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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that Duane's brother Lemuel had some sort of role in Duane's death, though the only thing that is certain that it doesn't seem to have been out of malice or jealousy judging by how Lemuel was crying after his final conversation with Duane that day and how he took care of the resurrected Duane before the latter fled Alderode.]]
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that Duane's [[spoiler:Duane's brother Lemuel had some sort of a role in Duane's death, though assassination. Though he was mostly press-ganged by a conspiracy to silence a dissident, the only thing subsequent resurrection by Bastion Winnalis was because Lemuel planned to turn Duane into a Khertnaut, a being who could travel through the afterlife and find God. This subjected Duane to a FateWorseThanDeath that is certain that it doesn't seem to have been out of malice or jealousy judging by how cost him his family and sanity, all because Lemuel was crying after his final conversation with envious of how Duane seemed nonchalant and at peace with a question that day thoroughly tormented Lemuel: why hasn't God fixed this miserable, divided, and how he took care of the resurrected Duane before the latter fled Alderode.]]war-torn world yet?]]
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* BreedingSlave: This is the fate of any woman capable of getting pregnant in territory conquered by Alderode. After the dammakhert is 'installed'' and since any child conceived in the dammakhert is automatically sorted into one of the Aldish castes, the Alds instigate mass rape with the specific intention of breeding as many children as possible; both to replenish the castes back in Alderode and to erase the conquered people.
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* BreedingSlave: This is the fate of any woman capable of getting pregnant in territory conquered by Alderode. After the dammakhert is 'installed'' and since Since any child conceived in the vicinity of the dammakhert is automatically sorted into one of the Aldish castes, after the dammakhert is 'installed'' the Alds instigate mass rape with the specific intention of breeding as many children as possible; both to replenish the castes back in Alderode and to erase the conquered people.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The yellow fish spirits or "squishes" in the khert.
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** "[[https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/741695046402949120 Squeals]]" are large amalgamations of happy memories which look like a smiley glowing yellow and teal seal or otter mixed with the squishes and are reminiscent of sea hares, if they had more mammalian cute features.
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** "[[https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/741695046402949120 Squeals]]" are large amalgamations of happy memories which look like a smiley glowing yellow and teal seal or otter mixed with the squishes and are reminiscent of sea hares, if they had more mammalian cute features.
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* AmputativeSentencing: Criminal spellwrights usually [[TongueTrauma lose their tongues]] alongside other penalties, rendering them unable to use magic.
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* AllAccessibleMagic: Anyone can be made into a spellwright with a quick ritual to open their connection to the BackgroundMagicField. Spells are just correctly worded instructions in the LanguageOfMagic, so wrights run the gamut from {{Inept Mage}}s reading by rote out of a primer to {{Badass Bookworm}}s who know the language inside and out.
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** Starfish is an evil DirtyCoward who targets and rapes children, enslaved a bunch of kids then had them cut open to smuggle first silver in them and tried to rape Sette. His death was mourned by noone.
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** Starfish is an evil DirtyCoward who targets and rapes children, enslaved a bunch of kids then had them cut open to smuggle first silver First Silver in them them, and tried tries to rape Sette. His death was is mourned by noone.no one.
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** While [[spoiler:Master Ballanstern]] dies prior to much characterization in the main comic "Orphans" features him comparing Plats to dogs, heckling a grieving Quigley into attacking him and breaking faith with the rest of his order to try and turn Quigley and Uaid over to Cresce after the Black Tongues had promised them sanctuary. That the Black Tongues cut the throat of a member who would go against the rules of their order to defy the wants of the rest is not surprising.
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** While [[spoiler:Master Ballanstern]] dies prior to much characterization in the main comic comic, "Orphans" features him comparing Plats to dogs, heckling a grieving Quigley into attacking him and breaking faith with the rest of his order to try and turn Quigley and Uaid over to Cresce after the Black Tongues had promised them sanctuary. That the Black Tongues cut the throat of a member who would go against the rules of their order to defy the wants of the rest is not surprising.
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** [[spoiler:Ricker]] [[HidingBehindReligion acts like his actions are those of a devote Ssaelit]], and uses it as justification for his RapePillageAndBurn tactics against Gefendur believers, including children, despite his religion's texts specifically warning against child murder and rape. When Toma finishes him off it was just a matter of who present would do the deed.
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** [[spoiler:Ricker]] [[HidingBehindReligion acts like his actions are those of a devote devoted Ssaelit]], and uses it as justification for his RapePillageAndBurn tactics against Gefendur believers, including children, despite his religion's texts specifically warning against child murder and rape. When Toma finishes him off it was just a matter of who present would do the deed.
