History Fanfic / GateThusTheDominionFoughtThere

* StupidEvil: Zorzal perfectly personifies this as the man continually refused to admit defeat like his father did and pointlessly waged an idiotic war against the Terrans [[spoiler: and later Protoss]]. Even after seeing his opponents, have time and time again proven to be literally ''eons'' more advanced and powerful than the armies of his backwater and primitive homeworld, his deluded and bloated ego combined with his plain-out idiocy, refuses to acknowledge this painfully obvious fact; and believed their superior might are just mere illusions. Deeming them as "cowardly barbarians" due to ''constantly'' misinterpreting restraint and mercy as weakness. But Zorzal takes it to the level that even after being thoroughly curbstomped by the Dominion [[spoiler: and Protoss]], he firmly believed he could've slaughtered and defeated them if he was emperor, much to Pina's shock at seeing how truly deluded her brother was to actually, believe such ludicrous excuses as she outright claims he would've just ended up getting all of Sadera killed. [[spoiler: Then when the Zerg infestation breaks out in his fortress, Zorzal has a psychotic breakdown and blames Pina for all the problems he brought upon himself and tries strangling her, while she was trying to keep everyone alive; as the Zerg unleash the hyper evolutionary virus to try infesting everyone. Eventually, this all comes to bite him back in the most horrific way possible. But considering all the atrocities he has committed, little pity is warranted.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka's elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race's longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; where she learns of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother's delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his fragile ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal's delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn't afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use a changeling wearing her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he's using. To add salt to the wound, Pina even throws in Zorzal only being known by the end of all this ,as his infamous nickname, "the foolish prince of soil".
* TechnologyUplift: [[spoiler: After Zorzal and the pro war faction was finally defeated, Pina continued pursuing her benign ideals for Falmart. But unfortunately she was to trying to implement these massive and fundamental changes at a rate her medieval society couldn't handle to achieve them. Resulting in uproar arising within the nobility and risked sparking another civil war with the commoners and noble houses. Thankfully, Valerian came to Pina and proposed to offer his resources to uplift Falmart and reform it into the standards of one of their colony worlds if they were to join the Terran Dominion. Pina doesn't even hesitate accepting this offer and three decades after the planet is annexed to the galactic empire, Falmart goes from a backwater medieval fantasy world, to a prosperous and highly advanced civilization that is proving to be the second most important world to the Dominion's territory.]]

* TimeSkip: [[spoiler: In the final chapter, this occurs, as through the lens of some new OC's, thirty years have passed since peace was established and the Dominion had annexed Falmart. With these new original characters being the children of some of the original cast. Such as Jin, who is Yao and Rath's half-elf son, Ava the daughter of the new Bunny Warrior chieftain Delilah and Ethan who is Jake and Rosemary's son.]]

* UpsettingTheBalance: Hardy and the fellow Falmart gods are guilty of this once the Terrans and Protoss uncover the gates true purpose. That being to lure unsuspecting and young species from different worlds and universes that catch the Falmart pantheon's fancy, and basically kidnap the migrated population to later become permanently apart of their garden. Not to mention they have prevented the civilizations of their world from progressing beyond the Medieval era, in order to maintain their dependence on them and gain strength from worshipping them. [[spoiler: Once the Daelaam learn of these abuses of power, and the source of all this chaos, they are quick to confront Hardy in her own temple, and using a cage designed for void based beings, imprison her to be judged for her galactic level crimes by the Protoss council. But when the Falmart natives learned of their god's self serving manipulations they collectively abandoned all worship of the Falmart pantheon and become more secular. Resulting in the Falmart gods to nearly lose all their power and influence to the point most of them are ''begging'' for followers nowadays.]]

** [[spoiler: later the animalistic demi human races like goblins and ogres are artificially evolved into sapient demi humans races thanks to the Dominion's genetic engineering.]]

