Line #46 DarthWiki/TheWizardryCycle


1	'' Going to my Unseelie faerie godmother for relationship advice was probably not the strangest thing that was going to happen to me today.
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3	''I am so fucking fucked.'' ''
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5	A handy receptacle for the tropes in a [[PostModernism postmodern]] [[TheEpic epic]] DungeonPunk novel series. Don't worry, it will be filled.
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8	%%* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The gods, to a degree.
9	%%* AntiHero: Zane.
10	* AutomatonHorses: Zane and Rhoslyn ride across a country on horse ghouls.
11	* CelestialBureaucracy: Just because the gods CAN handle everything doesn't mean they want to. And the God-King has his own rules.
12	* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Part of the God-King's strategy, as his power derives from neutrality and balance.
13	%%* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Zane and Kira.
14	* BrainyBrunette: Kira is a Bodyweaver, which is TheArchMage equivalent of TheMedic.
15	* TheEpic:
16	** takes place over sixty plus years
17	** follows a family of gods, and the families of the mortals and immortals who serve them, and the nations that serve them...
18	** who seek to control the creation of the next reality and become the first of their kind
19	** which involves several inter-connected plots followed jointly and separately
20	%%* TheFairFolk: Both Seelie and Unseelie.
21	* FirstPersonSmartass: Zane, mostly to distract himself from being terrified. Rhoslyn, due to his MediumAwareness.
22	* GodInHumanForm: The "Defenders of the Faith" [[RankScalesWithAsskicking share power directly with their deity]].
23	* HyperAwareness: Zane has this, which overlaps with his PhotographicMemory.
24	* JerkassGods: Eternity is boring - let's all work together to build a universe, then make them all go to war, and whoever has the most survivors when they blow up the entire universe wins, and has more power the next round.
25	* KavorkaMan: Renn. He has the kind of face only a blind mother could love and is, in the opinion of Zane, a "cheerful lecher".
26	%%* KingOfTheGods: Chelan, the God of Neutrality and Balance.
27	* MagicAIsMagicA: [[FunctionalMagic Magic]] comes from will and belief. [[PsychicPowers Mentalist powers]] come from intelligence and the god of those powers. [[KiManipulation Auric powers]] come from the body. Wizardry [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic uses them together.]] All of them use [[LifeEnergy mana]]. Everything has a spirit, and the amount of mana a spirit releases is based on the life, motion, and age of the object in question. It is possible to [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique break a spirit]] to [[LimitBreak amplify a power]], but it has [[RealityBreakingParadox unfortunate consequences]].
28	* MaleGaze: Zane has trouble keeping his attention off of Kira's assets.
29	* MoralityKitchenSink: There's the good guys, the evil guys, the neutral guys, the really evil guys, and the bad guys, who happen to be the protagonists.
30	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Congratulations, Zane, you killed the man who killed your newborn child. Shame he[[spoiler: just happened to be the last sacrifice needed to raise a dead nature goddess back to unlife.]]
31	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Several kinds, actually.
32	** Most zombies are type VM, near the beginning, although some type C exist.
33	** Caribia's zombies are PSMO - they're plant zombies!
34	* ReligionOfEvil: Several, depending on your evil preference.
35	** Sanoci: OmnicidalNeutral BloodKnight and the god of Pride.
36	** Darshendros: TheDevil and the god of[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]].
37	** Halloran: Believes in TheEvilsOfFreeWill. The god of the WellIntentionedExtremist and the FaceHeelTurn.
38	** Daimonas: ChessMaster [[{{Telepathy}} telepath]]. Fond of DemonicPossession.
39	** Aphilam: TheVamp. Unsurprisingly, she DoesNotLikeMen
40	** Sa'ada: The goddess of DisproportionateRetribution.
41	** Uayli: MadDoctor goddess of poison, disease, and insanity.
42	%%* {{Retconjuration}}: The ability of Rhoslyn, who is a [[MediumAwareness Medium Aware]] PeggySue.
43	%%* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Zane, of the first kind.
44	%%* TranshumanTreachery: Allen, when he becomes Caribia's Defender of the Faith.

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