History Literature / Dream

* [[spoiler:FilleFatale: Rrorry. Not only has a man nearly twice her age absolutely whipped, but also at one point starts [[RapeIsLove trying to]] [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "loosen up"]] ''[[LesYay her]] [[ShipTease older]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]'' [[ForYourOwnGood "for her own good"]].]] This is, of course, ''blatant'' {{Fanservice}}, something that she [[LampshadeHanging points out]] before she does it.

* StaffChick: Lina in the prequel and Rin'ku in the main story. S'sessek in the prequel was also a staff-user, but doesn't fit the "chick" portion of the description. Biologically, neither does Rin'ku, but there's a lot of role reversal in this story.

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''LegendOfZelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''Ocarina of Time'').

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''LegendOfZelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''Ocarina of Time'').

* AscendedExtra: Deirya and Souya were the first to get this treatment, then Lina, followed by Quajei, then Senna, and after that, Pinser Forkun, followed up in the Book of Izumo by Liliya and then [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]]. And that's just the ones that were originally not ever meant to be part of the main cast. There are also a couple of temporary main cast members that became permanent--Zargon and Oroko. Actually, make that four--if memory serves me correctly, [[spoiler:Armi and Pallo]] were originally supposed to leave at the end of the Labyrinth of Hoshimaru, but didn't. Not that being separate from the rest of the group necessarily keeps you out of the main cast...
** Don't forget a revived, powered-up version of [[spoiler:Kryftig]] appearing in the Citadel of Pain. That was truly something that the author did not see coming until it happened.
* AuthorAppeal

* BeautyEqualsGoodness

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The first time this happens, the fourth wall breaks down entirely, creating a chapter of gratuitous weirdness. Later happens with characters receiving nothing more than a scolding from the {{Author Avatar}}s.

* [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]]: Julio, Marina, even Alania to some degree. Back in the prequel, Enrique probably got this the worst, being the only first-season main character to never get a legendary weapon. Inverted increasingly often, as characters who start off weak often become the strongest.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Also Sekiya, at times.
** And Armi, despite the fact that Spirit quite clearly is ''not'' interested.

* ContinuityNod: Often attacks will recur, and upgraded versions of formerly appearing spells can often be found. In fact, late in the Book Of Alania, Rin'ku uses an upgraded version of Kalcifore, a spell which took practically all of his energy to use in the beginning of the Book of Alania. Also, after the Citadel of Pain battle ends with [[spoiler:Izumo being taken to another dimension ''again'']], Astra comments that [[spoiler:he [[DudeNotFunny "certainly has a knack for doing that".]]]]

* {{Fanservice}}

* TheHero
* HoYay
* {{Homage}}

* LampshadeHanging

* LoveTriangle: Happens often early on, back when a lot of characters were exhibiting MarySue traits. Still happening notably with the Kisalia/Arden/Sekiya triangle. Feel free to make all of the guesses you want as to which girl Arden ends up with, [[BlatantLies because even I don't know the answer just yet]], and I'm the author.

* {{Nakama}}

* {{Recurring Character}}s

* ScheduleSlip: Mandated by real-world technical difficulties. Namely, the author's laptop having to go in for repairs. Four Tuesdays were missed, although with new ideas already forming, this might actually give some extra time for carrying on before the backlog runs out.
** And now other technical difficulties (and a bit of spaciness, and illness) have caused it again.

* SelfInsertFic: All characters are meant to have some aspect of the author, but Rin'ku is the most obvious self-insertion.

* ShoutOut: The slurring of S'sessek's name in one of the drunken scenes in the prequel was specifically constructed to evoke a certain FanNickname, although that's not the lone justification for its [[InuYasha presence]] on the above list of inspirations.

* ShowerOfAwkward

* TechnicolorEyes: Another bit of AuthorAppeal (see: [[SpiriTsunami my page]]). To keep the self-insertion burden from being solely on Rin'ku, these eyes belong to Sekiya.

** ThemeTwinNaming: Kit and Kat, in the Spinoff Pilot.
*** Pallo and Armi, too. See below.

* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential

* {{Tsundere}}: Alania. Very much so. Not quite so much in recent chapters, though. (read: since she and Rin'ku ''officially'' became a couple in-story.)

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Foran Alphastar and Jessilux Umiankai. Also, Zychra Nikaba and Torton Rugalu

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Used most frequently with the opponents during the Polaria Tower arc, such as Amaz Baltech Yehuda III½ and Parissa Gembolt Kukumunga.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A few, notably the one where the fourth wall started malfunctioning and [[spoiler:the ''Starship Entrancefee'' sequence]].
** [[BLAMEpisode BLAM Chapter]]: The "fourth wall malfunctioning" scene took up an entire chapter.

* CanonSue: Early on in the story, both Alania and Rin'ku are somewhat Sue-ish, although Alania (probably best described as TsundereSue, while Rin'ku is [[PuritySue Purity Stu]]) is clueless to her beauty and is massively insecure about her body at the time. Over time, this aspect of their character has been written out, probably coinciding with their inevitable nearing of becoming an OfficialCouple, and in a bizarre effect, the number of guys falling for Alania ends up being inversely proportional to her level of satisfaction with her self-image.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome
** Izumo, too many times to list here.
** Lani immediately after [[spoiler:Izumo is sent to another dimension.]]
** Arguably, Alania in Coreng, although this is also a Crowning Moment of {{Squick}}.
** [[ContinuityNod Spirit Tsunami XVIII]], almost as soon as he arrives. I told you it was set ''considerably later'' than the Chaos Chronicles?the name I've taken as my troper name and identity on most sites comes from the original, not from the character in this story.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Surprisingly common.
** Deirya and Souya's sisterly bonding in Chapter 48.
** Alania suggesting a "date" with Rin'ku after her near-death experience in Chapter 157.
** But most of all, Alania's conversation with Kisa in Chapter 200.
->'''Kisalia:''' With all of these couples falling apart right before your eyes, how can you still be so confident in {{the power of love}}?
->'''Alania:''' ...I have Rin'ku. That's all I need.
*** Note that Kisa was not officially part of the {{Nakama}} at the time, and that this was the first time Alania had admitted her feelings for Rin'ku to anyone else (besides Rin'ku himself).

* EpilepticTrees: Just what ''is'' [[spoiler:Piru]], anyway?

* FetishFuel: Turns into NightmareFuel rather quickly. Used to stop a villain.
** Could also be considered FetishRetardant
** [[spoiler: Later, Rrorry takes it UpToEleven. ''With [[BrotherSisterIncest Kisa]]''.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: The TimeSkip

* HollywoodHomely: Acknowledged as such during the PoolScene:
-->'''Sekiya:''' I look horrible. Maybe if I went off on my own I'd look good, but surrounded by all of you, I look horrible.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: If a character survives for one entire season, they're probably not going to be dying, period. [[spoiler:Or maybe not...]]

* {{Narm}}: The end of the Shadow Executive arc.

* {{Squick}}: The ending to the Super-CEO saga. Possibly even NightmareFuel, but absurd to be sure. [[spoiler:Also, Hoshimaru's attacks. And in story, the nameless grunts from the same saga.]]

* ToyShip: Tillli and Tomai.

