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* AHouseDivided: Unlike what Captain Granik hoped in the first chapter, he's unable to work out with the badly arbitrary Caleb the differences between the Guards and rebels. This culminates in Caleb and his troops abandoning the Guards to protect the walls by themselves in favor of protecting Elyon.

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* AHouseDivided: Unlike what Captain Granik hoped in the first chapter, he's unable to work out with the badly arbitrary Caleb the differences between the Guards and rebels.rebels with the badly arbitrary Caleb. This culminates in Caleb and his troops abandoning the Guards to protect the walls by themselves in favor of protecting Elyon.



* WhamLine: Jade surprises everyone when she reveals that instead of through brute force, she's planning to make Meridian's people want Phobos back on the throne.

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* WhamLine: Jade surprises everyone when she reveals that instead of returning Phobos to the throne through brute force, she's planning to make Meridian's people want Phobos him back on the throne.in charge.



* WhyIsntItAttacking: Just when it looks like the army of Samurai, Bat and Sumo Khan is about to make a final clash against Elyon and her followers in the courtyard, they suddenly relax and vanish into shadows by Jade's signal, leaving the defenders perplexed.

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* WhyIsntItAttacking: Just when it looks like the army of Samurai, Bat and Sumo Khan is about to make a final clash against Elyon and her followers in the courtyard, they suddenly relax stand down and vanish into shadows by Jade's signal, leaving the defenders perplexed.
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* EnvironmentalSymbolism: When the Sumo Khan shatter a part of the wall in the midst of Caleb and Granik's quarrel, the two captains and their troops end up on the opposite sides of the chasm before Caleb takes his troops to the castle and leaves the Guards behind.

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* EnvironmentalSymbolism: When the Sumo Khan shatter a part of the wall in the midst of Caleb and Granik's quarrel, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether the two captains and their troops end up on the opposite sides of the chasm before Caleb takes his troops to the castle and leaves the Guards behind.behind]].



* VictoryByEndurance: When Caleb gets to Elyon, the Shadowkhan have changed tactics after she blasted many of them once in Chapter 2; instead of attacking all at once, they're now taking turns of attacking in groups of two or three to force her to tire herself blasting them one by one.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jade reveals that she's planning to return Phobos to the throne by making him this. As she explains, for all his flaws, Phobos is still a born and raised royal who maintained a fragile peace among Meridian's various races, with his more heavy-handed tactics only coming about because of the Rebellion, which was opposed to him (in no small part through Nerissa's manipulations) primarily just because he was a male ruler in a traditionally matriarchal society. By contrast, Elyon was raised on Earth and has no idea how to be a queen, and her ineptness is allowing for things like a renewal in FantasticRacism and the Rebellion's aggressive tactics to route out anyone suspected of being loyal to Phobos.

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* VictoryByEndurance: When Caleb gets to Elyon, the Shadowkhan have changed tactics after she blasted many of them once in Chapter 2; instead of attacking all at once, they're now taking turns of on attacking in small groups of two or three to force her to tire herself blasting them one by one.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jade reveals that she's planning to return Phobos to the throne by making him this. As she explains, for all his flaws, Phobos is still a born and raised royal who maintained a fragile peace among Meridian's various races, with his more heavy-handed tactics only coming about because of the Rebellion, which was opposed to him (in no small part through Nerissa's manipulations) primarily just because he was a male ruler in a traditionally matriarchal society. By contrast, Elyon was raised on Earth and has no idea on how to be a queen, and her ineptness is allowing for things like a renewal in FantasticRacism and [[FullCircleRevolution the Rebellion's aggressive tactics to route root out anyone suspected of being loyal to Phobos.Phobos]].

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* BrokenPedestal: The first stepping stone of Jade's plan to put Phobos back on the throne is having Meridian's general population to become disillusioned with Elyon by painting her

, the Rebellion and the Guardians.

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* BrokenPedestal: The first stepping stone of Invoked in Jade's master plan to put get Phobos back on the throne throne, which is having Meridian's general population to become disillusioned with Elyon by painting her

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[[HeroWithBadPublicity destroy the Rebellion Meridian populace's faith in Elyon, the Guardians, and the Guardians.Rebellion]].



* {{Cliffhanger}}: As Phobos and his troops start making their way to the abandoned castle Jade has secured as their hideout, she enters the shadows with Miranda and Cedric.



