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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:When Brenner's Sun Soul sides with Jade during the final battle, Trace asks if Brenner's LostLenore would want this. She wouldn't]].


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** [[spoiler:The game rules say that the will of Yade Khan decides the winner. But there's [[OneSteveLimit more than one Yade Khan]], so this allows Jade to decide the outcome of a duel.]]
* ExactlyWhatIWasAimingAt: [[spoiler:Trace fakes attacking Jade to strike the Well of Souls without her noticing]].


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** [[spoiler:Jade looses her right eye to the Sun Sword right before she's sealed]].


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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** [[spoiler:Alonso lampshading the OneSteveLimit problem with Yade Khan the game and Jade's new persona hints at her ExactWords trick]].
** [[spoiler:Similarly, her pulling an IAmNotLeftHanded on Domino and her talk about VictoryIsBoring hints at how she's been sandbagging it the entire time]].


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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Brenner has one in response to Trace's ArmorPiercingQuestion]].


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* IAmNotLeftHanded:
** [[spoiler:In Jade's battle with Domino, she purposefully pretends to be weaker than she actually is for a bit before she drops the facade and kills him]].
** [[spoiler:The whole time Jade could have declared her servants the victors through her ExactWords control of the Yade Khan game, but didn't because it was more fun to do it the other way]].


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* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Jade could have rigged the Yade Khan matches at any time she wanted, allowing her to easily obtain the Sun Souls. She didn't because it was more fun the other way, and she finds easy wins boring]].


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** [[spoiler:In classic Jade fashion, she does this with ExactWords with the rules of the game to allow her to decide the outcome of duels. It says that the winner is decided by Yade Khan, but that doesn't [[OneSteveLimit just mean the game]]...]]


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** [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} about how Jade actually uses this to her advantage, using the fact that she and the game share a name to set up a loophole in the rules so that she could decide the outcome of a duel if she wanted to]].


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* RealityEnsues:
** [[spoiler:Domino tries to trap Jade in a situation that limits her power to a quarter of the whole so he can defeat her. As Jade lampshades when she stops playing and effortlessly kills him, as a being who could easily be described as a PhysicalGod, a quarter of her power is still leagues beyond his]].
** [[spoiler:As Jade lampshades to Trace after activating her LoopholeAbuse, the idea of her wagering everything on a duel without an ace up her sleeve was ridiculous]].


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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Jade had a loopfole built into Jade Khan that Brenner never knew about, allowing her to decide the victors of duels]].


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*** He also notes that Jade appears to have a monument to the ''UsefulNotes/{{Superman}}'' franchise in her palace.


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* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:Jade gets all huffy after Trace forces her to activate her LoopholeAbuse with the Yade Khan game rules to win]].


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* SympathyForTheDevil: After learning about her past, [[spoiler:and after having to seal her away again, with her final words before the seal is completed is that she doesn't want to be alone in the dark anymore]], Trace can't help but pity her.


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* VictoryIsBoring: Jade mentions before [[spoiler:killing Domino]] that she avoids direct confrontation largely because everyone she considers a WorthyOpponent is smart enough not to let her fight. [[spoiler:This is also why she never used her ability to rig Yade Khan duels before Trace nearly beats her]].


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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:It starts after Trace nearly beats her in a duel, with Jade only using cheating to win, gets worse when the Sun Souls are freed and Brenner stands against her, and peaks when the seal is nearly complete, Jade screaming that she doesn't want to be alone in the dark anymore]].

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* DeadPersonConversation: Any conversation Trace has with King, being that he's Cheherezad's spirit. [[spoiler: There's also the VisionQuest conversation he has with a chi copy of Tohru.]]



* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The two female Shadow Walker recruits switch sides]].

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* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The two female Shadow Walker recruits switch sides]].sides and join the heroes.]]


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* LoopholeAbuse: Using the Sun Souls, Jade intends to exploit a flaw in the seal holding her in the Shadow Netherworld -- [[spoiler: she can't permanently escape to Earth, but there's nothing stopping her from dragging the Earth in with her]].


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** When the first attempt with the Shadow Walkers fails, and after reconnecting with them via Brenner, Jade comes up with a new plan requiring the Sun Souls. Specifically, it turns out that she intends to [[spoiler: drag Earth into the Netherworld with her]].


