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* AmbiguousSituation: The Cult's moral status is deliberately left unstated, to give [=STs=] more freedom. If players want a story where the Cult is a HateSink of Stepford fanatics, they can do that! If the story is instead suited by the Cult being an army of heroes whose compassion saves the world -- or an ''Franchise/XMen'' knockoff -- that works just as well.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The Cult's moral status is deliberately left unstated, to give [=STs=] more freedom. If players want a story where the Cult is a HateSink of Stepford fanatics, they can do that! If the story is instead suited by the Cult being an army of heroes whose compassion saves the world -- or an ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' knockoff -- that works just as well.
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* CardCarryingVillain: As close as you can get in Exalted -- they openly worship Kimbery, they are gleeful slavers, and they want to TakeOverTheWorld.
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* CardCarryingVillain: As close as you can get in Exalted -- they openly worship Kimbery, they are gleeful slavers, they practice strict eugenics, and they want to TakeOverTheWorld.
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** They claim to honor the Ancient Lintha, an ancient [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf-like]] race created by Kimbery. Their ghosts are still around, and they are disgusted by the Family.
** They claim to honor the Ancient Lintha, an ancient [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf-like]] race created by Kimbery. Their ghosts are still around, and they are disgusted by the Family.
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* {{Polyamory}}: Pureblooded Lintha are expected to take dozens of spouses during their lives, to increase the possibility of breeding more purebloods.
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* {{Polyamory}}: Pureblooded Lintha are expected to take dozens of spouses during their lives, to increase the possibility of breeding more purebloods.purebloods, though they pressure those with at least two Demon-Blood offspring to undergo castration to prevent blood pollution.
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Mortal sorcerers are rare, but sometimes they leave Creation almost as changed as Exalted. The sealfolk queen Aiun, fleeing persecution of herself and the related walrusfolk and frogfolk, managed to tap into the power of the Eye of Autocthon and raise up an entire continent - but in her fear of gods and baseline humans, reached further for a protector - [[DealWithTheDevil any protector at all]]. She found [[EldritchAbomination the Spiral]], a strange, disincarnate force of alien order that gave her manufactured sanctuary life and a wall of mist to protect it - but [[LoadBearingBoss as soon as she died]], so did the controls on its power. Quite unintentionally, it shattered the continent into an archipelago - one regularly twisted by its warping power. But it is, ultimately, an honorable thing - the Northwestern islands remain under the protection of the mists, and while life is harder for the beastfolk than it it was under Aiun-the-queen, it remains their sanctuary - one they are murderously protective of.
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Mortal sorcerers are rare, but sometimes they leave Creation almost as changed as Exalted. The sealfolk queen Aiun, fleeing persecution of herself and the related walrusfolk and frogfolk, managed to tap into the power of the Eye of Autocthon Autochthon and raise up an entire continent - but in her fear of gods and baseline humans, reached further for a protector - [[DealWithTheDevil any protector at all]]. She found found, or maybe created, [[EldritchAbomination the Spiral]], a strange, disincarnate force of alien order that gave her manufactured sanctuary life and a wall of mist to protect it - but [[LoadBearingBoss as soon as she died]], so did the controls on its power. Quite unintentionally, it shattered the continent into an archipelago - one regularly twisted by its warping power. But it is, ultimately, an honorable thing - the Northwestern islands remain under the protection of the mists, and while life is harder for the beastfolk than it it was under Aiun-the-queen, it remains their sanctuary - one they are murderously protective of.
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* OutsideContextProblem: Nobody except Queen Aiun knew exactly what the Spiral was, and even she had trouble articulating it. It is ''closest'' to living bordermarch of the Wyld, but it isn't of the Wyld itself.
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* OutsideContextProblem: Nobody except Queen Aiun knew exactly what the Spiral was, and even she had trouble articulating it. It is ''closest'' to a living bordermarch of the Wyld, but it isn't of the Wyld itself.
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Mortal sorcerers are rare, but sometimes they leave Creation almost as changed as Exalted. The sealfolk queen Aiun, fleeing persecution of herself and the related walrusfolk and frogfolk, managed to tap into the power of the Eye of Autocthon and raise up an entire continent - but in her fear of gods and baseline humans, reached further for a protector - [[DealWithTheDevil any protector at all]]. She found [[EldritchAbomination the Spiral]], a strange, disincarnate force of alien order that gave her manufactured sanctuary life and a wall of mist to protect it - but [[LoadBaringBoss as soon as she died]], so did the controls on its power. Quite unintentionally, it shattered the continent into an archipelago - one regularly twisted by its warping power. But it is, ultimately, an honorable thing - the Northwestern islands remain under the protection of the mists, and while life is harder for the beastfolk than it it was under Aiun-the-queen, it remains their sanctuary - one they are murderously protective of.
