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* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: The Alchemist]] from the Nightfall DLC. We don’t find out exactly what he wanted to do with [[spoiler: Yamiko’s soul fragment,]] but considering the sinister vibe of his personal notes, and the fact that he felt the need to [[spoiler: trick Hikaru and Sora into going to a secluded place with him to complete the transferral ritual,]] it was probably nothing good.
* AmbitionIsEvil - Whatever [[spoiler: the Alchemist’s]] real deal is, anyone that proclaims that a dangerous forbidden technique is ‘only the beginning’ can’t be planning anything good.
* AmbitionIsEvil - Whatever [[spoiler: the Alchemist’s]] real deal is, anyone that proclaims that a dangerous forbidden technique is ‘only the beginning’ can’t be planning anything good.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Shinobu’s fate in the DLC. She is shot by one of Sora’s arrows, and falls into a river.]]
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double subverted]] for [[spoiler: Hyo I’m the DLC. He manages to kill Yuki and release Yamiko’s soul fragment at the cost of a fatal injury, and so lies back with a smirk, ready to die… only for the Alchemist to once again try capturing the soul fragment, so Hyo is forced to get up again and try to kill him too. Then finally done for real when Hyo is decapitated by Hikaru at the end, but does at least seem content that he has given Yamiko a chance escape her imprisonment.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: In the Nightfall DLC, Hyo is so determined to save Yaminko that he refuses to listen to Shinobu’s pragmatic counsel.
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* MadScientist: A mystical variant with the Alchemist, one of the masters Tsuyoshi created the Sealing Technique with. Upon setting up shop in Kyuryu, the Alchemist drains the life out of nearby plants in order to create a truly massive tree to house his laboratory. A letter from Sora to Hikaru also notes that while he is respected for his genius, there are rumours he has carried out horrific experiments for his research. [[spoiler: It’s also all but outright stated that the Alchemist had been intentionally worsening Yuki’s condition for his own ends.]]
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* TheCorruption: One of the side effects of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique discovered by the sages and used by the leaders of Kaiho is that [[spoiler: having a fragment of another person’s soul inside you]] can seriously cripple the balance between body and soul, potentially leading to death. [[spoiler: And that’s without the soul within being a pissed-off shadow goddess trying to orchestrate her own resurrection.]]
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* CradlingYourKill: [[spoiler:When Aragami stabs Sora, he sees flashes of his memories as Ryo, which leads to him cradling her as they talk.]]
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* CradlingYourKill:[[spoiler:When [[spoiler: When Aragami stabs Sora, he sees flashes of his memories as Ryo, which leads to him cradling her as they talk.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Hyo in the Nightfall DLC. He ''will'' rescue Yamiko, or die trying. [[spoiler: And he does.]]
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*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Inari and Mitsuki, Yamiko’s parents, were killed by light adepts in front of her when she was a child. She still cherishes the few keepsakes she has left of them.
* {{Determinator}}: Hyo in the Nightfall DLC. The loss of his sect and forced to go into hiding, the Shadow Empress being sealed, and a cursed wound actively draining his strength ''will not stop him.'' He ''will'' rescue Yamiko, or die trying. [[spoiler: And he does.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Hyo in the Nightfall DLC. The loss of his sect and forced to go into hiding, the Shadow Empress being sealed, and a cursed wound actively draining his strength ''will not stop him.'' He ''will'' rescue Yamiko, or die trying. [[spoiler: And he does.]]
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** [[spoiler And as Aragami, he pulls this off ''again'' in the final battle against Yamiko. He manages to finally kill her by tapping into the light essence power he used in life, knowing that since his body is made of shadows, the use of that technique will destroy him too.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Hyo in the Nightfall DLC. He ''will'' rescue Yamiko, or die trying. [[spoiler: And he does.]]
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: Aragami regaining his memories of being Ryo just in time for the final battle against Yamiko, where he sacrifices himself once again in order to stop her threat to the world once and for all.]]
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** [[spoiler:Aragami.[[spoiler: Aragami. After sacrificing his life to seal away a PhysicalGod, he's dragged back to life without his memories by the same person he died to defeat, told he's a spirit of vengeance whose only reason for existing is to undo his life's work before dying come sunrise, and tricked into killing his own soldiers and friends while thinking all the while that they're his enemies. When he discovers the truth, he succeeds in [[KilledOffForReal killing the Shadow Empress for good]], but his army has still been decimated, Hikaru and Sora are still dead, and he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies in the process as well]].]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During Aragami’s final confrontation with [[spoiler: Yamiko, she elects to play a ‘game’ with him instead of just blasting him out of existence with her powers (there is even a moment where she almost does so in a moment of anger after he says she was only Hyo’s tool). She claims that she does so because he ''did'' save her, and it would be too easy to just kill him… but it’s implied that the real reason is because he resembles her dead teammate Ryuta too much for her to bring herself to do it.]]
