Set in 22nd century Earth, over 100 years after the 3rd World War, the Demon Archives tells the survivors' stories as they struggle to rebuild civilization. Book One follows the exploits of members of Minerva, one of the few high tech organizations that survived the War, and tells how they established a beacon of hope in the dreary wasteland of central Asia.

Minerva: Book One of the Demon Archives follows the story of Tenzin, a Minervan SuperSoldier, and his ArtificialIntelligence, Jane, as they fight to protect the ideals Minerva stands for in an increasingly chaotic world.

[[http://www.demonarchives.com Explore the World]]

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!!This comic provides examples of:
* ActionHero: Tenzin. He’s as much a [[GuileHero tactician]] as he is a fighter.
* AnArmAndALeg: Inevitable for such a violent setting, but [[spoiler: happens to protagonist Tenzin fairly early in the story]]
* AllThereInTheManual: The website features an impressive amount of extra material about the comic's world, history, language, culture, and technology.
* AntiHero: Tenzin is usually a [[PragmaticHero Type 3]], but the backstory shows that he's gone into [[UnscrupulousHero Type 4]] territory. Understandable, given how much he's suffered.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: By the end of Chapter 2, every one of the Keleres except for Tenzin and Viktor have been killed by the evil GiantMecha. Provides many cases of {{SacrificialLamb}}s, with Jorge's death being more of a SacrificialLion.]]
* AfterTheEnd: The story takes place about 100 years after a [[ApocalypseHow Class 1 Apocalyptic War]], involving nuclear and biological warfare.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted with Jane, and, so far, seemingly the other Oracle Project AIs. [[spoiler:Hinted at being played straight with SOPCA, which manipulates Konstantin into allowing it a direct link to his second-generation drones and assures him "I have done nothing but what you've ordered."]]
* ArtificialIntelligence: The Oracle Project has produced a variety of stable AIs, with Jane being the most visible. [[spoiler:Of course, the bad guys have their own AI too...and it seems somewhat less benevolent.]]
* BarBrawl: How Tenzin met Viktor.
-->'''Viktor''': Come now, boys, why'd you have to bring guns and ruin a perfectly good brawl?
* BilingualBonus: Since the characters come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, there are bits of foreign language sprinkled in.
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Jane calls Tenzin a hopeless meatbag when he admits he didn’t bother reading his own contract.
* CosyCatastrophe - Other parts of the world have survived decently well, maintaining high levels of technology and civilization, although most turn out to be {{Dystopia}}s.
* CrapsackWorld
* CuteMute: Lily, a little girl rescued by Tenzin, does not speak.
* DeadMansSwitch: Inverted with [[spoiler: an unconscious child hung up on a wall. Removing the child triggers an explosion.]]
* DreamWalker: [[spoiler:Via BrainComputerInterface, how Jane gets Tenzin out of his coma.]]
* EmpathyDollShot: Downplayed. A doll is seen and zoomed in on, but it’s not made a big deal of and the scene doesn’t look particularly grim. [[spoiler: Yet.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As the flashbacks in Chapter 4 demonstrate, Tenzin is perfectly capable of kicking ass without his power armor.
* ExplosionPropulsion: [[spoiler: Happens after the DeadMansSwitch goes off.]]
* FeudalFuture - Some local civilization may be maintained in feudal city-states, such as a DividedStatesOfAmerica.
* [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The Hawks (mini-[=UAVs=]) fire lasers.
* GeniusBruiser: Tenzin is a master tactician as well as an expert at hand-to-hand combat and a superb marksman.
* GentleGiant: Viktor is a big guy, but he’s pretty easygoing and mellow even in intense combat situations.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The [[GiantMecha Giant Mecha]] that attacks near the end of chapter two has six glowing red eyes.
* GoodMorningCrono: The story begins with Jane telling Tenzin to wake up.
* {{Gorn}}: The battlefield gets very messy during the entire chapter Ambush, although they do try to keep it [[GoryDiscretionShot PG-13]]. It gets even bloodier in [[spoiler: Tenzin's nightmares while he's in a coma]].
* [[spoiler: HeroicBSOD : Following the grievous injuries Tenzin received in the second chapter, he's deep in a coma and is unresponsive to the rest of the world. His survivor's guilt over losing his men amongst many others in his life has subconsciously kept him from awakening.]]
* HuskyRusskie: Viktor certainly fits this trope, although with less of an accent.
* MagneticWeapons: [[spoiler:Agent Nightshade's]] sniper rifle is a freaking ''railgun''.
* MoreDakka: Machine guns are just of many weapons used in combat.
* MotherlyScientist: Doctor Bellami, with Jane as her "child"
* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The leaders of Minerva's three divisions make decisions for the group as a whole, but don't really see eye-to-eye...
* PoweredArmor: All of the soldiers are equipped with high-tech combat armor.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Jane behaves so much like a teenager that you sometimes forget she's an AI hologram.
* RobotGirl: Jane is an AI variant.
* ScavengerWorld - For a good chunk of the world, civilization has crumbled, and people are struggling to get by on the remains of technology. A lot of DisasterScavengers form para-military groups and spread chaos.
* SceneryGorn: The war zone is suitably distressed-looking, though certain shots are also quite [[SceneryPorn beautiful]], too.
* ShoutOut: The "faces" of [[spoiler:the deathbots]] bear a distinct resemblance to [[VideoGame/DeadSpace Isaac Clarke's]] iconic helmet.
** One of the techies is named [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick, while his transport driver is Morty]].
** In the flashbacks to his youth, we see [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Tenzin as a young monk]].
* SilentSnarker: Lily nails it hard on [[https://demonarchives.com/chapter-11-page-24-ffffrustration/ this page]] when her attempt to warn the others of a potential trap sails right over their heads.
* StatOVision: The view from inside the soldiers’ helmets show a certain degree of this, although HeadsUpDisplay or AugmentedReality may be more apt descriptions.
* TankGoodness: Very large, imposing tanks at that.
* TraumaCongaLine: Tenzin's dream-memory flashbacks show that his life has pretty much been this (and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a fair bit of it has been his fault]]), to the point where [[spoiler:he decides [[DespairEventHorizon there's no reason to ever wake up]]. Jane snaps him out of it by starting with a DreamWeaver version of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and escalating from there]].