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* BlackBestFriend: [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy Ismail]] is [[MagicKnight Belial's]] best friend. They met each other for the first time when Belial began [[StarCrossedLovers spending time]] with [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Sultana]] [[LadyOfWar Razia]] whom Ismail served as the captain of the guard in Vanna. The two men instantly got along and actually began teaching each other about their respective cultures, gaining mutual respect over the years which turned into a lasting friendship. When Razia's twin sister [[WomanScorned Adela]] usurped the throne, Ismail was sent into exile. Belial immediately offered him and the other exiled people a sanctuary in his Maar Sulais home, and Ismail returned the favour by becoming Belial's bodyguard as well as the mentor of Belial's son.

* EccentricMentor: Harrad. Candy machine, anyone?

* MilitarySchool: Graves Hall.

* MindRape: Shyralis likes to do this to Marcus.

* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Bards can use their songs of power to calm down beasts. The young bard [[{{Adorkable}} Arcturius]] uses his songs several times to to this effect such as when he pacifies the panicking kitsune [[MysteriousWaif Haruko]].

* MysteriousProtector: Omaroch in his first appearances.

* NecessarilyEvil: Marya.

** Arawn also aspired to become a godly sorcerer and he would've succeeded unless those pesky Andain hadn't sacrificed themselves to stop him.

* BiTheWay: Ax, Leon and Ronove like both boys and girls.

%%* OurNymphsArePrettier: Nymphs are agile female creatures with ebony skin and cat-like eyes who are in tune with nature, live in Libaterran forests and have intimate encounters with travelers, which makes books of lore refer to a nymph as the "ranger's fondest conquest". It serves as a plot point once it's revealed that the nymphs are seducing travelers because they need them to become pregnant; a magical curse makes nymphs only give birth to females of their kind and thus they need males from other races to keep their bloodline going.%%Temporarily unlaunched to resolve naming issues.

* JerkassFacade: An interesting and complex example with Ronove after his memories return. He acts like a generic cruel overlord in front of his peers and enemies, but also occasionally shows a quirky side which most accept as remnants of his former goofy personality (most notably him munching on cake and sand gnome legs). He has shown a less evil persona recently but quite subtly. He let his caught friends flee the occupied city alive while weaving a convincing enough tale to his superiors for the seemingly "evil" reasons he let the escape happen. He takes over the torturing of his former, captured master seemingly because he enjoys the cruel act, but in fact it's because letting others torture said person would be far more severe than what he ends up doing to him. He openly manipulates Refan but does it for the man's own good because he sees Refan's demonic side useful and allowing the man to grow into a warrior who doesn't have to fear for his life anymore. However, Ronove harbors more complex plans than most people think, and even the one person who realizes that things don't quite add up is still being manipulated by him into believing one thing while the truth is actually quite different. It's thus clear that he has some sense of honor, but he's also capable of acts of CruelMercy by twisting seemingly benevolent acts into something far more sinister for reasons only he knows.

* OurNymphsArePrettier: Nymphs are agile female creatures with ebony skin and cat-like eyes who are in tune with nature, live in Libaterran forests and have intimate encounters with travelers, which makes books of lore refer to a nymph as the "ranger's fondest conquest". It serves as a plot point once it's revealed that the nymphs are seducing travelers because they need them to become pregnant; a magical curse makes nymphs only give birth to females of their kind and thus they need males from other races to keep their bloodline going.

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** Basilisks are reptilian creatures which can turn people they gaze upon into stone.
** Wyverns are winged, dragon-like but less magical and intelligent and more nimble reptilians.

** [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Vaetris]] also counts when she's acting as the heroes' ally.

* TheAlliance: The Grand Alliance. The Crimson Coalition is the Alliance's seemingly [[LegionOfDoom villainous]] counterpart. Then again, most of the story has only been seen through the eyes of the Alliance so far...

-->'''Drishnek''': I brought you back to be Death's champion! MY champion! Remember the hate that you had for this world last time you left it!
-->'''Jemuel''': No...you DESTROYED that man when you tortured his soul into becoming your servant, don't you understand!? I am Jemuel, born in Remon...I am Jemuel the Wise, Lord of Alent! I am Jemuel, and I will be your demise!

-->'''Belial''': Yes, I've been using you for my own gain, but it's been out of necessity. Things are hardly ever black and white in this Age of Emptiness. We all must do what we can to survive even if it means we need to act in...less pleasant ways.

* TheHero: Various, for example Ax, Marcus and Leon.
* TheHeroDies: Quite a few such as Belial, Ismail and Hiroshi Hayabusa.

* LizardFolk: The Sirithai. They initially appear to be antagonistic but the heroes eventually convince them to join the Grand Alliance.

