History Webcomic / Vattu

* CigarChomper: Bakrah is rarely seen without one.

* EyeScream: [[Spoiler: Bakrah gets an eye gouged out in a fight.]]

** Promptly subverted when she [[spoiler:lockpicks a sacred room]].

* InadequateInheritor: There are many who feel that Emperor Arrius is not fit to rule Sahta due to his physical frailty. [[spoiler:He doesn't feel he's right for the throne either, though not due to his physical shortcomings.]]

** As CategoryTraitor notes, Sahta’s oppressed cultures have everyone accusing damn near everyone ‘’else’’ of being a traitor or a SellOut for arbitrary reasons, which is unfortunately how things tend to go in real life.

** As CategoryTraitor notes, Sahta’s oppressed cultures have everyone accusing damn near everyone ‘’else’’ of being a traitor or TheSellOut for arbitrary reasons, which is unfortunately how things tend to go in real life.

'''Book Four''', ''The River'', follows the various factions fighting for control of Satha in the aftermath of [[spoiler:the death of Emperor Arrius]].

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Arisa tries to take charge of a deteriorating situation by disarming a defecting guard and ordering the arrest of the usurper for trying to buy the throne with drugs.]] Except everyone is more worried about the patriarchal succession crisis and immediately detains her.

* RacialRemnant: The Surin's enclave is the last remnant of their once-great culture.
** Or not...

* WillingChanneler: A part of the Grish religion is a [[FightClubbing fighting ring]] in which the constants are said to be [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=619 vessels for the will of the gods.]]

So far the webcomic consists of three books, with the fourth expected to be the last.

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* [[Flashback]]: When the chief of the war-men [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=126 remembers]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=135 the]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=147 time]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=160 before]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=173 he]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=192 was]] captured by Sahta, and when Arrius the Seventh remembers his childhood.

* Flashback: When the chief of the war-men [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=126 remembers]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=135 the]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=147 time]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=160 before]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=173 he]] [[http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=192 was]] captured by Sahta, and when Arrius the Seventh remembers his childhood.

So far the webcomic consists of two books, with two more expected to come.

'''Book One''' develops Vattu's origins in her tribe of those marked in white, with the various struggles that can exist in that context. By the end of the chapter, she has been sold into slavery to the imperialistic Sahtans. Later, it introduces the War-Man and intersperses flashbacks to his story between segments of Vattu being taken to Sahta. Over the course of the chapter Vattu and the War Man become friends, get separated, and then are reunited.

'''Book Two''' introduces a whole host of new characters, and the select stories of denizens from varying classes are explored. Having escaped servitude at a Sahtan house, Vattu now steals and hides to live, receiving further martial training in secret from the War Man and encountering many other residents of the city.

'''Book Three''' begins with a shift of focus upon the Emperor Arrius, and shows hints of the history behind the empire and how the present world has come to be.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Otti:
-->"You are an idiot."

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Though it's easy to assume the Sahtan Empire are the 'villians' as a conquering society, Dahm goes to great lengths to disspell such a clear-cut perspective - the Empire is very much as amoral as any civilisation in our own history.
* GodEmperor: The Sahtan emperors are considered to be the mortal hand of Tarrus, the Sahtan god
* HotBlooded: Vattu - subtle, but pervasively so. This starts as early in the comic as [[http://rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=077 her first dialogue,]] [[http://rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=119 and]] [[http://rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=120 then]]...

-->'''Junti''': Who are you?
-->'''Bakrah''': In this sort of work, one must accept a certain level of ambiguity.
-->'''Bakrah''': Why are you having weapons made?
-->'''Junti''': I'm sorry but--You must accept a certain level of ambiguity

* LaResistance: Between Vattu stirring up the street population and the members of the Sisterhood looking to gain political significance, the seeds for this have certainly been sowed.

** Vattu clings to these standards in Sahta: when Otti berates her for repainting her mark, she claims that because he has none, he has no name - and she shouldn't even talk to him. As of Book 2, though, the mark is gone for more [[TheRunaway practical reasons]].

* {{Badass}}: The War Man. It appears he's training Vattu to follow in his footsteps. Compounded by the fact that he (and his entire race, of which he was a powerful leader) [[BewareTheQuietOnes is completely mute]].

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Sahtan Empire, which is Roman in nature.

* GrannyClassic: [[http://rice-boy.com/vattu/index.php?c=373 Jinen,]] the toy-maker who makes brief smalltalk with Vattu. Seemingly the first matriarchial figure in Vattu's city life, as opposed to the eat-or-be-eaten mentality of everyone else; time will tell whether this proves significant.

[[center:''The outer world knew it as year 855 of the Blue Age.'']]
[[center:''But the nomads knew it unnumbered, in the midst of an age of river and grass with no beginning:'']]
[[center:''the year '''Vattu''' was born.'']]