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* ActionGirl ([name])
* AMillionIsAStatistic (Soldiers have been dying in great numbers for so long, it's become a fact of life.)
* AWizardDidIt (Magic can create {{Mithril}}, Elves proficient in its uses are resistant to disease, live longer lives, can shoot lightning from their fingertips, and create smoke or fire with alchemy.)
* ChronicHeroSyndrome (Comet.)
* [[spoiler:ClarkesThirdLaw]]
* ConfrontingYourImposter: [[spoiler:Comet]]. ([[MistakenForAnImposter It doesn't work.]])
* {{Deconstruction}} (Of fantasy tropes and war.)
* {{Demonization}} ([[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed.]] See FantasticRacism, below, for details.)
* DuringTheWar (Centric to the plot of ''Conquest'', the War has gone on for so long that the economies of the warring nations have become centered around it.)
* EarnYourHappyEnding (One of the main themes.)
* ElCidPloy (After [[spoiler: Comet disappears]] between ''Conquest'' and ''Shadow'', several people attempt this.
* FacelessGoons (Both sides have these.)
* FantasticRacism (Peace talks have been largely fruitless in part because both sides have been [[{{Demonization}} demonizing each other]] since before the people in charge [[{{Deconstruction}} were even born.]])
* GoodIsNotNice ([[spoiler:Comet]], eventually.)
* GreyAndGrayMorality (There is no "right" side of the war.)
* HumansAreBastards (Some, anyways.)
* IHaveManyNames (The War. The Endless War. The War Of Generations. The Righteous Battle. Etc.)
* KnightInSourArmor ([[spoiler:Comet, eventually.]])
* LineOfSightName (Oma, after being called a ''O''ne ''M''an ''A''rmy.)
* TheMasquerade (Magic is [[spoiler:Industrial Revolution-era technology]].)
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead (Inverted. A white-washed version of a person's life implies that the individual's real story is not worth telling.)
* NiceJobBreakingItHero (In a "no-win situation" sort of way. [[spoiler:Because the war ended so suddenly after ''several generations'' of going on, both countries' economies are thrown into panic, and the [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand returning soldiers]] have no place.]])
* OneManArmy ([[FunWithAcronyms Oma]]. This is how [[spoiler:Comet picked the moniker.]])
* OurElvesAreDifferent (Our elves are a race of fair-skinned, long-lived, hidden people with {{Mithril}} and Magic.)
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity ([Name] for Comet. [[spoiler: She gets the opportunity to return the favor in ''Shadow''.]])
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism (Comet starts the story so far on the idealistic end, he could be used as a counterweight. [[spoiler: The events of ''Conquest'', and subsequent TimeSkip, ''catapult'' him over to the other side, before he finally settles somewhere in the middle.]])
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow ([[spoiler:For most of the soldiers of the war. Many of them default to banditry, leaving Comet to try to fix what he broke.]])
* TimeSkip (Between ''Conquest'' and ''Shadow''.)
* TheUntwist ([[spoiler:Magic is '''''TECHNOLOGY'''''!]]
* WalkingTheEarth ([[spoiler:Comet, ''in cognito'' as Oma]], post-TimeSkip.)
* WarIsHell (Another main theme.)
* WhatMeasureIsAMook (As mentioned above, the death of soldiers is considered non-disturbing.)
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman (Similarly, both sides tend to consider the other to be sub-human.)
* AMillionIsAStatistic (Soldiers have been dying in great numbers for so long, it's become a fact of life.)
* AWizardDidIt (Magic can create {{Mithril}}, Elves proficient in its uses are resistant to disease, live longer lives, can shoot lightning from their fingertips, and create smoke or fire with alchemy.)
* ChronicHeroSyndrome (Comet.)
* [[spoiler:ClarkesThirdLaw]]
* ConfrontingYourImposter: [[spoiler:Comet]]. ([[MistakenForAnImposter It doesn't work.]])
* {{Deconstruction}} (Of fantasy tropes and war.)
* {{Demonization}} ([[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed.]] See FantasticRacism, below, for details.)
* DuringTheWar (Centric to the plot of ''Conquest'', the War has gone on for so long that the economies of the warring nations have become centered around it.)
* EarnYourHappyEnding (One of the main themes.)
