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* AnAesop: While not prevalent for 2/3 of the game, it's hard not to notice the motives behind the events of the first case as [[spoiler:an allegory for the struggle of being transgender in a world that still has problems with acceptance. Folren's discomfort with who he used to be and the pain it put him through are clear for people who are currently in that predicament, and the theme of acceptance plays an important part in the game.]]
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** Sofya nearly lost her eye in the Onigrad explosion as well, with it being covered by a bloody bandage for the second half of ''The Immolation''. Even though she can hide most of her scars, her [[{{Heterochromia}}|now-green eye]] with a scar running down it is the only scar she can't use glamors to cover up.
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** The "Old Gods" that Eszther replaced, although considered to not actually have been real, sounded unnatural from the few mentions of them, including the Triglavyn god who was a three-headed monster. Though this could be a reference to the Russian and Slavic naming conventions for the humans of Oraz, as Triglav was the name of the Slavic war god who happened to be a three-headed giant.
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** The Subverted for the "Old Gods" that whose worship Eszther replaced, although considered replaced. The first mention of them is of Triglav, who is described as a "three-headed monster", which alludes to not this trope, but in ''The Last Sacrament'' it is revealed [[spoiler:they are all humans who learned High Magic just like Sofya, with the only exception being the aforementioned Triglav who was actually have been real, sounded unnatural from a bear given sentience and the few mentions of them, including the Triglavyn god who was a three-headed monster. Though this could be a reference extra heads to the Russian and Slavic naming conventions for the humans of Oraz, as Triglav was the name of the Slavic war god who happened to be a three-headed giant.reason with.]]
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* OurElvesAreBetter: The Leshin.
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* BiTheWay: Sofya Rykov is this and Eduard Galkin seems to be this. [[spoiler:Which is an important plot point; Eduard Galkin was strictly gay. Folren, however, was bisexual.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Not necessarily a princess, but Sofya was certainly noble and is certainly no slouch in getting things done herself.
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''Echoes of the Fey'' is a series of visual novels written by Woodsy Studio, the brainchild of Malcolm Pierce and Jenny Gibbons. The series is set in a world of magic and mysticism on the continent of Oraz, divided down the middle by the Great Forest between the House-ruled kingdoms and counties of the human settlements in the East and the cities of the nigh immortal, magically adept Leshin (i.e. elves) in the West. From this alone you'd probably guess this series is a fairly cut and dry EpicFantasy series. Well, you'd surprisingly enough be wrong. It's actually DetectiveFiction, as hardboiled as they get; it just so happens to be set in a fantasy world.
See, the Leshin of the West are all unified by one central [[TheTheocracy religiously-centered government]] called the ir-Dyeun. These ir-Dyeun are just a little antagonistic towards humans, so when the humans who at this point have just been getting by on trying and failing to master low magic learn how to use the Fey, their [[PowerSource source of power and]] [[SoulPower the source of their very consciousnesses]] according to the ir-Dyeun, they waste no time in beginning what would be the longest war in the history of the continent, going almost a full thirty years unimpeded with the humans banding together under a supposedly temporary Empire to fight off the threat.
Meet Sofya Rykov. She's the daughter of the second most powerful House leader in the East and was going to be a member of the Imperial family of House Lapidus. Because of this, when she was conscripted into the war as an officer like most young nobles, she got the relatively cushy job of a prison guard, overseeing Leshin [=POWs=] at the prison camp in the city of Onigrad. She doesn't enjoy this position much, however, because when the tide began turning for the ir-Dyeun as the younger more moderate Leshin begin overthrowing them in order to take control and sue for peace, the ir-Dyeun's leaders decide the best way to gain favor in their people is to head directly down the MoralEventHorizon by obliterating a human city using its own Fey-powered reactors. And they decided that city would be Onigrad. All in all, it did exactly the opposite of what they were intending. The ir-Dyeun got completely overthrown, the war ended within a week of what would be infamously called "The Immolation", millions of people lost their lives in vain because the theocratic leaders of an entire people decided to hold the IdiotBall, and one aforementioned noblewoman was about to be on the recieving end of a SuperEmpowering.
Even after being caught in the magical equivalent of a nuclear blast, Sofya's life only gets worse and worse. The second she recuperates from the severe injuries with the aid of one of her former [=POWs=], a Leshin combat medic named Heremon ir-Caldy, and sets foot back in civilization, she's tried as a potential traitor and disowned by her mother in rapid succession. With nowhere to go and no money to speak of, she teams up with Heremon ir-Caldy and sets up a private detective firm operating out of Vodotsk, a recuperating town on the border of the Great Forest, where tensions are still running high. But Sofya has an edge. She didn't just get a bunch of painful looking scars from her injuries; she also found herself with [[UniqueProtagonistAsset something no other human on record has ever had before: the ability to use Leshin High Magic]]. Granted, she can't control what kind of magic she can use and isn't savvy on using magic like Leshin, but she uses what she can to help out in her tougher cases, all the while fighting off the remnants of the Human-Leshin War, the increasingly heavy-handed bureaucracy of TheEmpire, and the desire to drown her sorrows by spending her case money on booze.
The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability.
See, the Leshin of the West are all unified by one central [[TheTheocracy religiously-centered government]] called the ir-Dyeun. These ir-Dyeun are just a little antagonistic towards humans, so when the humans who at this point have just been getting by on trying and failing to master low magic learn how to use the Fey, their [[PowerSource source of power and]] [[SoulPower the source of their very consciousnesses]] according to the ir-Dyeun, they waste no time in beginning what would be the longest war in the history of the continent, going almost a full thirty years unimpeded with the humans banding together under a supposedly temporary Empire to fight off the threat.
