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2 ->''"I'm your goddess Astarte."''
3-->-- '''Tarte, [[OncePerEpisode Once Per Cutscene]]'''
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5 ->''The Story of the Lost Goddess and the Overlord''
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7The sequel to ''VisualNovel/TearsToTiara'' by {{Creator/Aquaplus}}, ''Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord''[[note]]''Tears to Tiara II: Haou no Matsuei''[[/note]] is a 2013 [=PS3=] TurnBasedStrategy game that follows the style of the ''VisualNovel/TearsToTiara'' [=PS3=] port. It follows a similar style of mixing mythology with Roman history, this time mixing [[Myth/HebrewMythology Phoenician Mythology]] with the UsefulNotes/PunicWars.
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9Atlus released the English localization in North America on October 14th, 2014. It was released in Europe by NIS America on November 7th.
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11The period is some time in the near future after the events of the first game. In the town of Tamar in central Hispania, the Canaanites are being oppressed by [[TheEmpire the Divine Empire]]. They are heavily taxed, treated as slaves, and forced to use stones from their temple to build a new church to the Almighty Watos. All because the previous governor of Hispania, Hasdrubal Barca, had revolted against the empire seven years ago and failed.
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13[[TheHero Hamilcar "Hamil" Barca]], son of Hasdrubal, is now leader of the Canaanites. However he is dumb, has no skills in magic or sword, and willingly allows imperial soldiers to beat him and laugh at him. All of the Canaanites are disappointed at their leader, and [[TheEmpire the Divine Empire]] thinks he's a joke. Behind the scenes, [[LaResistance The Barca Faction]] are planning a rebellion. Unbeknownst to everyone, [[ObfuscatingStupidity Hamil is an incredibly cunning youth]]. He wishes to prevent a rebellion at all costs, and does it by playing dumb. He hears the cry of a girl and finds her somehow having tangled her foot underneath the roots of a tree. She calls herself the goddess of harvest and war Astarte, but is unable to use any magic, to her surprise.
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15Hamil realizes a rebellion is planned, and on the way home that day [[CruelToBeKind harshly gets Tarte to leave town]] to prevent her being persecuted by [[CorruptChurch The Divine Order]] for calling herself a goddess. He is then approached by [[KnightTemplar Zaras]] who plan on using him to bait out and destroy the Barcid party. Hamil continues to play dumb and goes along with Zaras' plans in order to prevent the destruction of war falling on Hispania.
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17At the festival, Zaras unveils a surprise. Tarte has been captured and is about to be burnt at the stake for calling herself a goddess. For seven years, Hamil has prepared for this Ba'al festival. He is prepared to die and sacrifice the entire [[LaResistance Barca Faction]] if it meant preventing a rebellion. But with Tarte unconscious, about to be burnt alive before him, Hamil breaks the facade, gives into his anger, and summons forth the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide God of War Melqart]].
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19The rebellion has begun.
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24!!This series provides examples of:
25* AccidentalMarriage: Hamil thought the religious ritual he performed meant he's married to Astarte. Tarte didn't. Not that she's complaining.
26* ActionGirl:
27** All female characters minus Charis.
28** Of 7 female characters in the Character Introduction, 4 are front line fighters. This is ''higher'' than the percentage of male front line fighters to support[[note]]50%, although that depends on how one wants to count [[WholesomeCrossdresser Daphnis]][[/note]].
29* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Tartetos, an [[CityOnTheWater entire city floating in the middle of a lake]]. Complete with walls light enough to float, but stronger than anything humans can build.
30* TheAlliance: Hamil forms one to take on TheEmpire.
31* AlliterativeTitle: '''T'''ears '''T'''o '''T'''iara '''2'''
32%%* AllMythsAreTrue
33* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:
34** Elissa as she interrupts Daphnis' attempt at HeroicSacrifice.
35** Hamil and Tarte take turns declaring their love for each other [[spoiler: as [[WarGod Melqart's]] BloodLust begins to take over Hamil.]]
