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* AnotherDimension
* AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
* AlternateUniverse
* AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
* AlternateUniverse
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%% * AnotherDimension
%% * AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
%% * AlternateUniverse
%% * AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
%% * AlternateUniverse
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* {{Backstory}} - Exists for pretty much everything we see.
* BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
* BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
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%% * {{Backstory}} - Exists for pretty much everything we see.
%% * BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
%% * BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy - Shadow fey.
* TheCharmer - Istvan.
* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
* CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
* TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
* ClarkesThirdLaw
* DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
* DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
* DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
* DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
* DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
* EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* TheCharmer - Istvan.
* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
* CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
* TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
* ClarkesThirdLaw
* DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
* DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
* DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
* DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
* DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
* EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
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%% * BlackEyesOfCrazy - Shadow fey.
%% * TheCharmer - Istvan.
%% * ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
%% * CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
%% * CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
%% * TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
%% * ClarkesThirdLaw
%% * DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
%% * DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
%% * DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
%% * DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
%% * DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
%% * DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
%% * EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
%% * EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
%% * TheCharmer - Istvan.
%% * ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
%% * CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
%% * CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
%% * TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
%% * ClarkesThirdLaw
%% * DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
%% * DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
%% * DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
%% * DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
%% * DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
%% * DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
%% * EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
%% * EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
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* FantasticRacism - Occurs chiefly between the humans and the fey.
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%% * FantasticRacism - Occurs chiefly between the humans and the fey.
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* FangsAreEvil - Subverted. All shadow fey have them, and while they have a bit of a nasty reputation, they can be very nice people.
* FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
* FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
* TheFettered - Arella.
* FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Misty/Arella
** TheLancer - Lex
** TheBigGuy - Istvan/Lex
** TheSmartGuy - Feran Pravi
** TheChick - Arella
* GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
* FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
* FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
* TheFettered - Arella.
* FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Misty/Arella
** TheLancer - Lex
** TheBigGuy - Istvan/Lex
** TheSmartGuy - Feran Pravi
** TheChick - Arella
* GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
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%% * FangsAreEvil - Subverted. All shadow fey have them, and while they have a bit of a nasty reputation, they can be very nice people.
%% * FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
%% * FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
%% * TheFettered - Arella.
%% * FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
%% *FiveManBand
**TheHero - Misty/Arella
** %% * TheLancer - Lex
** %% * TheBigGuy - Istvan/Lex
** %% * TheSmartGuy - Feran Pravi
** %% * TheChick - Arella
%% * GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
%% * FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
%% * FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
%% * TheFettered - Arella.
%% * FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
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**
%% * GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
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* HalfHumanHybrid - Lex, as it turns out, comes to look much like a shadow fey. No one except Arella is quite sure how or why, and she's not telling.
* HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
* HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
* HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
* HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
* HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
* HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
* HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
* HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
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%% * HalfHumanHybrid - Lex, as it turns out, comes to look much like a shadow fey. No one except Arella is quite sure how or why, and she's not telling.
%% * HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
%% * HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
%% * HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
%% * HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
%% * HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
%% * HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
%% * HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
%% * HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
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%% * InsufferableGenius - Misty.
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* TheLadette - Lex spits, cusses, and barring the presence of a good brawl, she's not above creating one herself.
* LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
* LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
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%% * TheLadette - Lex spits, cusses, and barring the presence of a good brawl, she's not above creating one herself.
%% * LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
%% * LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
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* LeyLine - The crossing of these allow for a doorway to be opened between worlds.
* LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
* LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
* MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
* LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
* LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
* MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
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%% * LeyLine - The crossing of these allow for a doorway to be opened between worlds.
%% * LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
%% * LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
%% * MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
%% * MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
%% * LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
%% * LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
%% * MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
%% * MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
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%% * MrFanservice - Istvan
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Oddly, this occurs with the protagonists. See MeaningfulName above.