Meet Sofya Rykov. She's the daughter of the second most powerful House leader in the East and was going to be a member of the Imperial family of House Lapidus. Because of this, when she was conscripted into the war as an officer like most young nobles, she got the relatively cushy job of a prison guard, overseeing Leshin [=POWs=] at the prison camp in the city of Onigrad. She doesn't enjoy this position much, however, because when the tide began turning for the ir-Dyeun as the younger more moderate Leshin begin overthrowing them in order to take control and sue for peace, the ir-Dyeun's leaders decide the best way to gain favor in their people is to head directly down the MoralEventHorizon by obliterating a human city using its own Fey-powered reactors. And they decided that city would be Onigrad. All in all, it did exactly the opposite of what they were intending. The ir-Dyeun got completely overthrown, the war ended within a week of what would be infamously called "The Immolation", millions of people lost their lives in vain because the theocratic leaders of an entire people decided to hold the IdiotBall, and one aforementioned noblewoman was about to be on the recieving end of a SuperEmpowering.
Even after being caught in the magical equivalent of a nuclear blast, Sofya's life only gets worse and worse. The second she recuperates from the severe injuries with the aid of one of her former [=POWs=], a Leshin combat medic named Heremon ir-Caldy, and sets foot back in civilization, she's tried as a potential traitor and disowned by her mother in rapid succession. With nowhere to go and no money to speak of, she teams up with Heremon ir-Caldy and sets up a private detective firm operating out of Vodotsk, a recuperating town on the border of the Great Forest, where tensions are still running high. But Sofya has an edge. She didn't just get a bunch of painful looking scars from her injuries; she also found herself with [[UniqueProtagonistAsset something no other human on record has ever had before: the ability to use Leshin High Magic]]. Granted, she can't control what kind of magic she can use and isn't savvy on using magic like Leshin, but she uses what she can to help out in her tougher cases, all the while fighting off the remnants of the Human-Leshin War, the increasingly heavy-handed bureaucracy of TheEmpire, and the desire to drown her sorrows by spending her case money on booze.
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''Echoes of the Fey'' is a an episodic series of visual novels and adventure games written and developed by Woodsy Studio, the brainchild of Malcolm Pierce Studios, and Jenny Gibbons. The centers on an EpicFantasy setting for a series is set in a world of magic and mysticism on hardboiled DetectiveFiction stories.
In the continent of Oraz,divided down the middle by the there is a Great Forest between dividing the House-ruled kingdoms and counties of land in two halves: one side is ruled by the human settlements in the East and the cities of the nigh immortal, nigh-immortal, magically adept Leshin (i.e. elves) in (elves), the West. From this alone you'd probably guess this series is a fairly cut and dry EpicFantasy series. Well, you'd surprisingly enough be wrong. It's actually DetectiveFiction, as hardboiled as they get; it just so happens to be set in a fantasy world.
See,other ruled by the shorter-lived, technocratic Humans. [[FantasticRacism Naturally, both sides hate one another.]] The Leshin of the West are all unified were ruled by one central [[TheTheocracy religiously-centered government]] called the ir-Dyeun. These ir-Dyeun are just a little antagonistic towards humans, so when ir-Dyeun]], who waged war on the humans who at this point have just been getting by on trying and failing to master low magic learn how to use for using the Fey, Fey- what they believe to be the essence of their [[PowerSource source of power and]] [[SoulPower souls and the source of their very consciousnesses]] according magic- [[SoulPower as siphonable energy for their machines]]. The Human kingdoms, split amongst dozens of House-ruled territories, formed TheEmpire ruled by House Lapidus to combat them. The war lasted a good thirty years but finally came to a close when the ir-Dyeun, they waste no time in beginning what would be losing their grip on the longest Leshin people, try to turn the tide of the war by [[MoralEventHorizon detonating a Fey reactor within the Human city of Onigrad, condemning tens of thousands to a magically nuclear death]].
Caught in thehistory of the continent, going almost a full thirty years unimpeded with the humans banding together under a supposedly temporary Empire to fight off the threat.
Meetblast is up-and-coming noblewoman Sofya Rykov. She's Rykov, the daughter of the second most powerful House leader in Human territory and someone who, until the East and was going to be a member of the Imperial family of House Lapidus. Because of this, when she was conscripted into the war event that would become known as an officer like most young nobles, she got the relatively The Immolation, had what could have been considered a cushy wartime job of as a prison guard, overseeing guard keeping an eye on Leshin [=POWs=] at the prison camp in the city of Onigrad. She doesn't enjoy this position much, however, because when The Immolation ended the tide began turning for war by convincing the ir-Dyeun as the younger more moderate Leshin begin overthrowing them in order to take control and sue for peace, overthrow the ir-Dyeun's leaders decide the best way to gain favor in their people is to head directly down the MoralEventHorizon by obliterating a human city using its own Fey-powered reactors. And they decided that city would be Onigrad. All in all, it did exactly the opposite of what they were intending. The ir-Dyeun got completely overthrown, the war ended within a week of what would be infamously called "The Immolation", millions of people lost their lives in vain because the theocratic leaders of an entire people decided to hold the IdiotBall, entirely and one aforementioned noblewoman was about to be on the recieving end of establish a SuperEmpowering.
Even after beingnew peaceful government, and Sofya, getting caught in the magical equivalent blast while trying to save as many of a nuclear blast, Sofya's life the Leshin prisoners as she could, is the only gets worse and worse. The second she recuperates from Human to survive the severe injuries with the aid of one of her former [=POWs=], Immolation without fleeing.
Nursed back to health by Heremon ir-Caldy, a Leshin combat medicnamed Heremon ir-Caldy, who she watched over in the guard tower, she learns both that her proximity to the Fey reactor explosion [[SuperEmpowering granted her access to formerly Leshin-only High Magic]] and sets foot back in civilization, she's tried as a potential traitor and that she had been disowned by her mother in rapid succession. family for freeing Leshin prisoners and being branded a traitor by the Empire. With nowhere no home back East to go to and no money to speak of, friends except for Heremon, she teams up with Heremon ir-Caldy and sets up establishes a private detective firm operating out agency in the small, repatriated city of Vodotsk, a recuperating town Vodotsk on the border of Human territory and the Great Forest, where tensions are still running high. But Sofya has an edge. She didn't just she takes advantage of [[SuperpowerLottery the powers she randomly attains every couple of weeks or so]] to solve dangerous cases and get a bunch of painful looking scars from her injuries; she also found herself caught up in a number of situations that deal with [[UniqueProtagonistAsset something no other human on record has ever had before: the ability to use Leshin High Magic]]. Granted, she can't control what kind of magic she can use and isn't savvy on using magic like Leshin, but she uses what she can to help out in her tougher cases, all animosity leftover from the while fighting off the remnants of the Human-Leshin War, the increasingly heavy-handed bureaucracy of TheEmpire, Great War and the desire heavy-handedness of The Empire while trying to make enough money to drown her sorrows by spending her case money on booze.
in booze and sex.
