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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The poisoned [[TrademarkFavouriteFood gouda]] that the new Supreme Leader uses to poison the old one and his Dragon.
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* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar. Though, to be fair, Miko was already headed in that direction thanks to Gin-Jun's mentoring and her own tendency to jump to conclusions.
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** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickNoCureForThePaladinBlues No Cure For The Paladin Blues]]'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them. Furthermore, when he takes power, captions helpfully point out the '''Headdress of Supreme Leadership''', '''Scepter of Supreme Leadership''', and '''Shiny Gold Amulet of Supreme Leadership'''.
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* AndIMustScream: When they test out Melisander possessing people to do chores on Daigo, Daigo admits, that among other flaws, this trope was in full-effect.
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* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until he doesn't.]]
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* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] ObfuscatingDisability to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until Until he doesn't.]]
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* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
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* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's Zhou's apparent death]] death and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].army.
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** Averted with Miko, who is not yet the fanatic she will become one day, even asking Gin-Jun how to separate the good hobgoblins from the evil ones. At the end of the story, O-Chul inadvertedly starts her down the path that will lead her to [[spoiler:her fall and death.]]
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** Averted with Miko, who is not yet the fanatic she will become one day, even asking Gin-Jun how to separate the good hobgoblins from the evil ones. At the end of the story, O-Chul inadvertedly starts her down the path that will lead her to [[spoiler:her her fall and death.]]
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* MacGuffin: Parodied/PlayedForLaughs - Therkla is sent to steal a fan which "belonged to the sorcerer Mik-Guh". After delivering it, she's told that the mission was just an excuse to test her skills and that the "Mik-Guh Fan" had no intrinsic value.
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* MacGuffin: Parodied/PlayedForLaughs Parodied and PlayedForLaughs - Therkla is sent to steal a fan which "belonged to the sorcerer Mik-Guh". After delivering it, she's told that the mission was just an excuse to test her skills and that the "Mik-Guh Fan" had no intrinsic value.
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* NeverLearnedToRead: Melisander's illiteracy due to her low-class status became an impediment in utilizing Ouija Board.
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* NeverLearnedToRead: Melisander's illiteracy due to her low-class status became an impediment in utilizing Ouija Board.Board to serve as a medium.
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* NouveauRiche: Due to Kato's nobility being granted recently, many Azurite nobles show disdain towards them. Even up to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not eating Kazumi's lemon squares]].
* ShoutOut: Melisander has a [[Series/GameOfThrones Melisandre]] motif, complete with colored candle albeit being green and benign.
* NouveauRiche: Due to Kato's nobility being granted recently, many Azurite nobles show disdain towards them. Even up to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not eating Kazumi's lemon squares]].
* ShoutOut: Melisander has a [[Series/GameOfThrones Melisandre]] motif, complete with colored candle albeit being green and benign.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted. She's shocked when O-Chul says he's the latter.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted. She's shocked when O-Chul says he's the latter.latter and that ''O-Chul'' of all people used to be a bandit but that was the point of the story. If a former bandit child can become a righteous man because of the kindness he was shown, than other bad folk can change too.
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickBloodRunsInTheFamily Blood Runs In The in the Family]]''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
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* CuttingTheKnot: A witch offers Lien a ring that can let her breath underwater if she answers TheseQuestionsThree- fail, and she gets polymorphed into a skittling. Lien just beats the living daylights out of the witch, turns her in, and a paladin gives her the ring as a reward.
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* CuttingTheKnot: A witch offers Lien a ring that can let her breath underwater if she answers TheseQuestionsThree- TheseQuestionsThree -- fail, and she gets polymorphed into a skittling. Lien just beats the living daylights out of the witch, turns her in, and a paladin gives her the ring as a reward.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted. She's shocked when O-Chul says he's the latter.
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* GladYouThoughtOfIt: the hobgoblin cleric's favourite tactic to get his dimmer superiors to go through with his ideas.
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* YouShallNotPass: the very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
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* YouShallNotPass: the The very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
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* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
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** Gin-Jun, if not an outright
** Averted with Miko, who is not yet the fanatic she will become one day, even asking Gin-Jun how to separate the good hobgoblins from the evil ones. At the end of the story, O-Chul inadvertedly starts her down the path that will lead her to [[spoiler:her fall and death.]]
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* ZanyScheme: The plan to help Melisander find her role in the colony is explicitly referred to as "Zany scheme creative."
