History Webcomic / Bethellium

* SinsOfOurFathers: Katherine suspects Zoana is related to the alchemy-using SerialKiller known as the "Red Hemlock", and blames her for what he did to her family. [[spoiler:She is his daughter, but Zoana manages to convince Katherine that he hurt her as well.]]

* ElixirOfLife: Zoana not only takesit regularly, she knows how to make it too, and it makes her look half her age.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Zoana looks no older than her thirties but occasionally suggests that she's considerably older. [[spoiler:It comes out that she uses Elixir to slow her aging, as did her father.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook:Zoana is old enough to unironically call herself an "old lady," but doesn't look a day over 20, thanks to her use of [[ElixirOfLife Elixer]]. She uses this as part of her disguise: someone so young couldn't possibly be related to a certain notorious assassin who was executed30 years ago, right?

* ElixerOfLife: Zoana not only takesit regularly, she knows how to make it too, and it makes her look half her age.

* YoungerThanTheyLook:Zoana is old enough to unironically call herself an "old lady," but doesn't look a day over 20, thanks to her use of [[ElixerOfLife Elixer]]. She uses this as part of her disguise: someone so young couldn't possibly be related to a certain notorious assassin who was executed30 years ago, right?

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: The anthropomorphic animals inhabiting this world are known as "anima."

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: After Katherine accuses Zoana of being the Red Hemlock's daughter [[https://bethellium.kemono.cafe/comic/c02p20/ she retorts]] that since he seemed to be in his early twenties when he was executed twenty-two years ago, he would have been five or six when she was born. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he used an Elixir to look younger than his actual age.]]

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: After Katherine accuses Zoana of being the Red Hemlock's daughter [[https://bethellium.kemono.cafe/comic/c02p20/ she retorts]] that since he seemed to be in his early twenties when he was executed 22 years ago he would have been 5 or 6 when she was born. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he used Elixir to look younger than his actual age.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: When Zoana admits to being the Red Hemlock's daughter she confesses that he acted like nothing but a loving father to her, but after his arrest she started to wonder why all the gifts he gave her [[https://bethellium.kemono.cafe/comic/c02p62/ were used]], occasionally with [[WouldHurtAChild spots of blood]] on them...]]

* FunctionalMagic: Magic is [[https://bethellium.kemono.cafe/comic/c02p06/ classified]] by [[RuleOfThree three categories of three]], three sources (living energy, elemental spirits, and artifacts, alchemy as a kind of artifact), three channels of magic (mind, soul, body), and three objectives of magic (create, destroy, manipulate). While the dark arts pursue a fourth objective, corruption.

* {{Necromancer}}: Necromancy is one of the forbidden dark arts, which is never written down and must be learned from a living necromancer or the summoned spirit of a dead one. The third story arc (ongoing as of this writing: 02/13/23) is about the city being under siege by a necromancer and their army of [[DemBones skeletons.]] They ("currently" haunting a thoroughly decayed corpse and muttering how it seems to take longer and longer to adapt to each new body) demonstrate their power by raising a handful of EliteMooks created from the bones of both kinds of PreCursors: the proto-FunnyAnimals Zauphar and the extinct [[HumansByAnyOtherName Humphar.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Zoana looks no older than her thirties but occasionally suggests that she's considerably older. [[spoiler: It comes out that she uses Elixir to slow her aging, as did her father.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Katherine is not only an elemental mage and a member of the Bethellium council, but a princess of the city's host kingdom. In addition to her normal duties she's seen teaching young apprentices [[spoiler: as punishment for the Hell she put Zoana and Elle through.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: Katherine suspects Zoana is related to the alchemy-using SerialKiller known as the "Red Hemlock," and blames her for what he did to her family. [[spoiler: She is his daughter, but Zoana manages to convince Katherine that he hurt her as well.]]

* {{Necromancer}}: Necromancy is one of the forbidden dark arts, which is never written down and must be learned from a living necromancer or the summoned spirit of a dead one. The third story arc (ongoing as of this writing: 02/13/23) is about the city being under siege by a necromancer and their army of [[DemBones skeletons.]] They ("currently" haunting a thoroughly decayed corpse and muttering how it seems to take longer and longer to adapt to each new body) demonstrate their power by raising ahandful of EliteMooks created from the bones of both kinds of PreCursors: the proto-FunnyAnimals Zauphar and the extinct [[HumansByAnyOtherName Humphar.]]

* {{Necromancer}}: Necromancy is one of the forbidden dark arts, which is never written down and must be learned from a living necromancer or the summoned spirit of a dead one.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Zoana looks no older than her thirties but occasionally suggests that she's considerably older.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Katherine suspects Zoana is related to the alchemy-using SerialKiller known as the "Red Hemlock," and blames her for what he did to her family.

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* SinsOfTheirFathers: Katherine suspects Zoana is related to the alchemy-using SerialKiller known as the "Red Hemlock," and blames her for what he did to her family.