Line #21 Literature/WiedergeburtLegendOfTheReincarnatedWarrior


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[StockLightNovelHero Eryk Vieger]] and [[FieryRedhead Fay Valstine]] on the left, [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Kari Astralia]] on the back, [[CuteMonsterGirl Lin]] getting the LapPillow treatment.]]
3	''WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior'' is an [[OELManga original English-language]] DarkFantasy HaremGenre LightNovel series by Creator/BrandonVarnell (creator of ''Literature/AmericanKitsune'' among others). The books are illustrated by Creator/MykelFerguson. The novels entered publication in 2019.
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5	Years ago, Eryk Vieger lost everything when the [[EvilOverlord Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm]] razed the city where his adventuring sect was located and murdered his wife Kari and their daughter Kayli. He trained alone to avenge them ever since, and when the two titans finally meet again, the power unleashed in their clash shakes the foundations of reality itself. Eryk blacks out, and when he regains consciousness, he's back where it all began: the city-state of Nevaria--his and Kari's DoomedHometown on the far side of the Endless Desert, destroyed in a massive Demon Beast attack decades earlier.
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7	Armed with [[PeggySue foreknowledge of the future]] but [[BagOfSpilling none of his former power]], Eryk resolves to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and help Empress Hilda and her daughter Kari build a Nevaria that will not fall when the Great Overlord and his Sekbeist allies eventually come calling.
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10	* AdventureGuild: Called "sects" in TheVerse. Kari and Eryk were introduced to the concept when they settled in Vesperia in the BadFuture, and found one called the Nevarian Braves in the new timeline.
11	* AlchemyIsMagic: Alchemy in the series consists of combining ingredients ranging from plants to monster parts and imbuing them with mana to create pills that occupy the niche typically occupied by {{Magic Potion}}s. These range from simple and easily crafted restoratives such as Blood Clotting Pills, to complex preparations requiring dozens or hundreds of difficult-to-acquire ingredients that are used to reach the Third and Fourth States of Spiritualism.
12	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Sekbeists seem to have no greater motive in life than to destroy or subjugate all intelligent life that isn't them.
13	* BifurcatedWeapon: Eryk's weapon of choice, the "ruler", is essentially what you'd get if you took [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts's Dragonslayer]] and broke it up into interlocking separable segments. On its own it can crush its way through mundane objects with sheer brute force, but Eryk can charge it with lightning to extend its reach and control it like a whip.
14	* CuteMonsterGirl: Lin is a lamia, with the torso of a human that transitions to a several-meter-long snake body below the hips.
15	* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. The darkness element is strongly associated with the evil Sekbeists but there's nothing ''inherently'' evil about it: Lin's poison magic is partially based on it, and she's one of the good guys.
16	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Eryk mentally complains when he wakes up as his past self that between his scrawny untrained body and his long hair, he looks like a girl. It becomes a minor running gag for people (especially children) to think he's a girl on first meetings.
17	* EarthAllAlong: The series is set up as being set in a ConstructedWorld, but then volume 9 reveals completely in passing that [[spoiler:one of the ruined cities in the Demon Beast Mountain Range is Bucharest, Romania several dozen millennia AfterTheEnd, which by extension makes the mountain range itself the Carpathians. This has no significance at all to the characters, who are all from the work's present day.]]
18	* {{Ecchi}}: Unlike most of the Japanese-written LightNovels that clearly inspired it, ''Wiedergeburt'' tends to contain two or three explicit sex scenes per volume, and not just involving Eryk and his harem: one volume has a scene of Empress Hilda getting it on with her husbands. The artwork does sometimes depict the sex scenes, but strictly at an R-rated level.
19	* ElementalFusion: Lamias have affinities to both the [[DishingOutDirt earth]] and [[CastingAShadow darkness]] elements, which they naturally combine to produce their trademark poison spiritual attacks.
20	* FantasyContraception: Female Spiritualists are able to use the movements of their body during sex to power a spiritual technique that prevents conception. In the original timeline, Kari eventually turned it off because she wanted a baby, [[spoiler:even though Eryk had said he didn't want one yet]]. Also, it's traditionally passed from mother to daughter, [[spoiler:causing Fay to have a SurprisePregnancy in volume 14 because her mother died in childbirth and neither Kari nor any of her female relatives thought to teach it to her]].
21	* FirstGirlWins: Kari was Eryk's OneTrueLove in his first life, and is the first girl added to his harem in the new timeline and becomes TopWife.
22	* FlashbackBPlot: {{Enforced\|Trope}}. Multiple chapters per book open with flashbacks to the BadFuture, which Varnell started doing because it gave him an excuse to write sex scenes for Eryk before he formally got together with his harem in the new timeline, which takes until about volume 6.
23	* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Wiedergeburt" is GratuitousGerman for "rebirth".
24	* HealingHands: The Water element is used to heal injuries, [[JustifiedTrope explicitly because the human body is 70% water]].
25	* HeirInLaw: Hilda requested the right to marry the former Emperor of Nevaria's son as her prize for winning the Grand Spiritualist tournament. The Emperor later abdicated the throne to her, and she's been TheHighQueen ever since.
26	* IdealIllnessImmunity: Spiritualists rarely become ill, with Second- and Third-State Spiritualists being virtually immune to all disease.