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%% * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Oddly, this occurs with the protagonists. See MeaningfulName above.
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* PointyEars - The fey, naturally.
* PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
* PunkPunk
** BioPunk
** PostCyberPunk
* RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
* RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
* TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
* RichBitch - Misty.
* RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
* SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
* SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
* PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
* PunkPunk
** BioPunk
** PostCyberPunk
* RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
* RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
* TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
* RichBitch - Misty.
* RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
* SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
* SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
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%% * PointyEars - The fey, naturally.
%% * PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
%% * PunkPunk
** *%% * BioPunk
** *%% * PostCyberPunk
%% * RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
%% * RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
%% * TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
%% * RichBitch - Misty.
%% * RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
%% * SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
%% * SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
%% * PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
%% * PunkPunk
%% * RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
%% * RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
%% * TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
%% * RichBitch - Misty.
%% * RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
%% * SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
%% * SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Swings back and forth between the two ends frequently. MoodDissonance anyone?
* SupernaturalGoldEyes - Feran Pravi.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes - Feran Pravi.
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%% * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Swings back and forth between the two ends frequently. MoodDissonance anyone?
%% * SupernaturalGoldEyes - Feran Pravi.
%% * SupernaturalGoldEyes - Feran Pravi.
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* TeamMom - Arella
* {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
* TomboyishName - Guess.
* TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
* TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
* UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
* TheUnfettered - Murighar.
* Unobtanium - The crystals.
* UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
* WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
* WillTheyOrWontThey
* TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
* YourUniverseOrMine
* {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
* TomboyishName - Guess.
* TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
* TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
* UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
* TheUnfettered - Murighar.
* Unobtanium - The crystals.
* UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
* WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
* WillTheyOrWontThey
* TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
* YourUniverseOrMine
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%% * TeamMom - Arella
%% * {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
%% * TomboyishName - Guess.
%% * TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
%% * TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
%% * UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
%% * TheUnfettered - Murighar.
%% * Unobtanium - The crystals.
%% * UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
%% * WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
%% * WillTheyOrWontThey
%% * TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
%% * YourUniverseOrMine
%% * {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
%% * TomboyishName - Guess.
%% * TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
%% * TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
%% * UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
%% * TheUnfettered - Murighar.
%% * Unobtanium - The crystals.
%% * UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
%% * WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
%% * WillTheyOrWontThey
%% * TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
%% * YourUniverseOrMine
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* KnifeNut - Lex. Though she'd rather be a gun nut.
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad - Inverted. Here, it's human dad, nonhuman mom.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness - Subverted. Lex and Feran Pravi are arguably the most homely of the entire cast, yet they are the central characters. [[YourMilageMayVary (Although whether they are truly "good" or not is up to debate.)]]
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness - Subverted. Lex and Feran Pravi are arguably the most homely of the entire cast, yet they are the central characters. [[YourMilageMayVary (Although whether they are truly "good" or not is up to debate.)]])
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* IdiotSavant - Feran Pravi often speaks in oddly phrased sentences, has a hard time interacting with people, and can be rather detached and amoral, but he is VERY good at manipulating situations themselves to suit his purpose.
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* TheRainman - Feran Pravi often speaks in oddly phrased sentences, has a hard time interacting with people, and can be rather detached and amoral, but he is VERY good at manipulating situations themselves to suit his purpose.
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* EternalEnglish - Averted. Lex has a VERY hard time in Tsierr until she meets Istvan, who, improbably, knows English as well as Tsierran.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.
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* EternalEnglish - Averted. Lex has a VERY ''very'' hard time in Tsierr until she meets Istvan, who, improbably, knows English as well as Tsierran.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.Tsierran.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes - Feran Pravi.
