History DarthWiki / Damsol

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Despite being known as an oil, the noivag is actually far from being one, much closer to a jam. It's creator, however, believed that oil sounded better, so it stuck.

* BadassGay: Raval, gholfodar and possibly the stronger warrior in Dansol's history.

* AuthorAvatar: Arthan Janhar Uhar.
* BadassArmy: Dukani and Laedor both have one. Particullary the former, thanks to the presence of draconids in its rank, and with soldiers trained to keep up with them. Alone, it was able to wage war against the whole Continent (admittedly it did use it's internal divisions to its advantage).

* BigBad: Uren and the indexers could be closer contenders, as the Draconid. Soras is often believed to be one in-universe, but see TheEmpire (however, see also RightForTheWrongReasons).

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: That's how some people are able to fight draconids without using magic.

** Heimro is the head of Duknai's secret services and actively against starting a new war with the continent. She's also a black-scaled draconid.

* TheDreaded: Nester Lartis, who was able play entire countries like violins, making war start and stop with no effort, and was defeated in a close battle by six gholfodar, one of them who died during the battle, the other two shortly after, and the last three spent the remaining of their life crippled by the fight, and centuries later the name still is enough to terrify people.
** The Draconid, a human wizard who managed to actually change his body into a draconid's, and enslaved a small region to have time to continue his experiments. Fittingly, he was the only known apprentice to Nester Lartis.
** Sedvain, a wizard hell bent on becoming the ultimate hunter, and possibly already succeded. He hunts powerful enemies for fun, fighting them to the death. He also isn't ashamed [[CombatPragmatist to prepare the ground or fighting dirty, if needed]], and overcame enemies believed to be much stronger. He [[RedMage is possibly able to use all the three kind of magic]], and also managed to establish some sort of mystical connection to/dominion over the Qlannevad. The Qlannevad is a forest so wast it almost covers a whole nation (the name itself means "green ocean"), and was feared as the home of powerfull, aggressive and unnatural beasts ''before'' Sedvain started to live there.
** Norritt. His studies changed his own body, so much that his blood itself is a powerful poison, and althought he is immune to poison and disseases himself, he can create some magic ones that no one is able to heal, and is compltely amoral. The only reason no one more powerful than him took him out is that they know it's be a mutual kill, and possibly entire cities will end up as collateral damage. He's also the only one who ever survived a fight with Sedvain, doing it twice so far.
** To a lesser degree, draconeers and lyunaji (elite troops of, respectively, Duknai and Jeanna) outside their countires. Particullary the former.
** The gholfodar ''aren't'', since they keep a low profile, and take out those who wouldn't near their level.

* FantasticRacism: With humanity made of six actual races, each one with unique traits, some ensues. Also, some centuries ago, humans in the continend hunted dragons and draconids, leading the former to extinction and the latter to flee to Duknai. The draconids themselves, however, avert it, since those who hold a grudge holds it toward the Continent, but have no problem with humans (that still are the majority of Duknai).

* HalfHumanHybrids: Draconids, half-human and half-dragons. Also, the Draconid, who became, and whose biology actually is different from draconids (superior, according to him).

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Actually a title, but "gholfodar" definitely counts, since it means something along the lines of "undefeatable threat" in draconic. ''Dragons'' considered those individuals to be undefeatable. After the extinction of dragons, the gholfodar themselves started giving the title themselves, and the standards for it didn't lower one bit.
** The draconeer Rohaile is known as "Whisper of Death".

* Really700YearsOld: Due to the draconids' potential immortality, they usually leave a couple of centuries at the very least. Korshel is the one fitting this trope, since he is old enough to remember when the dragons still existed.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Soras is a nice and caring ruler to his people, human and draconids alike, but he ''is'' looking for an excuse to start a second war with the Continent.

* VillainousLegacy: Nester Lartis, who has emulators in the form of Uren and his Indexers, and whose disciple, the Draconid, is still rulying as a tyrant and gathering power.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Soras doesn't really want to expand Duknai's dominion (and knows it won't last forever). His real goal is to motivate the draconids to spread and populate the Damsol once again, possibly bringing back the dragons themselves.

The series will follow the stories on the Damsol, a world that underwent a series of technolgic advancements thanks to the discovery of the noivag, a substance that can mana, and the simmavi, alchemics gems that can channel it.
The main focus of the series will be the study of magic and technology in that world, and the political struggles when factions try use such advancements and use them to create and manipulate international tensions (and, possibly, start wars).

* AuthorAvatar: Although I'd say I'm modelling myself after Janhar, not the other way around. But it still fits the trope.
* BadassArmy: Dukani and Laedor both have one. The former is the greatest military power in the whole Damsol, the only one with draconids (and it's human soldiers are trained to keep up with them), the latter puts more emphasis on tactics, coordination and integration of wizards in its ranks, but still deserves the trope.
* BigBad: Soras is seen as one in-universe, but see DesignatedVillain and OrcusOnHisThrone below. Uren and the indexers actually fit this trope.
** Also, in the first book the Dalmo's Abducter, who does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Janhar. A necromancer completely dressed in black and with a lot of spell manipulating [[CastingAShadow shadows and darkness]], and most definitely one of the good guys.
** Heimro, leader of Duknai's secret service and the one acting to preserve world peace, and is a black-scaled draconids.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Inverted with Janhar and Dela: he lacks of finesse and she of power, but only if compared one to the other. In absolute terms, they both are strong ''and'' skilled wizards.
* TheDreaded: Nester Lartis is one centuries after his death.
** Other noticeable are the Dragonman, an old and powerful (once) human wizard who transformed himself into a dragonkind; Sedvain, hellbent on becoming the ultimate hunter (and, arguably, already succeded), who enjoyis HuntingTheMostDangerousGame and turned the Qlannevad, a forest so wide it's name actually means "green ocean" into his own hunting park simply because no one dares challenging him; and the Norrit, a necromancer whose speciality is the study of poison (natural or magical) and whose magic altered his body making him unbelievably though and immune to any kind of venom, drug or disease, his own blood became a powerful, the only person known to have been hunted by the aformentioned Sedvain (twice) and lived to tell the tale.
** To a lesser degree, draconeers and lyunaji outside their countires.

