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* WitchSpecies: Being sun-touched appears to be a latent trait which occasionally pops up in some bloodlines. [[spoiler:The aforementioned tainted wine can being it to the fore.]]
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Dewicking per TRS.


* TheEmpire: ''Both'' of the great powers of the setting, Vlask and Mercia, are militaristic, nationalistic and expansionist. Vlask is depicted as [[BlackAndGreyMorality a wholly vicious and backwards society bent on conquest]], but Mercia is NotSoDifferent, the main point of divergence between them resting in their [[BanOnMagic respective]] [[TheMagocracy stances]] on [[ReligionIsMagic sun-worship]].

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* TheEmpire: ''Both'' of the great powers of the setting, Vlask and Mercia, are militaristic, nationalistic and expansionist. Vlask is depicted as [[BlackAndGreyMorality a wholly vicious and backwards society bent on conquest]], but Mercia is NotSoDifferent, not so different, the main point of divergence between them resting in their [[BanOnMagic respective]] [[TheMagocracy stances]] on [[ReligionIsMagic sun-worship]].
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* {{Expy}}: Finch ''is'' SherlockHolmes, complete with [[spoiler: FakingTheDead for two years without telling you]]. Woodward is Mycroft and the Professor is Moriarty down to the Loegrian/Irish origins and multi-talented criminal genius. More-broadly, Mercia is a more-advanced portrait of UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain, while Vlask is a nightmare portrait of Tsarist Russia with a little Transylvania. Alexandra Townsend and the opera singer Madame Adela Albsecu could both be considered counterparts for Irene Adler in different ways, and Colonel Fearnley is a pretty clear analogue to Colonel Moran, complete with big-game hunting. The treatment of sun-worshippers, meanwhile, is a reference to English Catholicism, and Loegria is Ireland, complete with parallels to the suppression of their culture and religion.

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* {{Expy}}: Finch ''is'' SherlockHolmes, Literature/SherlockHolmes, complete with [[spoiler: FakingTheDead for two years without telling you]]. Woodward is Mycroft and the Professor is Moriarty down to the Loegrian/Irish origins and multi-talented criminal genius. More-broadly, Mercia is a more-advanced portrait of UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain, while Vlask is a nightmare portrait of Tsarist Russia with a little Transylvania. Alexandra Townsend and the opera singer Madame Adela Albsecu could both be considered counterparts for Irene Adler in different ways, and Colonel Fearnley is a pretty clear analogue to Colonel Moran, complete with big-game hunting. The treatment of sun-worshippers, meanwhile, is a reference to English Catholicism, and Loegria is Ireland, complete with parallels to the suppression of their culture and religion.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: If you choose, you can play a straight male character, happily married to Grace Chandler, and yet still be very close friends with Garret Finch. [[spoiler: Though the 'heterosexual' part for Finch is debatable.]]

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: If you choose, you can play a straight male character, happily married to Grace Chandler, and yet still be very close friends with Garret Garrett Finch. [[spoiler: Though the 'heterosexual' part for Finch is debatable.]]
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** The author has also pointed to the ''Lusitania'' disaster as an inspiration for the ''Colossus'':
---> I'm not sure this quite conveys either the terror or heroism of the eighteen minutes it took the Lusitania to sink. The time frame here needs to be a little longer, but I want this to feel frantic, not like Titantic's slow death song, and I want one of the frantic-making factors to be the lack of drills wrt/ lifeboat lanching and lifejacket wearing, nobody on the crew or among the passengers quite knows what to do, people running to find family members and lifejackets. (All taken from the Lusitania story.)
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Added trope example.

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*LiquidCourage: When the player character meets Grace for the first time, he can drink a whiskey for courage before asking her to dance.
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* FaceHeelTurn: There's nothing stopping you from siding with Vlask against Mercia.

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