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** In the final chapter [[spoiler:Roger is left brain dead]], but Ufal is revealed to be in a commited relationship with another man, [[spoiler:and Darkest Paul is revealed to have had a sexual history with Bastion, and still has some lingering attraction to him.]]
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** In the final chapter [[spoiler:Roger is left brain dead]], but Ufal is revealed to be in a commited committed relationship with another man, [[spoiler:and Darkest Paul is revealed to have had a sexual history with Bastion, and still has some lingering attraction to him.]]
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: A lot of characters die regardless of morality and alignment, and there a are a handful of entire towns put to the sword save a couple of lucky escapees. Though the main duo and their traveling companions are safe until the final chapters of the first book.
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** At first glance Cresce is a near post-scarcity utopia with social equality--but it's also a theocracy with a noble class based on which families the priestesses say are in favour with the gods, the people living there have very little autonomy, the whole system only works because of the use of plod labor and the two-toe lizards are forced to take the worst jobs that humans don't want to do and are one degree away from slaves as they are physicay incompatibe with the "breath system" which allows or Cresce's "moneyless" economy and equal distribution of rations and neccesities.
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** At first glance Cresce is a near post-scarcity utopia with social equality--but it's also a theocracy with a noble class based on which families the priestesses say are in favour with the gods, the people living there have very little autonomy, the whole system only works because of the use of plod labor and the two-toe lizards are forced to take the worst jobs that humans don't want to do and are one degree away from slaves as they are physicay incompatibe physically incompatible with the "breath system" which allows or Cresce's "moneyless" economy and equal distribution of rations and neccesities.necessities.
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* FictionalHoliday: There are four major holidays a year in Kasslyne, each a feast day for one of the four Twin Gods and marked with the ritual sacrifice of a younger twin. The first book ends on Tirna's Day or Treenahinn, the fall day dedicated to the TricksterGod Trina.
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* HumanSacrifice: The most prevalent religion in the setting sacrifices younger twins who've reached the age of 22 during holly festivals, with their elder twin going on to become a priest/priestess. The second most prevalent religion teaches adherents to kill non-believers, but this isn't seen as a sacrifice as instead the thought is their victims will reincarnate into families following the "correct" religion.
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* HumanSacrifice: The most prevalent religion in the setting sacrifices younger twins who've reached the age of 22 during holly holy festivals, with their elder twin going on to become a priest/priestess. The second most prevalent religion teaches adherents to kill non-believers, but this isn't seen as a sacrifice as instead the thought is their victims will reincarnate into families following the "correct" religion.
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* TricksterTwins: The "horror childrens" at Litriya are a pair of young twins who are constantly pulling pranks and mocking people as they happily run about their lives.
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* WarIsGlorious: Ssaelism teaches that all men must be trained fighters, preferably soldiers, who fight for the glory of Ssael and slay the Gefendur so that they may be reincarnated as Ssaelit. The religion glorifies war and a warriors death for men.
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* WarIsGlorious: Ssaelism teaches that all men must be trained fighters, preferably soldiers, who fight for the glory of Ssael and slay the Gefendur so that they may be reincarnated as Ssaelit. The religion glorifies war and a warriors warrior's death for men.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Bastion and Prakhuta became friends together while trapped under Delicieu's abuse, and after [[spoiler: killing Delicieu]] they worked together in their freedom. Unbeknownst to Bastion his old friend has turned even more cruel and murderous than their old master and he has a significant crises of faith when he realizes Prakhuta does not even [[ThatManIsDead see himself as the same being anymore]], and plans to kill an untold number of victims even if pits him against Bastion.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Bastion and Prakhuta became friends together while trapped under Delicieu's abuse, and after [[spoiler: killing Delicieu]] they worked together in their freedom. Unbeknownst to Bastion his old friend has turned even more cruel and murderous than their old master and he has a significant crises crisis of faith when he realizes Prakhuta does not even [[ThatManIsDead see himself as the same being anymore]], and plans to kill an untold number of victims even if pits him against Bastion.
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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: When [[spoiler:Emil]] admits to having fallen in love with Elka she says that there's no way he actually loves her, since she's annoying and considers herself ugly and fat while he's a famous hero, and that he'll get over it when they get back to civilization and off their secretive mission.
* DeathFlight: An unfortunate vliegeng pilot is tossed overboard to his death when Bell starts shouting that Roger Foi-Hellick is in the same manor as the queen and his passengers are overcome by the [[HatePlague Etalarche Curse]].