** AllTrollsAreDifferent: Trolls are hairy and seemingly dumb creatures although they are good at operating machinery of various kinds. They have invented a pastime referred to as trolling which includes having jokes on other people's expense.
** CatFolk: The Itica are humanoid cat people who live a wandering lifestyle althouh other races rarely see them due to their preference to stay out of people's businesses. They have sharp senses.
** EnthrallingSiren: Sirens are a beautiful and uncanny aquatic race who enthrall and ensare their prey with magical songs of power.
** GiantSpider: Giant spiders are well, big spiders as the name suggests. They possess some intelligence and tend to move in 'packs' which hunt their prey together.
** HairRaisingHare: Bunnies look like fluffy rabbits, but they can quickly swarm and brutalize any would-be attacker.
** HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Harpies are avian, humanoid creatures who are often found near cliffsides of straits. They're territorial and somewhat sadistic, attacking travellers who venture too close to their nests.
** {{Kitsune}}: Kitsune are shapeshifting magical foxes who are often confused for demons. Guardians of lost knowledge and bardic songs, they're a musical and mischievious race who can just as easily be benevolent or malevolent depending on the circumstances.
** LizardFolk: The desert-dwelling lizardfolk, Sirithai, are ruthless and bloodthirsty warriors but also show a kinder side underneath their scaly exterior.
** MixAndMatchCritters: The chimaera is seemingly the last of its kind as other chimaeras have been hunted into extinction. It's capable of speech and uses its poison to attack its prey.
** NatureSpirit: Nymphs are an agile [[OneGenderRace all-female race]] with ebony skin and cat-like eyes who are in tune with nature, often live in forests and have intimate encounters with travellers, which makes books of lore refer to a nymph as the "ranger's fondest conquest".
** OurDemonsAreDifferent: The average demons are dark, horned, glowy-eyed, winged beings with tails who are stronger than an average human. Many of them can shapeshift into a human/elven/dwarven form. There are various different breeds, ranging from imps to colossal demons.
** OurDragonsAreDifferent: True dragons are long-lived, very intelligent and powerful beings who possess high-level magic and who can decimate entire armies if they feel like it. Luckily they seem to show little interest in mortal affairs and prefer to live away from cities in mountain ranges.
*** Basilisks are reptilian creatures which can turn people they gaze upon into stone.
*** Wyverns are winged, dragon-like but less magical and intelligent and more nimble reptilians.
** OurFairiesAreDifferent: Pixies are tiny winged humanoids who can channel magic more easily than other races. They can occasionally play pranks on other races but they do show concern for nature. Pixie dust is a valued commodity in mage circles.
** OurGargoylesRock: Gargoyles are creatures made of stone which can stay immobile and thus fool an adventurer into believing they're statues. Some gargoyle clans, such as the Unseen, act as guardians of crypts and move only when they're not looked at.
** OurGiantsAreBigger: Like their name suggests, giants are huge, hulking creatures with somewhat humanoid features. They prefer a solitary life, living far away from civilization, which is why few adventurers have ever met them.
** OurGnomesAreWeirder: Sand gnomes are savage, bestial beings who live in deserts and try to kill and eat those who trespass on their lands. Grilled sand gnome legs are a delicacy among people living in the desert.
** OurGryphonsAreDifferent: Majestic flying beasts which share distinct features from lions and eagles. They're fiercely protective of their nests, but a few gryphons have been tamed but they can still be rather unpredictable and dangerous creatures to handle.
** OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Merrows are aquatic humanoids who live deep in the oceans and govern the sea creatures.
** {{Pegasus}}: Winged horses which can move at very fast speeds but rarely fly long distances and instead prefer galloping.
** ThePhoenix: The Phoenix is an avian beast of legend, said to lay golden eggs and immolate itself before being born anew from the ashes. A highly sought after creature which no one has been able to find or catch even though several adventurers claim otherwise.
** PlantPerson: Dryads are humanoid plant creatures whose first generation has recently appeared in one of the secluded forests in the world. Little is known about them for the time being due to their recent awakening.
** ScaryScorpions: Giant scorpions inhabit desert areas and attack anyone who gets too close to their nests.
** SeaMonster: Sea serpents are huge aquatic snakes which occasionally surface and usually with fatal consequences to sailors and ships who end up in their way.
** {{Unicorn}}: Unicorns are equine beasts with a magical horn growing from their foreheads. Said to be drawn to virgins, and other myths claim they're actually flesh eaters and not as gentle as they appear as, but encounters with unicorns are rare, so the truth about these legendary beasts remains shrouded in mystery.
** WhenTreesAttack: Treants are mobile tree creatures who walk on all fours. They're found in very old forests and are gentle unless they're guarding something or if they're harmed.
** WillOTheWisp: Wisps are semi-sentient balls of light which are attracted to anything which oozes with mana, whether it's a place of power or a creature or person. They live by leeching magic from their target and are thus desired by mages who wish to channel the magic within them.

* PluckyComicRelief: Artagel, Bashkar, Kusobaba, Ronove and Titaniel.

* ScaryBlackMan: Ismail, Obama, Ragnar and Razoul.

* {{Sssssnaketalk}}: The Sirithai sssometimesss ssspeak like thisss.

* ThanatosGambit: When Kagetsu I realizes that the only way to kill Arawn is to sacrifice himself, he decides to modify his original plan and uses his death as a catalyst to kill off Arawn and all the half-gods and distribute ''their'' powers to mortals. This results in the birth of Innate Abilities but also has a nasty side-effect known as the Explosion which kills a lot of people and rearranges the continents.
** Grand Duchess Nhrakate actually has set a complex plan in motion that will result in her death and the unification of all the rival hordes into one massive demon army which will then launch a full-scale assault on the world and begin a new, glorious era for demonkind.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Ax and Khalid, Ax and Marcus, Ax and Refan, Ax and Shyla. Notice the pattern?

* WhiteMagic: Oh yes.

* XanatosGambit: Kamen Grimgaze, the Master of the Totenkopfs, ends up putting ''quite a few'' gambits in motion which benefit him no matter how they turn out and which take into account even most of the unforseeable variables which would otherwise ruin a plan of any lesser man (and even if something happens which even he didn't somehow think of, he can simply adapt and use that new event and outcome to further his goals). Whether his Crimson Coalition succeeds or not is trivial: either way his opponents in the Grand Alliance will still have to spend considerable time fighting the Coalition which is seen as the greater enemy, and that gives him enough time to manipulate events in relative peace. Although remaining undiscovered while acting as a mole within the Alliance is preferable to him (he gains the Alliance's trust and can use his authority to misdirect them), he has prepared for the possibility of being revealed as the mastermind. If the heroes discover his true identity, he can simply drop the fake kindness act (thus being able to operate more freely without needing to be cautious anymore) and use the revelation of his betrayal to shatter the Alliance's morale by showing that even the seemingly incorruptible Alliance has hidden evils within it and that those evils are in fact people the Alliance trusts the most (which in turn creates even more paranoia among the Alliance members who can't be sure how many of the Master's minions are still within it, which hinders the Alliance even more). His acts of corrupting various heroes follow a similar pattern: if successful, he'll gain valuable new acolytes, but if he doesn't succeed, he'll just kill the person then and there with his superior magic in order to get rid of the liability which he or she presents to him. Even if the heroes who refused to follow him survived somehow, he'll still know their weaknesses because he has spent considerable time with them in the past and has heard their confessions. He even actively encourages backstabbing within his ranks (whether the minion is a former, corrupted hero or a full bona fide villain) because the thrill of a possible betrayal keeps him on edge. If/when the betrayal takes place, he has secretly placed a magical killswitch on every one of his acolytes and can simply trigger it get rid of the problem right then and there if he so chooses.