** [[spoiler: But despite Pina's original intent, Zorzal is still alive in the present day. since later on in the epilogue, the poor bastard's fate somehow worsened as Alarak decides to buy Zorzal due to seeing his pitiful remnants as a "work of art" amongst the Tal'darim. Thus the living corpse is propped up as a sideshow attraction for the denizens of Falmart to mock and ridicule as payback; while Alarak revels in the sheer negative emotions Zorzal produces. All while the other Tal'darim alter his mind and memories to continually feel his never ending cocktail of misery and despair. Needless to say, it will be a ''long'' time before Alarak grows bored with Zorzal's living corpse.]]

** Rath and Yao also become this as the pair not only become great teammates together, especially when Yao joins the Dominion as they grew more closer in time. [[spoiler: Three years later they get together and have a son named Jin.]]

* BullyingADragon: Zorzal already shows that he's not the sharpest tool in the shed when he brazenly provokes the Dominion, a space-faring civilization with interstellar fleets that could easily glass an entire planet, with nothing more than a bunch of sword wielding legions and monsters. But he takes his stupidity to the unfathomable level when he has his equally moronic "ambassador", try to threaten [[spoiler: Selendis]] into allowing his forces to enslave all of the [[spoiler:''Protoss'', a psionic race that even the Dominion themselves recognize to be far ahead of them,]] during the ransom negotiations for [[spoiler:Karax release]] that Pina set up. Unsurprisingly, Pina wastes no time in clarifying that Zorzal is not affiliated with her people in any way to avoid facing the collateral damage from her brothers seemingly infinite stupidity.
* BreakTheHaughty: The Empire as a whole fits the bill, as everything that happened to them in this story was brought on by their greed and hubris. The Empire had remained undefeated for centuries and as a result, they believed themselves to be unbeatable and the pinnacle of civilization, when they were in actuality just a barbarous kingdom that deluded themselves to believing they owned everything around them. Rory even remarks to herself that The Empire was becoming a rotting tree threatening to ruin the Falmart pantheons garden if they weren't humbled sooner. But when the gate opened up, they believed they could send armies to conquer a world of tribes for riches and glory as they had before. Only to face on the other side, the wrath of the spacefaring Terran Dominion and quickly punish the haughty primitive army for believing they could raid their capital city and get away with it. Needless to say after several months of decimating their armies, vassal states, [[spoiler: and nuking an entire city]], The Empire's arrogant mindset shatters completely, and barring Zorzal and his pro-war faction, The vast majority of the Empire surrenders to the galactic superpower.

* ForScience: When Abathur learned about the Special Region and its esoteric ecology, he decided to send in a rogue Leviathan to gather essence of the fire dragon.

** Also with the death of the Flame Dragon, it was her two offspring that attacks the Dark Elf Village. And with the involvement of Giselle, the dark elves were also made aware of Hardy's betrayal much earlier than in canon.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The epilogue chapter reveals that the Dominion are doing further experiments with the gate after learning to replicate and mass produce them. More specifically are planning to understand how far the interdimensional doorway goes...]]

* FantasticRacism: The Empire and good chunks of Falmart were this, as due to ignorance and arrogance they deemed demi-humans as inferior due to their half animal appearances, which resulted being victims of The Empire's conquest, discrimination and especially enslavement of their kind. But the Dominion is quick to squash this racism out and has Alnus hill become a prosperous city where demi-humans can live harmoniously with mankind and not fear The Empire's racism or cruelty. Later Pina seeking to atone for the Empire's barbarity, outlaws slavery and removed several laws against Demi-humans. While it's far from fixing the years of suffering on their kind, it is a great start to healing relations between these races. [[spoiler: Thirty years later this pays off as Demi Human's now peacefully coexist as apart of humanity and are strewn all across the Terran Dominion's colonies.]]

** Later on the Heaven's Devil's used this tactic with Piper by filling her head with false memories to expose the Haryo locations and systematically destroy their bases while searching for the Zerg samples. All while the assassin is their hopeless tool until she outlives her usefulness.