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Mortal sorcerers are rare, but sometimes they leave Creation almost as changed as Exalted. The sealfolk queen Aiun, fleeing persecution of herself and the related walrusfolk and frogfolk, managed to tap into the power of the Eye of Autocthon and raise up an entire continent - but in her fear of gods and baseline humans, reached further for a protector - [[DealWithTheDevil any protector at all]]. She found [[EldritchAbomination the Spiral]], a strange, disincarnate force of alien order that gave her manufactured sanctuary life and a wall of mist to protect it - but [[LoadBaringBoss [[LoadBearingBoss as soon as she died]], so did the controls on its power. Quite unintentionally, it shattered the continent into an archipelago - one regularly twisted by its warping power. But it is, ultimately, an honorable thing - the Northwestern islands remain under the protection of the mists, and while life is harder for the beastfolk than it it was under Aiun-the-queen, it remains their sanctuary - one they are murderously protective of.
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* TheCorruption: Downplayed with the Spiral's influence - it's outright stated that it is protective of Aiun's Children and tries to avoid hurting them too much, but it can't help but inflict its geometric form of Wyld mutation on those within it or who ask it for power, leading to weird spatial anomalies and stranger monsters. It's also outright hazardous to spirits, which it also inflicts a compulsion on to lose themselves in the coils. Mortals who do so [[LovecraftianSuperpower gain powerful mutations]], but also [[PowerAtAPrice derangements]].
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* TheCorruption: Downplayed with the Spiral's influence - it's outright stated that it is protective of Aiun's Children and tries to avoid hurting them too much, but it can't help but inflict its geometric form of Wyld mutation on those within it or who ask it for power, leading to weird spatial anomalies and stranger monsters. It's also outright hazardous to spirits, which it also inflicts a compulsion on to lose themselves in the coils. Mortals who do so [[LovecraftianSuperpower gain powerful mutations]], but also [[PowerAtAPrice distinct Flaws]], generally [[PowerBornOfMadness derangements]].
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* HiddenElfVillage: The beastfolk do ''not'' like visitors, though only the sealfolk are true {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s; walrusfolk accept brave and trustworthy warriors, and frogfolk see anyone who willingly comes to Aiun as akin to abused pets fleeing horrors worse than the Spiral's children.
* LovecraftLite: Nobody's sure what the Spiral is, but everyone knows it ultimately considers itself the (unpredictable and chaotic, but honest) protector of the Lost Isles, and the real threat in Aiun comes from beastfolk xenophobia. It's even possible for an Exalted or other sorcerer to re-tame the Spiral, though it hasn't been done yet.
* SentientCosmicForce: As far as anyone can tell, the Spiral might as well by a sentient Wyld zone, or at least that's the closest analogy Queen Aiun could come up with.
* LovecraftLite: Nobody's sure what the Spiral is, but everyone knows it ultimately considers itself the (unpredictable and chaotic, but honest) protector of the Lost Isles, and the real threat in Aiun comes from beastfolk xenophobia. It's even possible for an Exalted or other sorcerer to re-tame the Spiral, though it hasn't been done yet.
* SentientCosmicForce: As far as anyone can tell, the Spiral might as well by a sentient Wyld zone, or at least that's the closest analogy Queen Aiun could come up with.
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* HiddenElfVillage: The beastfolk do ''not'' like visitors, though only the sealfolk are true {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s; bigots; walrusfolk accept brave and trustworthy warriors, and frogfolk see anyone who willingly comes to Aiun as akin to abused pets fleeing horrors worse than the Spiral's children.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The Spiral itself isn't cruel, just corruptive and alien in mindset - the issue is that [[UnwantedAssistance it wants to be used]], hence the prevalence of destructive cultists who cheerfully sacrifice extreme amounts of themselves for extreme power.
* OutsideContextProblem: Nobody except Queen Aiun knew exactly what the Spiral was, and even she had trouble articulating it. It is ''closest'' to living bordermarch of the Wyld, but it isn't of the Wyld itself.