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* VisionQuest: Trace has two in Chapter 5. First, the elemental monks give him one to explain the origins of Yade Khan and the Shadow Walkers. Later, [[spoiler: he's given a vision by a chi construct echo of Tohru, which explains Jade's true origins and how to defeat her]].


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* YouHaveFailedMe: It's shown that in between Chapters 4 and 5, Jade tortured Zaben for failing to defeat Trace and his friends at Alonso's tournament. The details of what exactly she did aren't given, but considering that Zaben is described as being heavily scarred, it probably wasn't pretty.

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* AddictiveMagic: The card game Brenner creates is designed to be addictive, even as it channels fragments of the souls of the losers as sacrifices to Jade.

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* AddictiveMagic: The card game Brenner creates is designed to be addictive, even as it channels fragments of the souls of the losers as sacrifices to Jade. In fact, according to Domino, it's the very loss of those soul fragments that makes the game so addictive, and makes long term players so eccentric (at best).



* BullyingADragon: When cutting ties with Jade, Alonso gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on why he would have never become her new lover. Naturally, this pisses her off.
* CallingYourAttacks: Domino does this. Jade says he needs to work on the names.



* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Domino's attempt to fight Jade only results in her faking injuries out of [[ItAmusedMe amusement]], before she kills him.]]



* DistractedByTheSexy: When one of the elemental monks is rubbing her butt (sore from sitting on the rocky ground) right in front of him, Trace understandably misses what another is trying to say to him.



* ElementalPowers: An order of monks powered by classical elemental magic aided Cheherezad in the past, and Trace in the present, to fight Jade.



* FakeUltimateHero: [[spoiler: Maximus Domino is a WarriorMonk who has trained to be the WorldsStrongestMan, so he can be the one to kill Yade Khan. Jade is still vastly more powerful than he is, and effortlessly kills him.]]



** When bragging of her power to Domino, Jade claims that by his ranking system, hers is [[Anime/DragonballZ over 9000]].



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After Brenner loses his duel to Trace, Jade doesn't hesitate to take his Sun Soul, since thanks to the Shadow Walkers and Alonso, he's now redundant.]]

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After Brenner loses his duel to Trace, Jade doesn't hesitate to take his Sun Soul, since thanks to the Shadow Walkers and Alonso, he's now redundant.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: How Jade kills Domino.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Trace lampshades this when he's told of Yade mourning Boaz.


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* TheMultiverse: The monks of Trace's world are aware of it, and of Jade's extra-dimensional origins.


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* SecretTestOfCharacter: King is given one when he has to choose between letting Trace fall or gaining a chance to return to flesh. He chooses right, and is rewarded with his memories.

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* EvilIsPetty: Defied. Jade considers [[SinsOfOurFathers avenging oneself on strangers pointless]], and gives up on her ideas of revenge when she realizes that the people who sealed her are likely all long dead.

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** Alonso calls out Zaben's campaign of destroying the lives of everyone close to Trace as this, since he's not even bothering to do it openly.


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* RevengeByProxy: After Brenner's defeat, Zaben goes about destroying the lives of everyone close to Trace. Subverted, however, by the fact he's just doing it to get Trace's attention, not because of he's trying to pull AvengingTheVillain.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gracia apparently gives one to Alonso in Chapter 4, complete with a "flashback recap" episode. While it doesn't cause a HeelRealization, it does [[spoiler: talk him out of killing Zaben for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing Jade]]]].
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* NoOSHACompliance: Trace lampshades this with the

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* NoOSHACompliance: Trace lampshades this with some of the duel setups.
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* FemaleMisogynist: Jade has shades of this, only allowing men to serve her directly.


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* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The two female Shadow Walker recruits switch sides]].


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* OneSteveLimit: Brenner names his card game after Yade Khan, which Alonso realizes is kind of confusing for those in the know.

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* BigWhat: There are a few in Chapter 4 when [[spoiler: Trace forfeits his last match with Alonso, just to prove a point]].



* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed with his meager accomplishments.



* {{Expy}}: Chapter 3 has a lot of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' expies, both with the card game Brenner creates and the characters introduced, though with some twists.
* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed with his meager accomplishments.

