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The story details the war between [[BigDamnHeroes The Defenders]] Defenders and [[BigDamnVillains The Scars]], Scars, both groups who fight against each other in belief that if their side wins, they will be able to impose their ideas of what is right onto Asancra, the planet it is set on. The Defenders are made up of the leader, CS, with the other big names being Sypha, Chila and Sheila Elza, Donger, and the recent addition of Scarlett Johnson. The Scars consist of the leader, Necrosis, his General often nicknamed Acid Eagle, his second-in-command Shellna, with other big names such as Incite, Puncture and Maspectra.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Inverted. The only Princess in the story, of Lorkan, is batting for the other side.
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* TheBechdelTest: Passes with flying colours. Scarlett, Chila and Sheila have many conversations that don't regard men.
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* Determinator: CS. [[spoiler:He has what is possibly a fatal wound and he still fights off an invasion, to protect his planet.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Necrosis. Nothing that happens in the novel affects him even moderately. CS, in the mean time, does get his fair share of Karma.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: CS in general.
* Wolfpack Boss: [[spoiler:Freeda Monroe's fight has her assisted by several Dunewyrms.]]
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* BossBanter: A few of the enemies do this, but the Demons are notorious for it.
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* CommonplaceRare: A Dolphin, of all things.
* CurbstompBattle: In [[spoiler:Stormwind]], the Defenders handle the Skatimars with general ease (considering it's an invasion force.)
* Darkisnotevil: The people of Ebonia are associated with darkness. They're not the most social people around, but it'd be ignorant to class them all as evil.
* CurbstompBattle: In [[spoiler:Stormwind]], the Defenders handle the Skatimars with general ease (considering it's an invasion force.)
* Darkisnotevil: The people of Ebonia are associated with darkness. They're not the most social people around, but it'd be ignorant to class them all as evil.
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* DungeonBypass: Averted in Dreamscape, invoked on Asancra. Scarlett is so used to Dungeon delving that she can normally find the shortcut to the end, get over to it, and find the best loot without the hassle of doing the dungeon.
* EigenPlot: A variant. While not skills specifically, Cults of Lorkan has every character split up to find information, and each one of them has a scenario to overcome.
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* FantasyPantheon: Gahroogamesh. However, he's often ignored. The 10 Gods normally worshipped are Siren, Vinsan, Thomas the Mysterious, Pandora, Voidraco, Lucien, Eternal, Armados, Zeugolo and Ebonoc.
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* GrimUpNorth: Shellna set up camp in the Etan Wastelands, a desolate, craggy area. On the northen-most point of the World Map.
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* AGodAmI: Puncture sets himself up as a god to the people of Lorkan.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: It's up to you whether the Defenders are right or wrong. The same applies to the Scars.
* AttentionWhore: CS and Scarlett intentionally try and get as involved as much as they can, for fame.
* BadassBoast: See PreAssKickingOneLiner.
* BadassBoast: See PreAssKickingOneLiner.
* CaptainObvious: Scarlett tends to point out some things obvious to everyone else (albeit some of these things aren't apparent to the reader, which makes her steer close to TheWatson.)
* CerebusSyndrome: Towards the end of the story, it focuses less on who is right or wrong and more on the action scenes.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Inverted. The only Princess in the story, of Lorkan, is batting for the other side.
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* Foreshadowing: FlawExploitation: Puncture draws CS to him by threatening his homeland. CS is very patriotic.
* FridgeBrilliance: Think about what the initials for 'The Coming Storm' is. Obviously, 'the' doesn't count. This was completely unintended, but CS could possibly be seen as a Coming Storm to the Scars.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Linda's predictions. Admittedly, you'll be hard-pressed to make sense of them until the events actually happen.
* FridgeBrilliance: Think about what the initials for 'The Coming Storm' is. Obviously, 'the' doesn't count. This was completely unintended, but CS could possibly be seen as a Coming Storm to the Scars.
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* Hammerspace: The banking system. Weapons (or anything else) can be withdrawn in many unlikely places.
* HeroicBSOD: See MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Maspectra is fatally wounded by his own spell.]]
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: If Scarlett's around, CS will let loose one of these. [[spoiler:Justified in that he thinks it will help her understand. He never makes a Euphemism if Scarlett's not around.]]
* IdiotBall: Scarlett holds this for several chapters. Most notably when she unleashes the Skylion in Terminal Velocity. CS similarly holds it when he [[spoiler:unleashes a Foudestro in The Great Mistake.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Remember the lump of Ice Scarlett got in The Frozen Tundra? [[spoiler:Guess what lands the final blow on the Thornewyrm in The Fridgate.]]
* ItemGet: The rope.
* ItsProbablyNothing: The logic CS uses in Night Terrors, Isolation and Maspectra. Undoubtedly, he'd lose his sanity if he let the noises and ghosts bug him.