The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case (with the exception of the prequel, ''The Immolation''), while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability.
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* RussianNamingConvention: Almost all human characters have distinctive Russian names.
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* ActionGirl: Sofya Rykov and Viola Aristov. Sofya thinks on her feet and sometimes gets into pretty violent situations over the course of her cases. Viola is a verified military badass who has good aim even with only one good eye and keeps in shape alongside her troops.
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* BadassPrincess: Not necessarily a princess, but Sofya was certainly noble and is certainly no slouch in getting things done herself.
** In episode 2, we get introduced to the Emperor's daughter Katerina, who according to her bio absolutely hates the title.
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** In episode 2, we get introduced to the Emperor's daughter Katerina, who according to her bio absolutely hates the title.* EyepatchOfPower: Viola Aristov has one, even though ''technically'' the eye still works.
** In episode 2, we get introduced to the Emperor's daughter Katerina, who according to her bio absolutely hates the title.* EyepatchOfPower: Viola Aristov has one, even though ''technically'' the eye still works.
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** Rolan shows outward hatred of Leshin many times throughout The Immolation, including [[spoiler:trying to shoot Muriel during one of her visions and persuading Sofya to leave Heremon, Muriel, and the other Leshin POWs behind to die]].
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* ForScience: One of the major edicts of the Krovakyn Church, whose tenets are psychological introspection and research for the advancement of humans. Heremon also uses this as essentially his excuse for being Sofya's partner and doctor, but it's more a mix of being TheAtoner for his actions in the war and being content with as PlatonicLifePartners.
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The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability. The first episode, "The Fox's Trail", was released on July 12 on itch.io and then for Steam on August 16. A prequel visual novel set before the Immolation is in the works, and a prequel to the first episode called "The Prophet's Arm" is on their site blog [[http://woodsy-studio.com/blog/echoes-fey-prophets-arm-part-1/ here]] which introduces a couple recurring characters.
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The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability. ability.
There is currently only one released title in the series, with one nearing release and the other announced as in progress.
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There are also, in addition, novellas andthen for Steam on August 16. A prequel visual novel set before the Immolation is short stories taking place in the works, and a prequel to the first episode called "The Prophet's Arm" is on their site blog [[http://woodsy-studio.Oraz that have also been released.
*[[http://woodsy-studio.com/blog/echoes-fey-prophets-arm-part-1/here]] which introduces a couple recurring characters.
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* BigBad: There is no concrete Big Bad of the series in place yet, although it's clear [[spoiler:Patriarch Arkady Vanzin and Simion ir-Sheaf are both]] planning nefarious things [[spoiler:with Sister Emilia Osborn and Tiatha ir-Adech respectively as possible [[TheDragon Dragons]] for each]], but each case so far has had its own central villain.
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''Echoes of the Fey'' is a series of visual novels written by Woodsy Studio, the brainchild of Malcolm Pierce and Jenny Gibbons. The series is set in a world of magic and mysticism on the continent of Oraz, divided down the middle by the Great Forest between the House-ruled kingdoms and counties of the human settlements in the East and the cities of the nigh immortal, magically adept Leshin (i.e. elves) in the West. From this alone you'd probably guess this series is a fairly cut and dry EpicFantasy series. Well, you'd surprisingly enough be wrong. It's actually DetectiveFiction, as hardboiled as they get; it just so happens to be set in a fantasy world.
See, the Leshin of the West are all unified by one central [[TheTheocracy religiously-centered government]] called the ir-Dyeun. These ir-Dyeun are just a little antagonistic towards humans, so when the humans who at this point have just been getting by on trying and failing to master low magic learn how to use the Fey, their [[PowerSource source of power and]] [[SoulPower the source of their very consciousnesses]] according to the ir-Dyeun, they waste no time in beginning what would be the longest war in the history of the continent, going almost a full thirty years unimpeded with the humans banding together under a supposedly temporary Empire to fight off the threat.
Meet Sofya Rykov. She's the daughter of the second most powerful House leader in the East and was going to be a member of the Imperial family of House Lapidus. Because of this, when she was conscripted into the war as an officer like most young nobles, she got the relatively cushy job of a prison guard, overseeing Leshin [=POWs=] at the prison camp in the city of Onigrad. She doesn't enjoy this position much, however, because when the tide began turning for the ir-Dyeun as the younger more moderate Leshin begin overthrowing them in order to take control and sue for peace, the ir-Dyeun's leaders decide the best way to gain favor in their people is to head directly down the MoralEventHorizon by obliterating a human city using its own Fey-powered reactors. And they decided that city would be Onigrad. All in all, it did exactly the opposite of what they were intending. The ir-Dyeun got completely overthrown, the war ended within a week of what would be infamously called "The Immolation", millions of people lost their lives in vain because the theocratic leaders of an entire people decided to hold the IdiotBall, and one aforementioned noblewoman was about to be on the recieving end of a SuperEmpowering.
Even after being caught in the magical equivalent of a nuclear blast, Sofya's life only gets worse and worse. The second she recuperates from the severe injuries with the aid of one of her former [=POWs=], a Leshin combat medic named Heremon ir-Caldy, and sets foot back in civilization, she's tried as a potential traitor and disowned by her mother in rapid succession. With nowhere to go and no money to speak of, she teams up with Heremon ir-Caldy and sets up a private detective firm operating out of Vodotsk, a recuperating town on the border of the Great Forest, where tensions are still running high. But Sofya has an edge. She didn't just get a bunch of painful looking scars from her injuries; she also found herself with [[UniqueProtagonistAsset something no other human on record has ever had before: the ability to use Leshin High Magic]]. Granted, she can't control what kind of magic she can use and isn't savvy on using magic like Leshin, but she uses what she can to help out in her tougher cases, all the while fighting off the remnants of the Human-Leshin War, the increasingly heavy-handed bureaucracy of TheEmpire, and the desire to drown her sorrows by spending her case money on booze.