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: Happens during the story preceding the Yamatian invasion of Remon in the Third Age. People who will later be known as the Fellowship of Tes Pellaria actually meet in an inn and later become core members and founders of the Grand Alliance.

-->'''Khalid''': You're a monster.
-->'''Razoul''': I am what I am. Someone has to be.

* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Sultana [[TheHighQueen Razia al-Saif]] ends up having an affair with Count [[ManipulativeBastard Belial de Ardyn]], and they genuinely fall in love but have to keep their affair a secret because the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sarquil]] tribes and the court, who follow the rigid religious teachings of the Old Ways, would never accept their Sultana marrying a foreigner. However, the affair doesn't escape the eyes of the Sultana's twin sister, [[{{Princess}} Emira]] [[LadyOfWar Adela]], who has also set her eyes on Belial, but Belial rejects her in favour of Razia. Adela [[WomanScorned doesn't take rejection well]] and, coupled with other things related to her sister's political moves, eventually challenges Razia to a duel which ends in Razia's death and Adela ascending the throne. This begins a chain of events which leads to the exile of Razia's son [[WarriorPrince Khalid]] and his supporters, the [[PathOfInspiration Clergy of Artemicia]] rising to power thanks to Adela backing them up and forcing the Sarquil to convert to the new faith, and Adela's sorcerous accomplice [[EvilChancellor Iblis al-Djinn]] becomes Grand Vizier. It leads to both the rise of the Sultanate of Karaganda but turns the Sarquil nation corrupt and decadent until Khalid returns with the [[TheAlliance Grand Alliance]] to dethrone Adela in a daring coup. The resulting battle weakens the sultanate enough so that the demons invade the divided land by surprise and eventually take over the sultanate, forcing the Sarquil into exile. All of this took place because both Razia and Adela simply fell in love with the same man.

* TheEvilPrince: Prince [[VisionaryVillain Geraden]], the cousin of the current King [[AChildShallLeadThem Gerard]] [[TheWisePrince Aurelac]] [[WarriorPrince de Maar Sul]], was kidnapped as a baby and ended up corrupted into an amoral, power-hungry warrior. He sees his younger cousin as a weak, easily manipulative fool who has in his view robbed him of his rightful throne and that it is his destiny to turn Maar Sul into a powerful, feared kingdom which it once was. [[{{Princess}} Emira]] [[ManipulativeBastard Adela]] [[WomanScorned al-Saif]] ends up killing her twin sister [[TheHighQueen Razia]] in order to become the Sultana of Vanna.

[[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/index.php The Gamer's Alliance]], or tGA, is a diceless [[PlayByPostGames Play By Post]] {{Role Playing Game}} set in an original Medieval fantasy world which emphasizes writing and character development over combat. The [[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=546 rules]] are lax for the most part and allow a free playing environment although they are strict enough to prevent god-moding.

The game started out as a small ezboard in early 2000 and later moved to its current server. In its earliest years the plots were mainly individual quests with derivative characters and settings but these storylines were later woven together into a coherent, original MythArc which is still ongoing. The history of the RP has been compiled into a comprehensive [[http://tga.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gamer%27s_Alliance_Wiki wiki]], but no prior knowledge of the plot is required to join and participate in the story.

*** Northern Continent: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Andarian]] [[RisingEmpire Empire]], [[LandOfOneCity Free City of]] [[TheSpartanWay Trinity Gask]], [[VestigialEmpire Kingdom of]] [[HiddenElfVillage Celenia]], [[TheMagocracy Kingdom of]] [[ProudScholarRace Tevinth]], Kingdom of [[ChurchMilitant Valencia]], [[FantasticRacism Kingdom of]] [[HorseArcher Zion]], Kingdom of Maar Sul

* FiveBadBand:

* CloakAndDagger: There are several groups spying on other groups in the Third Age. SAVAGE, [[TheKingdom Maar Sul's]] elite military corps, has the Covert Operations Department, the [[TheAlliance Grand Alliance]] has the Blades of Vigilance who are heavily involved in spying on the factions which oppose the Alliance, the [[LegionOfDoom Crimson Coalition]] has the Mullencamp spy network which monitors the Coalition territory and any non-Coalition faction it can gain access to, the [[TheMagocracy Magicracy of Alent]] has [[InternalAffairs Shadowstrike]] which keeps tabs on Alentian criminals but is also involved in internal affairs within the Anti Mage Police. Then there are also underworld organizations which use cloak and dagger methods, most notably the [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores Union Workers]], the [[AncientConspiracy Order of the Black Rose]] and the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Dwarven Triad]].

*** Maar Sul: [[BornInTheSaddle Khitan Khanate]], [[TheKingdom Kingdom of Maar Sul]]
*** Remon: [[TheNecrocracy Dar'Cenrath]], [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Drithenspire]], [[HiddenElfVillage Folsworth Woods]], [[TheKingdom Kingdom]] [[GrimUpNorth of Remon]], [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Ravensworth]]

*** Northern Continent: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Andarian]] [[RisingEmpire Empire]], [[LandOfOneCity Free City of]] [[TheSpartanWay Trinity Gask]], [[VestigialEmpire Kingdom of]] [[HiddenElfVillage Celenia]], [[TheMagocracy Kingdom of]] [[ProudScholarRace Tevinth]], [[TheKingdom Kingdom of]] [[ChurchMilitant Valencia]], [[FantasticRacism Kingdom of]] [[HorseArcher Zion]], Kingdom of Maar Sul

* IHaveNoSon: [[RebelliousSpirit Sumrah]], [[ManipulativeBastard Belial's]] older son, begins to rebel against his father's methods and refuses to follow the path he has set him on. Their arguments escalate over the years until both become so frustrated with one another that Sumrah leaves his home and enlists in the [[TheKingdom Maar Sulais]] military and Belial disowns him.

* TheKingdom: Aison, Libaterra, Maar Sul, Remon and Scundia in the Third Age.