36* AntiGrinding: You get less experience against units of increasing lower level. But that doesn't stop "Apple Throwing". And then there's also the overlevel penalty to consider where characters cannot be overleveled compared to the highest leveled enemy on the field.
37* ArrangedMarriage: Hanno tries to arrange one between Elissa and Hamil to cement an alliance, as she would be both a wife and a hostage. Both sides ends up backing down. Elissa joins the party to act as a hostage and combatant to cement the alliance instead.
38* ATasteOfPower: The beginning of the game has Hamil transformed into a level 99 Melqart. Awesomeness ensues.
39* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: There's a good reason the House of Barca rules Hispania and leads the Canaanites.
40* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning:
41** 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.
42** Though not a traditional crowning, [[spoiler: at the end the signal flares from the remaining legions of TheEmpire show they acknowledge Hamil's ''Imperium'' as the new ruler of the HegemonicEmpire]]
43* BackToBackBadasses: Monomachus and Enneads in the opening movie.
44%%* TheBait:
45%%** The freaking [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]].
46%%** [[spoiler: Hamil uses the entire fleet of Qart Hadasht as bait.]]
47* BarbarianTribe: TheEmpire regards them as dirt. Saul says they are [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't so different]] and tries to co-exist.
48* BatmanGambit: Izebel's plan for the Tartessos campaign. It requires both Hamil and Laelius to act exactly as she planned. And they do, because they both believe very strongly in protecting the innocent. And in the case of Hamil [[spoiler: because he told her all his battle plans when he was a young child before he lost his memories.]]
49* 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.
50* BeliefMakesYouStupid:
51** Justified. [[CorruptChurch The Divine Order]] is actively repressing all non-religious knowledge.
52** Izebel comments to herself that Laelius, a knight of TheEmpire bent on restoring the GloryDays, does not know that during said days the common soldiers of the empire was responsible for most of the construction and would have been perfectly able of reconstructing a stone arch bridge.
53* {{BFS}}: The Greatsword of Tanit. Tarte probably wouldn't be able to even lift it if she wasn't the ''Goddess of War''.
54* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The slaves and gladiators are on the ropes, unable to break through the Praetorians standing between them and the Alps and about to be wiped out. Just then, Hamil and Tarte, leading the entire [[TheAlliance alliance]] burst through the glaciers behind the Praetorians and saves the day.]]
55* BlindIdiotTranslation: Atlus' translation is full of it. Special mention goes to...
56** Having Hamil say he ''won't'' become Melqart during his pact with Tarte, when everything pointed to him saying he ''will''.
57** Translating ''gundan'', a military formation of 20k to 30k men, as ''platoon'', a group of 15 to 30 men.
58** [[spoiler: Turning Izebel's rant at Hasdrubal about the foolishness of people into a rant about the foolishness of Hasdrubal.]]
59%%* BodyguardCrush: Daphnis and Elissa
60* BookBurning: Mentioned as part of the Millenijanus plan.
61* BookEnds:
62** The story starts and ends with DivineIntervention.
63** Chapter 1 and Chapter 12 both ends with lots of signal flares communicating victory appearing as brilliant fireworks.
64* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Izebel. And you don't learn her story until Hamil fatally runs her through with his sword.]]
65* BrutalBonusLevel: Hypogeum. Hard even with everyone at level 99.
66* CallBack: [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly The Ba'al gods are powerless without people's worship]] is brought up in Chapter 1. [[spoiler: It comes back to save Tarte's life in the ending.]]
67* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler: Monomachus, though he didn't let Hamil know until he died.]] Hamil's Aura Project is part this, though he prefers traveling.
68* TheCavalry: Tarte summons one in the form of Elven elephants and Taros.
69* TheChainsOfCommanding:
70** 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]] say [[YouAreNotAlone they'll help carry the burden]].