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Sangwaan tells Therkla that she when she dies, she hopes to never see it coming. The story ends with Sangwaan being killed by Xykon's invisible zombie dragon, and Sangwaan's last moments are laughing at the irony.
* CallForward: Kubota tells Therkla to give him a list of the poisons she's immune to...presumably, so he knows which one he'll need to use if she betrays him, which happens in "Never Split The Party".
* CallForward: Kubota tells Therkla to give him a list of the poisons she's immune to...presumably, so he knows which one he'll need to use if she betrays him, which happens in "Never Split The Party".
-->'''Hobgoblin:''' Somehow I've always felt I was destined to wear these.
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* EurekaMoment: While talking about their situation with Melisander in bed at night, the Katos hear someone up and realize that Melisander's Touch of Sleep could help the many ShellShockedVeterans in the colony.
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* EurekaMoment: While talking about their situation with Melisander in bed at night, the Katos hear someone up and realize that Melisander's Touch of Sleep could help the many ShellShockedVeterans [[ShellShockedVeteran Shellshocked Veterans]] in the colony.
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* KeepTheReward: Saha Kapoor joined the mission so her family can immigrate to Azure City. But after her encounter with the Sapphire Guard, she decides she doesn't want her kids to grow up in Azure City if it means they'll near such people.
-->'''Saha:''' Sometimes, when you get up close, a "shining beacon" turns out to have been a garbage fire all along.
-->'''Saha:''' Sometimes, when you get up close, a "shining beacon" turns out to have been a garbage fire all along.
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* AndIMustScream: When they test out Melisander possessing people to do chores on Daigo, Daigo admits, that among other flaws, this trope was in full-effect.
* EurekaMoment: While talking about their situation with Melisander in bed at night, the Katos hear someone up and realize that Melisander's Touch of Sleep could help the many ShellShockedVeterans in the colony.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Shojo begins to tell O-Chul and Hinjo about the Lore of the Sapphire Guard, we cut to them at a bar, looking a bit freaked out.
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'''Hinjo:''' I'm too-\\
'''O-Chul:''' The day you learn you will be responsible for containing a god-eating horror that lives under our feet is the day you come of age. Drink.
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* SoProudOfYou: Rather than being upset that Hinjo snuck out to join O-Chul's mission, Shojo is proud that Hinjo pulled it off. Of course, Given that Shojo had to put on a charade of madness in order to avoid being assassinated years later, it's no wonder that he would endorse lying and subterfuge to get things done.
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* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
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* ForWantOfANail: While ranting on how the previous generation of the Sapphire Guard killed the previous Bearer of the Crimson Mantle, Gin-Jun remarks that the paladins at the time purposely chose not to be 'vain' and take the Mantle as a trophy. At the time, they had no idea that the Crimson Mantle was an ArtifactOfDoom and their decision to leave it allowed the Goblin later called Redcloak to claim it and become the new Bearer.
-->'''Gin-Jun:''' A bit more vanity might have saved the world!
-->'''Gin-Jun:''' A bit more vanity might have saved the world!
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* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar.
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* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar. Though, to be fair, Miko was already headed in that direction thanks to Gin-Jun's mentoring and her own tendency to jump to conclusions.
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* CallForward:
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickNoCureForThePaladinBlues No Cure For The Paladin Blues]]'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them. Furthermore, when he takes power, captions helpfully point out the '''Headdress of Supreme Leadership''', '''Scepter of Supreme Leadership''', and '''Shiny Gold Amulet of Supreme Leadership'''.
** When he finds out that Hinjo was listening in on his conversation with O-Chul, Shojo grumbles that he should install a door in the archway to his throne room. He won't, to disastrous consequences.
** After O-Chul explains that one should stand for their principles even when doing so is unpopular, Miko concludes, "If someone betrays the city, it's our job to stop them using whatever means we have at our disposal". She leaves before O-Chul can fully talk about laws, which will have ''really'' disastrous consequences in the future.
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickNoCureForThePaladinBlues No Cure For The Paladin Blues]]'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them. Furthermore, when he takes power, captions helpfully point out the '''Headdress of Supreme Leadership''', '''Scepter of Supreme Leadership''', and '''Shiny Gold Amulet of Supreme Leadership'''.
** When he finds out that Hinjo was listening in on his conversation with O-Chul, Shojo grumbles that he should install a door in the archway to his throne room. He won't, to disastrous consequences.
** After O-Chul explains that one should stand for their principles even when doing so is unpopular, Miko concludes, "If someone betrays the city, it's our job to stop them using whatever means we have at our disposal". She leaves before O-Chul can fully talk about laws, which will have ''really'' disastrous consequences in the future.
