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6''[[http://endstone.net/ Endstone]]'' is a fantasy webcomic set in a extremely strange SwordAndSorcery version of the United States of America, where the "higher animals" are humanoid in shape, and the heroine Kyri is a deer -- really. Where there are combined beauty salon[=/=]blacksmithies. Where magical stones can be "rocked" by the talented, the stoners, including Kyri, her estranged husband Jon, and their daughter Colindra ("Cole").
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8The reason they are estranged is that Jon tried to use one to destroy the world. But [[LotusEaterMachine there are hints that this might not be a bad thing]].
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10Presented as a comic book.
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12Starts [[http://endstone.net/comic/issue-1-cover-alternate/ here]].
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14The comic was cancelled in January 2019 due to schedule conflicts.
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16!!Tropes included in this work
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18* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:The Eternity Spire was a RealityWarper science project GoneHorriblyWrong. The Spire exploded, destroying civilization and causing mass extinctions. The scientists who were part of the team that created the Eternity Spire were irradiated by the dark matter the project revolved around, allowing them to warp reality using the shards of the Spire. They used their new abilities to seize power and [[MedievalStasis stop all progress]]. For some bizarre reason, humans ended up filling the empty niches in nature, effectively resulting in cannibalism as "wolves" and humans hunted and fed on "deer". To fix his mistakes, the head scientist, the God At The Eternity Spire, intends to warp reality to become a variant of how things were before everything went wrong.]]
19* AndroclesLion: In the arena, unsurprisingly.
20%%* AgonyBeam
21%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
22* AntiMagic: The Endstone's power to disrupt other overstones.
23* ArtifactOfDoom: The Banestone will drive any stoner who possess it to madness, subject them to the whims of an evil "god", and compel them to aggressively pursue the Endstone at any cost. It is said that should the Banestone and Endstone be united, it will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
24* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[http://endstone.net/comic/issue-3-webpage-34/ Herrik the Snake averts this]], lampshading for any audience members who may take amiss the sudden introduction of the idea that the shattered, useless Endstone can be put back together:
25-> I've seen dudes eat fire, and I've seen chicks turn into flying lizards, so that seems perfectly reasonable.
26%%* TheAtoner: Jon Robert Montaine.
27* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: What drives Cole to use the Banestone in order to defend herself.]]
28* BackStory: Pops up often in flashbacks.
29* TheBait: Jon attempted to use the Endstone as bait to destroy Drakyl. It didn't go very well.
30%%* BecauseDestinySaysSo
31* BigBad: The God At The Eternity Spire. Actually [[spoiler:a scientist who gained the ability to [[RealityWarper warp reality]], named Simon. He turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who is trying to fix his mistakes at any cost.]]
32%%* BigDamnHeroes
33%%* BreadAndCircuses: Pimrose is a nasty woman and uses this to ensure her people are happy and obedient.
34%%* CallingTheOldManOut
35* CameBackWrong: The Gravestone can bring back the dead. As undead. They seem perfectly themselves apart from lacking flesh.
36* TheCavalry: When all hope seems lost, Lord Quandel brings reinforcements to fight off Jon's army.
37%%* ChangedMyMindKid
38%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
39%%* ChurchMilitant: Seems to apply to many of the religions. Most notably the "nunjas" that guarded the Endstone.
40* CompellingVoice: The God At The Eternity Spire is able to control anyone who wields the Banestone. With John, he was able to manipulate him by acting as a false friend. With Colindra, he was able to control her through terror.
41%%* CoolGate
42* TheCorrupter: The man behind the Banestone is able to force its wielder to commit horrific deeds, no matter their former nature.
43%%* CultureClash: Jon and Kyri's first meeting.
44%%* CuriosityIsACrapshoot
45%%* DamselInDistress
46%%* DancesAndBalls: Cole grew up in a court that had many
47%%* TheDarkSide
48%%* DeadGuyJunior: Cole was named for her grandmother.