The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability. The first episode, "The Fox's Trail", was released on July 12 on itch.io and then for Steam on August 16. A prequel visual novel set before the Immolation is in the works, and a prequel to the first episode called "The Prophet's Arm" is on their site blog [[http://woodsy-studio.com/blog/echoes-fey-prophets-arm-part-1/ here]] which introduces a couple recurring characters.
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!!This series contains examples of:
*AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Any Leshin mother is this by default, including Tiatha ir-Adech.
*ActionGirl: Sofya Rykov and Viola Aristov. Sofya thinks on her feet and sometimes gets into pretty violent situations over the course of her cases. Viola is a verified military badass who has good aim even with only one good eye and keeps in shape alongside her troops.
*TheAdjectivalMan: Simion ir-Sheaf tells Sofya a fable about a living mannequin named The Oaken Man, which was created by a powerful Leshin sorcerer who could imbue inanimate objects with life, who made the being to prove a point to the other Leshin.
*TheAlcoholic: Sofya is known to hit the bottle pretty hard when not on a case.
*TheAlliance: The human kingdoms that banded together against the Leshin used to be this until the majority of it became TheEmpire.
*AnArmAndALeg: Simion ir-Sheaf lost his right arm from the shoulder as a footsoldier in the Human-Leshin war.
*AnIcePerson: One of the only magical abilities Sofya keeps long-term.
*AntiHumanAlliance: The ir-Dyeun were more against the Fey reactors than they were outright against the humans, but their thoughts on the humans are definitely teetering on the fine line towards FantasticRacism.
*ArtificialLimbs: Simion ir-Sheaf uses The Prophet's Arm in place of his missing right arm. Said arm was an artifact of Prophet Cathal ir-Dyeun, who also at some point lost an arm during his life.
*BadassPrincess: Not necessarily a princess, but Sofya was certainly noble and is certainly no slouch in getting things done herself.
*BiTheWay: Sofya Rykov is this and Eduard Galkin seems to be this. [[spoiler:Which is an important plot point; Eduard Galkin was strictly gay. Folren, however, was bisexual.]]
*BigBad: There is no concrete Big Bad of the series in place yet, although it's clear [[spoiler:Patriarch Arkady Vanzin and Simion ir-Sheaf are both]] planning nefarious things [[spoiler:with Sister Emilia Osborn and Tiatha ir-Adech respectively as possible [[TheDragon Dragons]] for each]], but each case so far has had its own central villain.
** "The Prophet's Arm" has [[spoiler:Nadezhda Melinkov]].
** "The Fox's Trail" has [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech]], with [[spoiler:Simion ir-Sheaf acting as the ManBehindTheMan]].
*BlessedWithSuck: Her near-death experience left her with the singularly unique ability to be able to control all forms of Leshin High Magic- except that with the exception of Ice and basic Glamor Magic or just using the Fey directly, the magic she can use changes every few days, and it's a gamble on whether she can win the Superpower Lottery. Also she was exiled from her family.
*BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Folren ir-Adech hated the actions of his people, being connected through the Fey, and begin a Leshin in general that he was willing to become human and cut himself off from the Fey forever to escape.]]
*BreakThemByTalking: Nadezhda Melinkov gets this from Sofya Rykov in "The Prophet's Arm". [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech]] can be stopped by this too if you make the right decisions, [[spoiler:otherwise she gets mad, conjures fire at you, and then gets arrested]].
*BurialInSpace: The main reason the Krovakyns want to actively condone technological progress is because one day they want to build a device to bring Eszther's corpse back to the stars, essentially aiming for this trope.
*CameFromTheSky: The origins of Eszther.
*TheCaptain: Imperial Commander Viola Aristov.
*TheCasanova: Eduard Galkin even admits it, saying he might not be innocent in any jilted lover cases Sofya may be on.
*TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Luka Teteriv can be this at the end of the confrontation in "The Fox's Trail".]]
*TheCavalryArrivesLate: [[spoiler:Can be this if Viola shot Tiatha already or if Sofya lets Tiatha go.]]
*ColonelBadass: Viola Aristov, hands down.
*CombatMedic: Heremon ir-Caldy was one for the ir-Dyeun back during the war.
*DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin was several steps ahead of Sofya Rykov from the beginning of "The Fox's Trail", having figured out Eduard Galkin's secret before Sofya was even on the case.]]
*DarkSecret: Sofya's above-mentioned troubled past and her use of High Magic are this for her. Other characters have dark secrets. Viola has an eye that was lost to low magic, and Luka Teteriv... well... [[spoiler:he's secretly an ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking actor]]'']].
*DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: In "The Fox's Trail", Folren ir-Adech isn't the one who died. Eduard Galkin died. Folren polymorphed into Eduard and drank The Sacrament of Tears, a vial of Eszther's blood that cut him off from The Fey for good. He doesn't impersonate Eduard for personal gain, he did it because he hated being a Leshin and truly wanted to be human.]]
*EldritchAbomination: The human religion, the Krovakyns, worship a tangible goddess named Eszther, described as a humanoid squid covered with a shawl, was directly said to have come from the skies, looking directly upon its body leaves a BrownNote, and its blood can expand a human's lifetime considerably and cure any and all terminal illnesses... for a price.
** The "Old Gods" that Eszther replaced, although considered to not actually have been real, sounded unnatural from the few mentions of them, including the Triglavyn god who was a three-headed monster. Though this could be a reference to the Russian and Slavic naming conventions for the humans of Oraz, as Triglav was the name of the Slavic war god who happened to be a three-headed giant.
*TheEmpire: Subverted somewhat. Not necessarily evil in the slightest, but assuredly heavy-handed, tight-fisted, bureaucratic and eager to breathe authoritatively down the necks of the counties and small kingdoms that haven't entered the fold yet.