** On top of all that, The Empire constantly assumed the Dominon were "barbarians who use cowardly magic" due to their primitive and rigid beliefs of how battles are fought. But even after getting their asses handed to them multiple times by their military might, continued believing this largely thanks to their arrogant behavior. [[spoiler: Though when the pro-war faction fought the Protoss's Tal'darim, they initially thought they would have advantage for once since they used swords like them. But that's because they're so freakin powerful, they only use them to keep things fair in a fight. Plus Alarak is a sadist so melee combat lets him and his comrades enjoy the bloodbath as they decimate the pro-war faction.]]

** [[spoiler: Matt and Valerian become concerned when they discover the Haryo tribe have smuggled surviving Zerg larvae samples to foolishly attempt to weaponize them, when all they will end up doing is jumpstarting the nightmare that was barely stopped.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Something the Terran's and Protoss note in their studies of Falmart, was how there are so many different races in this world, even though scientifically, it should be impossible. Yet it's concluded that the gate had a hand in this anomaly, as it's purpose was deemed to introduce new races to enter Falmart and rejuvenate the biodiversity of the planet. Which the Saderan Empire in their greed and arrogance, attempted to abuse for conquest and to gain new lands and slaves.

* SaltTheEarth: Like in canon, the Empire does this tactic in an attempt to deny the Dominion's further advances. But the key word here is "attempt". Needless to say, it was already a futile tactic against the 21st century JSDF in canon, and it's even more futile against a space-faring civilization that could just ferry in supplies and troops from fleets stationed above the planet. All the Empire did was nothing but fuel the people's resentment and leading them to seek protection from the Dominion controlled settlements.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11880113/1/Gate-Thus-the-Dominion-Fought-There Gate: Thus the Dominion Fought There]]'' is a crossover fanfiction between ''Literature/{{Gate}}'' and ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. The fanfiction began in 5 April 2016 and has recently concluded as of July 19th 2023. Though the author has noted he is possibly planning a crossover sequel with the light novel series {{Literature/JapanSummons}} in the future.

** Rath and Yao also become this as the pair not only become great teammates together, especially when Yao joins the Dominion as they grew more closer in time. [[Three years later they get together and have a son named Jin.]]

** [[spoiler: But despite Pina’s original intent, Zorzal is still alive. since later on in the epilogue, the poor bastard’s fate somehow worsens as Alarak decides to buy Zorzal due to seeing his pitiful remnants as a “work of art” amongst the Tal’darim. Thus the living corpse is propped up as a sideshow attraction for the denizens of Falmart to mock and ridicule as payback; while Alarak revels in the sheer negative emotions Zorzal produces. All while the other Tal’darim alter his mind and memories to continually feel his never ending cocktail of misery and despair. Needless to say, it will be a ''long'' time before Alarak grows bored with Zorzal’s living corpse.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: The Empire as a whole fits the bill, as everything that happened to them in this story was brought on by their greed and hubris. The Empire had remained undefeated for centuries and as a result, they believed themselves to be unbeatable and the pinnacle of civilization, when they were in actuality just a barbarous kingdom that believed they owned everything around them. Rory even remarks to herself that The Empire was becoming a rotting tree threatening to ruin the Falmart pantheons garden. But when the gate opened up, they believed they could send armies to conquer a world of tribes for riches and glory as they had before. Only to face on the other side, the wrath of the spacefaring Terran Dominion and quickly punish the haughty primitive army for believing they could raid their capital city and get away with it. Needless to say after several months of decimating their armies, vassal states, [[spoiler: and nuking an entire city]], The Empire’s arrogant mindset shatters completely, and barring Zorzal and his pro-war faction, The vast majority of the Empire surrenders to the galactic superpower.
** Pina despite having her father’s wisdom in certain aspects, was just as ignorant and arrogant as the rest of her family and believed they could defeat the Dominion with enough time and resources. But was sorely mistaken as she and Bozes get a front-row seat to just how ''vastly'' superior their enemy is in comparison to their backwater world when they visit Augustgrad. It was only after witnessing their alliance against Amon and exhausting all the primitive options she could think of (even thinking she could make alliances with the other galactic superpowers despite knowing absolutely nothing about them) that she broke down in front of Valerian and accepted the fact they needed to surrender or face the wrath of the titan they provoked.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: downplayed. While not mentioned too often, Yao and Tuka are both considered to be quite beautiful and attractive by others; which makes sense since elves are known to possess beauty above humans.