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* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Zaben said he'd release Mildred if Trace defeated his servant. He didn't say anything about not blinding her...]]
* {{Expy}}: Starting with Chapter 3 3, the story has a lot of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' expies, both with the card game Brenner creates and the characters introduced, though with some twists.
* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was EyeScream: [[spoiler: Zaben gouges out Mildred's eyes after his minion loses a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed duel with his meager accomplishments.Trace.]]
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* DomainHolder: While Jade/Yade Khan never gains total DimensionLord control over the Shadow Netherworld, she is the most powerful being ever in there, and learns how to create matter from the essence of the shadows around her.


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* MasterOfYourDomain: Jade eventually learns how to reshape the very structure of her body, allowing her to easily do things like extend her spine into a tail, turn her legs into another pair of arms, and animate her hair into tendrils.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Jade made sure that the Book of Ages would be unable to affect her. Unfortunately for her, Tohru managed to get around this by using the quill that goes with the Book.
** Jade suspects that Tohru engineered things so that she wouldn't be able to create potions by making sure nonliving organic material quickly decays in her realm
** She's also aware that the sole surviving member of a conquered kingdom's royal family escaping to safety ''will'' come back to bite her. [[spoiler: And when he does indeed cause the downfall of the Himinate, she sees it coming and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm tells her Shadow Walkers to flee in order to rebuild afterwards]].]]
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** During Brenner's first trip to the Shadow Netherworld, he wonders if he's [[DyingDream dying and imagining the whole thing]], comparing it to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge American Civil War short story]] he read once.

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* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Jade originally put on Tarakudo's mask in order to defeat an enemy, the Magus king, out to destroy her family, and while her will won over that of the Oni generals, she was unable to resist the corruption of the mask.

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* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Jade originally put on Tarakudo's mask in order to defeat an enemy, the Magus king, King, out to destroy her family, and while her will won over that of the Oni generals, she was unable to resist the corruption of the mask.



* KilledOffForReal: Jade killed Uncle after escaping.

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* KilledOffForReal: Jade killed Uncle after escaping.escaping her original imprisonment.



* MultiArmedAndDangerous: After Jade's gives herself a tail to match the appearance and mobility of her snakes, she decides her legs are now redundant, and changes them into a second set of arms.

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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: After Jade's Jade gives herself a tail to match the appearance and mobility of her snakes, she decides her legs are now redundant, and changes them into a second set of arms.



* PrehensileHair: Jade eventually enfuses shadows into her hair to give her hair tendrils.

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* PrehensileHair: Jade eventually enfuses infuses shadows into her hair to give her hair tendrils.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: The reason Brenner is willing to serve Jade in exchange for immortality is to live long enough to conquer death, apparently for the good of all of humanity.

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* VisionaryVillain:
** Unlike his predecessors as Himinion, Boaz was not content to simply have the Shadow Walkers hide in the shadows and rule over countrysides, worshiping Jade in secret. Instead, he turned the cult militant, to begin carving out an empire dedicated to Jade's worship and service.
** Brenner wants to gain immortality, not for personal gain but to be able to live long enough to eventually free all of humanity from death.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The reason Brenner is willing to serve Jade in exchange for immortality is to live long enough to conquer death, apparently for the good of all of humanity. He considers helping Jade take over the world a necessary evil to accomplish this.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Jade's decision to imprison Cheherazad's soul in his own sword as a [[AndIMustScream final punishment]] for defying her instead somehow allows it to completely cut off the Shadow Netherworld from Earth, leaving Jade without even the meager comfort of her followers.]]

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: This is how Jade was originally imprisoned in the Shadow Realm. Tohru realized that absorbing the combined power of all the Oni had oversaturated her with shadow chi, enabling him to cast a spell that permanently fused her into the Shadow Realm.
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* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Jade originally put on Tarakudo's mask in order to defeat an enemy out to destroy her family, and while her will won over that of the Oni generals, she was unable to resist the corruption of the mask.

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* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Jade originally put on Tarakudo's mask in order to defeat an enemy enemy, the Magus king, out to destroy her family, and while her will won over that of the Oni generals, she was unable to resist the corruption of the mask.



* {{Expy}}: Chapter 3 has a lot of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' expies, both with the card game Brenner creates and the characters introduced.
* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed with his meager accomplishment.