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* Team Mom - Arella
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* Team Mom TeamMom - Arella
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[[caption-width-right:263:Lex and Feran Pravi]]
Lex Claiborne has spent her entire life in a suburban town called Eveswillow. And she hates it. Embittered and dissatisfied about the expectations others have of her, her life seems to be nothing but a slow walk to the unpleasant inevitable. Until she is given a strange crystal pendant for her seventeenth birthday, and she finds herself being followed. Fearing for her safety, she runs off into the nearby woods at night, and unknowingly passes through a doorway to an alien world, in a place called Tsierr, where she is wanted by two opposing factions for her ownership of the crystal, a rare piece of technology. When Arella, leader of the Orrisken faction strikes a bargain with her for temporary employment in exchange for the chance to return home, and the Murighar of the Underfolk sends out his best operatives to capture her, Lex finds herself caught in a bitter rivalry, and part of a story that she barely knows the half of.
Rise of the Shadows is a smattering together of all the speculative fiction genres. Although it would probably classify as fantasy, it blurs edges with sci-fi (not hard sci-fi, mind you) and horror.
Expect individual plot points to change about. The thing is still under heavy construction, as the world is rather challenging to develop, and I want to get the story right.))
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!!Provides examples of:
* AnotherDimension
* AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
* AlternateUniverse
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel - Though the setting is vaguely futuristic in appearance, characters wear many, many styles of clothing originating from many different time periods and cultures.
* {{Backstory}} - Exists for pretty much everything we see.
* BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
* BadassNormal - Istvan. He simply fights using martial arts an gathers intelligence, while most everyone else works with their bio-interfaced technology, and he somehow remains as one of Arella's top operatives.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness - Subverted. Lex and Feran Pravi are arguably the most homely of the entire cast, yet they are the central characters. [[YourMilageMayVary (Although whether they are truly "good" or not is up to debate.)]]
* BeneathTheEarth - Murighar has set up his operations and built a citadel deep underground. Additionally, many of the larger cities on this world are built partailly underground.
* BittersweetEnding - In the end, nobody gets what they set out for from the start, save for maybe Misty and Istvan. They all wind up pretty hopelessly disappointed, except for the few things that give them some reason to keep on going.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy - Shadow fey.
* TheCharmer - Istvan.
* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
* CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
* TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
* ClarkesThirdLaw
* DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
* DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
* DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
* DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
* DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
* EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* EternalEnglish - Averted. Lex has a VERY hard time in Tsierr until she meets Istvan, who, improbably, knows English as well as Tsierran.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.
* TheFairFolk - The fey are groups of a largely tribal deviation from humans. They can interbreed with humans, but also tend to be more feral, and oftentimes nomadic.
* FantasticRacism - Occurs chiefly between the humans and the fey.
* FireForgedFriends - [[spoiler: Lex was assigned to kill or incapacitate Feran Pravi. Feran Pravi was assigned to confiscate Lex's crystal, and take her as prisoner. They were perfectly ready to carry out their respective assignments until they each needed the other to survive Murighar's halls.]]
* FangsAreEvil - Subverted. All shadow fey have them, and while they have a bit of a nasty reputation, they can be very nice people.
* FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
* FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
* TheFettered - Arella.
* FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Misty/Arella
** TheLancer - Lex
** TheBigGuy - Istvan/Lex
** TheSmartGuy - Feran Pravi
** TheChick - Arella
* GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
* GreyAndGrayMorality - Murighar doesn't agree with the way any of the existing societies are run, and so becomes ruler of the Underfolk, where his primary goal is to create a good world for his people, albeit in a rather militaristic and Knight Templar-ish fashion. Arella is the leader of the much larger government faction called the Orrisken, and considers the Underfolk to be a threat to the peace of humans in general, and so wants to suppress them as much as possible. Lex is not very fond of either side, due to her rebellious nature, and Feran Pravi, in his own words, simply does not take sides because any given organisation has too many faults in operation to be truly worth siding with.
* TheGrotesque - Feran Pravi, has a slight hunchback, withered right arm, and various other twisted features. Lex's first thought of him is that he looks like an inbred vulture. He turns out to be very sweet to anyone who treats him with decency.
