History VideoGame / TearstoTiara2

* BoobsOfSteel: Subverted for Tarte, who's a goddess. Played straight for the other female characters.

* BladeOnAStick: Izebel and Monomachus. Also a common mook weapon.

* ActionGirl: All female characters minus Charis.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Elissa as she interrupts Daphnis' attempt at HeroicSacrifice.

* AllMythsAreTrue

** Hamil and Tarte takes turns declaring their love for each other [[spoiler: as [[WarGod Mel]][[AxCrazy qart's]] BloodLust begins to take over Hamil.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: There's a good reason the House of Barca rules Hispania and leads the Canaanites.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Tarte crowns Hamil as Hero-King of Hispania at the conclusion of Chapter 6. With a Tiara of Wheat for Hamil and a Tiara of Flower for herself.
** Though not a traditional crowning, [[spoiler: at the end the signal flares from the remaining legions of TheEmpire shows they acknowledge Hamil's ''Imperium'' as the new ruler of the HegemonicEmpire]]

* TheBait: The freaking [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]].
** [[spoiler: Hamil one-ups this by using the entire fleet of Qart Hadasht as bait]]

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Justified. [[CorruptChurch The Divine Order]] is actively repressing all non-religious knowledge.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Atlus' translation is full of it. Special mention goes to
** Have Hamil say he ''won't'' become Melqart during his pact with Tarte, when everything pointed to him saying he ''will''.
** Translating ''gundan'', an military formation of 20k to 30k men, as ''platoon'', a group of 15 to 30 men.
** [[spoiler: Turning Izebel's rant at Hasdrubal about the foolishness of people into a rant about the foolishness of Hasdrubal]]
* BodyguardCrush: Daphnis and Elissa

* BookEnds: The story starts and ends with DivineIntervention

* TheChainsOfCommanding: In the beginning Hamil is clearly unable to bear the pressure of command any longer, though he only shows it to Tarte and Tanit. [[SuperPoweredAlterEgo They both]] [[YouAreNotAlone say they'll help carry the burden]].

** TookALevelInBadass: Dion the LovableCoward stops advocating for surrender at every turn about a third of the way in. [[spoiler: Later on he saves everyone from CompellingVoice by engaging in a music duel. He then saves Tarte and Hamil in the Pantheon.]]
** TookALevelInKindness: Happens before the story starts. [[spoiler: Hamil was a very cold and distant child. He doesn't think twice in resorting to scorched earth tactics or destroying his own capital city in order to win a battle simulation. And he doesn't understand why his father find this sad. In the seven years after Hasdrubal's death, having had to watch over the Canaanites suffer under the rule of TheEmpire, he learns why. He now does his absolute best to protect everything and everyone. He will still use those tactics, but only if there is absolutely no other choice.]]
* TheChessmaster: Several in the storyline. The story's heavily based on the UsefulNotes/PunicWars, what did you expect ?
* CityOnTheWater: Tartessos

* CompellingVoice: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Master of Rats.]] [[Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin Piper style.]]

* CrystalDragonJesus: [[CorruptChurch The Divine Church]].
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Monomachus' LastStand.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Metatronius processes [[BigBad Abraxas]] to break his seal and resume heaven's original plan to turn humans into helpless praying idiots.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Izebel.]]
* DivineIntervention: The story begins with Astarte joining Hispania's rebellion against TheEmpire.
** [[spoiler: [[BookEnds It ends with her mother Ishtar leading all the Ba'al gods in saving her.]]]]

* TheEmpire: the Divine Empire.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Millenijanus

* TheFatalist: The dragons.
** The elves before Arawen showed up. [[spoiler: Millenijanus involves in part of turning humans into this.]]
* FinalBossPreview: Abraxas' projection shows up at Cemenelum Gate
* FightingFromTheInside: Keto, the little boy from the unnamed village.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation
** TheBattleDidntCount: Before your final encounter with them, battles with Izebel and/or Laelius always have a timed survival or some form of escape as the winning condition, with defeating them being a bonus option. But no matter whether or not you defeat them, the story always pretend you took the escape option.