49* DeathAmnesia: Pablo doesn't have any memories of an afterlife from the time he was dead. He fears that this might mean he has no soul, or Heaven doesn't exist. Both possibilities scare him.
50%%* DeliberatelyMonochrome
51%%* DemBones
52%%* DirtyCoward
53%%* DismantledMacGuffin
54%%* DoomedHometown: Kyri's family is massacred.
55%%* DramaticWind
56%%* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Cole finds the power wonderful.
57%%* DynamicEntry
58%%* EmpathyDollShot
59* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What will happen if the Banestone and Endstone unite, since they will release a MadScientist from his prison to remake the world with a malfunctioning RealityWarper machine.
60* EveryManHasHisPrice: In the version of the world [[spoiler:Simon creates, Simon is president of the world and John Montaine is [=CEO=] of Goldman Sachs. As a wealthy lobbyist, John expects this trope to hold, and demands Simon inform him of what he is doing. John knows things are ''very'' bad when the president isn't influenced by Wall Street anymore.]]
61* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: A massive number of dead are raised as zombies. Fortunately, they don't eat brains. The protagonists aside, the vast majority of people are nonchalant or even treat it as a miracle.
62%%* EvilGloating
63%%* EvilLaugh
64%%* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Eternity Spire.
65* FantasticRacism: Humans see the other higher animals, such as "deer", the same way we would see real deer in real life. Even though they are humanoid and have a similar level of intelligence.
66* FantasyGunControl: Mostly holds true, but not completely. The world has forgotten that guns ever even existed. But thanks to Simon's knowledge, Drakyl is able to find a sufficiently skilled blacksmith to recreate one, and Simon himself later conjures a bunch of figures in the shape of modern military.
67%%* FirstKiss
68%%* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jon and Kyri were trapped out of time for years.
69%%* {{Flashback}}: Lots -- generally full of action and answering some of the mysteries.
70%%* FlowerMotifs: Kyri loves forget-me-nots
71* ForcedTransformation:
72** When the Eternity Spire project started [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]], the head scientist accidentally converted several of the others into animals. When [[spoiler:Simon starts using it again to rewrite reality into a variant of the world before things went wrong, some people are not translated very well. Pimrose, for example, gets turned into a dog, which is likely considered a KarmicTransformation as well.]]
73** The owner of the Toadstone combines its power with a massive stone that amplifies stones, and uses it to convert every humanoid on the planet save himself and Kyri into Toadmen.%%* AFriendInNeed: Kyri promises to be this to Cole when the power runs out.
74%%* GiveMeASign: A deer skull, for Kyri
75%%* GladiatorGames
76%%* GlowingEyes: The angel statue.
77%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The wielder of the Banestone.
78* GodEmperor: [[spoiler:The God At The Eternity Spire intends to become a benevolent version of this so that mankind can recover from AfterTheEnd and ensure that the disaster at the Eternity Spire can never be repeated.]]
79%%* GodivaHair: Kyri wears her hair "Godiva-style" during her early years in the forest.
80%%* GossipyHens: About Kyri, when she lived with Jon among humans.
81%%* GraveRobbing: How two men stumbled on Jon's father.
82%%* HalfHumanHybrid: Colindra.
83%%* HappilyMarried: Jon and Kyri, for a time. Jon's parents before them.
84%%* HappyRain
85%%* HardHead
86%%* HearingVoices: Anyone who rocks the Banestone.
87%%* HeelRealization
88* HeroicSacrifice: What Kyri attempts in order to stop Jon from bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
89%%* HomeSweetHome
90%%* HourOfPower: Stones can only be rocked for a period of time.
91%%* IgnoredEpiphany
92%%* IHaveManyNames
93%%* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight
94* ImAHumanitarian: The humans see the other higher animals as potential meals, even though they are humanoid, of comparable intelligence, and can still be seen as something to satisfy [[{{Squick}} "erotic appetites"]]. Even worse, [[spoiler:they actually ''are'' humans, who for some bizarre reason, have ended up filling the evolutionary niches that were left empty after the Eternity Spire caused mass extinctions]].