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** Cresce is an honest-to-Twins communist state with social equality--but the people living there have no autonomy, the whole system only works because the two-toe lizards are forced to take the worst jobs that humans don't want to do and are one degree away from slaves, and the minority religion's members are ruthlessly hunted down and killed.
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** At first glance Cresce is an honest-to-Twins communist state a near post-scarcity utopia with social equality--but it's also a theocracy with a noble class based on which families the priestesses say are in favour with the gods, the people living there have no very little autonomy, the whole system only works because of the use of plod labor and the two-toe lizards are forced to take the worst jobs that humans don't want to do and are one degree away from slaves, slaves as they are physicay incompatibe with the "breath system" which allows or Cresce's "moneyless" economy and the minority religion's members are ruthlessly hunted down equal distribution of rations and killed.neccesities.
* DirtyOldMan:
** Duane kicks an old man out of the Deadly Nevergreen brothel when he won't stop harassing the women who aren't prostitutes inside, saying they're only good for one thing and acting like they should service him.
** [[spoiler:Delicieu]] raped his teenage apprentices, and lent the boys out to other Black Tongues with similar tastes for the same purpose.
** Duane kicks an old man out of the Deadly Nevergreen brothel when he won't stop harassing the women who aren't prostitutes inside, saying they're only good for one thing and acting like they should service him.
** [[spoiler:Delicieu]] raped his teenage apprentices, and lent the boys out to other Black Tongues with similar tastes for the same purpose.
* DumbStruck: After the last thing he saw before being blinded by spellfire was his mother and her workers being tortured to death Matty was mute for a long time to his father's consternation. He finally spoke again to beg his father not to leave him when Mathis tried finding someone better than his broken self to leave Matty with so he could go commit suicide by cop.
* FantasticNamingConvention:
** Crescians outside the royal family traditionally have four letter first names and four letter last names. The tradition started when there was a famine under the first Queen and she chose to ensure rations only for those with four letter names in a desperate attempt to keep the country alive, this meant her own children starved. This is not a hard rule, but it is considered to be inviting bad luck to give your child a longer name.
** In Sharteshane parents give their children meaningful and unique names, with "fancy" Crescian stye names mocked. This results in such names as Nary-A’Care, Corners, Stockyard, and Knock-Me-Down.
** Crescians outside the royal family traditionally have four letter first names and four letter last names. The tradition started when there was a famine under the first Queen and she chose to ensure rations only for those with four letter names in a desperate attempt to keep the country alive, this meant her own children starved. This is not a hard rule, but it is considered to be inviting bad luck to give your child a longer name.
** In Sharteshane parents give their children meaningful and unique names, with "fancy" Crescian stye names mocked. This results in such names as Nary-A’Care, Corners, Stockyard, and Knock-Me-Down.
* ForcedEuthanasia: Bell asks questions of a horrifically burned soldier and once he gets useful information out of the man he covers his face with his hand to smother him as he waxes on about the beauty of the afterlife he believes himself to be sending him to while the poor soldier struggles fruitlessly against him.
* HandOnWomb: Despite wearing a glamor to hide her pregnancy Emne gently places a hand on her pregnant stomach, giving away that she is much further along in her pregnancy than she would be able to reveal to the public without a huge amount of controversy given her heroic husband's popularity and recent widely mourned death.
* HumanSacrifice: The most prevalent religion in the setting sacrifices younger twins who've reached the age of 22 during holly festivals, with their elder twin going on to become a priest/priestess. The second most prevalent religion teaches adherents to kill non-believers, but this isn't seen as a sacrifice as instead the thought is their victims will reincarnate into families following the "correct" religion.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: As part of her frustration with her [[HumanSacrifice fate as a younger twin]] Siya has made a point of visually distinguishing herself from her twin sister Sara, wearing a different hairstyle and radically altering her uniform.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** While Duane's assassins were pinning him to the ground and beating him to death his daughter Mikaila tried using magic to blind them with light. One turned and stuck their sword straight through her chest and out her back in response.
** [[spoiler: Rilursa]] ends up impaled on the broken axel of her cart, which pierced through her chest after her cart was forced into a PitTrap.
** While Duane's assassins were pinning him to the ground and beating him to death his daughter Mikaila tried using magic to blind them with light. One turned and stuck their sword straight through her chest and out her back in response.
** [[spoiler: Rilursa]] ends up impaled on the broken axel of her cart, which pierced through her chest after her cart was forced into a PitTrap.