71** [[spoiler: Eshmun, [[{{Reincarnation}} Hamil's past self]], was completely crushed by the responsibility and let Melqart take over completely because Tarte couldn't be there.]]
72* CharacterDevelopment: Hamil. From questioning his choice to rebel and being crushed by TheChainsOfCommanding, to a confident leader set on creating a good HegemonicEmpire.
73* ChekhovsGag: Tarte trying to gain worshipers, usually with Kleito teasing her over Hamil. [[spoiler: Tarte is trying to gain worshipers to wake up her clan, the rest of the Ba'al gods. She succeeds and in the climax the Ba'al gods saves her life.]]
74* ChekhovsGunman: Golyat first show up commanding his legions to crush Hispania's rebellion. As he retreats, Hamil offers him land grants for his veterans if he switch sides, something TheEmpire did in its heyday. He admits the offer is very enticing but it's too late and they'll loose. [[spoiler: Fast forward to the final approach on Alba Longa, as the party wonder if any of TheEmpire's legions will switch sides, they find him having already put the city under siege and is waiting for them.]]
75* TheChessmaster: Several in the storyline. The story's heavily based on the UsefulNotes/PunicWars, what did you expect ?
76%%* CityOnTheWater: Tartessos
77* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[TheHero Hamil]] raises the battle cry of Astarte, and all Canaanites at the Ba'al Festival follows suit. This empowers Tarte, which prevents both her and Hamil from being burnt alive.
78* CleavageWindow: AxCrazy Izebel and {{Ojou}} Elissa have these in their outfit.
79* CompellingVoice: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Master of Rats]]. [[Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin Piper style.]]
80* ContinuityCameo: Epona shows up at one point.
81* ContinuityNod: There's no shortage of nods to [[VisualNovel/TearsToTiara the first game]]. [[LaResistance The Barca Faction]] says themselves they have been given hopes of launching a successful rebellion by the imperial defeats at Albion.
82* CorruptChurch: the Divine Order is back, this time adding enslavement and brutal taxation onto its list.
83* CruelToBeKind: Hamil's attempt to get Tarte to leave town. It kind of backfires in that his harsh words lead to her capture.
84%%* CrystalDragonJesus: [[CorruptChurch The Divine Church]].
85%%* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Monomachus' LastStand.
86* DemonicPossession:
87** [[spoiler: Metatronius processes [[BigBad Abraxas]] to break his seal and resume heaven's original plan to turn humans into helpless praying idiots.]]
88** [[spoiler: Hamil came close to being possessed by Melqart.]]
89%%* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Izebel.]]
90* 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.]]]]
91* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Hamil dreams of the forging of the swords of Melqart and Tanit over a thousand years ago.
92* DreamSequence: Hamil dreams of meeting the supreme goddess Tanit in an oasis and begs for guidance. His request is answered and [[spoiler:Tanit appears on earth as Astarte.]]
93* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Two sets. Wind>Earth>Water>Fire>Wind in one. Holy>Cosmic>Darkness>Holy in the other.
94* EliteMooks: In game and in story, Abraxas' praetorian guard legions.
95* TheEmpire: The Divine Empire.
96%%* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Millenijanus
97* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Izebel. Her FaceHeelTurn was done on Hasdrubal's orders. But the entire string of events, and really her entire life, has caused her to loose faith in people.]]
98* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Like [[VisualNovel/TearsToTiara the first game]], a Classical setting, this time around the Western Mediterranean.
99%%* TheFatalist:
100%%** The dragons.
101%%** The elves before Arawen showed up.
102%%** [[spoiler: Millenijanus involves in part of turning humans into this.]]
103* FinalBossPreview: Abraxas' projection shows up at Cemenelum Gate.
104%%* FightingFromTheInside: Keto, the little boy from the unnamed village.
105* TheFundamentalist: Obviously since we have Religious KnightTemplar from a [[TheTheocracy Theocracy]].