* TheEvilPrince: Prince [[VisionaryVillain Geraden]], the cousin of the current King [[AChildShallLeadThem Gerard]] [[TheWisePrince Aurelac]] [[WarriorPrince de Maar Sul]], was kidnapped as a baby and ended up corrupted into an amoral, power-hungry warrior. He sees his younger cousin as a weak, easily manipulative fool who has in his view robbed him of his rightful throne and that it is his destiny to turn Maar Sul into a powerful, feared kingdom which it once was. [[BadassPrincess Emira]] [[ManipulativeBastard Adela]] [[WomanScorned al-Saif]] ends up killing her twin sister [[TheHighQueen Razia]] in order to become the Sultana of Vanna.

* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Sultana [[TheHighQueen Razia al-Saif]] ends up having an affair with Count [[ManipulativeBastard Belial de Ardyn]], and they genuinely fall in love but have to keep their affair a secret because the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sarquil]] tribes and the court, who follow the rigid religious teachings of the Old Ways, would never accept their Sultana marrying a foreigner. However, the affair doesn't escape the eyes of the Sultana's twin sister, [[BadassPrincess Emira]] [[LadyOfWar Adela]], who has also set her eyes on Belial, but Belial rejects her in favour of Razia. Adela [[WomanScorned doesn't take rejection well]] and, coupled with other things related to her sister's political moves, eventually challenges Razia to a duel which ends in Razia's death and Adela ascending the throne. This begins a chain of events which leads to the exile of Razia's son [[WarriorPrince Khalid]] and his supporters, the [[PathOfInspiration Clergy of Artemicia]] rising to power thanks to Adela backing them up and forcing the Sarquil to convert to the new faith, and Adela's sorcerous accomplice [[EvilChancellor Iblis al-Djinn]] becomes Grand Vizier. It leads to both the rise of the Sultanate of Karaganda but turns the Sarquil nation corrupt and decadent until Khalid returns with the [[TheAlliance Grand Alliance]] to dethrone Adela in a daring coup. The resulting battle weakens the sultanate enough so that the demons invade the divided land by surprise and eventually take over the sultanate, forcing the Sarquil into exile. All of this took place because both Razia and Adela simply fell in love with the same man.

* LesCollaborateurs: Martin Struan chooses to betray his Maar Sulais countrymen and work for the Yamatians in order to get the throne of Maar Sul for himself.

The world of tGA has seen many grand events unfold, most recently a worldwide Catastrophe caused by the destruction of [[TheMagocracy the legendary mage city of Alent]] at the end of the last Great War between demons who had intended to conquer the world and various alliances who had fought back against the hordes. The magical explosion of the City of Mages decimated the armies, created a strange phenomenon known as the Anomaly in its place, rearranged the continents, unleashed a great many monsters of unknown origin into the wilderness and ushered in the Fourth Age. Those from all sides who had mysteriously survived the explosion at ground zero suffered from an equally mysterious, widespread amnesia, having forgotten the last days of the war and how the Catastrophe had happened to begin with. The gods whose presence was once felt in the world have mysteriously grown silent, leading to changes within their clergies who are trying to have their prayers reach them for answers.

In the following two relatively peaceful decades that have passed since then, the rival demon clans have set aside their differences and founded the Andarian Empire led by the Tetrarchy, four archdemons of the High Legions, although tensions still exist among these rivals who each want to be on top of the hierarchy. As the demons try to recover their fading strength and expand their empire via various means, so too have other new sovereign states--ranging from city-states to kingdoms--risen from the ashes of the old world as various races and factions try to adapt to a life after the Catastrophe in a world that has become both foreign and dangerous for them to explore. Although the Andarian Empire has reached out to the other nations diplomatically and seemingly wishes to coexist with its neighbors, many other budding nations fear that it is only a matter of time before the ever-scheming demons show their true colors and begin a war of conquest once more...a war from which the world might not recover this time around if ambitions of various rulers and power-hungry individuals are left unchecked.

The world of tGA has seen many grand events unfold, most recently a worldwide Catastrophe caused by the destruction of [[TheMagogracy the legendary mage city of Alent]] at the end of the last Great War between demons who had intended to conquer the world and various alliances who had fought back against the hordes. The magical explosion of the City of Mages decimated the armies, created a strange phenomenon known as the Anomaly in its place, rearranged the continents, unleashed a great many monsters of unknown origin into the wilderness and ushered in the Fourth Age. Those from all sides who had mysteriously survived the explosion at ground zero suffered from an equally mysterious, widespread amnesia, having forgotten the last days of the war and how the Catastrophe had happened to begin with. The gods whose presence was once felt in the world have mysteriously grown silent, leading to changes within their clergies who are trying to have their prayers reach them for answers.

->''"In a universe where humans, elves, dwarves, gods and demons once existed peacefully, everything is slowly but surely unraveling. The Grand Alliance has risen once more as a candle in the darkness, but traitors lie in wait even in these noble ranks. The Crimson Coalition appears to counter the Alliance with its own goals and motives. Both sides feel their causes are just, both sides are ready to battle to oblivion if necessary. And yet, divided, they don't stand a chance against the massive demon hordes. Can they come together to defeat this threat? Or will darkness triumph over all?"''

[[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/index.php The Gamer's Alliance]], or tGA, is a diceless [[PlayByPostGames Play By Post]] {{Role Playing Game}} set in an original Medieval fantasy world which emphasizes writing and character development over combat. The [[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=546 rules]] are lax for the most part and allow a free playing environment although they're strict enough to prevent god-moding.

The world of tGA has seen many grand events unfold, most recently a worldwide catastrophe caused by a mysterious beast, the [[EldritchAbomination Godslayer]]. It single-handedly ended a drawn-out war by devouring the two gods responsible for the conflict, and the resulting shift in power rearranged the continents and killed countless people. The beast formed a cult around it and fell asleep shortly after its rampage, and the six nations of the world ended up living in isolation and rebuilding their war-torn kingdoms while dreading what future had in store for them. At the same time the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], whose god the Godslayer had devoured, got used to their newfound freedom and began massing their forces to take over the world while they quickly conquered the most ravaged nation which became their base of operations. It didn't take long for ambitions to grow even in these dreadful times, however, and various factions rose among the races of the world as more and more people began bidding for power.