* ElCidPloy (After [[spoiler: Comet disappears]] between ''Conquest'' and ''Shadow'', several people attempt this.
* FacelessGoons (Both sides have these.)
* FantasticRacism (Peace talks have been largely fruitless in part because both sides have been [[{{Demonization}} demonizing each other]] since before the people in charge [[{{Deconstruction}} were even born.]])
* GoodIsNotNice ([[spoiler:Comet]], eventually.)
* GreyAndGrayMorality (There is no "right" side of the war.)
* HumansAreBastards (Some, anyways.)
* IHaveManyNames (The War. The Endless War. The War Of Generations. The Righteous Battle. Etc.)
* KnightInSourArmor ([[spoiler:Comet, eventually.]])
* LineOfSightName (Oma, after being called a ''O''ne ''M''an ''A''rmy.)
* TheMasquerade (Magic is [[spoiler:Industrial Revolution-era technology]].)
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead (Inverted. A white-washed version of a person's life implies that the individual's real story is not worth telling.)
* NiceJobBreakingItHero (In a "no-win situation" sort of way. [[spoiler:Because the war ended so suddenly after ''several generations'' of going on, both countries' economies are thrown into panic, and the [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand returning soldiers]] have no place.]])
* OneManArmy ([[FunWithAcronyms Oma]]. This is how [[spoiler:Comet picked the moniker.]])
* OurElvesAreDifferent (Our elves are a race of fair-skinned, long-lived, hidden people with {{Mithril}} and Magic.)
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity ([Name] for Comet. [[spoiler: She gets the opportunity to return the favor in ''Shadow''.]])
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism (Comet starts the story so far on the idealistic end, he could be used as a counterweight. [[spoiler: The events of ''Conquest'', and subsequent TimeSkip, ''catapult'' him over to the other side, before he finally settles somewhere in the middle.]])
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow ([[spoiler:For most of the soldiers of the war. Many of them default to banditry, leaving Comet to try to fix what he broke.]])
* TimeSkip (Between ''Conquest'' and ''Shadow''.)
* TheUntwist ([[spoiler:Magic is '''''TECHNOLOGY'''''!]]
* WalkingTheEarth ([[spoiler:Comet, ''in cognito'' as Oma]], post-TimeSkip.)
* WarIsHell (Another main theme.)
* WhatMeasureIsAMook (As mentioned above, the death of soldiers is considered non-disturbing.)
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman (Similarly, both sides tend to consider the other to be sub-human.)
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* AMillionIsAStatistic
* AWizardDidIt
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* [[spoiler:ClarkesThirdLaw]]
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%%* ConfrontingYourImposter: [[spoiler:Comet]]. ([[MistakenForAnImposter It doesn't work.
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* DuringTheWar
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%%* EarnYourHappyEnding
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* FantasticRacism
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%%* GoodIsNotNice
* GreyAndGrayMorality
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%%* HumansAreBastards
* IHaveManyNames
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* LineOfSightName
* TheMasquerade
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
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* OurElvesAreDifferent
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow
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* TheUntwist
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
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Moral Dissonance is now a disambig, this example is too ambiguous and impossible to verify as the work is unpublished.
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* MoralDissonance (Normally reprehensible acts become much more acceptable in the public eye when they're done to citizens of the opposing nation.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent (The nations, of course.)
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* [[BecauseImJonesy Because I'm]] [[spoiler:Comet]]. ([[MistakenForAnImposter It doesn't work.]])
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* ConfrontingYourImposter: [[spoiler:Comet]]. ([[MistakenForAnImposter It doesn't work.]])
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* TheUntwist ([[spoiler:Magic is '''''TECHNOLOGY'''''!]]
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trope was renamed, this was misuse
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*NiceJobBreakingItHero (In a "[[YouCantWin no-win situation]]" sort of way. [[spoiler:Because the war ended so suddenly after ''several generations'' of going on, both countries' economies are thrown into panic, and the [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand returning soldiers]] have no place.]])
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*NiceJobBreakingItHero (In a "[[YouCantWin no-win situation]]" "no-win situation" sort of way. [[spoiler:Because the war ended so suddenly after ''several generations'' of going on, both countries' economies are thrown into panic, and the [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand returning soldiers]] have no place.]])