* Jerkass: Donger.
* JustFriends: CS and Scarlett. Admittedly, it goes nowhere. Scarlett has feelings for CS, but CS is already engaged to Chila. CS sees his relationship with Scarlett as more of a Big Brother - Little Sister relationship.
* Leitmotif: A rare literature example. The Trinital sisters play music whenever the Defenders are fighting someone, so the enemy ends up with such a Leitmotif.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: CS faints after [[spoiler:having his liver torn out by a Foudestro.]] He's up and walking by the next day, and by the end of said day, he's as fit as ever.
* ManipulativeBastard: Linda, Linda, Linda. She's this Trope to a T.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: CS often treats Donger as an exception.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: CS quotes this after [[spoiler:releasing the Foudestro]] in The Great Mistake.
* MyNaymeIs: In Tooth and Claws, Scarlett uses the fake name of... Scarlet.
* NegativeContinuity: [[spoiler:CS' lack of a liver.]]
* NoFourthWall: The Narrator has a habit of referring to himself and the reader as 'we'.
* HeroicBSOD: See MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Maspectra is fatally wounded by his own spell.]]
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: If Scarlett's around, CS will let loose one of these. [[spoiler:Justified in that he thinks it will help her understand. He never makes a Euphemism if Scarlett's not around.]]
* IdiotBall: Scarlett holds this for several chapters. Most notably when she unleashes the Skylion in Terminal Velocity. CS similarly holds it when he [[spoiler:unleashes a Foudestro in The Great Mistake.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Remember the lump of Ice Scarlett got in The Frozen Tundra? [[spoiler:Guess what lands the final blow on the Thornewyrm in The Fridgate.]]
* ItemGet: The rope.
* ItsProbablyNothing: The logic CS uses in Night Terrors, Isolation and Maspectra. Undoubtedly, he'd lose his sanity if he let the noises and ghosts bug him.
* Jerkass: Donger.
* JustFriends: CS and Scarlett. Admittedly, it goes nowhere. Scarlett has feelings for CS, but CS is already engaged to Chila. CS sees his relationship with Scarlett as more of a Big Brother - Little Sister relationship.
* Leitmotif: A rare literature example. The Trinital sisters play music whenever the Defenders are fighting someone, so the enemy ends up with such a Leitmotif.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: CS faints after [[spoiler:having his liver torn out by a Foudestro.]] He's up and walking by the next day, and by the end of said day, he's as fit as ever.
* ManipulativeBastard: Linda, Linda, Linda. She's this Trope to a T.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: CS often treats Donger as an exception.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: CS quotes this after [[spoiler:releasing the Foudestro]] in The Great Mistake.
* MyNaymeIs: In Tooth and Claws, Scarlett uses the fake name of... Scarlet.
* NegativeContinuity: [[spoiler:CS' lack of a liver.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: CS and Necrosis. Necrosis' ideology can be seen as a WellIntentionedExtremist and CS has more than a few flaws.
* OhCrap: When CS discovers [[spoiler:that he's gotten the Foudestro in position too early and has no choice but to take one for the team.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's a town guard called Jim in most towns. Not to mention Scarlett and Scarlette.
* PalsWithJesus: CS and Pandora are somewhat friends.
* PaperThinDisguise: Donger doesn't even use a disguise when he goes undercover in Tooth and Claws. [[spoiler:Justified, though, since it's common knowledge that Donger was transformed into Dorb in A Perfect Cage, but not common knowledge that CS can transform him back at will.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Right before the Puncture Battle.
->CS: 'If you see yourself as a deity, then me and Pandora will have more in common than we thought.'
->Puncture: 'How so?'
->CS: ''''We both murdered a God.''''
* PrecisionFStrike: Several. Chila and Scarlett are the major invokers.
* SchmuckBait: The notice about buried treasure in The Great Mistake.
* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Yaptors are half the size of Asancrans and absolute HELL for the owner of the Muffin Mart.
* OhCrap: When CS discovers [[spoiler:that he's gotten the Foudestro in position too early and has no choice but to take one for the team.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's a town guard called Jim in most towns. Not to mention Scarlett and Scarlette.
* PalsWithJesus: CS and Pandora are somewhat friends.
* PaperThinDisguise: Donger doesn't even use a disguise when he goes undercover in Tooth and Claws. [[spoiler:Justified, though, since it's common knowledge that Donger was transformed into Dorb in A Perfect Cage, but not common knowledge that CS can transform him back at will.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Right before the Puncture Battle.
->CS: 'If you see yourself as a deity, then me and Pandora will have more in common than we thought.'
->Puncture: 'How so?'
->CS: ''''We both murdered a God.''''
* PrecisionFStrike: Several. Chila and Scarlett are the major invokers.
