History Manga / FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd

* ProportionalAging: It's not clear how old elves can get, but Frieren is over a thousand and the only other elves we've seen are much older than that. While Frieren looks very young, it does seem like she's actually grown older during that timespan, but visually it's only a difference of a few years, meaning she looks like an early to mid adolescent instead of just a child like in the earliest flashback. This implies she's not fully grown and it could take another thousand years until she actually is.

* OurDwarvesAreDifferent: Dwarves in this series are indeed short, stocky, and (for the men) heavily-bearded. But they're currently varied in occupation and births, with very little being born in underground areas and most already settling in cities, holding jobs such as architecture, wine-making, warriors, etc. Only Fass is shown to be outwardly alcoholic (though he's never seen drunk), and most are quite mild-mannered individuals. They're also explained to be staunchly traditional, meaning most don't worship the Goddess or believe in an afterlife, instead venerating their ancestors and believing in the TheNothingAfterDeath. Eisen is shown to be the exception to this due to Heiter's influence.

** Magic of the Goddess: This magic is the most specialized of all in its users and requirements. Unless one is born with the innate ability to become a priest class, they will never be able to use more than weak forms of this magic. For those who do have the ability, though, they are granted strong resistance to curses, as well as the capacity to identify and figure out how to undo them. Using this magic also requires the user have in their possession a "holy scripture," writings likely originating from the Age of Mythology when the Goddess of Creation is said to have walked among humans. Goddess magic ''has'' some attack spells, but is most known for its healing abilities, being able to rapidly identify and undo the effects of deadly poisons and serious wounds alike. Another unique aspect of the origin of goddess magic is that it in a sense all already exists, every spell being recorded within the scriptures. However, all these spells are in code, and cannot be used until the code is deciphered. Priests often spend their lives doing just that, and a single spell can take decades or even centuries of work to decode. It is estimated that only around 3% of the spells in the scriptures have been decoded in the fifteen hundred years since they were given to humanity.

-->'''Frieren:''' It's funny, Himmel. You always bid such quick goodbyes.\\
'''Himmel:''' Heh, you have a point. But I'm not retiring soon, and I'm sure our paths will cross again somewhere down the line. I don't think a tearful farewell would suit us anyway. After all, it would be embarassing when we met again.

** When humanity first made study of magic legal, Serie predicted that humanity would eventually surpass the elves for similar reasons, creating an era of humans in what she considered a markedly short amount of time compared to how long human civilization had existed. A thousand years later (again, not all that long to Serie) Frieren considers this era to have arrived.

* AnchoredShip: Himmel most certainly loved Frieren, and the story hints increasingly often it might have been (or has become) mutual, but the relationship couldn't go anywhere because of how Frieren perceives time. As an elf, she has no sense of urgency the way a human would understand it, and an elf's romantic urges are similarly slow to manifest. It is made repeatedly clear that during Himmel's lifetime even the ''idea'' of a romantic relationship with him never crossed Frieren's mind. Himmel seemingly understood this, and apart from some occasional light flirting, never seemed to really try for more, content to love Frieren in his heart for the rest of his life. Given how long elves live, their version of courtship could possibly take centuries before going anywhere, and that is simply time Himmel did not have. Notably, it is only decades after Himmel's death Frieren begins to show signs of recognizing his feelings for her and reciprocating them, as she looks back fondly on her memories of him.