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* {{Expy}}: Chapter 3 has a lot of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' expies, both with the card game Brenner creates and the characters introduced.introduced, though with some twists.
* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed with his meager accomplishment.accomplishments.



* OfficialCouple: Jackie and Viper married at some point prior to Jade's banishment.

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* OfficialCouple: Jackie and Viper Viper/Veronica married at some point prior to Jade's banishment.


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** ReincarnationRomance: What she is apparently trying to start with him.
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* LampshadeHanging: Once the story turns into a pastiche of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', this is all over the place -- the SeriousBusiness nature of the game, character designs and personalities, and even the scene change tags start listing how many episodes have passed alongside the normal amount of time.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jade takes an interest in Alonso, since he appears to similar to Boaz. He, however, is sufficiently (and understandably) {{squick}}ed out.



** Seemingly confirmed by the fact that the third part of the story takes place in modern times.



* TheChessmaster: The Magus King, the villain who left Jade so desperate she absorbed the power of the Oni to defeat him, did so by apparently manipulating events to perfectly drive the heroes to the point of near defeat. And if Jade ''hadn't'' taken the Oni's power, something he didn't expect, he would have won.



* DealWithTheDevil:
** Brenner agrees to help Jade to gather the power to finally escape her imprisonment in exchange for immortality.
** Jade convinces Alonso to serve her in exchange for safety and power for himself and his sister.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Jade being desperate enough that she would take up Tarakudo's mask was apparently the one thing that the Magus King did not anticipate.



** After meeting with Brenner, Jade starts covering herself in gold, in the belief that it makes her look more godlike.



* ImmortalitySeeker: Brenner allies with Jade in the hopes that she'll make him immortal, so that he can live long enough to conquer death as a whole.



** There's also the matter of the seven Sun Souls, which together will apparently grant Jade enough power to escape her imprisonment.



* {{Reincarnation}}: Jade apparently thinks Alonso is Boaz reborn.



* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: After killing the Fourth Himinion for assassinating Boaz, Jade randomly selects another Shadow Walker as his replacement.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The reason Brenner is willing to serve Jade in exchange for immortality is to live long enough to conquer death, apparently for the good of all of humanity.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: After killing the Fourth Himinion for assassinating Boaz, Jade randomly selects another Shadow Walker as his replacement.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After Brenner loses his duel to Trace, Jade doesn't hesitate to take his Sun Soul, since thanks to the Shadow Walkers and Alonso, he's now redundant.
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* AddictiveMagic: The card game Brenner creates is designed to be addictive, even as it channels fragments of the souls of the losers as sacrifices to Jade.



* {{Expy}}: Chapter 3 has a lot of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' expies, both with the card game Brenner creates and the characters introduced.



* HeroicSacrifice: Jade put on the mask of Tarakudo in order to defeat an unnamed foe, but lost herself in the process.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Jade put on the mask of Tarakudo in order to defeat an unnamed foe, a foe called the Magus King who had captured Jackie, but lost herself in the process.



** The card game Brenner designs, named Yade Khan after Jade, is designed to slice off a tiny fragment of the loser's soul as an offering to her.



* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm''.

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* CryForTheDevil: After [[spoiler:Boaz dies, Jade lapses into a five-year depression]].
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* ConLang: As one of her many pet projects to pass time in the Shadow Realm, Jade creates a written language she dubs "Channish", which is a combination of English, Chinese, and Japanese.

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* ConLang: As one of her many pet projects to pass time in the Shadow Realm, Jade creates a written language she dubs "Channish", which is a combination of English, Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese.Spanish.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After [[spoiler:Cheherazad starts decimating her followers, she orders her remaining servants to flee so that they can start anew]].

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After [[spoiler:Cheherazad starts decimating her followers, she Jade orders her remaining servants to flee so that they can start anew]].



* NoSell: When she first encounters the Shadow Walkers, one tries to attack her with a spear. Tries being the key word here.

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* NoSell: When she Jade first encounters the Shadow Walkers, one tries to attack her with a spear. Tries being the key word here.



* ThePowerofCreation: Jade gains the ability to create physical matter out of shadow energy.

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* AlternateUniverse: It's ''heavily'' implied that Jade has stumbled onto one.



* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How the Shadow Walkers settle things, even before Jade reorganizes things.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How the Shadow Walkers settle things, even before ''before'' Jade reorganizes things.