* {{Wangst}}: Happens quite a bit, but oddly enough, Oroko ends up being the worst offender.

*** And [[spoiler:Rrorry]]'s status as [[TheWesley Author Favorite]] has been pretty much confirmed by the fact that [[spoiler:she doesn't even get scolded by the author when she breaks the fourth wall, although the others don't always know what she's talking about.]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse: At least, that's what I'm ''hoping'' [[spoiler:Rrorry]] will become; otherwise, we'll end up with a [[TheWesley Wesley]]. [[SpiriTsunami I,]] the author, have absolutely fallen in love with this character that was originally meant to be minor, and that could have some interesting implications. From the prequel, Souya might qualify. Lina, too.

** And now Sekiya seems to be picking up this mantle. It appears that initially, Sekiya and Alania were very similar in personality, with Alania seemingly leaning towards being the {{Tsundere}} ActionGirl and Sekiya the YamatoNadeshiko [[TheChick Chick]], and they actually ended up going in the opposite directions.

* {{Lolicon}}: Inverted, subverted, and every type of "-verted" imaginable, as [[spoiler:Tarosu]] is a gentleman [[spoiler:and has the self-control not to act on his forbidden desires]], while [[spoiler:Rrorry is [[LoveableSexManiac crudely lustful]] and has him pretty much whipped.]] Also, while this defies the FetishFuel aspects of {{Lolicon}}, it should be noted that Erebus is twice Quahar's age, something that Eljin points out. Like with [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]], it was the younger female, Quahar, that initiated the relationship. I say that the FetishFuel aspect is (probably?) defied because these are [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the dragons]] we're talking about here.

* OlderThanTheyLook: All ta'agarat, because they age slower. Izumo, because [[spoiler:he barely aged at all during the fifteen years he was trapped in the other dimension.]] Kisalia Karin, too, because she's descended from elves, or maybe just because [[{{Lolicon}} it was convenient to the author.]]

* {{Pettanko}}: The obvious ones, due to [[{{Lolicon}} age]], are [[LittleMissSnarker Tillli]] and [[spoiler:[[FilleFatale Rrorry]]]]. At the start of the story, Misra was also like this, and was very insecure about it--to the point that now that she's maturing for real, she actually appears ''smaller'' than she [[GagBoobs did before.]]

* VerySpecialEpisode: The one in which Cristal debuts [[spoiler:and we find out that Foran raped Marina when they were younger]]; the one in which Tillli's change is character is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].

* EmotionlessGirl: Tillli, usually. Does develop a crush at one point, and starts getting ''very'' emotional after the group returns from [[spoiler:Grjher.]] It's not CharacterDerailment, though. No, really. She's just [[spoiler:[[VerySpecialEpisode experiencing mood swings due to the onset of puberty, specifically her first period.]]]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Eastern-style dragons are very human in their modes of thinking. Supposedly, they're better at humans at keeping their emotions under control, but this [[CharacterDerailment isn't exactly the case]]. It's actually ''noted'' as a supposed exception when [[ThoseTwoGuys Erebus's brothers Ramunteko and Elemin]] show up and are discovered to be real goofballs, but they're actually nothing compared to [[{{Wangst}} Oroko.]]

* VerySpecialEpisode: The one in which Cristal debuts [[spoiler:and we find out that Foran raped Marina when they were younger]]; the one in which Tillli's seeming CharacterDerailment is [[strike:{{Hand Wave}}d]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].

* LoveTriangle: Happens often early on, back when a lot of characters were exhibiting MarySue traits. Still happening notably with the Kisalia/Arden/Sekiya triangle. Feel free to make all of the guesses you want as to which girl Arden ends up with, because even I don't know the answer just yet, and I'm the author.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Almost always either invoked (Alania dalls into the "only child of two only children" sub-category, and Enrique and Lina in the prequel and Julio, Tillli, Misra, Spirit and Collerius in the story proper are also only children) or averted ''hard'' (Sekiya is the eighth of twelve--with her two oldest sisters being major characters in the prequel, around the same age as her traveling companions' ''parents''--and Rin'ku is the oldest of...well, the exact number has never been stated, but it's implied that Lina and S'sessek have been reproducing even more prolifically than Sekiya's parents did, so figure it's at least eight.) Later, some middle ground is reached (three Farestorrs; two Karins.)

[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2593194/1/Dream_Book_of_Izumo The Book of Izumo has begun!]] Now updating [[strike:every Tuesday]] [[strike:occasionally]] [[ScheduleSlip never]].

** Also ''spawned'' what would become a ContinuityNod in the author's later fiction: After Chapter 9, the infamous "pancake chapter", the author made note to try to get a pancake reference into chapter 9 of ''Conn. A&M'', only to discover that one was already present in chapter 8. A later fanfic would [[LampshadeHanging point out the ambiguity of whether the obligatory mention was supposed to be in the eighth or the ninth, seeing as how]] ''Dream'' '''[[RunningGag has no Chapter 2,]]''' [[LampshadeHanging and deciding to go with its own chapter 8 because the fanfic was continuing the events of a one-shot and could conceivably seen as the ninth chapter as well.]] "Pancakes in Chapter 8.5 +/- 0.5" has replaced "Chapter 6 successfully cleared" as the leading Lampshade in the author's fanfiction.

** Also ''spawned'' what would become a ContinuityNod in the author's later fiction: After Chapter 9, the infamous "pancake chapter", the author made note to try to get a pancake reference into chapter 9 of ''Conn. A&M'', only to discover that one was already present in chapter 8. A later fanfic would [[LampshadeHanging point out the ambiguity of whether the obligatory mention was supposed to be in the eighth or the ninth, seeing as how]] ''Dream'' '''[[RunningGag has no Chapter 2,]]''' [[LampshadeHanging and deciding to go with its own chapter 8 because the fanfic was continuing the events of a one-shot and could conceivably seen as the ninth chapter as well.]] "Pancakes in Chapter 8. 5+/- 0.5" has replaced "Chapter 6 successfully cleared" as the leading Lampshade in the author's fanfiction.

-->'''Kisalia:''' With all of these couples falling apart right before your eyes, how can you still be so confident in {{the power of love}}?
-->'''Alania:''' ...I have Rin'ku. That's all I need.

* GoingDownWithTheShip: The foundation of [[spoiler:Richu/Daniela]], although that's more of a HeroicSacrifice.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied between minor characters. [[supersecretspoiler:Also, Rrorry's "moment" with Kisalia in the Temple of Calcin.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Albeit a pretty lame one, as Subberyl makes her FaceHeelTurn in the same chapter she's introduced.[[supersecretspoiler: Of course, there ''is'' one other one...]]

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Tillli reminds Rrorry that the truth is often something people don't want to hear. [[supersecretspoiler:Of course, this is nothing compared to some of the things that come out of Rrorry's mouth once Tarosu is introduced...]]

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: If a character survives for one entire season, they're probably not going to be dying, period. [[supersecretspoiler:Or maybe not...]]

* {{Squick}}: The ending to the Super-CEO saga. Possibly even NightmareFuel. Definitely a WallBanger. [[spoiler:Also, Hoshimaru's attacks. And in story, the nameless grunts from the same saga.]]