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: The epilogue chapter reveals that the Dominion are doing further experiments with the gate after learning to replicate and mass produce them. More specifically are planning to understand how far the interdimensional doorway goes...]]

** But later it’s revealed that Falmart’s magic may simply be psionic powers born from the Khaydarin crystals embedded within the planet.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Something the Terran’s and Protoss note in their studies of Falmart, was how there are so many races in this world, even though scientifically, it should be impossible. Yet it’s concluded that the gate had a hand in this anomaly, as it’s purpose was deemed to introduce new races to enter Falmart and rejuvenate the biodiversity of the planet. Which the Saderan Empire in their greed and arrogance, attempted to abuse for conquest of new lands and slaves.

** The Empire as a whole qualified. They stylized themselves as the pinnacle of human civilization and act like the entire world rightfully belonged to them. As reflected by their numerous and unjust conquests of other territories and lands within Falmart to expand their “glory". In reality, they were just a primitive and downright barbaric imperialist nation that ruled only a chunk of their own planet compared to the galaxy-spanning civilization of the Terran Dominion. Valerian even comments that he could always send in a battlecruiser to completely obliterate them and still be able to make it back home for dinner. It’s only because he doesn’t want to be like his father that he is more merciful. Though later learned that might’ve been a mistake.
* StupidEvil: Zorzal perfectly personifies this as the man continually refused to admit defeat like his father did and pointlessly waged an idiotic war against the Terrans [[spoiler: and later Protoss]]. Even after seeing his opponents, have time and time again proven to be literally ''eons'' more advanced and powerful than the armies of his backwater and primitive homeworld, his deluded and bloated ego combined with his plain-out idiocy, refuses to acknowledge this painfully obvious fact; and believed their superior might are just illusions. Deeming them as "cowardly barbarians" due to ''constantly'' misinterpreting restraint and mercy as weakness. But Zorzal takes it to the level that even after being thoroughly curbstomped by the Dominion [[spoiler: and Protoss]], he firmly believed he could’ve slaughtered and defeated them if he was emperor, much to Pina’s shock at seeing how truly deluded her brother was to actually, believe such ludicrous excuses as she outright claims he would’ve just ended up getting all of Sadera killed. [[spoiler: Then when the Zerg infestation breaks out in his fortress, Zorzal has a psychotic breakdown and blames Pina for all the problems he brought upon himself and tries strangling her, while she was trying to keep everyone alive; as the Zerg unleash the hyper evolutionary virus to try infesting everyone. Eventually, this all comes to bite him back in the most horrific way possible. But considering all the atrocities he has committed, little pity is warranted.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; where she learns of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use a changeling wearing her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, Pina even throws in Zorzal only being known as his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".
* TechnologyUplift: [[spoiler: After Zorzal and the pro war faction was finally defeated, Pina continued pursuing her benign ideals for Falmart. But unfortunately she was to trying to implement these massive and fundamental changes at a rate her medieval society couldn’t handle to achieve them. Resulting in uproar arising within the nobility and risked sparking another civil war with the commoners and noble houses. Thankfully, Valerian came to Pina and proposed to offer his resources to uplift Falmart and reform it into the standards of one of their colony worlds if they were to join the Dominion. Pina doesn’t even hesitate accepting this offer and three decades after the planet is annexed to the galactic empire, Falmart goes from a backwater medieval fantasy world, to a prosperous and highly advanced civilization that is proving to be the second most important world to the Dominion’s territory.]]

* UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: Once the Dominion annexed Falmart, they decided to genetically uplift all the savage demi human races worth sparing, otherwise they would face systemic extinction. A brutal but necessary strategy when remembering how vicious they can be. Thus all the animalistic monsters like Goblins and Ogre’s were artificially evolved into sapient demi human races and are promptly assimilated into Falmart/Dominion society.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; and learning of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use a changeling wearing her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, Pina even throws in Zorzal only being known as his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".

