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* TheTeam: The main mercenaries, of course. The book has plenty of fun drawing parallels between a mercenary band and a rock band.
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** After hearing a ballad from Kit recounting the CreationMyth surrounding the Holy Tetrea, he admits that a little embellishment separates a good story from a great one. [[spoiler: Turns out, that particular story had ''quite'' a few tweaks and changed names to hide the AwfulTruth behind it.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: That horn that vomits bees is at first seen as a joke by everyone. [[spoiler: Then it's used on Akatung the Dread.]]
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** A chimera is carted through Conthas during a parade. It shows up again at the Maxithon to fight Saga. At least, Clay assumes it's the same one.
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** Coinbarrow, a city located in the lower layers of Fivecourt, and where Saga ends up first while looking for Ganelon.
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* TheCity: Fivecourt, the largest human settlement in Grandual.
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* DisasterDominoes: The fight against the chimera in the Maxithon arena end up getting the pillars holding the arena bowl in the center of Fivecourt's river destroyed, one by one. The result is the place being ruined as it goes sailing down the river, destroying everything in its path before crashing into a harbor.
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* LayeredMetropolis: Fivecourt is one of the largest cities in all of Grandual, and it's shaped like a bowl divided into six layers. Predictably, the lower layer is for those in poverty and the criminal underworld.
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* ArcWords: "We were giants, once."
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Gabe outright states that this is the goal for the first half of the story.
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* YouExclamation: Lastleaf is NOT happy when he sees Gabe during the Council of Courts, as it was him who scarred him with ''Vellichor''.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: In Gradual there are skyships, large vessels once utilized by the Druin that many kingdoms have repurposed into a grand but no less perilous means of getting from one place to another. To drive the comparison to regular ships home, they have sails and are powered by a sort of {{Magitek}} called tidal engines.
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* AmazonBrigade: Several, including Lady Jain and her Silk Arrows, the Sisters in Steel, and the entire royalty/army of the matriarchal kingdom of Phantra.
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** It's established early on that no one really knows what an Infernal looks like, aside from that it's big, scary, and demonic. [[spoiler: Sure enough, an Infernal shows up at the final battle as the last thing Saga has to fight.]]
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* AerithAndBob: Most of the characters have names befitting a medieval setting. Then there's the living knocker named Steve.
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* WretchedHive: The city of Conthas, a place that exists without any kings or laws to govern it. Fittingly, it's a nasty place full of crooks and con-merchants that Clay compares to a person who's parents hired a prostitute as a babysitter for and never came back.
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* MermaidProblem: An in-universe cause for debate, as evidenced when Clay thinks back to when he and Saga helped some mermaids and discovered quite a lot more than they bargained for about it. Even then, it still confused him.
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* BrickJoke: There's countless mention of centaurs in the land Clay calls home. [[spoiler: At the very end, it's revealed that there was indeed a centaur, and his daughter killed it by accident.]]
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* BrickJoke: There's countless mention of centaurs in the land Clay calls home. [[spoiler: At the very end, it's revealed that there was indeed a centaur, and his daughter killed it by accident.]]
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* BrickJoke: There's countless mention of centaurs in the land Clay calls home. [[spoiler: At the very end, it's revealed that there was indeed a centaur, and his daughter killed it by accident.]]
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** Clay mentions at the beginning his band didn't kill Akatung the Dread, only leave him to die from his injuries. [[spoiler: He shows up again near the end, still alive and very bitter about that.]]
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* CombatClairvoyance: Druin like Lastleaf can use "the Prescience", which enables them to see seconds into the future, making them especially dangerous in a fight. The only way to really get around it is to not be the only one attacking.
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* BladeEnthusiast: Matrick uses two dangerous, [[ICAllItVera named]] knives. At first he appears to subvert the stereotype, but it turns out that when he gets going, he's a wickedly cruel fighter who can give Ganelon a run for his money.
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* KnifeNut: Matrick uses two dangerous, named knives. At first he appears to subvert the stereotype, but it turns out that when he gets going, he's a wickedly cruel fighter who can give Ganelon a run for his money.