* GeniusLoci: Tartessos.

* [[GirlOfMyDreams Goddess Of My Dreams]]: Tanit to Hamil. [[LovesMyAlterEgo Much to Tart's chagrin]].

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: A major theme.

* HeelFaceTurn: Aemilia does one as soon as [[DefeatMeansFriendship Hamil proves to her there's still hope and he's worthy of her considerable skills by defeating her]].

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hamil really just wants to travel. But he never once gives up his responsibility.

* KillItWithFire: the Flames of Creation.

* LadyOfWar: Tanit.
* LaResistance: The Barcid Party.

* LiteralMinded: No Tarte. Charis can not literately shoulder your weight.

** [[DefeatMeansFriendship Beat Them Up]]: Aemilia.

* NeutralNoLonger: The city of Tartessos.
* NewGamePlus
* NintendoHard: A frequent complaint on Japanese release is "Easy Mode isn't". It was common enough the developers made a Very Easy Mode.
** Then Atlus decide to scrape Easy Mode and just rename Very Easy Mode into the new Easy Mode.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[CrystalDragonJesus Simon]]

* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: [[CueTheSun With a sunrise to mark the return of the Golden Age]]

* RunningGag: Dion's unsuccessful attempts at becoming popular with the ladies.

* SealedEvilInACan: Metatronius

* TownWithADarkSecret: The unnamed village. The [[PreacherMan priest's]] description of it sounds like Benedictine Monasticism. [[spoiler:Turns out [[KnightTemplar the priest]] is a GiantSpider, the village full of monsters, the [[MassHypnosis inhabitants are brainwashed]] and forced to pray to Watos, and it's all a test for a bigger project by [[TheEmpire the Divine Empire]].]]

* VestigialEmpire: TheEmpire ever since it changed its name.

* {{Workaholic}}: Amelia's group of bureaucrats.
** Epilogue reveals, as expected, she herself is one.

* WorthyOpponent: Monomachus and Golyat.

* BarbarianTribe: TheEmpire regards them as dirt. Saul says they are NotSoDifferent and tries to co-exist.

* NotSoDifferent: When discussing the prospects of an alliance with Qart Hadast, Monomachus calls them cowards for abandoning their previous alliance as soon as the war turned against Hispania, and Hanno not a real friend and family because he just sat back and watched Hasdrubal die. Enneads reminds him that they, loyal subordinates, also sat back and watched him die.

* OurElvesAreBetter: The gods of [[CanaaniteMythology Ba'al]] are actually powerful elves who lived with humans in ancient times, teaching and guiding them.

* BiggerBad: Metatronius

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: [[BiggerBad Metatronius]] processes [[BigBad Abraxas]] to break his seal and resume heaven's original plan to turn humans into helpless praying idiots.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: [[BiggerBad Metatronius]] tries to take Hamil with him. Instead, Tarte [[TakingTheBullet takes the]] WaveMotionGun.]]

* IHaveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: One of two reasons Abraxas turned to the Millenijanus plan. The other is DemonicPossession.]]

* CompellingVoice: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Master of Rats.]] [[ThePiedPiperofHamelin Piper style.]]

* TheChessmaster: Several in the storyline. The story's heavily based on the PunicWars, what did you expect ?

* TheLeader: Hamil is type I, II, IV, and sometimes III. Really when your character is based on [[PunicWars Hannibal Barca]], there's no way you're not one.

* MeaningfulName: While all major characters, and lots of minor characters, gets one, special mention goes to [[TheHero Hamil]] who's name has multiple meanings. Hamilicar Barca is the father of Hannibal Barca, famous Carthaginian general of [[PunicWars Second Punic War]] who almost brought the UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic to its knees. The name Hamilicar means brother of Melqart. Barca means lightning (Hamil's element). In universe it's stated the name Hamilicar is reserved for the member of the Barcid family who is the strongest and most closely tied to Astarte.