* BarbieDollAnatomy: Since by the time she meets the Shadow Walkers Jade's clothes have decayed to nothing, she gives herself this so that they aren't too distracted to listen to her. She covers her chest with a piece of silk taken from a dead Walker and fuses it to her body, while her nether regions just sort of... disappear around the point that she gives herself a tail and repurposes her legs into another set of arms. Even she doesn't know where they went.

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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Since by the time she meets the Shadow Walkers Jade's clothes have decayed to nothing, she gives herself this so that they aren't too distracted to listen to her. She covers her chest with a piece of silk taken from a dead Walker and fuses it to her body, while her nether regions just sort of... disappear around the point that she gives herself a tail and repurposes her legs into another set of arms. Even she ''she'' doesn't know where they went.



* CrazyCatLady: Replace "cats" with "shadow snakes" and that's what Jade becomes during the first age of her imprisonment in the Shadow Realm.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Jade made sure that the Book of Ages would be unable to affect her.
** She's also aware that the sole surviving member of a conquered kingdom's royal family escaping to safety will come back to bite her. [[spoiler: And when he does indeed cause the downfall of the Himinate, she sees it coming and tells her Shadow Walkers to flee in order to rebuild afterwards.]]

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* CrazyCatLady: Replace "cats" with "shadow snakes" and that's what Jade becomes during the first age of her imprisonment in the Shadow Realm.
Realm. She even imagines them speaking to her.
* CryForTheDevil: After [[spoiler:Boaz dies, Jade lapses into a five-year depression]].
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Jade made sure that the Book of Ages would be unable to affect her.
her. Unfortunately for her, Tohru managed to get around this by using the quill that goes with the Book.
** Jade suspects that Tohru engineered things so that she wouldn't be able to create potions by making sure nonliving organic material quickly decays in her realm
** She's also aware that the sole surviving member of a conquered kingdom's royal family escaping to safety will ''will'' come back to bite her. [[spoiler: And when he does indeed cause the downfall of the Himinate, she sees it coming and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm tells her Shadow Walkers to flee in order to rebuild afterwards.afterwards]].]]



* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Jade originally put on Tarakudo's mask in order to defeat an enemy out to destroy her family, and while her will won over that of the Oni generals, she was unable to resist the corruption of the mask.



* EvilIsPetty: Defied. Jade considers [[SinsOfOurFathers avenging oneself on strangers pointless]], and gives up on her ideas of revenge when she realizes that the people who sealed her are likely all long dead.



* FloatingContinent: By the time time she encounters the Shadow Walkers, Jade has expanded her OminousFloatingCastle to the point where she estimates that it's slightly larger than a circular Manhattan.



* GoldFever: When the Shadow Walkers start offering Jade tribute, this is all that she really cares about, since it's the only thing that doesn't decay in the Shadow Netherworld.

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* GoldFever: When the Shadow Walkers start offering Jade tribute, this is all that she really cares about, since it's one of the only thing things that doesn't decay in the Shadow Netherworld.



* MeaningfulRename: Upon introducing herself to the Shadow Walkers, Jade rechristens herself "Yade Khan", the former part a tribute to Paco's constant incorrect enunciation of her name, and the latter a tribute to the Shadowkhan. She also renames the Shadow Realm as the Shadow Netherworld after realizing her sealing is similar to the Demon Sorcerers in the Demon Netherworld.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After [[spoiler:Cheherazad starts decimating her followers, she orders her remaining servants to flee so that they can start anew]].
* MeaningfulRename: Upon introducing herself to the Shadow Walkers, Jade rechristens herself "Yade Khan", the former part a tribute to Paco's constant [[RunningGag constant]] incorrect enunciation of her name, and the latter a tribute to the Shadowkhan. She also renames the Shadow Realm as the Shadow Netherworld after realizing her sealing is similar to the Demon Sorcerers in the Demon Netherworld.



* NoSell: [[spoiler: Cheherazad's sword, empowered by the magic of all the other ElementalPowers and the willingly sacrificed souls of those who practice them, has absolutely no effect on Jade.]]

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* NonhumansLackAttributes: Jade's alterations have given her BarbieDollAnatomy.
* NoSell: When she first encounters the Shadow Walkers, one tries to attack her with a spear. Tries being the key word here.
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* OfficialCouple: Jackie and Viper married at some point prior to Jade's banishment.



