodyHorror rot]]. Strong sense of Justice, often cooking up horrible punishments for murderers, kidnappers, {{Necromancer}}s, and rapists.
Magic types:
* [[GreenThumb Earth]]
* [[RazorWind Air]]
* [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
* [[MakingASplash Water]]
* [[LightIsGood Light]] AKA [[WhiteMagic Life]]
* [[DarkIsEvil Dark]] AKA [[AnimateDead Death]]
* [[ElementNumberFive Chaos]]
* [[AntiMagic Void]]
* [[AllYourPowersCombined Elemental Fusion]]
* [[YinYangBomb Duality]]
* [[SpawnBroodling Bio]][[BloodMagic theurgy]]
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* [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Air Ships]]: Air Cruisers and [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Air Carriers]].
* AllThereInTheManual: however, [[GuideDangIt it has yet to be published]]
* [[AlwaysLawfulGood Always]] KnightTemplar: Terrans hang murderers, chop the hands off abusers/muggers ([[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale of any gender]]), and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil torture rapists to death]]. The vast majority of them work for the ChurchMilitant, and anyone convicted of "corruption" is force-fed liquid gold.
* AnimateDead: the entire purpose of "Death" magic.
* AntiMagic: "Void" element.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* ArmCannon: Just about everyone has their weapons forearm-mounted.
* AuthorAppeal: Only certain animals became Uplifted, this was meant to be HandWaved with "because the other ones don't look sexy when anthopomorphisized/it only affects mammals."
* BackgroundMagicField: Mutates people who live within it to be able to use magic.
* BattleCouple: Gun Crews, two genetically and magically enhanced teens (A MagicalGirl and a male MagicKnight) who can unleash devastating magical attacks. The girl uses attack spells ([[SmallGirlBigGun and a]] {{BFG}}), the male is a BarrierWarrior with an EvolvingAttack (starts out with a bubble shield, eventually gains Monomolecular Khatars and [[SpikesOfVillainy a Spiky Vitality Barrier]]), and also acts as a power-pack for the girl.
* BodyHorror: "Mana Poisoning", Biotheurgy spell "[[BalefulPolymorph Shape Flesh: Enemy]]", Dregs (Terrans who are no longer being irradiated), and several custom-made undead minions.
* BioAugmentation/ AnatomyArsenal: Biocrafted weapons. Baisic package includes chitin plates, claws, venom sacs, CombatTentacles, and SpawnBroodling.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: Vitality Points, which are a result of focusing the will to survive into a DeflectorShield. This also works as a HealingFactor.
* {{Curse}}: Several, all of which revolve around GrimyWater, airborne pagues, and SpawnBroodling. Special mention to [[ThePunishment Undead to Death]] (and before anyone points out what this does in D&D, JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant SpawnBroodling and worked it in), it turns the affected into a TechnicallyLivingZombie who [[AndIMustScream is suffering hellish agony and is incapable of disobeying it's master.]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Title sounds a lot less sexy once you realize that Diaspora means "to be scattered".
* DeathRay: "Radiation Projectors," standard issue weaponry for Terrans.
* DemBones: one for each element, based on what killed them, or their Necromancer master infusing them with that element.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Terrans routinely commit Genocide on cultures thy deem "Anathema", such as ones that allow slavery.
* DoomTroops: verdammt
* EarthThatWas: Earth is still there, but it's horrificly irradiated.
* ElementNumberFive: Void, actually "Element number Eight"
* ElementalPowers
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Life, Fire, and Earth are weak vs. Death, Water, and Air, and Vice Versa. Chaos is strong (and weak) against all, and Void counteracts magic.
* EnergyBall: The "Orb" spell lets one throw a sphere of whatever element they happen to be channeling.
* EvolutionaryLevels: Verdammt "Adult" forms.
* FantasticSlur: Calling a Zoomorph a "Furry" gets you a trip to the hospital.
* FiveRaces
* FunctionalMagic
* GaiasLament
-->They beheld, and wept, for never had they seen such good, green growing things.
* GasMaskLongcoat [[GasMaskMooks Mooks]]:Verdammt.
* GenderRarityValue: Type one with Elves. The men are in charge because there's so few of them.
* GenkiGirl /{{Keet}}: An entire race of them, known as [[Creator/HPLovecraft Deep Ones]], who are Uplifted Sea Otters (whom rely on excersize, rather than fatty tissues to keep warm).
* GoodIsNotNice
* GreyAndGrayMorality
* HalfHumanHybrid: The aptly-named Chimeras.
* HitPoints/ CallAHitPointASmeerp: Actually justified, "Vitality" is not just physical health, it's a Personal DeflectorShield made of one's will to live.
* HumanSubspecies: Terrans. Their evolution is based on beneficial or superflous mutations caused by radiation, for example, bone spurrs, leathery skin all over, a third eye, a long, viciously thorned tail, and a sixth finger. they are also a OneGenderRace.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Terrans. they actually need it to fuel their immune system and metabolism.
* InterContinuityCrossover: Terrans wiped out the Manga/DearS host race, the [[Manga/BlueDrop Arume]] and the Alatra, those guys from ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' who murder/ dismember their men whenever they feel like a little bloodshed (in fact, they pulled an [[EarthShatteringKaboom Exterminatus]] on the Wheel of Time world because this pissed them off so much).
