Line #49 Webcomic/DraconiaChronicles


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2	''[[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/chapter-1-page-1/ Draconia Chronicles]]'' is a webcomic created and drawn by Danny Valentini, and temporarily written by Donnie Sturges. (although Donnie seems to have been quietly dropped from the billing around the time the comic became colorized, where Danny took full control back). Found [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/ here]].
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4	The story centers on a centuries-long war between two anthropomorphic races. They are the Dragons of the Dragonlands, led by Queen Oscura, and the Tigers of the Tiger Territories, led by Princess Kiriad. [[SexyDimorphism Only the females of the two races are anthropomorphic. The males look like average tigers and standard european-style fantasy dragons.]]
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6	The story shows the warriors and leaders from both sides of the war. There is clear dissension within the ranks of both races as individuals and factions fight for power and influence. Recent events hint that there might be other races working against both the Dragons and the Tigers and new alliances will need to be formed if both races are to survive.
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9	!!''Draconia Chronicles'' provides examples of:
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11	* ActionGirl: Nearly every named adult character, with the exception of Ghislain and Roh- the two named male characters.
12	* AerithAndBob: We have such names as "Scyde," "Shie," "Eone," and "Xihanil," alongside surprisingly mundane names like "Red," "Mabel," "Raz", "Eleni," and "Elektra" (the last two, while uncommon, aren't outright made up).
13	* AllThereInTheManual:
14	** The [[http://2wconline.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Pre-Comic_Story 2002-2005 calendars]] have a huge amount of backstory, including [[spoiler: how Kilani came to raise to Chuki/ Lumina for six years-and indeed how her egg ended up in tiger territory in the first place, Sombrana's exile, the start of Kess and Kilani's feud, and how Kess, Riah, and Shie got captured]].
15	** There is also yearly calendars released afterward, which explain and introduce new characters before they're added to the comic.
16	* AlternateUniverse: The Christmas and Halloween episodes take place in a parallel reality called "Draconia Lane," which is a SettingUpdate to modernity; and with peace between dragons and tigers achieved.
17	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Dragons have colors appropriate to their castes. Fire dragons are shades of red, Earth dragons yellow, Water dragons blue, Lightning dragons purple, and Light dragons mostly greens or light-blue variations.
18	* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Women]]: Casual racism aside, Lady Red is shown to be very caring and considerate to the Royal Guard, long as it doesn't interfere with her job.
19	* AmplifierArtifact: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-58/ One dragon has a gauntlet that enhances her magic.]] [[spoiler: She attempts to use it during a thunderstorm, misses, and drops a mountainside on her head.]]
20	* AnimatedActors: Shows up in Filler strips every so often.
21	* AnyoneCanDie:
22	** Its a story about a ''war'', what do you expect? [[spoiler:The volcano eruption]] in chapter 2 alone has brought the body count well into the hundreds, if not the thousands.
23	** WordOfGod says that none of the characters have PlotArmor, even though some have survived what should have been fatal, several times.
24	* AprilFoolsDay:
25	** 2013 had Xhianil, Briella, Rula and Niasha auditioning for ''Rascals'', a fellow Katbox comic.
26	** It also had Queen Oscura showing up in ''Webcomic/TheEyeOfRamalach''.
27	* AreWeGettingThis: In a Valentines Day extra (filler) page, the AnimatedActors switch gears and do something [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/2444/ "Valentines-ey"]].
28	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Dragons are reptilian, [[NonMammalianHair but they have hair]], they sweat, and [[NonMammalianMammaries they have boobs]] (but that's {{handwaved}} as hypertrophied pectoral muscles-which are still not strong enough to allow a humanoid to fly, but that's [[ArtisticLicensePhysics another trope]]). Also considering typical flight muscles aren't breast-shaped, nor pliable as mammalian breasts are, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology another trope entirely]]. According to some of the more risqué strips, they are indeed an erogenous zone, which pectorals aren't.
29	* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Chapter 2's volcano eruption goes by the dramatic, stereotypical "Strombolian" eruption model (yes, "a fine dusting of flaming rocks and a huge gout of lava" has a name), whereas most "exploding mountain" eruptions go by the "Plinian" model, which produces more hot gas and ash than anything (discounting some debris, which is essentially turned into buckshot by the forces involved), which is what got Pompeii. Realistically, the dragons should have been able to dig a trench long before lava hit city, if it produced enough to do much more than coat one mountainside in liquid basalt. Moreover, all the poison gas and ashes got blown hundreds of miles away, when they would have smothered/buried the city in what's known as a "pyroclastic flow." The tiger lands would have gotten a rain of gravel, if that, rather than an ash fall and a lava bomb (which might have made it two kilometers but certainly not a hundred). Furthermore, lava bombs are about the size of a canteloupe, rather than an office building. Presumably, Draconia (or, at least, the Dragon Kingdom) has gelological conditiond given to creating strombolian eruptions, and extremely light ashes. However, Eone claims that this is the result of the Earth Dragon's patron god Loessa being upset at her people's oppression, so maybe She made it "disaster-movie style" instead of how it usually works.