* EldritchAbomination: Makrsha, a disembodied conscience with no phisical host or location whatsoever, that people can perceive only if it's talking directly to them. They also feel some kind of ancient power behind it.
** A similar, but benign example is the Conscience, a wizard that separated her mind from her body to [[GeniusLoci fuse it with a forestal area]] five hundred years ago. It's the only being that can live in the Qlannevad without consent, retained some magical abilities and can move through living beings (it usually does it by possessing plants), also it's own presence made the animals living in the area it's possessing develop humanlike intelligence and the ability to speak.
* TheEmpire: Duknai it's considered by the Continent to be a military dictatorship, but it's mostly propaganda and exasperating some internal dissentions.
* Fantastic Racism: With humanity made of six actual races, each one with unique traits, some ensues. Averted, however, with humans and the draconids: the latter hold some grudge, but toward the one on the Continent specifically, and for historical reasons (centuries before, they hunted dragons to extinction, and draconids only survived because some managed to flee to Duknai).

* FantasyGunControl: Averted. While actual gunpowder does not exist, simmavi are used to create the equivalent of guns, rifles, flamethrowers and cannons.

* HalfHumanHybrids: Draconids, half-human and half-dragons. Also, the Dragonman, who isn't an actual one but became like them through magical experiments (and vivisection of actual draconids). They gave him the nickname to remember that, no matter what he does, he's ''not'' one of them (he himslef uses it to identify himself as superior).
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Actually a title, but "gholfodar" counts for those who deserved it, it means something along the lines of "undefeatable threat". It's draconic, meaning it was an undefeatable threat for ''dragons''. And while dragons are no more, the standards to deserve the title haven't lessened one bit.
** One of the draconeers is best known as "Death's Whisper".
** Norritt, or ''the'' Norritt. His actual name is Ezira Korhan Trime, "norritt" is an ancient word for a posion or illness spreading and killing everything around.
** Inverted with Nester Lartis. Nester was a name just like any other back then, he came to have a really omnious meaning because it was ''his'' name.
* [[PlanetOfHats Nations Of Hats]]: Downplayed, but a few of them: Dukani's hat is military proficiency, Laedor's arcane magic, Nivanna's science, Jeanna's trading and Leria's stoicism.
* NeverFoundtheBody/HesJustHiding: Many still claims it about Nester Lartis, since the body disintegrated when he supposedly died and his essence was never found in the Remsi. Even if it's rare to actually find someone in the Remsi, many believe it's not a coincidence. [[spoiler: It isn't, however they are wrong and he actually died that day.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Soras. He ultimately does want a worldwide war, but is adamant on Duknai not starting it and generally just not very proactive. Lampshaded by both him and Heimro.

* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Averted. While there are general principles behind magic, there are no actual, defined laws. Actually, finding out if they exist in the first place is known as "the fundamental problem".
* VillainousLegacy: Nester Lartis. By the time the first book starts, he's been dead for over two hundreds year, and yet his actions still keeps influencing the world. Just two mention two ways, Uren is explicitaly using him as an inspiration and the Indexers are actually emulating Laster's followers and collecting his writings, and the Dragonmen was one of Lartis students (and owner of many of the aformentioned writings).

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Despite being known as an oil, the noivag is actually far from being one, much closer to a jam. It's creator, however, believed that oil sounded better, so it stuck.

* Badass: Draconeers, the absolute top of the afromentioned Duknai's army. They have the (actually true) fame of being soldiers trained to take down a city on their own. Very few reach that rank, almost all of them being draconids, but those who ''aren't'' deserves a special mention.
** Lyunaji are similar. They are basically Jeanna's equivalent of the draconeers, even if not as powerful.

** Other noticeable are the Dragonman, an old and powerful (once) human wizard who transformed himself into a dragonkind; Sedvain, hellbent on becoming the ultimate hunter (and, arguably, already succeded), who enjoyis hunting TheMostDangerousGame and turned the Qlannevad, a forest so wide it's name actually means "green ocean" into his own hunting park simply because no one dares challenging him; and the Norrit, a necromancer whose speciality is the study of poison (natural or magical) and whose magic altered his body making him unbelievably though and immune to any kind of venom, drug or disease, his own blood became a powerful, the only person known to have been hunted by the aformentioned Sedvain (twice) and lived to tell the tale.

* BiggerBad: Nester Lartis. By the time the first book starts, he's been dead for over two hundreds year, and yet his actions still keeps influencing the world. Just two mention two ways, Uren is explicitaly using him as an inspiration and the Indexers are actually emulating Laster's followers and collecting his writings, and the Dragonmen was one of Lartis students (and owner of many of the aformentioned writings).
** Also, Makrsha.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Despite being known as an oil, the noivag is actually far from being one, much closer to a jam. It's creator, however, believed that oil sounded better, so it stuck.

* GenreSavvy: Uren is well aware Makrsha will dispose of him, sooner or later. In return, Makrsha knows that, in time, Uren will try to eliminate it, either [[TheStarscream going Starscream]] or to save himself. Also, they both know the other knows and don't try to hide it, and actually quite regret that things will have to go that way.