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* AndroclesLion: Mr. Scruffy frees a creature leashed by Redcloak, and the two become friends for a while.
* BookEnds: The story starts and ends with Mr. Scruffy resting on a crate in a storeroom.
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* MundaneUtility: The entire story is Kazumi and Daigo trying to figure how Melisander use her ghost powers to help people.
* VanHelsingHateCrime: Kazumi and Daigo worry that if Hinjo sees Melisander, he'll go "SMITE EVIL!" on principle. When he does meet Melisander, he assures them that since she's not hurting anyone or seems, y'know, evil, he'll do no such thing.
* VanHelsingHateCrime: Kazumi and Daigo worry that if Hinjo sees Melisander, he'll go "SMITE EVIL!" on principle. When he does meet Melisander, he assures them that since she's not hurting anyone or seems, y'know, evil, he'll do no such thing.
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* NotSoDifferent: O-Chul's argument during the duel is that Gin-Jun and the Hobgoblin General are really the same; both want a war with the other side so badly that they don't care if their own people will be badly affected by it.
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickBloodRunsInTheFamily BloodRunsInTheFamily]]''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''Recap/BloodRunsInTheFamily''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in ''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''Recap/BloodRunsInTheFamily'').''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickBloodRunsInTheFamily BloodRunsInTheFamily]]''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickWarAndXPs War And XPs]]''.
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''Recap/BloodRunsInTheFamily''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in ''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
The compiled stories are:
'''That's the Spirit:''' Kazumi and Daigo find a lost soul in need of their help on their new island home.\\
'''Scruff and Tumble:''' Surviving alone behind enemy lines, Mr. Scruffy searches for food.\\
'''Spoiler Alert:''' Therkla is tasked to retrieve a priceless artifact, but she's not even supposed to be here today.\\
'''Pier Pressure:''' Young Lien comes face to face with a sinister choice.\\
'''How the Paladin Got His Scar:''' Before he joined the Sapphire Guard, Captain O-Chul led a ragtag team to stop a bloody war of retribution.
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!!!Contains the following tropes:
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[[folder:How the Paladin Got His Scar]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted.
* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until he doesn't.]]
* TheCaptain: O-Chul, although his unit is destroyed at the start of the story.
* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
* CombatByChampion: Invoked by O-Chul to avoid a war. During the duel itself, he [[TurnTheOtherCheek Turns the Other Cheek]] in order to force Gin-Jun to either [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath hear him out]] or break his paladin oaths by attacking an unarmed man.
* DisneyDeath: Complete with a fake-out GraveMarkingScene -- Zhou's got a new job as a gravedigger.
* EnsignNewbie: Hinjo fills the role of the naive aristocrat on the front lines, but he has no official authority over O-Chul.
* EveryScarHasAStory: And this is it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The fight with the ettin foreshadows that the solution to the conflict between the hobgoblins and humans will ultimately be to "cut off the violent head" and leave more peaceful ones in charge. ''Unlike'' with the ettin, this seems to actually work.
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: the hobgoblin cleric's favourite tactic to get his dimmer superiors to go through with his ideas.
* GoThroughMe:
-->'''O-Chul:''' A lot of people are going to get hurt tomorrow. All we can do is stand in the way of that and say, "Not them. Me. If you need to hurt someone, hurt me."
* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
* InternalReformist: O-Chul ultimately requests to become one of these for the Sapphire Guard, after Shojo refuses to disband them.
* JustFollowingOrders: The majority of the Sapphire Guard pretty much get a pass for obeying Gin-Jun even when he was giving grossly immoral orders and, as we eventually find out, their code of conduct allows for a principled AntiMutiny. Somewhat justified by the fact that their leader was misrepresenting the intelligence they were operating under.
* KlingonPromotion: The hobgoblin cleric kills his boss, main rival and all the other hobgoblins in the throne room in order to take his place as the new Supreme Leader.
* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The new hobgoblin Supreme Leader is a ManipulativeBastard and a [[PoisonIsEvil poisoner]]... but he's not openly warlike. This is good enough for O-Chul, at least.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Gin-Jun's dismissal from the Sapphire Guard. He may have been challenged to an honour duel, but he still attacked an unarmed man, and the paladin code makes no exceptions for dueling.
** This is set up by the {{Rules Lawyer}}ing employed to set the duel up in the first place: O-Chul can't challenge Gin-Jun himself because the higher-caste combatant could simply appoint a champion. So he gets Hinjo to make the challenge, and appoint him.
