History PlayingWith / HiddenElfVillage

* '''Conversed''': "You'd think these secluded villages would wise up to the fact that they're living in the warpath path of an extremely expansionist empire."

** Aden is a village of [[TheChessmaster meddlers]] and {{Tricksters}} that [[UnwantedAssistance won't stop interfering with the rest of the world]].

** The work "featuring" Aden and its "eat your own medicine" conclusion is a propaganda by a fascist government who seek to conscript its otherwise peaceful citizens.

* '''Invoked''': Somebody from Aden goes on a great quest to find a way to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the DoomedHometown. They find a spell that will cloud invaders' minds and keep them away, but [[WeaksauceWeakness getting involved in the outside world weakens or even ends the spell]].

** The inhabitants of Aden willingly provide aid to the heroes, even supplying them with weapons and warriors, because they realize that while the Empire may not know where they are, that won't last forever.
* '''Discussed''': "Well guys, looks like another village of nice, smiling, polite people, eager to get us out of their hair so they can get their heads back in the sand."
* '''Conversed''': "You'd think these secluded villages would wise up to the fact that they're living a day's march from an extremely expansionist empire."

** Aden recognizes that it might be discovered at some point, so it has ''several'' villages to which it can relocate. When it finds out that the empire knows where they are, they moved to a new and better-hidden location as quickly as they can. They leave behind a MasterOfIllusion to make the Empire ''think'' they'd wiped Aden off the map, and give several citizens who were tired of hiding a mission to pretend to be refugees.

** Aden is a village of [[TheChessmaster meddlers]] and {{Tricksters}} that [[StopHelpingMe won't stop interfering with the rest of the world]].

** While Aden is well-hidden, but when TheHero and his companions stumble across it, the residents are welcoming, friendly and open.

** Aden recognizes that it might be discovered at some point, so it has ''several'' locations to which it can relocate. When it finds out that the empire knows where they are, they moved to a new and better-hidden location months before the army arrives. They leave behind a MasterOfIllusion to make the Empire ''think'' they'd wiped Aden off the map, and give several citizens who were tired of hiding a mission to pretend to be refugees.

** While Aden is well-hidden, when TheHero and his companions stumble across it, the residents are welcoming, friendly and open.
** Aden believes themselves to be perfectly hidden and the Empire initially has trouble finding them, but only because their resources are spent elsewhere. When they decided that yes, they are in fact Aden's problem, they find it with some difficulty.

* '''Invoked''': Somebody from Aden goes on a great quest to find a way to [[AvertedTrope avert]] the DoomedHometown. They find a spell that will cloud invaders' minds and keep them away, but [[WeaksauceWeakness getting involved in the outside world weakens or even ends the spell]].

* '''Subverted''': While Aden is well-hidden, when TheHero and his companions stumble across it, the residents are welcoming, friendly and open.
* '''Double Subverted''': Though the people of Aden welcome the newcomers at first; when the hero tries rallying them to fight the empire they immediately turn cold and curt, revealing their isolationist philosophy.

** When the Empire decides that yes, they are in fact Aden's problem, the hidden village has long since alienated any potential allies. Aden is wiped off the map, and its few survivors get a taste of their own medicine when they go looking for help and keep getting turned away, as what happens to a few helpless stragglers is "somebody else's problem".
** Since the only inhabitants of Aden who ever leave the town are criminals and exiles, the world outside [[SmallReferencePools assumes]] that Aden is a [[WretchedHive town full of crooks]], even if most actual Adenites are upstanding citizens.
* '''Reconstructed''': But it's all a big [[IncrediblyLamePun Aden]] [[KansasCityShuffle City Shuffle]]. Aden moved to a new, better-hidden location months ago, leaving behind a MasterOfIllusion to make the Empire ''think'' they'd wiped Aden off the map, and gave several citizens who were tired of hiding a mission to pretend to be refugees.

* '''Defied''': TheEmpire invests in scrying spells that locate every village in the area.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': An isolated group that insists that anything that happens outside its borders is SomebodyElsesProblem.

* '''Exaggerated''': Aden is an entire civilization and network of concealed cities, and the vast majority of its residents believe that any threats outside their well-protected walls are SomebodyElsesProblem.

'''Basic Trope''': An isolated group that insists that anything that happens outside its borders is [[SomebodyElsesProblem Somebody Else's Problem]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Aden is an entire civilization and network of concealed cities, and the vast majority of its residents believe that any threats outside their well-protected walls are [[SomebodyElsesProblem Somebody Else's Problem]].

* '''Deconstructed''':
** When the Empire decides that yes, they are in fact Aden's problem, the hidden village has long since alienated any potential allies. Aden is wiped off the map, and its few survivors get a taste of their own medicine when they go looking for help and keep getting turned away, as what happens to a few helpless stragglers is "somebody else's problem".
** Since the only inhabitants of Aden who ever leave the town are criminals and exiles, the world outside [[SmallReferencePools assumes]] that Aden is a [[WretchedHive town full of crooks]], even if most actual Adenites are upstanding citizens.
* '''Reconstructed''': But it's all a big [[IncrediblyLamePun Aden]] [[KansasCityShuffle City Shuffle]]. Aden moved to a new, better-hidden location months ago, leaving behind a MasterOfIllusion to make the Empire ''think'' they'd wiped Aden off the map, and gave several citizens who were tired of hiding a mission to pretend to be refugees.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The people of Aden don't actually have anything against other cultures, it's just that they prefer to keep to themselves. The Adenites will help the heroes if they come seeking aid and provide shelter to refugees, but otherwise aren't interested in an alliance and prefer to fight the villains on their own.

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* '''Justified''': Aden is filled with refugees from other towns and villages that were destroyed by TheEmpire, so most of its residents aren't exactly eager to go out and risk their lives fighting an enemy they've ''already'' lost against once.

* '''Inverted''': TheEmpire is the ''only'' civilization that lives out in the open; all the other ''surviving'' free towns and villages are concealed and hiding from the empire's forces.

* '''Deconstructed''': When the Empire decides that yes, they are in fact Aden's problem, the hidden village has long since alienated any potential allies. Aden is wiped off the map, and its few survivors get a taste of their own medicine when they go looking for help and keep getting turned away, as what happens to a few helpless stragglers is "somebody else's problem".

* '''Enforced''': Aden was created so that some of the series' heroes can be exiles born there who didn't agree with their homeland's isolationist attitude. Its existence also serves up the {{Aesop}} about evil thriving when good people choose not to act.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Subverted''': While Aden is well-hidden, when TheHero and his [[{{Nakama}} companions]] stumble across it, the residents are welcoming, friendly and open.

'''Basic Trope''': An isolated group that insists that anything happens outside its borders is [[SomebodyElsesProblem Somebody Else's Problem]].

* '''Straight''': The village of Aden is well-hidden, and its residents are loathe to get involved in the "outside world's" troubles, so they keep to themselves.

* '''Double Subverted''': Though the people of Aden welcome the newcomers at first, when the hero tries rallying them to fight the empire they immediately turn cold and curt, revealing their isolationist philosophy.

* '''Played For Laughs:''' Aden hideously murders anyone attempting to enter their territory and their entire military budget goes into stopping anyone from entering Aden despite this there are entire districts made up of foreigners.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???