After over 10 years of relative peace, sinister forces stirred, forcing old and new heroes to form the [[TheAlliance Grand Alliance]] to oppose this rising threat. However, a few of the Alliance's enemies reacted by doing the unthinkable: they put their differences aside and formed the [[LegionOfDoom Crimson Coalition]] to counter the Alliance. The goals of these rival armies escalated into a new war while the demons, the Godslayer's cult and a few neutral factions observed the conflict. Despite their different ideals, the Alliance and the Coalition have their equal share of heroes and villains, thus [[MoralityKitchenSink blurring the line of good and evil]].

It remains to be seen whether the armies, bickering races and long-time rivals can eventually put aside their differences and combine their strength to face the looming threats of the Godslayer's cult, demons, [[PhysicalGod rogue gods]], [[TheUndead the undead]] and even ambitious individuals, all of whom have {{plan}}s [[GambitRoulette of]] [[EvilPlan their]] [[XanatosSpeedChess own]]. The world of tGA is not a happy place to live in, but heroes on all sides are willing to fight against the odds in order to reach for a better tomorrow.

Even though the world of tGA has its share of fantasy elements such as elves, dwarves, dragons, magic and such, there are also other elements such as the occasional airship, pirates, samurai, communists, fundies, the Soap, a gruesome elven plague, zombies and, last and least, Scuns. The stories have their share of dramatic elements, but humour is present as well. The world currently consists of [[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=724 six nations]], each of which has various factions with different motives. Although the story has the occasional battle and can get serious, humour is present as well, and the focus tends to be more on character development and interaction than combat.

** [[spoiler:[[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Vaetris]]]] also counts when she's acting as the heroes' ally.

* AncestralWeapon: Refan's sword Smaragdos once belonged to his father [[spoiler:Omaroch]] who in turn got it from his father [[spoiler:Malakhia]].

* ApocalypseMaiden: Leon becomes this when he almost manages to regain his Andain powers during the First Battle of Remonton. He realizes at that moment that as long as he exists as a revenant, his existence will eventually make magic disappear and cause the end of the world. [[spoiler:He gets better when he is revived as a full mortal for his services to the forces of Light. However, fate has a nasty way of making things worse when the Godslayer appears and causes the Cataclysm anyway.]]

* AristocratsAreEvil: Played straight with Martin Struan and [[spoiler:Koschei Dravaris]] and averted with various Maar Sulais nobles.

* AvengingTheVillain: When a minor villain named Dorecia is killed, her lover [[spoiler:Ferron]] promises to hunt down her killer who turns out to be Refan. [[spoiler:Belial]] wants to avenge the death of his brother Antigonus who opposed various heroes in the past, and this [[spoiler:later gets reversed when Antigonus comes back to life and finds out Belial has been assassinated]].

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Marya and Mori'sul]] in the Godslayer Era. One ends up setting the stage for a power-hungry prince's return to the political stage of Maar Sul before committing suicide, the other is crushed by a collapsing temple while saving the heroes from certain death.

* BadDreams: Refan suffers from these and their content foreshadows that [[spoiler:he is a half-demon]].

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Ismail served as the captain of the Black Guard of Vanna until [[spoiler:his death in a duel against Leraje]].

* TheBaroness: Shyralis and [[spoiler:Vaetris]] after she reveals herself as the Duchess of the Eastern Horde.

** The Great War: At first it looks like [[FourStarBadass Shogun Masamori Hyuga]] is the BigBad, then [[SorcerousOverlord Distreyd Thanadar XII]] becomes one, and finally the revived [[SealedEvilInACan Mardük]] takes the mantle. [[spoiler: For a few minutes, anyway.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Desdemona.]]

** Ragnar, Refan, and Stylianos are the rare heroic examples wearing a black cloak... at least until [[spoiler:Refan does a FaceHeelTurn]].

* BlackMagic: Oh yes.

* BreakTheCutie: Marya is a kind character but after her husband Kagetsu I's sealing she is forced to live her life as a wandering prostitute. Things get better for her for a while when she is reunited with Kagetsu but then Arawn kidnaps and rapes her. Marya is saved but only gets to spend a little while with Kagetsu who is later killed in battle. Marya is an immortal but her beloved Kagetsu is now dead so she realizes that she has to live her life without him for all eternity. [[spoiler:This finally makes her snap, and she turns into a cold, ruthless individual who later kidnaps and corrupts Prince Geraden Aurelac of Maar Sul, going even so far as to boink him in order to control him. Once she's made sure Geraden can take over Maar Sul, she suffers from guilt of all the nasty things she's done and commits suicide with poison in order to be reunited with Kagetsu]].

* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:[[LadyOfBlackMagic Desdemona]] and [[BlackKnight Mordecai]]]] are siblings and very much in love although they have to hide their relationship from everyone else. She eventually gets pregnant with his child and intends to give birth to the child, using it as a means to install herself on the Remonian throne by claiming that the child belongs to [[TheChosenOne King]] [[ThePaladin Marcus]] who is smitten by her.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Refan and Zarnagon, Leraje and Ronove.]]

* CapturedSuperEntity: [[spoiler:Awar]] manages to trap the god [[spoiler:Shakkan]] into a shard of Krystallopyr, prompting the heroes to find a way to set the god free.

* ChangingOfTheGuard: [[spoiler:Khalid, who is revealed to be Belial's son at Belial's funeral, decides to continue the mission which Belial began. Razoul continued his father Ismail's mission as the captain of the Black Guard]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Lots of it for both heroes and villains.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: When Gerard comes of age, Leon willingly abdicates the throne of Maar Sul to him. However, some people, most notably [[spoiler:Geraden]], see him as an usurper who only abdicated the throne in order to control the throne from behind the scenes.

* CradlingYourKill: Refan does this after he has killed [[spoiler:Awar]] in the aftermath of the siege of Vanna.

* DarkActionGirl: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Adela]], [[spoiler:[[LadyOfBlackMagic Desdemona]]]], [[EvilMentor Endoran]], [[PsychoLesbian Etna]], [[DarkMessiah Glaurung]], [[TheBaroness Shyralis]], [[PerkyFemaleMinion Tarna]], [[spoiler:[[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Vaetris]]]], [[LadyOfWar Varalia]] and [[PsychoForHire Zenobia]] among others.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Geraden]] takes the identity of Oswald Flynn. He discards the false identity after he has gathered enough followers to take over Port Dunross from the Proninist Party.