* StupidEvil: Zorzal perfectly personifies this as the man continually refused to admit defeat like his father did and pointlessly waged an idiotic war against the Terrans [[spoiler: and later Protoss]]. Even after seeing his opponents, have time and time again proven to be literally ''eons'' more advanced and powerful than the armies of his backwater and primitive homeworld, his deluded and bloated ego combined with his plain-out idiocy, refuses to acknowledge this painfully obvious fact; and believed their superior might are just illusions. Deeming them as "cowardly barbarians" due to ''constantly'' misinterpreting restraint and mercy as weakness. But Zorzal takes it to the level that even after being thoroughly curbstomped by the Dominion [[spoiler: and Protoss]], he firmly believed he could’ve slaughtered and defeated them if he was emperor, much to Pina’s shock at seeing how truly deluded her brother was to actually, believe such ludicrous excuses as she outright claims he would’ve just ended up getting all of Sadera killed. [[spoiler: Then when the Zerg infestation breaks out in his fortress, Zorzal has a psychotic breakdown and blames Pina for all the problems he brought upon himself and tries strangling her, while she was trying to keep everyone alive; as the Zerg unleash the hyper evolutionary virus to try infesting everyone. Eventually, this all comes to bite him back in the most horrific way possible. But again he brought it on himself so little pity is warranted.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* StupidEvil: Zorzal perfectly personifies this as the man continually refused to admit defeat like his father did and pointlessly waged an idiotic war against the Terrans [[spoiler: and later Protoss]]. Even after seeing his opponents, have time and time again proven to be literally ''eons'' more advanced and powerful than the armies of his backwater and primitive homeworld, his deluded and bloated ego combined with his plain-out idiocy, refuses to acknowledge this painfully obvious fact; and believed their superior might are just illusions. Deeming them as "cowardly barbarians" due to ''constantly'' misinterpreting restraint and mercy as weakness. But Zorzal takes it to the level that even after being thoroughly curbstomped by the Dominion [[spoiler: and Protoss]], he firmly believed he could’ve slaughtered and defeated them if he was emperor, much to Pina’s shock at seeing how truly deluded her brother was to actually, believe such a thing as she outright claims he would’ve just ended up getting all of Sadera killed. [[spoiler: Then when the Zerg infestation breaks out in his fortress, Zorzal has a psychotic breakdown and blames Pina for all the problems he brought upon himself and tries strangling her, while she was trying to keep everyone alive; as the Zerg unleash the hyper evolutionary virus to try infesting everyone. Eventually, this all comes to bite him back in the most horrific way possible. But again he brought it on himself so little pity is warranted.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; and learning of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use a changeling wearing her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, Pina even throws in his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; and learning of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, even throws in his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when she is captured; and learning of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain control of the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and wasted destroyed several vital territories just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, even throws in his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TechnologyUplift: [[spoiler: After Zorzal and the pro war faction was finally defeated, Pina continued pursuing her benign ideals for Falmart. But unfortunately she was to trying to implement these massive and fundamental changes at a rate her medieval society couldn’t handle to achieve them. Resulting in uproar arising within the nobility and risked sparking another civil war with the commoners and noble houses. Thankfully, Valerian came to Pina and proposed to offer his resources to uplift Falmart and reform it into the standards of a Dominion colony world if they were to join the Dominion. Pina doesn’t even hesitate accepting this offer and three decades after the planet is annexed to the galactic empire, Falmart goes from a backwater medieval fantasy world, to a prosperous and highly advanced civilization that is proving to be the second most important world to the Dominion’s territory.]]