* LovableCoward: Zhou is let off numerous times for her cowardice -- even to the point of deserting her unit in battle -- because O-Chul believes she can be taught to be better. She eventually takes a wound defending him that conveniently enough gets her honorably discharged from the army.
* MartialPacifist: O-Chul's usual style, though he turns into a downright SuicidalPacifist when he concocts a XanatosGambit to lose Gin-Jun the support of the other paladins.
* MultipleHeadCase: Played with. The ettin's two heads do ''seem'' to have very different personalities, with the right one denying all responsibility for the aggression of the left... but it also makes no attempt to warn anyone about the violent head, no attempt to restrain it [[FightingFromTheInside with the right arm it controls]], and as O-Chul points out, it's willingly running in the direction the left head wants to go. The whole thing seems to be a rather {{anvilicious}} satire of people who deny culpability for ideological allies who engage in violent or abusive tactics, while doing nothing to actually challenge those allies' behaviour.
* NoNameGiven: A number of major characters, most notably the hobgoblin [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] and his CoDragons, a general and a cleric.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The hobgoblin cleric doesn't really have a hunch, he just wanted to look non-threatening so he wouldn't be challenged to combat.
* OneManArmy: O-Chul eventually routs a hobgoblin attack single-handed after the rest of his unit dies in a LastStand. This only makes him more determined to prevent further violence.
* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: O-Chul's goal is to stop a war between humans and hobgoblins, although this is mostly being stirred up by the Sapphire Guard's extrajudicial raiding.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The poisoned [[TrademarkFavouriteFood gouda]] that [[spoiler:the new Supreme Leader uses to poison the old one and his Dragon.]]
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
* SenselessSacrifice: Discussed, but O-Chul believes his risking his life was worth the stake.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: O-Chul refuses to draw his sword against Gin-Jun, eventually throwing it out of the ring to make his point.
* UselessSpleen: Subverted. Zhou loses hers, but rather than AmusingInjuries it gets her [[CareerEndingInjury discharged from the army]], and she mentions having to take medicine for the rest of her life.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: While Gin-Jun is peacefully removed from power, he won't take a hint and keeps fighting, letting the heretofore-antagonistic Miko be the one to kill him. The hobgoblin leader, however, is straight-up assassinated by one of his own to end the conflict.
* WouldHurtAChild: Gin-Jun comes up with some truly impressive rationalisations for how the killing of hobgoblin women and children can be acceptable within the paladin oaths.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: The planetar outright refuses Gin-Jun's more openly genocidal requests, but still agrees to assist ''him'' in carrying them out.
* XanatosGambit: O-Chul's plan is to attempt to talk sense into Gin-Jun and the paladins while unarmed in a duel of honour -- either he succeeds, or Gin-Jun kills him and falls. Luckily there's a slim third option -- that he's attacked and only maimed, for which Gin-Jun can be booted from the Sapphire Guard.
* YouShallNotPass: the very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
[[/folder]]
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in ''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
The compiled stories are:
'''That's the Spirit:''' Kazumi and Daigo find a lost soul in need of their help on their new island home.\\
'''Scruff and Tumble:''' Surviving alone behind enemy lines, Mr. Scruffy searches for food.\\
'''Spoiler Alert:''' Therkla is tasked to retrieve a priceless artifact, but she's not even supposed to be here today.\\
'''Pier Pressure:''' Young Lien comes face to face with a sinister choice.\\
'''How the Paladin Got His Scar:''' Before he joined the Sapphire Guard, Captain O-Chul led a ragtag team to stop a bloody war of retribution.
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!!!Contains the following tropes:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:How the Paladin Got His Scar]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted.
* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until he doesn't.]]
* TheCaptain: O-Chul, although his unit is destroyed at the start of the story.
* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
* CombatByChampion: Invoked by O-Chul to avoid a war. During the duel itself, he [[TurnTheOtherCheek Turns the Other Cheek]] in order to force Gin-Jun to either [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath hear him out]] or break his paladin oaths by attacking an unarmed man.
* DisneyDeath: Complete with a fake-out GraveMarkingScene -- Zhou's got a new job as a gravedigger.
* EnsignNewbie: Hinjo fills the role of the naive aristocrat on the front lines, but he has no official authority over O-Chul.
* EveryScarHasAStory: And this is it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The fight with the ettin foreshadows that the solution to the conflict between the hobgoblins and humans will ultimately be to "cut off the violent head" and leave more peaceful ones in charge. ''Unlike'' with the ettin, this seems to actually work.
