History Webcomic / DaughterOfTheLilies

* ClicheStorm: The [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe book]] character T'Fa'Nii the Clanless has a PunctuationShaker name (pronounced Tiffany), BoobsOfSteel that are barely restrained by a skimpy ChainmailBikini, and a [[{{BFS}} huge sword]] [[SticksToTheBack stuck to her back]], to say nothing of the PurpleProse with which it's all described and the LegCling she gets on her book cover.

* PowerWalk: When Thistle joins Orrig's group in the middle of the [[spoiler:Greater Drath]] crisis, they resolutely [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/519 walk off]] to face it together.
-->'''Orrig:''' Ve have job to do.

* FungusHumongous: When Thistle starts having visions during the magic storm in Chapter 10, her hallucinations include fields of meters-tall mushrooms popping out of the ground.

* SealTheBreach: When a botched SummoningRitual opens a {{Hellgate}} in the University, in desperation, Thistle [[spoiler:[[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/438- physically plugs it]] by [[GreenThumb conjuring a tree over it]]. One professor's [[SkewedPriorities priorities are skewed enough]] to [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/510 complain]] about the damage to the lecture hall, but Master Wu [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/628 fixes it]] offscreen.

* {{Necromancy}}: Drath are damned souls summoned at random from the netherworld and placed in the body of another creature. It's illegal to use people for it (because that makes them dangerously powerful), and if a corpse is used it's even more disgusting than usual.

[[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/part-1-a-girl-with-no-face The first page can be found here.]] The comic went on hiatus for about a year on October 2021, due to contract reasons after the author began working for Marvel Animation.[[note]]No ''new'' content could be shared, but in the meantime the author "rebroadcast" the previous pages from the beginning with remastered art and commentary.[[/note]] The hiatus ended a little over a year later on November 2022 following contract termination.

* AdventureGuild: The Mercenary Guild seems to lean in this direction, given that the unconventional assignments it hands out often involve clearing out monster infestations from forests, mines and ruins.
* AfterTheEnd: Remnants of modern-day Earth like a flashlight and "D" batteries are sold as historic artifacts and [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/707 monsters infest]] the [[RuinsOfTheModernAge ruins of Wien]] (a.k.a. Vienna). What sort of apocalypse replaced technology with magic is unknown, aside from cryptic and wholly untrustworthy hints from a Drath.

* CrystalDragonJesus: The One Who Is Three. There's also mention of a Goddess of unknown provenance. Thistle has tried to research them, but has come up empty so far.

* DragonsAreDivine: Implied by the way a Wizard’s dragon transformation is referred to as a “sacred shape.”

* NinjaProp: Thistle grabs [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/507 Brent's speech bubble]] and smashes it to the ground to [[spoiler:rid him of Drath influence]]. Later, Wu does the same for another speech bubble by cutting though its tail with a hand.

--> '''Thistle:''' ''Now'' who's the crazy ''oooouuuunnn...'' ''[=[=][[PowerStrainBlackout Drops to the floor]]]''

* SealTheBreach: When a botched SummoningRitual opens a {{Hellgate}} in the University, in desperation, Thistle [[spoiler:[[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/438- physically plugs it]] by [[GreenThumb conjuring a tree over it]]. One professor's [[SkewedPriorities priorities are skewed enough]] to [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/510 complain]] about the damage to the lecture hall, but a wizard [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/628 fixes it permanently]] when time is less short.]]

** [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/541 This page]] has a [[Literature/HarryPotter 9 3/4]] engraved in a bit of rubble, and Margot receiving aid from what's recognizably a [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Pearl]].[[note]]And not just any Pearl: ''our Pearl!''[[/note]]

[[quoteright:309:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thistle3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:309:Thistle, making like TheCavalry.]]

* WrongContextMagic: Thistle manages some feats that are beyond the realm of conventional magic, such as [[spoiler:helping a woman have a baby]]. This is implied to have something to do with [[spoiler:the patronage of the One Who Is Three]], but might instead just be creative application of different magical disciplines, like [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/35 air magic]] instead of healing magic for a child with underdeveloped lungs.

[[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/part-1-a-girl-with-no-face The first page can be found here.]] The comic is on indefinite hiatus due to contract reasons.[[note]]No ''new'' content can be shared, but in the meantime the plan is to 'rebroadcast' the previous pages from the beginning with remastered art and commentary.[[/note]]

* AdventureGuild: The Mercenary Guild seems to lean in this direction, given some of the unconventional assignments it hands out.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted by both Margot and[[spoiler: Thistle,]] both of whom have notable scarring on their faces.

* ClicheStorm: The [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe book]] character T'Fa'Nii The Clanless has a PunctuationShaker name (pronounced Tiffany), BoobsOfSteel that are barely restrained by a skimpy ChainmailBikini, and a [[{{BFS}} huge sword]] [[SticksToTheBack stuck to her back]], to say nothing of the PurpleProse with which it's all described and the LegCling she gets on her book cover.

* ConfusedQuestionMark: When Master Wu gets told off for berating Thistle, [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/630 a small flock]] of these, followed by an IdeaBulb when he realizes that she's not actually one of his students.

* CrystalDragonJesus: The One Who is Three. There's also mention of a Goddess of unknown provenance. Thistle has tried to research them, but has come up empty so far.