30	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Briella's UV laser spell should have killed Red, not given her a sunburn. UV lasers are really powerful. Moreover, UV lasers cause the air to be flash-heated to plasma, which limits their range to "emitter must be touching the target."
31	* ArtShift: "Enemy" characters are drawn far less attractively. Dragons are shown to have a spear-shaped muzzle from the tiger POV, and tigers are shown to be hulking {{Phlegmings}} with big, nasty, sharp, pointy teeth from the dragon POV.
32	* AscendedExtra:
33	** Scyde (Kiriad's Second-In-Command) and Eone (Stand-in leader of the Earth Dragon brood) started out in the calendars as "The tiger off to the side" and "E-1" (short for Earth One).
34	** A newer entry being Jitoux, a guard that was just a designation in the background, "G-2".
35	* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: InUniverse, Saph. An earth dragon who absolutely worships Lady Red and is conscripted into her personal squadron.
36	* BadassPacifist: Kilani. advocates peace between the races, FriendToAllLivingThings, [[http://draconia.katbox.net/?p=639 master infiltrator and rescuer]], and previously Kiriad's top warrior (in the calendars).
37	* BathsAreFun:
38	** A calendar scene (narrated by Kess) mentions that she, Riah and Shie ended up playing in a hot spring after Sombrana pulled a GetBackHereBoss.
39	** Similarly, an early scene features Scyde's group bathing in a hot-spring. Justified in that IRL tigers are one of the few cats that can stand getting wet.
40	* BarbieDollAnatomy: While the dragons are technically nude all the time, they have no visible nipples (justified that they are reptilian) nor genitalia, which by WordOfGod and shown in more erotic works, is covered up by a section of skin that can be pushed aside.
41	* BattleInTheRain: Averts the "no-one ever slips" part. [[GeoEffects The treacherous footing makes for the occasional turn of the tide]]. It also overlaps with MudWrestling a little. Rain also reduces the lightning dragon's magic attacks to point-blank, effectively shorting them out.
42	* BawdySong: Strip 359. It's apparently the local version of "Roll Me Over In The Clover".
43	* BigBadassBattleSequence: Page 18, which shows a pitched battle between tigers and dragons in the borderlands.
44	* BilingualBonus: The spell Gaia casts when fertilizing her egg is written in real life runic. It's a good-will and protection spell.
45	* BlankWhiteEyes: Dragons when using powerful magic. Flashbacks also give enemy characters these.
46	%%* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Zurina's death.]]
47	* BreakTheCutie: Kilani seems to have become a DeathSeeker due to what Kess said to her.
48	** [[spoiler: One strip shows her preparing to [[DrivenToSuicide hang herself]].]]
49	* BurningWithAnger:
50	** Ennek [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-334/ when finally pushed too far]].
51	** Literally with Red, when Kess smacks Kilani with a rock while trying to rescue her. This is apparently the fire dragon version of the "[[LimitBreak Surge]]". Notably, she burns so hot, it's ''blue'' (for context, heat-glow follows a LawOfChromaticSuperiority, with blue being hottest).
52	* CallBack: A guest strip shows Oscura playing with one of Luminia's dolls and telling her that it'll turn up later. In a later strip, Luminia mentions she ''still'' can't find her doll.
53	* CanonForeigner: The lightswords have yet to make more than a single cameo in over 400 pages.
54	* CensorBox: In this case, a patch of mushrooms in one panel, a slug in another. Conveniently placed tails and speech bubbles are another favorite. And, of all things a ''[[OddShapedPanel panel gutter!]]''
55	* CentralTheme: How factions and peoples opposed to one other are more similar than they want to believe. It's emphasized by Chapter 2's main conflict-- a volcanic eruption which leads to suffering for the Tigers and Dragons alike, and showing how they each manage the crisis.
56	* CerebusSyndrome: Started has a fairly lighthearted HighFantasy adventure comic, but ever since the end of chapter 1, its become progressively more [[DarkFantasy dark, bleak and tragic]].
57	* TheChessmaster: A Fox woman named "Shaleigh" manipulating both sides, on the behalf of a shadowy third side called "the conclave".
58	* ComfortFood: Riah's favorite food is burnt-outside-raw-inside lamprey. Her sister feeds it to her trying to coax some words out of her post EyeScream, and she later reveals that's why she actually began speaking again.
59	* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted. During chapter 2 the volcano near the Dragons' capital city erupts. The Dragons' city is threatened by superheated rocks falling on it and a massive river of lava. Meanwhile the wind currents of the world blow most of the ash and toxic fumes into the Tiger Territories. Fire Dragons, despite knowing elemental magic, are shown being affected by the heat, while not as much as the Earth Dragons.
60	* CorpseLand: The Khalira/Calera, an ancient battleground inside a cave system, is full of skeletons, both dragon and tiger.