* PitTrap: [[spoiler: Rilursa]] is assassinated when her carriage is forced onto a cliffside road with a hidden pit trap full of sharp wooden spikes.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The humans the First Silver Weapon was created in are still alive inside it, powering it like a beating heart. These unfortunates include several children due to Starfish's proclivities. Killing them weakens it, but doesn't destroy it.
* SickbedSlaying: Bell suffocates a wounded soldier as he lays defenseless in a hospital bed, prattling on about the glory of war and mercy of the gods while the poor man [[ForcedEuthanasia struggles to pry Bell's hand off]].
* ThemeTwinNaming:
** Twin sisters Lori and Iori were given rhyming names by their parents before being sent to the shrine.
** Kept twins Siya and Sara have another pair of similar names, and it's revealed all kept twins are given such names.
** Twin sisters Lori and Iori were given rhyming names by their parents before being sent to the shrine.
** Kept twins Siya and Sara have another pair of similar names, and it's revealed all kept twins are given such names.
* TragicDream: Siya wants to become a master artist and leave behind a legacy, but doesn't feel she has enough time due to her fate to become a HumanSacrifice as a young adult, and occasionally laments that it is her rather than her sister who is slated to die. She is heartbroken when [[spoiler:her sister's death]] ensures she'll have enough time and freedom to learn and develop her skills as she pleases.
* TricksterTwins: The "horror childrens" at Litriya are a pair of young twins who are constantly pulling pranks and mocking people as they happily run about their lives.
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* WarIsHell: The ongoing war between Cresce and Alderode is mostly shown in the bloody aftermath of battles, or battles are shown from the perspective of civilians caught in its way. It's all consequences and brutality rather than glory.
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* WarIsHell: WallOfWeapons: Sette is quite excited to see the treasure trove of weapons the Ethelmik Watch has confiscated and locked up when she breaks in.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: At the end of the Foi-Hellick Affair a cart full of valuable rebel prisoners is burnt by Lemuel as revenge for one of them having killed one of Lemuel's friends and hurting Duane. This unsettled Duane who fully believed in his own side's righteousness and heroism, but the rebels were the side of the conflict with more sympathetic goals.
* WarForFunAndProfit: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jab Beadman]] of Sharteshane fears that whatever Queen Maharaishala Sonorie of Cresce is currently plotting will disrupt the profitable forever war between Cresce and Alderode, so supports Bell's insurrection which will see the hostilities ramp up should it succeed.
* WarIsGlorious: Ssaelism teaches that all men must be trained fighters, preferably soldiers, who fight for the glory of Ssael and slay the Gefendur so that they may be reincarnated as Ssaelit. The religion glorifies war and a warriors death for men.
* WarIsHell:
** The ongoing war between Cresce and Alderode is mostly shown in the bloody aftermath of battles, or battles are shown from the perspective of civilians caught in its way. It's all consequences and brutality rather thanglory.glory.
** In life Duane was able to find honor, glory and righteousness in his memories of battle, but his clear memories straight from the khert after his soul is bound to his corpse do not allow him such comfort and he's horrified by the cruelty and violence he finds in memories he once spun into [[WarIsGlorious heroic tales]].
** In life Duane was able to find honor, glory and righteousness in his memories of battle, but his clear memories straight from the khert after his soul is bound to his corpse do not allow him such comfort and he's horrified by the cruelty and violence he finds in memories he once spun into [[WarIsGlorious heroic tales]].
** [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The Inak Revolution]] is a bloody explosion of hatred after decades of oppression and genocide, Inak raging out against Crescian civilians who happen to stand between them and the nobles who all but enslaved them. Mere moments before victory, the Inak are betrayed from within by their own general, who mocks and humiliates his entire army as he seizes control of the command hub to upgrade his HumanoidAbomination into a world-destroying warhead. Meanwhile, the Crescians' treasonous Lord General Bell sabotages the Crescians' defense efforts and then goads a bunch of enemy Alderodians into suicide dive-bombing city hall, crushing most of the nobles in hopes of killing the queen. In short, when war rains blood, it pours ''souls''.
* WatchingTheSunset: Duane admires a sunset in Ethelmik while lamenting that neither the country of Cresce nor himself deserves such a beautiful thing.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: At the end of the Foi-Hellick Affair a cart full of valuable rebel prisoners is burnt by Lemuel as revenge for one of them having killed one of Lemuel's friends and hurting Duane. This unsettled Duane who fully believed in his own side's righteousness and heroism, but the rebels were the side of the conflict with more sympathetic goals.