27	* IfItsYouItsOkay: Until about volume 10 there's no indication any of the main cast are anything other than straight, but then Eryk has ThreeWaySex with Kari and Fay one night. Some days afterwards, Kari is surprised to discover herself thinking about her old friend in a sexually attracted manner.
28	* MermaidProblem: Addressed with Lin: she has humanlike genitalia right below her hips, above where her skin transitions to scales.
29	* MorningSickness:
30	** In the BadFuture, Kari has to make a sudden run for the bathroom in the middle of a sect staff meeting and realizes she's become pregnant.
31	** In volume 14, present day, [[spoiler:Fay]] has a SurprisePregnancy, signaled when she develops a vomiting fit. Eryk recognizes it from Kari in the previous timeline and quickly confirms it.
32	* NakedFirstImpression: Lin first starts living with Eryk having been reduced to the form of a large snake after she was attacked by wild boars. When she gets strong enough to resume her true form, she understandably has no clothes on, [[OurNudityIsDifferent and is baffled when Eryk tries to explain how she should]].
33	* OurNudityIsDifferent: Lamia have no cultural nudity taboo, so Lin is initially confused when the human characters tell her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn. Her bottom half is a particular problem since she has no legs, so she ends up essentially wearing a set of wraps to cover her breasts and a sarong across her genitalia.
34	* PeggySue: Eryk goes back in time at the start of the series with all the knowledge he gained in his previous life and tries to use that to prevent the BadFuture he originally came from. However, he doesn't keep his power as a Spiritualist and has to regain it all over time, though his future knowledge gives him a leg up.
35	* PhlebotinumOverdose: Using too much spiritual power all at once can cause a lethal condition called spiritual poisoning, where the spiritual pathways in the body become clogged (like fat deposits blocking an artery). It can be healed with the right knowledge, which results in the pathways becoming more resilient to such damage. Fay is suffering from spiritual poisoning when Eryk meets her near his training area, and is able to cure her with knowledge he gained in his previous life from his SecondLove, [[spoiler:a woman who in volume 14 is confirmed to have been Fay after surviving with her condition for decades]].
36	* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse:
37	** Kari is a buxom blonde princess, and also terrifyingly effective with her light element and ranseur.
38	** Lin, the princess of the lamias of the Endless Desert, is a CuteMonsterGirl who can conjure whips of poison.
39	* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: [[spoiler:Kari, Fay, and Lin start to remember parts of the BadFuture in their sleep as the story goes on, and Kari in particular re-learns rune crafting as a result.]]
40	* RoyalHarem: GenderInverted by Empress Hilda Astralia, Kari's mother, who has three husbands with one child from each. Kari's biological father Valence worked together with his co-husbands Rainer and Dante to help raise her and brothers Mykkel and Geirolf.
41	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Volume 12 states that the Demon Beast Mountain Range extends for "several million kilometers". This would be nuts even by fantasy standards, especially since the characters are exploring the place on foot, but factor in that volume 9 revealed [[spoiler:it was EarthAllAlong]] and it becomes patently absurd. [[UnitConfusion Maybe the author meant square kilometers?]][[note]]1 million sq. km. is approximately the surface area of the modern state of Egypt.[[/note]]
42	* SerendipitousSurvival: Eryk's unnamed SecondLove in the original timeline incurred spiritual poisoning during training and left Nevaria to search for a cure, and therefore wasn't in town when it was destroyed in a Demon Beast invasion.
43	* SexuallyTransmittedSuperpowers:
44	** After his partner Kari was murdered in the original timeline along with their daughter, Eryk gained access to her light element. He assumed at the time that Kari somehow gave it to him in her final moments, but in the new timeline he eventually figures out that it's a combination of 1) him being a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-"godling"]] who 2) has sex with someone with a different elemental affinity and 3) ingests their blood--the latter of which he did when he kissed her as she lay dying. Drinking a cup of one's partner's blood also happens to be part of the traditional Nevarian marriage rite, which he and Kari never underwent in the original timeline; Eryk suspects the tradition comes from "godlings" who fought in the previous war with the Sekbeists thousands of years ago. In the new timeline he has so far gained access to the Darkness and Earth elements via Lin, and can be reasonably expected to get Light from Kari and Fire from Fay.
45	** For their part, Kari, Fay, and Lin appear to be reacquiring their memories of the BadFuture in their sleep through their relationship with Eryk: Kari re-learns rune crafting, while [[spoiler:Fay remembers some of her former self's advanced alchemy techniques]]. They regain the rest of their memories by consuming his blood, either before or during the wedding.
46	* ShadowWalker: Wielders of the darkness element who have reached the Second Stage of Spiritualism can hide inside patches of shadow and darkness and move through them.
47	* TimeSkip: {{Justified\|Trope}} when a couple years pass between volumes 14 and 15. After marrying his four wives, Eryk plans to leave Nevaria with them to establish ties with Spiritualist settlements he and Kari had encountered in the previous timeline, [[spoiler:but Fay had become pregnant before the wedding and they have to wait a bit for her son to be old enough]].
48	* WritersCannotDoMath: Volume 8 states that only two thousand people survived [[spoiler:the Sekbeist attack on Vesperia]], said to be less than "a thousandth of a percent" of the previous population of 550,000. Actually, that's 0.36 percent.
49	* YouKilledMyFather: Eryk to the Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm: "You killed my wife, and my daughter, and my friends, and my whole civilization..."

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