61	* CrapsackWorld: The Borderlands seen outside the Dragon Kingdom and Tiger Territories are, with few exceptions, [[{{Mordor}} blasted, barren, and lifeless]].
62	* CrapsaccharineWorld: Both the Dragon Kingdom and the Tiger Territories, to an extent. The Kingdom gives off a CrystalSpiresAndTogas vibe, but the Queen is of questionable morals and sanity and banished her entire Royal Guard (the Lightning Dragons) and her top adviser (Sombrana) [[NoodleIncident seemingly]] on a whim. [[UrbanSegregation Each Dragon caste is strictly racially segregated]], with the Light Dragons on top, and the Earth Dragons on the very bottom. And then [[spoiler: a volcano erupts right in the middle of the Kingdom's capitol, killing ''thousands'', and the Queen and her new royal guard are desperately struggling to cover up the worst of the damage]]. As for the Territories, the inexperience and general naivete of Princess Kiriad has lead to infighting amongst several tribes, and [[spoiler: the ash from the aforementioned volcano eruption has destroyed a lot of the Tigers' farmland as well as killing a large percentage of their children and breeding stock.]]
63	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Gaia is decapitated, despite surrendering, and already having been tortured along the way.]]
64	* CycleOfRevenge: One of the things keeping the war going. Kess and Chiara, for example, each have lost their mothers to the war. Kess even points out how pretty much every combatant on ''both'' sides has a personal stake in the war at this point.
65	* DarkFantasy: Of the "Society is in the toilet, none of the races can get along or see their so-called 'allies' are about to stab them in the back, and there's constant, unceasing warfare, atrocity, and bloodshed, with no potential to EarnYourHappyEnding" sort of dark.
66	* [[DeadGuyOnDisplay Dead Girl On Display]]: Tiger camps have dragon skulls on poles, and their horns as ornamentation. Dragons, in turn, have tiger pelts on their walls, and taxidermy specimens in tubes. The dragon queen's throne also appears to have a number of human-looking skulls on it. (Though could be just tiger skulls having been shaped.)
67	%%* DeadHandShot: A favorite.
68	* DeathGlare: Riah fixes Shie with one when she says she has pretty eyes-[[EyeScream Riah having lost one.]]
69	* {{Dehumanization}}: Both sides consider the other one to be horrible monsters that ''need'' to be destroyed before they exterminate the other.
70	* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:When poisonous ash from the volcano eruption spreads into the Tiger Territories, the majority of the deaths are children.]]
71	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: an inverse gender dynamic also inverts MenAreTheExpendableGender, and [[WouldHurtAChild kids are apparently fair game.]] there is also no concept of "civilian" or "enemy noncombatant". POW's are only taken to inflict further indignities on them. Getting away from the Rules of Warfare and into cultural norms, Fire Dragons apparently start smoking in school, and nobody minds this (a teacher says "smoke if you got 'em.)
72	* DePower: Dragon preistesses can ask their Patron to strip a sinner of their magic until she's proved she deserves to have it back. The gods generally comply with this.
73	* DistinguishingMark: Most tigers are orange-and-black, of one of two different shades; the royal family, however, are white tigers.
74	* DistractedByTheSexy: Kiriad's usually too busy having sex with Shaleigh to do much in the way of princessing.
75	%%* TheDragAlong: Eone and Meta after Red conscripts them.
76	%%* TheDragon:
77	%%** ([[IncrediblyLamePun Wark wark]]!) Schaddig to Oscura.
78	%%** Scyde to Kiriad.
79	* DragonsAreDemonic: Invoked. Female dragons look very much like succubi, and have two subtypes that are so incrdibly destructive that discriminating against them is seen as good sense (in one case, their PowerIncontinence poses a public safety hazard, and in the other, they're walking WMD's). Their flag also sports a pentegram. The males, however, avert the trend, as they left ''en masse'' when the War started because they refused to fight or associate with a faction dedicated to performing a xenocide.
80	* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Bridge On Her]]:
81	** [[spoiler:Gaia. Good ''lord'', Gaia.]]
82	** [[spoiler: Raz's pack.]]
83	* ElementalAbsorption: Dragons are immune to the elements they represent, but within certain restrictions. Fire dragons are immune to both fire and smoke, for example, and chemical fog ([[{{Squick}} sewer gas]] to be exact) irritates their eyes as well as the next girl's; and lightning dragons zap each other as an affectionate gesture.
84	* ElementalPowers: The main advantage the Dragons have in the war against the Tigers , besides the fact that they can fly, is that they can use elemental magic.
85	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Roh is short for [[spoiler: Rose]].
86	* EmbarrassingNickname: Xhianil gets called "Piggy" due to her pink coloration.
87	* EmotionSuppression: The dragons have a maxim to "Never let your emotions dictate your actions." They don't seem to follow this very closely, with a lot of conflict being because someone (ex. Sombrana, Gaia, Xihanil, Oscura) did their thinking with their heart rather than their brains. The Preistesses take this even further, being outright [[Emotionless Girl]]s as a side-effect of communing with their gods. Meta is so used to this that having her emotions returned drives her to the brink of insanity. That said, when Oscura is able to reign it in, she's able to [[spoiler: talk to Kilani face-to-face without immediately killing her.]]