* LovecraftLite: Nobody's sure what the Spiral is, but everyone knows it ultimatelyconsiders itself isn't intentionally malevolent and still tries to protect the (unpredictable and chaotic, but honest) protector of the Lost Isles, and the real threat in Aiun comes from beastfolk xenophobia. It's even possible for an Exalted or other sorcerer to re-tame the Spiral, though it hasn't been done yet.
* SentientCosmicForce: As far as anyone can tell, the Spiralmight as well by is a sentient semi-sentient vortex of energies similar to a Wyld zone, or at least that's the closest analogy Queen Aiun could come up with.
albeit far more intentional and flexible.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The Spiral itself isn't cruel, just corruptive and alien in mindset - the issue is that [[UnwantedAssistance it wants to be used]], hence the prevalence of destructive cultists who cheerfully sacrifice extreme amounts of themselves for extreme power.
* OutsideContextProblem: Nobody except Queen Aiun knew exactly what the Spiral was, and even she had trouble articulating it. It is ''closest'' to living bordermarch of the Wyld, but it isn't of the Wyld itself.
* LovecraftLite: Nobody's sure what the Spiral is, but everyone knows it ultimately
* SentientCosmicForce: As far as anyone can tell, the Spiral
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* GraveRobbing: Very, very, ''very'' discouraged. If the Morticians don't get you, the hungry ghosts will. And there are a ''lot'' of hungry ghosts.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of Greece and Rome, particularly their large necropoli.
* GraveRobbing: Very, very, ''very'' discouraged. If the Morticians or the higher ghosts don't get you, the hungry ghosts will. And there are a ''lot'' of hungryghosts.ghosts.
* MundaneUtility: The Morticians' stock and trade. Exquisite and respectful funerals empower and appease the ghosts of the recently dead, so families pay Sijanese mourners to give the best funerals and tributes they can to ensure their ancestors arise as powerful and well-disposed ghosts.
* GraveRobbing: Very, very, ''very'' discouraged. If the Morticians or the higher ghosts don't get you, the hungry ghosts will. And there are a ''lot'' of hungry
* MundaneUtility: The Morticians' stock and trade. Exquisite and respectful funerals empower and appease the ghosts of the recently dead, so families pay Sijanese mourners to give the best funerals and tributes they can to ensure their ancestors arise as powerful and well-disposed ghosts.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Halta is pretty nice, but every city is required to feed three of its citizens to the FairFolk yearly. This is one of the many reasons the Lionwan, who regard the raksha as their [[TheUsualAdversaries traditional adversaries]], loathe the Haltans.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Halta is pretty nice, but every city is required to feed three of its citizens to the FairFolk yearly. This is one of the many reasons the Lionwan, Linowan, who regard the raksha as their [[TheUsualAdversaries traditional adversaries]], loathe the Haltans.
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!!'''The Lost Isles of Aiun'''
In some ways, putting the Lost Isles in Creation at all is a misnomer; [[EldritchLocation they're more a pocket world unto themselves]] torn by a wound in Creation itself, exactly as intended - [[GoneHorriblyRight but not to the extent wanted]].
Mortal sorcerers are rare, but sometimes they leave Creation almost as changed as Exalted. The sealfolk queen Aiun, fleeing persecution of herself and the related walrusfolk and frogfolk, managed to tap into the power of the Eye of Autocthon and raise up an entire continent - but in her fear of gods and baseline humans, reached further for a protector - [[DealWithTheDevil any protector at all]]. She found [[EldritchAbomination the Spiral]], a strange, disincarnate force of alien order that gave her manufactured sanctuary life and a wall of mist to protect it - but [[LoadBaringBoss as soon as she died]], so did the controls on its power. Quite unintentionally, it shattered the continent into an archipelago - one regularly twisted by its warping power. But it is, ultimately, an honorable thing - the Northwestern islands remain under the protection of the mists, and while life is harder for the beastfolk than it it was under Aiun-the-queen, it remains their sanctuary - one they are murderously protective of.
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* TheCorruption: Downplayed with the Spiral's influence - it's outright stated that it is protective of Aiun's Children and tries to avoid hurting them too much, but it can't help but inflict its geometric form of Wyld mutation on those within it or who ask it for power, leading to weird spatial anomalies and stranger monsters. It's also outright hazardous to spirits, which it also inflicts a compulsion on to lose themselves in the coils. Mortals who do so [[LovecraftianSuperpower gain powerful mutations]], but also [[PowerAtAPrice derangements]].