* SchmuckBait: The notice about buried treasure in The Great Mistake.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Scarlett shoots the Elephant in the room by asking why they never killed Velvet when they had the chance. [[spoiler:Only to be told Demons cannot be killed.]]
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Some of the Scars are happy to allow time for talking before, during and after battle. Other Scars will kill you by the time you've opened your mouth.
* TheWatson: Scarlett asks the questions the reader wants to know the answers to.
* AWizardDidIt: Subverted. CS says that the Information Radar being able to make sound without speakers is due to magic. Scarlett challenges this (quoting a Wizard Did it), and CS explains the actual reasoning behind it (which is very technical, to which Scarlett remarks 'Magic it is').
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: CS' Raolnans are practically unheard of after Chapter 1, despite being very useful.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Some of the Scars are happy to allow time for talking before, during and after battle. Other Scars will kill you by the time you've opened your mouth.
* TheWatson: Scarlett asks the questions the reader wants to know the answers to.
* AWizardDidIt: Subverted. CS says that the Information Radar being able to make sound without speakers is due to magic. Scarlett challenges this (quoting a Wizard Did it), and CS explains the actual reasoning behind it (which is very technical, to which Scarlett remarks 'Magic it is').
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: CS' Raolnans are practically unheard of after Chapter 1, despite being very useful.
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* AliensAreBastards: Played straight with the Skatimars. However, the Chuzzles are friendly, and the [[spoiler: Darkown]] are neutral.
* ArcNumber: 21. Apart from the [[CaptainObvious 21 Demons of Necrosis and the fact the war lasted for 21 years]], there are a lot of subtle references to 21.
* BadassBookworm: Chila. Patricia also qualifies.
* BeachEpisode: Ironically, 'Night Terrors'. Apart from the NightmareFuel going on from CS' side, the Defenders' side has them on a world-famous resort.
* BerserkButton: Most characters have one, but by far, you do NOT want to mess with any of Patricia's books.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's rare that Sheila is in a
* BigDamnHeroes: The Defenders in general get one of these every other chapter. A worthy one is when CS barges into Fort-Fifty-Seven with naught but a shotgun with 6 bullets, and breaks Scarlett out.
* BigDamnVillains: The Scars are this UpToEleven.
* BlatantLies: The Scars plans in Fort Fifty-Seven are blatant lies to CS (though Scarlett falls for them.)
* BookDumb: Unlike her BadassBookworm sister, Chila, Sheila is not too familiar with texts, but is still intelligent enough to deserve her status as a leading figure.
* ButtMonkey: Donger is the Defenders' Butt Monkey. However, he uses this as an excuse to make Scarlett his personal Butt Monkey, much to the disapproval of the rest of the Defenders.
* CatchPhrase: Linda tends to throw the term 'Just a prediction.' around by an unhealthy amount.
* ChekhovsGun: 'This rope is important.' Linda summed it up well.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hawk plays a big role in both Terminal Velocity and Stormwind. Linda technically counts but she appears more frequently than Hawk.
* ChekhovsSkill: A strange variation. It's established early on that CS doesn't sleep, on the chance the base is attacked. [[spoiler:When he finally does sleep, he can finally contact Linda, who has been trying to contact him for a long time.]]
* ChickMagnet: CS. It's a wonder Chila puts up with it.
* TheClimax: [[spoiler:The battle againt the Darqueen and the CrowningMomentOfAwesome race against time easily counts.]]
* ClosedCircle: Several. The Torn Rift has a habit of making people await rescue.
* DarkWorld: The Torn Rift.
* DeadpanSnarker: Donger tends to be this.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Despite Linda's predictions, most of the events that occur seem to surprise the Defenders. Especially Scarlett.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:The Darqueen is the greatest being of an entire planet. And the Defenders defeat it.]]
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: CS is presumed to have done this with the Dire, by the other Defenders.
* EldritchAbomination: Maspectra is considered to be this.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[spoiler: The Coming Storm builds up to the deployment of the Stormwind. Which has been coming.]]
* FeelNoPain: CS tries to train any new Defenders to follow this, by exposing them to methods that are more painful than easy alternatives.
* FigureItOutYourself: 'Take this rope. You'll figure it out.' Linda again.
* FirstNameBasis: Everyone in the Defenders uses each others First Name. In fact, most of the Defender's surnames are only found out late into the book. CS and Sypha avert this, however. CS is his initials and Sypha is a nickname.
* Foreshadowing: Linda's predictions. Admittedly, you'll be hard-pressed to make sense of them until the events actually happen.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Scarlette Viva abuses these.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Scarlett enjoys her Cleaver.
* NoodleIncident: The Gulf of Tonja.
* TitleDrop: Let's see... Tim, Linda, Hawk and CS all make reference to The Coming Storm.
* XanatosGambit: Linda's predictions have her involve herself in such a way that everything goes the way she wants.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most of the Defenders are younger than they look, since they've stopped aging.