88	* EmpathyDollShot: When [[spoiler: the death of Raz and Mabel's entire tribe is callously dismissed]], Raz tearfully regards a doll she found.
89	* TheEmpire: The dragons.
90	* EnemyCivilWar: Not quite yet, but it's stated that Sombrana will attempt a coup sometime in the future; with Electra's help.
91	* EnsembleCast: There's no one protagonist like with say, ''Two Kinds,'' just some characters you can point to as "on-camera". The calendars started off with Kess and Khilani, but the comics started with Scyde and Electra, and it rotates between Kess' pack, Red's flock, and the Royal Families of either faction, with an occasional LowerDeckEpisode featuring Electra's brood, Xihanil, Tam'syn, and Ennek's sister and nieces (who feature heavily in the {{Christmas Episode}}s.
92	* EveryoneIsBi: The Ancient Greek version, where members of one's own sex are for sexual comfort, while the opposite sex is for reproduction.
93	* ExtremeDoormat: [[spoiler:Kilani makes no attempt to justify her caring for Lumina, instead allowing Kess to both abuse her and destroy her reputation.]]
94	* EyeScream: Riah.
95	* FacepalmOfDoom: Done by Elektra to Gaia after the latter smokes her over the head with a rock in an attempt to escape.
96	* FamedInStory: Red, enough so as to have fangirls (see "running gag" and "hero worship").
97	* FantasticArousal: Tigers are as susceptable to scritchies as any other cat, with a sweet spot right on top of their heads. This is demonstrated by Tam with Roh, and [[spoiler: Blue with Kilani.]]
98	-->''<...I once heard that if you scratch a tiger right around here, she'll turn into a big kitten.>''
99	* FantasticNuke: Earth magic could end the war in a day by crumbling mountains and summoning valleys, but there'd be nowhere habitable left afterwards. It's implied that this is why the borderlands look like {{Mordor}}.
100	* FantasticCasteSystem: The Dragon Kingdom is separated like this. Light Dragons are the nobility (owing to Oscura being one), Fire Dragons are warriors and the Royal Guard, Water Dragons seem to be shopkeepers and fire brigade, and the Earth Dragons are typically artisans and builders who aren't useful to the war so they're counted little better than the tigers, and almost just as bad since Chapter One. However, the positions of the totem pole are kinda fluid. WordOfGod states that any dragon who learns all disciplines of magic and can [[KlingonPromotion whomp the current queen]] gets to be the next one, earth dragons used to be just as militant as the fire dragons before realizing that WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility, and fire dragons used to have the lowest spot due to PowerIncontinence making them a public safety hazard, and they've been proving their worth ever since..
101	* FantasticRacism:
102	** Inevitable, really. At one point, a Dragon finds it "cute" how Tigers actually have ''names''.
103	---> "It's almost like they think they're ''people''!"
104	** And another time, Kess laughs over remembering how Xhianil burst into tears after [[ForcedToWatch seeing her girlfriend Flare get killed]].
105	** Dragons think tigers all look the same.
106	** Fire dragons used to have a Jim (Jane?) Crow law against them, making it legal to either throw or keep them out of a public space for no other reason then they're fire dragons.
107	* FantasticSlurs: "fleatraps" towards tigers, "scalebacks" towards dragons.
108	* FeministFantasy: Leave out how all the female characters are A) kids or B) MsFanservice, either nudists or prone to casual nudity. They're all Strong Independant Women(TM) in control of their sexualities and {{Action Girl}}s when they aren't PerfectPacifistPeople.
109	* FictionalSport: "Fireball".
110	* FlamingMeteor: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. A volcano erupts and throws out meteor-like chunks of stone. At first, the fire dragons attempt to use their elemental control powers to deflect them, only to discover that they're actually made of rock and they can't really do anything to stop them. Giving the oppressed earth dragons the chance to demonstrate their value.
111	* ForeverWar: The two races have been fighting each other for centuries-- long enough to have ''cave paintings of it''-- and no longer remember the cause of the war. At this point the main reasons for fighting are vengeance and pride.
112	* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: Female tigers are sapient and bipedal; male tigers are not and not.
113	* FreudianExcuse: Why is Kess such a racist bitch? [[spoiler:Because dragons [[YouKilledMyFather murdered her mother.]]]]
114	* FromBadToWorse: Chapter three, so far, has been nothing but this for all involved. Red of the Dragons, is humiliated and loses a great deal of Oscura's respect due to unintentionally allowing several political prisoners to escape and now has to hunt them back down or face severe consequences, Kilani's connection to Lumina is exposed and she's about two steps away from being forced into exile or worse, and the volcano eruption has been shown to have effectively crippled the Dragon Kingdom, a fact that Oscura is desperately trying (and failing) to cover up.