''[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2245568/1/Dream Dream]]'' is the story of, well, everything. The plot is at times left rather vaguely defined, allowing for some freedom on the writer's part. It covers a lot of genres, being somewhat of a romantic comedy fantasy adventure...thingamajig. The name ''Dream'' is a working title, and refers to the source of the idea. The story of the characters in those initial dreams has more or less been completed; however, the ''[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2589022/1/Dream_Book_of_Alania real]]'' story starts fifteen years later.

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''LegendOfZelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''Ocarina of Time'').

[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2593194/1/Dream_Book_of_Izumo The Book of Izumo has begun!]] Now updating [[strike:every Tuesday]] [[strike:occasionally]] [[ScheduleSlip never]].

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Tropes featured in this work (spoiler Tags over those that don't appear until chapters that are still far off, as well as over material that is particularly spoileriffic):

* ActionGirl: Alania, although exactly to what degree is sometimes questionable. Marina's ActionGirl status, however, is not in question, nor is Kurolanime's in the prequel.
* AerithAndBob: Or rather, Quajei and High Priest Bob. Prior to that, it was just a case of AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.
* AllThereInTheManual: You'll have to read the Chaos Chronicles yourself.
* [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Neutral]]: The Spirit of Chaos.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: ''Dragons'', of all things, have subtle hints of Judaism to them.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The NoFourthWall Episode; Game 1 of the CLDS; [[spoiler:the Starship ''Entrancefee'']]...yeah, occasionally, things get a bit different.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Everything in the Temple of Calcin arc in the prequel; the Spirit of Chaos.
* AntiHero: Rin'ku actually [[LampshadeHanging points this out]] about Alania, but really, everyone in this story is an AntiHero. Some just have looser morals than others.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Just what ''can't'' be an effect of having The Sight?
* AscendedExtra: Deirya and Souya were the first to get this treatment, then Lina, followed by Quajei, then Senna, and after that, Pinser Forkun, followed up in the Book of Izumo by Liliya and then [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]]. And that's just the ones that were originally not ever meant to be part of the main cast. There are also a couple of temporary main cast members that became permanent--Zargon and Oroko. Actually, make that four--if memory serves me correctly, [[spoiler:Armi and Pallo]] were originally supposed to leave at the end of the Labyrinth of Hoshimaru, but didn't. Not that being separate from the rest of the group necessarily keeps you out of the main cast...
** Don't forget a revived, powered-up version of [[spoiler:Kryftig]] appearing in the Citadel of Pain. That was truly something that the author did not see coming until it happened.
* AuthorAppeal
* AuthorAvatar: CC and CCX. [[spoiler:Starts to get really confusing when characters from the Chaos Chronicles start arriving, since CC existed in that continuity and is, well, kind of ''related'' to some of those characters.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Used most frequently with the opponents during the Polaria Tower arc, such as Amaz Baltech Yehuda III½ and Parissa Gembolt Kukumunga.
* BackFromTheDead: In all fairness, [[spoiler:Izumo's return from "the dead" was planned all along; that's why he "died" the way he did.]] More conventionally, Rievan makes a cameo from the other side in the NoFourthWall chapter. The plot of the prequel was also reviving legendary heroes from a thousand years ago.
* BadassNormal: Many in the early going, where S'sessek starts out with no Sight at all and Izumo has so little as to be behind almost everyone. ''Much'' later, we have the essentially normal (compared to the other ridiculously powerful characters) Carlos Drzekrzykiewicz, and the completely normal [[spoiler:Tarosu Mushusiri]].
* BagOfHolding: See the entry below on "UnlimitedWardrobe".
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* BigDamnHeroes: Izumo, arriving just in the nick of time against the necromancer.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A few, notably the one where the fourth wall started malfunctioning and [[spoiler:the ''Starship Entrancefee'' sequence]].
* [[spoiler:BiTheWay: Lexi]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The result of being hit by one of the Shadow Executive's "552-Hour Drone" attacks.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The first time this happens, the fourth wall breaks down entirely, creating a chapter of gratuitous weirdness. Later happens with characters receiving nothing more than a scolding from the {{Author Avatar}}s.
** In fact, a rule was created: The younger a character is, the more likely they are to break the fourth wall.
*** And [[spoiler:Rrorry]]'s status as [[TheWesley Author Favorite]] has been pretty much confirmed by the fact that [[spoiler:she doesn't even get scolded by the author when she breaks the fourth wall, although the others don't always know what she's talking about.]]
*** Spirit sort of has the ability to break the fourth wall without consequences, because he's traveled to multiple worlds and can therefore make references to our world that the other characters don't understand.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied between minor characters. [[supersecretspoiler:Also, Rrorry's "moment" with Kisalia in the Temple of Calcin.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Izumo. Implied to be some sort of [[DesignatedHero legendary hero]], he nonetheless has [[KleptomaniacHero a kleptomaniac streak]] [[RunningGag and an odd]] [[DieChairDie antipathy]] [[ThereWasADoor towards doors.]]
* ButtMonkey: Usually Rin'ku.
* CanonDisContinuity: Why the hell do you think the first, ahem, "seventy-eight" chapters are continually referred to here as "the prequel"? Because they suck.
* CanonSue: Early on in the story, both Alania and Rin'ku are somewhat Sue-ish, although Alania (probably best described as TsundereSue, while Rin'ku is [[PuritySue Purity Stu]]) is clueless to her beauty and is massively insecure about her body at the time. Over time, this aspect of their character has been written out, probably coinciding with their inevitable nearing of becoming an OfficialCouple, and in a bizarre effect, the number of guys falling for Alania ends up being inversely proportional to her level of satisfaction with her self-image.
* [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]]: Julio, Marina, even Alania to some degree. Back in the prequel, Enrique probably got this the worst, being the only first-season main character to never get a legendary weapon. Inverted increasingly often, as characters who start off weak often become the strongest.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Eventually added in once Hakar introduced more modern technology. Generally played straight, although the fact that they were able to make a call from northeastern Mashishai when that continent hadn't really caught up to Hakar yet was not dealt with ([[HandWave We think it has something to do with the way they can amplify psychic messages to travel long distances]]), and the fact that the characters' cell phones work in Grjher--and that a Chaotican radio station can be heard in said same world--is acknowledged as being extremely weird. [[ShrugOfGod Maybe Grjher is just naturally attuned to electronic signals.]] (The cell phones don't work in Chaotica, although with all of the chaotic energy swirling around there, that was to be expected.)
* CastHerd: Becomes necessary eventually, as more characters get added on--especially throughout the early parts of the Book of Izumo. Including the groups for recurring characters not considered part of the main cast (some of whom get more exposure due to being in the same group as [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]], who ''are'' considered part of the main cast as of Chapter 237.