106** Also discussed. Monomachus suggests drumming up religious fervor to turn the entire thing into a war of religion to solve their manpower shortage, with the people of Hispania warshipping Astarte and the Ba'al gods fighting against TheEmpire who worship Watos. Despite frequently voicing her desire for followers, Tarte says she will not go along with the plan, as people so forced and/or brainwashed are not true believers. Hamil agrees, and decides to form TheAlliance to solve their manpower shortage.
107%%* GameplayAndStorySegregation
108* GenderReveal: Starts when Daphnis lies to the slavers that he's a girl to give Elissa a chance of escape. Elissa stands up and reveals that Daphnis is a guy, while she's the girl. All the girls of the party follow suit.
109%%* GeniusLoci: Tartessos.
110* GiantSpider: Game monster. And then there's [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar the priest]] of the unnamed village.]]
111* GirlOfMyDreams: Tanit to Hamil. [[LovesMyAlterEgo Much to Tart's chagrin]].
112* GloryDays: Two. The Canaanites and the people of Hispania under Eshmun. Laelius mentions that TheEmpire has seen much better days and he's determined to return it to its former glory.
113* GodIsGood: The Ba'al and dragons certainly are.
114* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The Ba'al gods do [[spoiler: as people's beliefs are the only thing that ties them to earth and prevent them from going into a coma.]] Tarte at first could not cast even a single heal spell and is no different from a teenage girl because her people are forced by [[TheEmpire the Divine Empire]] to worship Watos, and her temples are torn down to build churches. Only by [[TheHero Hamil]]'s desperate pleas for guidance was she even able to take form. Her powers come back to her on the Canaanites' battle cry of Astarte, and prevents both of them from being burnt alive.
115* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Izebel. The whole time she was following Hasdrubal's last orders while [[DeathSeeker looking forward to her own death]].]]
116* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Played with a bit. While TheEmpire is evil, it wasn't until the [[CorruptChurch Divine Church]] took over. Hamil doesn't really intend on destroying TheEmpire but return it to what it was. [[spoiler: At the end he reinstates the senate as the ruling body, but leads the discussion as the first citizen.]]
117* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inverted. Daphnis shoots. Elissa smashes.
118%%* HaveYouSeenMyGod: A major theme.
119* TheHeart: Hamil and Tarte are TheHeart to the Canaanites, while Charis is TheHeart of the party.
120* HeelFaceTurn:
121** 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]].
122** Laelius is ordered by Izebel to massacre a village. He then finds out a separate force is on its way to massacre the village so those villagers would die even if he disobeyed orders. So he does one to save the villagers.
123* HegemonicEmpire: Hamil's Aura Project: to recreate the original Empire by forming a HegemonicEmpire centered around Hispania.
124* HeroicSacrifice: The major theme of the story is sacrifice.[[note]]The first two lines of the OP are "When you get your hands on something important, you must throw away something. If you can't choose what to toss away, you will continue to loose things while gaining nothing.[[/note]] So there are lots. Some major ones are:
125** [[spoiler: Hadrubal sacrificing his own life to ensure he's son's rebellion in the future will succeed]]
126** [[spoiler: Izebel "killing" the man she loves, enduring the hatred of all her old friends, colleagues, and little-brother figure, and finally loosing her own life to shield Hispania from the worst of TheEmpire while preparing LaResistance for what's to come.]]
127** [[spoiler: Tarte luring Melqart with her own blood, preparing to die to satisfy Hamil/Melqart's BloodLust. Hamil will have none of it and runs himself through with his sword to prevent Melqart from taking over and killing Tart.]]
128** [[spoiler: Monomachus and [[LaResistance the old Barcid Party]] stay behind to defend Hispania to buy time for Hamil to take out the Holy Emperor, then lures the Kraken to Tartessos to buy a few more days time for the rest of Hispania, then dies defending Tartessos.]]