115	* GenderBlenderName: Several male tigers are named after flowers, such as Petunia (Ennek's mate) and Ro[[spoiler:se]] (Scyde's brother/Aika's mate).
116	* GenderRarityValue: Rare Sex Worshipped variant. Tiger males reside in a peaceful enclave known as "The Sanctuary" where nothing more strenuous than breeding occurs. Dragon males, in turn, are so rare that only the queen can speak to one (among other things), since most of them left.
117	* GeniusBruiser:
118	** According to Shie's bio, she's the tactician of the group, and a fierce fighter.
119	** Scyde as well. She seems to be one of the physically stronger of the Tigers seen thus far and proves it during her fight with Elektra. She also seems to be TheStrategist of the Tigers.
120	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Ranges from sisterly affection to barely-censored knobbing.
121	* GoGoEnslavement: As show in the calendar series, March-April 2002, when the Tiger Princess Kiriad is captured and enslaved by the Dragon Queen Oscura, she's shown in chains and a bikini with the queen holding her on a leash.
122	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Oscura isn't exactly ''evil'' (nobody in the strip [[AmbiguouslyEvil except for maybe Shaleigh but that's another story]] is), but she's shown to be short-sighted, vindictive and an all around pain to work with, perhaps best shown when [[spoiler:she cares more about, and thus directs more resources towards capturing a ''single'' tiger then she does about ''the volcano that just wiped out half her kingdom''.]] and [[spoiler:she plans to use Princess Lumina, her daughter, as a superweapon when she grows up.]] Also, the Tiger Princess Kiriad, while not very developed yet, is shown to be viewed as incompetent by a few of the tiger higher ups.
123	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Initially, the Dragons were the ones portrayed villainously, but as the plot goes on both sides are shown to have both their good and bad individuals, and the Tigers themselves start to get some immoral blemishes on their record, such as [[spoiler:Kess' ''horrific'' treatment of Kilani after learning of her connection to Lumina]] and [[spoiler: Princess Kiriad's scout, Aika casually dismissing the deaths of Mabel's ''entire tribe'' because they were "unimportant".]]
124	* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler: Gaia's head is thrown at another dragon.]]
125	* GroinAttack: Scyde claws Elektra`s inner thighs during their fight scene.
126	* HarmonyVersusDiscipline:
127	** Tigers are Harmonious, living off the land, in tents, and with a relatively high female-to-male ratio. Dragons are Disciplined, living in a permanent city, [[UrbanSegregation segregated by breed-based castes]], [[PopulationControl their population levels are decided based on how useful their magic is in combat]], they're trained not to let their emotions dictate their actions, and [[spoiler: only one male present.]] Crosses over with SoldierVsWarrior as well.
128	** Furthermore, the two species share a song. The draconic lyrics are a hymn on the level of ''Jesus Loves Me'', while the tigerish lyrics are a BawdySong on the level of ''Roll Me Over in the Clover''.
129	* HatesBeingTouched: Kess has a phobia about being touched on her right shoulder, and violently lashes out when someone-usually the hapless Ennek-does.
130	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Kess]] finally begins to have one on [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/page-547/ this page]], just after [[spoiler:Blue willingly helps her and the others with finding Kilani, despite her being a dragon whose own adopted daughter lost her birth mother to a tiger]].
131	-->"Are… are we the enemy?"
132	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Kilani has a major one once she realizes just how badly she's screwed up.]]
133	* HeroWorshipper: A RunningGag has Saph [[{{Squee}} fangirl out]] when she sees Red.
134	* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: [[spoiler:During the fight between Scyde's group and the Lightning Dragons, Circuitae tries to kill Scyde by using her magic gauntlet to cause an avalanche. She ends up crushing ''herself'' instead.]]
135	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Dragon females can fit in the palm of a male one's hand. Though they reproduce externally, with the female laying an egg and the male fertilizing it afterwards.
136	* AHouseDivided: Dragons are extremely fractured in their unity, to the point that Dr. Lucius (a light dragon) won't treat Fuegana (a fire dragon royal guard recruit). The only thing keeping them all from turning on each other is hating the tigers.
137	* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: See BizarreSexualDimorphism. Especially egregious with the dragons, since they should have a similar body structure to birds, with hugely muscled chests and wee teensy legs. They look more like succubui, [[HornedHumanoid horned]] and [[WingedHumanoid winged]] humanoids who go around with nary a stitch of clothing.
138	* HollywoodTactics: Dragons apparently like getting stuck in too much to take advantage of a little thing called "air superiority". All they need to do is stay out of reach and chuck fireballs, thunderbolts, or laser beams down on the tiger's heads and the war'd be over in a week.
139	* HornedHumanoid: Dragons
140	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Khalira (or Calera), a cave system that is feared by ''both'' sides due to a cataclysmic battle having taken place there. [[spoiler:Naturally, the caves that Kilani leads the freed prisoners to ''is'' the Khalira.]]