* CatGirl: And Cat Boy, too, thanks to the fraternal twin nekojin Pallo and Armi.
* CelibateHero: Of the "powers depend on it" variant, still one of the ''most'' hated parts of the writing in the Book of Kurolanime.
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: A few still latent. Also, if an entire chapter appears to be apparent fluff, something important will probably happen. Examples: the first generation's night in Mettttt; the first baseball game.
* [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; neither Jakov nor anyone else on the ''Entrancefee'' is shown to be carrying a gun.]]
* TheChick: Sekiya. However, Alania seems to have undergone {{Chickification}} over time, while Sekiya has slowly [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Level In Badass.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Arden seems to be the main offender.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Also Sekiya, at times.
** And Armi, despite the fact that Spirit quite clearly is ''not'' interested.
* ClothingDamage: Happens quite a bit. Sweja calls Arden out for rooting for this in the DesignatedGirlFight in the Polaria Tower arc.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Marishkali arc: Four ''half''-demons is a battle that has to be run away from the first time and then takes over a full chapter once they return stronger. Hundreds and hundreds of full-blooded demons is {{Filler}} that is completed in a mere [[strike:three chapters]] few brief notes from the author explaining that [[TakeThat there would be about three straight episodes of pure action coming up if this were]] [[DragonballZ an anime]], but because it's just written, the next few chapters will not be seen.
* ContinuityCameo: Many characters from the prequel briefly reappear in the main story.
* ContinuityNod: Often attacks will recur, and upgraded versions of formerly appearing spells can often be found. In fact, late in the Book Of Alania, Rin'ku uses an upgraded version of Kalcifore, a spell which took practically all of his energy to use in the beginning of the Book of Alania. Also, after the Citadel of Pain battle ends with [[spoiler:Izumo being taken to another dimension ''again'']], Astra comments that [[spoiler:he [[DudeNotFunny "certainly has a knack for doing that".]]]]
** Another example appears in Chapter 210, after Elemin and Ramunteko (wind dragons) combine with Renduko (water dragon) on a wind/water paraelemental attack called Tsunami Cyclone. Spirit asks if they'd practiced that move before, and when Renduko says she "just kind of got the insight", the wind dragon twins say that they gave that to her, having seen Erebus and Quahar use it before. Spirit's response, "I've seen it, too...but not as a combo..." is a reference to a character from the Chaos Chronicles with both wind- and water-based powers.
** Also ''spawned'' what would become a ContinuityNod in the author's later fiction: After Chapter 9, the infamous "pancake chapter", the author made note to try to get a pancake reference into chapter 9 of ''Conn. A&M'', only to discover that one was already present in chapter 8. A later fanfic would [[LampshadeHanging point out the ambiguity of whether the obligatory mention was supposed to be in the eighth or the ninth, seeing as how]] ''Dream'' '''[[RunningGag has no Chapter 2,]]''' [[LampshadeHanging and deciding to go with its own chapter 8 because the fanfic was continuing the events of a one-shot and could conceivably seen as the ninth chapter as well.]] "Pancakes in Chapter 8. 5+/- 0.5" has replaced "Chapter 6 successfully cleared" as the leading Lampshade in the author's fanfiction.
* CoolGate: Many times, starting with the gate to Moonshine Valley, continuing to the door between Risu and the Training Ground of Raruk, and now some yet-unexplained "gates" that the heroes have to unlock, presumably for [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential more power.]]
* CostumeInertia: Poor Alania...
* {{Crossover}}: With "The Chaos Chronicles", basically a representation of many online roleplaying arcs that the author engaged in with a different set of characters. Apparently, ''Dream'' is set ''considerably later.''
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome
** Izumo, too many times to list here.
** Lani immediately after [[spoiler:Izumo is sent to another dimension.]]
** Arguably, Alania in Coreng, although this is also a Crowning Moment of {{Squick}}.
** [[ContinuityNod Spirit Tsunami XVIII]], almost as soon as he arrives. I told you it was set ''considerably later'' than the Chaos Chronicles?the name I've taken as my troper name and identity on most sites comes from the original, not from the character in this story.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Surprisingly common.
** Deirya and Souya's sisterly bonding in Chapter 48.
** Alania suggesting a "date" with Rin'ku after her near-death experience in Chapter 157.
** But most of all, Alania's conversation with Kisa in Chapter 200.
-->'''Kisalia:''' With all of these couples falling apart right before your eyes, how can you still be so confident in {{the power of love}}?
-->'''Alania:''' ...I have Rin'ku. That's all I need.
*** Note that Kisa was not officially part of the {{Nakama}} at the time, and that this was the first time Alania had admitted her feelings for Rin'ku to anyone else (besides Rin'ku himself).
* DeadLittleSister: Cristal Farestorr. Remember, however, that just about everyone in this story can see spirits.
* DemotedToExtra: With the CastHerd assembled here, it was bound to happen. The spirits are subject to this most often, but after [[spoiler:Piru]] debuts, there are about ninety pages before any of the dragons have another line other than Balakar translating [[TheUnintelligible the new addition]]'s speech. Some of the more mundane characters also get forgotten, especially in battle scenes.
* DoorStopper: As of May 19, 2009, it stands at 658 pages. And there's still plenty more to write. The Book of Kurolanime only accounts for the first 145, so the story proper (that is, the Books of Alania and Izumo only) is also already long enough to qualify, at 513 pages. Pity the poor artist tasked with turning this into a manga. (Okay, okay, this is just a rough draft, and it will get pared down before being submitted for illustration...)
* DumbIsGood: Dehar.
* EmotionlessGirl: Tillli, usually. Does develop a crush at one point, and starts getting ''very'' emotional after the group returns from [[spoiler:Grjher.]] It's not CharacterDerailment, though. No, really. She's just [[spoiler:[[VerySpecialEpisode experiencing mood swings due to the onset of puberty, specifically her first period.]]]]
* EnfanteTerrible: Korrig.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: At least, that's what I'm ''hoping'' [[spoiler:Rrorry]] will become; otherwise, we'll end up with a [[TheWesley Wesley]]. [[SpiriTsunami I,]] the author, have absolutely fallen in love with this character that was originally meant to be minor, and that could have some interesting implications. From the prequel, Souya might qualify. Lina, too.
* EpilepticTrees: Just what ''is'' [[spoiler:Piru]], anyway?
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Alania and Rin'ku.
* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: Averted when the bears turn out to be sentient. This is because [[AuthorAppeal the author just thinks bears are]] [[RuleOfCool really, really awesome.]]
* {{Expy}}: The characters descended from characters in the prequel, obviously, but also Julio and even Marina to a degree. Later, we have [[spoiler:Lexi]], a more obvious Alania {{Expy}}.
* FaceHeelTurn: Albeit a pretty lame one, as Subberyl makes her FaceHeelTurn in the same chapter she's introduced.[[supersecretspoiler: Of course, there ''is'' one other one...]]
* {{Fanservice}}