129** [[spoiler: Tarte sacrifices herself [[TakingTheBullet taking Metatronius']] WaveMotionGun intended for Hamil]]
130* HumanResources: Used by TheEmpire to make Golmes.
131* IAmSpartacus: Inverted. The pirates call for the woman on board to come forth. [[WholesomeCrossdresser Daphnis]] offers himself up, only to have Elissa interrupt, and one by one the actual females on board stand up. And they straight up beat the pirates and takes over the ship, no distraction needed.
132* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: [[spoiler: Izebel. Hasdrubal actually has feelings for her, but wants to follow his late wife's wishes by raising Hamil first.]]
133* IJustWantToBeNormal:
134** Hamil really just wants to travel. But he never once gives up his responsibility.
135** [[spoiler: Turns out, contrary to legend, Eshmun as well]].
136* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: One of two reasons Abraxas turned to the Millenijanus plan. The other is DemonicPossession.]]
137* KamehameHadoken: Kleito shooting the Flames of Creation.
138* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: [[BattleBallgown Elissa]] and [[{{Meido}} Daphnis]].
139* KillItWithFire: The Flames of Creation.
140* KingIncognito: The party does this to travel to the Rhenus frontiers. There they meet a barbarian fur merchant girl Artio [[spoiler:who turns out to be princess of the Suebi]].
141* KissOfLife: Hamil drinks lots of water after their ship sinks. Heal spell has no use and Tarte is getting desperate. Kleito and Charis says he needs proper care, hardening Tart's resolve. Subverted when she gives him a full force punch to his stomach instead.
142* KnightTemplar: Members of the Divine Order. [[spoiler:Even non-human members.]]
143* KrakenAndLeviathan: Kraken appears in one of the stages as a semi-controlled monster as TheBait in Izebel's plans.
144* KryptoniteFactor: Like the first game, the Gravitas aura from Obelisks.
145* TheLeader: Hamil is type I, II, IV, and sometimes III. Really when your character is based on [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]], there's no way you're not one.
146%%* LadyOfWar: Tanit.
147%%* LaResistance: The Barcid Party.
148* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Hamil doesn't remember anything prior to seven years ago. The first thing he remembers is [[YouKilledMyFather his father Hasdrubal being burnt alive in front of him and Izebel laughing like mad behind him]].[[spoiler: His memories were [[TransferableMemory erased and stored in the Sword of Melqart]] to ensure that the secrets of the House of Barca do not fall into the hands of TheEmpire.]]
149* LevelGrinding: Players can grind levels on free maps. The experience gained decrease the higher the difference in level, but there's always using skills and items on yourself, known as "Apple Throwing".
150* LiteralMinded: No, Tarte. Charis can not literately shoulder your weight.
151* LovesMyAlterEgo: Whenever Tarte asks Hamil about his meeting with "her big sister" Tanit, he voice his unending admiration. Leads to punches, blushes, and tears.
152* LostTechnology: Tartessos has a bunch from the {{Precursors}} and earlier human times. [[CorruptChurch The Divine Order]] is also actively suppressing knowledge, and many characters mention human technology that has recently been lost.
153* MagneticHero: Hamil. Let's see here now...
154** DefeatMeansFriendship: Aemilia.
155** RecruitmentByRescue: Charis in a bit of back story. Artio, Elissa, and Daphnis
156** Tell Them Your Quest: Tartessos and by extention Kleito. Aemilia. Golyat [[EleventhHourRanger joins much later]]
157** FireForgedFriends: Artio, Elissa, Daphnis, etc.
158* MassHypnosis: [[spoiler:The villagers of the unnamed village]] are under one.
159* 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 [[UsefulNotes/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.
160* MemoryJar: The Sword of Melqart stores the memories of all its past users. However, they are not easily accessible, and not being strong enough [[spoiler: would cause the sword to wipe the memory of the user. Hasdrubal uses this to purposely wipe the memory of his son Hamil so the secrets of their family does not fall into the hands of TheEmpire.]]