* HalfHumanHybrid - Lex, as it turns out, comes to look much like a shadow fey. No one except Arella is quite sure how or why, and she's not telling.
* HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
* HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
* HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
* HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad - Inverted. Here, it's human dad, nonhuman mom.
* InsufferableGenius - Misty.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Despite her sarcasm, temper, and apparent harsh attitude, Lex has a soft spot for her friends, and will stand by them through nearly anything.
* KnifeNut - Lex. Though she'd rather be a gun nut.
* KnightTemplar - Murighar wants to build a utopia for his people. He will not let a sigle person stand in his way, and any defectors from his cause will be punished most severely.
* TheLadette - Lex spits, cusses, and barring the presence of a good brawl, she's not above creating one herself.
* LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
* LeeroyJenkins - Lex has a tendency to run headfirst into a fight, and damn the consequences, whether or not that fight is a reasonable idea.
* LeyLine - The crossing of these allow for a doorway to be opened between worlds.
* LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
* LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
* MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
* MeaningfulName - Feran Pravi, from Latin ''feralis'' for "of the dead" and ''pravus'' for "crooked".
* MrFanservice - Istvan
* MyGirlBackHome - Della, to Istvan. Unfortunately Lex doesn't know this until she confesses that she likes him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Oddly, this occurs with the protagonists. See MeaningfulName above.
* ObliviousToLove - Lex is very much in denial about Feran Pravi's attraction to her, to the point where she refuses to see it until Pravi himself brings it up.
* PointyEars - The fey, naturally.
* PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
* PunkPunk
** BioPunk
** PostCyberPunk
* TheRainman - Feran Pravi often speaks in oddly phrased sentences, has a hard time interacting with people, and can be rather detached and amoral, but he is VERY good at manipulating situations themselves to suit his purpose.
* RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
* RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
* TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
* RichBitch - Misty.
* RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
* SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
* SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids - Lex: "What, you mean Istvan? More like I'm in lust with him. I mean, he's gorgeous, but I just don't do the sappy romance thing." and "Pfft, everyone should be allowed one chance to act like a hopeless sap once in their lives without judgement later on."
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Swings back and forth between the two ends frequently. MoodDissonance anyone?
* SquishyWizard - Feran Pravi is perhaps the cleverest of the team, but he's also completely out of shape, and has a crippled right arm.
* Team Mom - Arella
* {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
* TomboyishName - Guess.
* TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
* TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
* UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
* TheUnfettered - Murighar.
* Unobtanium - The crystals.
* UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
* WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
* WillTheyOrWontThey
* TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
* YourUniverseOrMine
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[[caption-width-right:263:Lex and Feran Pravi]]
Lex Claiborne has spent her entire life in a suburban town called Eveswillow. And she hates it. Embittered and dissatisfied about the expectations others have of her, her life seems to be nothing but a slow walk to the unpleasant inevitable. Until she is given a strange crystal pendant for her seventeenth birthday, and she finds herself being followed. Fearing for her safety, she runs off into the nearby woods at night, and unknowingly passes through a doorway to an alien world, in a place called Tsierr, where she is wanted by two opposing factions for her ownership of the crystal, a rare piece of technology. When Arella, leader of the Orrisken faction strikes a bargain with her for temporary employment in exchange for the chance to return home, and the Murighar of the Underfolk sends out his best operatives to capture her, Lex finds herself caught in a bitter rivalry, and part of a story that she barely knows the half of.
Rise of the Shadows is a smattering together of all the speculative fiction genres. Although it would probably classify as fantasy, it blurs edges with sci-fi (not hard sci-fi, mind you) and horror.
Expect individual plot points to change about. The thing is still under heavy construction, as the world is rather challenging to develop, and I want to get the story right.))
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!!Provides examples of:
* AnotherDimension
* AntiHero - Lex and Feran Pravi.