* IntrepidMerchant: The basic job description of the Merchant Guild.
* InsistentTerminology: In an attempt to avert {{Whatevermancy}}, the proper suffix for a wizard's dicipline is "-theurge" ([[TheNecromancer Necrotheurge]], [[PlayingWithFire Pyrotheurge]], etc). Call them a "[X]-Mancer" and they'll correct you. "Furry" is also a grevious insult to Zoomorphs.
* LiquidAssets: the ''Vita Ex Nex'' Aura (Life from Death) drains the life-force and {{Mana}} of anyone not at full health-freind or foe! and adds it to the caster's power pool/ HP.
* MagicMisfire: Chaos magic has a chance to cost twice as much Mana as it should, and/or accidentally ''heal'' the target enemy. However, it also [[CriticalHit has a chance to be treated as a Free Action and do triple damage.]].
* MagiTek: Thaumetic Gauntlets, which [[AmplifierArtifact allow non-mages to cast spells]], and Thaumetic Reactors, which power {{Cool Airship}}s and cities.
* {{Mana}}: used roughly the same way as "Lumen" or "Decibel".
* MentalFusion: One faction of the Terran church, as they beleive that wickedness stems from not personally experiencing the victim's pain (for further reading, see {{Website/Cracked}}.com's article titled "the Monkeyshpere" for [[DidDoTheResearch why this is a valid idea]]).
* TheNecrocracy: Verdammt, type I.
* NotUsingTheZedWord: :You can call undead whatever you want, but "Furry" to a Zoomorph is the rough equivalent of "the N-Word" to a black person.
* OneGenderRace: Terrans are actually both sexes at once ({{Hermaphrodite}}s).
* OneWingedAngel: "Shape Flesh: Self".
* OurElvesAreBetter: they're feircley patriarchal, and "drow" are not their EvilCounterpart, they're just the elven equivalent of a teenager with a deep suntan and bleached hair, kinda like gyaru girls (Those japanese chicks who wear blonde wigs and really thick brown makeup).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're GasMaskMooks because radiation makes them decompose. they also can't die outside their homeland, because their {{Soul Jar}}s have a minimum range.
* PoweredArmor: can also be scaled up to MiniMecha and four-legged assault walkers (HumongousMecha are too ineficient, so {{Spider Tank}}s are the next step).
* PowerCrystal: Tachyonite.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Control Groups, two magically and genetically enhanced children used to control Thaumetic Reactors. The process, while not torturous, is very taxing. Once computers capable of performing the process were developed, Control Groups were rendered obsolete.
* PowerOfRock: Bards use Tachyonite in their instruments. This lets them chuck fireballs at the enemy by playing "Disco Inferno" and the like.
* {{Precursors}}: The Ancients, whose ruins dot the landscape. Most of the worlds' MagiTek was reverse engineered from their goodies.
* ProudWarriorRace: all of them, to an extent.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Terrans torture rapists to death, carve out his/her heart, and gibbet the corpse. They serve said heart to the victim however they want it (traditionally, "Sauteed in herb butter and served with Mint Jelly and a sprig of parsly.")
* RolePlayingGameVerse
* RuleOfThree: Magic Missile is fired in three volleys of three. Metamagic "propogate" and "Cluster" also allows each projectile to split into three.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Subverted, a Scary Dogmatic HumanSubspecies.
* ScienceFantasy: BioPunk versus DungeonPunk versus AtomPunk.
* ScrewYouElves: the entire point of the war.
* ShoutOut: a "Corpse Cart" enemy/ minion blatantly plagarized from ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', and a [[MagicMirror Malevolent Mirror]] trap taken from ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''.
* StandardFantasySetting: [[AvertedTrope no.]]
* StandardSciFiHistory:Type Two triggers Type Three and Four.
* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Wretches, "A rotting person who is not qute dead, but close enough for the worms".
* UpliftedAnimal: Zoomorphs.
* TheUndead: Lots. Verdammt also become Zombies if they die outside of their homeland, and degenerate into DemBones.
* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Subverted, free-willed undead must take a quest to die for real.
* VaderBreath: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Whod'ya think?]]
* TheVirus: Evolutionary Accelerant.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: WordOfGod: originally, there was [[HighMen High Elves and High Men]] (Terrans had implanted nanomachines that made them invincible, Elves had a super powered counterpart called ''Alfar''), and a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Flood]] {{Expy}}, and it was a SpaceOpera. Once the Author got inspired by ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', these were dropped and it mutated into a HighFantasy /ClockPunk hybrid work. This was then overshadowed by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII creating a Materia Expy]], and it then became DungeonPunk. Getting back to it's SciFi inspired roots, the Terans were revived. The [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons nuclear war]] backstory was blatantly cribbed from Fallout, terrans became a HumanSubspecies, and it then became the current work. The author also started on a CharacterSheet that has a bratty [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess Zoomorph]], a DefectorFromDecadence Verdammt, [[LastOfHisKind the last Precursor]], and a GenreSavvy Human governor. Once he accepted that he can't draw, they were dropped.
* WorldBuilding: Rather extensively.
* TheWormThatWalks: Vermen, Skeletons tainted with Death Energy that use carrion-feeding insects as skin and muscle tissue.
* {{Wutai}}: Elves have adopted japanese archirecture and weapon styles.