* PhysicalGod: Jade [[AGodAmI sets herself up as one]] to the Shadow Walkers. Considering she has the powers of all the Oni generals, apparently doesn't need to breathe, doesn't need to eat, and seems to be immortal, she may have a few valid points.
* ThePowerofCreation: Jade gains the ability to create physical matter out of shadow energy.
* PrehensileHair: Jade eventually enfuses shadows into her hair to give her hair tendrils.



* SanitySlippage: Jade goes a bit crazy due to being sealed away.



** Jade herself at one point compares herself to "[[EldritchAbomination something]] that [[Creator/HPLovecraft H. P.]] guy would write".



* TimeAbyss: Since there's no real way to tell the passing of time in the Shadow Netherworld, Jade doesn't know how long she's been sealed away. Just that it's been a ''very'' long time.

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* VillainousBSOD: After [[spoiler:Boaz dies, Jade lapses into a five-year depression]].
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* DarkMessiah: Boaz was personally trained by his religion's goddess in order to lead his people to greatness. This would sound pretty good, except that it's a ReligionOfEvil, the goddess in question is an insane FallenHero-turned-EldritchAbomination, and "leading to greatness" means conquering the world.


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** The priests who trained Cheherazad in magic sacrificed their own souls to empower his enchanted sword. [[spoiler: Turns out to be a SenselessSacrifice, as Jade easily shrugs off the sword's attack and disempowers it.]]


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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm''.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The Shadow Walkers wager pieces or the entirety of their souls during their magic duels with each other.
** Cheherazad powers his sword through the {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s of twenty priests, who seal their souls within it. [[spoiler: Jade dismisses them, and then traps Cheherazad's inside as punishment for defying her.]]


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* UnfortunateNames: The leader of the Shadow Walkers when Jade found them was named "Arses". Is it any wonder that Jade renames him Himinion?
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* RewardAsATraitorDeserves: After the Shadow Walkers conquer a kingdom only because the king's brother betrays him, said brother ends up right behind him on the sacrifice list.

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* RewardAsATraitorDeserves: After RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A minor example -- after the Shadow Walkers conquer a kingdom only because the king's brother betrays him, said brother ends up right behind him on the sacrifice list.

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* AndIMustScream: Jade is trapped alone in the Shadow Realm for ''centuries'' (and that's the ''minimum'' estimate), and only seems to be able to cope by sleep, and by going somewhat crazy.



* TheChosenOne: Boaz, the third Himinion, was specifically chosen and secretly trained personally by Jade for years before taking over the Shadow Walkers.

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* BodyHorror: Jade restructuring her body almost on a whim into a completely inhuman form.
* TheChosenOne: Boaz, the third Third Himinion, was specifically chosen and secretly trained personally by Jade for years before taking over the Shadow Walkers.



* EldritchAbomination: What Jade has become by the time she's met the Shadow Walkers -- insanely old and powerful, sealed in another dimension, and having altered her appearance into a completely inhuman form. She's even referred to by Cheherazad's magical mentors as an "outsider".

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* EldritchAbomination: What Jade has become by the time she's met the Shadow Walkers -- insanely old and powerful, sealed in another dimension, and having altered her appearance into a completely inhuman form. She's even referred to by Cheherazad's magical mentors as an "outsider"."outsider", while Jade herself at one point compares herself to "something that [[Creator/HPLovecraft H. P.]] guy would write".



* EunuchsAreEvil: The Second Himinion was a eunuch. Jade was neither fond of him, nor impressed with his meager accomplishment.



* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being sealed in the Shadow Realm for countless centuries drives Jade insane. She gets somewhat better after she establishes contact with the Shadow Walkers.

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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being sealed in the Shadow Realm alone for countless centuries drives Jade insane. She gets somewhat better after she establishes contact with the Shadow Walkers.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Jade's decision to imprison Cheherazad's soul in his own sword as a [[AndIMustScream final punishment]] for defying her instead somehow allows it to completely cut off the Shadow Netherworld from Earth, leaving Jade without even the meager comfort of her followers.]]



* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: The Fourth Himinion rises to power by assassinating Boaz. Since he was Jade's favorite, this gets his killer killed.]]