161* MilitarySchool: Cademia is actually one posing as a normal village school. It's run by LaResistance, teaches combat, magic, and leadership skills.
162* MindControlEyes: [[spoiler:The villagers of the unnamed village.]]
163* MysticalPlague: TheBlackDeath style. Summoned by [[PlagueMaster The King of Death.]]
164* MyGreatestFailure: Enneads and Monomachus has the same two: [[ILetGwenStacyDie Hasdrubal's death]] and their failure to see through Hamil's disguise and help him.
165* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: Hasdrubal takes his own life and gives his most able subordinate Izebel one last order to ensure that his son's rebellion will succeed.]]
166%%* NeutralNoLonger: The city of Tartessos.
167%%* NewGamePlus
168* NintendoHard: A frequent complaint on the Japanese release is "Easy Mode isn't". It was common enough the developers made a Very Easy Mode. Then Atlus decided to scrape Easy Mode and just renamed Very Easy Mode into the new Easy Mode.
169* NotSoDifferentRemark: 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.
170* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:As [[TheHero Hamil]] is being taken over by [[WarGod Mel]][[AxCrazy qart's]] BloodLust, he pretends that he's already taken over so that Tarte would kill him before he's taken over and kills her. She sees through it right away and chooses to be eaten alive rather than kill Hamil. This prompts Hamil to try to kill himself in order to save Tarte.]]
171* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[TheHero Hamil]] pretends to be a dumb, unambitious youth lacking any sword skills, magical powers, or will to avenge his father or frees his people. He did this for seven years to prevent a rebellion by [[LaResistance the Barcid Party]] for as long as he could, and at the same time save up enough magic to give [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Melqart]] enough power to defeat [[TheEmpire the imperial army]] if the rebellion does occur. He throws off the disguise to save Tarte.
172* OurElvesAreDifferent: The gods of [[CanaaniteMythology Ba'al]] are actually powerful elves who lived with humans in ancient times, teaching and guiding them.
173%%* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[CrystalDragonJesus Simon]]
174* OurGodsAreDifferent: Expanded on from [[VisualNovel/TearsToTiara the first game]]. Powerful lineages of the precursor races are worshiped as gods by humans. The people of Hispania mainly, tho not exclusively, worship the gods of [[CanaaniteMythology Ba'al]], of which Astarte is one. They appear on earth to teach and guide the people. [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly They need prayer to be powerful]]. [[{{God}} Watos]] [[HaveYouSeenMyGod is still missing]].
175* OutGambitted: A couple of times Hamil's plans are countered by Izebel as if she knows exactly what he's going to do. [[spoiler: She does. He told him before he lost his memories.]]
176* PlagueMaster: The King of Death.
177* {{Precursors}}: Still around. And the powerful lineages are worshiped as gods by humans.
178* AProtagonistShallLeadThem: Hamil, the descendent of the Hegemon and the last of the House of Barca.
179* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: [[CueTheSun With a sunrise to mark the return of the Golden Age]].
180* PeninsulaOfPowerleveling: Buy a lot of apples. Go to the very first area, set the difficulty to Easy Mode, and use the apple all the way. Put it back to Hard mode before finishing the stage (if concerned about the difficulty trophy). Of course, this is prevented by the "overlevel" penalty and preventing getting [[RankInflation the S rank at the end of the level]], but if players don't care about that one, congratulations: you've just made the main storyline a cakewalk. The real application of this for players who want to play at Hard Mode, is that players only need ''one character'' at level 99 while the rest can be at the levels lower than the highest leveled enemy and still get the S Rank at the end of the stage.
181* ProudMerchantRace: The people of Qart Hadast under Hanno.
182* ProudWarriorRace: Canaanites and the Barcid family are this, exemplified by Monomachus. Subverted by [[TheHero Hamilicar Barca]], the last of the House of Barca.
183* RecurringBoss: Izebel and Laelius. Izebel is impossible to kill straight up during your first encounter with her on the highest difficulties even with Melqart (though you can still kill her other ways). They both get very gradually easier.