95%%* InHarmsWay
96* InMysteriousWays: One possible interpretation of the nature goddess's apparent lack of intervention. [[spoiler:The God At The Eternity Spire has also been implied to have some limited ability to intervene indirectly]]
97%%* TheInsomniac
98* InvertedTrope: Colindra turning into a dragon and saving Bennet Quandel II, making it example of[[http://endstone.net/comic/10-20-endstone/ a knight getting saved by dragon,]] who is actually a maiden in a dragon form.
99%%* KickTheDog
100* KillItWithFire: A rocker uses this on Herrik, to get his attention
101%%* LastOfHisKind
102%%* LittleBitBeastly: The higher animals.
103* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Cole hears murmurs that she'll be as evil as her father.
104* LotusEaterMachine: Their world is implied to be one of these. [[spoiler: The Eternity Spire is actually a [[RealityWarper reality warping]] machine. It was originally hinted to have replaced the "real world" (which is much like our own) with the fantasy style world of Endstone. Though the God At The Eternity Spire eventually admits that this was a lie he used to control the various wielders of the Banestone and the "real world" those people saw merely reflects the reality he intends to create. See AfterTheEnd above.]]
105* LoveAtFirstSight: Kyri Thunderhead and Jon Montaine.
106%%* {{MacGuffin}}: The shards of the Endstone.
107%%* MadeASlave
108* MadScientist: [[spoiler:The God At The Eternity Spire is actually one of these. He was often criticized by his colleagues for not testing his theories thoroughly enough. This recklessness is ultimately what lead to the AfterTheEnd state of the world. Even that failed to teach him his lesson, and he chided his critics long afterwards. Thanks to being imprisoned in the ArtifactOfDoom known as the Banestone, his sanity has only declined even further, and he is now willing to commit horrific and stupidly unsubtle atrocities to bring about his plans.]]
109%%* MamaBear
110%%* MeaningfulRename
111* MedievalStasis: According to the God At The Eternity Spire, the "Stoners" are [[spoiler:descended from his original science team, who were irradiated by the Eternal Spire's explosion]], giving them the ability to manipulate the shards of the Spire and warp reality. They effectively used this power to conquer the world and stopped all technological progress.
112* MindRape: What the God At The Eternity Spire does to Colindra after she opens her mind to him via the Banestone.
113%%* MineralMacguffin
114%%* MissingMom
115%%* {{Mooks}}
116* MuggingTheMonster: An angry mob attempts to do this to Kyri and Colindra. Kyri responds with a FoeTossingCharge. Many years later, a gang of thugs attempt this on Colindra. She responds by disintegrating them with the power of the Dragonstone.
117* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[http://endstone.net/2011/07/04/6-07/ What the God At The Eternity Spire showed Jon when he touched the Banestone]]:
118--> "Gaze into the world as it should be Jon."
119--> "Deep in your soul you have always felt there was something 'not right' about your life, yes?"
120--> "You are really an ''overlord''. A man of great ''power'' that no mortal can touch...
121--> "You are...
122--> "[[spoiler:''AN INVESTMENT BANKER!'']]"
123** Of course, he then uses his new found power to [[http://endstone.net/2011/07/18/6-11/ lay waste to the land]]. Like much of Endstone, it then moves out of this trope and into CrazyIsCool.
124%%* NatureHero
125%%* NeverHurtAnInnocent
126* TheNoseKnows: Kyri trusts Jon because of his smell
127%%* NotAGame
128* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Jon Montaine and Kyri Thunderhead were believed to have perished at the Eternity Spire. But as Pablo Montaine suspects, they were merely imprisoned in time.]]
129%%* OddShapedPanel
130%%* OmnicidalManiac: Anyone who wields the Banestone.