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: A few places in [[spoiler:Kudiai]] the main world in which ''Dream'' takes place have real-life equivalents. The Ankes Mountains are, of course, an extremely thinly veiled fictionalization of South America's Andes Mountains, and the culture seems like it might be Native American (or not.) Not as much so as the ursapis culture, however, which seems to work in animal totems (makes sense, as they ''are'' animals), and just fits in as a generic Arctic Circle location. Western Mashishai, on the other hand, is a pastiche of the western part of the United States ([[VivaLasVegas Kitar]] ''[[{{Anvilicious}} is]]'' [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]], while [[HollywoodCalifornia Sanlos is, like its name says, a kind of mash-up of San Francisco and Los Angeles]]). America as a whole, however, is parodied with [[{{Eagleland}} Happisault]], right down to the number of states in the union. The "small independent states" that sit somewhere west of southern Terofan are, in fact, [[{{Qurac}} the Middle East]] (don't worry, aside from a brief mention of the fact that Kabal and Kabar were at war recently, there's really very little said about them). The third continent, Hakachicayokiyoki, is Africa, although all this really amounts to is a lot of desert and whites being a minority there.
* FauxDeath: When [[spoiler:Izumo is taken into another dimension]], everyone assumes he's dead, fueling [[spoiler:Kurolanime's]] BerserkButton moment, but he turns out not to be. [[spoiler:Richu]] subverts this somewhat in the climactic battle atop the Citadel of Pain, responding to taking a wound that he knows ''will'' be fatal by turning a petrification spell on himself, preserving his body to be healed after the battle. This apparent HeroicSacrifice also finally wins over [[spoiler:Daniela's]] heart, although it turned out she was just playing hard to get all along.
* FetishFuel: Turns into NightmareFuel rather quickly. Used to stop a villain.
** Could also be considered FetishRetardant
** [[spoiler: Later, Rrorry takes it UpToEleven. ''With [[BrotherSisterIncest Kisa]]''.]]
* [[spoiler:FilleFatale: Rrorry. Not only has a man nearly twice her age absolutely whipped, but also at one point starts [[RapeIsLove trying to]] [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "loosen up"]] ''[[LesYay her]] [[ShipTease older]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]'' [[ForYourOwnGood "for her own good"]].]] This is, of course, ''blatant'' {{Fanservice}}, something that she [[LampshadeHanging points out]] before she does it.
* {{Flanderization}}: Izumo's gradual progression from BunnyEarsLawyer to IdiotHero. Eventually reversed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Remember, no matter how seemingly irrelevant a chapter is, it shouldn't be skipped. The best example was in the [[strike:[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised]]]] [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Blatantly Admitted Pilot]], when the [[AuthorAvatar DM]] tells Billy that he'll "get his chance". Sure enough, a few chapters later, one of the characters that Billy was playing gets to play LoveMartyr without actually dying.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: One of the problems with being a LongRunner.
* ForYourOwnGood: The reason Alania has to wear the Lunar Leather Armor at the beginning, and [[spoiler:Rrorry's justification for servicing Kisalia against her will]].
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Tillli reminds Rrorry that the truth is often something people don't want to hear. [[supersecretspoiler:Of course, this is nothing compared to some of the things that come out of Rrorry's mouth once Tarosu is introduced...]]
* [[spoiler:FunWithAcronyms: Also a StevenUlyssesPerhero.]]
* GagBoobs: Misra was highly insecure about her flat chest when she first arrived. She stopped stuffing when she started growing--which means [[WordOfGod she'll never again reach the size she appeared to be at when she arrived.]]
* GameOfNerds: The Hakar Pro Baseball League. 'Nuf sed.
* GenderBlenderName: A minor character in the prequel is named Alisan. He prefers to go by "Al". Interestingly enough, Rin'ku often applies this same diminutive to Alania.
* GenderFlip: As mentioned below, traditional gender roles seem to be reversed in Alania and Rin'ku's relationship. In a variation, [[spoiler:traditional ''age'' roles are reversed in the Rrorry/Tarosu pairing.]]
* TheGlomp: Common in the Book of Kurolanime, with both Lani and Shurilii, but turns up again eventually with Chisara.
* GoingDownWithTheShip: The foundation of [[spoiler:Richu/Daniela]], although that's more of a HeroicSacrifice.
* GoGoEnslavement: Subverted: not actually a villain forcing the captured hero into an embarrassing outfit, but the heroes' home village telling our young hero that she needs to wear the [[BreastPlate Lunar Leather Armor]] for her own protection. Ceases to be an issue after they go to Hakar. Later, however, she doesn't mind so much.
* [[spoiler:GratuitousEnglish: Parodied.]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Japanese {{honorifics}} seem to come and go at random, and [[spoiler:Tarosu]] sweet-talks his [[spoiler:underage]] lover [[spoiler:Aurrorra]] in every language possible. Also, draconic naming conventions are based on Jewish naming conventions (yes, the author ''is'' Jewish), and there are a few characters whose names have a Spanish "ll" or "rr" even though the author states that he cannot actually ''pronounce'' the latter.
* GravityScrew: The Training Ground of Raruk has two chambers that are like this--one that's a reference to Escher's "Relativity", and one that just does the more traditional shifting gravity.
* GrowingTheBeard: The TimeSkip
* HeelFaceTurn: Rakuchaku, and to a lesser extent, Rastafar Heteri. Also, Rose, although the Immortals used to be good and something changed them.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Alania, obviously.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: Book of Kurolanime; followed, as per a prophecy that his lineage ''would'' continue, with SomeoneToRememberHimBy. Of course, [[FauxDeath seeing as how Izumo's name is on the]] ''third'' book...
* TheHero
* HoYay
* HollywoodHomely: Acknowledged as such during the PoolScene:
-->'''Sekiya:''' I look horrible. Maybe if I went off on my own I'd look good, but surrounded by all of you, I look horrible.
* {{Homage}}
* HotAmazon: After Kisalia totally dominates in a battle with some monsters, Arden and Rin'ku have a conversation about what a huge turn-on it is to know your girlfriend could kick your ass.
* HotBlooded: So many of the male characters in a figurative sense; Alania (and presumably Izumo as well) in a literal sense.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The Kingdom of [[TheBeatles Beatlemania]]. Also, to a lesser extent, Polaria Tower.
* HyperspaceMallet: One of this story's favorite tropes. Occasionally when no one is around to wield the hammer, something else will be substituted. Often {{lampshaded}}. Only appears when something offensive is said, but usually isn't wielded by the offended one, and can even be wielded against a female. In an even bigger subversion, which is of course lampshaded, ''Rin'ku'' eventually gets to be on the handle end of the hammer.
* IdiotHero: Izumo, although this sometimes appears to be ObfuscatingStupidity. Dehar serves as a sort of comic relief in later chapters as a complete moron who is often insulted by other characters without realizing it.
* IDoNotOwn: Parodied at the start of chapter 1, because it's ''not'' a fanfiction. Used straight a few times later on--the first one that comes to mind is the introduction of the HPBL.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Another reminder that {{SpiriTsunami}} wrote this page to promote his own work.
* IntelligentGerbil: The ursapes are human-like polar bears. Not actually "aliens" like the trope suggests, but definitely far too ursine to be considered PettingZooPeople.
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: As the names get more and more bizarre, dictionary-style pronunciation guides begin to appear where the author deems necessary. One notable enough to be mentioned right here, though, is Tillli. As stated above, the "ll" and "rr" sounds ''do'' appear in this story, and that name was constructed to play with that. The first l is an normal l, the second and third are a "ll". Til-yee. (Yes, that's correct; it uses a Spanish "ll", but the first i is pronounced like an English short i. [[BellisariosMaxim Just go with it.]])