* {{Expy}}: The Spiral is an unsurprising, though less malevolent, version of [[Manga/{{Uzumaki}} whatever the hell is up with Kurôzu-cho]].
* HiddenElfVillage: The beastfolk do ''not'' like visitors, though only the sealfolk are true {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s; walrusfolk accept brave and trustworthy warriors, and frogfolk see anyone who willingly comes to Aiun as akin to abused pets fleeing horrors worse than the Spiral's children.
* LovecraftLite: Nobody's sure what the Spiral is, but everyone knows it ultimately considers itself the (unpredictable and chaotic, but honest) protector of the Lost Isles, and the real threat in Aiun comes from beastfolk xenophobia. It's even possible for an Exalted or other sorcerer to re-tame the Spiral, though it hasn't been done yet.
* SentientCosmicForce: As far as anyone can tell, the Spiral might as well by a sentient Wyld zone, or at least that's the closest analogy Queen Aiun could come up with.
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* PathOfInspiration: [[DownplayedTrope Only in some of its agenda]], but the Cult of the Illuminated is meant just as much to ''tame'' Solars as it is to protect them. The Gold Faction means well, because they don't want another Solar Purge to become necessary, but they can be manipulative as hell to achieve it.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: It's not their only thing, but Linowan is pretty keen on demonstrating skills to become a noble in war and is quick to take enough offense to breaking their etiquette codes for a bit of light raiding.
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* ForeverWar: The Halta-Linowan war has been going for centuries and will probably never end without extreme effort. The two sides have developed such bitter animosity towards the other and have ''continuing'' grievances (Halta planting its redwoods in lands the Linowan regard as reserved for their trees and the Linowans cutting down the adult redwoods for boats), that they roughly have the same amount of love for each other as [[UsefulNotes/ThePunicWars Rome and Carthage]]. Even in the current age of relative peace, [[ColdWar they're looking for any excuse to escalate hostilities with the other]].
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* ForeverWar: The Halta-Linowan war has been going for centuries and will probably never end without extreme effort. The two sides have developed such bitter animosity towards the other and have ''continuing'' grievances (Halta planting its redwoods in lands the Linowan regard as reserved for their trees and the Linowans cutting down the adult redwoods for boats), that they roughly have the same amount of love for each other as [[UsefulNotes/ThePunicWars [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Rome and Carthage]]. Even in the current age of relative peace, [[ColdWar they're [[GeneralRipper many on both sides are looking for any excuse to escalate hostilities with the other]].
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Halta is pretty nice, but every city is required to feed three of its citizens to the FairFolk yearly. This is one of the many reasons the Lionwan, who regard the raksha as their [[TheUsualAdversaries traditional adversaries]], loathe the Haltans.
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* UtopiaWithADarkSecret: Halta is pretty nice, but every city is required to feed three of its citizens to the FairFolk yearly. This is one of the many reasons the Lionwan, who regard the raksha as their [[TheUsualAdversaries traditional adversaries]], loathe the Haltans.
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Across the Eight Directions writeup, needs more but it's a good start.
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* ForeverWar: The Halta-Linowan war has been going for centuries and will probably never end, because both sides are completely fanatical nutjobs about it and don't consider peace an option.
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* ForeverWar: The Halta-Linowan war has been going for centuries and will probably never end, because both end without extreme effort. The two sides are completely fanatical nutjobs about it have developed such bitter animosity towards the other and don't consider peace an option.have ''continuing'' grievances (Halta planting its redwoods in lands the Linowan regard as reserved for their trees and the Linowans cutting down the adult redwoods for boats), that they roughly have the same amount of love for each other as [[UsefulNotes/ThePunicWars Rome and Carthage]]. Even in the current age of relative peace, [[ColdWar they're looking for any excuse to escalate hostilities with the other]].
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* UtopiaWithADarkSecret: Halta is pretty nice, but every city is required to feed three of its citizens to the FairFolk yearly. This is one of the many reasons the Lionwan, who regard the raksha as their [[TheUsualAdversaries traditional adversaries]], loathe the Haltans.