* WarForFunAndProfit: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jab Beadman]] of Sharteshane fears that whatever Queen Maharaishala Sonorie of Cresce is currently plotting will disrupt the profitable forever war between Cresce and Alderode, so supports Bell's insurrection which will see the hostilities ramp up should it succeed.
* WarIsGlorious: Ssaelism teaches that all men must be trained fighters, preferably soldiers, who fight for the glory of Ssael and slay the Gefendur so that they may be reincarnated as Ssaelit. The religion glorifies war and a warriors death for men.
* WarIsHell:
** The ongoing war between Cresce and Alderode is mostly shown in the bloody aftermath of battles, or battles are shown from the perspective of civilians caught in its way. It's all consequences and brutality rather than
** In life Duane was able to find honor, glory and righteousness in his memories of battle, but his clear memories straight from the khert after his soul is bound to his corpse do not allow him such comfort and he's horrified by the cruelty and violence he finds in memories he once spun into [[WarIsGlorious heroic tales]].
** In life Duane was able to find honor, glory and righteousness in his memories of battle, but his clear memories straight from the khert after his soul is bound to his corpse do not allow him such comfort and he's horrified by the cruelty and violence he finds in memories he once spun into [[WarIsGlorious heroic tales]].
** [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The Inak Revolution]] is a bloody explosion of hatred after decades of oppression and genocide, Inak raging out against Crescian civilians who happen to stand between them and the nobles who all but enslaved them. Mere moments before victory, the Inak are betrayed from within by their own general, who mocks and humiliates his entire army as he seizes control of the command hub to upgrade his HumanoidAbomination into a world-destroying warhead. Meanwhile, the Crescians' treasonous Lord General Bell sabotages the Crescians' defense efforts and then goads a bunch of enemy Alderodians into suicide dive-bombing city hall, crushing most of the nobles in hopes of killing the queen. In short, when war rains blood, it pours ''souls''.
* WatchingTheSunset: Duane admires a sunset in Ethelmik while lamenting that neither the country of Cresce nor himself deserves such a beautiful thing.
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Alderode treats the March as horrific treasonous terrorists for opposing the country's rule. Even people simply caught distributing pamphlets promoting such things as not treating plat girls as things to be bred are in for a trip to be publicly tortured and executed, or sterilized and turned into a slave. The government lies about their actions as well, for instance claiming Quigley was a crazy rebel who killed government officials and ran off to sell stolen government property to Cresce, when his wife was the revolutionary and inventor and he killed government officials to steal back her work and avenge her. He also refused to hand it over to Cresce.
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* AdiposeRex: The King of Sharteshane is a crude, fat PuppetKing who is in office to do favors for a powerful cut throat organized crime leader and sit around drinking and playing games.
* AerithAndBob: There are a number of different naming conventions at play which make for some interesting contrasts in names, such as Knock-Me-Down Frummagem and Maharaishala Sonorie living on the same content as fistfuls of Saras, Jons and Karls.
* AnAesop: WarIsHell is pretty well hammered in, between the atrocities, the broken child soldiers and the way Duane reacts when he tries to tell a rousing battle story without the protection of his mind letting him overlook the horrors of war and paint things in a savory light. This is paired with a heaping dose of fanatic nationalism makes one a fool and monster wiling to betray the morals one would otherwise stand by.
* AerithAndBob: There are a number of different naming conventions at play which make for some interesting contrasts in names, such as Knock-Me-Down Frummagem and Maharaishala Sonorie living on the same content as fistfuls of Saras, Jons and Karls.
* AnAesop: WarIsHell is pretty well hammered in, between the atrocities, the broken child soldiers and the way Duane reacts when he tries to tell a rousing battle story without the protection of his mind letting him overlook the horrors of war and paint things in a savory light. This is paired with a heaping dose of fanatic nationalism makes one a fool and monster wiling to betray the morals one would otherwise stand by.
* AgentPeacock: Karl is a LongHairedPrettyBoy who dresses flamboyantly even by the standards of the Crescian capitol once he marries into nobility, with layers of frills and ruffles and a giant hat. He's also a competent wright who is high in the plot to stage a military coup against the queen.
* TheAlcoholic: Emne is meant to have a job as a teacher but spends most of her time drinking instead, letting her assistant do the work. Her addiction impedes her parenting as well.
* AnimalMotifs: The Black Tongues are asocciated with crows, due to their patron Lady Ilganyag.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The River Jarla flows in two opposite directions with a mouth on opposing coasts according to the map, this part of the map was not shown again after this was pointed out.