141	* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[SinisterScythe Scythes]] are a favorite among tigers. In an [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-51/ early strip]] this backfires, one character gets eviscerated with her own ''jatalang''[[note]] Imagine two scythes stuck together in an "S" pattern[[/note]].
142	* ImprovisedWeapon: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-78/ a lute is used as a club]] at one point.
143	* {{Jerkass}}: Kess has been becoming more and more like that, best exemplified when she bitches at Kilani for [[spoiler:refusing to ''murder a child in cold blood''.]]
144	* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler:Kess ''finally'' seems to realize what a bitch she's been to Kilani after the latter's HeroicBSOD.]]
145	* LadyLand: Justified, considering the dragon males are altogether absent (having left in protest of the war [[spoiler: except for the queen's mate]]) and tiger males are rarely seen.
146	* LaserBlade:
147	** The Zhirite weapons are said to be able to project lightblades, but this is only hinted at once in a past calendar.
148	** One spell Sombrana knows involves making a HardLight dagger, though unrelated to Zhirite.
149	* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/2012-draconia-chronicles-annual-jazzfox-chaoscroc-2/ A guest story arc]] has a dragon rip her own wings off to escape a tiger encampment. She's understandably upset with Sombrana-whom she loved-for leaving her to die. [[note]] Nothing of the sort has happened in canon.
150	* LimitBreak: Dragons can "Surge" when their lives are in danger, however, it takes a lot out of them.
151	* LeeroyJenkins: Saph, one of the Earth Dragons Red brings along when she intends to raid the Khalira. She's disappointed when Meta tells them the tigers have since left.
152	* {{Loveable Sex Maniac}}s: The twins Rula and Naisha.
153	* LovableCoward: Briella. Although rather justified, considering she's outnumbered 7-1, and only barely escapes with her life.
154	* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Kilani in the September-October 2002 calendar uses hers to deflect Red's [[BreathWeapon fire breath]].
155	* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Oscura has Khilani put up in a penthouse intended for royal visitors, and even had the tiger pelts usually on display put in storage. She has the cooks prepare a large quantity of rare steaks for her PrisonersLastMeal as well.
156	* MacGuffin: Two: For the tigers, a powerful [[AntiMagic Zhirite]] artifact called the "Zhirite Claw", for the dragons, a device cryptically referred to as the "Obsidian Egg".
157	* {{Magick}}
158	* MagicSkirt: Averted, there's rather frequent upskirts, and Aika looses her shirt during the first fight scene. In fact, her outfit was created to lampshade how AwesomeButImpractical such clothes are.
159	* MamaBear: Deconstructed. Oscura is ''hellbent'' on personally punishing Kilani for "kidnapping" her daughter... even to the point that she's willing to waste war resources just to track her down.
160	* MeaningfulName: While her adoptive mother, Kilani gave Princess Lumina the name "Chuki", which is translated into English as "a gift from my enemy", in the sense of a peace offering as opposed to a White Elephant. Ennek derides it as "a name you choose when you're out of ideas".
161	* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Completely {{Inverted}}. There's been 5 female deaths on-screen, all of which are fairly brutal (in order of appearance: evisceration, BuriedAlive, electrocution, decapitation, and being smashed between two rock slabs), approximately 200-1000 off-screen mixed-sex deaths (killed by volcanic eruption), and two on-screen male deaths (asphyxiation).
162	* MerchandiseDriven: {{Downplayed}}, but if you want the whole story, you've got to read the calendars. However, the comic can still be enjoyed very well without them.
163	* MoodWhiplash: Quite common.
164	* MonsterIsAMommy: For a given value of "monster", anyways. It fuels a continent-wide CycleOfRevenge. Dragon kills tiger warrior who had kids who murder dragon who had kids and on and on [[ForeverWar since time immemorial]].
165	* MonsterModesty: Dragons, who have BarbieDollAnatomy run around stark nude, while tigers, who don't, wear rag garments.
166	* MoralityPet: Lumina is essentially this to Oscura.
167	* {{Mordor}}: The borderlands are a hardpan desert where absolutely nothing grows. It's implied to be because of Earth-magic being used in a way its patron god doesn't like.
168	* MotorMouth: Kess. Dear god, Kess.
169	* MurderousThighs: Inverted. Riah's signature move is to grab someone around the head with her thighs and then do a backflip. She hasn't killed anyone with it yet (it would be really easy to accidentally break someone's neck doing that), although she uses it to get Kess out of a sticky situation.
170	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
171	** Kilani, after being informed Kess thinks of her as a traitor.
172	** Chiara has a flashback to her torturing Riah by ruining her left eye. She nearly has a heart attack. Especially significant since they're on opposite sides of a war fuelled by abject racial hatred.
173	** Implied to be the reason Earth dragons are pacifists. Tigers have legends about them throwing mountains around and instantly conjuring canyons underneath towns, but Earth dragons who have any interest in the war are vanishingly rare. In strip 431, Eone tells Red that they're walking WMD's, with all the drawbacks that implies: Mass collateral damage with potential to destroy the entire world.