* EvilPlan: Jade finally reveals that instead of simply using the might of her Shadowkhan armies to return Phobos to the throne, she aims to secure his new reign by steering the public favor towards him and away from Elyon and the Rebellion.



* RightfulKingReturns: Deconstructed; as Jade helps Phobos realize, Elyon was assumed to be a better ruler than him simply because she is the Heart of Meridian and preferred in the matrilineal monarchy, but she's mentally a normal Earth girl with no political training and very little knowledge of her kingdom. Meridian hasn't become a paradise since her ascension; if anything, her reign has fallen short in some ways, like in the renewal of FantasticRacism.

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* RightfulKingReturns: Deconstructed; as Jade helps Phobos realize, Elyon was assumed to be a better ruler than him simply because she is the Heart of Meridian and preferred in the matrilineal monarchy, but [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone she's mentally a normal Earth girl with no political training and very little knowledge of her kingdom.kingdom]]. Meridian hasn't become a paradise since her ascension; if anything, her reign has fallen short in some ways, like in the renewal of FantasticRacism.



* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jade reveals that she's planning to return Phobos to the throne by making him this. As she explains, he may not be perfect, but Elyon is actually less competent as a ruler since she has no real experience in rulership, has allowed the Rebellion's members to cause trouble with their prejudices towards anyone they believe still supports Phobos, and inadvertently brought upon Meridian the wrath of another world by antagonizing its queen. By contrast, Phobos managed to maintain a real (if admittedly fragile) peace among Meridian's various races, and it's arguable that most of the problems of his original reign were caused by the Rebellion (egged on by Nerissa's manipulations) refusing to accept him as a ruler just because he's a man.

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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jade reveals that she's planning to return Phobos to the throne by making him this. As she explains, he may not be perfect, but Elyon is actually less competent as a ruler since she has no real experience in rulership, has allowed the Rebellion's members to cause trouble with their prejudices towards anyone they believe still supports Phobos, and inadvertently brought upon Meridian the wrath of another world by antagonizing its queen. By contrast, for all his flaws, Phobos managed to maintain is still a real (if admittedly fragile) born and raised royal who maintained a fragile peace among Meridian's various races, and it's arguable that most with his more heavy-handed tactics only coming about because of the problems of his original reign were caused by the Rebellion (egged on by Rebellion, which was opposed to him (in no small part through Nerissa's manipulations) refusing to accept him as a ruler primarily just because he's he was a man.male ruler in a traditionally matriarchal society. By contrast, Elyon was raised on Earth and has no idea how to be a queen, and her ineptness is allowing for things like a renewal in FantasticRacism and the Rebellion's aggressive tactics to route out anyone suspected of being loyal to Phobos.
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* BrokenPedestal: The first stepping stone of Jade's plan to put Phobos back on the throne is having Meridian's general population to become disillusioned with Elyon by painting her

, the Rebellion and the Guardians.


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* CultOfPersonality: {{Discussed|Trope}}. When Jade reveals that she plans to have the people of Meridian ''want'' Phobos back on the throne, Raythor and Miranda point out that Phobos is not loved by the people, with Phobos bitterly admitting that Elyon had that even before she set foot on Meridian. But as Jade retorts, the people don't love Elyon, they love the ''idea'' of her; they were not used to the idea of a man on the throne, and believed that once she was crowned, Elyon would take things back to normal or bring a utopia. Jade then explains how for all of Phobos' faults, he was trained as a noble and brought peace (if a fragile one) to the realm between the different races. The Rebellion then destroyed that peace, while Elyon is a normal Earth girl with no training to rule, allowing the Rebellion to cause problems for the commoners with their obsessive rooting out of any suspected Phobos loyalists. In light of that all, Jade believes that all they have to do is reveal Elyon's failings to the public, and her reign will fall apart.


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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Jade lampshades that Phobos' reign allowed all of Meridian's races to coexist in peace, even if in a fragile one, while Elyon's reign has given new opportunities for ancient interracial conflicts such as the persecution of shapeshifters.


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* EvilLaugh: Phobos does this to show how delighted he's by Jade's idea of turning the whole Meridian against the heroes.


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* ThePratfall: When Jade finishes explaining how crushing the heroes' PR by turning the public favor towards Phobos can be achieved, she accentuates her point by crushing the rock Frost is sitting on and causing him to fall on his rear, annoying him.
* RightfulKingReturns: Deconstructed; as Jade helps Phobos realize, Elyon was assumed to be a better ruler than him simply because she is the Heart of Meridian and preferred in the matrilineal monarchy, but she's mentally a normal Earth girl with no political training and very little knowledge of her kingdom. Meridian hasn't become a paradise since her ascension; if anything, her reign has fallen short in some ways, like in the renewal of FantasticRacism.