* DeathIsDramatic: Played straight with [[spoiler:Belial, Hiroshi Hayabusa, Ismail and Leon]] among others. Averted with [[spoiler:Koryaksky]] who dies an undignified death in a back alley.
* DecoyDamsel: [[spoiler:Mordecai]] is a male variant. He is seemingly kidnapped by the Totenkopfs for some nefarious ends. It later turns out it was all a ruse and he has in fact been working for them all along and put up the act of being kidnapped so that he can operate more freely without worrying about tipping off the heroes.

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: Each of the four demon hordes has an archdemon leading it, but a few independent archdemons exist as well. The known archdemons are [[EvilOldFolks Hepnaz]], [[FourStarBadass Malphas]], [[HornyDevils Nina]], [[WickedCultured Pazuzu]], [[spoiler:[[VisionaryVillain Vaetris]]]], [[TheAtoner Omaroch]], [[OmnicidalManiac Yurius]], [[EvilMatriarch Nhrakate]] and [[AGodAmI Malakhia]].
* {{Depower}}: Leon loses his Andain powers when he is resurrected. All mortals lose their innate magical abilities after the Cataclysm caused by the Godslayer.

* DeterminedWidow: Marya becomes a dark version of this after her husband Kagetsu bites the dust. She doesn't take his death well, and after a long period of mourning she becomes fixated on making his dream become real, going so far as kidnapping and corrupting a prince to do her bidding while acting as his EvilMentor, setting the stage for a brutal civil war in Maar Sul, and subtly opposing the Grand Alliance which she had once called friends. Once she has done all this and made sure that the prince will carry out her mission, she [[spoiler:is overcome by guilt of all the horrible things she has done to achieve her husband's dream, and she commits suicide to be reunited with Kagetsu in the afterlife]].
* DeusExMachina: When Leon is about to die in battle, a black wolf appears all of a sudden and saves his life. It later turns out that the wolf was in fact Kagetsu I whom Leon had unknowingly freed earlier. [[IncrediblyLamePun Technically Kagetsu was only a half-god, though]].

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Omaroch to Refan and Zarnagon.]]

*** Leraje, and later [[spoiler:[[DragonWithAnAgenda Ronove]]]] for Malphas of the Northern Horde.
*** [[FemmeFatale Nina]] for [[spoiler:Vaetris]] of the Eastern Horde.

* DragonAscendant: Yurius becomes the next BigBad when his master and father figure Sydney is killed. [[spoiler:Richelieu]] ends up as this when [[spoiler:Jemuel is frozen in stasis inside the beam of Alent]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Ronove for Malphas.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Poor Marya finally cracks when she becomes guilt-ridden by all the bad things she's done.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Although the four demon hordes want to take over the world and enslave "lesser beings", they also fight brutally against one another for power. [[spoiler:Duchess Vaetris]] intends to change all that, however, by uniting the bickering hordes under one banner in order to take over the world.

* {{Ephebophile}}: Galeras likes to have sex with teenager boys. [[spoiler:Marya]] ends up boinking the 16-year-old Geraden in order to control him.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Belial is betrayed and killed by his niece Desdemona.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Cain, Desdemona, Mordecai and Vaetris]] during the Godslayer era.

* EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Vaetris]] and her sister Nina. [[InTheBlood It runs in the family.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Abel makes this very clear by adapting the name Cain once he's turned to the dark side.]] The heroes are oblivious to his new, treacherous nature and think he's only acting emo because of his embarrassing encounter with a lustful mage earlier in the story.
** Also happens to [[spoiler:Refan and Ronove]] after the siege of Vanna.

* FantasyWorldMap: [[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/showthread.php?t=724 Yes there is.]] The kingdoms (and their respective subareas) include the following in the Godslayer Era:
** Aison:
*** [[HungryJungle Eastern]] [[CatFolk Isles]], [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Korstalven]], [[WizardingSchool Magestar]], [[HiddenElfVillage Mori'Taure]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent The Roost]], [[TheTheocracy Theocracy of Aison]]
** Libaterra:
*** [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores Hidefall]], [[TheMagocracy Magicracy of Alent]], [[HiddenElfVillage Celenian]] [[TheFairFolk Forest]], [[WarriorPoet Simoe Gorge]], [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sultanate]] [[ThirstyDesert of Karaganda]], [[LizardFolk Xibalba]], [[LegionOfDoom Trinity Gask and Blood Border]], and various [[MerchantCity independent merchant cities]]
** Maar Sul:
*** [[BornInTheSaddle Khitan Khanate]], [[TheKingdom Kingdom of Maar Sul]]
** Remon:
*** [[TheNecrocracy Dar'Cenrath]], [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Drithenspire]], [[HiddenElfVillage Folsworth Woods]], [[TheKingdom Kingdom]] [[GrimUpNorth of Remon]], [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Ravensworth]]
** Scundia:
*** [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of Scundia]]
** Yamato:
*** [[TheLegionsOfHell Demon]] [[TheHorde hordes]] ([[HornyDevils Eastern]], [[BloodKnight Northern]], [[MagicKnight Southern]], [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Western]]), [[TheRemnant Akai]] [[{{Wutai}} Tora]], [[{{Pirate}} Blue]] [[TheBermudaTriangle Dragon]] [[NotSoSafeHarbor Shipwreck Cove]], {{Kitsune}} [[TheLostWoods Mori]]

*** DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Ronove]]]] (replaces Leraje after the Battle of Vanna)

*** SixthRanger: [[spoiler:[[FallenHero Refan]]]]

*** DecoyLeader: [[spoiler:[[{{Golem}} Aleph]]]] (acting as the Master's body double)

*** TheBrute: [[StarterVillain Jacob]], [[FallenHero Cain]] and [[spoiler:[[TinTyrant Mordecai]]]]
*** DarkChick: [[PsychoForHire Zenobia]] and [[spoiler:[[LadyOfBlackMagic Desdemona]]]]
*** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:[[WhiteHairBlackHeart Izael]]]]

* FloatingContinent: Alent in the First Age of tGA.