174	* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Cinder says "Cabbage! Please to be presenting your dandruff!" when trying to say "Kess, bring us to Kilani" in tigerese. She also calls her "Slow, simple!" when trying to ask her to talk slowly.
175	* MyLittlePhony: ''My Little Dracony: Togetherness is Magical'', a non-canon ([[BroadStrokes or hinted at in-canon]]) series, which is immensely popular despite being intended for dragonlings; so much so that it's implied that even P.O.W.'s are allowed to watch it. (although it's stated to be [[PropagandaMachine anti-tiger propaganda]] rather than a [[MerchandiseDriven 30-minute toy commercial]])-and they like it too!
176	* NeverMyFault: Oh no, Rula, sexually harrassing Ennek for two days straight had nothing to do with her trying to strangle you, ''clearly'' there's something wrong with ''her''.
177	* NippleAndDimed: Although a teensy portion of areola can be seen on occasion, and uncensored versions of strips are available on [=FurAffinity=], Website/DeviantArt, and Paytreon.
178	* NonMammalMammaries: The Dragons "breasts". WordOfGod labels them as "flight muscles". Though several art pieces have said otherwise, however they are non-canon and purely commissioners request. Even though they are pliable and grow with age, guess that's just [[ArtisticLicenseBiology another trope]].
179	* NoodleIncident: Its still unclear what exactly the Lightning Dragons and Sombrana did to make Oscura boot them out of the Kingdom's capitol, though both Briella and Red have referred to it as "The Incident". Most likely [[spoiler: being drunk and breaking into Red's room after dark.]]
180	* NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture: The dragons have TV shows and action figures to go along with a system of codified historical records and laws. Tigers play it straight, only having historical ballads.
181	* OddShapedPanel: It may be easier to list the pages that ''don't'' have this...
182	* OffScreenTeleportation:
183	** Shaleigh takes this to an art form, able to go from Oscura's castle to Kiriad's campsite in the same hour-it's a several days journey on foot from either capital to the valley that forms the border.
184	** One strip shows her disappearing into a shadow on the wall.
185	* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Cinder and Meta on the Dragon side, Kilani on the Tiger side.
186	* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler: Gaia]] is killed. Complete with a jarring SplashOfColor.
187	* OhMyGods
188	* OneGenderRace: Only one male Dragon has been seen so far.
189	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: the males look like western dragons and the females look more humanoid; with paws for hindmost extremities.
190	* OurNudityIsDifferent: Dragons don't have overt sexual characteristics, and the closest they get to clothing is tattoos or a beadwork collar/choker. Justified, since as cold-blooded creatures they'd want to maximize their surface area in contact with sunlight.
191	* PantyFighter: Tigers wear {{Sarashi}} or bikini tops and loincloths when they wear [[FullFrontalAssault anything at all]], and dragons are outright naturists (mostly, see above). According to WordOfGod, the tiger's "clothing" is actually for utility, rather than modesty; rather like wearing combat webbing and nothing else.
192	* PardonMyKlingon:
193	** "Spawn of a dritch" is a popular one...
194	** "We're scaled" is used in the same context as "we're screwed".
195	** Rather jarringly; [[spoiler: "whore"]] goes unchanged.
196	* PeopleJars: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-96/ The dragon city control room has a tiger male and female in a pair of jars]].
197	* PopulationControl: Queen Oscura controls access to the "elixir" used to fertilize eggs. Attempting to steal some and have a child without permission is punishable by exile, and [[spoiler:subsequent death]]
198	* PosthumousCharacter: Flare.
199	* PowerNullifier: Zhirite is a metal that the Tigers mine and that some of their weapons are forged from. It negates the Dragons magical abilities, and physically weakens them, though it is only effective at close range.
200	* PerfectPacifistPeople: Earth Dragons are an entirely pacifist race, minus a few dissenters. Strip 431 states that this is because Earth magic is a FantasticNuke-with all the attendant drawbacks that implies-if abused.
201	* PrivilegedRival: Subverted (FantasticCasteSystem / SJWSpeak nonsense nonwithstanding). Eone thinks that fire dragons are extremely privileged, and this is part of what leads to her grinding gears with Red. Red reveals that up until quite recently, it was legal to have fire dragons thrown out of any establishment for any reason (including none) on grounds of "public safety."
202	* PyrrhicVictory: It's not quite clear who won the Battle of the Khalira; as there seems to be roughly an equal number of dragon and tiger skeletons. Both sides are scared shitless of the place, going so far to say it's cursed and/or haunted.
203	* TheQuietOne: Shie and her sister Riah. Shie can be heard neurotically mumbling "stop it" whenever Kess yells at Kilani, but is otherwise pretty quiet. Riah has said all of one word throughout the entire Khalira story arc, although she recently began talking again.
204	* RaisedByOrcs: [[spoiler: Princess Lumina]] was raised by Kilani for four years. In fact, her Tiger name, "Chuki", means "Gift from my enemy." Fits the "raised by a rival species whose [[MyInstinctsAreShowing maternal instincts were showing]]" part; although Kilani had her best interests in mind.