*TheEmperor: Emperor Lapidus, who again isn't necessarily a bad guy. At least, as far as we ''know''. He does seem very adamant about his rule becoming law across all human territory.
*EyepatchOfPower: Viola Aristov has one, even though ''technically'' the eye still works.
*EyeScream: Viola Aristov. She didn't lose the eye, but arguably what happened is worse. She had a botched spell done by a low human magician to fix the nearsightedness in her eye. She ended up seeing horrifying things, including things that weren't there, colors different from how she remembered them, faces that were distorted ("just their faces"), and occasionally blinding white light. The only reason she doesn't have the eye torn out is because it's a reminder of the dangers of magic.
*FacialHorror: Kazamir has a huge burn across his face barely hidden by his mask.
*FantasticRacism: Done by both sides to each other.
*FictionalUnitedNations: The Alliance of Free Cities, or AFC, is the governing body that took over central control of the Leshin cities after the fall of the ir-Dyeun.
*FrontLineGeneral: Eduard Galkin was one, and a very poor one at that.
*{{Glamour}}: Sofya uses these to hide the majority of her scars, with the exception of one on her left eye.
*HardboiledDetective: Sofya Rykov is this in spades.
*{{Heterochromia}}: Sofya has one green eye and one blue eye.
*HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:The scene near the end of the game where you uncover Simion ir-Sheaf's true colors is completely unmarked and you'd only know to go to it if you checked every single door or you remembered that there's one last loose end to look into, and if you don't look into it Simion can become this]].
*TheInformant: Simion ir-Sheaf is a far, ''far'' more friendly and WickedCultured variation of this.
*LittleBitBeastly: Some of the Leshin do have some animal traits. Tiatha ir-Adech has elk antlers atop her head [[spoiler:as did Folren, except he may have actually hacked his own antlers off]], and Braden ir-Alba had a great pair of bird wings from his back.
*LoanShark: On top of being a pawnbroker and dealer of information, this is one of Simion ir-Sheaf's many jobs at Forest's Edge Brokerage.
*MagicAIsMagicA: Subverted in that all magic is powered by one single source, The Fey. However, most Leshin, even the longer-lived ones, have to specialize and are lucky if they can be adept in more than one field, as each branch of magic requires a different temperament and state of being when using it.
*MagicPoweredPseudoscience: Humans trying to use this is the reason the events o fthe series began in the first place.
*TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Human-Leshin conflict in a nutshell, although both run on the same exact thing.
*TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In "The Fox's Trail", Simion ir-Sheaf to Tiatha ir-Adech]].
*MindRape: Looking upon Eszther's body directly without a vision veil can cause this. In addition [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin tells Emilia at the post-end credits scene of the first episode that he has a device, possibly one of Eszther's Tools, that can wipe memories from the human mind, and threatens to [[FateWorseThanDeath steal Emilia's knowledge of language and "leave [her] a savage dog that cannot even beg to be put down"]]]].
*[[MyCountryRightOrWrong My City, Right or Wrong]]: The majority of Leshin who actually fought the humans were forcibly drafted into it because their city (which is more important to most Leshin than family and certainly more than themselves) required ir-Dyeun support in order to continue trade and recieve basic resources, and ir-Dyeun imposed quotas that had to be met or else they'd revoke support for the city. Though Heremon talks about the morality of this subject in the first episode, addressing how the revolution came about almost at once as if most Leshin were hopping on the side of opportunity.
*NotUsingTheZWord: Averted. The word "elf" actually exists for the Leshin. However, it's a racial slur for them.
*OurElvesAreBetter: The Leshin.
*PlayingWithFire: The go-to elemental magic field for most Leshin, especially ir-Dyeun soldiers. [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech turns out to be an adept fire mage.]]
*PowerIncontinence: Depends heavily on what kind of magic she's using at the time and how much she's trained with it. Generally she's in control, but when she isn't, that's bad news.
*PowerSource: The Fey.
*PredecessorVillain: Cathal ir-Dyeun, the founder of the ir-Dyeun.
*PrivateEye: Sofya Rykov.
*PunishedForSympathy: Almost gets branded a traitor for not leaving Leshin in the prison camp to die, and gets exiled from her family even when absolved.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Almost all Leshin are like this. They can live for hundreds of years without dying and stop physically aging at a point where they look like they're in their mid-twenties.
*RedHerring: [[spoiler:Ciara ir-Alba doesn't really exist. She's just a fake Leshin extremist made up by ir-Dyeun prisoners to keep inspectors preoccupied while Tiatha, a real ir-Dyeun extremist, works around Vodotsk]].
*ReligionOfEvil: By the end of the Human-Leshin War, the ir-Dyeun were this in spades. By comparison, the Krovakyns aren't nearly as bad, even though they worship an EldritchAbomination in a shawl. Then you learn that they did some pretty horrifying things themselves to the Leshin (ForScience, of course). And then you learn [[spoiler:just how AxCrazy Arkady Vanzin truly is]].
*RussianNamingConvention: Almost all human characters have distinctive Russian names.
*ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Nadezhda Melinkov's justification for her actions, since House Melinkov and Volgrad haven't signed with the county and Empire in the treaty with the AFC.
*SentientCosmicForce: The ir-Dyeun believe that the Fey is in reality this, and that the force and combined consciousnesses behind the Fey is known as "Dyeun", which "speaks" occasionally to Leshin.
*SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin turns out to be very, ''very'' AxCrazy.]]
*SoulPower: Most Leshin believe that the Fey is constructed of consciousnesses which are taken back into the Fey upon death and eventually reincarnated.
*StarShapedCoupon: Arkady Vanzin's Star Maps you need to collect in a side quest.
*StoryBranching: The choices you make in the first episode are going to carry over to the next according to WordOfGod.
*StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Query. Kazamir's speech patterns. Effective. Cuts down on long phrases. Normal speech? Whole sentences? Use of conjunctions? Descriptives? Too many long phrases. Wastes time. Time valuable. Low magician life expectancy low. Verbose sentences not reccomended.
*SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Imperial Inspector Luka Teteriv falls squarely into this, trying to keep Imperial law upheld in a county that actively wants nothing to do with the Empire. You can become friends with Luka over the course of the series [[spoiler:and even learn of his secret passion for acting]].
*TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first episode, "The Fox's Trail", has Sofya juggling two important tasks- finding Tiatha ir-Adech's son Folren, alive or dead, and learning more about Ciara ir-Alba, one of the prisoners Sofya freed from the prison tower who may have been an ir-Dyeun extremist. [[spoiler:Eventually Sofya learns that Ciara ir-Alba is a RedHerring made so that Tiatha ir-Adech could stay in Vodotsk without Luka Teteriv breathing down her neck, making this a case of Sofya and Luka WorkingTheSameCase.]]
*VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After either finding out what her son's become or falling for a lie told by Sofya, Tiatha ir-Adech's response is to get furious, confront Eduard Galkin, and then take hostages inside of the Krovakyn church using her flame magic.]]
*TheVoiceless: Kazamir is the only full character portrait to not be even partially voice acted. Then again, considering the ''very'' odd way he speaks...
*VoluntaryShapeshifter: Sofya somewhat gets this power, being able to transform between human and cat for the entirety of "The Fox's Trail". [[spoiler:Folren ir-Adech was also a polymorph, which is an important plot point in the case.]]
*TheWatson: Heremon ir-Caldy.
*WhiteHairBlackHeart: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin. Possibly.]]
*{{Woobie}}: Heremon ir-Caldy again.
*XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:If Sofya lets Tiatha escape, Simion ir-Sheaf gives her a falsified Krovakyn Charter that says the Krovakyn church is converting Leshin who chose to stay behind in human territory, reigniting tensions between the Leshin and the humans. If Tiatha gets arrested, Simion ir-Sheaf implicates the entire City Council of Adech into being ir-Dyeun sympathizers, further straining Leshin and human relations. If Tiatha died, that would also have strained Leshin and human relations.]]
See, the Leshin of the West are all unified by one central [[TheTheocracy religiously-centered government]] called the ir-Dyeun. These ir-Dyeun are just a little antagonistic towards humans, so when the humans who at this point have just been getting by on trying and failing to master low magic learn how to use the Fey, their [[PowerSource source of power and]] [[SoulPower the source of their very consciousnesses]] according to the ir-Dyeun, they waste no time in beginning what would be the longest war in the history of the continent, going almost a full thirty years unimpeded with the humans banding together under a supposedly temporary Empire to fight off the threat.
Meet Sofya Rykov. She's the daughter of the second most powerful House leader in the East and was going to be a member of the Imperial family of House Lapidus. Because of this, when she was conscripted into the war as an officer like most young nobles, she got the relatively cushy job of a prison guard, overseeing Leshin [=POWs=] at the prison camp in the city of Onigrad. She doesn't enjoy this position much, however, because when the tide began turning for the ir-Dyeun as the younger more moderate Leshin begin overthrowing them in order to take control and sue for peace, the ir-Dyeun's leaders decide the best way to gain favor in their people is to head directly down the MoralEventHorizon by obliterating a human city using its own Fey-powered reactors. And they decided that city would be Onigrad. All in all, it did exactly the opposite of what they were intending. The ir-Dyeun got completely overthrown, the war ended within a week of what would be infamously called "The Immolation", millions of people lost their lives in vain because the theocratic leaders of an entire people decided to hold the IdiotBall, and one aforementioned noblewoman was about to be on the recieving end of a SuperEmpowering.
Even after being caught in the magical equivalent of a nuclear blast, Sofya's life only gets worse and worse. The second she recuperates from the severe injuries with the aid of one of her former [=POWs=], a Leshin combat medic named Heremon ir-Caldy, and sets foot back in civilization, she's tried as a potential traitor and disowned by her mother in rapid succession. With nowhere to go and no money to speak of, she teams up with Heremon ir-Caldy and sets up a private detective firm operating out of Vodotsk, a recuperating town on the border of the Great Forest, where tensions are still running high. But Sofya has an edge. She didn't just get a bunch of painful looking scars from her injuries; she also found herself with [[UniqueProtagonistAsset something no other human on record has ever had before: the ability to use Leshin High Magic]]. Granted, she can't control what kind of magic she can use and isn't savvy on using magic like Leshin, but she uses what she can to help out in her tougher cases, all the while fighting off the remnants of the Human-Leshin War, the increasingly heavy-handed bureaucracy of TheEmpire, and the desire to drown her sorrows by spending her case money on booze.
The series is released episodically, each episode being one self-contained case while still having some connections to a greater story, and each one featuring Sofya and a newfound magical ability. The first episode, "The Fox's Trail", was released on July 12 on itch.io and then for Steam on August 16. A prequel visual novel set before the Immolation is in the works, and a prequel to the first episode called "The Prophet's Arm" is on their site blog [[http://woodsy-studio.com/blog/echoes-fey-prophets-arm-part-1/ here]] which introduces a couple recurring characters.
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!!This series contains examples of:
*AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Any Leshin mother is this by default, including Tiatha ir-Adech.
*ActionGirl: Sofya Rykov and Viola Aristov. Sofya thinks on her feet and sometimes gets into pretty violent situations over the course of her cases. Viola is a verified military badass who has good aim even with only one good eye and keeps in shape alongside her troops.
*TheAdjectivalMan: Simion ir-Sheaf tells Sofya a fable about a living mannequin named The Oaken Man, which was created by a powerful Leshin sorcerer who could imbue inanimate objects with life, who made the being to prove a point to the other Leshin.
*TheAlcoholic: Sofya is known to hit the bottle pretty hard when not on a case.
*TheAlliance: The human kingdoms that banded together against the Leshin used to be this until the majority of it became TheEmpire.
*AnArmAndALeg: Simion ir-Sheaf lost his right arm from the shoulder as a footsoldier in the Human-Leshin war.
*AnIcePerson: One of the only magical abilities Sofya keeps long-term.
*AntiHumanAlliance: The ir-Dyeun were more against the Fey reactors than they were outright against the humans, but their thoughts on the humans are definitely teetering on the fine line towards FantasticRacism.
