Tropers / Silents

• Action Girl: Every female character. All of them.
• Action Hero: Keel and Caelus, at first. Heavily deconstructed early on, with their violent tendencies causing almost every problem in the first act. Both make an effort to get less trigger-happy upon realizing this.
• Aloof Ally: Caelus and his team, following their Face-Heel Turn.
• Always Second Best: Errin. Her borderline-insane perfectionism doesn't help with this much.
• The Anticipator: Justified with Caelus; his Vision magic allows perfect sight of anything within his field of view, even things in the corner of his eye.
• Archnemesis Dad: Shihari to Miname.
• Asexuality: Miname is Asexual and Aromantic.
• Barrier Warrior: Keel, with emphasis on the "warrior" part.
• Battle Butler: Errin.
• Blondes Are Evil: Played straight with Harle and Coin. Subverted by Mera, Shion, and Pefka.
• Boisterous Weakling: Keel.
• Book Dumb: Keel and Ruri.
• Born Lucky: Pefka weaponizes this.
• Butt-Monkey: Deconstructed with Keel, whose frequent mistakes and losses eventually result in his self-esteem being lowered drastically. Reconstructed soon after, however, as his newfound self-doubt ironically results in him losing some of his worst qualities (like his arrogance and hotheadedness) by making him stop to consider the potential consequences of his actions, allowing him to mature into a much more sensible person and escape the trope.
  • Downplayed and generally Played for Laughs with Miname.
• The Caretaker: Keel tries to be this for Errin for a while.
• The Champion: Mera and Miname are this to each other. Errin is this to Keel. Caelus is this to Shion.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Ruri and Shion both fit.
• Cloudcukoolanders Minder: Downplayed. While far from being close friends, Miname usually ends up being the one who has to make Ruri at least attempt to take things seriously.
• Combat Medic: Keel is the only person in the entire series capable of using true healing magic. Unfortunately, he isn't very good at it, instead favoring direct combat (something he, once again, is not very good at). Shion can't use healing spells, but she is very skilled medically, is capable of using her paralysis magic as anesthetic, and is generally a much more competent example, ironically enough.
• Combat Pragmatist: Miname, Ruri, Caelus, Shion, Pefka, Rabies, Heistal, Coin, Harle... There are a lot.
• Commander Contrarian: In a rare example, Miname, one of the focal protagonists, is this to basically everyone except Mera, the other focal protagonist.
• The Confidant: Mera and Miname, to each other.
• Constantly Curious: Ruri.
• Culture Chop Suey: Each country is loosely based on the culture of a real-world continent. Special mention goes to Solo and Vedda; Solo is both Australia AND Antarctica, while Vedda is based on the Native Americans of North America and, strangely enough, France.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Miname and Errin. Heistal, too.
• Dead All Along: Coin.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Played with regarding Coin. By the time she shows up in the story, her soul has been taken, not only killing her but effectively making her stop existing. The actions the viewers see her perform are actually done by Harle, who is remotely controlling Coin's corpse to trick the other characters and keep suspicion away from herself.
• Deadly Doctor: Shion qualifies.
• Death of the Author: In the epilogue, Harle is defeated by this very concept, with the world kept from ending through fan content and interpretation continually adding to and changing the narrative once the story officially ends.
• Deuteragonist: Mera, for the most part. Caelus also gets quite a bit of focus, considering he isn't even a member of the other characters' group.
• The Ditz: Shion.
• Downer Ending: Harle has been defeated, her followers are finally able to end their suffering, everyone is happy... Until Harle breaks character and starts talking as a narrator, revealing that she has had almost full control over the narrative the entire time. Turns out her real plan was to just give the story an ending, which the fans' support allowed for. With an official end in place, no more content will be produced for the story after that point, effectively ending the world due to the fact that no other events will ever take place in it again.
  • Subverted in the epilogue; see Death of the Author above.
  • Also applies to the fake "ending" halfway through the story. Miname and Vincent have been killed, Ruri has been scarred for life, the Godlings have nowhere to go, and the world is becoming more and more chaotic after Jayen's collapse. Credits roll in true last episode fashion, coupled with various other hints from the creators that the show would soon end... only for a trailer for the next season to play followed by Harle mocking the viewers for thinking it was over.