* AscendedExtra: Flann started out as one of many nameless Inak revolutionaries, but attracted attention from readers so readers were asked to name him and he became the viewpoint character within the Inak revolution.
* AssholeVictim:
** Starfish is an evil DirtyCoward who targets and rapes children, enslaved a bunch of kids then had them cut open to smuggle first silver in them and tried to rape Sette. His death was mourned by noone.
** Ephsephin works for Starfish and plans to kill Sette or give her to Starfish to rape and enslave because she stole his hat, he gets even more angry and decides he wants to cut off her tail when she cuts his face in self defense when he keeps chasing and attacking her after getting his hat back. The manner of his death is gruesome, but him dying is no loss to the world. He treats enslaving kids as a simple job and is furious any of them would dare fight back.
** While [[spoiler:Master Ballanstern]] dies prior to much characterization in the main comic "Orphans" features him comparing Plats to dogs, heckling a grieving Quigley into attacking him and breaking faith with the rest of his order to try and turn Quigley and Uaid over to Cresce after the Black Tongues had promised them sanctuary. That the Black Tongues cut the throat of a member who would go against the rules of their order to defy the wants of the rest is not surprising.
** [[spoiler:Delicieu, the original not the individual currently using his name,]] was split in half by the last survivor of a series of torturous experiments, while torturing his young apprentice he'd forced into sex slavery and stating he was going to kill him for being a failure. Fittingly the jerk was only able to be killed because he couldn't hear his killer casting over the sound of his apprentice's screams. His colleagues were disturbed at best by his work, and no one liked him nor [[spoiler:realized he'd been killed for decades]].
** [[spoiler:Ricker]] [[HidingBehindReligion acts like his actions are those of a devote Ssaelit]], and uses it as justification for his RapePillageAndBurn tactics against Gefendur believers, including children, despite his religion's texts specifically warning against child murder and rape. When Toma finishes him off it was just a matter of who present would do the deed.
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** Starfish is an evil DirtyCoward who targets and rapes children, enslaved a bunch of kids then had them cut open to smuggle first silver in them and tried to rape Sette. His death was mourned by noone.
** Ephsephin works for Starfish and plans to kill Sette or give her to Starfish to rape and enslave because she stole his hat, he gets even more angry and decides he wants to cut off her tail when she cuts his face in self defense when he keeps chasing and attacking her after getting his hat back. The manner of his death is gruesome, but him dying is no loss to the world. He treats enslaving kids as a simple job and is furious any of them would dare fight back.
** While [[spoiler:Master Ballanstern]] dies prior to much characterization in the main comic "Orphans" features him comparing Plats to dogs, heckling a grieving Quigley into attacking him and breaking faith with the rest of his order to try and turn Quigley and Uaid over to Cresce after the Black Tongues had promised them sanctuary. That the Black Tongues cut the throat of a member who would go against the rules of their order to defy the wants of the rest is not surprising.
** [[spoiler:Delicieu, the original not the individual currently using his name,]] was split in half by the last survivor of a series of torturous experiments, while torturing his young apprentice he'd forced into sex slavery and stating he was going to kill him for being a failure. Fittingly the jerk was only able to be killed because he couldn't hear his killer casting over the sound of his apprentice's screams. His colleagues were disturbed at best by his work, and no one liked him nor [[spoiler:realized he'd been killed for decades]].
** [[spoiler:Ricker]] [[HidingBehindReligion acts like his actions are those of a devote Ssaelit]], and uses it as justification for his RapePillageAndBurn tactics against Gefendur believers, including children, despite his religion's texts specifically warning against child murder and rape. When Toma finishes him off it was just a matter of who present would do the deed.
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* AutoCannibalism: [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch09/ch09_57.html Murkoph does this to feed himself in the absence of other food sources.]] Due to his HealingFactor he can do this indefinitely.
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* AutoCannibalism: [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch09/ch09_57.html Murkoph does this cuts apart and eats his own thumb to feed himself in the absence of other food sources.]] Due to his HealingFactor he can do this indefinitely.
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: A lot of characters die regardless of morality and alignment, and there a a handful of entire towns put to the sword save a couple of lucky escapees. Though the main duo and their traveling companions are safe until the final chapters of the first book.
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* InjuredSelfDrag: Ricker tries to crawl away from the survivors of his attack on the shrine after he's knocked off the roof. One of his legs is so badly damaged that it is torn off as he drags himself across the ground.
