History Literature / SaintessSummonsSkeletons

* NighInvulnerability: All dragon scales are very tough, but Thrayk's in particular is practically indestructible. Erredis predicts that even the System can't break it. Shaping one requires months of work with special techniques designed specifically for such an obdurate material. [[spoiler:How did she kill him and obtain it? "We have no scales on the inside, sweetie."]]

* TrainingFromHell: The Venerable Physique of the Primeval Void has some extraordinarily painful and dangerous training requirements. If it weren't for the fact that Sofia can afford to die repeatedly, it would also be remarkably tedious into the bargain.
--> Successful attempts should feel like being stabbed in the heart and will convert around one drop of blood to light.\\

* GameBreaker: InUniverse, the difficulty level in the first filter trial didn't really account for [[spoiler:Sofia becoming an Apostle of Sorrow, which allows her to narrowly defeat [[UnwinnableBossFight Orvod]] and then [[CurbStompBattle steamroll through]] the royal palace to kill her targets]]. Some time later, when Jennifer hears about it, she laughs so hard she falls off her chair at the thought of messing up the trial so much.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Once Sofia is wearing a [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]] with her ''very'' generous chest, [[spoiler:her sister Saria]] remarks that no one will notice what jewelry she's wearing, because "Your... charisma is overflowing." [[note]]The Charisma stat does influence physical appearance, resculpting the body to match the person's ideal, but Sofia was already generously endowed.[[/note]]

* BringIt: Nicet thinks it's madness for Sofia to fight [[spoiler:the horde of flying monsters at night in Sovuln]], but she welcomes the opportunity and is calm even as her foe rushes toward her.
--> '''Sofia:''' Come. I've been dreaming of doing this for years.

** The Book of Skeletons normally produces skeleton pages based on the bodies it eats, but Sofia is a little puzzled when it also eats a Primal Midenicite Ingot and gives her a page for summoning a very small horned humanoid creature. Sofia doesn't recognise it, it just looks to her like "some kind of miniature ogre," but it costs ''500000'' mana to summon, far more than her total pool size, suggesting that it must be something powerful when she eventually levels up enough to try it.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: The Lords of the Deep prefer that information about them is not spread around too widely. Powerful individuals are aware of them, and usually scared of them, but speaking their names will usually result in them eliminating the offender, sometimes including [[RetGone all traces that the speaker ever existed]]. [[spoiler:Zhǎng Lú' has a collection of midenicite tablets that explains the different planes of existence, including the Deep, albeit rather cryptically; when Sofia views them, she is unharmed because she has the Deep's blessing, but Aphenoreth still takes the relevant tablet away.]]

* HopeSpot: After two thousand years, [[spoiler:Zerei, apostle of Curse, is finally freed from her bindings, which will allow Curse to operate in the world again]]. Except that she then [[spoiler:dies due to incompatibility with Sofia's Scribe-only mode. Curse desperately tries to avoid it by resetting time, failing over and over again, until Sofia manages to call on the Deep to break the loop and Curse gets a time-out]].

** Aphenoreth also [[spoiler:saves Zerei's life, resolving Curse's millennia-long disappointment,]] when he turns up to fix causality.

** Sofia's own memory is censored after [[spoiler:she rescues Zerei, [Daughter of Curse], with Aphenoreth's intervention. Any time Sofia tries to think of Zerei's class, her mind goes blank after "Daughter of", and the class line in Zerei's status has been garbled to "Daughter of ̶̜̬̼̲̠͑̍̔̅ ̵̭̦̈́̋̔͒͠ ̷̘̠̲́͑ ̷̯͌̄͒ ̷̘̠̲́͑ ̶̨̓̓̈͊ ". Sofia can still think of the word "curses", but thinking of the Recessed known as Curse is impossible. She suspects that he/it was erased by Aphenoreth.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: Once Sofia is wearing a [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]] with her ''very'' generous chest, [[spoiler:her sister Saria]] remarks that no one will notice what jewelry she's wearing, because "Your... charisma is overflowing." [[note]]The Charisma stat does influence physical appearance, resculpting the body to match the person's ideal, but Sofia was already generously endowed.[[/note]

* IKnowYourTrueName: Saying or writing the name of a Lord of the Deep[[note]]Aphenoreth, Ormoncleth, Edrazaketh, and Yvraveteth[[/note]] doesn't grant any power over him, but it will get his attention. This usually ends badly for the speaker. However, because of Sofia's [Blessing of the Deep], she can talk about them freely without being harmed. [[spoiler:When she's trapped in a time loop created by one of the Recessed, she tries every possible four-syllable letter combination until she gets a reaction from "Edrazaketh."]]

* YouAreWhoYouEat: Sofia's third "hero" [[spoiler:is a book that can absorb dead bodies to create new pages, then gather mist, until it allows Sofia to remove a mist copy of the page and summon temporary skeletal minions based on the bodies it consumed. She can reuse pages, but she has to pay the mana cost every time, and gathering the mist can take a while.]]