* [[spoiler:ItWasWithYouAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler:KillerRabbit: Piru.]]
* KleptomaniacHero: Izumo
* TheLadette: Misra
* LampshadeHanging
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Each HPBL team corresponds directly to an MLB team, and the entire Book of Izumo manages to skirt around the fact that the original members of the Crystallius and Phoenicis lines in the Chaos Chronicles were ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Chao]]''. And then there's the Mantle of [[DigimonTamers Calu]]...
* LeeroyJenkins: Dehar Karaoke. Amazingly, it works.
-->'''Dehar:''' Hey, guys, what did I tell you! Standing and fighting is always the way to win your battles!
-->[[spoiler:'''Rakuchaku:''']] *sweatdrops* What he means is that sometimes if you hang back and try to construct an attack plan, you'll miss a golden opportunity to find an easier solution.
-->'''Dehar:''' Yeah, what he said.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: If a character survives for one entire season, they're probably not going to be dying, period. [[supersecretspoiler:Or maybe not...]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Tillli.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The cast list is kept in a separate document, with every named character listed. The list is eight pages long.
* {{Lolicon}}: Inverted, subverted, and every type of "-verted" imaginable, as [[spoiler:Tarosu]] is a gentleman [[spoiler:and has the self-control not to act on his forbidden desires]], while [[spoiler:Rrorry is [[LoveableSexManiac crudely lustful]] and has him pretty much whipped.]] Also, while this defies the FetishFuel aspects of {{Lolicon}}, it should be noted that Erebus is twice Quahar's age, something that Eljin points out. Like with [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]], it was the younger female, Quahar, that initiated the relationship. I say that the FetishFuel aspect is (probably?) defied because these are [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the dragons]] we're talking about here.
* LoveableRogue: Doorknob. That is all.
* LoveableSexManiac: [[spoiler:Rrorry. Hoo boy, Rrorry.]] A lot of other characters, such as Misra (and in the prequel, Lina) ''seem'' to fit the bill, but really aren't. Then there are the ones that are only this in another character's mind (Marina thinks of her brother like this, but he's more of a ChivalrousPervert, and Alania initially sees Rin'ku this way, but while he does end up unintentionally charming a few of the other female characters when he first meets them, he only has eyes for Alania.) Shurilii may have qualified in life, but she's been a spirit for the entire story so we'll never quite know.
* LoveMartyr: Done [[FauxDeath without death]] with [[spoiler:Richu]].
* LoveTriangle: Happens often early on, back when a lot of characters were exhibiting MarySue traits. Still happening notably with the Kisalia/Arden/Sekiya triangle. Feel free to make all of the guesses you want as to which girl Arden ends up with, because even I don't know the answer just yet, and I'm the author.
** A different type of LoveTriangle exists with [[spoiler:Alania, Rin'ku, and Lexi]]. Different because [[spoiler:the odd gender isn't the one being competed for]], and because [[spoiler:it was set up after the OneTruePairing finally got together]], and also because [[spoiler:it's a ''brother and sister'' competing for a childhood friend's affections. Not two brothers, not two sisters--a brother and sister]].
* MacGuffin: The Regalia of Izumo in the prequel, the Trident of Juri, Mantle of Calu, and Shield of Karashti in the Book of Alania, and, well?not even spoiler tags would get me to reveal the {{Mac Guffin}}s of the Book of Izumo.
* MagikarpPower: [[spoiler:Kisalia, Aurrora.]] Lani and Zargon both did this in the Book of Kurolanime.
* {{Magitek}}: While much modern technology has joined the world (it's a little unclear as to whether or not the Internet exists, but the level of technology of the cell phones suggests that it's likely), airplanes do not yet exist; all air travel is done using [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons and other magical creatures.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Alania, for well over 100 chapters. Granted, everyone seemed to think that Alania was just lying to herself about not returning Rin'ku's feelings, but she ''did'' give off mixed signals.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Urokais.
* [[spoiler:MayDecemberRomance: More like May-September, although it ''seems'' like a lot because the characters in question are 20 and 12.]]
* TheMaze: First the Training Ground of Raruk, then the Labyrinth of Hoshimaru.
* MeetCute: Kurolanime and Izumo's first meeting, obviously, along with multiple occasions involving Sekiya.
* {{Meta Guy}}s: The {{Author Avatar}}s.
* ModestyTowel: Played straight with Alania, but inevitably gets knocked off whenever Sekiya is wearing one. Which, considering her love of taking long relaxing baths, happens often. (Well, actually, the trope only comes up twice, but the baths come up a lot.)
* MsFanservice: Sekiya actually seems to be the subject of more FanService than anyone else, which may be ''because'' she's got the most morals of any of the girls. [[spoiler:Aurrorra seems to be taking on this role, though her fanservice is more based on suggestive dialogue and actions that seem completely ridiculous coming from such a cute kid.]]
* {{Nakama}}
* {{Narm}}: The end of the Shadow Executive arc.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Another off-hand mention, regarding the name of a stadium.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: A lot of characters think Izumo is a case of this, but he's never really all that stupid, just a bit rash. [[{{Homage}} Don Gillante]], on the other hand, uses this trope frequently.
* OfficialCouple: Any couple from the prequel, Alania and Rin'ku, Liliya and Marmoni, Kosuke and Shunuiko, [[spoiler:Rrorry and Tarosu]].
* OldShame: See above where CanonDisContinuity is listed. Remember that the author was fourteen when he first started writing this. So, yeah, it's still better than the fanfictions that have never been published, but compared to the more recent material?it sucks. It will get rewritten eventually, though...maybe...
* OlderThanTheyLook: All ta'agarat, because they age slower. Izumo, because [[spoiler:he barely aged at all during the fifteen years he was trapped in the other dimension.]] Kisalia Karin, too, because she's descended from elves, or maybe just because [[{{Lolicon}} it was convenient to the author.]]
* [[spoiler:OneeSama: Rin'ku's sister Lexi sees Alania in this light.]]
* [[spoiler:OneHeadTaller: ''Massively'' inverted. Spirit even refers to Rrorry as being the "{{seme}}" in her relationship with Tarosu, leading Collerius to ask if that term was even applicable to a het relationship.]]
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Almost always either invoked (Alania dalls into the "only child of two only children" sub-category, and Enrique and Lina in the prequel and Julio, Tillli, Misra, Spirit and Collerius in the story proper are also only children) or averted ''hard'' (Sekiya is the eighth of twelve--with her two oldest sisters being major characters in the prequel, around the same age as her traveling companions' ''parents''--and Rin'ku is the oldest of...well, the exact number has never been stated, but it's implied that Lina and S'sessek have been reproducing even more prolifically than Sekiya's parents did, so figure it's at least eight.) Later, some middle ground is reached (three Farestorrs; two Karins.)
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Eastern-style dragons are very human in their modes of thinking. Supposedly, they're better at humans at keeping their emotions under control, but this [[CharacterDerailment isn't exactly the case]]. It's actually ''noted'' as a supposed exception when [[ThoseTwoGuys Erebus's brothers Ramunteko and Elemin]] show up and are discovered to be real goofballs, but they're actually nothing compared to [[{{Wangst}} Oroko.]]
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Yes, they really are...