184* RefusalOfTheCall: [[TheHero Hamil]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity plays dumb to prevent a rebellion]], and was willing to let the [[KnightTemplar Zaras]] kill him and the entire [[LaResistance Barcid Party]] and enslave all the people of Hispania if it meant preventing the death and destruction of war. Seeing Tarte about to be burnt at the stake changes his mind.
185* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Hamil against Izebel and [[TheEmpire the Divine Empire]]. Subverted at Eburon. [[TheHero Hamil]] pretends to fly into one [[YouKilledMyFather on seeing Izebel]] at the beginning of the assault on the bridge of Eburon, but is actually just buying time for the rest of the assault team to destroy the bridge. Once the destruction of the bridge is certain, he almost flies into a real one.
186* RulingCouple: Hamil and Tarte.
187* RunningGag:
188** Dion's unsuccessful attempts at becoming popular with the ladies.
189** Daphnis' offhand HoYay remarks and Elissa's reactions to them.
190** Kleito and Tarte arguing over getting worshipers, usually Hamil. Doubles as ChekhovsGag.
191** Simon making a joke, and getting threatened with burning his staff.
192* ShownTheirWork: Surpassing [[VisualNovel/TearsToTiara the first game]]. The amount of details corresponding to the Classical period, the Punic Wars, and Phoenician mythology is amazing.
193** TheHero is based on Hannibal Barca but named after his father. Monomachus is a real life Carthaginian general under Hannibal. Enneads is a book on Neoplatonism. Dion is short for Diogenes. Charis is one of the three Graces. Laelius is general and friend of Scipio Africanus. Aemilia is Scipio's wife. Astarte, Tanit, Eshmun and Melqart are all real Phoenician gods, [[spoiler:and were really at one time thought of as two gods, Tanit-Astarte and Eshmun-Melqart.]]
194** Tamar is roughly Toletum. Avron is a mix of Hibera and Emporion. Tartessos, a mix of {{Atlantis}} and [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Tenochtitlan]], is named after one of the earliest Phoenician colonies on the Iberian Peninsula. Cemenelum, part of modern Nice, was the capital of the Roman province of Alpes Maritimae. Imperial Capital Alba Longa, based on AncientRome, is named after the real city state that founded the Latin League and was a major rival to Rome. Carthage appears with its Phoenician name of Qart Hadast.
195* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: As a goddess who haven't appeared on earth for a long time, Tarte needs to be taught what ''hunger'' is and ''how to eat''.
196%%* SealedEvilInACan: Metatronius
197* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler: [[GeniusLoci Tartessos]]. Its warship is effectively a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleass Galleass]] in an age of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic-era_warships#Quinquereme Quinqueremes]], capable of taking on Krakens without trouble. [[TeleportersAndTransporters It can also teleport dragons in for its own defense.]]]]
198* SuperPoweredAlterEgo: Goddess Tanit. Tarte tells everyone Tanit is her older sister.
199* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The God of War Melqart, who [[TheHero Hamil]] summon to take possession of his body by promising the blood and destruction of [[TheEmpire The Divine Empire]]. Enneads and Monomack describes the technique as going berserk. At the Ba'al festival, Melqart wipes out an entire squad of Golmes in one blow, [[AxCrazy fights without concern for collateral damage, laughs as he effortlessly deflects fire arrows of imperial soldiers, and forgets all about protecting Tarte]] until she sings. Not that she was actually in any danger by that point.
200* SweetPollyOliver: The girls do this so they can be taken in the same slave ship.
201* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Tarte takes Metatronius' WaveMotionGun for Hamil.]]
202* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Metatronius tries to take Hamil with him. Instead, Tarte [[TakingTheBullet takes the]] WaveMotionGun.]]