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* MediaScrum: When Toma's death is announced a swarm of reporters gather outside his wife's home, eagerly pestering any and all visitors with questions while Emne stays inside with her grief.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: The microphone General Bell had been using to broadcast his "salvation" of Port Morstorben is plugged back in as he's ranting to Captain Toma, so the whole city learns he's a bloodthirsty lunatic addled by efheby venom.
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: A member of the rebel group The March is captured by the Aldish government, tortured and publicly strung up at a crossroads with a boot mark stomped into his face as a warning to those who would defy them.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: When one of his thugs tries claiming he's injured and doesn't need further harm as punishment for disobeying Nary and hurting Sette the crime boss coldly grabs his sister to strangle her in front of him as punishment instead.
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** In the final chapter [[spoiler:Roger is left brain dead]], but Ufal is revealed to be in a commited relationship with another man.
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** In the final chapter [[spoiler:Roger is left brain dead]], but Ufal is revealed to be in a commited relationship with another man.man, [[spoiler:and Darkest Paul is revealed to have had a sexual history with Bastion, and still has some lingering attraction to him.]]
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** [[spoiler:Karl]], despite being an utterly contemptible SmugSnake and DirtyCoward, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by [[spoiler:Ruck]]. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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** [[spoiler:Karl]], despite being an utterly contemptible SmugSnake and DirtyCoward, SmugSnake, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by [[spoiler:Ruck]]. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Older members of the long-lived Alderish castes tend to speak like they're still a century behind.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Older members of the long-lived Alderish Aldish castes tend to speak like they're still a century behind.
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** Thierry Delicieu tortured multiple apprentices to death to further his experiments. These apprentices could be very young, as evidence by his chilling line to Bastion, "Remember when I could throw you in [the torture chamber] one-handed?" This also included sexual abuse.
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* BreedingSlave: This is the fate of any woman in territory conquered by Alderode. After the dammakhert is 'installed'' and since any child conceived in the dammakhert is automatically sorted into one of the Aldish castes, the Alds instigate mass rape with the specific intention of breeding as many children as possible; both to replenish the castes back in Alderode and to erase the conquered people.
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* BreedingSlave: This is the fate of any woman capable of getting pregnant in territory conquered by Alderode. After the dammakhert is 'installed'' and since any child conceived in the dammakhert is automatically sorted into one of the Aldish castes, the Alds instigate mass rape with the specific intention of breeding as many children as possible; both to replenish the castes back in Alderode and to erase the conquered people.
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** [[spoiler:Karl]], despite being an utterly contemptible SmugSnake and DirtyCoward, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by Ruck. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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** [[spoiler:Karl]], despite being an utterly contemptible SmugSnake and DirtyCoward, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by Ruck.[[spoiler:Ruck]]. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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** [[spoiler:Karl]], despite being an utterly contemptible SmugSnake and DirtyCoward, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by Ruck. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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* TastesLikeDisdain: Jivi loves turtle bacon whereas Sette doesn't care for her first taste of it, the least of [[KidsAreCruel the two children's disagreements]]. When Jivi argues with her over breakfast, she [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch11/ch11_37.html spits]] the wet, well-chewed mouthful into his hand, leaving him [[BlankWhiteEyes blank with shock]].
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* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: An antagonistic woman unwisely [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch09/ch09_15.html points her finger]] inches away from Sette's face while delivering what she considers a BreakingSpeech. Sette [[{{Fingore}} bites it off]].
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: It's confirmed that Sette has no nipples or belly button and Sette implies she has no genitals either, though that's not actually depicted.
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* MandatoryMotherhood: Most of the human cultures on the continent place special emphasis on settling down with a member of the opposite sex, having children and being able to support them. Same-sex relationships are disapproved of (though thankfully there's absolutely ''no'' religious discrimination) because such affairs get in the way of 'making babies'. It's taken to the extreme for the Platinum caste in Alderode as the country is in constant need of Plat soldiers for the army and they don't live beyond thirty; it's common for Plat girls to start having children only a little while after they first start menstruating, and it's unusual if they ''aren't'' pregnant by fifteen.
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** Everyone hates the two-toed lizards. Everyone. Aldrode doesn't basically enslave them like the Cresians do, but that's likely largely due to the absence of Two-Toe population in Aldeorde. [[spoiler:At least one said lizard decides to fight back, but since everyone is indirectly responsible for the current state of the two-toes, he just starts killing everybody.]]