* AGodAmI: Zarnagon sees himself as a god and makes people worship him as such when he becomes the Witch-king of Myridia. [[spoiler:He and two others later fuse together and transcend into a godly being known as the Godslayer.]]
** Arawn also aspired to become a godly sorcerer [[spoiler:and he would've succeeded unless those pesky Andain hadn't sacrificed themselves to stop him]].

* GroinAttack: [[TheLadette Ax's]] preferred method of dealing with male enemies. Poor [[LoveableRogue Refan]] also got to experience it first hand.

* HandsomeLech: The [[DisabilitySuperpower blind swordsman Jono]] keeps flirting with girls and tends to be quite successful with bedding them although he often gets in trouble with it. However, when he finds a challenge from [[FieryRedhead Vaetris]] who doesn't fall for him quite so easily, he's intrigued and smitten by her. They eventually grow close [[spoiler:until Jono discovers to his horror that Vaetris is in fact [[EvilAllAlong one of the four dreaded archdemons]] who has been deliberately manipulating his feelings for her to achieve her sinister goals]].

* HearingVoices: Ax and Refan. The former because her tribe has a close connection with the dead, and the latter because his sword (which houses a malevolent spirit) is influencing him and triggering his [[spoiler:demonic]] side.
* HeelFaceMole: Ferron during the Great War. [[spoiler:Xerathas, Varalia and the Shadow]] pull an elaborate one during the battle in Vanna.

* TheHeroDies: Quite a few such as [[spoiler: Belial, Ismail and Hiroshi Hayabusa.]]

** Refan freaks out when he finds out that [[spoiler:his nemesis Zarnagon is in fact his long-lost older brother Kareth and that both of them are heirs of the Demon Realm who are fated to help Mardük plunge the world into darkness]].

* HesBack: [[spoiler:Ronove]] after he regains his memories during the Battle of Vanna. As soon as he's back in the game, he shows everyone why he was once called the ''Walking Death'' by defeating the seemingly invincible Dreadlord with ease.

** Ax's longtime friend and ally [[spoiler:Vaetris]] turns out to be one of the four archdemons.

* HisNameIs: After defeating [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Dreadlord]] [[AxCrazy Leraje]], [[spoiler:Ismail]] momentarily glances at the wall where the sultan's posse is observing the duel and suddenly realizes who Leraje reminds him of and who thus fits perfectly into [[JerkassGods Nergal's]] prophecy of a traitor being in the Grand Alliance. This distracts him momentarily, which allows Leraje to regenerate and skewer him. [[spoiler:Ismail]], realizing he's done for, uses the last of his strength to try to tell the Alliance the identity of the traitor, but is decapitated just before he can finish saying the name.

** Eastern Horde. Led by [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Duchess]] [[TheManBehindTheMan Vaetris]] [[ManipulativeBastard L'andariel]]]], the Deceiver

* IAmWhatIAm: Refan eventually accepts [[spoiler:his demonic side]].

-->'''Arawn''': Oh, I think not, my dear friend Kagetsu. I'm afraid I'll have to have some assurance of our friendship from here on in. I cannot have you joining yourself to the elf-lover and the wizard. Know that from this day onward, I own your precious wife.

* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Zarnagon betrays Omaroch]] at a crucial moment by stabbing him in the back.

* IndyEscape: The heroes of the Grand Alliance have to run from a giant boulder which does its best to smash them inside an ancient temple in the Ruined Kingdom. [[spoiler:It turns out that the boulder and the descending ceiling traps are actually activated simultaneously and thus they end up cancelling each other.]]

* JerkassFacade: An interesting and complex example with [[spoiler:Ronove after his memories return]]. He acts like a generic cruel overlord in front of his peers and enemies, but also occasionally shows a quirky side which most accept as remnants of his former goofy personality (most notably him munching on cake and sand gnome legs). He has shown a less evil persona recently but quite subtly. He let his caught friends flee the occupied city alive while weaving a convincing enough tale to his superiors for the seemingly "evil" reasons he let the escape happen. He takes over the torturing of his former, captured master seemingly because he enjoys the cruel act, but in fact it's because letting others torture said person would be far more severe than what he ends up doing to him. He openly manipulates [[spoiler:Refan]] but does it for the man's own good because he sees [[spoiler:Refan's demonic side]] useful and allowing the man to grow into a warrior who doesn't have to fear for his life anymore. However, [[spoiler:Ronove]] harbors more complex plans than most people think, and even the one person who realizes that things don't quite add up is still being manipulated by him into believing one thing while the truth is actually quite different. It's thus clear that he has some sense of honour, but he's also capable of acts of CruelMercy by twisting seemingly benevolent acts into something far more sinister for reasons that still remain unclear.

** Artemicia, the Goddess of Healing, doesn't like her half-god son, going so far as to threaten to kill him if he ever interferes with her plans again.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Nergal, the God of War, confronts the heroes in the Ruined Kingdom and taunts them about how they've been playing right into his hands all along. The Master does the same to [[spoiler:Belial]].

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Dokubaraken is a special katana which has been used by Kagetsu I, various Distreyd Thanadars and most recently [[spoiler:Geraden Aurelac]]. Yamatians and the Akai Tora also prefer katanas as their main weapons.

* KilledOffForReal: A bunch of people, most recently [[spoiler:Awar, Belial, Ismail, Marya, Nalaen and Pronin]].

* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:The dirty bum Howdy]] later turns out to be King Byron Kagawest of Aison in disguise. Oswald Flynn turns out to be [[spoiler:Prince Geraden of Maar Sul]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: Omaroch turns out to be the father of [[spoiler:Refan and Zarnagon]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: Marya for [[spoiler:Geraden]].

* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler:Belial]] has one.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Cain, Desdemona, Dylas, Megumi, Rune, Shyralis, Vaetris, Viirsa and Gwydion/Koskenkorva]] among others. The heroes have it rough.

* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Marya.]]