203* TeleportersAndTransporters: Kleito has teleport spell with a pretty low success rate. In Story she can also teleport at will within bounds of Tartessos. [[spoiler: [[GeniusLoci The city]] [[StoryBreakerPower can also teleport in dragons.]]]]
204* TheTheocracy: If TheEmpire wasn't one in the first game, it is now.
205* TinCanRobot: Calcos and the other [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Talos]].
206* 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.]]
207* 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.]]* 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]].]]
208* TransferableMemory: [[spoiler: The Sword of Melqart holds the memories of all its past users. Not being strong or mature enough to use the sword would cause a memory wipe on the user.]]
209* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Everyone can see that the attack on Tamar is an attempt to lure the main Hispanic forces out of Tartessos for battle. As the undefended village is where the families of many of the party members live, they sally forth anyway.
210* TrojanPrisoner: [[TheHero Hamil]] orders the assault force to take the main characters prisoner before the bridge at Eburon in order to infiltrate the imperial base. With a small dose of WoundedGazelleGambit.
211* TwoTeacherSchool: Cademia. Justified. It's a run down village school ran by [[LaResistance "retired veterans"]] about to be forcibly closed down by TheEmpire.
212* UnfinishedBusiness: [[spoiler: Simon wants to save [[BigBad Abraxas]], his last and closest discipline]]
213* UnstoppableRage: [[TheHero Hamil]] flies into one on seeing Tarte tied at the stake about to be burnt alive. He raises the cry of rebellion and summon forth the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide God of War Melqart]].
214* TheUsurper: When Hasdrubal rose up in rebellion, Izebel defected to the Empire and drove him to his death. She then takes over his position of Governor-General of Hispania.
215%%* VestigialEmpire: TheEmpire ever since it changed its name.
216* VigilanteMan: Hamil, before the start of the game. Particularly brutal soldiers and unsavory tax collectors who came to his town had a tendency to "disappear." He covers his tracks thoroughly enough (waiting until they're in the vicinity of another town, constructing plausible causes of death) that even after his ObfuscatingStupidity drops, only Dion thinks to connect it to Hamil. [[spoiler:In fact, he covers it up so well that a statistician sees the corresponding improvement in conditions without a clear cause and intuits the presence of such a vigilante, which is enough to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard nearly thwart Hamil's surprise attack on the bridge at Eburon.]]]]
217* WarElephants: Noa the elephant. Tarte and Charis can ride it in battle. Also the other elven elephants Tarte summons as part of TheCavalry.
218* WarIsHell: Stated often and sometimes shown. Hamil considered accepting the enslaving of his entire people to avoid war. Saul was willing to let slide agents from TheEmpire buying slaves and ''dead bodies'' to prevent war. Until Hamil points out to him that he's only prolonging the inevitable, which he knew, and said agents took Artio which would cause war to errupt anyway.
219* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Abraxas at first. He quickly realizes he was wrong and Simon was right, but having gone too far in his plan, and combined with DemonicPossession, he turned down a very ugly road.]]
220* {{Workaholic}}: Amelia's group of bureaucrats. Epilogue reveals, as expected, she herself is one.
221* WoundedGazelleGambit: Improvised to great effects, by RedshirtArmy no less, with Enneads and Monomachus.
222%%* WorthyOpponent: Monomachus and Golyat.
223* WriterOnBoard: Aemilia and Hamil's short discussion on the social causes of TheEmpire's decline.
224* XanatosGambit: Izebel pulls a simple one when she intercepts the party on the high seas. She has the [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]] attack the rear of the ship. She and her soldiers then board from the front. If the party did not realized this trap and moved to the rear to deal with the Krakken, they get attacked from the rear and defeated. If they realized this trap and did not move, the entire party would need to be at the ship's front to deal with her superior forces, leaving the Krakken free to sink the ship.
225* YouKilledMyFather: Hamil to Izebel. [[spoiler: It turns out she didn't. Hasdrubal took his own life. But before doing so he ordered Izebel to pretend as though she did it.]]

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