* OverlyLongName: A few times, especially in the Polaria Tower arc. Played with at one point where the heroes pretend to forget the name of one of these villainous characters to make him reintroduce himself, creating an opening to attack.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: A lot of characters end up getting this, but Julio probably got the rawest deal.
* PatchworkMap: Mashishai's four lands are each determined by a feature: Desert in the east, forest to the south, mountains to the north, and...well, the water temple is in the west, which is a mostly open area. That this resembles a certain video game world is pure coincidence...I think...
* {{Patronymic}}: Dragons don't really have traditional surnames, but they do have patronymics. In a further example of how old-world they are, females change to a spousal name after mating, although Quahar refuses to do this.
* {{Pettanko}}: The obvious ones, due to [[{{Lolicon}} age]], are [[LittleMissSnarker Tillli]] and [[spoiler:[[FilleFatale Rrorry]]]]. At the start of the story, Misra was also like this, and was very insecure about it--to the point that now that she's maturing for real, she actually appears ''smaller'' than she [[GagBoobs did before.]]
* PlatonicLifePartners: Julio and Misra, although they are mistaken for a couple at one point.
* [[spoiler:PokemonSpeak: Piru]]
* PoolScene: [[spoiler:Meta Meeting had actually been looking for a way to shoehorn one of these in without it screwing up the plot when it actually happened.]]
* [[strike:[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised]]]] ''[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Blatantly]]'' [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Admitted Pilot]]: Chapter 189. Due to delay between writing and posting, plans for this SpinOff had been abandoned (also, the author thought better of the original plan), but now it appears that it may get picked up after the Book of Izumo is finished. Or perhaps after the Book of Kurolanime is cured of its suckiness, if that ends up being the next project.
* PowerTrio: Any of a number of groups of characters can be put into this mold. Ironically, Collerius serves as both a superego (to ego Izumo and id Spirit) and as an id (to superego Chisara and ego Zychra.) Other specific groups that fit, listed in id/ego/superego order:
** The original three main characters: Izumo/Lani/Masa
** The three most prominent spirits: Shurilii/Ricco/Masa
** The Jumovi siblings: Reala/Tomai/Richu
** The Book of Izumo's Oichi trio: [[spoiler:Lexi]]/Alania/Rin'ku
Most other potential power trios end up breaking down due to having four characters. The Book of Alania's original three of Alania, Sekiya and Rin'ku don't fit due to none of them really fitting the role of "id".
* {{Prequel}}: Up to Chapter 78.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Eljin in the prequel.
* PunctuationShaker: Everything in Moonshine Valley. Apostrophes appear every third letter. When a name has one letter less than a multiple of three, there will be one grouping of two letters; when it's one ''more'' than a multiple of three, it will sometimes have two groupings of two and sometimes have one grouping of four. [[spoiler:Well, ''usually''...there ''are'' exceptions. But no completely apostrophe-free names.]]
* RandomEncounters: Mandated by the plot.
* RandomEventsPlot: The NoFourthWall chapter is like this, and then there's Chaotica, a Random Events ''World''.
* [[spoiler:RapeAsComedy: Rrorry's Crowning Moment of Fanservice.]]
* RebelliousPrincess: Armi
* {{Recurring Character}}s
* RedOniBlueOni: Spirit (red) and Collerius (blue).
* TheReveal: Details are often revealed slowly. Even ones that should've been simple.
* [[spoiler:RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Piru is meant to be a cute {{Mascot}} character, but he kind of subverts it a bit by being all scaly. Think [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Mokona]] with draconic characteristics.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The entire "Rocket" sub-arc, based on the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal.
** {{Sssssnaketalk}}: Rocket speaks entirely in italics and with an ellipsis after every word.
* RunningGag: Multiple:
** There is no Chapter 2!
** Izumo's inability to properly use a door.
** Alania's unwillingness to confess her love for Rin'ku even though ''everyone knows about it''.
* {{Satan}}: Yes, he's in here. The whole "Forces of Hell" arc is yet another reason why the Book of Kurolanime needs to be struck from the canon. I'm pretty sure that the Book of Alania can be seen as a stand-alone, or rather, part one of a duology with the Book of Izumo.
* ScheduleSlip: Mandated by real-world technical difficulties. Namely, the author's laptop having to go in for repairs. Four Tuesdays were missed, although with new ideas already forming, this might actually give some extra time for carrying on before the backlog runs out.
** And now other technical difficulties (and a bit of spaciness, and illness) have caused it again.
* SecondHandStorytelling: The events of the [[RunningGag non-existent Chapter 2]] are mostly implied by Chapter 26.
* SelfInsertFic: All characters are meant to have some aspect of the author, but Rin'ku is the most obvious self-insertion.
** This is also a minor form of ThisLoserIsYou, as he is the one character who is merely "cute" in a cast of [[BeautyEqualsGoodness absolutely gorgeous people.]]
* ShipTease: See the entry on "LoveTriangle". ''One'' of those two is Arden's {{OTP}}, but trying to figure out which one it is...well, that may or may not have even been decided.
* {{Shorttank}}: Quahar the water dragon acts this way.
* ShoutOut: The slurring of S'sessek's name in one of the drunken scenes in the prequel was specifically constructed to evoke a certain FanNickname, although that's not the lone justification for its [[InuYasha presence]] on the above list of inspirations.
** One of the legendary magical weapons is called "[[{{Discworld}} Octaris]]".
* ShowerOfAwkward
* SickeninglySweethearts: Kurolanime and Izumo.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Rin'ku for Alania. Seriously, he had plenty of chances to get with one of the other girls (and, okay, ''did'' get with Misra at one point), but he continued to remain ridiculously devoted to Alania.
* SkySurfing: Arden
* SlapSlapKiss: Alania and Rin'ku. In a more familial sense [[spoiler:(probably), Kisalia and Aurrorra.]]
* SpeechImpediment: Supposedly the founder of a village in eastern Mashishai had one of these, because otherwise there's no good reason for the village to be called Mettttt (you have to stutter it to pronounce it correctly.)
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Colcami/Corcami. Not a deliberate [[InvokedTrope invocation]] as you might think considering the attempts to be [[{{Animesque}} Mangaesque]], but this ''is'' the reason it was lampshaded rather than corrected when the inconsistency was spotted.
* SpinOffspring: And thank the Lord for that, eh?
* {{Squick}}: The ending to the Super-CEO saga. Possibly even NightmareFuel. Definitely a WallBanger. [[spoiler:Also, Hoshimaru's attacks. And in story, the nameless grunts from the same saga.]]
* SquishyWizard: While many of the magic-users are also fighters of some sort, Rin'ku, Sekiya, Tillli, and all three of the Jumovi siblings fit this trope. Zargon, Senna, Lina, and S'sessek served this purpose in the prequel.
* StaffChick: Lina in the prequel and Rin'ku in the main story. S'sessek in the prequel was also a staff-user, but doesn't fit the "chick" portion of the description. Biologically, neither does Rin'ku, but there's a lot of role reversal in this story.
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Misra's outwardly flirty personality is really just a cover for a past relationship that went bad.]]
* TechnicolorEyes: Another bit of AuthorAppeal (see: [[SpiriTsunami my page]]). To keep the self-insertion burden from being solely on Rin'ku, these eyes belong to Sekiya.