205	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
206	** [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty After reaching adulthood at 18]], Dragons age four times slower, therefore making the oldest dragons to be well over one hundred human years old.
207	** Disputed by WordOfGod.
208	* RedemptionQuest: Chapter 1 has Oscura instructing Elektra to both escort Gaia to her exile and recover an artifact, promising to lift the exile on the Lightning Dragons (of which Elektra is the leader of) if she succeeds. [[spoiler:A run in and subsequent fight with Scyde and her team causes Elektra to fail ''both'' objectives.]]
209	* TheResenter:
210	** Briella ''really'' dislikes how Sombrana was exiled and that "the elegant and intelligent Light Dragons" have been replaced by "the brutish Fire Dragons" as the Queen's main advisors.
211	** On the Tiger side, quite a few people, Mabel in particular, don't consider Kiriad a "true" leader due to her inexperience and indecisiveness, and instead look to Scyde (the closest woman the Tigers have to a military leader) for leadership.
212	* ResistantToMagic: Dragons come in a quintet of subtypes; fire, water, earth, lightning, and light. They're completely immune to their element, both generated by their people, and natural sources, to the point that mother and child will cast cantrips in each other playfully.
213	** They're also immune to things in their element. For example, it's said that Water Dragons are immune to water pressure as well as extreme temperatures in deep oceans. Or, Fire Dragons using a lava pool like a hot-tub.
214	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The dragons could simply wipe the tigers out if they really wanted to, but [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou if they did, they'd be without an external enemy to vent their racial tensions on.]]]]
215	* RunningGag:
216	** Rula, Naisha, and Kenzi teasing Ennek for being touchy about sex (then we get her backstory and it [[HarsherInHindsight stops being funny]]).
217	** Saph [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee squeeing]] over Lady Red.
218	* SanitySlippage: Queen Oscura after her daughter's egg went missing.
219	** [[spoiler:Briella, following her ordeal in the Khalira]].
220	* SchizoTech: Dragons apparently have TV (Non-Canon) -- complete with [[{{Expy}} expies]] of ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', whilst tigers are still at the "[[CaveMen Metal is feakin' sweet!]]" stage.
221	* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Mabel makes an art form out of this.
222	* SexyDimorphism: While the Dragons and Tigers females that are most prominently featured are anthropomorphic and look like curvy women, the males of their respective races are actual full feral formed [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-33/ Dragons]] and [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-102/ Tigers]].
223	* ShoutOut:
224	** To ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', and others, throughout.
225	-->Kess: This is some rescue\
226	Kilani: Maybe you'd like to get back in your cell?
227	** Rula and Naisha reminisce over the MLP:FIM episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]'', specifically the "You're... going... to '''LOVE ME!!!!!'''" scene.
228	** Briella has [[Literature/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad... nightmare]] [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-278/ here]].
229	** Xihanil [[Film/TheAvengers2012 doesn't know what Shwarma is, but the Royal Guard wants to try it]].
230	** Rula's had it with "[[Film/SnakesOnAPlane these tiger-fuckin' dragons in this tiger-fuckin' cave]]."
231	** Riah has no trouble helping Shie up, because "She's not heavy, she's my sister," a reference to the Kelly Gordon song "He Ain't Heavy, he's my Brother."
232	* SinisterScythe: As stated before, a favorite among tigers.
233	* SpeechImpediment: Kenzi has a lisp, due to breaking a tooth.
234	* TigerVersusDragon
235	* TragicKeepsake: Raz' doll.
236	* TrespassingToTalk: In Xihanil's backstory, Red warned her that she was leery of taking Elektra's recommendation because she'd broken into Red's house at two in the morning to deliver it.
237	* TrophyRoom: Lady Red maintains a Trophy Room with such things as "Perfect Attendance" and "Spelling Bee, Second Place," to the confusion of a certain StalkerWithACrush. Due to how her [[FantasticCasteSystem caste]] of dragon is treated, she's had to work twice as hard as everyone else for half the recognition. She's earned her title after a century of hard work and is damn proud of it.
238	* TheUnintelligible: Tiger males communicate in grunts and snarls. The females can understand them, the readers can't.
239	* WebcomicTime: IRL timespan is twelve years. In-universe timespan? ''About a week, or less, as of page 400''
240	* WingedHumanoid: The Dragon Females
241	* WomanScorned: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-313/ The reason for Ennek's sexual hang-ups.]]
242	* WorthyOpponent: According to [[WordOfGod RazorFox]], Scyde and Elektra consider each other this.
243	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-276/ Shie]], [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-286/ Ennek]] and [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-320/ Riah]].
244	* YourFavorite: [[https://www.draconiachronicles.com/comic/comic-262/ Shie brings Riah a lamprey, cooked burnt-outside-raw-inside in an attempt to coax some words out of her.]]
245	* ZergRush: Tigers outnumber dragons 2-1, at least. Especially after Chapter 2.

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