* NoSell: [[spoiler: Cheherazad's sword, empowered by the magic of all the other ElementalPowers and the willingly sacrificed souls of those who practice them, has absolutely no effect on Jade.]]



* ReligionOfEvil: The Shadow Walkers were already a {{cult}} of shadow magic users before Jade found them, and then she reorganized them around worship of her god persona, Yade Khan, at which point they dedicated themselves to conquering the world in her name.

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* RedBaron: After rechristening herself as Yade Khan, Jade gives herself multiple titles, which attentive readers will realize are all references to her accomplishments in canon.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Shadow Walkers were already a {{cult}} of shadow magic users before Jade found them, and then she reorganized them around the worship of her god persona, Yade Khan, at which point they dedicated themselves to conquering the world in her name.name.
* RewardAsATraitorDeserves: After the Shadow Walkers conquer a kingdom only because the king's brother betrays him, said brother ends up right behind him on the sacrifice list.



* TakeOverTheWorld: Jade tries to cast the world into shadow before being stopped.

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* SinsOfOurFathers: Subverted. When Jade realizes that she's lived so long that all those who sealed her are more than likely dead, she denies being petty enough to seek revenge on their descendants like Shendu, meaning that she doesn't even have the potential of revenge to look forward to.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Jade tries tried to cast the world into shadow shadow, apparently by [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot pulling a rogue planet into permanent orbit]], before being stopped.



* TimeSkip: The story takes great liberties with this, usually through the fact that Jade tends to sleep for years on end.

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* TimeSkip: The story takes great liberties with this, usually through the fact that Jade tends to sleep for years on end.end.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: After killing the Fourth Himinion for assassinating Boaz, Jade randomly selects another Shadow Walker as his replacement.]]

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* AfterTheEnd: Jade believes this is why the world appears to have regressed to Bronze Age levels of technology. However, it's implied she may have instead stumbled on an AlternateUniverse.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How the Shadow Walkers settle things, even before Jade reorganizes things.



* BarbieDollAnatomy: Since by the time she meets the Shadow Walkers Jade's clothes have decayed to nothing, she gives herself this so that they aren't too distracted to listen to her. She covers her chest with a piece of silk taken from a dead Walker and fuses it to her body, while her nether regions just sort of... disappear around the point that she gives herself a tail and repurposes her legs into another set of arms. Even she doesn't know where they went.



** King Cheherazad is this for the forces opposed to the Shadow Walkers.



** She's also aware that the sole surviving member of a conquered kingdom's royal family escaping to safety will come back to bite her. [[spoiler: And when he does indeed cause the downfall of the Himinate, she sees it coming and tells her Shadow Walkers to flee in order to rebuild afterwards.]]



* EldritchAbomination: What Jade has become by the time she's met the Shadow Walkers -- insanely old and powerful, sealed in another dimension, and having altered her appearance into a completely inhuman form.

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* EldritchAbomination: What Jade has become by the time she's met the Shadow Walkers -- insanely old and powerful, sealed in another dimension, and having altered her appearance into a completely inhuman form. She's even referred to by Cheherazad's magical mentors as an "outsider".
* TheEmpire: Starting under Boaz's rule, the Shadow Walkers emerge from hiding to begin conquering in Yade Khan's name, carving out a kingdom in the Middle East known as the "Himinate". [[spoiler: It lasts several decades, until being brought down by the Persians and their allies.]]



* GoldFever: When the Shadow Walkers start offering Jade tribute, this is all that she really cares about, since it's the only thing that doesn't decay in the Shadow Netherworld.



* MultiArmedAndDangerous: After Jade's gives herself a tail to match the appearance and mobility of her snakes, she decides her legs are now redundant, and changes them into a second set of arms.



** And via her Shadow Walkers, she tries to do again the old fashioned way.

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** And via her Shadow Walkers, she tries to do again the old fashioned way.way.
* TimeAbyss: Since there's no real way to tell the passing of time in the Shadow Netherworld, Jade doesn't know how long she's been sealed away. Just that it's been a ''very'' long time.
* TimeSkip: The story takes great liberties with this, usually through the fact that Jade tends to sleep for years on end.

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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10014215/1/Ages-of-Shadow Ages of Shadow]] is an ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1645311/Eduard-Kassel Eduard Kassel]], and a member of ''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade''.