• Elemental Nation: One of the main setting themes, each of the six continents is symbolic of a different element: Life (Jayen), Death (Raya), Earth (Ardaa), Air (Vedda), Water (Solo), and Fire (Silfur).
• Empty Shell: Coin is this from the moment she is introduced, having had her soul taken by Harle. Harle herself is implied to be some variation of this.
  • Heistal describes his own soul as "broken" due to the fact that two-and-a-half centuries of immortality have drained it of all functions other than to keep him alive, oddly enough making him fit the trope more than Coin. Furthermore, the primary color of his color scheme is grey, which the story typically uses to signify nonexistence.
• Enigmatic Empowering Entity: The six main characters all get their powers from the gods and goddesses of their respective home countries.
• Evil Minions: Vladis' twin bodyguards, East and West.
• Extreme Doormat: One of Errin's major flaws.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: One for each real-world continent, with some cheating. Jayen is Europe, Raya is Asia, Ardaa is Africa and the Middle East, Vedda is North America (and France), Solo is Australia/Antarctica, and Silfur is South America.
• A Father to His Men: Both Mera and Caelus, leaders of their own respective teams of protagonists, behave this way.
• The Fettered: Downplayed with Miname, whose unbreaking rule of never killing or allowing the death of another clashes with his normally cold personality.
• Genius Bruiser: Mera.
• Humanoid Abomination: Harle certainly has elements of this, considering her shark-like teeth, rubbery limbs, and general disregard for the laws of physics. Turns out to be totally accurate. "Harle" is actually an immortal being known as The Fool, who split off from Omnious just before his imprisonment. If that weren't enough, she can also take on an even more abomination-like form, Judgment.
  • Made even worse by the revelation that she's actually not even that. Harle is stated to be "the concept of an ending," and is completely self-aware and accepting of her status as "sentient symbolism." In-universe, the characters are fighting to stay alive and save their world, while from her perspective, they are just trying to keep the story going indefinitely for no reason other than the fact they want it to keep going, and she is just trying to give it the proper ending it needs.
• Incompatible Orientation: Ruri, a bisexual, is in love with Miname, an asexual aromantic, with the main issue being her inability to understand that she's in this trope.
• Lightning Bruiser: Mera. Caelus qualifies as well, though not to the same degree. Taken Up To Eleven with Gwin, who is said to be the most powerful human to ever live.
• Lovecraft Lite
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Heistal is immortal and unable to feel pain. If that weren't enough, any and all parts of his body will always function perfectly so long as they are attached to his body, regardless of if they should actually be able to or not. Arm hanging onto his shoulder by a single tendon of muscle? Still moveable. The Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror tends to start changing settings at lightspeed when Heistal is around, for this reason.
• Proud Merchant Race: Solo is primarily known for, and prides itself on, its booming economy. Unfortunately, this has also led to the Solish being stereotyped as greedy and materialistic.
• Proud Scholar Race Guy: Two, representing polar opposites. Ardaa is intellectual and scientific, while Vedda is artistic and mystical.
• The Theocracy: Raya is particularly devoted to its worship of Tacita, being a deconstruction of stereotypically villainous races with cults that worship deities of evil.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The story has no cursing, drug/alcohol abuse, or sexualized characters, and at first glance it seems quite child friendly. Though once you start to consider the violence, gore, parental abuse, mental instability, Family Unfriendly Aesops, and psychological horror undertones...
  • One of the first scenes in the story involves Miname being stabbed and shot through the chest simultaneously, and is actually quite out of place with the comparatively lighter tone of the story arc it takes place in. This is intentional so that people wouldn't mistake the show's lighter tone at the beginning for the tone of the entire series, lessening the risk of children viewing it because their parents assumed it was child-friendly.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Miname views his patron deity as a father figure, has cross symbols on his jacket, gets a lot of injuries to his arms and legs, has a friend and mother figure whose name starts with M and is four letters long, and technically "comes back" after dying in that a part of his soul is transferred to Ruri. He isn't a Christ figure, and was in fact intentionally written to avoid being one once the creator realized all the similarities.
  • Eyes are a major part of the story's symbolism, being representative of a person's soul. Caelus' Vision magic, when activated, causes his normally-orange eyes to glow a bright cobalt blue, and grants him extreme enhancements to his eyesight and reflexes. Nothing to do with the power is involved with the aforementioned symbolism at all.