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jade reveals that she's planning to return Phobos to the throne by making him this. As she explains, he may not be perfect, but Elyon is actually less competent as a ruler since she has no real experience in rulership, has allowed the Rebellion's members to cause trouble with their prejudices towards anyone they believe still supports Phobos, and inadvertently brought upon Meridian the wrath of another world by antagonizing its queen. By contrast, Phobos managed to maintain a real (if admittedly fragile) peace among Meridian's various races, and it's arguable that most of the problems of his original reign were caused by the Rebellion (egged on by Nerissa's manipulations) refusing to accept him as a ruler just because he's a man.
* WhamLine: Jade surprises everyone when she reveals that instead of through brute force, she's planning to make Meridian's people want Phobos back on the throne.
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* ContinuityNod: Jade refers to Shendu using the Book of Ages to rewrite reality when she explains to Phobos and the others why they can't simply crush their enemies immediately.
* DontCreateAMartyr: Jade refuses to immediately crush Elyon and the Rebellion because that would only motivate their friends to rally against Phobos more fiercely than before.



* OhCrap: As the Shadowkhan march towards the inner sanctum following the wall's collapse, Elyon is filled with terror she felt only once before when Phobos revealed his true colors to her.



* PragmaticVillainy: Even though the Shadowkhan have the clear advantage, Jade reveals their attack on the castle was only a distraction and orders them to pull back. She justifies this by reasoning that crushing Elyon now would only rally the rest of her supporters and the Guardians to defeat Phobos once again.



* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb with the trope's title.

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* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb with the trope's title.title.
* WhyIsntItAttacking: Just when it looks like the army of Samurai, Bat and Sumo Khan is about to make a final clash against Elyon and her followers in the courtyard, they suddenly relax and vanish into shadows by Jade's signal, leaving the defenders perplexed.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: The narration described Elyon's OhCrap reaction like this.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: {{Defied|Trope}}. Jade explains to Phobos and his followers that if they just overpower Elyon, the Rebellion and Guardians will rally the people against them, so they need to destroy the people's faith in Elyon to win the war.

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* BreachingTheWall: The castle's outer wall is completely annihilated by the Sumo Khan strategically crushing sections of it.



* SpitefulSpit: Caleb does this while talking about the Guards he abandoned to the walls.



* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb on his impulsive decision and callous attitude over the Guards' lives.

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* VictoryByEndurance: When Caleb gets to Elyon, the Shadowkhan have changed tactics after she blasted many of them once in Chapter 2; instead of attacking all at once, they're now taking turns of attacking in groups of two or three to force her to tire herself blasting them one by one.
* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb on his impulsive decision and callous attitude over with the Guards' lives.trope's title.

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* BadassFingersnap: Jade uses one to signal her Shadowkhan to cease their attack on the castle.
* CallBack: It's brought up that Jade told Miranda in ''Kage'' that she's from the Shadow Realm, which the shapeshifter already suspected to be the Land of Eternal Shadows.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Raythor is uncomfortable at the thought of many of his former comrades losing their lives against the Shadowhan, even if they betrayed Phobos, and he's relieved when Jade puts a stop to the attack.
* FireForgedFriends: [[DownplayedTrope Maybe not exactly friends]], but when compared to how they started off in ''Kage'', Jade and Frost seem to be in much friendlier terms with each other.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jade gives Cedric a snake wristband and Miranda a spider-choker that both have a familiar demon face engraved on them.



* TookALevelInJerkass: Like Aldarn, Caleb is revealed to have become hostile towards the Guard, which he wasn't shown to be in the original story.

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Like Just like Aldarn, Caleb is revealed to have become hostile towards the Guard, which he wasn't shown to be in the original story.

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* EnvironmentalSymbolism: When the Sumo Khan shatter a part of the wall in the midst of Caleb and Granik's quarrel, the two captains and their troops end up on the opposite sides of the chasm before Caleb takes his troops to the castle and leaves the Guards behind.
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Jade tells Raythor that he can keep calling her just Kage without worrying about her title.