"Years after falling to the darkness, Jade Chan has finally been defeated by the J Team and their allies; and been banished. In defeat and isolation Jade Chan must face a challenge like nothing she has ever encountered before. What lies in wait for the fallen hero in the millennia that stretch before her? What shall she loose and what will she become, in the Ages of Shadow?"

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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10014215/1/Ages-of-Shadow Ages of Shadow]] is an ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1645311/Eduard-Kassel Eduard Kassel]], and a member part of ''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade''.

''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade''.


Official summary:
"Years after falling to the darkness, Jade Chan has finally been defeated by the J Team J-Team and their allies; and been banished. In defeat and isolation Jade Chan must face a challenge like nothing she has ever encountered before. What lies in wait for the fallen hero in the millennia that stretch before her? What shall she loose and what will she become, in the Ages of Shadow?"



* BadassBoast: Jade speaks in pretty much nothing but these to the Shadow Walkers and her enemies.
* TheChosenOne: Boaz, the third Himinion, was specifically chosen and secretly trained personally by Jade for years before taking over the Shadow Walkers.
* CrazyCatLady: Replace "cats" with "shadow snakes" and that's what Jade becomes during the first age of her imprisonment in the Shadow Realm.



* EldritchAbomination: What Jade has become by the time she's met the Shadow Walkers -- insanely old and powerful, sealed in another dimension, and having altered her appearance into a completely inhuman form.



* AGodAmI: After taking control of the Shadow Walkers and taking on the mantle of Yade Khan, Jade starts viewing herself as a goddess.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Being sealed in the Shadow Realm for countless centuries drives Jade insane. She gets somewhat better after she establishes contact with the Shadow Walkers.



* HighPriest: The Himinion is this to Jade, serving as the leader of the Shadow Walkers in her name.
* HumanSacrifice: The Shadow Walkers start offering these to Jade. Since she doesn't want to offend them, and since she has no other use for them, she feeds them to her snakes (though she [[MercyKill kills them quickly first]]).



* SealedEvilInACan: Jade is sealed in the Shadow Realm by her family after FaceHeelTurn.

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* MeaningfulRename: Upon introducing herself to the Shadow Walkers, Jade rechristens herself "Yade Khan", the former part a tribute to Paco's constant incorrect enunciation of her name, and the latter a tribute to the Shadowkhan. She also renames the Shadow Realm as the Shadow Netherworld after realizing her sealing is similar to the Demon Sorcerers in the Demon Netherworld.
* OminousFloatingCastle: Jade's Grand Palace of the Shadow Netherworld starts as one of these, but by the time she meets the Shadow Walkers, she's expanded it into a FloatingContinent.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Shadow Walkers were already a {{cult}} of shadow magic users before Jade found them, and then she reorganized them around worship of her god persona, Yade Khan, at which point they dedicated themselves to conquering the world in her name.
* SealedEvilInACan: Jade is sealed in the Shadow Realm by her family after her FaceHeelTurn.


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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10014215/1/Ages-of-Shadow Ages of Shadow]] is an ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1645311/Eduard-Kassel Eduard Kassel]], and a member of ''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade''.

"Years after falling to the darkness, Jade Chan has finally been defeated by the J Team and their allies; and been banished. In defeat and isolation Jade Chan must face a challenge like nothing she has ever encountered before. What lies in wait for the fallen hero in the millennia that stretch before her? What shall she loose and what will she become, in the Ages of Shadow?"

!!Tropes:
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Jade made sure that the Book of Ages would be unable to affect her.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Pretty much a given for a Project story, but this is one of the few stories rated M.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jade, as usual for Project fics.
* HeroicSacrifice: Jade put on the mask of Tarakudo in order to defeat an unnamed foe, but lost herself in the process.
* KilledOffForReal: Jade killed Uncle after escaping.
* SealedEvilInACan: Jade is sealed in the Shadow Realm by her family after FaceHeelTurn.
** She was imprisoned before more mundanely, but escaped.
* ShoutOut:
** The plot is basically a non crossover version of another Dark Jade fic, ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm''.
** Jade's claims of being inevitable are a lot like [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Dark Danny's]] claims in "The Ultimate Enemy". WordOfGod says this was unintentional though.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Jade tries to cast the world into shadow before being stopped.

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