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear as young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Which makes the Dominion quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pina gives this to her brother Zorzal when captured and when learning of his twisted plan to kill her and have a changeling use her own skin to impersonate her and gain the throne. But instead of being afraid, she dismisses her brother’s delusions of grandeur as nothing but foolishness. Pointing out how he has done nothing but wage a moronic war against foes that are literally eons more powerful than him; resulting in the deaths of numerous soldiers and wasting several resources just to satisfy his ego and lust for conquest. But Zorzal dismisses this logic and rants about being capable of slaying the Protoss and Dominion if he were emperor. Outraged by the audacity of Zorzal’s delusions, Pina further drove the point that his idiocy and shortsightedness have caused more destruction and suffering for Sadera than the Dominion, Daelaam, and even the Zerg combined. But when Zorzal lashes out she still isn’t afraid; and further digs in that while she ''was'' afraid of him before, she now sees her brother as nothing but a pathetic manchild whose plan to use her skin to control The Empire will eventually crumble apart like the rotting fortress he’s using. To add salt to the wound, even throws in his infamous nickname "the foolish prince of soil".

* TheAgeless: Just like in the legends depicting elves, they are capable of living FAR longer than any other race on Falmart. To the point that some outright turn themselves into trees from growing weary of living so long. Tuka and Yao for example may appear long young women in their early to mid twenties but are actually a couple hundred years old. Something the Dominion becomes quite fascinated about and leads to several medical companies becoming quite eager to replicate such longevity. [[spoiler: Eventually after successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for at least two to three centuries. Leading to one hundred years becoming the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

* ImmortalityInducer: [[spoiler: After successfully reverse engineering Tuka’s elven genes, the Dominion has managed to replicate her race’s longevity to allow for any human and non-elf races to live for two to three centuries. Needless to say one hundred years becomes the new thirty for all Dominion citizens.]]

** Unfortunately despite Pina outlawing slavery and creating reforms for demi-humans and mankind to coexist, Zorzal and his faction however stubbornly believed demi-humans are “dumb and inferior" to themselves.[[spoiler: But when the Protoss enter the playing field put them in the same crude category despite not being remotely associated with the native term. Even after the Protoss utterly decimate their forces, they still believe due to their massively swollen ego’s they’re just “dumb demi-humans who use cowardly magic".]]

* MagicVersusScience: The magic-wielding Empire vs. the technologically advanced Dominion. But Eventually the Dominion’s science beats The Empire’: mystical arts due to how limited users of magic are. Not to mention the special regions mages are simply too primitive to properly utilize it in any meaningful manner.

** [[spoiler: later the animalistic demi human races like goblins and ogres are artificially evolved into sapient humanoid races thanks to the Dominion.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Zorzal's ultimate fate from his foolishness and arrogance. He's left as a horrendously malformed Zerg infested who is in constant and excruciating pain while unable to move or speak. While Pina will eventually let him die out of mercy, she intends for him to live at least a decade or two as punishment for all his numerous crimes. Meanwhile, she’ll be forcing him to witness the new era he could’ve been apart of if not for his hubris. Making him an example of what happens when one chooses a path of pride and insatiable greed]].
** [[spoiler: But that doesn’t exactly happen. since later on in the epilogue the poor bastard’s fate worsens as Alarak decides to buy Zorzal due to seeing his pitiful remnants as a “work of art” amongst the Tal’darim. Thus the living corpse is propped up as a sideshow attraction for the denizens of Falmart to mock and ridicule as Alarak revels in the sheer negative emotions Zorzal produces. All while the Tal’darim alter his mind and memories to continually feel his never ending cocktail of misery and despair. Needless to say it will be a ''long'' time before Alarak grows bored with Zorzal’s living corpse.]]

* MagicVersusScience: The magic-wielding Empire vs. the technologically advanced Dominion. But Eventually the Dominion’s science beats the Falmarts mystical arts due to how limited users of magic are. Not to mention the special regions mages are too primitive to properly utilize it in any meaningful manner.
** The Dominion has even been studying the magical elements of this world to decipher its secrets. Such as multiple medical corporations researching Tuka’s elven genetics to try being able to replicate her race’s incredible longevity But Lelei is hoping to study more of Terran science such as physics to allow for magic to compete with the Dominion's technology, and keep it from becoming a dying art if scientific advances were to steadily overtake Falmart.
** Later it’s revealed that the Empire’s magic may simply be psionic powers born from Khaydarin crystals within the planet.
* MindManipulation: Rath used this to calm the Rose Knights. Later Rath subtly uses this on Yao when she wishes to sleep with him and misdirected her into Tuka’s tent instead, and leads to a very embarrassing situation for the dark elf.

