History DarthWiki / TheKastSaga

* BadassGay: Nioba is a lesbian. She's also the best fighter in Kast's crew.

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/DragonAge'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.

* AlphaBitch: Ronda. She broke Jonard's heart once, and upon discovering that he's still alive, has sworn that she will destroy him, just because she doesn't like the idea of one of her former victims recovering.

* TheBigGuy: Brosk Lyko is the guy that Kast uses for crowd control. He also may or may not be a werewolf; when he starts growling at people, they usually run far, far away, and thus don't stick around to see what happens next.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Zinji are creatures of magic, and thus the principles of biology don't apply very easily to them.

* CloudcuckooLander: Lihiri, the Zinji mage, is a wee bit... off.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Walden, the principle deity of the Alabinher, is a mash-up of Belobog (the Slavic god of light) and Balder (his Norse equivalent), with a dash of Christian mythos thrown in for good measure. The Alabinher believe that He walked among them once before suffering a wound that forced Him to return to the White. They also believe that this wound came at the hands of Tyronok, the principle god of the Djanvasi, thus justifying their seventeen (and counting) wars against Djanvas.

** The Vyzob '''''hate''''' slavers and slavery. Even Nioba, who's usually pretty level-headed, is prone to this, and in fact, it's how the team ends up with Lihiri.

* ProudWarriorRace: Nioba's people, the Vyzob, are descended from former slaves who rose up against their masters. Many of them, like Nioba, decided that they rather like fighting, and now hire themselves out as mercenaries.

* TheTeamBenefactor: Bethario Nivert often finds himself serving this role, much to his annoyance.

* TestosteronePoisoning: According to Wolmather, Djanvas suffers from a severe case of this.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: One reason why Nioba distrusts Jessifer is that she's genre-savvy enough to believe that, given the choice between a brown-skinned lesbian and a pretty white straight girl, the Universe will favor the latter.

* AndIMustScream: Greybods are an unholy fusion of humans and golems, created by encasing a human in magical clay and then ''baking them alive''. The process does not destroy the person's personality or will, but the clay is forced to obey the commands of whomever sculpted it. The Greybod can protest following their Master's orders all they like, but their body will still obey...

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Dwarves in the Kast-verse have many similarities with dwarves in other works, including their work ethic, affinity for the underground, and short statures, but they differ in that they have mouse or rat-like features and tend to be short-lived.

** Lihiri is normally a sweet girl, but she's also a powerful mage.
** Wolmather is a coward, but his accidental transformation into a herjar has given him sufficient power to fight a good-sized army all on his own.

* CloudcuckooLander: Lihiri, the Zinji mage, starts off as one, owing to her being fitted with a slave collar that messed with her head.

* FemmeFatale: Ronda, Kast's former partner, was one of these. Their partnership dissolved after she seduced him so thoroughly that he began to have trouble thinking for himself, which naturally had an adverse effect on his skills as a con artist.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: The Kast-verse equivalent call themselves the Zinji (a bastardization of the Albanian ''xindhi''), and in the lore, they are the descendants of djinn-like beings who were summoned from another dimension and enslaved by a cult of mages. The mages forced the females of that race to breed with them, producing humanoids with pointed ears and a penchant for magic.

* ParentalAbandonment: Wolmather's dad got killed in some foreign war when he was little. Much to his annoyance, everyone in Djanvas sang his dad's praises, even though his death pretty much screwed the rest of the family over.

* PureIsNotGood: In this setting, "white magic" is the force of purification. It can undo demonic possessions. It can also kill people if they're subjected to it and not actually possessed.

* BeneathTheMask: Jessifer might be a BrokenBird pretending to be an AlphaBitch or an Alpha Bitch pretending to be a Broken Bird.

* CrystalDragonJesus: Walden, the principle deity of the Alabinherans, is a mash-up of Belobog (the Slavic god of light) and Balder (his Norse equivalent), with a dash of Christian mythos thrown in for good measure. The Alabinherans believe that He walked among them once before suffering a wound that forced Him to return to the White. They also believe that this wound came at the hands of Tyronok, the principle god of the Djanvasi, thus justifying their seventeen (and counting) wars against Djanvas.
* CultureChopSuey: The Alabinherans and the Djanvasi are both mash-ups of Norse/Teutonic and Slavic/Balkan cultures.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: There is no "good side" in the war between the Alabinherans and the Djanvasi.

* IronButtMonkey: A lot of the indignities that Wolmather suffers would kill a normal human. Since he's a herjar, they just hurt him.

* CrystalDragonJesus: Walden, the principle deity of the Alabinherans, is a mash-up of Belobog (the Slavic god of light) and Balder (his Norse equivalent). The Alabinherans believe that He walked among them once before suffering a wound that forced Him to return to the White. They also believe that this wound came at the hands of Tyronok, the principle god of the Djanvasi, thus justifying their seventeen (and counting) wars against Djanvas.

* DarkActionGirl: Ronda, Jonard's ex-partner.
* DeathBySex: Dwarves in the Kast-verse were biologically designed to work, breed and then die - up until they started learning about things like genealogy, dwarven males usually died immediately after sex and dwarven females almost always died in childbirth. More recently, they've found ways around this, but most dwarves still harbor great anxiety about sex.

* HumanoidAbomination: The Man With The White Arm - as his name suggests, his left arm is pure white. It also generates waves of destructive magic.

* CloudcuckooLander: Lihiri, the Zinji mage, starts off as one, owing to her being fitted with a slave collar that messed with her head.