History Webcomic / Blindsprings

* ChekhovsGun: The Orphic book that contains all the information about Orphic history, and especially about the royal family. [[spoiler:Harris recovered it in secret.]]

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Harris' mom, Layla.]]

* TearsOfFear: Ewan [[CryCute shed these]] when a earthquake triggered him to remember a bombing attack from Khala.

* TheLostWoods: The Wickwold forest's Blindspring, in which we -- and Harris -- first meet Tamaura.

** She can also fit another dozen or so hair decs into [[ImprobableHairstyle her perfectly groomed mane of a hairstyle]], from a [[NatureHero made of tree branches]] and [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine little white bows to golden beads and chains,]] yet the two flowers on her head remain constant.

** She can also fit another dozen or so hair decs into [[ImprobableHairstyle her perfectly groomed]] [[RapunzelHair mane of a hairstyle]], from a [[CoolCrown wreath]] [[NatureHero made of tree branches]] and [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine little white bows to golden beads and chains,]] yet the two flowers on her head remain constant.

* ImportantHaircut: Tammy gets [[http://blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-forty-five some of hair cut]] because her huge hairdo was too noticeable. She now has bangs and a ([[RapunzelHair still]]) [[BraidsOfAction long braid.]]

* IncestIsRelative: Just like in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', the Orphic families married between each other in order to preserve the purity of their magic blood. It's implied that Tammy herself is distantly related to the Torstenn clan, as the last Empress looks a lot like Ms. Thorne, nee Torstenn.

* DivineRightOfKings: The Orphics, a WitchSpecies, claimed that they needed to be in charge to satisfy the spirits and keep both the land and the magic alive. All of this is true. Unfortunately, only Orphics can see spirits, so the common people assumed that they were just lying to justify their rule. It certainly didn't help that the ruling family was caring less and less for their kingdom as time went on, instead amusing themselves with trinkets made by the new academic magic. The first academist eventually used these trinkets to overthrow and execute all of them except one, who escaped with the spirits.

* UnEqualRites: Rather thoroughly fleshed out, if not outright deconstructed. Why do Academists hate and disdain and fear Orphics? Firstly, because their WitchSpecies BloodMagic allowed them to create oppressive kingdoms the world over, where normal people are lowest in the social ladder. Secondly, their magic is InTheBlood (literally) and takes no real training to learn, and is based on "nonsense" superstition and talk of spirits. Whereas Academic magic focus on RitualMagic that takes years to learn and master, and is slower to cast. Orphics, for their part, hate Academists for oppressing them and forcibly applying {{Power Nullifier}}s to all of them in the form of seals, essentially rendering them no better than a normal human, except they are treated as a second-class race instead.

* WitchSpecies: The Orphics.

* FutureShock: Tammy is horrified by what has happened to Kirkhall and Aberwelle in her absence.

* NotSoDifferent: Some readers have noticed that, just like Harris, Tamaura is very earnest in proving [[TheCassandra that she's right about lost Orphic knowledge]] [[WeNeedToGetProof and the existence of spirits being real.]]

** Tamaura's relationship with Imogen and Street seems to be forming into one of this too. Since she knows things about Orphic magic that has gone lost in time, she's seen as mad. Of course, she wants to prove them wrong. See NotSoDifferent above.

* FlowerInHerHair: Tamaura has these. When [[spoiler:she leaves the forest]], they [[http://blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-thirty begin to disintegrate]] to emphasize how far away from nature she is now.

* BadDreams: A lot of the children Wisteria is looking after are Orphics and sense something is wrong with the magic surrounding the city.

** She can also fit another dozen or so HairDecorations into [[ImprobableHairstyle her perfectly groomed]] [[RapunzelHair mane of a hairstyle]], from a [[CoolCrown wreath]] [[NatureHero made of tree branches]] and [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine little white bows to golden beads and chains,]] yet the two flowers on her head remain constant.

* FairytaleMotifs: Everything surrounding [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Tamaura's character.]] Her life story is literally [[FamedInStory a dusty old fable]] outside of her GildedCage. Goes full-on StorybookEpisode [[http://blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-two here.]]

* EveryThingIsBetterWithPrincesses: Guess who?