** Also, Tillli and Dark Rose.
** EyesOfGold: Spirit, though as an avatar of pure chaos, this is somewhat understandable. Remember though, he's [[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic]] ''[[ChaoticNeutral Neutral]]'', not ChaoticEvil.
** RedEyesTakeWarning: Sort of. Jumango Heteri has flame-orange eyes, and turns out to have been the villain all along. [[spoiler:His older brother]] also has these eyes, and [[spoiler:makes for a sinister reveal cliffhanger when he removes his SinisterShades]], but then subverts this by actually taking the time to ask questions before attacking and isn't really such a bad guy after all.
* TechnologyLevels: The prequel and the beginning of the main story are set in a typical fantasy setting reminiscent of classic ''DungeonsAndDragons''. However, the other continent in the world [[spoiler:Kudiai]], Hakar, is considerably more technologically advanced. Contact between the two continents is only just beginning when they leave; however, globalization is all but complete when they return a few months later.
* ThemeNaming: The Urokai family has twelve children, all female and all with names ending in "-ya". Also, surnames for characters from the Ankes Mountains region all take the form of one of the six elements (earth, fire, wind, water, light, dark) followed by an animal, and names in Moonshine Valley will have an apostrophe every three letters or so.
** ThemeTwinNaming: Kit and Kat, in the Spinoff Pilot.
*** Pallo and Armi, too. See below.
* TheMetricSystemIsHereToStay: Both sets of units were initially used, until this was noticed; at this point, it was standardized: lengths/distances would be measured in meters; everything else would be in American. Pallo and Armi come from a different world, however, where the units are different.
* ThereWasADoor: RunningGag with Izumo.
* TimeSkip: Right before the Book of Alania begins.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential
* TimeyWimeyBall: Time doesn't flow the same way in Chaotica as it does in [[spoiler:Kudiai]]?''or in any particular direction at all.''
* TokenMinority Continent
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Alania and Sekiya. Later, the focus of the female buddy relationship shifts to [[spoiler:Kisalia]] and Sekiya. Or maybe Misra and Sekiya, although Misra's a bit girlier than the other tomboys mention here. (Misra and Reala works, too.) Are you seeing a pattern here?
* {{Tomorrowland}}: Polaria Tower is mostly filled with robotic enemies, although remnants of an ancient civilization are found on higher floors.
* [[spoiler:TooFastToStop: Collerius, after he gains flight capabilities. Chisara and Zychra seem to have adapted more quickly and know when to start decelerating.]]
* ToyShip: Tillli and Tomai.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Dragons can only speak in Draconic due to the construction of their vocal cords, but can easily communicate with others through telepathic speech, which apparently is in a universal language. However, Balakar is the only one that can understand [[spoiler:Piru]].
* TrouserSpace: Alania in Chapter 140.
* {{Tsundere}}: Alania. Very much so. Not quite so much in recent chapters, though. (read: since she and Rin'ku ''officially'' became a couple in-story.)
** And now Sekiya seems to be picking up this mantle. It appears that initially, Sekiya and Alania were very similar in personality, with Alania seemingly leaning towards being the {{Tsundere}} ActionGirl and Sekiya the YamatoNadeshiko [[TheChick Chick]], and they actually ended up going in the opposite directions.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: The perception by this author was that it was thirteen, not twelve, that was the number, and so it is broken up into thirteen-episode "seasons", usually ending with some sort of cliffhanger.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: On and off. First occurs when the party splits up to search for the legendary artifacts, then again when [[spoiler:Izumo]] gets sent to Chaotica, and then a third time when [[spoiler:a BPlot occurs back at spring training (later to be at wherever the Red Rockers are playing)]]. Although that last one isn't typical to this trope because it's more like a [[ThreeLinesSomeWaiting C-plot]] in level of importance, except the plot isn't split so it's a B.
* TheUnintelligible: Not only can [[spoiler:Piru]] not say anything other than his own name, he's immune to the TranslatorMicrobes. However, being a sound-based creature, Balakar the sonic dragon can understand him and translates for the others when necessary.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Occasionally lampshaded. Eventually justified with a [[MacGuffin magical wardrobe that not only can hold a lot more than it should be able to, but can then, once closed, can fold up to be put in Alania's bag.]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum Which may or may not]] ''[[AppliedPhlebotinum also]]'' [[AppliedPhlebotinum be magical, since]] [[spoiler:[[{{Mon}} Piru]] disappears into it for two or three seasons after his initial introduction.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Foran Alphastar and Jessilux Umiankai. Also, Zychra Nikaba and Torton Rugalu
** But not Trick Windskunk. That actually ''is'' an ex.
* TheUnpronounceable: Carlos Drzekrzykiewicz's last name; the world of Grjher.
* TheUnReveal: Not really a reveal, since everyone both in story and out knows about it, but Alania confessing her true feelings for Rin'ku counts as this.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Citadel of Pain.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The one in which Cristal debuts [[spoiler:and we find out that Foran raped Marina when they were younger]]; the one in which Tillli's seeming CharacterDerailment is [[strike:{{Hand Wave}}d]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Rin'ku, obviously, although it takes awhile. Also, Chisara Sakurabi and Marmoni Rugalu.
* {{Wangst}}: Happens quite a bit, but oddly enough, Oroko ends up being the worst offender.
* WebOriginal: This would be the index that this page would be put on if it were going to be put on an index. As discussed above, however, now is not the time to do that.
* WhipItGood: [=LumosUmbra=].
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser: Clem]]
* [[spoiler:WifeHusbandry: The ''public'' face of Aurrorra and Tarosu's relationship. Because, you know, what they're ''really'' doing is [[strike:illegal]] of highly dubious legality and socially reprehensible.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Alania, a point that is occasionally lampshaded as she is meant to be the main hero.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: An especially strange example; the twin nekojin, Pallo and Armi, are largely anthropomorphizations of the author's two pet cats, [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Apollo and Artemis.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In her villainous form, Rose's hair was somehow simultaneously black and pale pink. Her true form has bright pink hair.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Evidently, Alania during the CanonSue period.
* [[spoiler:EroticEating: Used for a [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Double]]]] [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Triple]]]] [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Quadruple]]]] [[DoubleEntendre Triple-and-a-Half Entendre]] with--[[EnsembleDarkhorse who else?]]--Rrorry and Tarosu.]]
** [[spoiler:SmokingHotSex: The aforementioned "and-a-Half".]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: The Durbi CLCS game. Just...yeah.

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* AllMenArePerverts: The line is used at one point, but the trope itself is largely averted.

* IsntItSad: With the CastHerd assembled here, it was bound to happen. The spirits are subject to this most often, but after [[spoiler:Piru]] debuts, there are about ninety pages before any of the dragons have another line other than Balakar translating [[TheUnintelligible the new addition]]'s speech. Some of the more mundane characters also get forgotten, especially in battle scenes.

* [[spoiler:[[ChekovsGun Chekov's Gun]]: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; neither Jakov nor anyone else on the ''Entrancefee'' is shown to be carrying a gun.]]

* TheStraightWillAndGrace: Julio and Misra, although they are mistaken for a couple at one point.