* AlternateUniverse
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel - Though the setting is vaguely futuristic in appearance, characters wear many, many styles of clothing originating from many different time periods and cultures.
* {{Backstory}} - Exists for pretty much everything we see.
* BadassLongcoat - Lex has one of these...and it comes in very useful.
* BadassNormal - Istvan. He simply fights using martial arts an gathers intelligence, while most everyone else works with their bio-interfaced technology, and he somehow remains as one of Arella's top operatives.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness - Subverted. Lex and Feran Pravi are arguably the most homely of the entire cast, yet they are the central characters. [[YourMilageMayVary (Although whether they are truly "good" or not is up to debate.)]]
* BeneathTheEarth - Murighar has set up his operations and built a citadel deep underground. Additionally, many of the larger cities on this world are built partailly underground.
* BittersweetEnding - In the end, nobody gets what they set out for from the start, save for maybe Misty and Istvan. They all wind up pretty hopelessly disappointed, except for the few things that give them some reason to keep on going.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy - Shadow fey.
* TheCharmer - Istvan.
* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* CantStayNormal - [[spoiler: Lex finds that, being partially shadow fey, actually returning home is hardly what she'd hoped.]]
* CharacterDevelopment - To Lex, Feran Pravi and Misty.
* TheChessmaster - Feran Pravi shows elements of this. How else do you think he became Murighar's right-hand man?
* ClarkesThirdLaw
* DarkActionGirl - Lex has some fairly unsavory methods when it comes to what she does.
* DarkIsNotEvil - Practically lives off this trope.
* DarkWorld - Tsierr has elements of this.
* DeadpanSnarker - Chiefly Misty and Lex, to one another.
* DemiHuman - The fey and the underfolk.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Murighar.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Feran Pravi. Lex does not like him one bit.
* EnigmaticMinion - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi.]]
* EternalEnglish - Averted. Lex has a VERY hard time in Tsierr until she meets Istvan, who, improbably, knows English as well as Tsierran.
* EyesOfGold - Feran Pravi.
* TheFairFolk - The fey are groups of a largely tribal deviation from humans. They can interbreed with humans, but also tend to be more feral, and oftentimes nomadic.
* FantasticRacism - Occurs chiefly between the humans and the fey.
* FireForgedFriends - [[spoiler: Lex was assigned to kill or incapacitate Feran Pravi. Feran Pravi was assigned to confiscate Lex's crystal, and take her as prisoner. They were perfectly ready to carry out their respective assignments until they each needed the other to survive Murighar's halls.]]
* FangsAreEvil - Subverted. All shadow fey have them, and while they have a bit of a nasty reputation, they can be very nice people.
* FemmeFatale - Vira borders on this trope, though she does have some shreds of loyalty hidden behind it.
* FemmeFatalons - The shadow fey.
* TheFettered - Arella.
* FieryRedhead - Subverted. Arella has very distinctive red hair, yet is known for being very level-headed and calm.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Misty/Arella
** TheLancer - Lex
** TheBigGuy - Istvan/Lex
** TheSmartGuy - Feran Pravi
** TheChick - Arella
* GeekPhysiques - Feran Pravi is of the skinny variety, though he does have a potbelly.
* GreyAndGrayMorality - Murighar doesn't agree with the way any of the existing societies are run, and so becomes ruler of the Underfolk, where his primary goal is to create a good world for his people, albeit in a rather militaristic and Knight Templar-ish fashion. Arella is the leader of the much larger government faction called the Orrisken, and considers the Underfolk to be a threat to the peace of humans in general, and so wants to suppress them as much as possible. Lex is not very fond of either side, due to her rebellious nature, and Feran Pravi, in his own words, simply does not take sides because any given organisation has too many faults in operation to be truly worth siding with.
* TheGrotesque - Feran Pravi, has a slight hunchback, withered right arm, and various other twisted features. Lex's first thought of him is that he looks like an inbred vulture. He turns out to be very sweet to anyone who treats him with decency.