* NotWorthKilling: This happens after the siege of Vanna when [[spoiler:Ronove]], the new Dreadlord of the Northern Horde, decides to spare the surviving defenders and allow them to flee while the horde takes over the city. His superior and peers later question the merciful act as well as the fact that the survivors will inevitably spread news of the horde's activities and strategies to other cities which will be prepared for the upcoming war. He quickly justifies his actions by explaining his reasons for letting the heroes flee: their worthy opponent status, the promise of a later even bloodier battle worthy of higher demons' time, as well as the heroes' tales of the siege which will weaken other cities' morale when they find out about the horde's unstoppable might. However, [[spoiler:Ronove]] is playing a much more complicated game because he ''also'' wanted to pay the heroes back for helping him when he was helpless by letting them flee to fight another day.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler:Harrad's student Warley]] turns out to be the one behind the mage murders in Alent. He desired power to surpass his mentor, and that eventually corrupted him into leeching power from other mages, which resulted in a killing spree.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Kagetsu I's modus operandi is to slay the gods and distribute their powers to mortals in order to create a more equal world. [[spoiler:Zarnagon]] decides to fight against the gods when he finds out that they have been responsible for all the suffering he and his family have been through and that they have used his family as pawns in the war between Order and Chaos.

* RecurringBoss: Kaizoku, the Three, the Vulfsatz, Xerathas and the Shadow ([[spoiler:aka Taliesin]]).
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Mori'sul]] realizes the error of his ways and decides to sacrifice himself to help the heroes escape from a collapsing temple.

* TheReveal: Plenty. Some examples: [[spoiler:Refan and Zarnagon]] turn out to be brothers as well as sons of a powerful demon lord, the Shadow is [[spoiler:Leon's old mentor Taliesin]], Steve is [[spoiler:the reborn Despard Silverbranch]], Khalid turns out to be [[spoiler:Belial's son and the exiled emir of Vanna]], and [[spoiler:Vaetris]] is actually one of the four archdemons.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Refan]]'s demonic form.

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:Khalid continues Belial's mission after Belial has been assassinated.]]
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Kage]] pushes Ax away and ends up being fatally stabbed by the Shadow during the Battle of Remonton in the Great War.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Kagetsu I does this to Arawn Losstarot, and Hiroshi Hayabusa to Taro Ofuchi.]]

* ThanatosGambit: When [[spoiler:Kagetsu I]] realizes that the only way to kill Arawn is to sacrifice himself, he decides to modify his original plan and uses his death as a catalyst to kill off Arawn and all the half-gods and distribute ''their'' powers to mortals. This results in the birth of Innate Abilities but also has a nasty side-effect known as the Explosion which kills a lot of people and rearranges the continents.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Ferron who most people in the party know to have a shady past but who they allow to tag along anyway because he is useful thanks to his magic and political connections. [[spoiler:Too bad that decision comes to bite the heroes in the ass when Ferron tries to assassinate Jemuel while the heroes are busy elsewhere.]]

* TreacherousAdvisor: Firion is this to the elven king Amandil in Folsworth Woods during the Great War. Iblis also ends up being one in the Godslayer era because the only reason he aided Sultana Adela as her vizier was to [[spoiler:subtly weaken Vanna from within and let his true masters, the demons of the Southern Horde, to invade Adela's realm]].

* TurnCoat: [[spoiler:Dylas and Gordius]] turn on their respective commanders at crucial moments as their ambitions grow.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Khasra III and Steve insult and pull brutal pranks on each other (e.g. Khasra sleeps with Steve's wife and gets syphilis from her because Steve predicted his actions). Their prank war escalates until Steve is revealed to be [[spoiler:the reborn Despard Silverbranch]], after which they make a truce.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What the Master says to [[spoiler:Belial]] before letting his minions kill him.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Both Geraden and Hannibal are evil blond guys.

--> '''Nergal''': Remember that girl, [[RebelliousPrincess Shyla]]? [[VillainsNeverLie What if I told you]] [[NotQuiteDead that she is still alive and waiting for you]]? I figured out that it was [[MissedTheCall she who was originally meant to have Dawn]]."
--> '''Oswald''': "If you truly wish to know, my name is [[KingIncognito Geraden Aurelac de Maar Sul]], [[TheEvilPrince and I am the rightful King of Maar Sul]]!

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Distreyd XII used to be a powerful sorcerer but became weak and aged rapidly after his constant leeching of the Krystallopyr shard drained most of his lifeforce. By the time Jemuel confronts him in Vulpengaard Keep, Distreyd has become a mere shell of his former self.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Omaroch (demon) and Delora (human) fall in love, get married and have two half-demon sons. Their respective clergies support rival gods and thus see the marriage as well as the offspring as utterly irredeemable. It escalates into a full-blown conflict as both factions actively hunt the family, which eventually results in Omaroch's capture and subsequent torture and brainwashing by demons, Delora's death at the hands of human clerics and one of the children being sold into slavery.
** The tragic chain of events later repeats itself when the aforementioned couple's half-demon son Refan marries the human warrior Skye. The human clergy sets its eyes on the newly wed not only because they once again see such union as taboo but also because they want to capture and use Refan and his son for a more sinister purpose.

* TheMagocracy: The Magicracy of Alent is a city ruled by mages.

* MageTower: The Magicracy of Alent has a lot of towers because the richest mages wish to erect such to display their power and knowledge of the arcane arts.

* MagicalLand: The Isle of Yggdrasil.

* TheMafia: The Matheson Crime Family.

* MookPromotion: Zenobia is a mere Totenkopf mook in her first appearance but she slowly climbs up the hierarchy and is now getting closer to achieving the status of the Master's Blessed.

* TheLostWoods: The Land of the Living has had its share of ancient magical woods over the past ages. In the Third Age Survivor's Woods in Libaterra turned into a dark, magical forest when two rival [[TheFairFolk Faerfolc]] settled into it and changed it to suit their needs while enthralling [[GiantSpider giant spiders]], [[NatureSpirit nymphs]], [[WhenTreesAttack treants]] and [[GhostLights wisps]] to do their bidding. Another mysterious magical forest is Kitsune Mori in Yamato where the secretive shapeshifting foxes known as the {{kitsune}} dwell.

** GhostLights: Wisps are semi-sentient balls of light which are attracted to anything which oozes with mana, whether it's a place of power or a creature or person. They live by leeching magic from their target and are thus desired by mages who wish to channel the magic within them.