** [[spoiler:However once Falmart becomes apart of the Dominion they are promptly uplifted into a modernized and technologically advanced civilization like the other Terran colonies. With the next generation likely to only know of their world’s medieval ways through history books as they live in modern times.]]

** [[spoiler: Matt and Valerian panic slightly when they discover the Haryo tribe have smuggled surviving Zerg samples to foolishly attempt to weaponize them, when all they will end up doing is jumpstarting the nightmare that was barely stopped.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Something the Terran’s and Protoss note in their studies of Falmart, was how there are so many races in this world, even though scientifically, it should be impossible. Yet it’s concluded the gate had a hand in this anomaly, as it’s purpose was deemed to introduce new races to enter Falmart and rejuvenate the biodiversity of the planet. Which the Saderan Empire attempted to abuse for conquest of new lands and slaves.

* ShipTease: Yao has grown fascinated with Rath and after learning of his grim past has begun feeling attracted towards him. Though Rath hasn’t exactly displayed these feelings either, but doesn’t seem too bothered by the idea of being with the beautiful dark elf either.

* SparedByAdaptation: The Dark Elves that were killed-off by Flame Dragon in canon are alive in this adaptation thanks to the squad's experience and more advance technology.

* TechnologyUplift: [[spoiler: After Zorzal and the pro war faction was finally defeated, Pina continued pursuing her benign ideals for Falmart. But unfortunately she was to trying to implement these massive and fundamental changes at a rate her medieval society couldn’t handle to achieve them. Resulting in uproar arising within the nobility and risked sparking another civil war with the commoners and noble houses. Thankfully, Valerian came to Pina and proposed to offer his resources to uplift Falmart and reform it into a prosperous modern civilization if they were to join the Dominion. Pina doesn’t even hesitate accepting this offer and once the planet is annexed to the galactic empire, Falmart goes from a backwater medieval fantasy world, to a highly advanced civilization that is proving to be the second most important world to the Dominion’s territory.]]

* UpsettingTheBalance: Hardy and the fellow Falmart gods are guilty of this once the Terrans and Protoss uncover the gates true purpose. That being to lure unsuspecting and young species from different worlds and universes that catch the Falmart pantheon’s fancy, and basically kidnap the migrated population to later become permanently apart of their garden. Not to mention they have prevented the civilizations of their world from progressing beyond the Medieval era, in order to maintain their dependence on them and gain strength from worshipping them. [[spoiler: Once the Daelaam learn of these abuses of power, and the source of all this chaos, they are quick to confront Hardy in her own temple, and using a cage designed for void based beings, imprison her to be judged for her galactic level crimes by the Protoss council. But when Falmart learns of their god’s misdeeds they collectively abandon all worship of the Falmart pantheon and become more secular. Resulting in the Falmart gods to nearly lose all their power and influence to the point most of them are ''begging'' for followers nowadays.]]

* TechnologyUplift: [[spoiler: After Zorzal and the pro war faction was finally defeated, Pina continued pursuing her benign ideals for Falmart. But unfortunately she was to trying to implement these massive and fundamental changes at a rate society couldn’t handle to achieve them. Resulting in uproar arising within the nobility and risked sparking another civil war with the commoners populace and noble houses. Thankfully, Valerian came to Pina and proposed to offer his resources to uplift Falmart and reform it into a prosperous modern civilization if they were to join the Dominion. Pina doesn’t even hesitate accepting this offer and once the planet is annexed to the galactic empire, Falmart goes from a backwater medieval fantasy world, to a highly advanced civilization that is proving to be the second most important world to the Dominion’s territory.]]

* TimeSkip: [[spoiler: In the final chapter, this occurs, as through the lens of some new OC’s, thirty years have passed since peace was established and the Dominion had annexed Falmart. With these new characters being the children of some of the original cast. Such as Jin, who is Yao and Rath’s half-elf son.]]