* DealWithTheDevil: Many of the older or more intelligent draths do this in order to possess you. The teacher of the Magical University that holds [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong drath summoning courses]] notes that the drath are able to sense and latch onto peoples' insecurities, although no one is sure how.

** Way back in Chapter One, there's a good reason [[spoiler: Thistle gets so upset over the death of the cave elves and doesn't use ItIsDehumanizing pronouns for them.]]
** Also regarding Thistle, [[spoiler: the cover page of Chapter 1 -- ''Our Wild Brethren'' is likely a reference to Thistle's brethren.]]
** And another one in the last frame [[spoiler: on [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/212 this page]], with a HiddenInPlainSight sign]].

* IgnoredExpert: Basically any mage with any intelligence refuses to have anything to do with the drath, and the incredibly powerful and wise wizards are the most insistent about it. Everyone else dismisses them as "crazy" and "old-fashioned" for not wanting to ''deal with demons''. Even after the school arc, when a drath tries to summon more drath in what would likely end with the city a festering hellscape, Wu's concerns are brushed off.
* InnateNightVision: Cave elves can see in complete darkness, which could prove something of a give-away for [[spoiler: Thistle]].

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Brody's boast to Master Wu after he is defeated.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: When Thistle saves Brent from [[spoiler:the drach, he sees a glowing golden being, with six arms, wings of flame, and halo-like horns studded with eyes, who appears behind her, burns away the drach, and tells him to fear not and that the servants of the One-Who-Is-Three watch over him]]. When he asks Thistle about it later, she says that while she's seen a vision of such a being as well she has no idea what they could be beyond hypothesizing them to be enemies of the drach, as she's been unable to find anything said or written about them.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Green, hunky, occasionally axe-wielding and inexplicably Russian-accented, but besides that, they're just another sapient species, and just as capable of reasonable and civilized behavior as everybody else. They do have a history of warfare with elves, but note that ''the elves started it''.

* RaceFetish: Orrig isn't thrilled about orcs becoming popular fodder for InUniverse {{Romance Novel}}s like ''[[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/815 My Green Chieftain.]]''

** Whom Thistle really [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/436 works for]]: [[spoiler:the One Who Is Three. Might also be an InternalReveal, since Thistle claims not to have any idea what the One is.]]

** The drath are able to invade living and dead bodies with a touch, mutating and taking control of them while the host spirit is trapped in a BlackBugRoom. [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/322 The results]] [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/336 can be]] [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/419 horrifying.]]

* FantasticSlurs: Ko'- or Ka'- dafekka (male and female, respectively) is a really nasty way of saying "orphan" or "unwanted child".

** Also regarding Thistle, [[spoiler: the cover page of Chapter 1 - ''Our Wild Brethren'' is likely a reference to Thistle's brethren.]]

* GayAesop: A drath mocks the summoning teacher over his gay son as part of a ThanatosGambit. When it gets him angry enough to stomp on it, it merges with him. If the teacher was more tolerant, the whole school arc wouldn't have happened.

** Meanwhile [[spoiler: Thistle's eyes glow gold when she's casting powerful magics, the arrow she enchants for Lyra glows gold, and her coat is edged with gold trim.]]

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Whatever Thistle's face looks like, it's enough to send a cave elf running away in panic. Even [[TheUndead the drath]] recoil from her. [[spoiler:It turns out that the cave elf was simply horrified at the thought that he'd almost tasted the flesh of one of his own.]]

* NinjaProp: Thistle grabs [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/507 Brent's speech bubble]] and smashes it to the ground to [[spoiler:rid him of Drath influence]].

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Green, hunky, occasionally axe-wielding and inexplicably Russian-accented, but besides that, they're just another sapient species, and fairly friendly. They do have a history of warfare with elves, but note that ''the elves started''.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: A woman in Thistle's backstory had suffered several miscarriages, followed by a gravely ill baby, and said that she couldn't bear to try again if the baby didn't survive.

* PointyEars: Common in non-humans -- elves have extra-long pointed ears that extend past their heads, while orcs' ears are pointed but only elongated by an inch or two. Brent, an UnevenHybrid, has only a slight point to his ears from his orc grandparent.

[[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/part-1-a-girl-with-no-face The first page can be found here.]] The comic is on hiatus until October 2022 due to contract reasons.[[note]]No ''new'' content can be shared until October 2022, but in the meantime the plan is to 'rebroadcast' the previous pages from the beginning with remastered art and commentary.[[/note]]

* AdultFear:
** A woman in Thistle's backstory had suffered several miscarriages, followed by a gravely ill baby, and said that she couldn't bear to try again if the baby didn't survive.
** The Greater Drath is able to compromise [[spoiler:Professor Fike]] by blaming him for [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his own son's death]]. Worse, it might be true.

* StylisticSuck: The T'Fa'Nii the Clanless in-universe novel series -- {{Contemptible Cover}}s and PurpleProse combined with in-universe UnfortunateImplications[[invoked]] as Thistle reads her "kinda racist" adventures out loud.

* ContemptibleCover: InUniverse, Lyra is [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/807 not impressed]] by the published tales of [[BarbarianHero T'Fa'Nii the Clanless]] or her ChainmailBikini.