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A river-dwelling confederation of peoples loosely allied with the Realm, known for their keen warrior culture, boats, and mystical masks.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: A fundamental virtue and trait of Linowan culture; everyone is (ostensibly) born a commoner, but showing extreme skill in an area promotes you to being a noble, and the best noble gets to call themselves royalty. While not all Linowan chieftains are nobles, the majority are, and the high queen of Linowan as a whole is always a royal.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Showing yourself to be a truly skilled person in Linowan is liable to earn you a mask that boosts your skill to superhuman levels
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: A fundamental virtue and trait of Linowan culture; everyone is (ostensibly) born a commoner, but showing extreme skill in an area promotes you to being a noble, and the best noble gets to call themselves royalty. While not all Linowan chieftains are nobles, the majority are, and the high queen of Linowan as a whole is always a royal.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Showing yourself to be a truly skilled person in Linowan is liable to earn you a mask that boosts your skill to superhuman levels
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* ForeverWar: As noted above, the Halta-Linowan war. The mere idea of peace with Halta is foreign to these folks.
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* ForeverWar: As noted above, the Halta-Linowan war. The mere idea of peace with Halta Halta, who they regard as fae-worshipping imperalists, is foreign to these folks.
* MaskPower: Linowan have developed an entirely mortal magic to turn ceremonial masks into boosts for skilled users of them.
* TheUsualAdversaries: Linowan hate and fear raksha, and regard anyone who willingly works with them as deeply suspect.
* MaskPower: Linowan have developed an entirely mortal magic to turn ceremonial masks into boosts for skilled users of them.
* TheUsualAdversaries: Linowan hate and fear raksha, and regard anyone who willingly works with them as deeply suspect.
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[DownplayedTrope The Perfect is no saint]], but he uses the Scepter—an artifact that can only cause pain and death for defying a ruler—to rule his people with a truly shocking amount of restraint and wisdom.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: “His Eye Is Always On You” isn't just a pun about being marked by the Scepter; the Perfect can see through pretty much any eye symbol (or [[DemonicPossession pair of eyes]]) in Paragon.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: “His Eye Is Always On You” isn't just a pun about being marked by the Scepter; the Perfect can see through pretty much any eye symbol (or [[DemonicPossession pair of eyes]]) in Paragon.
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* GreenEyedMonster: With the rise of the Solar Exalted, many people, including the Perfect himself, are wondering why he wasn't chosen. He'd be, well, perfect as a Twilight Caste. He's rather bitter about this, which consequently makes his relationship with the Solar Exalt actually serving him way more complicated.
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* NobleDemon: Paragon is a police state ruled by the Perfect, whose word is literally law and defying it will cause you pain or even death. He also ''hates'' that the Scepter can only be used for punishment, works very ''very'' hard to make sure that the laws he creates are just and fair, and allows his people a great deal of personal freedom, albeit [[BigBrotherIsWatching under constant surveillance]].
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Anyone who knows the correct ritual and is able to get past Iwau Tamotsu can ask the Weeping Maiden for a astrological blessing, similar to the blessings Sidereal Astrology can grant. However, the true ritual is in a book held by the Lintha family.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Anyone who knows the correct ritual and is able to get past Iwau Tamotsu can ask the Weeping Maiden for a an astrological blessing, similar to the blessings Sidereal Astrology can grant. However, the true ritual is in a book held by the Lintha family.
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* FakingTheDead: In the events of ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', the Realm is on the brink of a civil war between Mnemon and the Roseback's factions, and one possible way for the way to start is for Fokuf to be assassinated. [[spoiler: If Fokuf is smarter than he appears, he may fake his own death to avoid this fate, with the Civil War as a side effect which may or may not have been intentional.]]
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* FakingTheDead: In the events of ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', the Realm is on the brink of a civil war between Mnemon and the Roseback's Roseblack's factions, and one possible way for the way to start is for Fokuf to be assassinated. [[spoiler: If Fokuf is smarter than he appears, he may fake his own death to avoid this fate, with the Civil War as a side effect which may or may not have been intentional.]]
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* BladeOnAStick: He has an iron-jade spear named Usilk.
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* PoorMansPorn: Spends a lot of time enjoying the more salacious bits of the Immaculate Texts.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: His relation to the Immaculate Texts is... ''interesting''.
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* OrganicTechnology: Combined with CrystalSpiresAndTogas, the Dragon Kings have unique affinity for {{Magitek}} with this aesthetic, including living swords that grow on trees and living crystalline [[ArmCannon Arm Cannons]].