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** Everyone hates the two-toed lizards. Everyone. Aldrode Alderode doesn't basically enslave them like the Cresians do, but that's likely largely due to the absence of Two-Toe population in Aldeorde. [[spoiler:At least one said lizard decides to fight back, but since everyone is indirectly responsible for the current state of the two-toes, he just starts killing everybody.]]
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** Neither Cresce or Alderode are perfectly good or evil, with both sides having their good and bad sides. Cresce is arguably the more sympathetic country, which treats all its citizens equally and has a true communist system where everyone is given a job according to their talents and given comfortable enough living conditions. However, if one practices any religion besides Gefendur, they are burnt at the stake if found out, and the country has the unfortunate practice where twins are taken to be raised in a convent, where upon reaching adulthood the younger twin is ritually sacrificed and cannibalized. And, despite seeming like a communist country, they still retain the nobility. Alderode is a rather oppressive theocracy with strict gender roles and a strictly enforced caste system based upon hair color (which isn't completely arbitrary, hair color indicates the person's lifespan and general pymaric potential). Ironically, despite being a theocracy, Alderode is the only country in the setting with actual religious freedom. Ssaelism and Gefendur can both be worshipped freely, though Gefendur elements within the country are plotting to change that. Alderode does get another strike against it due to its use of child soldiers, however.
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** Neither Cresce or Alderode are perfectly good or evil, with both sides having their good and bad sides. Cresce is arguably the more sympathetic country, which treats all its citizens equally and has a true communist system where everyone is given a job according to their talents and given comfortable enough living conditions. However, if one practices any religion besides Gefendur, they are burnt at the stake if found out, and the country has the unfortunate practice where twins are taken to be raised in a convent, where upon reaching adulthood the younger twin is ritually sacrificed and cannibalized. And, despite seeming like a communist country, they still retain the nobility. Worst of all, the two-toe lizards are slaves in everything but name, forced to do the worst jobs and unable to ever become citizens. Alderode is a rather oppressive theocracy with strict gender roles and a strictly enforced caste system based upon hair color (which isn't completely arbitrary, hair color indicates the person's lifespan and general pymaric potential). Ironically, despite being a theocracy, Alderode is the only country in the setting with actual religious freedom. Ssaelism and Gefendur can both be worshipped freely, though Gefendur elements within the country are plotting to change that. Alderode does get another strike against it due to its use of child soldiers, however.
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* ArrangedMarriage: In Alderode if a person hasn't gotten married by a certain age--which age depends on their caste--the elders of their gher push for their marriage and find them a partner as everyone but Third Options is expected to have children. Mathis and Vienne were put together even though Vienne didn't want to get married and Mathis would have liked to stay a loner.
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* ArrangedMarriage: In Alderode if a person hasn't gotten married by a certain age--which age depends on their caste--the elders of their gher push for their marriage and find them a partner as everyone but Third Options is expected to have children. Mathis and Vienne were put together even though Vienne didn't want to get married and Mathis would have liked to stay a loner.loner, and neither (at first) wanted to have children.
* BreedingSlave: This is the fate of any woman in territory conquered by Alderode. After the dammakhert is 'installed'' and since any child conceived in the dammakhert is automatically sorted into one of the Aldish castes, the Alds instigate mass rape with the specific intention of breeding as many children as possible; both to replenish the castes back in Alderode and to erase the conquered people.
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** Duane always saw Lemuel as the ideal Ssaelit man, a strong warrior with a clear head who follows the teachings well, he stays in denial even after reexamining memories that paint Lemuel as a disturbed child soldier right up until [[spoiler:he realizes Lemuel lied to him about Miki's death and was complicit in Duane's assassination and being turned into an undead abomination.]]
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** Duane always saw Lemuel as the ideal Ssaelit man, a strong warrior with a clear head who follows the teachings well, he well. He stays in denial even after reexamining re-examining memories that paint Lemuel as a disturbed child soldier right up until [[spoiler:he realizes Lemuel lied to him about Miki's death and was complicit in Duane's assassination and being turned into an undead abomination.]]
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* TranslationPunctuation: The comic uses angle brackets when translating Tainish to [[CommonTongue Continental]]. However, lines spoken in Tainish are occasionally left untranslated. [[BilingualBonus Translations of these lines]] can be found in the [[TheWikiRule series]] [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/world/index.php?title=Tainish wiki]].
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* TranslationPunctuation: The comic uses angle brackets when translating Tainish to [[CommonTongue Continental]]. However, lines spoken in Tainish are occasionally left untranslated. [[BilingualBonus Translations of these lines]] can be found in the [[TheWikiRule series]] series [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/world/index.php?title=Tainish wiki]].