*ArtificialLimbs: Simion ir-Sheaf uses The Prophet's Arm in place of his missing right arm. Said arm was an artifact of Prophet Cathal ir-Dyeun, who also at some point lost an arm during his life.
*BadassPrincess: Not necessarily a princess, but Sofya was certainly noble and is certainly no slouch in getting things done herself.
*BiTheWay: Sofya Rykov is this and Eduard Galkin seems to be this. [[spoiler:Which is an important plot point; Eduard Galkin was strictly gay. Folren, however, was bisexual.]]
*BigBad: There is no concrete Big Bad of the series in place yet, although it's clear [[spoiler:Patriarch Arkady Vanzin and Simion ir-Sheaf are both]] planning nefarious things [[spoiler:with Sister Emilia Osborn and Tiatha ir-Adech respectively as possible [[TheDragon Dragons]] for each]], but each case so far has had its own central villain.
** "The Prophet's Arm" has [[spoiler:Nadezhda Melinkov]].
** "The Fox's Trail" has [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech]], with [[spoiler:Simion ir-Sheaf acting as the ManBehindTheMan]].
*BlessedWithSuck: Her near-death experience left her with the singularly unique ability to be able to control all forms of Leshin High Magic- except that with the exception of Ice and basic Glamor Magic or just using the Fey directly, the magic she can use changes every few days, and it's a gamble on whether she can win the Superpower Lottery. Also she was exiled from her family.
*BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Folren ir-Adech hated the actions of his people, being connected through the Fey, and begin a Leshin in general that he was willing to become human and cut himself off from the Fey forever to escape.]]
*BreakThemByTalking: Nadezhda Melinkov gets this from Sofya Rykov in "The Prophet's Arm". [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech]] can be stopped by this too if you make the right decisions, [[spoiler:otherwise she gets mad, conjures fire at you, and then gets arrested]].
*BurialInSpace: The main reason the Krovakyns want to actively condone technological progress is because one day they want to build a device to bring Eszther's corpse back to the stars, essentially aiming for this trope.
*CameFromTheSky: The origins of Eszther.
*TheCaptain: Imperial Commander Viola Aristov.
*TheCasanova: Eduard Galkin even admits it, saying he might not be innocent in any jilted lover cases Sofya may be on.
*TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Luka Teteriv can be this at the end of the confrontation in "The Fox's Trail".]]
*TheCavalryArrivesLate: [[spoiler:Can be this if Viola shot Tiatha already or if Sofya lets Tiatha go.]]
*ColonelBadass: Viola Aristov, hands down.
*CombatMedic: Heremon ir-Caldy was one for the ir-Dyeun back during the war.
*DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin was several steps ahead of Sofya Rykov from the beginning of "The Fox's Trail", having figured out Eduard Galkin's secret before Sofya was even on the case.]]
*DarkSecret: Sofya's above-mentioned troubled past and her use of High Magic are this for her. Other characters have dark secrets. Viola has an eye that was lost to low magic, and Luka Teteriv... well... [[spoiler:he's secretly an ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking actor]]'']].
*DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: In "The Fox's Trail", Folren ir-Adech isn't the one who died. Eduard Galkin died. Folren polymorphed into Eduard and drank The Sacrament of Tears, a vial of Eszther's blood that cut him off from The Fey for good. He doesn't impersonate Eduard for personal gain, he did it because he hated being a Leshin and truly wanted to be human.]]
*EldritchAbomination: The human religion, the Krovakyns, worship a tangible goddess named Eszther, described as a humanoid squid covered with a shawl, was directly said to have come from the skies, looking directly upon its body leaves a BrownNote, and its blood can expand a human's lifetime considerably and cure any and all terminal illnesses... for a price.
** The "Old Gods" that Eszther replaced, although considered to not actually have been real, sounded unnatural from the few mentions of them, including the Triglavyn god who was a three-headed monster. Though this could be a reference to the Russian and Slavic naming conventions for the humans of Oraz, as Triglav was the name of the Slavic war god who happened to be a three-headed giant.
*TheEmpire: Subverted somewhat. Not necessarily evil in the slightest, but assuredly heavy-handed, tight-fisted, bureaucratic and eager to breathe authoritatively down the necks of the counties and small kingdoms that haven't entered the fold yet.
*TheEmperor: Emperor Lapidus, who again isn't necessarily a bad guy. At least, as far as we ''know''. He does seem very adamant about his rule becoming law across all human territory.
*EyepatchOfPower: Viola Aristov has one, even though ''technically'' the eye still works.
*EyeScream: Viola Aristov. She didn't lose the eye, but arguably what happened is worse. She had a botched spell done by a low human magician to fix the nearsightedness in her eye. She ended up seeing horrifying things, including things that weren't there, colors different from how she remembered them, faces that were distorted ("just their faces"), and occasionally blinding white light. The only reason she doesn't have the eye torn out is because it's a reminder of the dangers of magic.
*FacialHorror: Kazamir has a huge burn across his face barely hidden by his mask.
*FantasticRacism: Done by both sides to each other.
*FictionalUnitedNations: The Alliance of Free Cities, or AFC, is the governing body that took over central control of the Leshin cities after the fall of the ir-Dyeun.
*FrontLineGeneral: Eduard Galkin was one, and a very poor one at that.
*{{Glamour}}: Sofya uses these to hide the majority of her scars, with the exception of one on her left eye.
*HardboiledDetective: Sofya Rykov is this in spades.
*{{Heterochromia}}: Sofya has one green eye and one blue eye.
*HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:The scene near the end of the game where you uncover Simion ir-Sheaf's true colors is completely unmarked and you'd only know to go to it if you checked every single door or you remembered that there's one last loose end to look into, and if you don't look into it Simion can become this]].
*TheInformant: Simion ir-Sheaf is a far, ''far'' more friendly and WickedCultured variation of this.
*LittleBitBeastly: Some of the Leshin do have some animal traits. Tiatha ir-Adech has elk antlers atop her head [[spoiler:as did Folren, except he may have actually hacked his own antlers off]], and Braden ir-Alba had a great pair of bird wings from his back.
*LoanShark: On top of being a pawnbroker and dealer of information, this is one of Simion ir-Sheaf's many jobs at Forest's Edge Brokerage.