* AHouseDivided: Unlike what Captain Granik hoped in the first chapter, he's unable to work out with the badly arbitrary Caleb the differences between the Guards and rebels. This culminates in Caleb and his troops abandoning the Guards to protect the walls by themselves in favor of protecting Elyon.



* LastStand: After being abandoned by Caleb and his rebels, Granik anticipates he won't see sunrise again and leads his men to protect the castle as best as they can. Chapter 7 confirms he ends up dead.

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* LastStand: After being abandoned by Caleb and his rebels, Captain Granik anticipates he won't see sunrise again and leads his men to protect the castle as best as they can. Chapter 7 confirms he ends up dead.
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* KickTheDog: In response to Granik doubting Jade's connection to Phobos and refusing to abandon the walls just to protect Elyon, Caleb abandons him and the rest of the Guard while taking

Caleb abandons Granik and his men to defend the gates by themselves when they refuse to put Elyon's safety before everything else.

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* KickTheDog: In response to Granik doubting Jade's connection to Phobos and refusing to abandon the walls just to protect Elyon, Caleb abandons him takes the majority of the defenders with him, abandoning Granik and the rest of the Guard while taking

to face the enemy alone. He even openly hopes they'll be killed off, to Aldarn's approval and the horror of Elyon and Drake.
* KnightTemplar:
Caleb abandons Granik and was already showing signs of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming extreme in his men to defend hunt for any suspected Phobos loyalists]] in the gates by themselves original story, but now he has all but reached this point. He accuses the Guards of still being loyal to Phobos when they question his conviction of Jade being Phobos' creation and refuse to put focus all their efforts on Elyon's safety before everything else.protection at the expense of the defenses. He holds no qualms about abandoning them to face possible death and is confused when Elyon rightfully calls him out on it.
* LastStand: After being abandoned by Caleb and his rebels, Granik anticipates he won't see sunrise again and leads his men to protect the castle as best as they can. Chapter 7 confirms he ends up dead.



* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb on his impulsive decision and callous attitude over the Guards' lives

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* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb on his impulsive decision and callous attitude over the Guards' liveslives.

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* OffWithHisHead: Granik destroys one of the Samurai Khan by slicing its head off with his axe.
* SpottingTheThread: Though Caleb's still convinced Jade and the Shadowkhan are Phobos' creations, Granik is doubtful of that for the same reasons as Drake in Chapter 2 and also points out that as powerful as Phobos is, he couldn't have possibly created them all during his brief time outside prison.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Like Aldarn, Caleb is revealed to have become hostile towards the Guard, which he wasn't shown to be in the original story.

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* GroundPunch: A group of six Sumo Khan do this to collapse a section of the castle's wall.
* KickTheDog: In response to Granik doubting Jade's connection to Phobos and refusing to abandon the walls just to protect Elyon, Caleb abandons him and the rest of the Guard while taking

Caleb abandons Granik and his men to defend the gates by themselves when they refuse to put Elyon's safety before everything else.
* OffWithHisHead: Granik destroys one of the Samurai Khan by slicing its head off with his axe.
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* SpottingTheThread: Though Caleb's still convinced Jade and the Shadowkhan are Phobos' creations, Granik is doubtful of that for the same reasons as Drake in Chapter 2 and also points out that as powerful as Phobos is, he couldn't have possibly created them all the entire army during his brief time outside prison.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Like Aldarn, Caleb is revealed to have become hostile towards the Guard, which he wasn't shown to be in the original story.story.
* WhatTheHellHero: When Caleb realizes the Shadowkhan have reached Elyon's bedchamber, he orders all the troops back to the castle to protect her even when Granik objects that abandoning their defenses will only aid the enemy. He even willingly leaves all the Guards who stay with Granik to face possible death. Elyon herself calls out Caleb on his impulsive decision and callous attitude over the Guards' lives
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As the Shadowkhan assault on the royal castle nears its end, Caleb's character is called into question. Meanwhile, Jade reveals to Phobos and his followers that she has a far more complex plan to defeat Elyon and her supporters than they thought.
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* OffWithHisHead: Granik destroys one of the Samurai Khan by slicing its head off with his axe.
* SpottingTheThread: Though Caleb's still convinced Jade and the Shadowkhan are Phobos' creations, Granik is doubtful of that for the same reasons as Drake in Chapter 2 and also points out that as powerful as Phobos is, he couldn't have possibly created them all during his brief time outside prison.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Like Aldarn, Caleb is revealed to have become hostile towards the Guard, which he wasn't shown to be in the original story.

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