131* OrwellianRetcon: Colindra's AlternateSelf in the [[spoiler:universe Simon intends to create]] was originally depicted as a fat overeating slob. WordOfGod says that he originally planned to make it karma for Colindra's vanity, but he never properly explored it and as such regretted it. She has since been retconned to a punk. Even past pages were altered, and those that hadn't yet were replaced with a "down for maintenance" page.
132%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent
133%%* ParentalAbandonment
134%%* ParentalSubstitute
135* PhysicalGod: The God At The Eternity Spire. [[spoiler: Actually a scientist with the power to [[RealityWarper warp reality]].]]
136* PostVictoryCollapse: Cole [[http://endstone.net/2010/06/07/issue-3-webpage-40/ collapses after her escape]].
137%%* PowerGlows
138* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: The Eternity Spire was a science project to augment reality GoneHorriblyWrong.
139* RedEyesTakeWarning: Anyone who rocks the Banestone.
140* {{Revenge}}: What Jon Montaine sought against Drakyl.
141* RunningGag: The comments section is incredibly fond of the phrase "Oh deer!"
142%%* SchizoTech
143* SealedEvilInACan: The God At The Eternity Spire [[spoiler:is trapped in another plane of existence that overlooks normal reality, preventing him from using his [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers. Though he's more of an insane WellIntentionedExtremist than actually evil, and his imprisonment is the result of an accident]].
144* SexSlave: When someone tries to auction off Kyri, a man wants her alive, rather than butchered for meat.
145* ShapeShiftingExcludesClothing: transforming into a dragon via the Dragonstone destroys whatever clothing the user was wearing, and leaves the stoner naked when she returns to normal form. Colindra alternates between [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl not noticing her nudity]] in this situation and, upon noticing, having to go get clothing.
146%%* ShutUpHannibal
147* TheSociopath: Anyone using the Banestone's power risks becoming this. Jon Montaine cared nothing for his family while he was under its influence. It has been implied that being trapped ''inside'' the Banestone for so long has left The God At The Eternity Spire stuck with this trait, even when he isn't using it.
148* SoProudOfYou: Kyri starts her talk with Cole about being a stoner with this
149* {{Stripperiffic}}: Playing with it. Because the years have not been kind to Matilda.
150%%* TakeMyHand
151* TalkAboutTheWeather: Cole and Bennett, after waking in an awkward situation
152* TearsOfJoy: On finding Kyri in the arena.
153%%* TellMeAboutMyFather
154* ThatManIsDead: What tends to happen to wielders of the Banestone.
155%%* ThresholdGuardians
156%%* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks
157* TimeStandsStill: One of the Banestone's powers.
158* TorchesAndPitchforks: For the witch hunt
159* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Cole for her grandmother
160%%* UnstoppableRage
161%%* VampiricDraining
162* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Dragonstone allows its wielder to transform into a dragon.
163* WellDoneSonGuy: Jon manipulates Cole with this.
164* WellIntentionedExtremist: The God At The Eternity Spire [[spoiler:has been utterly ruthless in his attempt to reunite the Endstone and Banestone, but he is ultimately just trying to fix all the damage his science experiment caused to make things right again and become a GodEmperor to ensure that such a disaster never happens again.]]
165* WeNeedADistraction: Don't look at the bottle
166* WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Cole, about her own father's attraction to her mother
167%%* WhereItAllBegan
168* WickedWitch: one foe in the backstory
169* WitchHunt: Kyri and Cole are targeted because she's a deer
170* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The nature of the Banestone.
171%%* YouAreTooLate
172* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: After Herrik the Snake dramatically reveals he's been concealing the Endstone, [[http://endstone.net/comic/issue-3-webpage-32/ Kyri informs him what he's been hiding from pursuers for a decade is merely the useless Homestone,]] whose only power is that it enables people to track down its possessor.
173%%* ZergRush

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