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: the hobgoblin cleric's favourite tactic to get his dimmer superiors to go through with his ideas.
* GoThroughMe:
-->'''O-Chul:''' A lot of people are going to get hurt tomorrow. All we can do is stand in the way of that and say, "Not them. Me. If you need to hurt someone, hurt me."
* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
* InternalReformist: O-Chul ultimately requests to become one of these for the Sapphire Guard, after Shojo refuses to disband them.
* JustFollowingOrders: The majority of the Sapphire Guard pretty much get a pass for obeying Gin-Jun even when he was giving grossly immoral orders and, as we eventually find out, their code of conduct allows for a principled AntiMutiny. Somewhat justified by the fact that their leader was misrepresenting the intelligence they were operating under.
* KlingonPromotion: The hobgoblin cleric kills his boss, main rival and all the other hobgoblins in the throne room in order to take his place as the new Supreme Leader.
* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The new hobgoblin Supreme Leader is a ManipulativeBastard and a [[PoisonIsEvil poisoner]]... but he's not openly warlike. This is good enough for O-Chul, at least.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Gin-Jun's dismissal from the Sapphire Guard. He may have been challenged to an honour duel, but he still attacked an unarmed man, and the paladin code makes no exceptions for dueling.
** This is set up by the {{Rules Lawyer}}ing employed to set the duel up in the first place: O-Chul can't challenge Gin-Jun himself because the higher-caste combatant could simply appoint a champion. So he gets Hinjo to make the challenge, and appoint him.
* LovableCoward: Zhou is let off numerous times for her cowardice -- even to the point of deserting her unit in battle -- because O-Chul believes she can be taught to be better. She eventually takes a wound defending him that conveniently enough gets her honorably discharged from the army.
* MartialPacifist: O-Chul's usual style, though he turns into a downright SuicidalPacifist when he concocts a XanatosGambit to lose Gin-Jun the support of the other paladins.
* MultipleHeadCase: Played with. The ettin's two heads do ''seem'' to have very different personalities, with the right one denying all responsibility for the aggression of the left... but it also makes no attempt to warn anyone about the violent head, no attempt to restrain it [[FightingFromTheInside with the right arm it controls]], and as O-Chul points out, it's willingly running in the direction the left head wants to go. The whole thing seems to be a rather {{anvilicious}} satire of people who deny culpability for ideological allies who engage in violent or abusive tactics, while doing nothing to actually challenge those allies' behaviour.
* NoNameGiven: A number of major characters, most notably the hobgoblin [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] and his CoDragons, a general and a cleric.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The hobgoblin cleric doesn't really have a hunch, he just wanted to look non-threatening so he wouldn't be challenged to combat.
* OneManArmy: O-Chul eventually routs a hobgoblin attack single-handed after the rest of his unit dies in a LastStand. This only makes him more determined to prevent further violence.
* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: O-Chul's goal is to stop a war between humans and hobgoblins, although this is mostly being stirred up by the Sapphire Guard's extrajudicial raiding.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The poisoned [[TrademarkFavouriteFood gouda]] that [[spoiler:the new Supreme Leader uses to poison the old one and his Dragon.]]
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
* SenselessSacrifice: Discussed, but O-Chul believes his risking his life was worth the stake.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: O-Chul refuses to draw his sword against Gin-Jun, eventually throwing it out of the ring to make his point.
* UselessSpleen: Subverted. Zhou loses hers, but rather than AmusingInjuries it gets her [[CareerEndingInjury discharged from the army]], and she mentions having to take medicine for the rest of her life.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: While Gin-Jun is peacefully removed from power, he won't take a hint and keeps fighting, letting the heretofore-antagonistic Miko be the one to kill him. The hobgoblin leader, however, is straight-up assassinated by one of his own to end the conflict.
* WouldHurtAChild: Gin-Jun comes up with some truly impressive rationalisations for how the killing of hobgoblin women and children can be acceptable within the paladin oaths.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: The planetar outright refuses Gin-Jun's more openly genocidal requests, but still agrees to assist ''him'' in carrying them out.
* XanatosGambit: O-Chul's plan is to attempt to talk sense into Gin-Jun and the paladins while unarmed in a duel of honour -- either he succeeds, or Gin-Jun kills him and falls. Luckily there's a slim third option -- that he's attacked and only maimed, for which Gin-Jun can be booted from the Sapphire Guard.
* YouShallNotPass: the very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
[[/folder]]