* HalfHumanHybrid - Lex, as it turns out, comes to look much like a shadow fey. No one except Arella is quite sure how or why, and she's not telling.
* HeelFaceTurn - Feran Pravi gets one of these, in Lex's eyes.
* HellishPupils - Shadow fey.
* HopelessSuitor: Feran Pravi.
* HotForTeacher - Lex to Istvan.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad - Inverted. Here, it's human dad, nonhuman mom.
* InsufferableGenius - Misty.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Despite her sarcasm, temper, and apparent harsh attitude, Lex has a soft spot for her friends, and will stand by them through nearly anything.
* KnifeNut - Lex. Though she'd rather be a gun nut.
* KnightTemplar - Murighar wants to build a utopia for his people. He will not let a sigle person stand in his way, and any defectors from his cause will be punished most severely.
* TheLadette - Lex spits, cusses, and barring the presence of a good brawl, she's not above creating one herself.
* LadyInRed - Arella's favourite outfit consists of a slinky red dress with spaghetti straps.
* LeeroyJenkins - Lex has a tendency to run headfirst into a fight, and damn the consequences, whether or not that fight is a reasonable idea.
* LeyLine - The crossing of these allow for a doorway to be opened between worlds.
* LovableNerd - Feran Pravi.
* LovableRogue - Istvan, when he's not directly aiding Arella.
* MagicFromTechnology - Pretty much everything that keeps the human world running and surviving.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Lex, very much this to Feran Pravi.
* MeaningfulName - Feran Pravi, from Latin ''feralis'' for "of the dead" and ''pravus'' for "crooked".
* MrFanservice - Istvan
* MyGirlBackHome - Della, to Istvan. Unfortunately Lex doesn't know this until she confesses that she likes him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Oddly, this occurs with the protagonists. See MeaningfulName above.
* ObliviousToLove - Lex is very much in denial about Feran Pravi's attraction to her, to the point where she refuses to see it until Pravi himself brings it up.
* PointyEars - The fey, naturally.
* PowerCrystal - Well, durr.
* PunkPunk
** BioPunk
** PostCyberPunk
* TheRainman - Feran Pravi often speaks in oddly phrased sentences, has a hard time interacting with people, and can be rather detached and amoral, but he is VERY good at manipulating situations themselves to suit his purpose.
* RebelliousSpirit - Lex.
* RenaissanceMan - Feran Pravi kind of needs to be this to survive at all.
* TheResenter - Lex to Misty and Della.
* RichBitch - Misty.
* RomanticRunnerUp - [[spoiler: Feran Pravi to Lex and Lex to Istvan.]]
* SexyMentor - Istvan, and how!
* SmugSnake - Lex can be this at times. This is the main reason some other characters want to smack her around, hard.
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids - Lex: "What, you mean Istvan? More like I'm in lust with him. I mean, he's gorgeous, but I just don't do the sappy romance thing." and "Pfft, everyone should be allowed one chance to act like a hopeless sap once in their lives without judgement later on."
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Swings back and forth between the two ends frequently. MoodDissonance anyone?
* SquishyWizard - Feran Pravi is perhaps the cleverest of the team, but he's also completely out of shape, and has a crippled right arm.
* Team Mom - Arella
* {{Technopath}} - The Orrisken.
* TomboyishName - Guess.
* TranslationConvention - Done for the Tsierran language, once Lex begins to pick it up.
* TurnCoat - Feran Pravi.
* UglyCute - Feran Pravi.
* TheUnfettered - Murighar.
* Unobtanium - The crystals.
* UnusualUserInterface - Most of the Orrisken technology.
* WalkingShirtlessScene - Istvan. Just Istvan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - Murighar and Arella, in completely different ways.
* WillTheyOrWontThey
* TheWoobie - Feran Pravi.
* YourUniverseOrMine
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