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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
23rd Dec, 2019 09:54:57 PM
Never heard this system before in fiction.
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KingOfStickers
Since: Jul, 2014
24th Dec, 2019 06:01:49 PM
Plot Coupon That Does Something, MacGuffin or Zillion-Dollar Bill??
Could also be Equivalent Exchange
Edited by KingOfStickers
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
24th Dec, 2019 08:32:12 PM
Definitely sounds like Bargain with Heaven
In a fantasy setting, soldiers working for angels (literally—the Biblical ones to be exact) were effectively paid by wish-granting; the enemies an individual subjugates are abstracted into points, and on retirement the sum of the points determine the power of the wishes the angels will grant. Is there a trope that describes this? I don't think any of the Wishing Tropes count, with maybe the exception of Bargain with Heaven.