*MagicAIsMagicA: Subverted in that all magic is powered by one single source, The Fey. However, most Leshin, even the longer-lived ones, have to specialize and are lucky if they can be adept in more than one field, as each branch of magic requires a different temperament and state of being when using it.
*MagicPoweredPseudoscience: Humans trying to use this is the reason the events o fthe series began in the first place.
*TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Human-Leshin conflict in a nutshell, although both run on the same exact thing.
*TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In "The Fox's Trail", Simion ir-Sheaf to Tiatha ir-Adech]].
*MindRape: Looking upon Eszther's body directly without a vision veil can cause this. In addition [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin tells Emilia at the post-end credits scene of the first episode that he has a device, possibly one of Eszther's Tools, that can wipe memories from the human mind, and threatens to [[FateWorseThanDeath steal Emilia's knowledge of language and "leave [her] a savage dog that cannot even beg to be put down"]]]].
*[[MyCountryRightOrWrong My City, Right or Wrong]]: The majority of Leshin who actually fought the humans were forcibly drafted into it because their city (which is more important to most Leshin than family and certainly more than themselves) required ir-Dyeun support in order to continue trade and recieve basic resources, and ir-Dyeun imposed quotas that had to be met or else they'd revoke support for the city. Though Heremon talks about the morality of this subject in the first episode, addressing how the revolution came about almost at once as if most Leshin were hopping on the side of opportunity.
*NotUsingTheZWord: Averted. The word "elf" actually exists for the Leshin. However, it's a racial slur for them.
*OurElvesAreBetter: The Leshin.
*PlayingWithFire: The go-to elemental magic field for most Leshin, especially ir-Dyeun soldiers. [[spoiler:Tiatha ir-Adech turns out to be an adept fire mage.]]
*PowerIncontinence: Depends heavily on what kind of magic she's using at the time and how much she's trained with it. Generally she's in control, but when she isn't, that's bad news.
*PowerSource: The Fey.
*PredecessorVillain: Cathal ir-Dyeun, the founder of the ir-Dyeun.
*PrivateEye: Sofya Rykov.
*PunishedForSympathy: Almost gets branded a traitor for not leaving Leshin in the prison camp to die, and gets exiled from her family even when absolved.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Almost all Leshin are like this. They can live for hundreds of years without dying and stop physically aging at a point where they look like they're in their mid-twenties.
*RedHerring: [[spoiler:Ciara ir-Alba doesn't really exist. She's just a fake Leshin extremist made up by ir-Dyeun prisoners to keep inspectors preoccupied while Tiatha, a real ir-Dyeun extremist, works around Vodotsk]].
*ReligionOfEvil: By the end of the Human-Leshin War, the ir-Dyeun were this in spades. By comparison, the Krovakyns aren't nearly as bad, even though they worship an EldritchAbomination in a shawl. Then you learn that they did some pretty horrifying things themselves to the Leshin (ForScience, of course). And then you learn [[spoiler:just how AxCrazy Arkady Vanzin truly is]].
*RussianNamingConvention: Almost all human characters have distinctive Russian names.
*ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Nadezhda Melinkov's justification for her actions, since House Melinkov and Volgrad haven't signed with the county and Empire in the treaty with the AFC.
*SentientCosmicForce: The ir-Dyeun believe that the Fey is in reality this, and that the force and combined consciousnesses behind the Fey is known as "Dyeun", which "speaks" occasionally to Leshin.
*SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin turns out to be very, ''very'' AxCrazy.]]
*SoulPower: Most Leshin believe that the Fey is constructed of consciousnesses which are taken back into the Fey upon death and eventually reincarnated.
*StarShapedCoupon: Arkady Vanzin's Star Maps you need to collect in a side quest.
*StoryBranching: The choices you make in the first episode are going to carry over to the next according to WordOfGod.
*StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Query. Kazamir's speech patterns. Effective. Cuts down on long phrases. Normal speech? Whole sentences? Use of conjunctions? Descriptives? Too many long phrases. Wastes time. Time valuable. Low magician life expectancy low. Verbose sentences not reccomended.
*SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Imperial Inspector Luka Teteriv falls squarely into this, trying to keep Imperial law upheld in a county that actively wants nothing to do with the Empire. You can become friends with Luka over the course of the series [[spoiler:and even learn of his secret passion for acting]].
*TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first episode, "The Fox's Trail", has Sofya juggling two important tasks- finding Tiatha ir-Adech's son Folren, alive or dead, and learning more about Ciara ir-Alba, one of the prisoners Sofya freed from the prison tower who may have been an ir-Dyeun extremist. [[spoiler:Eventually Sofya learns that Ciara ir-Alba is a RedHerring made so that Tiatha ir-Adech could stay in Vodotsk without Luka Teteriv breathing down her neck, making this a case of Sofya and Luka WorkingTheSameCase.]]
*VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After either finding out what her son's become or falling for a lie told by Sofya, Tiatha ir-Adech's response is to get furious, confront Eduard Galkin, and then take hostages inside of the Krovakyn church using her flame magic.]]
*TheVoiceless: Kazamir is the only full character portrait to not be even partially voice acted. Then again, considering the ''very'' odd way he speaks...
*VoluntaryShapeshifter: Sofya somewhat gets this power, being able to transform between human and cat for the entirety of "The Fox's Trail". [[spoiler:Folren ir-Adech was also a polymorph, which is an important plot point in the case.]]
*TheWatson: Heremon ir-Caldy.
*WhiteHairBlackHeart: [[spoiler:Arkady Vanzin. Possibly.]]
*{{Woobie}}: Heremon ir-Caldy again.
*XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:If Sofya lets Tiatha escape, Simion ir-Sheaf gives her a falsified Krovakyn Charter that says the Krovakyn church is converting Leshin who chose to stay behind in human territory, reigniting tensions between the Leshin and the humans. If Tiatha gets arrested, Simion ir-Sheaf implicates the entire City Council of Adech into being ir-Dyeun sympathizers, further straining Leshin and human relations. If Tiatha died, that would also have strained Leshin and human relations.]]