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* BaldOfAwesome: From what we see of Captain Yuki in flashbacks, during the war against Nisshoku he has a shaved head in the same fashion as a Buddhist monk. Also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as he was the first of the Kaiho leaders to die from the side-effects of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique they used.
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* BadassBookworm: Captain Yuki, at least in the backstory. According to his chronicles, he was the one that infused the Kaiho army’s weapons with the Hikalcum ore that allows them to wield light essence without extensive training, and was also the first of the original Kaiho leader’s to pick up Life Essence.
* BaldOfAwesome: From what we see of Captain Yuki in flashbacks, during the war against Nisshoku he has a shaved head in the same fashion as a Buddhist monk. Also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as he was the first of the Kaiho leaders to die from the side-effects of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique they used.
* BaldOfAwesome: From what we see of Captain Yuki in flashbacks, during the war against Nisshoku he has a shaved head in the same fashion as a Buddhist monk. Also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as he was the first of the Kaiho leaders to die from the side-effects of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique they used.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ryo, the original Kaiho general, died sealing the Shadow Empress. According to the DLC, this is because he took such a massive fragment of her soul within himself that his body couldn’t handle the strain.]]
** [[spoiler: Ryo manages to pull this off again as Aragami in the final battle against Yamiko. He manages to finally kill her by tapping into the light essence power he used in life, knowing that since his body is made of shadows, the use of that technique will destroy him too.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: [[Spoiler: Aragami/Ryo is able to defeat and kill Yamiko by himself at the end of the game (when previously it took four people using a DangerousForbiddenTechnique to merely seal her) because she’s not at full power, since he still holds a portion of her soul.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Yamiko deeply cared for her parents, [[TrueCompanions teammates]] and her [[ParentalSubstitute Hyo.]] In fact, it was the loss of her loved ones that really set her down the path of darkness.]]
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* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: The Sealing technique developed by the sage Tsuyoshi and the other masters due to the risks that came with using it. It was explicitly only employed against the Shadow Empress as a last resort.]]
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** SealedEvilInASixpack: [[spoiler: As the game goes on, it’s revealed that the sealing is more akin to this. The Talismans you spend most of the game gathering contain pieces of her soul, in addition to all of the Kaiho leaders having a piece sealed inside them as well.]]
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* TheStoic: Being a vengeful spirit without memories, Aragami doesn’t express much in the way of emotion. [[spoiler: [[NotSoStoic This changes once he regains his memories]] of being Ryo, and is appropriately [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grief stricken and horrified]] at the realisation he has spent the entire night killing his own men and friends to free his worst enemy.]]
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* DrunkWithPower: Going off of his chronicles, Hyo somewhat fell prey to this after [[spoiler: Yamiko’s true powers awakened and she became the Shadow Empress]], believing Nisshoku to be invincible and increasingly casually committing atrocities in his Guild’s name, including [[spoiler: massacring the village that the original Kaiho founders hailed from.]]
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* DueToTheDead: Averted in a conversation between two nooks guarding a Nisshoku graveyard, where they muse about defecating on their old enemy’s graves.
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** Played straight with the Mausoleum of the Fallen, which houses and honours the Kaiho’s dead. Nisshoku’s dead are also buried there… in the substantially less pristine Catacombs.
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* ElementalPowers: Much like WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender, this is basis of the mystical abilities in the setting, with those that can utilise these abilities known as ‘Adepts’. According to the sage Tsuyoshi’s notes, there are seven ‘pure’ elements: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[MakingASplash Water]], [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], [[BlowThemAway Wind]], [[LightEmUp Light]], [[CastingAShadow Darkness/Shadow]], and [[SoulPower Life]]. There are also apparently hybrid elements.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Captain Yuki, who died a little before the events of the game. However, the player can find several scrolls that were written by him that detail the founding of the Kaiho army.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Captain Hikaru’s disposition is noted by several mooks to have worsened over time, especially since Yuki’s death. [[spoiler: This is because he, like the other high-ranking members of Kaiho, have a piece of the Shadow Empress’s soul sealed inside him, and that dark presence is slowly but surely taking its toll on him.]]
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* HollywoodDarkness: The majority of the game takes place in outdoor locations at night, but fortunately the moonlight has no problems illuminating everything in beautiful watercolour shades of blue and purple.
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** There’s also quite a few secrets tucked away in the environment that reference other games too, such as a [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid statue of a fox holding a knife next to an eyepatch-wearing skull,]] or a hidden cave featuring a [[VideoGame/DarkSouls secluded campfire that happens to have a katana stabbed into the middle of it.]]
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** There’s also quite a few secrets tucked away in the environment that reference other games too, such as a [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid statue of a fox holding a knife next to an eyepatch-wearing skull,]] or a [[VideoGame/DarkSouls secluded campfire that happens to have a katana stabbed into the middle of it.]]
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